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Parktonian – Advantages As Compared To Other Sectional Title Hotel Projects
- The buyer obtains a 1/300th share of the net income from a large viable all-suite hotel with over 30 years of goodwill and track record. The hotel is very well established in the corporate and institutional markets, and has a substantial existing base of repeat business.
- The original purchase prices for the suites at launch in 2006/2007 was about R442 000 and was very reasonable. This worked out at about R8 500 per sq metre, including built-in furniture, fittings and equipment; and free use of movables. By comparison, Cape Town hotel suites were then selling at about R14 000 to R20 000 per metre, including furniture, fittings and equipment and Durban hotel suites at about R12 800 per sq metre. Hotel suites in Sandton were selling at R25 000 to R30 000 per sq metre.
- Comparing todays prices, our units have recently sold at R600 000 per unit, and future sales are likely to be at R650 000 or more. These prices are still very reasonable. Our INVESTMENT DETAILS pages show that, over 10 years, Parktonian units have performed well when compared to other property and hotel investments. We have ambitions of growing the value of Parktonian units to about R1 million over several years.
- Cape Town Sectional Title Hotel units have also moved up in price strongly and units are now selling for in the region of R1.5 million to R2.5 million per unit.
- The Parktonian Sectional Title hotel units are generally bought for prices that represent a large discount on their replacement cost.
- Buyers get a growth property, good monthly income, and the possibility of leaving a very valuable property to the kids.
- Buyers have an investment that "manages itself, markets itself and largely pays for itself", due to active management by the Management Company.
- Buyers have flexibility – the investment can be held for long term property growth and long term property income. Or it can be sold at any time, like any other Sectional Title property.
Parktonian – Advantages As Compared To Other Sectional Title Investments
Most people like the idea of owning a second property, other than their own home, as a means of earning extra income and enjoying capital growth. The type of property most people choose when looking for a second property is a second home such as a holiday home or holiday apartment. Sometimes they leave it vacant, when not occupying it themselves, which is costly. Or they do a buy-to-let arrangement.
Owning a second home of this nature is far from a picnic! One has to think about insuring the property, maintaining it, cleaning it, finding tenants for it etc. The latter point is fraught with the problems of having to find reliable agents, do inventories and deal with difficult tenants.
As compared to such a second home purchase, buying a Sectional Title Hotel room offers vast advantages:
- There is a hotel management company to take care of insurance, maintenance, cleaning, marketing and sales, etc. By comparison to the owning of a holiday apartment, the ownership of a Sectional Title Hotel unit is hugely hassle-free.
- Usually the income and expenses are pooled, so you do not suffer unduly if your individual unit has a maintenance problem, or has a vacancy for a period.
- In a properly structured hotel room investment scheme, like this one, the hotel management company is incentivised to maximise the net income flowing to you as owner.
- In a large hotel project, with many units within it, there are economies of scale. Management, marketing, sales and other costs are spread over many units, and this brings better bottom line profits to owners.
- Similarly, when several hundred units combine their marketing and sales budget, the resulting marketing is very effective, as opposed to the owner of one holiday apartment trying to find tenants for his unit.


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Final Round
A sharp gasp of air caught their attention and Dash spun in place ready for battle, lost as he was in bloodlust and madness, scratching at his arm with a humongous grin plastered on his jagged-toothed maw. Frank turned his head slowly, looking at Dawn for a moment with a single eye before it rolled up into the back of his head, a second pupil showing up from the bottom. For a moment Frank had his face towards the sky, flickering his tongue with an inhuman speed, confusing the young Daywatch as she backed up slowly until she realized in a flash of insight what was happening.
Despite his monstrous nature, his ability to survive and thrive amongst monstrosities too horrible for description, he was still a human with a human's body...and this man had just devoured the entire lifetime of another man, alongside the Demon he had bonded himself with. That life, the basic energy of living, was beginning to spill out of Frank and this strange tableau was the outcome of such a thing.
He didn't just devour Jerome, he had devoured the very foundation of his existence! Already her memory of Jerome Valken was becoming fuzzy, and she wondered silently if she would survive this encounter...and if so, to check her journals to see if they, too, were affected by this phenomenon.
Leaving behind strange after-images of himself, Frank strode towards Dawn, ignoring Dash as the troll suddenly focused on the flesh of his arm, scratching at himself harder. Frank shook his head, then grinned at Dawn as the tall troll-gene came up behind him, still scratching.
"It's alright, Daywatch. Go report to the Grand Magus it's done. I'm going on a month-long vacation, but it's done, to the very last point...as you've witnessed."
Having learned wariness at an early age, Dawn kept her eyes on both Shopkeepers, watching Dash as he walked closer to the both of them as she asked, "I don't understand it. All this fighting and...strangeness...and sir Dash hasn't undergone any of his fabled Maximum Troll? No berserker rage beyond this action and violence dependency?"
Frank chuckled, shaking his head, "Nope. We seem to have gotten away with this without havin' to have THAT happen! Besides, if he WAS going to go Maximum Troll, he always says somethin' stupid and nonsensical first. Then he starts tearing bits of himself off and...well, things get messy and violent and bad, y'know?"
"Hey, what's all this skin doin' on my arm?" Dash frowned at his forearm as he tore off a sizable patch of scaled, green flesh away from his bleeding muscle. Frank responded the moment he heard Dash ask the nonsensical question by diving forward and tackling the young Daywatch out of the way, narrowly dodging the patch of skin as it sprouted an eye from the center of it's mass, claws sprang forth from it's raggedly-torn edge, and spun through the air at high velocity, intent on buzz-sawing it's way through either of them only to find empty air.
Dash roared, the scales on his face forming a armored mask and tearing apart all within the blink of an eye, his eyes completely laserlight red.
He had lost his humanity, his sentience, and his sanity to the Maximum Troll, a berserker fury that drove all troll-gened humanoids, or so the legends said.
The patch of skin landed on the ground and immediately skittered towards the couple on the ground. Frank, yelling, lashed out with a foot and sent a wave of ki energy at the skin patch, sending it flying backwards between the troll's legs, getting himself and Dawn up to their feet as Dash slowly stomped towards them, his jaw unhinging and tearing the armored mask on his face apart once again to roar at them.
With an almost casual grace, Dash tore his left hand off and flung it forward, the bloodless stump immediately producing an eyeball on a stalk as the hand skittered delicately on it's claws towards them, the clawed skin patch catching itself and joining the allies Dash had begun to produce. Immediately regenerating his left hand, he tore his right hand off at the wrist as well, roaring as that hand immediately formed a fist, connect to his wrist by a streamer of blood that hovered in mid-air of it's own accord, immediately regenerating his right fist as well.
The blood of the troll, spilled on the ground earlier and still within the water, began to roll towards his body as he made his slow way towards them, his maw extending further as his body began to undergo further internal transformations.
Daywatch Tanelin and Frank backed up, Frank keeping his own body between the monsters and the Magus behind him. He grinned and relaxed suddenly, much to Dawn's confusion.
"M-Magus Todd?! What in the blue blazes are you DOING?" She looked from the man to the monster and back again, "What CAN we do?"
Frank chuckled suddenly, cracking his knuckles, leaving behind a trail of after-images, "I'm gonna kick his ass. Bonus round."
Dawn blinked, biting the tip of her tongue in her haste to yell, "WHAT?! OWowowowowowowow-owie!"
Then it happened - the clash of after-images and furious troll, the two Shopkeepers roaring in their fury.
A slash of the claw was met with a strike to the wrist, then the human's own clawed fingers tearing at his chest. Dash closed his eyes and literally shook the pain off, ignoring Frank for a second as the human slammed a boot-heel upon the patch of skin, squashing it to the ground. Though it would regenerate, it would take more than a few moments to do that, and in the meantime he had turned his attention back to Dash with a series of rapid-fire jabs to his eyes.
Dash roared and slammed his fist in an overhead strike, feeling it connect solidly. Chuckling wickedly he opened up his mammoth-sized hand only to find nothing, then roared in pain as Frank's rapid-fire jabs, the Overdrive safely at level 1 but his own strength and speed sped up after feeding on Jerome's soul, caught him in the side of the face. Sweeping his claws again, he didn't even have enough time to register the miss as Frank's fists once again pummeled against the left side of his face this time.
Dawn yelped, a magic circle erupting around her as she considered her considerable store of spells, keeping an eye on the hand as it tip-toed on it's claws, clacking it's way amongst the chairs and tables by the side of the pool. Concentrating, a magic circle erupted around her as she prepared her spell, murmuring under her breath the words necessary for it.
Hearing Dash and Frank's exertions, she charged the spell and watched the hand as it drew closer, finally making it's play by leaping directly onto a plastic-strapped chair, bouncing onto a table's edge and leaping for her face.
"Talaver'n!" her voice rang with power as she activated the spell, waving a hand in front of her and releasing a cold spray of snow from her palm.
The hand froze up solid as it passed through the icy sheet, narrowly hitting the Daywatch as she stepped to the side and let it bounce along the ground.
Nodding pointedly, a mental salute to the fearsome thing, she turned and immediately backed up as Dash rammed Frank towards her, the smaller man gripped with both hands. Roaring and kicking at empty air, Frank shook violently within the troll's grasp as they both sent tables and chairs flying. Dash leapt high into the air, his hands held overhead for a moment before he opened his palms and slammed them down to the ground, intent on smashing Frank once and for all only to roar in confusion and pain.
Unable to utilize the Overdrive due to his use of his life-sucking quirk of nature, and unable to use THAT ability at this time, Frank did the last thing he could think to do and simply jackknife his way between Dash's palms, allowing the scaled ridges of his hand to tear his clothes and bits of his anatomy up but in the process was able to escape the kill attempt, once again tearing off at high-speed to deliver more blows to Dash's chest and back.
Moving quickly, Frank narrowly avoided Dash's new attack as his back sprouted a mouth full of jagged teeth, stretching the length of his back in an attempt to devour Frank again. Groaning, Frank staggered, realizing he was quickly coming up to his utmost limit.
Dawn, her senses picking up on Frank's dwindling strength, immediately ran to him and helped him up as the troll rolled around on the ground, his body beginning to sprout an extra limb in his confusion, "Frank...what are we going to do?"
Suddenly a light bulb went off overhead and Frank turned towards the lobby, pointing at Dawn, "You distract him, I'm gonna hit him!"
"Wh-WHAT?!" Dawn, suddenly realizing how in trouble she was, turned as Dash's laserlight-reddened eyes turned towards her. Roaring, he stalked his body back around on hands and feet, his knees having turned inward during the last transformation. Snapping at the air madly, he shook his head violently before leaning down and eating a mouthful of dirt. The patch of skin shook itself and began to skitter towards her, only to find itself devoured by Dash. Dawn made a face as Dash gulped, looked at her then roared wordlessly, stomping the ground as he made his way towards her.
A magic circle erupted around Dawn as she pointed, transmuting a thin layer of grease from the grass directly in front of Dash. Dash's hands and feet slipped out from underneath him and he belly-flopped onto the greasy surface, keening with a high wail as he floundered.
Not one to let an opportunity go to waste, Dawn once again cast a magic circle as she chanted, gathering up the necessary energies to cast a new spell. Getting to his feet, Dash snarled through clenched teeth as he beheld the Daywatch stomp on the ground towards her right, holding out her right hand and with a flash of light and twisting of reality a armored version of herself "slid" into reality, standing at her right side.
"Mirror, Mirror," she smiled as the armored version of herself stood in front of her, crossing it's arms as she continued, "You should stay where you are, sir. Frank wi-OH!"
She gasped as the troll's claws suddenly erupted from underneath the armored figure, piercing it all the way through. Blinking, Dawn finally realized what the troll had done, digging it's clawed nails beneath the grease not for purchase but to lengthen and grow them, reaching out to pierce her Armored Guardian.
Staggering backwards, she began to calmly think on another spell as the troll's claws retracted and it took stock of itself before calmly stepping out of the grease. Grinning in an evil caricature of himself, the troll began to gallop towards her, his arms and legs producing a second set of knees as his maw stretched forward in his impatience to devour her.
She cast a mage bolt instantly, wanting to distract him with a quick strike while she charged a new attack spell, only to feel her usual confidence finally fall as a ki shield erupted red and angrily around the troll, the sphere of damaging magic sliding off of it harmlessly to explode against a overturned table. Dash roared and leapt, taking to the air in a massive pounce, his claws extended..
Preparing her final spell, unwilling to run and wanting to go down fighting, Dawn screamed her death knell and took a step forward, one hand surrounded by a globe of pure darkness, the other of a freezing mist, as she hurled both fists forward.
So it was that her eyes widened as much as they ever do as the spells were displaced and blocked completely, Dash's body bent into a U as it caved in around the Whammy Bar of The Roadbuster as the car, at top speed, slammed through the doors leading to the lobby and directly into Dash in a single bound.
In that single, glorious moment of bright pain and madness, Dash's sentience once again sparked to life and as he hung, broken, from the hood of his beloved The Roadbuster (you have to say the whole thing, after all), her gloriously customized wheel about to catch on his rib, drag him down to the ground and spread his shoulders and head into troll paste, a single thought flit through Dash's head as he noted the characteristic glee on Frank's face.
Damn. I could've been reading a book right now. But no. I had to be a violence junkie.
And he's playing that song again.
Triple dammit!
he ain't my boy but the brother is heavy
gave away my possessions and moved into a Chevy
van, yeah thats the master plan
drive into the woods and eat corn out the can
"Gone Guru" by Lifeseeker bumped and thumped out of The Roadbuster's incredible sound system, reverberating through what was left of Dash's head as he felt the awe-inspiring power of the car rev through her wheels, tearing his body under her as she slammed to the ground (dammit, Frank had jumped her out of the lobby!), her driver's side front wheel grinding his head to a gooey troll paste.
Just as equally in slow motion Dawn yeeped and doubled over slightly, her hands covering her crotch reflexively as she realized her white cotton panties had become thoroughly, unexplainably smashed, bits of the cotton falling to the ground.
Landing and laughing, Frank performed a 360 spin, scattering what was left of the tables and chairs before unloading a massive .357 Smith and Wesson magnum towards the flopping body of the troll-gened humanoid. Benediction, the artifact revolver he never left home without, the metal made from the silver crucifix used to impale and destroy Dracula himself, thrice-blessed and cooled with holy water. Etched along the barrel of the gun, the inscription "Blessed are they who knoweth love" turned a burnished, amber color as the Artifact revolver roared bloody murder, firing an especially hand-crafted bullet made by Dash himself: silver casings, blessed stained glass, oil, rosemary, thyme, silver shavings, and garlic - there was few that it couldn't outright kill, banish, or exorcise, and whatever it couldn't they instead were certain to feel the blasts.
Much like the troll's body, jerking and flopping in both nerve death and rebirth, as Frank unloaded all six chambers of the gun into his body. Laughing gleefully, letting the wheels tear the grass apart, Frank allowed the troll to regenerate and rise up just enough so he'd feel it as he let The Roadbuster slam into Dash, spinning and tearing up the carpet in the empty lobby as the troll wobbled to his knees, waving a large hand.
"I...ugh, I think I'm go-RORGH!"
He flipped head over heels as Frank hit him a third time, cackling.
The first thing Dash realized was that he hurt all over. Secondly, he was alive. Third, his head was being cradled on a pair of slim, well-formed thighs, a soft hand gently stroking at his cheek. Opening his green eyes, the troll grinned toothily before rumbling, "I'm glad I died. It's not everyday I get to meet an angel."
Daywatch Dawn smiled beautifully and continued to stroke the troll's temple, "Frank told me this would work. He also told me about your part in all of this, and what you had to go through. Besides, your girlfriends are on their way now with your van, apparently to congratulate you?"
About to get up, Dash thought the better of it and instead groaned, his back still healing - his legs were going to be paralyzed for a bit more time, "Oof. Well, I DID do a great job of it. Anyway, the perks outweigh the risks. Y'know: decapitation, disemboweling, paralysis, having my bone broken."
"Bone?" she blinked as Frank hunkered down next to her, slapping her hand away and immediately administering a rough, but thorough, physical. Checking his vital signs and jotting them down in a leather-bound, small journal he kept in his pocket, Dash grunted and suffered through the clinical check-up, by now thoroughly patient with Frank's processes.
Eventually satisfied, Frank slapped him on the chest and said, "G'wan and git up, idjit. Yer legs work again, and I'm satisfied you're you. I called Rosette and Juliette to come pick us up, and Greasy's lost his fool mind and is driving over here with some of those kids of yours to drive the Die Nasty back while he recovers The Roadbuster. Heh. Anyway," he helped the troll to his feet, who resisted only a little, reluctant to leave his delectable pillow, "How do you feel?"
"Like you freakin' shot me with the Benediction again," Dash coughed as Frank dusted his back off, "Dude, did you shoot me again? Jesus Christ, all I remember is being hit with The Roadbuster-"
"Oh, he only shot you the first time he hit you, he didn't shoot you the other time he-OH!" Frank swatted at her, cutting off her remark.
Dash cast a baleful eye at Frank as he turned to face him, "You hit me what many times?"
Frank grunted, "You were insane. I did what I had to do. Hey, you're okay, aren't you? It's in my clinical, professional opinion that what I did was exactly what was needed at the time."
Dash chuckled, all good nature once again as he clasped his smaller friend on the shoulder, "Well, I guess all's well that end's well, yeah? Besides, I'll consider it the balancing factor for me gettin' new interns!"
"Bah, interns," Frank frowned, "That is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. The Shop having interns!"
Dash blinked, "But, Frankbro...it's free labor!"
Frank frowned, stroking at the stubble on his chin before a slow smile crept along his brown features. He began to chuckle, low and evilly, and the Daywatch suppressed a shudder at what kind of errands he was already thinking up for the young ex-assassins.
Dash looked around, realizing they were in one of the hotel rooms on the second floor - a luxury suite. While they were on a queen-sized bed, there was also a private bathroom and living room area, as well as a tiny kitchenette. A strange bit of memory flitted across Dash's ever-regenerating brain and he realized with a start he had been there before, though years ago, back when he was still human. Wondering at this, Dash gingerly made his way towards the bathroom to handle his own private business, leaving the two humans to the kitchenette segment of the living room.
Frank hummed happily as he found a coffeemaker and a fresh, unopened can of coffee grind. Radiating a calm happiness, he set about making a fresh pot, setting up three Styrofoam cups, fresh cream and sugar on the small bar. Ignoring the alcohol, he rummaged around the glass case for stirring sticks and other accouterments he deemed worthy for the post-battle coffee he was going to enjoy.
Sidling up next to him, her Daywatch outfit resplendent in the early morning light, Dawn watched him as he happily and quietly rummaged about, a part of her finally able to process all she had witnessed.
The man who had helped kill one of the greatest threats on the face of the planet, who snarled in the faces of demons and the dark denizens of other dimensions, was happily humming brightly as he watched the pot fill, a look of contentment and accomplishment set on his face.
She leaned back against the bar and kicked a booted foot, wondering at what to say. Dawn wasn't a woman given to unnecessary conversation outside of her scholastic ventures, ever and always curious and interested in knowledge, not just of magic but of everything. A true DeFerens, she didn't abide by the idea that Magi should be defined by their Magia, and studied anything that scratched her educational itch.
It was what enabled her to understand energies beyond the magical, and in acquiring lore and knowledge did she learn of the Demonsidhe, the illegal and infamous drug that had thrice since nearly crippled the Order and plunge the world into war.
"Yet it never seems to go away, huh?" Frank grunted, handing the surprised young woman a cup, "No, I didn't read your thoughts - that'd be against my ethics as a psionic. Naw, lady, yer tired and not thinking straight. Literally, your Magi training has come undone...you should get yer head back on before the Grand Magus shows up, y'know?"
She harrumphed and took the cup from him, sipping at it gently, surprised to find it exactly the way she liked it - black with two sugars and a hint of mint, "How did you-"
"Now THAT I did read your mind for," Frank chuckled wickedly, enduring the good-natured slap she gave his shoulder. For awhile the two, temporary Darkwatch and newly ascended Daywatch, shared a cuppa and simply enjoyed the morning, the sound of the taps turning on alerting them to the hot shower Dash was taken, followed shortly by a loud, baritone rendition of O Fortuna.
"You listen to that style of music?" Dawn's electric blue eyes flitted to Frank's own chocolate browns, finding herself unable to come up with anything better for conversation.
"...you're not used to this, huh?" Frank laughed gently, holding a hand up to forestall her immediate response, "I know you're green as Hell, but not to actual fightin'. I mean killin'. What we do, what we did...you've never seen anything like that, huh?"
With nothing better to say and woman enough to admit her own shortcomings, Dawn shrugged. Frank laughed and nodded, "Yeah, good answer. Yeah. This is the world of the Darkwatch, darlin'...and the Daywatch. We're the ones who get to play with madness, to dance in the dark. We're also the ones who get to play ambassador to all the wicked things, to ensure they know we're not just fucking around here on our little mudball of a planet.
At least, that's what we WERE for," Frank took a long sip of coffee before continuing, "Now, the Watch is there to ensure the other Magi don't get it into their heads that they can become Gods. The gloves came off during the Havoc, y'see...and the one thing no one wants to point out is the power spike the whole world got from it.
Those of us who survived have access to the ability to shape reality with our will, now. But there's so many wills...and thusly do people like us become involved. The Grand Magus' personal assassins. The bodyguards, protecting the rest of the world from our very own community. Fun, huh?"
Dawn thought on that, simply enjoying the camaraderie. She had survived an ordeal, and was now being counted as an equal, a confidante, of the Shopkeepers and it was not an honor she was going to waste.
"...who are Rosette and Juliette?" she smiled, a fleeting and beautiful thing, "Are they really his girlfriends, as you said earlier?"
Frank waved his coffee cup around, grinning, "Two monster-genes, a mermaid-girl and a Rakshasa-gened. A tiger-humanoid-girl-thing...got three sets of tits. Both of 'em are pretty in their own way, though Rosette hates the fuck out of me. It's not that they're lovers or anything, but I can already tell - he's gonna be a-courtin' 'em soon, and I KNOW they got eyes for him. As is, it's a normal thing amongst the monster-gened to take on multiple lovers and such, especially if they're from their previous human lifetime or are of a incompatible gene-type. While it's not like monster-genes can only sleep with their own type, but there are only limited crossbreeds...and most frown upon it, since a Chimera, a monster with multiple types, lacks the concentrated punch of a single-type monster-gene. Fun stuff, huh?
Anyway, they hate it when I call them his girlfriends, and he'll rail on me 'bout it but all three of 'em ain't stoppin' me," Frank chuckled, draining his cup and replacing it with another.
Dawn worried at her bottom lip, almost distracting Frank with the cuteness as she looked to the side and bounced her pert rump against the bar, "Well, that's certainly interesting. Y'know, there's something that's bothering me...the Shop is secure, right? How did they kidnap Dash in such a manner?"
Frank barked a harsh laugh, once again looking like his usual curmudgeonly self as he gave her a grin full of dark delight, "Yeah. Ohhhhh yeah. I ain't of a mind to tell you how, but I can tell you 'bout the aftermath~! The High Murder who jacked Dash didn't get far. The Grand Magus told me himself, before the Trial, that she got nabbed and shipped back, senseless, to the Shop. Suffice it to say she's under wraps, and I'll be seein' to her indelicate administrations m'self. Hell, Dash might wanna get in on the action too, after we rest up...and this time around, it's gonna take me a bit of healin' before I'm up for anymore serious action. The Overdrive, y'see...and I used a LOT of it this time around. Shit," he frowned into his coffee cup, his thoughts his own for a bit.
Dawn, feeling the need to give him a little space, stayed quiet and swirled her own coffee around, delighting in the taste of it on her tongue. Hearing him sigh happily, she looked over at him and asked, "I have one last question, Darkwatch Todd....no, Generalist Todd? No one went down and got you out of the cell for the Trial, and you somehow got around Jerome's last attempt at stalling you, what with teleporting you to a new cell and keeping you disoriented...how in the WORLD have you been doing that? Somehow escaping that trap, but getting out of the cell despite how we've swapped locking spells, mechanisms-"
Frank chuckled, "Wellll...funny thing that you mentioned it. There's all sortsa fun ways of gettin' out of a cell like that, but this time around? I used a way-old trick of mine, and I'm sure if you go and look you'll find a large humongosaur, fat-assed friend of mine sleeping his hairy self away on that leather couch I left there. I swapped places with the jerk as he was passing through Rancho again."
Dawn blinked, "Why in the world did you do THAT?!"
Frank frowned, thinking back on the wonderful dream he had, of Aphrodite, the goddess delighting in him, her mouth sweet and full and beautiful beyond compare.
Carrying the goddess in his arms towards her bed, the dream flowing seamlessly from in front of the Shop to her own private rooms within the Asture cult's compound, he lay her down upon a bed of solid foam, her red hair stark against the samite sheets.
His lips lingered on the crook of her elbow, the sides of her neck, his tongue thrashing and eliciting moans of pure ecstasy from her as they undressed each other, the details too real, to specific to be a dream. He chuckled, his warm breath teasing her bitten neck.
"What?" She whispered. Though she inspired love and was beloved, there were only a very few of whom she wanted their love to be natural. To hear the voice of the goddess was to be enraptured, and though Frank's will had proven time and again to be stronger than the ensorcellment, she still whispered or used telepathy out of respect.
He smiled at her, cupping one of her full breasts for a moment before tweaking at her nipple with his large fingers, drinking in the sound of her moan, "Nothin'. Just love you, 'Phro. Love all four of ya...but right now? Just love you."
He leaned in and kissed each eyelid closed, delighting in her very presence as she accepted him and loved him in return, as much as a goddess ever could a mortal, and then some. He leaned in and kissed her, deep and hard, hungry and passionate, their hands beginning to grab at one another, pulling each other close....
He sighed and stared at his coffee cup, thinking how he had pulled back and screamed as the goddess had turned into the incredibly dense, wide form, all bulky with muscle and fat, of Abbacus Keith, some of his fantastic facial hair still sticking to Frank's completely aghast face.
"Kiss me, lover boy!!!"
Frank awakened screaming and flailing, scaring the guards as he began to revv up every single Combat magic spell he knew at the same time.
"No reason. Just keepin' it balanced between friends, 's all. So long as balance is kept," he chuckled and saluted the new Daywatch with his coffee cup, "'s all that matters to me~!"
In Los Angeles, there are hundreds of hangars, clustering more the closer you get to one of the skyhooks piercing the stratosphere.
At any one of these hangars, both thoroughly legal and rather shady business deals, inbound and outbound shipping, and private planes can be found coming and going, all logged in and documented by the Department of Air Control, who claimed dominance over the entire world's airspace from skyscrapers to low orbit. This included the administration of the all-important skyhooks, the smaller skyports, and transballistic traveling systems and anti-gravity monorail system, having wrest them from the Guild of Train Workers a few years back.
At one particular hangar, quite close to the L.A. Skyport, the massive floating island settled down, invisible to radar and every method of scrying as it had endured it's harrowing midnight flight. The Reaper landed, her ground crew immediately seeing to the island's landing needs and coordinating with the ground units dressed in black, nondescript clothes - the hangar was one used solely for such clandestine meetings, officially a condemned building on the outside yet on the inside the latest equipment and gear was stashed, electronics used to cloak incoming vehicles and stealthily exchange information with the Department of Air Control's backup computer database.
A limousine pulled into the mile-wide mouth of the hangar as the captain of The Reaper identified himself to a mask-wearing goon, the two immediately sighting each other as a officer of their own groups. Exchanging information and introductions, the masked second-in-command (with the given name of "Aristotle") led the captain towards the limousine. Holding the door open, Aristotle stood to the side as the Captain looked on nervously. A brown-haired, pale-skinned Magi of the Valken House, Captain Bernard Valken had been groomed specifically for his ability to pilot The Reaper wherever the Patriarch had ordered single-handedly, able to utilize the Magia necessary in order to clone himself. It was his narrowness of focus that won him the coveted and prestigious position as the Patriarch's personal pilot, and even after death he would not fail his beloved lord. Tall and broad-shouldered, he had been taught for many hours how he was to appear to the person in the limousine, the financial backer of the House of Valken.
Bowing low, he waited until a pair of polished, black boots entered his vision to dare look up.
Wearing a double-breasted suit jacket and a black corsage, the young woman, her long platinum hair tied into a complicated braid and held in place with a pair of golden picks, was the utter study of beauty. Small of proportion, she was nevertheless stunning to the young Captain as she gazed about at her crew interacting with his. Nodding at the efficiency of the scene, she finally allowed her unsettling gaze to grace his. Her neck was swanlike, graceful, and every part of her cream-colored three piece-suit was tailored to her tantalizing form.
One eye violet, the other a storm-gray color, one he couldn't quite place.
She smiled, her lips begging his attention as she spoke with a crisp, clean voice, "You have done well, Magus. You have done very well. Now please destroy The Reaper and the Demonsidhe, both. The Valken House can expect payment in roughly one hour."
The Captain goggled at her, "Did you say....destroy? The Reaper? And...the Demonsidhe, ma'am?"
The woman lifted a pale, platinum-haired eyebrow and stabbed him in the broad chest with a simple rattan cane, "I did not stutter, young one. The purpose of this exercise has occurred just the way I planned it, and now we shall dispose of this...ignoble substance. It offends me," she frowned, managing to make even that seem like a study in feminine perfection, "The very idea of bonding oneself to one of those...miserable creatures. So inartistic, so...unaesthetic. Your Patriarch should have looked to the Shop for lessons on such matters, hmmm?"
The Captain bristled, "Madame-"
Morrow Kind sighed, tugging at the white gloves he wore over his slim, slender fingers, "Also, I'm not a woman. This may be our first time meeting one another, but certainly you can do better then assume?"
Bernard's eyebrows rose as he felt his entire world turn sideways, "Oh...uh...yes. Sorry...sir."
Morrow smiled beatifically, noting the effect he had on the young man. Turning back to the limousine he swayed slightly, his feminine features taking in with delight the destruction of The Reaper, and the nearly thousand demon souls locked within the drugs in the belly of the miniature island.
The Captain, his eyes never leaving Morrow, leapt to take Aristotle's place and close the door, kneeling down by the window as it rolled down. Aristotle chuckled, adjusting the lapels of his black button-up shirt before turning back to gaze upon the workings of the ground crew and flight crew, all Order-trained magi.
Morrow beamed, stroking at the delicate point of his knee, tilting his head slightly so his violet eye could see better.
"Hmmm...tell me, Captain. Do you think Frank would be pleased with me, right now?" His voice shivered for a moment, the air about his luscious mouth rippling with power, "Or...vexed?"
The Captain frowned, jealousy stamped plainly upon his face at the thought of a rival for Morrow's affections. Despite that, he answered honestly, unable to lie to his new master, "No, sir. I think he'd be whatever you want him to be."
Aristotle turned his face towards Bernard, chuckling behind the blank, eyeless mask before turning back to the various spells and projectiles hurtled towards The Reaper, watching with a barely-suppressed shiver how the massive island of metal exploded, imploded, and melted, torn apart by the living Circle created by their people. Morrow's people now, all of them.
Morrow hummed a tune to himself, eyes blinking slowly before watching the carnage, "Oh. Ohhhh. I simply can't wait!"
Tomorrow's going to be a good day, one way or another.
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I have followed closely the development of Google Android Phone since it has been announced. I even had two final year students working on their final year projects on mobile applications development with Android for almost a year. I have considered buying the Android Dev Phone 1 but unfortunately it is not being shipped to Malaysia. I continue to wait for any Android phone to be officially released in Malaysia and the day finally came. But when I saw the retail price of RM2699 (about $770) for the HTC Magic, I have decided to get one from eBay.
I decided to get the first generation HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1 instead of the HTC Magic for several reasons:
1. I have big thumbs and really would like to have a full QWERTY keyboard. I have get used to the QWERTY keyboard of my current Glofiish M700 Windows Mobile phone.
2. HTC Dream is a lot more cheaper.
3. It is the first generation phone and the same phone as the unlock Android Dev Phone 1 from Google, therefore the resources such as rooting, custom ROM etc. are more easily available and found.
4. The lack of video capture on G1 has been fixed with the Cupcake update. The lack of 3.5 mm headphone jack is now rectified by the bundling adapter.
This is the first time I seriously bid on something on eBay. At that time, there were several G1 phones available on eBay and I have decided to get a white colour model. The first thing I looked for is a price that is lower than $399, the price of the Android Dev Phone 1. And then I looked for globally unlock phone (which at the end is not really necessary). Finally I checked the seller profile and found someone with 900+ feedback and a score greater than 98%. I checked some of the feedback to see how the seller response to buyers' questions and complains. After I have satisfied with everything including the product descriptions, the return policy and the Paypal payment method, I waited until the last minute to put in my first bid of $340 and finally got it at $345 (about RM1253). The final payment was $384.90 (RM1398) with shipping and insurance. Once the bid was confirmed, I paid right away with Credit Card through Paypal.
The shipping was done through USPS Priority Mail International and it took about 11 days (including holidays) to arrive from US to Malaysia. I unpacked the package and these are my discoveries:
1. Everything is still in plastic cover except the phone. Since I am bidding for an unlocked phone, the seller must have been doing something with the phone.
2. The 1GB SD Card was already inserted into the phone and it was empty.
3. The screen protector was already applied but it was not a perfect job as there are annoying air bubbles found on the screen.
4. If the phone was turned on without SIM card, there is no warning of "no SIM card", obviously a result of the unlocked process.
5. I can start the activation process and a virtual keyboard is present to type, obviously the Android 1.5 Cupcake update was available.
I then took out my Celcom (019) Prepaid SIM card from Glofiish M700 and inserted it into the G1 and turned on the phone again. I then tried to continue the activation process with my Gmail account and password. It failed since there is no data connection with the Internet. Then I discovered that I did not even have a GSM connection, I thought may be I need to add Access point name (APN) settings of Celcom. Beside the activation screen the only other screens I can access were the APN setup screen and the dial pad screen. I tried to add and edit the APN screen but every setting I key in can not be saved. I tried to get IMEI number in the dial pad screen by dialing *#06# and on the screen, only "IMEI" and [OK] button were there, it was like the G1 phone has no IMEI number at all. I became worry and emailed the seller for help and according to him the phone should just work after inserting any GSM SIM card. By the way, the seller has given me a few very fast responses. I have wondered whether or not the way the phone being unlocked causing the IMEI number not to be displayed and therefore the phone not recognized by the cell tower in Malaysia.
I then try to search for a way to activate the phone without SIM card and I found these instructions from xda-developers forum. The only requirement to do that is that the phone has to be already rooted. According to Android-DLS Wiki: Rooting Android, only RC29 can be rooted and since my G1 already has Cupcake update it was definitely no longer stayed at RC29. So the only way I can get my G1 rooted was by downgrading it to RC29. I followed all the instructions of downgrade to RC29 very carefully since there is a possibility the G1 can be bricked (become a useless brick) if something get wrong. The obvious advices I followed is to make sure the phone battery is full before attempting the downgrade and all the files downloaded were complete by checking the md5sum.
After I have successfully downgraded my G1 to RC29, these are the discoveries:
1. There was a warning of SIM is locked, please insert a T-Mobile SIM card.
2. If no SIM card was inserted, the warning of "no SIM card" was present.
3. Pressing *#06# on the dial pad displayed the 15-digit IMEI number exactly the same as the one labeled on the box.
I was actually quite happy with this as it means I have successfully reverted it back to a SIM-locked G1 and I know that G1 unlock code can be bought easily from the Internet as long as I have the IMEI number. That's the reason at the beginning of the post I said getting an unlock phone is really unnecessary since you are not sure whether it will work in your country. I went to this site and bought an unlock code for $23.00 (RM87.89). After I key in the unlock code, the phone automatically connected to Celcom right away without me doing anything. There is no need to edit APN setting for a connection to GSM cell tower as I think APN setting is only for GPRS/3G. Since the Celcom prepaid data rate of RM0.10 per 10 kilobyte is quite expensive I do not even want to add the GPRS/3G setting so that the phone can never connect using GPRS/3G. I have Wi-Fi connection at my office, my home and the usual place I have lunch, so Wi-Fi connection alone is enough for me.
So now I can see that my G1 was connected to Celcom from the GSM connection icon in the top status bar, but I still have not activate my G1. I need to root it first by following these instructions at Android-DLS Wiki: Rooting Android. With the phone rooted, then only I am able to follow the instructions at xda-developers forum to activate the phone with Wi-Fi connection. The crucial step is to type
at the G1 keyboard (just open the hardware keyboard and type each character exactly, there is no feedback but the command is working at the background). After this step, adb (Android Debug Bridge) will be enabled on the phone. Setup on the PC can be found at Setting up a Device for Development. Follow the rest of the instructions to enable Wi-Fi and the phone was activated after the rest of the steps.
Now the rooted phone was still at RC29, it was unsecured and I have to follow the instructions at Android-DLS Wiki: Keeping Root to update the phone to RC33 while keeping the root access. Once again I carefully make sure the phone battery is full and the files downloaded are complete. The process include using a modified recovery image and the JesusFreke's (JF) modified rom. After these step my G1 was now at RC33 but there was still no virtual keyboard and video capture. To get the Cupcake update, I opened the Android Market and searched for the application "JF Updater [FOR ROOTED PHONES]". I checked for update, downloaded and applied the update. Now I am a happy user of G1 Android phone with Celcom Prepaid SIM card.


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Ballet Dancers - Am I Fat?
i am 13 years old 14 in july and when i am older i want to be a ballet dancer i love it i dont no what i would do in life without it it means the world but i keep thinking am i too fat? i weight 7.5 stones. i think im not sure if my weighing scales are right. i have had them for years, i want to have a six pack with muscles everywhere. and to be really skinny i look at my legs in discrace because i think they are to fat but sometimes i wonder if they are just muscle?.. please right back. i am really worried!:?
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To:- Ballet Dancers - Am I Fat?
Thank you for contacting me, it is a pleasure to hear from you.
As hard as it may be, try to overcome those feelings thinking you are fat. Every person, even non-dancers, get bothered about their body, but these negative thoughts do nothing but bring you self-esteem down even further. Body image as a dancer is a very conscious element, but dancers have to remember they are also athletes. You have to be strong and lean with a considerable amount of energy.
Therefore, you should aim for strength and tone as oppose to skinny. Dancers need muscle for strength. Dancer's bodies are very much like athletes, so they are not weak and skinny, but strong and and toned.
The BMI calculator is a good way to check if you are a healthy weight. BMI stands for Body Mass Index and it can measure whether you are a healthy weight for your height. You can easily find a site online to do this.
A healthy, balanced diet combined with exercise should keep you trim and toned for ballet. Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, complex carbohydrates, whole grains and lean proteins.
Listen to these great quotes by successful ballerinas to inspire you:
"My body is my tool. In ballet, it's not about being slim and slender, you need to aim for muscle. " -Lauren Cuthbertson, Principal, The Royal Ballet
"You have to be your own icon." Laura Morera, Principal, The Royal Ballet
"I want young dancers to know that, yes, you have to make sacrifices, but at the end of the day we're not models - we need strength." Laura Morera, Principal, The Royal Ballet
Keep positive and knock out those negative thoughts!
All the best,
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Glen Ord Distillery Visitor Centre and Whisky Shop is the closest distillery to Loch Ness Lodge, located near Muir of Ord just 15 miles west of Inverness, and it is also one of the oldest distilleries in Scotland – dating back to 1838. A visit to Glen Ord Distillery, on the edge of the Black Isle in the Highlands, is a delight to both the eye and the palate. Here you can watch the distillers at work creating a magical malt whisky which is sweet, malty and dry on the palate. There is a well-stocked shop where you can purchase a wide variety of single malt whiskies, books and glassware.
Benromach - Situated on the outskirts of the ancient market town of Forres, in north-east Scotland just two experienced distillers passionately hand-craft Benromach using the finest Scottish barley and the purest spring water from the nearby Romach Hills.
On your visit, you can see the mash tun, and the burnished copper stills, and witness our experienced distillers create the unique qualities of Benromach Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky. The "essential Tour" Includes an in-depth tour followed by a tutored tasting of various expressions from the Benromach range.
Balblair - Situated on the misty shores of the Dornoch Firth is the home of Balblair where they have been producing award-winning Highland Single Malt whisky since they rolled out their first barrel in 1790. Balblair whiskies are uniquely Vintage names for the year they were made, not with an age statement. Every year the Distillery Manager, John MacDonald tastes, judges and selects straight from the cask when the character of the whisky is just right. Each vintage represents an exact moment in time.
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Haven't been on my bravejournal in quite awhile as you can see....not too many of the old crew here anymore...but know that I think of you all and keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Have been doing alot of painting this summer...(wall murals mostly)! Looking forward to fall especially since it seems to be upon us so soon. I love the changing of the seasons! Take care and God Bless.
Wanted to take a moment and wish Chris, Jenny, Jill, Lil Chris & Zachary a Happy Birthday again....seems like the years are just a rollin on by....don't know where they are going!!!
I noticed that I forgot to wish everyone a Happy 4th of July!!! That was a big OOOPS...well if you know me you know it was just that...oooops.....the 4th was really good except for the neighbor boys who thought that they had to put on their own Fourth of July Spectacular....which most of it fell around the car, pond, dog, houses, nothing like a gigantic "Bondfire" to go with your celebration...No nothing caught on fire....but it could have!!!! We have a park like setting just down the street from us and they could have used their aspiration for pyromania down there....Hope everyone reading this had a Happy & Safe 4th!!!!
Wanted to get some exciting news out.....We are going to be "Grandparents" again....Chris and his fiance Jenny are expecting and Jennifer and her husband Tom are expecting...and I beleive the girls are just weeks apart in their pregnancys....Isn't that AWESOME!!!!
I looked at my statistics and I see that there have been over 3,ooo hits between July and August....yet not too many are dropping a line....Please do even if it to just say "Hello!"
Many things to do today and must really get them done...so for know Take care and God Bless!
Hope Everyone had a wonderful & Blessed Easter!
Have been busy of late and remembered that I haven't been to bravenet since Valentine's Day...just remember though that I can be found at any of my other places online...just check out the links in the sidebar.
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Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community.
The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch. The grave site was piled high with flours.
Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times he still was a crusty old man and was considered a positive roll model for millions.
Doughboy is survived by his wife Play Dough, two children, John Dough and Jane Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father, Pop Tart. The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.
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hi David just read your first blog and i agree that we must pray for Israel as they are key to the Great Commission as seen in Revelation 7 as we see the first fruits revival of Messianic believers that ushers in the fulfillment of every tribe, nation and tongue being in Christ.
You are one of the few writers i have heard express that Israel will be trodden down during the Great Tribulation. Revelation 12 is crystal clear to me that Israel will be exiled for 3.5 years, yet protected to be preserved for the Millennial rule. i personally believe the church will pass through the tribulation and needs to prepare for world wide persecution.
i liked your depth of research and i appreciate that in a writer.
Every blessings in Yeshua Messiah, Alan Beardall (Masters in Counselling, M.Min; BTh.).


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Birthday cards are needed all year long, and this ensemble includes four cards featuring fun polka dots and a handy decorated box to hold them. The box will hold four cards and four envelopes, or you might prefer to fill the box with two sets of cards. Perfect for a class, this project would also be a well-received and useful gift.
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Beyoncé Makes Her Interviewer Uncomfortable In The Best Way. He Handles It Like A Champ.
Celebrity interviews can be the worst guilty pleasure, I know. But here's one celebrity interview that melted my heart, taught me something important, and didn't make me guilty one bit. And I think sharing it might actually make the world a better place.
This video was made to raise awareness for World Humanitarian Day, which was Aug. 19, 2013. It would be great if you could share and spread the word, too!


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in·teg·ri·ty | [in-teg-ri-tee] | noun
- Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code. Honor.
- The state of being unimpaired; soundness.
- The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness.
synonyms: goodness, honesty, principle, purity, righteousness, sincerity, virtue
I was a senior in high school when my dad had a fatal heart attack. I left for college completely obsessed with death, and my entire freshman year I took University classes on Death & Dying and Near Death Experiences (NDE).
I learned that millions of people who have died and returned to this life have had similar NDE experiences. (With thousands of controls in place, NDEs can actually be monitored and studied). One consistently reported experience is that of having your "life pass before your eyes". Imagine this experience as it's been described:
Billions of snapshots, each containing a meaningful moment of a your life flashing through your consciousness as if your were watching slideshow. Accompanying the snapshot is your sense of empathy and realization of how you affected the other person in that shared moment.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That"s my religion. – Abraham Lincoln
As described by those whom have had NDE, "Judgement Day" is not a God or Gatekeeper looking over your life's record on a clipboard.Instead, you judge yourself based on all those empathetic feelings from your life's slideshow.Were you an overall a good person in life, or not-so-good?
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." – Henry Ford
Learning this concept changed my life. As far as I'm concerned, Integrity's where it's at. The last thing I want to deal with – is guilt in my afterlife.
We all slip up sometimes… no one is perfect. But by keeping words and actions in constant check, you will always know what to say, or how you to behave. Consistent behaviour builds the story of your life; painting a picture of your character. Who are you, really?
"I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do." Christopher Reeve
Now, instead of obsessing about death, I am captivated by life.
Philosophy In Action
This week, celebrate integrity. Act with honor. Speak with principle. Be certain that when your Judgment Day comes, your scale tips in the right direction.
Sole Training
Do you move with integrity? Spending more time barefoot, or in minimal shoes will require you to land with more awareness, so that you are not pounding on your skeleton. Bring plenty of attention to your "landing pad", and engage your core so that you can land without a sound.


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Welcome to Workbox Wednesday!If you use workboxes, tot trays, or anything similar, feel free to post a link to your blog post or a picture (pictures can be from facebook, but please make sure they are PUBLIC so we can see them, or use a host like photobucket.com to get a URL for your photo) that shows WHAT IS IN YOUR BOXES!
Last week, Melk the Christmas Monkey shared a couple of different lessons that involved Gingerbread Men/Boys. We were supposed to make life-size gingerbread people but didn't have big paper, so we made little ones to help decorate. We were supposed to make cookies, but the snow was more inviting. Every day since then we just haven't found the time. I finally decided we are going to wait until Saturday to make them, so we can take them to our church's Christmas program.
Though we didn't make the cookies, I did find some fun activities for the children. Embark on the Journey has a FREE printable pack suitable for pre-K through 1st grade all about gingerbread men.
There are puzzles.
Hannah worked on the tracing page.
The older girls enjoyed the Story Sequencing Cards.
Harold has been learning to count one-to-one, so I thought he would enjoy this counting activity.
There were quite a few more activities, though we haven't done them all and I didn't get pictures of all the ones we did do. There are coloring sheets with traceable dotted words, a graphing game, number mazes, a roll and stamp game, count and clip cards and more.
Please don't forget to visit my co-hosts at Chestnut Grove Academy and Line Upon Line Learning.
Visit others that link up, leave comments, follow, etc. The favors will be returned! Feel free to grab a button too, so others can find the link up and join in the fun!
What is in your workboxes?


text: Shannon Ireland is an Indiana native, and like all respectable Hoosiers, attended and graduated from Indiana University in 2013 with a BA in Journalism. She's a stereotypical basketball fan, and favors college teams to the pros. She is a big book, TV and movie buff, and she loves to integrate what she watches and reads into the insurance blog.


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An analytical expression for the carrier recovery time in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) that employ holding beams is presented. The amplifier model from which the expression is derived assumes a uniform carrier density along the SOA's length and that the signal and the holding beams both receive amplification. Simulations and experiments show that the expression predicts the recovery time well over a wide range of amplifier gains, holding beam powers, and configurations.
© 2002 Optical Society of AmericaFull Article | PDF Article
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6th International Conference of European Society of History of Science, Lisbon, Portugal, 4–6 September 2014
Session on:
Publish versus unpublished claims of priority: The role of science journal publishing in scientific disputes, c.1850–c.1950
Session Abstract
The focus in this session is on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century examples of claims to priority and on the role of the published record in these disputes. Hitherto, work on scientific disputes has largely focused on assessing the veracity of individual accounts. Others have looked at the reasons why scientists have been preoccupied with the origin of discoveries. For example, Robert Merton (1957) suggests that scientific disputes are 'responses to what are taken to be violations of the institutional norms of intellectual property'. In other words, institutions like the Royal Society are seen to be stalwarts of justice in the practice of science. When this is violated, contentions result. The purpose of this session is to think more about claims to priority in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and, specifically, how and why some testimonies were seen as more valid than others. We suggest that scientific disputes were often determined less by the actual timescale of events (who did what first?) and more by the proof individuals possessed of their pioneering work, namely in the form of the published record. The main question addressed here is what role the science journal has in arguments over provenance?
Main themes
- The role of science journal publishing in debates about provenance. How and why did publishing one's work assist in staking possession of a discovery?
- At the same time, what part did the science journal have in publicising challenges to priority?
- The value placed on published/unpublished information. Was the date of origin of a scientific discovery tantamount to its first published record?
- How was the issue of priority settled? When there were challenges to priority who won and why?
- What other modes of communication did individuals use to validate their findings and claims to be their originator?
This session comes out of work on the AHRC funded project 'Publishing the Philosophical Transactions: the social, cultural and economic history of a learned journal, 1665-2015', with the University of St-Andrews and the Royal Society of London. Offers of papers, including a 250-word abstract, should be sent by the 28th November 2013 to Dr Julie McDougall-Waters, [email protected]


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Brighter Days
The Days are getting brighter…
…but they're still windier, wetter and colder than we'd like them to be!
January seemed endless, didn't it? Even more endless than usual, that is! The good news is that we're finally into February which means that brighter weather is on the way. But along the way, there's also going to be a few damp, dreary and downright chilly days to compete with too!
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February 7th, 2014: I complete this latest post on my 30th birthday and mentally prepare myself for a new and exciting decade while attempting to ride my mini motorcycle from Patagonia all the way home to Seattle. ETA: July-August, 2014. Wish me luck, friends.
With the Carretera Austral behind us and back in Argentina, we ride east to the town of Perito Moreno and then south to Gobierno Gregores. The verdant green hills of Chilean Patagonia have turned to harsh plateaus, sandy hills and scrub as we once again cross the border into the barren rain shadow of the Andes range.
Llama-like animals called "guanacos" peer at us curiously before bolting, levitating their slim forms gracefully over the fence that lines the route. You can see the power in a kangaroos jump, but the guanacos just float effortlessly over the barrier in high elegant leaps, like clouds drifting tranquilly over the arid plains. Every now and then a large carcass decomposes, legs still tangled in the lines of the fence. A terrible death, likely very slow and painful, unable to free themselves from the man-made structure invading their native land. I hold my breath as they pirouette over, praying for a safe landing.
In the next few days and several hundred kilometers, we battle extreme winds and gravel roads southwest towards El Chaltén. A wrong turn sends up southeast with a strong tailwind, blowing us in the opposite direction for a gloriously speedy 60km before realizing the mistake and turning around to fight the wind back. Every day is grueling in these conditions, but I enjoy every moment of it. Ruta 40 is more paved than we expected, but even so we rarely get above 65km/h with the brutal gusts blowing us all over both lanes. The headwinds are more bearable than the sidewinds, which crank our necks at an awful angle until our shoulders and backs burn with pain. We play with slip-streams and riding formations such as the "Mighty V" to help Kath's bike battle the winds, which has lost some power recently.
We sometimes go 60km down a perfectly straight road and only see a handful of cars. Hitchhikers have become very scarce, unlike in Chilean Patagonia, and even bicyclists are few and far between. We ride slowly and cautiously, knowing help would be hours away if anything were to happen on the long stretches of desolate gravel roads.
100km from El Chaltén I meet Quentin, a young Frenchman alone on horseback in the bleak wilderness. He worked for three months on a farm in El Calafate in exchange for two horses, before setting off to traverse Argentina south to north. Before departing, a gaucho (an Argentine cowboy) gifted him a collie pup to keep him company.
Two weeks before I met Joanna, a lovely curly blonde, blue-eyed and freckly Scottish girl alone on her bicycle, camping on the shores of a wild lake. Her mother had died the year before, leaving her a small inheritance. To honor her memory and adventurous spirit, Joanna set off to ride her bicycle from Canada to Ushuaia. Joanna tells me of a young German couple riding their bicycles from Alaska to Ushuaia with their baby in tow. I meet this lovely couple and their now 2.5 year old daughter at my camp just moments before sitting down to write this missive.
It's a reminder of the amazing adventures people are out having all over the world, and the possibility of experiencing things in such unique ways.
*More photos to come, as soon as the internet cooperates here in El Chalten.


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Ryan Bloom is an English lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has written for The New Yorker, The Arabesques Review, The Baltimore Sun, The Current, Horizon Magazine, The Orlando Sentinel, and other publications. His translation of Albert Camus's Notebooks 1951-1959 (Rowman and Littlefield) was nominated for the 2009 French-American and Florence Gould Foundation's excellence in translation award.
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When the novelist learned to escape his own mind, he got a little closer to the greatness he sought. Read more
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A.N. Wilson's new biography explains how losing money, mother, and mind created Hitler. Read more
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Yesterday I added a music playlist to the side not really realizing that I was turning Heartbreaking Cards into a MySpace page. I am curious what you guys feel about it:
Fifty for 2009 Stats
Post #4 of 50
Percent complete: 8%
December 31, 2008
Quick Question
3 comments:
- dayf said...
I was about to ask you about this... I've seen this on a couple of other blogs and am intrigued by it. Is this a blogger gadget or a third party app?
As far as if I like it... well I'm a habitual "open 40 tabs in Firefox" guy and I've noticed that when my system is already taxed it makes things run more slowly. It's cool though, you've got a nice playlist.
- January 1, 2009 at 1:50 AM
- Matt F. said...
Not sure if you mean the poll or the playlist...both are third party...the poll thorugh polldaddy.com and the playlist through...wait for it...playlist.com
- January 1, 2009 at 12:32 PM
- dayf said...
Yeah, I meant the playlist. I might have to lookinto that, it seems nifty.
- January 1, 2009 at 1:40 PM
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The ultimate goal of the surveillance state
Jon Rappoport
Sept 11, 2012
Surveillance is coming at us from all angles. Chips, drones, TSA checkpoints, smart meters, back-doored electronic products, video cameras, spying home appliances; our phone calls and emails and keystrokes and product purchases are recorded.
The government and its allied corporations will know whatever they want to know about us.
What then?
What happens when all nations are blanketed from stem to stern with surveillance?
Smart meters give us one clue. Public utilities, acting on government orders, will be able to allot electricity in amounts and at times it wishes to. This is leading to an overarching plan for energy distribution to the entire population.
Claiming shortages and limited options, governments will essentially be redistributing wealth, in the form of energy, under a collectivist model.
National health insurance plans (such as Obamacare) offer another clue. Such plans have no logistical chance of operating unless every citizen is assigned a medical ID package, which is a de facto identity card. In the medical arena, this means cradle-to-grave tracking.
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If you have an outstanding warrant for your arrest, you should immediately contact an attorney, and coordinate your immediate surrender to the authorities. In Virginia, you should surrender yourself to the Office of the Magistrate for the locality of the court where the warrant originated. Magistrates are not law enforcement officers like police and sheriffs; instead they are civilian judicial officers similar to court clerks and judges.
Your attorney can accompany you to the Office to the Magistrate and advocate for your release while you standby for the police or sheriff to serve your outstanding warrant. Your attorney can also provide you with the contact information for a bail bondman, if he or she believes your circumstances will require it. You should bring valid government issued identification such as a driver's license with you. You may also want to bring your current U.S. Passport if you believe your charges are serious (felonies) and you have substantial international contacts (born outside of the U.S.) or you are wealthy.
Magistrates are the judicial authority that issue 99% of arrest warrants, and they make the initial determination on bail for defendants immediately after their arrest. There are three levels to being admitted to bail in Virginia. Personal recognizance, unsecured bond, secured bond and the dreaded, held without bond. A personal recognizance is a promise to appear without any monetary obligations placed on the defendant or a third-party. An unsecured bond places a monetary obligation on the defendant, but it does not have to be backed up with hard collateral like money or property. A secured bond is bail in the traditional understanding, where the defendant must have a third-party like a bail bondsman or a family member provide the court with collateral to ensure the defendant's future appearance in court. The magistrate may also require you to be supervised by a pretrial services agency if you case or personal history appears to have substance abuse issues.
Magistrates are required by law (Code of Virginia §19.2-120) to consider the following factors in making a decision for pretrial release: 1. The nature and circumstances of the offense charged; 2. The history and characteristics of the person, including his character, physical and mental condition, family ties, employment, financial resources, length of residence in the community, community ties, past conduct, history relating to drug or alcohol abuse, criminal history, membership in a criminal street gang and record concerning appearance at court proceedings; and 3. the nature and seriousness of the danger to any person or the community that would be posed by the person's release.
Magistrates look favorably upon individuals who voluntarily surrender because it removes any concerns of whether the defendant is a flight risk – it is very rare for a person to surrender themselves, and then abscond. The magistrate will provide you with a future date to appear in court if you are admitted to release. The magistrate will also provide you with paperwork that provides details on your charges and the time, date and address of the court for your next appearance.
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