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A Bit of History
In the 'early' days after the Terror Wars, the SkyRyders policed themselves. They decided which laws and regulations they would enforce and which could be overlooked. Unfortunately, not everyone who joined their ranks were there for the right reason, but most believed there were sufficient 'good' soldiers to control and discipline the rogue ones. And it mostly seemed to work until one rogue officer became a five-star general. He did this by being an outstanding soldier until the council of generals made him top dog. Then he slyly began his criminal activities of selling Skyryder armory to anyone with the cash to buy them.
While no one had figured out how to ship an apple overseas, the general had concocted a way to move SkyRyder weaponry to the Russians and the Czechs. Still most were sold to scavengers and drug dealers in the Americas.
Fortunately, a one-star general, Daniel Kane, who cared more for his country than he did his life, acquired evidence and revealed the crime to the Generals Council. While they sentenced the 5-star general to death, they forced Daniel Kane to leave the Sky-Ryders on trumped up charges, with a warning that if even one newshound got wind of the armory story, he would be executed.
Scavenger's Mission
By Liza O'Connor
Meet Alisha: A young woman who refuses to live the life her parents want.
In a single month, Alisha Kane has gone from a wealthy debutante to street girl to scavenger. While testing her new flying skills in the Cully Canyon, Alisha incurs a near-death crash landing. She's "rescued" by a colonel of the SkyRyders and her life changes forever.
Meet Logan: A SkyRyder colonel in charge of a sleepy fort with little to do other than arrest the occasional scavenger.
For the first time in his life, Logan's attracted to a young woman, only she's probably a scavenger and he'll have to arrest her. But first he offers her a shower and food while he checks on his crew. His videographer has captured her extraordinary flight through the Cully and her flying is astounding!
He forgoes arresting her and puts his career at risk by asking MAC to assess her skills and integrity as a potential SkyRyder. If he can get Alisha into the SkyRyders, it will be his greatest contribution to the Corps.
Meet MAC: The Artificial Intelligence that runs the SkyRyders Corps.
Upon seeing her arrival, MAC upgrades Alisha's test. Her flying skills are not just excellent; they exceed what was previously thought possible. MAC classifies her as its top asset and soon she proves her value.
But…the SkyRyders remain a male dominated Corps where Alisha's sense of right and wrong often clashes with her superiors. How long can a rebellious young woman survive in a regimented Corps?
A conversation between two colonels: Riley who runs MAC & Logan.
"I know you've never thought much of MAC, but I'm closer to its day-to-day activities, and I gotta tell you, it seems to get the right answer, certainly more often than our old methods."
"Maybe, but I'd still feel a lot better if these things were handled by real Ryders."
"Well, you wouldn't if you'd been Daniel Kane," Riley quipped.
"What?" Logan said. What did Alisha's grandfather have to do with anything?
"Daniel Kane. He was unquestionably the best flyer the SkyRyders have ever had. He rose through the ranks, became a one-star general, then went head to head against a five-star General named Cohen. Do you remember him?"
"I was just a cadet when the guy got booted. He was black marketing our supplies, I think."
"Right. He's the reason why there are hidden cameras in our supply rooms, which I've noticed you're asking for yours. Anything to do with this open inquiry?"
"It's related."
"Then you won't see it. MAC will pull it up here."
Logan sighed. Damn meddling program. "You were trying to tell me why I should feel better about MAC dispensing justice over members of my own Corps."
"Because the Corps didn't dispense justice to the man who brought General Cohen's crime to light. Instead, they drummed him out of the Corps on trumped-up charges that even a first-year advocate could have refuted."
The news astounded him. "If we know this, then why haven't we reinstated him?" Logan asked. "Hell, then the poor man could buy his own medicine!"
"Kane died over ten years ago."
"Daniel Kane is not dead. I just spoke to him today and gave him the happy news that his granddaughter would be taking her flight test tomorrow."
The silence on the other end was deafening.
"Riley, are you still there?" Logan finally asked.
"Yeah…I'm just falling off chairs. Are you telling me your girl is the granddaughter of Daniel Kane?"
"Yes. And I'm also telling you Daniel Kane is alive and being very ill-treated by the Corps."
The SkyRyder's Series, Book 1
Scavenger's Mission
About the Author
Liza O'Connor lives in Denville, NJ with her dog Jess. They hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet or snow. Having an adventurous nature, she learned to fly small Cessnas in NJ, hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky dive in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. She's an avid gardener, amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts. Yet through her entire life, her first love has and always will be writing novels.
Sci-Fi Soap Opera with humor, romance, and science
Artificial Intelligence Series
The SkyRyders Series
Sci-Fi Romance
Scavenger Falters-coming 2017
Scavenger Vanishes-coming 2017


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'Back In Black' aside, AC/DC's batting average during the tenure of vocalist Brian Johnson is substantially lower than that of countless Fall lineups during the same period. That said, the band's recordings with Johnson's predecessor, original howler Bon Scott (above), have more than stood the test of time, with patrons as diverse as Chris Lombardi and Mark Kozelek (ok, perhaps that's not the widest cross-section) singing their praises. However, with the news South Scotland MSP Christine Graham wants to officially recognize the band (in light of Scott hailing from the town of Kirriemuir, Angus), The Times' Joan McAlpine protests, "honour the achievements of our sons and daughters by all means…but only when they have done something worth celebrating. Sonic assault by wild men in mullets just doesn't count."
Robert Burns has already been castigated as a poor role model for young Scots on account of his sexual promiscuity and love of a dram. He also left us poetry of incredible lyrical power, whether he was philosophising on the lot of the common man, satirising authority or expressing tenderness towards his many lovers.
Beside Bon Scott, Burns could occupy the editor's chair at the Feminist Review. The closest AC/DC get to tenderness is Whole Lotta Rosie, in praise of the carnal expertise of a 19 stone woman known to the singer. If that's too sentimental for your taste, what about Night Prowler, on which Scott plays the role of a sexual predator, taunting a woman lying alone in her bed, scared to turn the light off because of the noise outside her window. In the title song of the 1976 album, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, the singer offers to use neckties, TNT or concrete to dispense with the annoying people in your life — like school teachers and unfaithful partners.
It kind of makes you look again at the middle-aged, middle-class white men who regard this music as the ultimate in authenticity. Perhaps they love it because unlike them, the band never grew up.
I'm not sure if "authenticity" registers particularly high on the list of most AC/DC fans' fave attributes, but presumably Ms. McApline knows an awful lot about why someone else's tastes differ from hers. She's perfectly entitled to take dead, defenseless Bon Scott to task for sexism, but even crude characters have stories worth hearing. I'm not sure what having a mullet has to do with whether or not Scott & colleagues are genuine artists, but such superficial hangups reveal a little bit about the author's credibility.

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Mary Bessell is one of those students with many talents. She is currently a member of the Trade Tech swim team, and is a real advocate for her teammates as they compete this season in a very tough conference. Not only does she compete in the water, but Mary along with her teammate Memo Yanez, were named to the Deans' List this semester for their accomplishments in the classroom. Mary also was selected recently for national recognition related to her analytical science presentation and her work in this field. If that wasn't enough, she also was selected to introduce former President Bill Clinton during his recent visit to LATTC. Not bad for a scholar-athlete who gets up for an exhausting 6am practice, and then attends another practice at 3pm. The word that comes to mind is commitment. Mary represents the best of Trade Tech.
Scholar-Athletes Here At Trade Tech!
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There's something telling about the way Carville & Begala keep antagonizing their would-be friends by appearing on CNN to defend Dom Imus. Normally when you hear liberal grousing about Carville's CNN spots lately it's about things like his habit of occassionally going on the network to disparage Barack Obama or John Edwards without him being presented properly as the Hillary Clinton partisan — not a former member of her staff, but an inner circle of "kitchen cabinet" advisors — that he is.
Clinton herself, however, has led admirably on this issue, doing the right thing substantively for the country. It's also been the right move politically for herself — appealing with the base in general, but perhaps more important providing a reminder that putting women in positions of power really would make a difference. But Carville doesn't have her back. Doesn't even have her back to the extent that he was willing to, say, argue Imus' case privately but not speak publicly on the issue. No. Clinton's made taking a lead role on this issue a priority last week, and there's Carville with the knives.
Which tells us relatively little about Carville or Clinton or Imus as such. Rather, it reminds us of the fundamental truth that's all-too-infrequently spoken — that for all the talk of "interest groups" influencing the Democratic Party absolutely nobody is more influential than the essentially permanent members of the consulting aristocracy. In an important sense, they don't really work for their clients, mere politicians who come and go. Their clients don't quite work for them, but they are subservient to them.


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By Hannah Gow
The College's International Studies Club hosted the first TCNJ New Jersey Model United Nations (MUN) Conference at the Wyndham Princeton Forrestal Hotel on the weekend of April 9 – 10.
Sigma Iota Rho, the international studies honor society, helped with the selling and distributing of MUN merchandise to be sold at the conference, as well as giveaways for the student participants at the end of the weekend.
With special guest Ambassador Ahmad Kamal, a retired U.N. ambassador representing Pakistan, the Conference was destined to be a success. John W. Vincent, president of the Princeton and Trenton area chapter of the United States and the United Nations (UNAUSA), was another resource utilized by the International Club.
The retired Foreign Service officer used his ties and resources through UNAUSA to help the organization bring Kamal to the Conference. When speaking to him he described the role of UNAUSA as a tool for local colleges as well as providing a broader base of understanding to multicultural issues and what they mean to the people of the United States. He knew of the International Club, specifically those involved with MUN, as "award winning, experienced and a very savvy, enthusiastic group."
The two-day conference started with the high school students arriving and checking in. Each student was split into three committees, the Disarmament and International Security Committee (DISEC), Security Council and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), which all mirrored actual U.N. councils.
Each committee had a feel of its own, from tension and fast-paced debating in the small Security Council room, to the more relaxed and cooperative atmosphere of the UNICEF room. Unlike many conferences, the UNICEF room came to a conclusion the first day of the conference for their discussion and debate on HIV/AIDS, and were introduced a new topic, child soldiers, for Saturday.
The largest room utilized was the Amphitheater setting for the Disec committee, basically a much smaller scale of the actual U.N. amphitheater. Sunita Yavalli, chair of UNICEF and sophomore International Studies and Political Science major, said, "I'm really impressed with the delegates. They're respectful every time they stand up and try to make a point."
For most students this was a learning opportunity and the staff wanted to explain everything thoroughly while staying respectful as to not put the students down with their mistakes. "They didn't yell at us, they clarified everything and it was more relaxed," said Zachary Weinstein. The staff didn't let them get off too easy though. When a committee came to an agreement, staff had a great time performing "kidnappings" and complicating the issues, modeling real life situations and crises.
For many, Ambassador Kamal was inspiring and a highlight of the conference. "Ambassador Kamal was very enlightening and my favorite part, as well as the constant food and pool tables," said Lacey Kaplan.
On Friday, the ambassador spoke in the amphitheater to participants of the conference on today's issues and views of the United Nations, as well current events and everything in between. To the student's surprise he peppered his speech with jokes, and though he had a humorous tone, Kamal fluidly brought the atmosphere back to more gravity when speaking on subjects such as society's hunger for war, the tragedy in Rwanda, nuclear armament and proliferation. One key point Kamal wanted to get across was the false view of the UN not as people but a distant organization.
"The U.N. is not an organization, it is actually a table with people sitting around it," said Kamal, "We need to replace U.N. with WE."
For secretary general and junior international studies major Parsh Bavishi, the conference was a long dream carried out through years of planning. Though he had help from club advisor and assistant professor of political science Potter, much of the paperwork, preparation, negotiation and monetary estimations were delegated to him alone.
"When I was a sophomore in high school I told my parents I would do this," Bavishi said. "Hopefully when I come back in 10-15 years this is still up and running and they're still doing this stuff."
Leading the way for this grand undertaking wasn't easy. "We were doing it by the seat of our pants," Potter said.
"It was like the stock market," added Bavishi.
In fact, they'd even had a school drop out that weekend and another join barely prior to the start of the conference. Though, for all the work Bavishi put into his dream, he pushed his fellow peers to do the same. Many of the MUN staff from the conference prepared well and were drilled for the weekend months in advance.
Their work certainly seemed to pay off. On Saturday all committees finished their working papers and all came to agreements.
"Be aware that there is a great big world out there," said Vincent at closing ceremonies, "Above all, ask the right questions on issues that have some bearing in the U.S. and the world as a whole."
After closing ceremonies were over, students proclaimed their satisfaction with the weekend, many anticipating their return.


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ANAHEIM, CALIF (January 8, 2019) – Anaheim Police homicide detectives have identified Miguel Reveles Villegas, a 35-year-old Placentia resident, as the suspect arrested for murder following a pursuit that terminated in San Diego Tuesday morning.
Around 6:30 p.m. on December 24, 2018, Anaheim Police responded to a call of a shooting in the 500 block of North Sabina Street. Upon arrival, officers located Fernando Guerrero Cervantes, a 45-year-old Anaheim resident, suffering from a gunshot wound. Cervantes was transported to a local hospital where he was listed in critical condition. On the morning of Monday, January 7, 2019, Cervantes succumbed to his injuries.
Homicide detectives launched an investigation and identified Villegas as the suspect. On the morning of January 8, 2019, investigators saw Villegas driving a vehicle in the area of Magnolia Street and Lincoln Avenue in Anaheim, and attempted to stop him. Villegas did not stop and a pursuit ensued. The California Highway Patrol assisted in the pursuit, which terminated on Interstate 5 south of Via de la Valle in San Diego around 8:45 a.m. After stopping his car, Villegas ran from officers and was taken into custody without incident nearby.
Villegas was later booked at the Anaheim Detention Facility for murder and felony evading. Villegas is being held in lieu of $1 million. Villegas' booking photo is not being released at this time because the investigation is still active. Detectives are not releasing information regarding possible motives for the shooting.


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Adventurers often find themselves in rowboats. Perhaps they are rowing out to attacks smuggler lurking off the coast or fleeing the burning wreck of their own larger vessel.
In such situations, it's fun to have minor incidents of interest occur to add depth, flavour and verisimilitude to their journey. The table below presents 20 such minor events.
- A seagull flies overhead and splatters one of the boat's occupants with excrement.
- A largish wave hits the boat and the people on that side of the boat get soaked.
- The boat bumps into a floating object like a piece of spar.
- A sudden swell threatens to pull an oar from a rower's hands. (DC 12 Strength resists). If dropped, the oar floats nearby, but tantalisingly out of reach.
- A seabird alights on the bow of the boat and caws loudly at the occupants.
- Something large bumps against the bottom of the boat.
- A school of fish swim about the boat for a while before suddenly dispersing.
- A large seagull swoops down and tries to grab some food from the hand of one of the boat's occupants.
- The rowboat has a small leak and begins to slowly fill with water. Ten minutes bailing every hour is sufficient to keep ahead of the leak.
- A larger swell rocks the boat. Anyone standing up must make a DC 10 Acrobatics or fall into the water.
- The black shadow of some large aquatic beast glides below the boat.
- A sudden squal passes over the rowboat, soaking everyone within. The rain only lasts 2d10 minutes.
- One of the rowboat's oars suddeny cracks and 1d6 minutes later it snaps in half. Unless the PCs have a spare or use magic to fix the broken oar, their movement rate is halved.
- While rowing, one of the PCs snags a shredding fishing net. Clearly, something large and powerful destroyed it.
- The rowboat passes through a small patch of floating debris. Sadly, there is nothing of value to recover from among the splinters of wood, water-logged (empty) sack and scraps of sail.
- The boat attracts the attention of a small flock of seagulls. They swoop and soar in the air above the boat. Throwing food into the water distracts them.
- One of the boat's occupants thinks he saw a swimmer about 50 ft. away. A wave obscures him momentarily from view, and no one else spots anything of note. The swimmer does not reappear.
- Angry, black rain clouds darken the horizon. After a few minutes, it becomes obvious they are moving toward the boat.
- A fierce wind picks up, and the waves grow bigger. Controlling the boat becomes difficult, and the spray drenches everyone.
- Something thuds against the rowboat's hull below the waterline, and the boat spring a leak. Unless rapid repairs are made, the boat sinks after about 30 minutes. Energetic bailing can extend this time. A DC 10 Strength check extends the boat's "life" by 10 minutes. Making another check every ten minutes keeps the water at bay, but the bailer suffers a +1 to the DC per previous check made. The other occupants of the boat can use the aid another action. After every hour of bailing, each character must make a DC 15 Fortitude save or become fatigued. Characters failing two checks become exhausted and can no longer bail.
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20 décembre 2010
Gâteaux de fêtes, Party Cakes
(Last update january, 2015, dernière mise à jour en janvier 2015) White Chocolate Opéra Cake/Opéra au Chocolat Blanc 20 servings, 20 personnes2 layers of Joconde Cake, Vanilla Buttercream,White Chocolate Mousse and Frosting, Fresh Raspberries.2 couches de Biscuits Joconde, Crème au Beurre à la Vanille,Mousse et Glaçage au Chocolat Blanc, Framboîses Fraîches. Green Tea and Chocolate Party Cake/Gâteau Chocolat et Thé Vert 16-20 servings, 16-20 personnes2 layers of Green Tea Génoise, Chocolate Buttercream,Chocolate Glaze and... [Lire la suite]
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Yes another Galette des rois ! Encore une Galette des rois !
The "Galette des rois", a typical French tradition...A vast majority of French food blogs have displayed their galettes recipes, but since my friend Luc from Ottawa has asked me, I will give you mine. During many years, it was served only on the Epiphany day, which is to say on the 6th of January. But it has become so popular that it is now very common to eat it each weekend throughout January.Why this success ? First, the taste : the galette is made with puff pastry and a very rich yet absolutely delicious mixture called... [Lire la suite]


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Boost & Protect
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In an average home, we inhale over 500 toxicants each day; these environmental chemicals produce free radicals and chemicals stress. The body rids itself of these deleterious chemicals via detoxification. Detoxification is the biotransformation of harmful chemicals into less harmful products for excretion.
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- Protects tissue from free radicals created by phase I detox 3, 12
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Phosphatidylcholine (PC)
- Protects liver cells 7, 16
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The Liposomal technonolgy of High Tech Health's supplements work identically. Extremely small spheres of phospholipids (a fat and water-soluble nutrient), called phosphatidylcholine surround our Vitamin C, or R-Lipoic Acid, or Glutathione. Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is the primary constituent of cell membranes in the body and is an extremely nutrivite addition to your supplement stack. PC is needed by many systems in the body.
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Vitamin C in conventional unprotected supplement form is not well absorbed in doses over 19mg, which is only aabout a fifth of the reccommended amount. Unfortunately, larger, more therapuetic doses are increasingly poorly absorbed by the body and a high percentage of what is taken in supplements is never absorbed at all. Absorption is a common problem with most supplements.
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Mohamed Salah leads Liverpool to UCL with easy win over Brighton
LIVERPOOL, England -- Three points on Liverpool's 4-0 win over Brighton as Mohamed Salah broke more records to confirm a top-four finish for the Reds.
1. Salah makes history again
Salah created his own piece of Premier League history by writing Luis Suarez, Cristiano Ronaldo and Alan Shearer out of the record books with his 32nd league goal of the season as Liverpool secured a top-four finish with an easy win over Brighton at Anfield.
In Liverpool's final game before the Champions League final against Real Madrid in Kiev on May 26, Salah took just 24 minutes before opening the scoring to claim the record in a 38-game Premier League season.
Having arrived from AS Roma last summer in a £36.9 million transfer, Salah has exceeded all expectations in his first season at Anfield. He has claimed both the PFA Player of the Year and Football Writers' Footballer of the Year awards, with the Premier League Player of the Season title also confirmed over the weekend.
But not only has Salah swept the board in terms of personal honours, his contributions to Jurgen Klopp's team have been crucial at key stages of the campaign.
Salah's goals in the Champions League quarterfinal tie against Manchester City inspired Liverpool to victory in that doubleheader, and he also delivered decisive goals against Roma in the semis.
Against Brighton he swept home early, then put the ball on a plate for young Dominic Solanke to score later on. Salah has turned it on when it mattered the most, and that's why he has been such an outstanding performer this season.
But with one game to go, he could end the campaign as a true Liverpool legend if he helps the team win a sixth European Cup by defeating Real in the Ukraine.
2. Klopp gets perfect preparation for Kiev
Klopp could not have scripted a better 90 minutes of preparation for the Champions League final had he tried, with even Adam Lallana climbing off the substitutes' bench to prove his fitness with a late cameo appearance.
With 13 days to go until the clash with holders Real Madrid, it is now all about fine-tuning and fitness for Klopp's players.
This game against Brighton had the potential to become a fly in the ointment, with Liverpool unable to take it too easy because it needed to avoid the defeat that could have allowed Chelsea to sneak into the top four.
So Klopp had to take risks with his starting XI and field many of the players who will face Real, knowing that each one was only a stretch away from a hamstring pull or a bad tackle that could result in an injury that would rule them out of the final.
But Brighton, having already confirmed their Premier League survival, were happy to enjoy a day in the Merseyside sunshine at Anfield, with only Shane Duffy's early heavy challenge on Salah raising an eyebrow on the Liverpool bench.
So rather than become an awkward distraction, this game enabled Liverpool to end the season on a high without unnecessary drama.
All that matters now are the next 12 days and ensuring that everyone is fit and healthy for the game that will define Liverpool's season.
3. Solanke finally breaks his duck
It has been a tough first season at Liverpool for Solanke, but he will go into the next campaign with a spring in his step after finally ending his long wait for his first goal.
Signed from Chelsea last summer, Solanke has all the attributes to be a success at Liverpool, but the 20-year-old is still raw and firmly in the "one for the future" bracket.
His second-half effort against Chris Hughton's team was his first in 21 Premier League appearances for Liverpool, but he had also failed to score in any of his six games in other competitions too, so this one was a long time coming.
Solanke will probably find himself sitting on the bench for the Champions League final and could yet emerge as an unlikely hero in that competition. But next season and beyond are what Liverpool signed him for, and there will be hope at Anfield that his first goal will give him something to build on.
An entire season without a goal is not good for any forward, regardless of the level of competition he is playing against, but Solanke has at least now avoided that unwanted distinction.
Mark Ogden is a senior football writer for ESPN FC. Follow him @MarkOgden_
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Getting a rest from routine.
My father shook my chubby arm gently. "Time to go!", he whispered trying not to wake my younger sister next to me. "Ah", I remembered our plan. I was big enough now, eleven, we were going to walk the dunes before sunrise, before anyone else got up. I slipped out of my bunk in our little vacation cottage near the sea, pulled on my clothes and joined my father and brother for a morning of "waking up the dew" as it was called.
We skipped breakfast and carried a sandwich for later. I will never forget the grown-up feeling of being an adventurer, sitting there on top of the dune watching the dawn slowly color the sea, eating that liverwurst sandwich, dew forming little bubbles on the beach grass, my feet boring into the wet sand to find some warmth from yesterday's sunshine.
"I won't have to wash my face and arms when we get back today, won't I?" I asked.
"No you won't, Nature has done the washing for you", my father answered.
This is how I learned that breaking the routine is a journey into feeling new, different.
The excitement of that day has stayed with me and fueled many of my escapades, from rowing at dawn, swimming in the ocean at midnight, eating raw foods for six months, not eating for weeks, all to have that experience of newness, which happens when I break the routine of everyday living.
Travel is just that, a rest from routine. A tiring rest maybe if you hike a trail, fly long distance, paddle the ocean, but a rest nonetheless. The rest from what you do routinely is a renewal for the spirit, an opening to new possibilities, new perspectives.
It is spring, let nature wake you up to a change of routine. Travel for five minutes. Step outside as it gets light. Have you heard? The birds are singing again.
Why we travel 2
Vacation travel
Do you get those Viking River Cruise catalogs? The Patagonia experience emails? The Nambia Safari on line catalogue? The discounted European getaway? I get them, and I look at them, possibilities on a drip line into the adventure part of my brain. I ask myself, what is it that makes me want to go?
I live in vacation land. I live in a place where an uncanny combination of natural wildness in the surroundings, cultural events and good restaurants in town, draws people to come and vacation. This is a place where people travel to, to take a break from their life.
Modern travel evokes images of standing in line, long drives, flight delays, packing, making reservations, rushing to get everything done so you can be gone awhile. Doesn't sound like taking a break, does it? Once on your way, you hope to have a long breath out, a change of pace, somewhere between airport arrivals, hotel accommodations, or family dynamics. If you are lucky, you might empty out a bit beyond emptying your money purse.
Why travel at all?
When we travel, we travel toward something, even if we think we are just getting away. Wilder places, mind expanding experiences that the daily routine deprives us from. A new look at life, friend and family contact not easily had. Often these experiences come with a certain amount of hardship, a long car ride across a state, a hike over a long mountain range, a silent meditation retreat, a family reunion inundated with logistics. Even a leisurely tropical beach get-away will have the no-see-um's that require self control from scratching yourself bloody.
And yet despite the hardship, we humans, we travel. It is the effort to find something, that lifts us out of the amnesia of daily living, and wakes us up to a bigger experience of life, or gives us back the appreciation for what we have at home.
Travel then, is the gift of transformation, renewal. A renewal you won't find in a catalogue.
Why we travel
This blog is part of a series on transformation and travel
As a writer, travel is my muse. The change in environment helps me observe, see things I would otherwise walk right by.
There was a homeless man standing by a poetry post, holding a red sheet of paper with a poem in his fingerless gloved hand. He wore a grey, brown, and green array of clothing, blending with dirt, a dark beard, a rugged face, a homeless camouflage for bushes and trees, if I ever saw one. His cart held empty soda cans, a pack with belongings.
Monday morning, off to work for him? Collecting cans? I greeted him with my morning, the sun is out, yes it is cold still, isn't the world looking pretty, smile and asked: "How is the poem?"
He looked at me from under his thick brown eyebrows, eyes deep, struggling to keep from being bloodshot, and said: "Not such a good one, this time". I read a few lines of the poem through the plastic cover of the poetry box and agreed, wordy, for a poem that gets read while standing on the street.
I wished him a good day and walked on, dog on leash. A dog with a warm home, food in his bowl, loving scratches on the head.
Can a poem, for a moment, lift someone out of their cold, hungry world?
It better be a good one.


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1940s clay poker chips, 1920s crystal doorknobs
San Diego Reader Classified ads, December 11, 2019
3 p.m., Dec. 11
Hey Fiction Writers,
Welcome to the Reader's new Writer Space! Starting with this inaugural edition, we're using the dormant FictionWriter blog.
You, too, can see your own short stories in this blog! 5,000 word max, with the usual Reader TOS terms and conditions. Any genre is fine. Stand-alone stories please, no "chapters" of a larger/longer work.
So what's in it for aspiring wordsmiths, other than the chance to elicit feedback from your fellow Reader readers? Well, for ONE SHORT STORY POST PER MONTH, that writer will get the paper's own hairy cartoon poo-bah, yers truly JAS, ILLUSTRATING YOUR STORY!
For whatever that's worth by way of "uh, okay." But I promise that, for any story I choose to draw for, I'll do at least a couple of illos, inspired by your own words or ideas. No saying what medium I'll use; all 'pends how your words whack me. It might look akin to Overheard in San Diego (bigfoot cartoon) or Famous Former Neighbors ("reality" comix), or perhaps be done in pencil, color, collage, or whatever. Note that most all my work is done on digital tablets and the like, so there's no "hard copy" artwork.
If a lot of great stories start showing up here, I may start providing illos more frequently! Go ahead and inspire me! I dare ya! You get to keep the rights to your story ('natch) AND whatever art I provide, if you ever want to use elsewhere. Hey, I usually get paid at least a half-off pizza coupon for that stuff! AND you get to put on your credit sheet that you've collaborated with famed Rock 'N' Roll Comics honcho Jay Allen Sanford (yeah, I know, whoop-dee-firkin-doo).
Oh, and of course feel free to provide your OWN art and/or photos to accompany your short stories (play nice, and no swiping without giving proper credits). I'd rather see NEW stories, or at least fiction not already sprinkled all over the 'net, and it's the "exclusive" fiction posts that I'll probably want to illustrate.
Stories with some kind of local-centric San Diego angle will go right to the head of the line for illos.
Besides providing occasional artwork, I'll promote the best short stories posted here (with or without illos) via my own and the Reader's Twitter/Facebook/website networks.
For this debut post, my own short story "Wanted: Mordecai" is accompanied by two illustrations I created by combining various elements of several different classical paintings into "new" compositions featuring the characters in scenes from the story. There are also a few illos of characters taken from the City of the Gods (COTG) books themselves, created in a similar fashion by comic book honcho Steve S. Crompton, art director for ALL the COTG products and productions.
ABOUT the story: It comes from the new short story anthology Mythic Tales, the second book in the the fantasy novel/comic book/RPG game/trading card phenom City of the Gods. The new anthology Mythic Tales includes around a dozen stories, most of them based on and inspired by the first book in the series, City of the Gods: Forgotten.
Here's a brief summary from http://www.cityofthegods.com:
Trapped in a timeless city governed by all the old gods of Earth, D'Molay is a tracker who works for the Gods. He makes a fateful choice to assist a hapless amnesiac girl early in the story. He then begins to suspect she has some kind of connection to a huge beast ravaging the Olympian realm. D'Molay is torn between his duty to the eternal world and the leading of his heart. His compulsion to protect her pits the wits of a man against the guile of the gods, rekindling a faith he had long ago forgotten.
City of the Gods: Forgotten is an illustrated fantasy novel by former San Diegan M. Scott Verne and writing partner Wynn Mercere, in the same vein as Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series and Phillip Jose Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go. The trade paperback edition has over 80 illustrations, many by notable classical artists such as Gustave Doré, Lord Frederick Leighton, Léon François Commerre, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Arthur Hughes, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Ingres, Diego Velázquez, William Bouguereau, Botticelli, John William Waterhouse, and others of the 16th through 18th centuries.
Besides my own "Wanted: Mordecai," Mythic Tales includes fiction by Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Wynn Mercere, M. Scott Verne, Anita Martinez, and many more. Illustrations are created by Steven S. Crompton, along with several ink illustrations created specially for the book by fan fave Liz Danforth.
I'll include a brief overview at page bottom showing the individual painting elements from my title illo below, and how they were isolated, combined, and then embellished (with help from Sir Crompton) to fit the story.
At the very bottom of the blog is your key to the FictionWriter blog; the passcode. This blog belongs to YOU, Reader Writers! Feel free to use your own name or a pen name, alongside your story title. I look forward to reading your stories! When I find one I'd like to illustrate, we can re-launch the story with the artwork added (if you put up a fiction blog you DON'T want adorned with my scribbles, jes' say so - who could blame you??) ---
Best in all endeavors,
Jay Allen Sanford
The bat-creature known as Mordecai is one of the less savory citizens of the City of the Gods...
Somehow, Mordecai always suspected that his would be an ignoble end.
Feeling frightened and pathetic -- and fatally exposed -- he crouched trembling atop the open gazebo framework, attempting to use his too-small leathery gray wings to hide himself from the chaos and cacophony exploding all around him.
By air, he was embattled by militarized cherubs and screeching harpies; from below and from adjacent structures, bloodthirsty citizens hurled stones and spears at him, some already sharpening their knives in anticipation of his fall.
Worse -- or rather worst -- he was in the bullseye crosshairs of no less a god than Apollo himself, enraged and firing arrows up at him from the sidewalk, half-again the size of the nearby humans, having puffed himself up several feet in order to increase the firing range and accuracy of his death-tipped arrows.
Oh, and now yon approached several armor-bound City Guardians on winged horses, each bearing their flame-throwing spears at the ready to strike him down, apparently the likeminded aim of nearly every living being in the City of the Gods.
"Should not have left my cave this day, no I should not" he whimpered quietly to himself. "None to help me, none to save me. All hate me."
This was not entirely a revelation to the bat-like creature, known and disliked by most everyone but his dual masters (and perhaps even by them) as a lowly kidnapper, notorious for his (perfectly legal) role in local slave acquisition.
But the bat had never been attacked like this, not in the City, where he was usually allowed unfettered entry and exit, at least around the Slave District, thanks to being vouchsafed by the goddess he served, Lamasthu.
Modecai's new (and perhaps only) friend Kaman knew the bat would be brought down any moment, and that he held the creature's only hope of survival. But what about the risk of exposure? "If only," he moaned, "it weren't for that damnable song!"
Few could have guessed that Mordecai's dank, hidden cave, on the far side of the great lake within the Mayan realm, was actually home to the most breathtaking, haunting, and beautiful music never heard by any other living being.
When not "acquiring" and making dusk deliveries of unbonded slaves to Namtar at the Slaver's Temple, Mordecai dedicated his endeavors to recreating the sounds, beats, and rhythms that he still recalled from his long-ago lifetime in Babylon. As a human priest whose musicianship was once as inspirational as it was devotional, music had been Mordecai's blessing, his skill, his benediction, and (at least until the events of later that day), his salvation.
What's more, he owned (or at least had acquired) more than enough tools to bring that music to life once again, here in this far-flung land so improbably occupied by all manner of gods, monsters, and men.
The number of stolen instruments littering the huge open cavern had become nearly uncountable: lyres, harps, pipes, drums, reeds, flutes, bells, rattles, sistrums, and all manner of stringed instruments, some fashioned many worlds away from this one. And Mordecai had played them all. Though his fingers were nearly stubby as a gargoyle's paw, the bat's claws were actually quite lithe, filed down and smoothed each day with his teeth and utilized like precisely attenuated finger-picks.
Being ambidextrous as well (an apparent boon courtesy of the goddess who'd transformed him into her service), the wretched looking thing was actually an accomplished musician of utterly unguessed (and unheard) virtuosity! One whose custom-groomed fingers (with nails so durable as to crush stone!) could play nearly any instrument ever conceived.
Mordecai had in fact been building his own unique, magnificent instrument, fashioning it from the cave itself. The construction, which he called a stalactapipe organ, had transformed the hanging stalactites into a sort of large-scale piano-like lithophone. Sounds were achieved by mechanisms that tapped rows of ancient stalactites of varying sizes, using solenoid-actuated leather-bound mallets in order to produce the rumbling tones.
Years had been spent using his claws and diamond-hard fangs to shave down appropriate stalactites to produce specific notes. He then rope-cabled a mallet to each stalactite, activating the strike-pads with a keyboard consisting of gutstrings that he pulled, stroked, and plucked, much like a harp or a lyre.
With the action powered by pumps and pistons operated by his nearly tireless feet, the sublime-sounding result was essentially a gargantuan string-controlled organ, carved out from the very womb of his desolate mountain home.
On this morning, Mordecai's musical cave rang and rumbled to a song he'd heard in his head for so long that he couldn't remember its name or composer. He just knew that, every time he played the tune, the sound pleased his oversized furry ears which, while acutely pained by loud noises, were conversely refined, even sophisticated, when it came to music.
Sitting comfortably on sand-filled seats along the street curb adjacent to the Jolly Rajah, across from an open plaza, was a band of street minstrels, all of them human. Calling themselves the Outways, their impromptu ensemble was usually comprised of anywhere from two to five musicians, playing pipes, lute, lyre, and various other popular instruments deemed most likely to result in their donation trays being filled with currency.
The bandleader Kaman looked barely out of his teens, with longish blonde hair flowing wildly about sharply chiseled features. Small, lithe, and muscular, evident even beneath the voluminous robe he usually wore for street performing, he played many instruments, but favored a stringed gourd quite similar to the guitars he'd once mastered on his own homeworld, a place and time known to very few who dwelled within the City.
Kaman (if he had a last name, none seemed to know it) was a Freeman, one who made it a point to always carry the medallion emblem saying so, given to him by the City Council shortly after his arrival in the City of the Gods. He'd been granted the favored status of someone undeclared to any deity or master, in return for his assistance in forever closing the unstable entrance portal that last year had delivered him -- and several more troublesome travelers -- to the City.
Even the most all-knowing of gods would probably be surprised to learn of just which Earth era had hosted the staging ground of Kaman's contentious youth. Mainly because the general consensus was that there WERE no men native to that apocalyptic epoch of ruined cities and sentient animals. Let alone a solitary boy.
The Chinese, Egyptian, African, Babylonian, Indian, Norse, Christian, Mayan, and Greco-Roman gods and goddesses all had -- or rather would have -- ample cause to abandon that time and place. The humans had manufactured their OWN god, only to be destroyed by its uncontrollable power. Of what use were deities of old in such a hopeless, desiccated place?
Other musicians would come and go, including the occasional non-human pipe-playing satyr, each of them receiving an equal percentage of the income derived from passing the collection bowl among sidewalk watchers and passersby. On this day, the band consisted Kaman, a frequent string-playing collaborator (accompanied, as always, by his two beloved canines), a red-draped visitor whose large stringed instrument required him to hold his hand high in the air to reach its frets, and a preternaturally accomplished whistle player who was already preparing to pack up his seat and instrument to return home.
Kaman found their proceeds were greatest when they performed under the arched entranceway adjacent to the Jolly Rajah, essentially the hub of this neighborhood of ill repute teeming with competing musicians, snake charmers, jesters, jugglers, consorts of questionable gender, and any number of other beggars, all vying for the coin of anyone bold, curious, or foolish enough to approach.
At around sunset, the band was playing its final number (nighttime tended to skew the neighborhood's disposition rapidly from mildly disreputable to decidedly felonious). Flying adjacent to the large open concourse near the tavern and a nearby abandoned temple, Mordecai heard something that he at first mistook for his "secret sound," a singsong voice (not his own) that he often heard in his head
He soon realized that, no, this (quite magnificent) sound came from outside his substantial ears; this was the sound of music.
Intrigued by what he heard, Mordecai deviated from his normal City Guardian-approved route, to swoop down the alleyways in pursuit of the music as it grew louder and closer. On sighting the Outways, he came abruptly to a landing directly in front of Kaman and his compatriots, just as they were blowing out and putting away their instruments.
"Very good you are," the bat practically hissed, long unaccustomed to the niceties of civil introductions and social interaction. "Want to hear more. Now."
Kaman looked the man-sized creature up and down with distrustful eyes. "I know you, don't I? Aren't you that slavemonger everyone hates, the one who abducts and delivers innocent wanderers to the Temple?"
"True, yes, Hated, perhaps. Do not know innocent."
"Why, you're one of the most despised creatures in all the realms! The only being I've ever heard held in less esteem is that quarrelsome fellow Merlin, the one banished for his treacherous conjurations."
Even as Kaman spoke, Mordecai picked up a lyre and began lightly plucking on it. Out came the same lilting tune the bat had been practicing from his distant memory that morning, on the stalactapipe organ in his cave. The other players had already moved on (had fled, actually; the bat had that effect on people), leaving only Kaman to witness the impromptu and unlikely guest performance.
Kaman was astonished by the bat's skill and tone. He noticed the creature strumming and picking notes on the lyre with surprisingly nimble fingers, using its thin and durable-looking whittled claws in a way that reminded him of the guitar picks he once owned aplenty (pity such outland ephemera was so scarce here in the City).
"You're very accomplished," Kaman marveled, his voice now tinged with both wonder and respect (two things Mordecai encountered so rarely that he did not recognize them as such). "Tell me; were you once a man, bat?"
"Yesss," whispered Mordecai, still not taking his eyes of the lyre as he played. "Now, I bat man."
The tune sparked within Kaman a budding recollection that only increased his curiosity about the musical creature. "I think I know that song. In my world, it's an ancient standard of sorts. I remember my folks left me their record collection, and I played them on an old wind-up machine I found in the rubble of a shop. That song was on one of the albums."
"Albums?" asked Mordecai, glancing back again at Kaman before picking up a set of pipes. Kaman was even further astonished when the bat put it to his leathery lips, commencing to produce some the most mellifluous, divine music the Freeman had ever been graced to hear.
Suddenly, just down the cobblestone sidewalk, the duo noticed the valkyrie Geirronul, a City Guardian well-known to both Mordecai and Kaman as a particularly just and honest constable. She was walking abreast of her golden winged horse and moving in the opposite direction, affixing a set of printed posters along the pathway and handing copies to passersby, all of whom seemed intrigued by its contents.
Kaman could see that each sheet featured a (quite accurate) rendering of Mordecai, accompanied by the announcement "Wanted: Dead, Alive, or Enchanted. By order of Apollo, For Egregious Crimes Against Existence."
Beneath the illustration appeared a larger and even more ominous inscription (if such were possible): "Reward 3,000 Gold."
None of this was missed by Mordecai, whose first thought was of the goddess Lamasthu. Who knows what punishment she'd mete out for having been so ignobled by her servant's oh-so-public shame and notoriety?
Between frightened whimpers, the bat looked to Kaman with pleading eyes. "What is?! Why? Apollo has not authority to command my death, does he? Why would he so do?"
"I don't know," returned Kaman thoughtfully, "but he's an elemental force to be reckoned with, even back where I come from. When my own ancestors finally succeeded in their longstanding mission, to ascend the heavenly realms, they did so in Apollo's name, in his tribute and service."
"Apollo mission," worried Mordecai, glancing back at Geirronul and the lengthening row of Wanted posters now lining the boulevard. "Mission to kill Mordecai."
In approximately that same instant, all who walked along the boulevard were turning their heads to stare at the bat, then at the reward poster, and then the bat again.
At the same moment, several bow-bearing cherubs were descending from the sky.
And then Apollo's own unmistakably thunderous voice could be heard immediately behind them, shouting.
"Apollo SMASH!"
Mordecai's attempted flight only carried him as far as the roof of a concourse gazebo, before being inundated on all sides by creatures and objects that flew at him with unmistakably deadly intent.
Apollo led the aerial assault of his minion cherubs from the ground, having enlarged his physical size well above the mortal throng. This rapid-growth "trick," while perhaps tiring and unimpressive to peers who knew him well, nonetheless tended to impress (and frighten!) both tourists and libidinous witnesses at ground level who thrilled to peer up Apollo's scanty tunic, at the otherwise undraped (and uncut) progenitor of a thousand pregnancies.
As often happens when gods and men commingle, mere mortals are dwarfed by the epic action and capricious disdain of the eternal beings in whose realm they dwell.
Even more disconcerting for Mordecai were the harpies flinging their stringy bodies at him, gnashing razorlined teeth at his exposed flesh. Like Lamasthu, Mordecai always had an affinity and fondness for the winged beasties, and had never run afoul of one. Truth to tell, he once attempted to mate with a harpy, seeing the similarly-built creatures as his most likely procreation partners in this world of myth and legend. It would have been an improvement over solitary nights spent playing whack-a-bat with his own swollen, spiky genitals.
Even a damned thing can want for companionship. His unrefined attempt at harpy courtship had failed, however, mainly due to physical incompatibilities. And now, the only thing THESE harpies wanted of him was a large enough chunk of his corpse to drop at the feet of Apollo, to collect the lavish reward.
With all this going on, Kaman found himself a mere bystander to the tumult, looking up at the epically one-sided battle with a mixture of relief (that he wasn't targeted) and concern for a creature he'd long thought loathsome, but who had challenged his perception with such musical sensitivity and mastery.
Just down the winding boulevard, Kaman spotted the City Guardian Geirronul, who seemed fully aware of the nearby melee but was still posting the "wanted" posters.
"May I trouble you with a query?"
"Trouble is my duty," the valkyrie replied with an authoritative tone.
"What Crime Against Existence has the bat creature committed?
"You haven't heard?!," Geirronul replied, genuinely surprised. "Apollo's flying soldiers heard the bat at his cave while patrolling the great lake earlier today, using some unknown device to either reproduce or perform the most forbidden song on this side of existence! To so much as hum this terrible tune is to invite the pain of torture and death."
"A song?!" Kaman asked, astonished. "But I understand Apollo is a deity entirely devoted to music, paid tribute by countless paeans of the Greeks and Romans! He's a master musician himself, and has proved so in countless musical contests, using the magical lyre made for him by Hermes, has he not?"
"It was just such a battle of the bandolas that caused the song to be outlawed," Geirronul said gravely. "Apollo once competed with one of his own sons, Cinyras. He badgered the youth for months, demanding he prove his prowess and display at least an apprentice mastership of that which has long ruled Apollo's own life. Music."
"Ah so," recalled Kaman. "The son lost that contest, correct?"
"Yes, and in humiliation and resentment, the boy took his own life. The song was subsequently declared forbidden by the grieving god. Rather than look inward and bear the blame he deserved to shoulder, he instead cast the rhythmic composition as the true instigator of his son's death."
With this understanding came an unshakable inner resolution within Kaman, to HELP the poor besieged man-bat. He couldn't help but feel that any creature with such a transcendent affinity for music couldn't possibly be all hideous and evil.
Appearances notwithstanding.
Kaman withdrew from his travel kit a small oblong box, about the size of a shoe, holding it firmly with one hand while he waved the other in front of what looked like a hexagonal jewel embedded on its face.
It had been some time since he last wielded the device within the city limits. Only he knew the full power and capabilities of the technologically advanced relic from another world, and its secret was worth his very life. Kaman had learned quickly on his arrival that, in a land of magic and omnipotence, high technology was considered a tainted occult deviation not to be trusted.
As for anyone who blatantly wielded such technology in or near the City of the Gods, well, few deities would ever suffer such a powerful ungodly rival to live.
But this was an emergency; damn the risk of exposure. And with that resolve, still holding the box, Kaman was no longer standing on the boulevard sidewalk.
Instead, he was perched upon the selfsame gazebo roof on which Mordecai was pleading to all who'd listen (that is, nobody) to spare his life.
"How come you here?!"
"The box," answered Kaman. "It comes from another place long ago, or rather far ahead. It can relocate anyone who touches it and thinks of a destination, transporting them bodily to any known place desired."
"Talk not more!" Mordecai fairly shouted, grabbing the exposed side of the box just as an arrow grazed his head, painfully nicking a small piece of his ear clean off. "Use box NOW! We escape!"
"From your lips to the ears of a sympathetic god," said Kaman.
Back at Mordecai's stone cavern hideaway, the bat eventually calmed down enough to grant his rare (in fact, first) visitor a tour of his massive musical repository, including a demonstration of the majestic stalactapipe organ that left Kaman speechless and near to tears.
Finally regaining his voice, Kaman advised "Now that you know the music can be heard by fliers nearby, you'd best not play that forbidden song any more!"
"Yesss, but they not find cave. Hidden, it is, and the whole mountain sings."
"Indeed, the hills are alive." After sharing a hastily cobbled meal of blind cave fish and edible roots and berries from Kaman's satchel, the two began to talk. Mordecai was still obsessing over the realization that, now, it was he who would be hunted.
At least until some appeasement or offering is made to convince Apollo to rescind the bounty. Being a fugitive from divine justice would make him all but useless to both Lamasthu and Namtar the slave trader.
"Oh, this bad. Very very bad."
Kaman regretted having no worthy advice for his unlikely new friend. Late that evening, via the box, he returned to his rented flat in the bohemian district of the City of the Gods. He could only hope that nobody had recognized him during his brief appearance on the gazebo with Mordecai.
He'd been sincere in his promises to return to the Mayan Realm for more visits to Mordecai's cave, and future musical jams with the bat's breathtaking collection. But his assurances were ineffective in assuaging the bat's immediate distress, nor could Kaman think of a way to further assist.
Many would (and do) say that a merciless kidnapper such as Mordecai fully deserved to be suffering the worst day of his entirely wretched life.
However, unfortunately for Mordecai, this was only the first of many predestined to be far, far worse.
Here's a peek at how the COTG illos are created, beginning with a breakdown provided by series artist Steve Crompton:
For my own Wanted: Mordecai illo, I took a large classical painting (ostensibly featuring Jesus, but finding him in there is like Where's Waldo) and isolated a small portion showing an open exterior with lots of sky, for the opening scene of the man-bat being attacked.
I airbrushed out some of the people to instead drop in Apollo from a different painting (carrying a lute provided by SS Crompton), some militant cherubs from another painting, and my own rendering of Mordecai based on some old stone gargoyle statures.
SS Crompton added some badass harpies, Atlas carrying a small moon (shrug), and buildings in the background from his own illos of the temples, statues, and pavillions that comprise the City of the Gods.
The artwork of Kaman and his minstrel band (built up around a small portion of the same Where's Waldo Christ painting) was compiled in the same manner, with SS Crompton then adding a new face for Kaman and Mordecia jamming.
There's a FREE full-color 32 page chapbook preview of the first novel you can download at http://www.drivethrufiction.com, and a downloadable PDF version of the entire book is available on the same site. Just search for City of the Gods Chapbook once you get there. The novel has gotten a lot of great reviews at Amazon.
Published by Raven Press, City of the Gods: Forgotten is available as a 310 page trade paperback or as an Amazon Kindle book. The Kindle version includes twenty full-page illustrations, and it's earned a lot of great reviews at Amazon.com.
Amazon page for Mythic Tales: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0983692912?ie=UTF8&seller=AMFDV8UO0N7A&sn=carnalcomics
Mythic Tales Kindle edition: http://www.amazon.com/Mythic-Tales-City-Anthology-ebook/dp/B007D852EG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1330732365&sr=1-1
Mythic Tales website with another sample chapter: http://www.mythictales.com
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Hey Fiction Writers, welcome to the Reader's new Writer Space! You too can see your own short stories in this blog! 5,000 word max, with the usual Reader TOS terms and conditions. Stand alone stories please, no "chapters" of a larger/longer work.
So what's in it for aspiring wordsmiths, other than the chance to elicit feedback from your fellow Reader readers? Well, for ONE SHORT STORY POST PER MONTH, that writer will get the paper's own hairy cartoon poo-bah, yers truly JAS, ILLUSTRATING YOUR STORY!
I'll create FREE artwork for some fiction writers who post to this blog, and the authors can keep the rights to the art, in case they want to use elsewhere!
I can do 5,000 words in my sleep (I've been told I write better that way), but do you have a specific genre in mind? Do we get to channel our inner Bukowski or should we go all Rowling here?
Any fiction genre is fine to post. Besides providing occasional artwork, I'll promote the best short stories posted here via my own and the Reader's Twitter/Facebook/website networks.
I think this is a very fun idea and I look forward to reading the fiction from San Diego's finest and the artwork is a swell way to spice up everything.
what fun...i likie fiction writer idea!!!;-D)
I look forward! The "FictionWriter" email was just now activated, so hopefully nobody already sent me something (if you did, please re-send).
Great idea, Jay.
You can send me your short story by clicking the "FictionWriter" blog byline, or (since I'm having trouble accessing those messages from my main 'puter) email me directly at [email protected] -- got at least two story submissions going up here over the weekend!
Hey Wow - Looks Great! Wonderful Idea Jay! Glad to see that some of my art has inspired more creativity! Good luck to all you writers out there! You can ge in the next Mythic Tales Anthology with your story. Details at http://www.mythictales.com


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Move your database to the Cloud: Understand, Design, Migrate, Manage, and Monitor Azure SQL Database
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Understand how Azure SQL Database works, This Azure SQL Database pre-con provides you the knowledge and tools necessary to understand the capabilities and usage of cloud databases. It will help you get familiar with the Azure SQL Database concepts. It will also help to learn how to migrate, manage, monitor and troubleshoot your Azure SQL Database solution. You will learn the difference between the Azure SQL Database (PaaS) and SQL Server on-premises and which benefits Azure SQL Database can have for your applications and SQL environment. After attending this pre-con, you will be able to:
- Know the newest and most important features to manage your Azure SQL Database
- Design scalable architectures
- Design Disaster Recovery plans
- Manage security on your Azure SQL Database
- Monitor and troubleshoot Azure SQL Database
- Face a migration project
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- Create and connect to Azure SQL Database
- Difference between SQL Server on Azure VM and Azure SQL Database
- How to choose between IaaS and PaaS solution
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This module covers the different Azure SQL Database administration tasks like:
- Scaling up or down your database
- Scheduling jobs
- Commonly used DMVs and supported features in Azure SQL Database
- Various Disaster Recovery options
Module 3: Manage Security
This module covers the different options to manage security for an Azure SQL Database like:
- Configuring Active Directory security
- Always Encrypted
- Row Level Security and Dynamic Data Masking
- Auditing and threat detection
Module 4: Monitoring and Troubleshooting
This module covers the different tools for monitoring the performance of your database like:
- Query Store
- Extended Events
- Index Advisor
- Configure alerts to enable proactive monitoring
Module 5: Database Migration
This module covers the different strategies to migrate your on-premises database to Azure SQL Database and will cover:
- How to analyze the database for compatibility issues
- The different migration methods
Bio Roberto Cavalcanti
Roberto Cavalcanti is a Mission Critical Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft's customers with the most critical systems running in the Azure Data Platform. He is a database specialist with over 20 years of experience. Roberto is passionate about SQL Server customer support, focusing on helping Microsoft improve its database products, and customers to make the most of their Azure Database implementations. He has been supporting Azure SQL Database since its inception, when it was still called "SQL Azure". Roberto has written many articles about Azure SQL Database for MSDN/TechNet, SQL Magazine, and has been a speaker for Microsoft in internal and external events such as TechReady, Microsoft Insights/TechEd, SQL Saturday. He has delivered SQL trainings to many Microsoft SQL professionals in multiple countries in the Americas, and in Europe. Roberto is based at the Microsoft Support Center in Las Colinas, Texas, USA.


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Together Louisiana this morning protested rule changes the Board of Commerce and Industry will consider making to the Industrial Tax Exemption Program, and called for stricter rules on the incentive from the governor.
Despite Gov. John Bel Edwards imposing new rules last year to rein in the ITEP, the state granted a record $4.9 billion to companies in 2016 through the incentive, according to an analysis from the nonprofit advocacy group.
Edwards' executive order tied the program to job creation and gave local governments a say in whether or not to approve ITEP applications. The state grants companies up to 10 years of property tax exemptions for capital projects via ITEP.
Later the governor clarified the rules would only apply to new applicants, not renewals, siding with industry over Together Louisiana, which was pushing back against the provision but was ultimately okay with the reforms.
The group will testify at the meeting to oppose a rule change that would grant companies the tax exemption if they did not hear back from locals after four months. At a press conference at the LaSalle Building downtown this morning, the Rev. Lee Wesley also called for a "sunshine" provision whereby Louisiana Economic Development would post applications on its website.
"We want it to be an incentive program and not a corporate welfare program," Wesley said.
LED, in a written response, says the fact that the state granted a large number of exemptions last year means the program is working like it is supposed to, attracting capital projects.
Since 2000, the state granted an average of $1.33 billion per year, according to Together Louisiana. The $4.9 billion approved last year represents 4.4 times the average.
"These are the big projects we're seeing because we're being successful and attracting these big capital projects," said LED spokesman Gary Perilloux. "That's what happens. That's the program working the way it's supposed to work."
Perilloux said it is unclear why the spike in exemptions occurred this year. Several of the larger projects were in the pipeline before Edwards signed his executive order, meaning they rules did not apply to them.
LED has not published its final figures for the ITEP from 2016, but Perilloux said Together Louisiana's figures are "in the ballpark."
Together Louisiana organizer Broderick Bagert said the group will eventually ask for tighter rules on job creation, arguing companies are currently not being held to strict enough standards. He pointed to more than two dozen applications are up for renewal at today's meeting.
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Twitter eats its Babies
Twitter seems to be in the process of nothing short of a hostile takeover of a Twitter Development group in London called #devnest. It's weird, and it is tragic.
Weird, because why would Twitter screw over a community so loyal, so talented, and one that is all about Twitter? Surely this is not a very Twitter thing to do?
Tragic, because of the way the folks of #devnest are desperately trying their utmost best, throughout this, to stay loyal to Twitter, their platform of choice. Which, to them, is more than just a development platform.
London #devnest
#devnest was started in February 2009 as a "fantastic community of Twitter developers in the UK". Founded by Jonathan Markwell and organised by Angus Fox, these guys have been hosting the meetups months after month, organising speakers, Skype sessions with Twitter representatives, free pizza and beer. All in the spirit of hacking and being creative with the Twitter API. Twitter should be proud of people like this.
This Tuesday, though, at the latest #devnest meeting, Angus announced – to my own, and everyone else present's shock – that Twitter is planning to host #devnest events of their own worldwide, including London, and that they plan to call it #devnest without involving #devnest at all. This is very confusing.
To make matters worse, they have contacted all the sponsors of #devnest. Fortunately three of the main sponsors, Amazon Web Services, The Guardian, and Multizone, have all indicated that they are 100% behind #devnest, despite whatever Twitter spoke to them about (the exact nature of these dialogues are unknown).
Throughout making the above announcement, Angus Fox defended Twitter's side of the issue with saintly gusto. He explained how Twitter needs to make money – how they're a business and not a charity.
He went on to say that Twitter had subsequently declined to enter into any kind of written agreement for use of the name, format or twitter account. Furthermore, they did not wish to involve the London organisers (outside of letting them continue to run their own #devnest events and continuing to let them contact Twitter representatives for Q&A sessions via Skype).
He posed the question, "what next for #devnest?" and invited participants to join the organiser discussion.
It was tragic and gut wrenching for me as an outsider to see how these good people are continuing to "do the right thing", while their passionate efforts are being disregarded by Twitter like an old rag.
Et tu, Twitter?
What has happened here? Twitter doesn't belong in the evil corporation category? Or does it?
In the past few months, Twitter has started baring their teeth at their development community at an alarming rate. Let's take a look:
- March: Twitter tells their development community to stop building Twitter client apps. The idea is that apps should not attempt to do what Twitter already does, with a modified user experience. Reading between the lines, this stance could easily be extended by Twitter to other classes of tools they have also built, like URL shorteners, stats tools and Twitter search engines. Concerning.
- May: Twitter announces that apps will require a new, separate permission to access and send DMs – a move welcomed by the developer community for security reasons. At the same time though, they announced that all apps that do not run in a web browser, or cannot at least redirect a user to a web browser, will not be able to get this permission, and thus not be able to read or send DM's. Another nail in the coffin for many desktop and mobile Twitter clients.
- May: A fun account called @towerbridge, automatically tweeting the up/down state of the London Tower Bridge (a drawbridge) gets deleted by Twitter and given to the London Tower Museum. Apparently Twitter did send a notification to the owner before they deleted his account. (Since then, they have reinstated his data under a new account, @twrbrdg_itself. Hip hip hooray.)
- May: Twitter hosts their own developer event in San Francisco, and also calls it #devnest.
- June: #devnestocalypse – they let #devnest know they're taking #devnest worldwide, including London, without the original #devnest.
Here I think Angus is right. Twitter is just a business, and they are trying to do whatever it takes to make as much money as possible.
However, we had all hoped for more since their open, user-lead beginnings pointed to the possibility of something bigger and greater – a new way of doing business. In that sense, unfortunately, Twitter has failed us in a way that even Microsoft, at the height of its empire, did not manage to. At least Microsoft tried, and largely managed, to stay loyal to its developer community.
Does anyone else find it ironic that Social Networks tend to be guilty of the most severe antisocial behaviour?
UPDATE: Do read Angus Fox's comment below with exact details of communication between Twitter and #devnest
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AvrilJuly 1, 2009 Tourpes, Belgium
Brasserie Dupont
Tourpes, Belgium
Imported by: VanBerg & DeWulf
Cooperstown, NY
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Brasserie Dupont is one of Belgium's best-known saison producers. Avril is the brewery's bière de table, a low-alcohol table beer with a recognizable saison pedigree.
Color: 3-4
Bitterness: 23
Original gravity: 1029
Dupont is renowned as the classic producer of the style known as saison in Belgium, originally a seasonal beer produced by farmers to refresh their families and laborers during harvest time. The style is now produced all year round and Dupont has added several new beers to its quiver, including this organic version. At 3.5 per cent by volume, it's a modest brew compared to the regular 6.5 per cent saison but the hazy gold beer still delivers plenty of aroma and flavor. There are spicy and peppery hops on the nose with herbal and floral side notes and a delicious hint of sherbet. Bitter hops dominate the palate with toasted malt and sherbet followed by a dry, bitter, hoppy finish with continuing hints of spices, pepper and sherbet.
- Roger Protz
Billed as a "bière de table," Avril harkens back to the low-gravity farmhouse ales of yesteryear in rural Belgium. Lemony in color, with a fluffy head, and feathery lace, Avril looks the part of saison. The aroma is amazingly busy, with that distinctive Dupont musty forest character and notes of cedar, lemon, pepper and cinnamon. Lots of spice in the flavor, with cinnamon again, leathery Brettanomyces, and a resinous bitter mélange of hops and clove in the brisk finish. The mouthfeel is somewhat stark, as expected, but the yeasty haze gives some earthy grit back. This adds a precocious friskiness to farmhouse ales specifically, and sessions beers on the whole. Incredibly complex for its gravity.
- K. Florian Klemp
Roger Protz
Roger Protz is the author of Complete Guide to World Beer and 300 Beers to Try Before You Die. He is a respected beer authority and editor of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide.
K. Florian Klemp
K. Florian Klemp is an award-winning homebrewer and general hobbyist who thinks there is no more sublime marriage than that of art and science.
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Upgrade to ACPICA 20180105 Tested on x86_64 and x86_gcc2, works on my machine and most likely fixes that was most likely due to missing lock sync in previous ACPI upgrade. * Redid some of kallisti5's work as it was easier to start from earlier version. * Evaluating 64 bit physical addressing on 32 bit Haiku again as this was likely the cause of pagefaults (#12377): "Implemented internal support for full 64-bit addresses that appear in all Generic Address Structure (GAS) structures. Previously, only the lower 32 bits were used. Affects the use of GAS structures in the FADT and other tables, as well as the GAS structures passed to the AcpiRead and AcpiWrite public external interfaces that are used by drivers. Lv Zheng." * Mostly bugfixes in ACPICA
Revert "acpica: Upgrade to 20170303" This reverts commit 0bc647d605e2731a1b88d970eb755c0a514df128.
acpica: Upgrade to 20170303 Notable changes since 20160729: * Will be dual licensed going forward. We choose the Intel License. * Fixed two issues with auto-repair double-delete an internal object * New hook for sleep support (AcpiOsEnterSleep) * Fixed a regression introduced in 20160729, "FADT support cleanup" around early 64-bit address support. * Fixed a problem where runtime implicit conversion was incorrectly disabled for the ASL operators below. This brings the behavior into compliance with the ACPI specification: FromBCD,ToBCD,ToDecimalString,ToHexString,ToInteger,ToBuffer * Fixed a regression in the internal AcpiTbFindTable function where a non AE_OK exception could inadvertently be returned even if the function did not fail. This problem affects the following operators: DataTableRegion,LoadTable
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Move ACPICA files into acpica subdir and use acpica subdir layout. This matches layout in ACPICA and keeps a cleaner boundry between Haiku and ACPICA code. The only haiku specific file in ACPICA is achaiku.h and it will hopefully be included upstream soon. Merging will be simpler as we can just replace acpica contents and fix Jamfile and build errors in our code.
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Professional AssociationsProfessional Associations: Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Association | Health Informatics Society of Australia | International Society for Computational Biology | International Society to Advance Alzheimers Research and Treatment (ISTAART)
Dr Noel Faux is a researcher at IBM Research - Australia and an Honorary Research Fellow at The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health. He has a strong research interest in precision medicine, with application in oncology and mental health/neuroscience, as well as the application of technology in mental health.
Dr Faux is a trained molecular biologist, specialised in genomic engineering, having worked in a small gene knockout company (IngenKO), before completing a Grad Dip in Computer Science followed by a PhD in Bioinformatics, received in 2009. His body of research has spanned from understanding the functional role of amino acid repeats and the genetic architecture that encodes them, protein structural informatics, to applying machine learning and biostatistics for the identification of blood based biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease. Dr Faux's work in Alzheimer's Disease was performed at Australia's leading neuroscience institute, The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health. Further, these work was listed in the top ten projects funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for 2014. Dr Faux has a deep technical expertise that crosses the boundaries of genomics, proteomics, mental health, neurodegenerative diseases, biostatistics, and informatics. All areas in which he has communicated to a varied audience, from the general public to technical experts.
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