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Would You Like a Rust Sandwich?
Would You Like a Rust Sandwich?
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Team 1: Vidya
[Jul. 5th, 2006|
09:55 pm
Would You Like a Rust Sandwich?
This is the first post for the Henrys, John, Roger, and Eileen.
If you are on one of the other teams, please do not read this post until the game is over! The information contained herein could give some things away!
Subway notes
Your characters begin in the location "Dark Tunnel," which reaches the map in the location marked "A." Reaching location "S" allows you to enter the other world available to your party. Your movements and movement speed are up to you. All of the location contents are described here. Hilite the text to read them. We recommend that you only check the contents of a location as you enter it; it is
more fun that way.
There are only two preset monster encounters. The rest are "wandering monsters." You may choose to encounter any of them anywhere at any time with any frequency. The monsters found in the subway are described at the end of this post.
Ghosts do not appear until after you've visited and interacted with the location marked "C."
The environment in Walter's world is different from what any of your characters are used to (exception: Henries, duh). In addition to the overwhelming and nauseating omnipresent thick smell of rot and decay, the air is heavy and a bit like a fear drug. Even those who are usually calm will be afraid, find it difficult to keep a straight head, be clumsier than usual, etc. This is not a "fear gas sends everyone to huddling in the corner" situation, though for characters not used to threat, it may do that. Instead, call to mind the sensation of being ill, or of not having eaten for 24 hours. Everything seems more daunting, confusing, and claustrophobic. Your reflexes may be impaired, leading to slowed reactions, or your nerves may be shot, leading to overreactions. The particular effect on your character is your call.
None of the light switches work, and aside from a lamp here or there that flickers disorientingly, most of the lights throughout the subway are off. The lack of a light source will make any combat that you engage in more difficult.
Map key:
Black rectangles indicate doors that can open. Some of them may be sticky or heavy or otherwise difficult to open, at your discretion, but they can be opened.
A red x indicates a door whose lock is jammed and it cannot be opened.
A blue square indicates a door that connects to another level of the structure, via stairs or a ladder. The ladder next to location J goes down to location K; the escalator M goes up to location N; and the escalator S goes to the next world.
The location descriptions should make it clear what you're looking at, but some of advance explanation of the map on the right ("Lynch Street Line"), since it's a bit confusing. It shows a subway platform; the two long lines of green rooms down the center of the map are two subway trains, each with 3 passenger cars, a control car, and an observation deck car. The different subway cars are separated by doors, and also have some sliding side doors or open windows that give access to the boarding platforms or to the island in between the trains. Double-lines indicate the boundaries between subway cars. Some cars are also collapsed or blocked with debris, such as at location "F," and these effective walls are indicated by single lines.
If you get confused at any point about where your characters are and what they're looking at, don't hesitate to ask!
The map is for the convenience of you, the players. Because we love you. Unless otherwise noted, your characters do not have this map.
Subway Map
Dark Tunnel
When you pass through the hole formed by Henry Townshend's "key," everything is pitch dark, dark beyond the ability of even the most enhanced eyesight to penetrate, dark beyond the ability of any fire or light to dispel. The steps of your comrades fade, as does the sensation of their presence nearby. Before you have a chance to reach out or try to pursue them, though, you realize that there is a slightly metallic taste in your mouth, followed by the realization that it stings to have your eyes open.
Followed quickly by the realization that you feel suddenly very heavy.
Followed by the realization that you can't feel the ground beneath your feet.
The realization that your movements are slowed.
The realization that you
can't breathe
All within the space of a few seconds, realization that you are underwater, caught in a current, and are about to drown.
If you're carrying weapons, ammunition, or armor, it's likely you'll have to drop some or even all in order to keep from sinking. Exactly what they lose is your discretion, but we recommend that you drop enough equipment so that your character is likely to be and feel threatened by what is to come.
But there's a saving grace here. The current pulls you into shallower water, and your head breaks the surface just in time to catch a life-saving breath, and you and your (now much reduced) team will be carried here each just seconds apart, in the order that you passed through the hole into this place. You've been washed "ashore" in a dark underground tunnel of some kind.
Whether because they're waterlogged or because of interference from this world, your flashlight and walkie-talkie, and any other electrical or technological implements, will not work. Henry Sherman-Townshend's walkie-talkie is the exception, and from here on out, it behaves peculiarly. When there is a monster or ghost nearby, within about fifteen feet, it emits a strange static. The
grows louder and louder the closer the monster gets to you. You can tell from the volume of the radio static approximately how close the creature is, but not what it is or what direction it's in. All monsters in the subway are hostile to you, but some of them may draw near then withdraw, producing a radio static response but never being seen.
The tunnel starts out accommodating two people walking abreast, but expands after a couple of blocks to the point where it can accommodate three. The walls, ceiling, and floor underfoot are a mixture of packed dirt, splashes of concrete, and an oddly-placed linoleum tile every here and there. It's quite damp, though the sound of rushing water fades away after long, replaced with the hum of unseen electrical lines. The tunnel ends at a rust-splotched metal door, marked "A" on the map.
Lynch Street Line
Upon opening the door, you find yourself in a dark subway station. The walls, floor, and ceiling are all slightly grimy, plain grey concrete. Some shards of glass and bits of trash are littered about, and the whole place is dusty, as though it's been ten years since anyone has set foot here.
There's an overhead light flickering above a bench (see "B") and a bit of light coming from one of the subway cars ("F"). A red neon arrow on the wall not far ahead of you points up what are probably stairs ("C"). It's about two blocks from one end of the track to the other, but it's too dark to see beyond point C.
The light above this bench flickers on and off disorientingly. The bench itself is covered with things, a shabby sleeping bag and a brown coat, a couple plastic garbage bags filled with someone's belongings; cans of soup, a couple ID cards with Walter Sullivan's name and face on them, a very used toothbrush, worn out shoes and clothes, a religious text with damp pages, and other assorted odds and ends one would expect to see in the possession of someone who had been sleeping here regularly. Written on the wall around the bench in what looks like red and black crayon are the words "I HATE YUO," "I CaN SEE YOU CAn YOU SEE ME," "YOU'LL BE SORRY," and "KILL me." A closer look would find that the sleeping bag is pulled up under over the eyes of a small shabby doll with brown yarn hair, blue dress and black button eyes hidden.
A closer look finds that these are indeed stairs leading up, placards reading "Ticketing" and "Lynch Street" faintly legible in the bit of red light available. There are a couple of large broken vending machines blocking the way, but enough strength could move one or both of them. The stairs are blocked off at the bottom with two large steel gates, but one of them is bent and cracked. There's a good handhold, and the gate could be pulled away, but it will take more strength than one flatline human has to do it. Anyone in the party can give it a try, but only Roger will be able to succeed. If Roger pulls the gate away and the group starts up the stairs...
...towards the top of the stairs, you'll find that the area has collapsed, almost like a cave-in. Huge concrete blocks bar any further progress. Consider the location marked "C" to have a red X on it on the map. Upon reaching the blockage, you'll hear an unearthly groaning sound and will be suddenly stricken with a terrible headache and blurred red vision. One of the dark blocks of rubble will move, proving not to be part of the collapsed wall at all, but Victim-16 (see below). Victim-16 will pursue you relentlessly until further notice, and other Victim spirits can now appear whenever you wish.
There is a wall here, thick and impassable, made of some kind of sheer black material that does not fit with the rest of the surroundings at all. It wraps around the subway car to the east like it had been poured on. Spraypainted on the wall, in red, are the words: "You make me happy."
The subway cars are all a mess, filled with trash and broken glass and torn moldy upholstery. The cars are narrow, the aisles wide enough for two people to walk side-by-side if they squeeze. A couple of usable items are noticeable on the passenger seats, if you stop to pick them up. In the northwest car, at point "E," a golf club. In the southwest car, a 9mm magazine. In the southeast car, another 9mm magazine. In the east middle car, a third 9mm magazine.
There is a bit of light shining from this car.
The light source is a pocket flashlight lying on one passenger seat.
This car, as well as the northeast car and the two south cars, have collapsed or have thick bars installed halfway through.
On the east boarding platform, there are a couple clumps of long black hair strewn across the floor.
The large metal door at the south end of the boarding platform is locked, and a note is stuck to it with an old bit of chewing gum. "I am the Lord, I am the Master, I have the keys to set the wheels of progress in motion. I change the world.
You are on the wrong side."
Check with a GM as you search a location to be told if you find the key.
The control car for the west subway train. If you have the key, inserting it into the control panel and turning it on will cause a two small buttons one on top of the other to light up red. Pressing the button on top causes the train to move a short ways northward. Pressing the button on bottom causes the train to move that same distance south. The distance that the train moves, be it north or south, is indicated by the two parallel vertical lines numbered "1."
There's a light on in this service closet, deep red in color. The walls, floor, and ceiling are completely covered in rust. There's a ladder going down through a square hole in the floor. It connects to the King Street Line level at the blue square in location "K."
King Street Line
The ladder goes down just one floor, to a truly bizarre looking hallway. It's partly under construction, wooden planks and metal grading and scaffolding littered around. But more to the point, the walls, floor, and ceiling seem to be made of red, sweating meat. It's very hot and humid in here, and in the beam of the flashlight, you see the walls quiver out of the corner of your eye.
This is another subway line, but in a much worse state than the Lynch Street Line was, and there is a distinct air of foreboding about it. The floor is splashed here and there with rust, mildew, and gore. The one subway car there is crushed and collapsed. Bits of flesh dangle from metal grating cutting through the area at the west end, and what look like a couple desiccated corpses are speared atop the fence. In the middle of the boarding platform, there is an escalator heading up to the next floor, which you can access from the west. Be warned, though, that rushing up the escalator would be most unwise...
Two escalators run side-by-side, the one on the right going up, and the one on the left coming down. All along both escalators, though, are protuberances from the wall that look like stone men. The come out from the wall at the waist, and their arms seem to hang limp. There's a chain wrapped around each one's neck, which stretches taut for about a foot between neck and wall. Although they look, and are, stone or clay or plaster or some similarly solid substance, they're "carved" in such a way that it looks like they're bound and hanging from the wall by the chains around their necks. These are the Wall Men described in the bestiary below. But note that they will not move or act until you draw near it, at which point it will seem to come to life, a mix of flesh and plaster, lashing out at you and breaking the chain. Until a Wall Man "comes to life," it cannot be damaged or harmed by any means. Reaching the top of the escalator alive takes you to the Ticketing Level, the blue square at location "N."
Ticketing Level
And here, the flesh and gore are gone, and it's back to the drab gray from the Lynch Street Line. The Ticketing Level is as hellish as the King Street Line below, rust- and blood-coated, suffocating, strange noises sounding behind the walls from time to time. There's a murder scene at the top of the escalator, a woman's purse contents scattered on the floor amidst splatters of blood, make-up compacts and cel-phone marked off with chalk and a numbered placard. There's a great deal more blood splashed against the windows of the ticketing booth (location "O"), and the door to the booth is slightly ajar. You can see that, inside the booth, a piece of paper was taped to the inside of one of the teller's windows. The paper is clean; it must have been put up after the blood was spilt and dried.
It's a mess inside the subway ticket vendor's booth. There's blood everywhere, and there was obviously a struggle here at some point, desk contents scattered. A blood-splattered Saint Medallion lies on the floor. The piece of paper taped to the inside of the window reads:
"1. In every woman's body
beneath her heart it rests
But hers is shriveled, dry, a tomb
to tear it out is best.
2. The world her sight has clouded
from dark to milky blind
pluck out the erring vision
the truth that she may find.
3. The coward hides from judgment
defends her precious sin
She'll raise defense, wound through the skin
in blood healing begins
4. But still her path is murky
she walks toward hellish flame
Cut off her steps; in stumbling
she'll find the greater gain.
5. From breath to flesh she bore him
a mother's love she gave
but from this world she took him
from breath to flesh to grave.
6. Whispered words of promise
and sugar spun from lies
From candied lips sweet venom drips
Strike true, heed not her cries.
7. When she was just a child
all sugar spice and sweat
sweet heat still lived within her
her sins brought no regret
To you, oh weary traveler
it falls to teach her grace
carve deep the sacred symbols
beneath the lustful place."
Dead ends all around down here. What looks like a giant worm or leech, large enough for a grown man to walk through were it hollow, emerges from the wall at one point and reenters the wall further down the hallway. It smells terrible, and sets off radio static, but does nothing other than pulsate. It it's damaged, it will shudder and ooze pus, but otherwise won't react.
The men's room. It's unremarkable. There's a first aid kit taped up under one sink, which has a couple bandages and some hydrogen peroxide. One of the toilets is in disrepair, pipes disconnected from the wall. One of the pipes could probably be wrenched away and used as a blunt weapon if you cared to.
The hallway reaches a dead end here, but set into the wall is an image that looks very much like a typical Madonna and Child portrait, a seated mother in a large flowing robe gently cradling a child, porcelain perfection. The image is made of 21 square tiles, three columns and seven rows, each of which can be flipped.
The reverse side of each tile that same image, same part of the body, but altered. Were all the tiles flipped over, you'd see the woman and child in the same position, but they are battered and degraded, streaked with blood and grime, peace and purity turned to violence and sex. The flipside of each tile is described below. (The tiles are numbered here purely for reference and convenience; no such numbers appear on the tiles themselves.)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
1: Her mascara is smeared and her eye is swollen shut, the flesh around it purple and black.
2: A rusty nail has been driven into the middle of the woman's forehead.
3: Her eye looks askew, somehow, and it's bulging and cloudy, gas forced up under the cornea by some powerful blow to the head.
4: Her cheek is reddened in the shape of a handprint.
5: Her lips are painted a garish red. Her teeth are red, as well, but not from the lipstick. There's blood in her mouth, and her upper lip is split and swollen.
6: This cheek is smeared with lipstick, and her earlobe is torn where an earring was ripped out.
7: What was white light behind the woman on the front side of the tile, here the empty space above her shoulder is dark.
8: Black-blue bruises stripe her throat from where fingers wrapped around it and squeezed.
9: What was white light behind the woman on the front side of the tile, here the empty space above her shoulder is dark.
10: The baby, where it rests against her breast, is dead and decaying. Her arm supports its corpse against her, and her hand is wrapped around its throat.
11: There is an open hole in her chest, cracked ribs visible. Within is only darkness; her heart is gone.
12: On the front side, this arm and hand were raised in a gesture of blessing. Here, her hand is splayed open rather than holding two fingers up. Her hand and forearm are slashed and bruised.
13: The baby's lower half isn't wrapped in a blanket here. Its dead legs hang limp, and an umbilical cord dangles from its belly.
14: There's an open gash low on her stomach, skin held back by safety pins. Where there should be a uterus, there's nothing.
15: Her robe is blood- and pus-stained over her hip.
16: The woman's skirt no longer completely covers her legs. It's hitched up high on her thigh, and the dead baby's umbilical cord ends in tatters.
17: A thick patch of blood stains her skirt where her legs meet.
18: Her skirt is hiked up, and etched into her inner thigh are the numbers "08121"
19: Her shin is bruised and streaked with welts, and instead of the demure sandal she wears on the front side of the tile, on the back side, she wears a spike-heeled shoe.
20: What was white light behind the woman on the front side of the tile, here the empty space between her lower legs is dark.
21: Her shin is bruised and streaked with welts, and her foot has been cut off at the ankle.
Check with a GM when you've flipped tiles and think you've solved the puzzle. If you're correct, once the last correct tile is in place, the image seems to melt, the tiles flowing black to the floor. Behind them is now a crack in the wall, wide and tall enough for even Roger to get through.
An escalator, this one without Wall Men, stretches up several stories, into darkness. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/icaruscrucified/silenthill4_screen020.jpg
When you reach the top, inform the GMs and proceed to the second world.
All monsters can be killed. If you want to go for extra atmosphere, monsters may get back up again after being knocked down unless you stomp them good. ;-)
Gumhead (
: It stands about 5'5'' and looks and sounds apelike. Its flesh seems to be rotting, and some of them have a second face apparently trying to emerge from its neck. Some of them carry long blunt weapons, lead pipes or branches or golf clubs or the like. Often appear in groups of 2-4.
: They walk on two legs like a human, awkward-looking but surprisingly nimble on their feet. You can outrun them, but they're pretty good at dodging hits.
: Attacks with its blunt weapon, or just trying to pummel you with its hands. They're quiet adept at stealing a melee weapon from your hands and turning it against you.
: Tough to get solid hits on in melee, and because of its jerky movements, it's hard to shoot consistently. It takes a fair beating to take one down.
Probable Location
: Anywhere.
: Looks and smells like the mutilated corpse of a tall woman. Her face is half-stripped of flesh and her scalp doesn't sit quite right on her head. Her shirt is torn to bare her breasts, and there's a large hole low in her abdomen where her uterus was removed. She cries out like a human would when struck.
: She only walks, and is easy to outrun.
: Most likely, she wields a small axe in one hand. She may have a scalpel instead.
: It'll take a little more damage to kill her than it would a real person in her place.
Probable Location
: Ticketing Level.
Sniffer Dog
: Patches of it have fur, but the rest looks as though it's had its skin carefully stripped away. Its long tongue drags along the ground, and it's often found feeding on the corpses of dead Sniffers. Tend to appear in packs of 2-3.
: Just like normal dogs. Very difficult to outrun.
: Mostly biting, sometimes clawing as well.
: A couple of blows are enough to take it down.
Probable Location
: Large open areas.
Wall Man
: One minute, a space of wall is just a space of wall, and the next minute, it's the form of a man half in the wall, half out from the torso. Seems to be covered with a yellowish skin-type substance and has two claw hands. Makes strangle growling-like noises when it emerges from the wall, and when it swipes at you.
: The creature is unable to move from the wall but can somewhat pivot from its torso, and also go back in the wall.
: Swipes with its clawed hands.
: The equivalent of a few axe blows are enough to fell it and cause it to retract back into the wall.
: Only appears in one place in the subway. Noted in that location's description.
Although appearance, speed, and power vary by Victim, all ghosts behave essentially alike. Ghosts only appear in the subway after you've interacted with location C!
Ghosts make low strange moaning noises from time to time, but are otherwise silent.
Ghosts float, sometimes just above ground, sometimes well above it. They can pass through walls, but it's a difficult process. They must struggle to pull themselves through, leaving trails behind them of what looks like molasses (see linked image). For this reason, most ghosts will not bother to pursue you if you go to another location.
-An "aura of damage" surrounds all ghosts. If you are within about ten feet of the ghost, it begins to affect you, growing stronger the closer to the ghost that you are. Your life begins to literally leave you. This manifests as a feeling of weakness, red and blurred vision, a buzzing or ringing in your ears, and a headache so powerful that it can effectively paralyze you at close range to the ghost. Any open wounds that you have may begin to bleed badly, and you feel cold. A healthy person exposed to this effect uninterrupted for about three minutes, dies. If you are wearing a Saint Medallion, however, the effect on you is completely negated.
-The voluntary attack that ghosts use is to reach into your chest cavity and constrict your heart, paralyzing you and causing more and more harm the longer the contact is maintained. Sometimes this attack causes blood to appear over the entry point, but it does not actually cause a wound. Ghosts are reluctant to touch you if you're wearing a Saint Medallion.
Ghosts cannot die. Dealing a sufficient amount of melee damage will cause them to fall to the ground and be inactive for about 15 seconds. Usually, this takes the equivalent of several axe blows, or a full clip of regular ammunition. Shooting a ghost with a single silver bullet causes them to the ground and writhe, gasping and making a strange sucking noise, for about 30 seconds.
Victim 01
: A tall bald man, dripping and decaying, in tattered black clothes.
: His "aura" and physical attack are the weakest of the ghosts, and he's not very fast, either.
Probable Location
: Anywhere.
Victim 12
: A teenage boy in a brown beanie hat, his head slowly wobbles from side-to-side in an unnatural way.
: His attacks deal moderate damage, but he's not very aggressive.
Probable Location
: Anywhere.
Victim 16
: A young woman in a short skirt and a red blouse with a plunging neckline. She's covered in gashes, and the numbers "16121" are cut into the upper slope of her left breast. Her long black hair hangs down in front of her face. Sometimes, instead of floating, she crawls on all fours. In addition to the moans heard from all ghosts, she also sometimes makes a noise that sounds like crying and whimpering in reverse.
: She's fairly slow, and her heart-constricting grab attack isn't terribly powerful, but her aura is very damaging and it takes more damage than usual to take her down. Those fighting her at close range can also sometimes find a hand or foot entangled in her hair.
Probable Location
: Victim 16 will persistently pursue you throughout Subway World, once you've met her. However, she cannot enter the rooms marked "J" and "Q," and will be reluctant to follow you as far as the locations marked "R" and "S."
2006-07-09 01:08 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
Eileen follows, wide-eyed at Henry's quieter comment. "You think She's writing notes to him? But She couldn't be. He failed the ritual; She's asleep." She presses a hand to her head, her hair mostly dry by now. "Bragging about his world sounds like him, but..."
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2006-07-09 01:14 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
"If it's not him...." Roger squints a bit, thoughtful. "Could it be a clue?"
He follows, glancing back and forth in the hopes of seeing whatever is thrown at them next before it's chewing someone's face off.
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2006-07-09 01:22 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
She recalls a piece of Henry's account, words written in blood, mockery and direction intertwined, 'Better check on your neighbor soon!' Other scraps of paper here and there, strange little messages from him, designed to lead them to him. "Could be..."
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2006-07-09 01:23 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
He shakes his head, not turning around. "I think it might be. If it's not him..." He takes a deep breath. "We know She's asleep. But Her servants aren't."
He checks the closest open door on the subway train, but it doesn't lead anywhere, so he continues walking up towards where they came out.
Floating through his head are remnants of memories, like shards of glass poking at his brain. He remembers that thing in his head, what he had thought was Walter at first...how it eventually took him over entirely. His body changed to that. He remembers seeing it a year ago, moving quickly in between bits of infinite machinery. He shudders.
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2006-07-09 01:29 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
John increases his stride when he sees Henry shudder, although he doesn't look at him. It's a guy thing.
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2006-07-09 01:29 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
As they all head back into the maze of subway cars, Rodger decides to double-check the north end of the hall, only to find that the door there is unusable.
"Maybe there's a way around the blockage through these cars..." he mumbles, squinting a bit. It's so hard to concentrate right now...
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2006-07-09 01:37 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
She nods to Roger, still puzzling over what Henry had said. "Her Servants... would any of them be calling themselves 'Lord and Master'? Sounds presumptive." She jumps a little as she steps on a piece of broken glass with a loud 'crack.' "I think it's that 'setting the wheels of progress in motion' garbage that's getting to me. The rest sounds like stuff he'd say, except for that. Damn, I'm not good at this stuff even when everything's normal."
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2006-07-09 01:47 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
"Yeah, I don't know, either...but it doesn't matter anyway, right?" He sounds uncertain.
He's following Eileen
closely, not wanting to get separated from her again. Once they get down to the middle car on the east side, he points to the south door. "Maybe we can get through there...? We know the other way...uh, Cynthia's there." He almost wishes he could call her something else, but nothing else was right.
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2006-07-09 01:57 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
Cynthia... is that the name of....
He shakes his head, dispelling the thought. Someone so long dead can't be helped, especially when the poison of this realm has infected whatever remains of her and turned her into a monster.
"We may as well check every possible route. Have to remember that dog, too."
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2006-07-09 02:01 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
John makes a sort of 'huh' noise when Henry names her. Just like that she's not just a weird scary floaty monster to him, she's -- well, a she. Infinitely more disturbing, but easier, somehow, for John to respond to as a threat.
He sticks his head out the door and stares upwards. "Can we go over?"
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2006-07-09 02:04 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
"No reason not to try..." The door's sticky, and she has to brace a foot against once of the seats to pull it open. Thick bars cut the southern car in two, but two sliding doors are open to the west. The southwest car, though, opens only to the west car that they were already in. More bars and debris block any further procession south. "...God
it. Nowhere else to go."
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2006-07-09 02:19 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
Henry groans a bit at both Roger and Eileen's statements and runs a hand through his hair, thinking. "Keys to set the wheels in motion...." he murmurs.
But then he hears John's suggestion and his head snaps up. He jumps up a bit to shine the light on the roof. It reveals that the bars go through the car and to the roof, fanning out to prevent even trying to swing across. "We can't go that way. Damn. It was a good idea."
He sighs. "Okay...now what?" He rubs the back of his neck, trying to think through everything they've done so far.
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2006-07-09 02:32 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
"'Keys to set the wheels in motion.' Maybe we
be looking for a key." She scowls, kicking at an empty and crushed old can of pop. "The way this damn place works, though, it could be stuck into the ceiling for all we know. Keys turns up... well, anywhere."
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2006-07-09 02:36 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
John's frustration fades a little at Eileens' interpretation, as the prospect of doing something is always nicer than standing around trying to figure out stuff.
"We searched the cars already, so ... platforms, I guess? Was there some stuff out back there?" He gestures at where they'd first come.
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2006-07-09 02:37 am (UTC)
Re: Lynch Street Line - East Side
"Anywhere... well, it looked like someone left a bunch of their belongings on a bench near the entrance. Maybe another clue would be in there?"
The vagrant's campsite had caught Roger's attention when he'd passed it the last time. You can sometimes find interesting things in what looks like a junkpile, as experience has taught him.
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A virtual resource declaration specifies a desired state for a resource without necessarily enforcing that state. You can then tell Puppet to manage the resource by realizing it elsewhere in your manifests. This splits the work done by a normal resource declaration into two steps.
Although virtual resources can only be declared once, they can be realized any number of times (much as a class can be
included multiple times).
Virtual resources are useful for:
- Resources whose management depends on at least one of multiple conditions being met.
- Overlapping sets of resources which might be needed by any number of classes.
- Resources which should only be managed if multiple cross-class conditions are met.
Virtual resources can be used in some of the same situations as classes, since they both offer a safe way to add a resource to the catalog in more than one place. The features that distinguish virtual resources are:
- Searchability via resource collectors, which lets you realize overlapping clumps of virtual resources.
- Flatness, such that you can declare a virtual resource and realize it a few lines later without having to clutter your modules with many single-resource classes.
Virtual resources are used in two steps: declaring and realizing.
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# Declare:
@a2mod { 'rewrite':
ensure => present,
} # note: The a2mod resource type is from the puppetlabs-apache module.
# modules/wordpress/manifests/init.pp
# Realize:
realize A2mod['rewrite']
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realize A2mod['rewrite']
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apache class declares a virtual resource, and both the
wordpress and
freight classes realize it. The resource is managed on any node that has the
wordpress and/or
freight classes applied to it.
Declaring a virtual resource
To declare a virtual resource, prepend
@ (the "at" sign) to the resource type of a normal resource declaration:
@user {'deploy':
uid => 2004,
comment => 'Deployment User',
group => www-data,
groups => ["enterprise"],
tag => [deploy, web],
Realizing with the
realize function
To realize one or more virtual resources by title, use the
realize function, which accepts one or more resource references:
realize(User['deploy'], User['zleslie'])
realize function can be used multiple times on the same virtual resource and the resource is only managed once.
Realizing with a collector
A resource collector realizes any virtual resources that match its search expression:
User <| tag == web |>
If multiple resource collectors match a given virtual resource, Puppet will only manage that resource once.
Note that a collector also collects and realizes any exported resources from the current node. If you use exported resources that you don't want realized, take care to exclude them from the collector's search expression.
Note also that a collector used in an override block or a chaining statement will also realize any matching virtual resources.
By itself, a virtual resource declaration does not manage the state of a resource. Instead, it makes a virtual resource available to resource collectors and the
realize function. If that resource is realized, Puppet will manage its state.
Unrealized virtual resources are included in the catalog, but they are marked as inactive.
Evaluation-order independence
Virtual resources do not depend on evaluation order. You can realize a virtual resource before the resource has been declared.
Collectors vs. the
realize function
realize function causes a compilation failure if you attempt to realize a virtual resource that has not been declared. Resource collectors fail silently if they do not match any resources.
Virtual resources in classes
If a virtual resource is contained in a class, it cannot be realized unless the class is declared at some point during the compilation. A common pattern is to declare a class full of virtual resources and then use a collector to choose the set of resources you need:
include virtual::users
User <| groups == admin or group == wheel |>
Defined resource types
You can declare virtual resources of defined resource types. This causes every resource contained in the defined resource to behave virtually — they are not managed unless their virtual container is realized.
Run stages
Virtual resources are evaluated in the run stage in which they are declared, not the run stage in which they are realized.


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UMBC continues its four-game road swing at Lehigh on Saturday, Dec. 6. It will be the first meeting between the Retrievers and Mountain Hawks since the 1997-98 campaign. The Retrievers will not return home until Dec. 30 when they complete a home-and-home series with Navy. Tip-off time is set for 2:00 p.m. and Paul Mittermeier brings fans all the action on Q1370 radio or www.q1370.com.
RETRIEVERUPDATE: Today's game will cap a busy week for UMBC, as the Retrievers defeated visiting UMES, 64-59, on Monday, then traveled to Pittsburgh on Tuesday and fell at Duquesne, 94-88, on Wednesday evening. After one day in Baltimore, UMBC completes the week by heading back to Pennsylvania to face Lehigh. The offense has been a bright spot for UMBC (3-6) this week, as they have hit 46-of-82 shots (56.1%) from the floor over the last three halves of basketball. SR F Chase Plummer exploded for 27 points at Duquesne, while FR G Rodney Elliott scored in double figures in both games and leads UMBC at 13.6 points per game.
HAWK UPDATE: Lehigh took an early lead and made the plays in the end to pull out a 57-50 win at Saint Francis (Pa.) on Wednesday evening. It marked Lehigh's first road win of the season as the Mountain Hawks won their second straight game and third in their last four. FR F Tim Kempton led the way with 18 points and a career-high 15 rebounds for his first-career double-double. SR G Mackey McKnight leads LU with 15.3 points per game.
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Introduction to Predictive Analytics using SPSS Modeler
Analytics refers to software technology and processes that forward-thinking organizations use to understand their data. Today's organization collects data from a broad span of internal and external sources. It includes a wide variety of data types, including both structured and unstructured.
With the ever increasing volume of data, the complexity of finding the critical information necessary to make insightful business decisions has become more challenging. This challenge requires an organization to not only be able to extract the appropriate pieces of knowledge, but also to connect them with the right people at the right time in order to enhance decision-making.
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Wanderlust. From Caspar David Friedrich to Auguste Renoir opens at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin on May 10 (Photo: "Solitude" by Hans Thoma).
Wanderlust. From Caspar David Friedrich to Auguste Renoir opens at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin on May 10 (Photo: "Solitude" by Hans Thoma).
Mexican photographer Christian Vizl spends his life capturing the beauty of the planet's oceans with his camera and has won dozens of awards for his work. New out: his black-and-white book of plates, Silent Kingdom: A World Beneath the Waves (published by Earth Aware Editions).
The colorful paintings typically found on the walls of Somalia's grocer stores, doctor's offices and electrical stores have a positive dual purpose: Everyone can see at a glance exactly what's on offer, and the artists earn a living with their street art.
So you think winter's the only good time to ski and sled? Think again! These summer toboggan runs promise breathtaking descents.
It takes 9 minutes to cover the 3.5 kilometers of the world's longest summer toboggan run, which you will find in Imst, Tirol.
Sled runs, called sommerrodelbahn even outside Germany, are a real export hit. You can even speed down the Great Wall of China on a 1.5-kilometer track near Mutianyu, 70 kilometers northeast Beijing.
In Ocho Rios in northern Jamaica, you can race through the rain forest on a sled and enjoy the Caribbean beaches of the former fishing village after whizzing down the 1000-meter piste.
Culture clash
The best way to travel is on your stomach: Try something you've never had before at these culinary festivals.
Stars on the street
In Singapore, good food is so important that even street cooks work to the highest standards – and are rewarded with Michelin stars. The city's Food Festival is a must for fans of Chinese, Indian and Malay cooking. (July 12-28)
Not always haute cuisine
French-Canadian cuisine is both famous and notorious, the latter for poutine: french fries in gravy topped with cheese. For a more sophisticated experience, visit the Festival Bouffe ton Centro in Sherbrooke near Montreal (August 3).
Parcels for the palate
Pierogies are ubiquitous in Poland. Krakow even hosts a festival in honor of the tasty dumplings that can come filled with ground meat, mushrooms or sauerkraut (August 11-17).


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Add a personalized touch to your desk or home office with a monogrammed mousepad! Our Scales of Justice mouse pad features a solid background in your choice of ink color, with scales artwork in white. Customized with name or initials in your choice of lettering style.
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A number of Bernie Sanders supporters are organizing a "fart-in" for July 28 both inside Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center and outside on the street at the moment presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton accepts the party's nomination, NBC News reported.
After putting the word out about the fart-in through her national organization, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, organizer Cheri Honkala said she began receiving beans from all over the country.
Honkala said organizers will erect a shantytown dubbed "Clintonville" in Kensington, one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods, where protesters can load up on beans before Clinton's nomination is announced next Thursday.
Honkala said the organization also plans to protest for economic justice beginning at 3 p.m. at Philadelphia's City Hall next Monday, when the Democratic convention begins. Her group was also scheduled to take part in an "End Poverty Now!" demonstration in Cleveland on Monday, the first day of the Republican convention.


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At Wells Fargo, our vision is to satisfy our customers financial needs and help them succeed financially. In this role, you will help us deliver on our vision and build lifelong relationships with our customers. You also will demonstrate leadership through contributing to a company culture that supports customers in achieving their financial goals, team members in developing their careers, and communities in continuing to thrive. As part of a team that serves one in three American households, you will play a vital role in living our commitment to the highest ethical standards and maintaining the valued trust of our customers and communities.
A teller provides exceptional customer service and spends almost all of his/her time working with Wells Fargos most important asset, our customers. Tellers are responsible for a variety of tasks including providing excellent customer service, processing account transactions effectively, helping resolve customer concerns in a timely fashion, following proper procedures to minimize errors and reduce fraud, and sharing the benefit our customers may receive when meeting with a banker, when appropriate. Tellers are expected to always balance their cash drawers, build great rapport with people, and be strong team players who take pride in performing well and enjoy helping others.
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Latent trait measures of agency attributes described in Anthony M. Bertelli, Dyana P. Mason, Jennifer M. Connolly, and David A. Gastwirth. 2013. "Measuring Agency Attributes with Attitudes Across Time: A Method and Examples Using Large-Scale Federal Surveys," Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, are provided in a Microsoft Excel worksheet here. A codebook is available in PDF format here. The article can be accessed via the journal website here.
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With the cattle market strong and forage available, Texas beef cattle producers can't afford to neglect nutrition this winter, says a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Dr. Jason Cleere, beef cattle specialist, College Station, told producers at the recent South Central Texas Cow-Calf Clinic in Brenham to monitor body condition of their cattle to ensure those cows will raise a healthy calf and properly re-breed.
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However, lack of nutrition is one of the main causes for cattle not breeding, he said.
"Nutrition is extremely important to the cow-calf operation," Cleere said. "The way we manage cattle to calve at two years of age and have a calf every year, you've got to have some nutritional management out there for them."
Cleere said one of the most important things producers should do is look at the body condition of their cows.
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Using the Fusion Digital Power Designer
Working with TI Sequencers
Here, you will find a series of design and application notes, blogs, and videos that showcase how the sequencers can be used in a number of applications, and hopefully address some issues you might encounter when using this family of devices.
Design Considerations
UCD90XXX devices can be used for a number of functions beyond simple power sequencing. Here are some tips and tricks when implanting the devices in specific situations.
Application and Design Notes
Software Support
The UCD90XXX sequencer family can be programmed and configured in PMBus and I2C, but TI's easy to use Fusion Digital Power™ GUI enables the designer to do as much without ever writing a single line of code. Below you will find some training videos for using this GUI as well as some other application notes to support programming in PMBus.
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Overview of analog and digital sequencers
TI has a variety of both analog and digital sequencers and system health monitors used in a wide variety of applications. Our analog LM388X sequencers are simple to use and easy to design with, to ensure systems consisting of 3 to 9 rails are powered up and powered down in the proper order. The UCD90XXX family of PMBus / I2C addressable digital power supply sequencers are for more complex systems, and enable sequencing up to 32 rails (or more when devices are cascaded).
How to use the Fusion Digital Power Designer with UCD90x Sequencers
Fusion Power Designer: Configure a rail to monitor current
Fusion Power Designer: How to upgrade dongle firmware
Fusion Power Designer: Set up security mode
Fusion Power Designer: Add additional voltage rails
Fusion Power Designer: Error checking function
Fusion Power Designer: Set up the system watchdog function
Fusion Power Designer: Add a logic-controlled GPO
Fusion Power Designer: Change dongle settings
Fusion Power Designer: Add and configure a GPI input
Fusion Power Designer: Configure a rail to monitor temperature
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Every week, a DIY expert spares us a trip to the grocery store and shows us how to make small batches of great foods at home.
This week, Ashley Rodriguez, of the blog Not Without Salt, shows us a shortcut to perfectly flaky puff pastry.
Puff pastry appears in our kitchen more often than I should probably admit. The last time I was here I taught you how to make butter yourself, so I think it is safe to assume I'm not afraid of it. But what I find so interesting is that even cookbooks and websites that pride themselves on providing recipes with real food and encouraging the cook to be in the kitchen rarely encourage you to make the puff yourself.
Make puff pastry yourself? I've probably lost a few of you already but let me say this: folding butter into dough to produce thousands of flaky layers is an experience that every cook should have at least once. And secondly, the recipe I am going to walk you through is a quick version that can be made in under two hours. In fact when in a rush, I've done it in an hour, with much of that time given to allowing the dough to rest in the fridge.
Thousands of recipes are made simply and yet carry with them an impressiveness when puff pastry is on the ingredient list. From appetizers to desserts, puff pastry transforms a few ingredients into a heightened and buttery bite that leaves the happy recipients of such a taste in awe of the cook. And yet, it is very hard to find a quality puff pastry in the frozen food section. Many versions don't contain any butter at all, but rather a fabricated fat that stands in for the butter and is laden with butter flavor. Quality pre-made puff does exist and you should definitely seek that out if making it yourself is out of the question (I'll still like you, it's okay), but be prepared to pay a very pretty penny.
Quick puff pastry begins in a way that is similar to making a pie dough. Cold fat is lightly mixed with flour, then ice cold water is added. The difference between quick puff pastry and classic puff pastry lies in the amount of butter (don't be alarmed at the sight of all that butter) and the way in which the butter is incorporated into the dough.
In a classic puff pastry the butter and dough are kept separate and are folded into one another in a series of "turns." Quick puff pastry also utilizes the turning process, but the butter is worked into the dough just a bit before the folding or turning begins. Baked quick puff won't produce the same perfectly uniform layers you find in a well-made classic puff, but because the butter is worked into the flour, you get a bit of tenderness along with those beautiful flakes.
Once made, the dough can be used immediately or frozen for several months. This recipe makes a lot of dough so I often have plenty for my recipe, then freeze the remaining for a quick pot pie dinner, cookies, or when a buttery snack is in order.
As I said, this dough can be used for everything from appetizers to desserts. I've made beautiful puff pastry straws by spreading mustard or parmesan over the dough, then slicing it into strips to bake and serve with a bubbly cocktail. My favorite always impressive yet embarrassingly simple dessert is baked squares of puff sprinkled with sugar. Once they're cool, I layer them with whipped cream spiked with Grand Marnier and orange zest. I garnish with berries and a dusting of powdered sugar.
Quick Puff Pastry(adapted from Epicurious)4 cups all-purpose flour2 teaspoons salt6 1/2 sticks (3 1/4 cups) unsalted butter, cut into rough 1/2-inch cubes, chilled1 cup cold water
STEP 1: Combine the flour and the salt in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. If you don't have a stand mixer you can do this by hand, which is the method I used for a long time until I realized how much quicker it is when using the mixer. My favorite tool when I make this by hand is a bench scraper. It's how I keep the dough together and how I cut up the cubes of cold butter.
Add all the butter to the bowl at once and mix for 30 seconds on low speed. You want the butter to just start to break up and incorporate into the flour. Add the cold water and mix for 15 seconds. This mix will not look like much of a dough and you may be cursing me for having got you into this mess but I assure you when you pull the puffed piece of dough out of the oven I will be your best friend.
STEP 2: Roughly shape the crumbly "dough" into a rectangle. Fold over the right third of the dough to the center. It will likely fall apart through the first 3 turns, and when it does simply use your hands to press the dough back together. Fold the left two-thirds over the dough and turn 90 degrees. This was your first turn.
STEP 3: Using the palm of your hands, push the dough back to a flattened rectangle and repeat the process 2 more times for a total of 3 turns. If at any point you feel the butter getting soft or the dough becomes too tough to work with just place it in the fridge to rest for at least 30 minutes.
After 3 turns, place in the fridge to rest for at least 30 minutes or up to 1 hour. You can leave the dough at this state overnight if time is an issue -- just let it rest on the counter for 10 minutes to remove the chill from the butter slightly before starting the turning process again.
STEP 4: Once the dough has rested, continue with 3 more turns. After this first rest the water will have hydrated much of the flour and it should resemble a dough. This is when I start to use the rolling pin rather than my hands to work with the dough.
Let rest again for 30 minutes.
At this point your dough is ready to use. Most often recipes call for a sheet of puff pastry. Roll out your dough to ¼ inch thickness and cut to any size that the recipe calls for.
If I'm baking the puff on its own, I always start with a very hot oven (400 degrees F) and ice cold dough (I rest mine in the freezer 10 minutes prior to baking). I let that bake for 20 minutes then turn down the oven and continue to bake for another 20 minutes at 350 degrees F. Otherwise follow the recipe instructions for the specific recipe you are using.I do hope you try this recipe. For me it is such a thrill every time I cut into the dough after the last turn. I take a moment to revel at the layers of butter sandwiched between the dough. This recipe always reminds me why I love baking -- a few simple ingredients are brought together in a certain way to produce something that draws me to the oven door to watch it rise and flake, and with one bite I'm left in a giddy, buttery glow.
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Hotel Kastoria - Thessaloniki
HOTEL KASTORIA is a listed and historic building in the center of Thessaloniki.
Kastoria hotel offers simple and affordable rooms. Free Wi-Fi is available in the entire hotel.
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Agenda: November 19, 2012 Education and Youth Success PEG
November 19, 2012 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM
1900 SW 4th Avenue, Portland. Conference Room 7A
Welcome and Reflections from Last Meeting (5 minutes)
Description: Follow-up thoughts from group members from the October 15 meeting, and overview of today's meeting
- Meeting Goal: Develop a shared understanding of equity issues and how they apply to the Comprehensive Plan update, with a focus on educational issues
Announcements from the group (5 minutes)
Equity Fundamentals (45 minutes)
Presenters: Dante James and Judith Mowry, Office of Equity and Human Rights
Description: Why is Equity Important? Equity in the Portland Plan. Strategies for moving towards equity.
PowerPoint Presentation
Education and Youth Success Issues Through an Equity Lens (50 minutes)
Presenters: Dante James and Judith Mowry, Office of Equity and Human Rights
Description: Group discussion about schools and equity.
Discussion Handout
Public Comment (10 minutes)
Next Steps (5 minutes)
- Next Meeting: December 17, 2012 from 4:00-6:00
- Reschedule January meeting because of conflict with Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
- Publication of Working Draft – late December
- Role of the PEG from this point forward
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I recently returned from a visit to seven countries throughout Asia. Although I had visited some of them before, this was my first visit representing MIGA. During my trip, I recognized the value and potential of MIGA's focus on south/south investment to investors in this region. Of course providing guarantees to support inward investment to Asia is very important to MIGA, especially guarantees for complex infrastructure projects. MIGA can add a lot of value to these types of projects – particularly when it comes to helping manage the environmental and social aspects of projects.
However, even through this global economic crisis, many private sector companies in Asian middle income countries have become "investors" in other parts of the world. Investments from Asia reach many of the poorest and post-conflict countries. At the same time, risk-mitigation instruments such as political risk insurance are not well known. We see a role for MIGA in sharing experience and working with Asian export credit agencies and Eximbanks to bring Asian investors the risk mitigation tools they need to help continue expanding their investments.


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I keep role playing journals of the games I've run scattered online. I think the addresses are in my signature but I'll post them here too.
Most recently, I've been playing in a Call of Cthulhu game taking place during WWI. Eric ran his WWI game again this past weekend and the terror continued, this time at an abandoned French Mansion. The journal entry can be found here:
A few things to note. This is my first major sanity loss for my character (and the first for me for playing ever as I usually am Keeper). Chararacters are:
Captain Christopher Reed, MD (me)
Lt. Anton Kemps
Eloise Smith - Volunteer ambulance driver
Nurse Felicity Adkins
Private Harold Olver
Corporal William Grimm
Jean Pierre Valois - reporter
The other location are for the rest of my journals and they are here:
These are in reverse order (for the most part). The Call of Cthulhu ones are in the correct order but you will have to put in "see all journal entries" to see all of them (there are more than the original 20).
Don't know if anyone is interested or not but if you decide to read them, I hope you enjoy them.
I'll post here as I post them.


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A transit system in crisis, facing daunting budget gaps; a Democratic-controlled legislature can't agree on a rescue package; an unpopular Democratic governor can't broker a deal; an angry public facing crippling service cuts and tremendous fare hikes loom.
This all sound familiar?
Not so long ago, the country's second largest transit system went through a high-profile budget crisis of its own, and waited—and waited and waited—on a legislature that couldn't find its way to agreement on a rescue package. If the crisis and accompanying political debate in Chicago can be taken as any guide, New York—where legislators are now on break after finishing the budget but failing to agree on a rescue plan before the M.T.A. has its own doomsday service cuts and fare hikes—might have quite a while more of back and forth before the M.T.A.'s fiscal crisis comes to any sort of resolution.
Back in the spring and summer of 2007, the Chicago Transit Authority announced it was desperately short of revenue as pension and other costs skyrocketed past revenues. The Legislature took no direct action at the time, so drastic service cuts, including eliminating 63 bus routes, were scheduled to go into effect in September 2007, coupled with a shocking fare hike for subway (or "El") riders. Fares were slated to jump from $2 to $3.25 during rush hour. Ads on the subways posted the bus routes that were to be cut, a lengthy list that, at a glance, made clear the severity of the situation.
(The M.T.A. and New York Legislature are currently at this point, awaiting fare hikes that are scheduled to start May 31, and service cuts that start in June.)
For Chicago, the drama was then drawn out for months by the Illinois Legislature and now-disgraced-but-then-unpopular governor Rod Blagojevich. While numerous concepts were floated and the Assembly put forward a bill, neither the two legislative chambers—both controlled by Democrats—nor Mr. Blagojevich, also a Democrat, could reach a deal.
A stop-gap measure was approved days before the fare hikes were set to go into effect in mid-September, extending the deadline to November. Then, again, another stop-gap measure came, this time extending the deadline to January.
Only then, after the CTA reportedly spent more than $2 million gearing up for the various rounds of fare hikes, did the Legislature reach a deal to fund the agency, adding a sales tax for the Chicago metro area and a real estate transfer tax. Crisis averted.
In New York, Governor Paterson has sought to avoid stop-gap measures, resisting a short-term solution by the State Senate that pushed off many decisions to the fall. Still, despite a whole lot of talking, it doesn't seem like the Democratic Senate is close to a deal that would satisfy its own members, the governor and the Assembly.
The lesson? Don't be surprised if this stretches out past May 31. That, and everything can work out in the end.
With that said, a drawn-out series of stop-gap measures ultimately followed by a deal would create a fair amount of logistical problems at the M.T.A., as the agency does things like sell transit passes a month in advance at new prices, which, if there were a last-minute change, would create some clear problems for those who bought the passes. That's not to mention the loss of faith the elected officials in Albany will earn from the public and the embarassment the governor and legislative leaders suffer from not reaching a deal despite repeatedly saying one is near.


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(Cinet)- Fans of Chocolate Marou now can enjoy their favorite treats in a beautiful café shop, newly opened by the owners of the globally famous made-in-Vietnam chocolate.
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A Randomized Trial of Unruptured Brain AVMs (ARUBA)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00389181
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 18, 2006
Last Update Posted : June 4, 2015
|Tracking Information
|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|October 16, 2006
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|October 18, 2006
|Last Update Posted Date
|June 4, 2015
|Study Start Date ICMJE
|October 2006
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|June 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Difference of 5-year event rates between two arms [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
The hypothesis to be tested is that there is no difference between medical management and interventional therapy in the time to stroke or death from any cause.
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Composite event of death from any cause or symptomatic stroke (hemorrhage or infarction confirmed by imaging)
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00389181 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Prevalence of the risk of death or clinical impairment at 5 years post-randomization with early intervention [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
The hypothesis to be tested is that early intervention decreases the risk of death or clinical impairment at 5 years post-randomization. (Rankin Score >/= 2)
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Risk of death or clinical impairment (Rankin Score >/= 2) at 5 years post-randomization
|Current Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures
|Not Provided
|Original Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures
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|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|A Randomized Trial of Unruptured Brain AVMs
|Official Title ICMJE
|A Randomized Trial of Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous Malformations
|Brief Summary
|The purpose of this study is to determine if medical management is better than invasive therapy for improving the long-term outcome of patients with unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations.
|Detailed Description
Brain arteriovenous malformations (BAVMs) are an infrequent but important cause of stroke, particularly in a young population. Current invasive treatment strategies are varied and include endovascular procedures, neurosurgery, and radiotherapy. All of these treatments are administered on the assumption that they can be achieved at acceptably minor complication rates, decrease the risk of subsequent hemorrhage, and lead to better long-term outcomes.
Recent data from the literature comparing initial presentation and outcome for patients with ruptured and unruptured BAVMs have raised the possibility that such elective invasive treatment for unruptured BAVMs may yield worse outcomes than managing patients symptomatically with therapy. Unfortunately, no controlled clinical trials have yet been undertaken for management of unruptured BAVMs to address these concerns. Therefore, the goal of this randomized controlled trial is to determine if the long-term outcomes of patients who receive medical management for symptoms (e.g., headache, seizures) associated with an unruptured BAVM are superior to those who receive medical management and invasive therapy to eradicate the BAVM.
Participants will be randomly assigned to receive either symptomatic medical management alone or such management with invasive therapies (any combination of surgery, endovascular embolization, or radiotherapy). Functional assessment will be carried out at the time of randomization, pre-intervention and 48-hour post-intervention, and for all participants at 1 month, and at 6 month intervals throughout the follow up period which will be a minimum of 5 years.
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|Phase 3
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Arteriovenous Malformations, Cerebral
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|May 2015
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|June 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
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|Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Republic of, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
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U01NS051566 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
U01NS051483 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
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|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
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|IPD Sharing Statement ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|Jay Preston Mohr, Columbia University
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Columbia University
|Collaborators ICMJE
|National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
|Investigators ICMJE
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|Columbia University
|Verification Date
|June 2015
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Cloud Expo Silicon Valley Speaker Profile: Joe Weinman – Telx
Joe Weinman – Sr. VP of Cloud Services & Strategy at Telx
By: Jeremy Geelan
Oct. 17, 2012 03:00 PM
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in three weeks' time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA - co-located with 2nd International BigDataExpo - let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the West Coast conference...
CLOUD EXPO SPEAKER NAME: Joe Weinman
11TH CLOUD EXPO SESSION TITLE: Cloudonomics: Can the Cloud Be Strategic?
"I've been thinking about the strategic competitive advantage of clouds, and in particular about some of the mathematics and statistics behind cloud computing. For example, the benefits of aggregating demand can be characterized based on fundamental laws of statistics, such as the law of large numbers and the preservation of variance across addition of independent random variables. Observations such as this have profound business implications. For example, service provider clouds have fundamental strategic advantages over enterprise clouds or owned (or financed or leased) infrastructure based on this statistical behavior.
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Western Digital has had a bit of a rethink about how it brands its drives, and has shown the Scorpio (mobile) and Caviar (desktop) names the door. Instead, the company is now relying on just colours, which previously only indicated which market segment each product was aimed at.
For example, the Scorpio Black and Scorpio Blue ranges are now Black (performance/enthusiast) and Blue (mainstream/everyday), while the Caviar Green range of eco-friendly drives is now badged as just Green.
Into this kaleidoscope of colours comes WD's new range of drives aimed at small office and home (SOHO) NAS users - the Reds.
The Red range is currently made up of three drives in 1TB (WD10EFRX), 2TB (WD20EFRX) and 3TB (WD30ERFX) capacities. The idea of the Red range is to provide low cost drives for use in NAS environments as an alternative to standard desktop drives in RAID arrays.
Those setups can be a source of frustration and lost data, as desktop HDDs often struggle to cope with the demands of such environments.
This range takes the power-saving Intellipower spindle technology of the Green series and marries it with some of the 24/7 robustness of the RE-4 enterprise drives. WD has also added 3D Active Balancing, and a new technology called NASware in the firmware.
3D Active Balancing eliminates vibration by tuning the drive, which in turn boosts its reliability and performance. NASware comprises a bunch of technologies aimed at keeping the drive(s) from dropping off a RAID array through extended error recovery, while also offering improved power management.
WD sent us a pair of 2TB drives, so after testing one on its own we built them into RAID 0 (striped) and RAID 1 (mirrored) arrays and timed how long to transfer a 4GB photo file. Strangely, the single drive performance was actually a little better.
Sequential read performance
ATTO: Megabytes per second: Faster is better
WD Red 2TB: 127
WD Green 2TB: 93
Sequential write performance
ATTO: Megabytes per second: Faster is better
WD Red 2TB: 111
WD Green 2TB: 85
Application performance
4GB Photo copy: Seconds: Lower is better
WD Red 2TB Single drive: 86
2x WD Red 2TB RAID 0 (Striped): 87
2x WD Red 2TB RAID 1 (Mirror): 88
Internally the Red range of drives use 1TB platters, Marvell controllers and uprated 64MB DDR2 caches. Before the Red range appeared, if you were building your own one- to six-bay NAS device, your only choices were either standard desktop drives or much more expensive (but robust) enterprise drives.
While the Reds don't offer the same range of protection as WD's enterprise-focused RE drives, they are more resilient than a standard desktop HDD, and are competitively priced. Our review model, the 2TB version, costs around £100. The equivalent Green desktop drive costs around £90, while a 2TB RE4 model will cost some £70 more than the Red version.
WD has also set up a dedicated 24/7 support line exclusively for Red users, and is backing the drive with a three-year warranty. The problem with using standard desktop drives in a RAID environment is that they often drop out of the array.
Until the arrival of the Red series, the only real way to ensure your drives were up to the job was to buy expensive server drives. WD gets the thumbs up for working with QNAP, Synology and other NAS providers to make sure the range is compatible with as many products as possible.
As it says on the drive, this is perfect for the nascent home NAS generation, and as SSD prices drop, the future of the humble hard disk is large scale storage alone.


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simonshack wrote:Dear CB,
Before proceeding on this path, I think we should ask ourselves: Is there any precedent where NASA has simulated its own staff?
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NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) was successfully launched on a helium balloon today at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii later the LDSD will be released at 120,000 feet and fire a Star 48B rocket motor to boost it to Mach 4.0 and 180,000 feet. This height and speed simulates a spacecraft flying through the Martian atmosphere and is where the air breaking systems will be tested on the LDSD vehicle.
LDSD is fitted with what is called SIAD-R, a giant doughnut air bag that will increase the diameter of the vehicle and help slow it down to Mach 2.5 where a supersonic parachute will deploy ahead of a safe landing in the Pacific Ocean for recovery.
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PEOPLE IN H&S: EDLANG his committee's resolution commits American Institute of CPAs to open the doors to minorities In all honesty it must be said that in some ways the accounting profession has had to be nudged into recruiting Negroes into its ranks. As in other fields of endeavor, it required government prodding, including new laws, before organized action was taken. Let it also be said that once the issue was out in the open, action was not slow in coming. On taking office in October 1968, Ralph E. Kent, then President of the American Institute of CPAs, named a Committee on Recruitment from Minority Groups, with Edwin R. Lang of H&S as chairman. At last spring's meeting of its governing council, the Institute committed itself to action that would "integrate the accounting profession in fact as well as in ideal" through a resolution submitted by Ed Lang on behalf of his committee. The climate was right for action. Ed reported to the Institute's Council "a widespread feeling" that the present situation "is intolerable because, in addition to moral reasons, it results in a waste of scarce human resources." Favorable as the climate was, the actual picture was not good. The number and proportion of blacks in the CPA profession is far below what it is for other leading professions. Of more than 100,000 CPAs in the country, only about 150 are blacks. Fewer than 300 of the 16,000 students with accounting majors who graduated in 1968 were black. Although some in the profession contend that many blacks do not have adequate education, a more likely root of the problem is the reluctance to hire all but the very best in order to minimize risk of failure. But as one black member of Ed's AICPA committee, Bert N. Mitchell, says: "The minority groups must have employment for their fair share of average performers, like the rest of America. A black should no longer have to be a Jackie Robinson in order to make the team." In fact, as Ed told Council, what is needed is more than a response to civil rights laws. "It is easy to make all the right motions. In spite of compliance... the profession as a whole does remain segregated in fact." He set the stage for initiative, not simply response. His committee is now embarked on a program of communicating to minority-group students and their teachers the genuine desire of the profession to recruit blacks and to ensure that a real opportunity awaits them in accounting. Recruiters will have to get to know the black accounting faculty, who are wondering: "Is there really an opportunity for black kids in business?" Ed Lang strongly advocates informal discussion for getting to know the black students. "... not getting up and lecturing to them, but sitting down informally... talking to them about their problems, and asking how they see this whole thing." To be effective, recruiters must adopt new attitudes and techniques. The recruiters will need the kind of sensitivity that makes them aware of a black student's special needs. He may be a well trained accounting graduate and still not be confident of the way to respond to an invitation for an office visit. He may have a housing problem. He will probably need more than usual patience, understanding and on-the-job training. Ed has a feel for this kind of recruiting which he credits in part to his background as a boy with a Polish immigrant father in Cleveland, and to his five-year experience as national partner in charge of personnel. He was born and raised in the Hough section of Cleveland during the Depression, in a home without car or telephone. Beginning at age 10 he was in advanced groups in school. At 11 he had a paper route. At 12 he worked for the Cleveland Indians as usher and on
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Haskins & Sells. Executive Office
H&S Reports, Vol. 06, (1969 autumn), p. 02-03
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