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WE BEGIN A THREE-EPISODE VACATION ARC WITH THE ladies on the scary little plane from St. Maarten to St. Barths. While everyone's chattering away about rooms and views, Carole sits silent with headphones. She tells us she's thinking about her friends, John Kennedy, Jr. and his wife, Caroline, dying just this way. Then, we're in St. Barths, bitches, and it is stunning.
LuAnn tells Heather she hopes to see a friend of hers named Catherine who lives on the island. Heather's not impressed. She's not a St. Barth's chick; this is her first time here. She balls in Turks and Caicos, a group of islands for the frolicking rich where they can also blow their money; it also installed American B-actress Lisa Raye as its First Lady a few years ago.
Upon arrival at their rental home, Villa Oasis de Salines, they are greeted by the owners and given a tour of the property. The amazing rental includes a handsome chef and a cute butler. Sonja see this as icing on the cake and gets to flirting. The house is unbelievable, huge and modern and so fantastic it leaves Ramona speechless. Ramona. Speechless. There are two heated pools, lots of outside terraces, everything is clean and white and just so fucking awesome. We see curving walk in closets and double outdoor showers. Carole tells us she's giving Ramona the master suite just to shut her up before she even starts. Ramona's sharing with Sonja, since they're practically married. Luann wishes Sonja good luck with crazy in paradise.
As she walks with the owner, Carole finds out she stayed there 15 years ago. The property was much smaller then when her mother-in-law, Lee Radziwill rented it for the holidays. I'm sure it was just as fabulous. That memory, though, somehow makes it a little unnerving for her. Meanwhile, God, Ramona is off, talking a mile a minute, chattering about pool toys, clothes and anything else she lays her googly eyes on. Oops, crash, Heather, not paying attention, has walked into a glass door. We didn't see the accident, but that's always funny. Awww, maybe not, her nose is swollen but probably not broken. Ok, hahahahahahaha.
Ramona and Sonja order pink champagne from the chef to sip in the pool. Soon everybody is wet. Carole takes this moment of togetherness to let them know that her boyfriend, Russ, will be visiting after dinner. Everybody seems fine with it. Remember that.
OMG, there is a fucking vending machine that dispenses WINE. Carole says Sonja and Ramona's eyes light up as soon as they see it. So do mine. While the butler takes wine orders, Sonja compares everyone's breasts to the size of whatever glass is in his hand. When she says Ramona has big breasts, Ramona corrects her to say she has perfect breasts. Sonja says if your breasts don't fit into a wine glass you may have too much. Or all you need is a wine glass full of breasts. Something like that.
Talk, as it does with women, turns to men, as Sonja attempts to bring everyone down with tales of her dearly departed hubby and how it was St. Bart's with him and now it's St. Bart's without him. And it's his loss, damn it. Can you believe he dumped this prize? I love you Sonja, but I could not be married to you.
Then she chases everyone away from the table but gets into with Heather about the toaster over shoot. Ramona tries to break in but Heather tells her that it's about Sonja. When Ramona hears Sonja insist that Heather didn't listen to her, Ramona can't hold her tongue. She wags her finger at Heather because she KNOWS this is true. We all know that's her main complaint about Heather. LuAnn can't take it, after all, it's their first day on the island. She walks away, she's heard enough. Carole follows her and is not keen to see Ramona right behind her.
Meanwhile, back at the table, Heather and Sonja go head to head, spoiling the first night of their vacation. But they eventually end up smiling, when Sonja tells Heather the creative director, James, was gay. And Heather says no, he is not. They both find this amusing. I guess Sonja was annoyed to have to tone down her flirting believing he was gay.
When Russ arrives, Carole is a bit wary of introducing him to what she tells him are, "these crazy bitches who are always fighting." But everyone puts on their best faces and Ramona goes on and on, telling him how much they adore Carole. Sonja, who also adores Carole, still starts flirting with her boyfriend until he tells her "you girls have been around some wine." They pepper him with questions which he handles with as ease as laid back as Carole. They continue to extoll Carole's virtues, embarrassingly so. He tells Sonja it seems he's competing with the girls for Carole's affections. With this LuAnn says it's time for coffee and the ladies leave Carole and Russ at the table. Sonja starts flirting with the butler.
Breakfast is in bathing suits. Sonja tells us that each Housewife will plan a day of the vacation and today is her day. While having drinks on the beach, they quiz Carole on when Russ left the house and wonder what he thought of them. Then Ramona turns petulant and asks aloud why Mario can't come. She says she should ask him down, along with Jacques. Just yesterday it was cool that Russ would stop by. Remember? Only Sonja understands saying "her boyfriend travels the world," and that they finally got a chance to see each other after five months. Sheesh. Carole tells them she's always alone while they have their husbands and she doesn't complain; so they need to SHUT IT.
Sonja's choice for sunbathing is the Tom Beach Hotel. As the group sits at an outdoor table sipping drinks, Sonja and Ramona continue to ask more questions about Russ. Carole tells us it was like introducing him to two crazy aunts. Then Sonja makes jokes about Russ "going down" on her (Carole). O… K, let's go to the beach. As they sit in the sun, primping and pimping, some guys send over banana rum shots. As Carole and Ramona decide to check out the water, Sonja tells LuAnn how great Carole's ass is and says, "no wonder George Clooney did her for a year." Whaaaaaa? A princess, daughter-in-law of Lee Radziwill, dated George Clooney, never fights with anyone. There are no words. I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me she played basketball with Obama.
Time for clubbing!!!!! It's off to Le Ti, St. Bart's most happening bar. Sonja tells us the ladies will have the time of their lives. Ramona and Sonja, always animated, start partying in their room, dancing and clowning and bumping into each other. When they arrive at the restaurant/bar, Carole Grunson, the owner, greets Sonja with a big hug. Sonja declares it her "home away from home." As they walk in all eyes immediately land on a guy dressed in black, wearing a Mad Hatter top hat. His name is Toma, and he looks EXACTLY like Johnny Depp. Fine.
Sonja is just so happy. She tells us that she got to walk in first, and we know how much that means to her, being so short and always being overshadowed by the taller gals. Toma is very attentive to her and she's loving it. She tells the girls that their hostess, Carole, is canoodling with Toma at the moment. The ladies are intrigued even more when Sonja tells them that Carole's been with lots of handsome guys and they're all really good in bed. How she knows, I won't ask.
They begin the night with strong tequila shots, brought to them with a sparkler on the side. Soon the music starts and they start chair dancing. There's a fashion show which I think is to showcase furs but which looks more like it's featuring asses. Ramona and Heather dance to the stage to wiggle around for the crowd, after which there's a smoky burlesque number.
Toma asks the group if they want to be in the show and they all agree immediately. He takes them backstage and they change into pirates with hats, swords and really short flippy skirts. They start off dancing on tables, as is customary at the club. When Sonja tells us that the table patrons are "really getting a show… o
r no show," I think that means she is pantyless. I think some people may be snickering at them. LuAnn stand slightly apart, then follows Toma to the bar while the other ladies move from dancing on the tables to the stage. I think LuAnn is asking Toma for drinks and flirting with him by telling him that she's an Indian and he shouldn't fuck with her. Charming.
They're all in bad shape the next morning, of course. Carole and Heather left LuAnn, Ramona and Sonja at the party and went home to bed. Now, when LuAnn tells Heather she met a group of Italian friends of hers last night, Heather looks quizzical. Heather tells us LuAnn didn't come home with the group. Ramona tells us she heard LuAnn talking with a man. Then Heather tells Carole that she heard LuAnn talking to a man. Carole jumps up laughing. Ooooooooh.
Still in a hazy drunken fog, everyone wanders around the kitchen, Sonja wearing sunglasses indoors. As LuAnn tries to call Jacques, she tells Ramona she got home around 3 a.m. Carole tells us that she was awoken in the night but two men's voices — that "one was LuAnn's and the other was a French guy." Ha. It seems everyone knows that she wasn't with a group of Italians; she was with Toma, the top hat Johnny Depp guy, who speaks French.
This new situation makes Heather uncomfortable; she likes Jacques. LuAnn shows the ladies photos from last night, staring intently, still mesmerized by how much Toma looked like Johnny Depp. Meanwhile Heather and Carole are Skyping with Aviva. It seems the ladies' departures made her sad, so she is coming to St. Barts after all. With Reid, of course. Heather tells her to get ready because everything on the island is conducive to sex. When they tell the others, Ramona immediately asks "with or without Reid."
As Sonja gets her hair done, Carole and Ramona talk about LuAnn bringing a man home. Sonja says it's a small island so LuAnn doesn't have to tell them who she brought home, they'll find out. Then Sonja and Ramona start to bitch about Reid coming to what's supposed to be a girls weekend. They want Reid to stay at a hotel. Are they fucking kidding? Carole offers to tell her not to come but they say, oh, no, no, don't do that.
When LuAnn joins them Ramona continues her rant, saying it's not a girls trip anymore. LuAnn agrees the dynamic will change. Sonja takes this opportunity to cheekily nudge LuAnn, telling her she hears LuAnn brought a man home last night. Luann acts totally clueless and insists it was a group of men… and women and they were Italian. Heather tells us if LuAnn is going to continue this story it's going to make her so uncomfortable, but she is not going to lie and say she didn't hear a man there.
Later, on one of the wide terraces, we see LuAnn, alone and on the phone. She's speaking French to her friend Cat, telling her that under no circumstances can Toma say he was with her last night. She doesn't want the girls to know he was there; it's a problem. She ends with Merci. Inside, Heather, apparently able to overhear, looks like she wishes she had paid more attention in French class.
The ladies are having a soiree of their own and have invited many from the island. As they chat before the guests arrive, LuAnn keeps up her story. Carole wonders why LuAnn didn't say her group was French since everyone clearly heard French being spoken. But guests are arriving and the first are LuAnn's friend, Cat, and Toma. Dum dum dum daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Heather thinks this is unfortunate for LuAnn, as Toma sits down right next to her and compliments her on her fluent French.
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Do you think playing sports like Badminton or Tennis is a good idea for a date that is like the 10th date or so?
We're already done fairly standard things like movies, the library, shopping, watching downloaded tv shows together, going to an art gallery. I don't feel too happy about doing the same things over again, so I'm thinking playing sports can be a good filler in the meantime.
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If she can play those sports or is a quick learner, it should be fun.
If she's not, it will get frustrating pretty fast, because you will spend more time picking up the ball than actually playing the sport or worse, she even misses the ball with her racket. I've seen it in my class.. funny, cuz we were all girls, but probably awkward if she wants to impress you (something every girl who likes you would want to). Also, girls who run and do yoga and stuff aren't necessarily good at racket games.
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We coined our own terms. We defined "going out/hanging out" as "we seriously have no idea what we're doing lol". It was a long period of vague, awkward outings that strongly resembled first dates or blind dates, except we kept doing it for one whole year, and we were too shy to confess. :p
Then, we called "dating" as being romantically interested in each other and actively going out on a regular basis. And of course, finally getting the guts to admit we liked each other.
We still haven't figured out what we want to call the next stage, but we have vaguely labelled it as the bf/gf stage for now. We call it "supposedly know that we want to be together for life", or something like that. It's vague lol.
Of course this was all totally me and my girl's own interpretation, being clueless as we are. The more common definition is the one you just said, more or less. Most people call hanging out as in casual friends, whereas dating is the romantic form of hanging out.
oic, I guess hanging out technically means you do something with another person without being romantically interested, but in reality, I think most people say hang out but are romantically interested, but just don't wanna admit it (to the other person).


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Titles read: "Barcelona again!"
Barcelona, Spain.
Various shots of people running from the city streets (including La Ramblas) during a bombing air raid in the Spanish Civil War. Scenes of destruction as people look in horror at the bombed buildings and climb over rubble - very distressing. Injured people are put on stretchers. A fire engine ladder is raised beside a building. A group of people in a street hold an American stars and stripes flag that has been ripped by shrapnel. Men work on bomb sites with pickaxes, probably working to free injured people.
Soundtrack cuts out at 01:20:01; visuals continue, showing brief scenes of a wrecked tram in a street with rubble on either side.
Titles read: "Barcelona again!"
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Linux Authentication with Windows Active Directory (Win 2k3/Win2k8)...
I need a help to develop an authentication mechanism to my organization's product-> Its a Router (which has stripped version of Linux Kernel 2.6.26).
Could you please guide me what to do as an initial task.
It would be great and appreciable for the help to me to develop this.
It's Interesting too.
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Why would you "develop" something when it already exists. I'd use radius authentication (see freeradius), then just put the pam files in place on the linux system and you are done (search for radius authentication for linux).
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Thank you for the response Abarclay,
The Requirement is for Windows Active directory (not the Radius authentication server) Administrator should be able to login to the Router box and do the configuration.
Since the box has stripped version of Linux (2.6.26), I need to take the source code from opensource and put the code in code repository then integrate the newly added code to existing make file and then compile.
For our Router Box - 90% clients are asking for Windows Active Directory Domain user login support. This led me to ask for Win Active Directory Domains's related authentication for this box.
With the current state of Router box, It does not have the DNS configuration. we use $ping <IP add>. If we use $ping <google.com> <== this does not work.
Please give me the Ideas on which modules are need to download and integrate so that my Router box is able to authenticate by the Domain (active directory: DOMAIN\Administrator) Administrator is able to login.
Thanks on advance.
Your suggestions helps me in development.
Last edited by eshwarmedagam; 12-18-2011 at 08:18 AM. Reason: Scentance formation
12-18-2011 #4
Every router I've seen lately is configured through a web browser. You just open the ip address of the router in the browser, and log in as you would on any website, using a username and password. It's not necessary to use Windows to do that. I'm not exactly sure what "Windows Active Directory Domain user login support" is, nor why it would be required.
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I understand what the original poster is requesting. Most enterprise customers don't want to be "in the username and password business". They all ready have an enterprise group that maintains accounts, so having to create them on the individual devices would be onerous (if not impossible).
Still, I was assuming that the company where the router was being deployed would have other networking equipment that required authentication. Every piece out there will support radius, so having your
router support radius seemed appropriate.
The way freeradius would work is that you have it use an LDAP repository to authenticate. Active Directory supports LDAP, so Active Directory would be your username and password repository. Chances are, you don't want everyone with an AD account to have access to the router, so you'd use a group (also maintained in AD) to define who is allowed access to the router.
I have built this setup a few times however, I always used openldap as my repository and not AD. It should just work, though.
Assuming the customer has no need/desire to support a radius server (all my fortune 2000 companies already have one), then configuring linux to authenticate via kerberos (AD supports kerberos) seems pretty straight forward.
Authenticating Linux against Active Directory
The fact that you don't have DNS is completely irrelevant. You'd just have to replace every hostname with an IP address.
One thing to keep in mind, however, is the chicken and egg problem. If this "router" is fundamental to the network infrastructure and you need to make a config change when everything (including the active directory) is unreachable (something like an IP range change), then you should make sure there is at least one local account that you can login when there is no connectivity to the AD server.
Hope this helps,
12-19-2011 #6
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Thank you Abarclay,
I appreciate you understanding on the requirement.
url: Authenticating Linux against Active Directory
This is what I am exactly looking for. Kerberos as an authentication protocol using "LDAP server as Windows Active Directory (Windows 2003 Server R2 / Windows 2008 Server)".
Your understanding on:
==> "Active Directory supports LDAP, so Active Directory would be your username and password repository. Chances are, you don't want everyone with an AD account to have access to the router, so you'd use a group (also maintained in AD) to define who is allowed access to the router."
Yes, in Active Directory does have the following components:
1. Domain (ex: mycompany.com)
2. DNS Server (for resolving *.com to IP addresses)
2. Computers (under: mycompany.com)
3. Groups Management (under: mycompany.com)
Under this, a. IT Group (Who has the Admimistrators of the Domain : mycompany.com)
b. HR Group (non Administrators of the Domain, only users with limited access in the Domain)
c. ect..... So... on.... Groups...
4. Users and Groups (under: mycompany.com)
5. Password repository
For All these the users are authenticated using two Protocols
a. NTLM (which is Microsoft's proprietary Auth' protocol )
b. Kerberos (Opensource: implemented by MIT)
Here for me, if Radius would have been the requirement, it would have been easier for me as you have explained.
Totally I have to bring in the source code :"LDAP PAM" Library and "Kerberos" from Open source and integrate it with existing source and make the Router box authenticated by the mycompany.com 's (Active Directory's ) IT Administrators ONLY.
Reg' your Comment:
===> "The fact that you don't have DNS is completely irrelevant. You'd just have to replace every hostname with an IP address."
The router box does have specialized shell command prompt not the "bash" or "sh" shell prompt (which is usually defaul cmd prompt). This is just to restrict the user not to give full access to the router. This shell prompt does have only few limited commands.
This box does not have DNS configuration. The C library (in the box) should have the support for resolving the *.com's to it IP address. This on I found it yesterday.
To be in the part of this development: the first thing I need to do is : Give the DNS capability to my Router box. Then only My box is able to resolve the mycompany.com and other host name.com's to its corresponding IP addresses.
I checked in my Router the command
$net util ping google.com
Request timed out.
Please give me any other help in implementing this.
Last edited by eshwarmedagam; 12-19-2011 at 05:39 AM. Reason: Spelling mistake
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Every router I've seen lately is configured through a web browser.
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Hi All...
Please need your Ideas on implementing this... Your Ideas helps me in implementing this requirement.
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Hi everybody...
Linux boys need to look into this.
Please help me in implementing this.


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So i found this issue while i was creating my new biome SkyForestEdge. I wanted my Bo3s to spawn really close to each other so they can create this crazy terrain. As you can see on the picture in some chunks they are generatin pretty well, but close is a empty place where nothing spawns. Can you help me solving this issue?
This is how they should really spawn...(so as you can see it works on some places)
Cant help you without knowing the Objects or SpawnConditions.
Okay, shall i drop all of those files here?
See the Link I provided.
There is a Service Mentioned where you can Drop ConfigFiles to read. its Convenient to Check Configs there.
Okay so Heres one file, I guess all of them are as same as this one.
Also here is biomeconfig file...
There doesnt seem to be some Glaring Errors in that Particular Object, or the Biome Config.
I have two possible things:First:I observerd some Placement Issues on my SkyLands with: "SpawnHeight: highestSolidBlock"They didnt appear to Spawn at all, I didn´t really look into it on what was Causing it, as I went just for "RandomY"
But I would think that Highest Solid Block doesnt work with SkyLands.The Screenshot where the Objects get Generated Correctly the Blocks get down to 0, Where they dont Generate, I cant see it on the Screenshot, so that Could be the Issue.Second:It could also be a Biome Error, is there maybe another Biome? Doesnt Look like Chunks getting not generated. Looks more like a BiomeBorder.
(I just assume you remove the Region Files each time you make Changes)
Apart From that, I have a Suggestion regarding your RessourceQueue.
While: "CustomObject(UseBiome)" is easy to use, its not that Flexible.Especially if you want to adjust the Overall Terrain.You can use More CustomObject() ressources per Biome. I would suggest moving it to the Top of the RessourceQueue and add the Objects you actually want to spawn.
That way you can also Increase or Decrease the Amount of Objects that Spawn.And Also you have a more fine Control over the Order in Which the Objects Spawn.
Edit:After another Look. It really looks like you didnt regenerate the World. And the Chunks were Previously Generated with other Settings.
The: "SurfacePatch(MOSSY_COBBLESTONE,AIR,198,220,STONE)" doesnt cover the whole Border either on the First Screenshot.
Okay gotta look at theese things. Thank you very much for your effort!
Readjusting ResourceQueue helped, now its spawning normally! Thanks Man


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Redpepper, here is how I would feel as the mono in such a situation as you are facing. Note I am NOT trying to say this is how (your) mono thinks and feels; but it is definitely how I would think and feel.
Please bear with my possibly childish analogy; you will see where it is going.
Long ago, I meet my wife. She gives me her unique flower. She says: "Look after this flower ; it is unique and special. I am giving it to you because you are special."
So I cherish the flower.
Much later, she tells me that she wants to give the flower to someone else too. I am sad at first, because I think that maybe I am no longer good enough for her to hold her flower; but I try and I do see that actually it is beautiful that she wants to share her flower with someone else too.
I see that truly nothing has been lost.
But then she tells me that she wants to give her special flower to another, and then another; in fact she tells me that there is possibly no limit to the number of people she might want to give her special flower to.
So I begin to not want her flower.
It is NOT because I feel that I am not good enough; it is no longer about me. I am strong in myself and know that I am fine, there is nothing wrong with me.
It is just that I can see that her flower is no longer very special at all, because she wants to give it to so many people. It is not worth very much.
I will still love her as a friend, but I don't want her flower.
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Gone are the days when people didn't approve of tattoos or they carried some kind of stereotype, it is now (as it has always been) simply a type of self expression which has been embraced fully by our modern culture. Also special types of tattoos like dog memorial portrait or paw print tattoo designs are a comfort to owners, friends and family of deceased loved ones.
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The Ancient City of Bosra grew the most under the Romans, who paid great attention to it and was named Niatrojana Bostra as the capital of the state of Djezire under the king Trojan.
In the Byzantine period Bosra became the seat of an archbishop who was in charge of 33 bishops in the area. In 632 AD, Bosra was the first Byzantine city to fall to the Arab Muslims, and it flourished greatly as a point on both the trade route and the pilgrimage route between Damascus and Mecca.
Its two most remarkable structures are:
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- the citadel fortified between 481 and 1231
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John Mason, Australia 08.12.08
Great drive from Damascus to Bosra, really enjoyed it some interesting places to stop and eat. The Theatre was interesting, the basalt rock used to construct it seems indestructible. Not much else to see in the town though. It seems it later became a fort to defend the city.
Ed Nash, USA
the great thing about this City is the fact that it survived about 2500 years inhabited and almost intact.the Romans, Nabateans, Byzanthine, Umayyad Muslims all left traces in it..it is simply an open museum. make sure to read about it before visiting or at least get a guide book to the numerous sites you are about to see or you will be lost and not really appreciate what you are seeing.
you might wanna know how important it is to the Eastern Christians since it was a center of archbichop and it has many intact ancient churches. alo very important for muslims since in it prophet Mohammed has met the monk Buheira who was the first to forsee the child Mohammad's prophesy. It was also the second Nabatean capital after the sacking of Petra by the Romans.
truely a must see if you are spending longer than a few days in Syria.the area also has many other ancient classic cities like Shahba, Qanata(Qanawat),Izraa, Salkhad..etc
Douglas Scully, USA 08.04.06
Paul Tanner's review is quite accurate. The intermingling of ancient ruins and modern housing makes for an odd feeling. Unfortunately some of the shells of ancient buildings have been used as garbage dumps by the residents. Walking down the streets you can come across the ruins of unexcavated ancient buildings in whose debris you can see fragments of Roman glass protruding. Besides the excelently preserved Roman theater, the site is notable for the use of black basalt stonework. It is so very different from the usual marble. There is so much still standing that a conservation program that includes relocating the current residents could make for a wonderful archaeological park.
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Bosra is a very strange "ruined town". Its remains are primarily Roman and its star attraction is the well preserved 15000 seat Roman theatre. What is slightly disconcerting when visiting the place is the intermingling of current dwellings and ruins. People live inside the city walls in houses which either are or are partly built from or are next to "old" buildings. The streets still seem to be paved as in Roman days – yet have clapped out old cars parked in them (photo!).
The city is located south of Damascus close to the Jordanian border in an area you are unlikely to visit to see anything else and, in my view is only worth a visit if you can either
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Why does Mr. Wopsle change his name to Mr. Waldengarver in Chapter 31?Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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In Chapter XXX, Pip reaches into his pocket and finds a playbill which Joe has given him. Quickly, he tells Herbert about the "celebrated provincial amateur of Roscian renown." So, in Chapter XXXI, Mr. Wopsle is performing in Hamlet at the theatre; he has changed his name to Waldengarver for the stage. But, no only is his stage name ridiculous, so is his appearance as Pip describes it,
My gift townsman stood gloomily apart with folded arms, and I could have wished that his curls and forehead had been more probable.
His performance as Hamlet is a parody. Pip and Herbert attempt applauding, but the laughter overrides their applause. After the serious conversation that Pip has had with Herbert in which he has declared his love and devotion to Estella, the comic relief of Mr. Waldengarver's ridiculous performance points to the foolish idea of people that they can make themselves into something else as Mr. Wopsle's performance is absurb to everyone but himself.


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Bader brutalized Anthony Perosh at Fight Night 33 en route to a lopsided unanimous decision victory. It was a badly needed win for "Darth" after being knocked out in the first round by Glover Teixeira at Fight Night 28. He sustained a broken hand during the December bout against Perosh in Australia. It wasn't surprising given the number of times Bader punched the ultra-tough Perosh in the face during that 15-minute beatdown.
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Cavalcante possesses tremendous finishing ability, with all 12 of his career triumphs having come inside the distance. The talented no. 12-ranked Brazilian has the skills to be a tough chore for anyone when he's at the top of his game, and is especially dangerous early on with seven first-round knockouts to his credit. His biggest victory was back in 2010 when he stopped Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal to win the Strikeforce title. "Feijao" also owns a knockout victory over Yoel Romero.
While Cavalcante is an explosive performer, he has been prone to inconsistency. He's been knocked out in three of his four career losses. This contest has the makings of being a being a fan-friendly affair as both fighters have recorded impressive knockouts in the past, but have also been on the receiving end of devastating finishes. The winner will definitely be in line for meaningful fights moving forward in the 205-pound division.
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Chapter 3
The Strait of Hormuz
Aboard the Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), air operations had been at a frantic pace for the last four hours since word of the Israeli strike on Iran had first come into the communications center, known simply as "Radio." The "Abe" was the centerpiece of Carrier Strike Group Nine, which in turn was operating as part of the U.S. Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Her escorting ships were arrayed around her, particularly to the North. Originally, the secretary of defense wanted to send the newly commissioned USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) stealth destroyer through the straight, but the President said, "we need a bigger saber to rattle this time" – so, he sent in the Abe, against almost everyone else's recommendation.
Captain Jim Fisher was concerned as he looked out over the 4.5 acre flight deck from his perch on the bridge. He didn't like the idea of taking his precious ship with its priceless crew into such restricted waters. He knew that American aircraft carriers had been sailing in the Persian Gulf since World War II, but he still didn't like it. Here he couldn't maneuver freely. And here, he gave up one of the carrier's greatest strengths, the ability to keep potential enemies hundreds of miles away, while still being able to strike at them at the time and place of his choosing, should the need arise. Steaming in the "inbound" channel of the 21 mile wide strait, they were only eleven miles from Iran's hostile coast and the anti-ship missiles on that coast. Eleven miles is virtually instantaneous in flying time, especially when it comes to fast accelerating missiles. And Fisher truly didn't like the fact that his crew would have such a short time to react to any missile attack. In years past the Strike Group would have included three or four additional escort vessels. Ships which could be used as pickets to better defend his precious "bird farm." But, the last few years of budget cuts, sequestration, etc., had inexorably reduced the number of active duty navy ships leaving his beloved service stretched dangerously thin around the world. America's enemies, as always, had noticed and had become bolder by the day.
"All of the precautions have been covered," he thought to himself as he went through his mental list yet again. The ship's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft was orbiting with its Lockheed Martin APY-9 radar that was able to "see" smaller targets and more of them at greater ranges than the older E-2C model it replaced. The rotodome contained the critically important, continuous, 360-degree scanning capability, along with the latest Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA), which allowed operators to focus the radar on selected areas of interest.
Nevertheless, the athletic Floridian felt uneasy, and not just because he hadn't slept for the previous 18 hours. He just could not stop thinking about which and how many Russian, Chinese, or North Korean made anti-ship missiles the Iranians might truly have and what they might do with them.
"Bridge, Combat," he heard his CIC watch officer call.
"Combat, bridge. Go ahead," he replied.
"Captain, our surface search radar is picking up some activity on the coast, by Bandar Abbas, but nothing from the picket."
"Roger, I'm on my way," replied Fisher. As he opened the door of the Combat Information Center (CIC), the nerve center of the great vessel, he heard the call he had so dreaded and prayed fervently would never come.
"Vampire, vampire, bearing 021 true," came the shout from the primary air search radar operator just as the Hawkeye also radioed in the new contacts.
"All ahead full," commanded Fisher. "Unmask the starboard RAM and sea-whiz. Update number and speed."
"Forty-eight contacts sir, splitting into two groups. First group of 33, velocity is Mach 0.8. Profile suggests Noor missiles. Designate Raid 1. Second group of 15, speed is passing Mach 1.6. Profile suggests Sunburns. Designate Rai…"
"What?" screamed the captain incredulously? "Here? That fast? That many?"
"Sunburns," gasped the Tactical Action Officer (TAO) as he stared at his radar screen.
The SS-N-22 missile, NATO codename "Sunburn" was a nightmare for any sailor. Designed by the Russians specifically to destroy American aircraft carrier battle groups, they were rumored to have been supplied to the Iranians, but the rumors had never been confirmed. Until now.
The Sunburns' four powerful ramjet engines quickly accelerated them to their maximum Mach 2.5 speed for a blistering sea-skimming attack profile. In addition to their 750 pound warhead, their 9,000 pound mass traveling at such tremendous speed imparted enormous kinetic energy on any target struck. Designed specifically to defeat the U.S. Navy's vaunted Aegis radar system as well as the Close-In Weapons system (CIWS, commonly called sea-whiz), the SS-N-22s could fly as low as fifteen feet above the wave tops and perform violent, terminal pop-up maneuvers to avoid enemy missiles and gun systems just before striking their targets.
"Now it's all up to our Standards, RAM and sea-whiz," breathed the Captain.
"Let's hope God in Heaven also has something to say about the matter," said the TAO.
"Yes, yes indeed," agreed Fisher.
Unlike the CIWS, the RIM-116 RAM, or Rolling Airframe Missile system had been designed to defeat missiles such as the high speed Sunburns. But, they had never been tested in combat. The Block 1 version of the fire and forget missile system had infra red (IR) all-the-way guidance to its target and was an upgrade in capability over the CIWS gun system.
Steaming one mile to the north of the Abe to serve as a forward picket was one of her escorts, the guided missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG-104). The sleek gray warship shuddered once, and then again as she began engaging the missiles screaming southward with her SM-2 Standard Medium Range missiles.
"Range twelve miles," called out the Lincoln's Tactical Action Officer as he stared intently at the radar screen," the palpable tension dripping from his voice.
"Nice coincidence," grunted Fisher.
As both groups of speeding "vampires" neared the RAM's eleven mile maximum range, the tongue of flame from the first of the 21 missiles in the launcher illuminated the night sky as it blasted free. With the Sunburns approaching at 1,100 feet per second, the American defenses had less than a minute to successfully engage all twelve remaining supersonic missiles even as their fire control computers and software attempted to sort out the subsonic Noors that were classified as lesser threats.
Aboard Sterrett, the incoming Iranian missiles had closed the range and her own CIWS systems began to engage the flight. Four fell to her guns. But the numbers seemed too great and the time seemed too short. A first missile, a Noor, struck the ship forward of the superstructure where the SM-2's were exiting their Vertical Launch System tubes. The Iranian missile's warhead failed to explode fully, but an SM-2 just clearing the deck did. Further aft, a second Noor struck the side of the destroyer at its helicopter hangar.
"Explosions, explosions to the north" yelled the starboard lookout on the Abraham Lincoln. Despite the news, no one seemed to listen to him, much less acknowledge his report. Eventually, the Officer of the Deck did respond.
In CIC, all eyes stared anxiously at the screens as the arrow symbols representing missiles closed each other and then began to merge. The hostile dots were disappearing, but not disappearing quickly enough.
"Come on. Come on," said Fisher under his breath. "Please God, if you are real, if you are out there, we need you…only two more." He felt the pit of his stomach continue to tighten and thought of his wife, six year old son, and little girl, just entering the "terrible twos." "Please God…"
But on this day, it was not to be. A Sunburn slammed into the carrier's flight deck amidships, just forward of the island superstructure and next to elevator number two. The missile's hardened nose-tip burrowed through the flight deck, the hangar deck, and the third deck below before it's time delay warhead detonated. The mighty behemoth shuddered with the impact and force of the explosion. The fireball erupted skyward as sailors from her own crew and her escorts looked on in stunned disbelief. Further aft, a second Sunburn slipped through the defenses but mercifully struck only a glancing blow to the aft end of the flight deck, just behind elevator number three.
The expansive flight deck, covered as always with aircraft, fuel, sailors and ordnance, quickly became an inferno of explosions, shearing shrapnel, smoke and fire. An F/A-18E Super Hornet about to launch on catapult number three was shredded by shrapnel. Two 500 pound bombs hung on pylons under her wings detonated and added their roar of destruction to the firestorm. Hundreds of sailors and Marines died instantaneously. Hundreds more were grievously wounded and burned. Dozens of her 85 aircraft were destroyed. The rest of the 5,680 men and women aboard the vaunted aircraft carrier would now have to fight for their ship and fight for their lives. And, the attacks they suffered had just begun.
The Pentagon, E-Ring, Washington, D.C.
Lt. John Williams had only been assigned to the Pentagon for a month. And until a few days ago, he had loved his posting, particularly working in the outer "E-Ring," where all the big wigs had their offices with the outside views. Now, however, he dreaded his task of giving admirals with lots of gold on their sleeves and shoulders bad news. He took a breath, knocked on the door, and entered the office of his boss, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Admiral Mike Jankowski.
"Admiral, we have just received a Flash message from Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. The Lincoln's been hit."
"What? When? Did she hit a mine? A suicide boat? How bad is it?" The grizzled Navy veteran was struggling with his thoughts outpacing his words.
The U.S. Navy's eleven active supercarriers were unspeakably valuable and expensive. At the pinnacle of its World War II power, the U.S. Navy fielded 28 large aircraft carriers and 71 smaller ones. By the time of the Vietnam War, only 23 total carriers remained. The end of the cold war and continuing budget cuts reduced the force to 15 and then 12, and finally, the 11 that remained. Those eleven however, represented an almost unimaginable investment in national treasure and prestige, both in technology and the highly trained personnel.
"We don't know the details yet, sir, but it appears her battle group was hit with a mass missile attack from the Iranian coast just as they passed the strait's narrowest point. They report the attack was comprised of almost fifty Noor and Sunburn missiles. Abe suffered one major and one relatively minor hit from the Sunburns. The Sterett was also hit. She was hit by two Noors. Hundreds are dead or unaccounted for, and hundreds more are wounded. Both ships are fighting the fires. We don't have firm numbers on the casualties yet, but whatever they are now, they will go higher."
"My God," exclaimed Jankowski, making Williams wince. As a devout Mormon, Williams did not like the Lord's name to be taken in vain.
Jankowski saw Williams wince and immediately apologized. "Sorry, John. Just slipped out. But how could this have happened?"
"I understand sir. This is a huge shock. And admirals have no need to apologize to O-3s. In any case, we'll have to wait for the post action analysis, but obviously the distance and short reaction times played a part. In addition, the Iranians either got lucky or timed their attack exquisitely."
"Thanks. And how so?" asked Jankowski.
"The subsonic Noors arrived first and while they were being engaged by our systems, the supersonic Sunburns arrived and some got through."
"I see. Well, we'll go back and look at that some more later. So, what's her status?" asked the Admiral.
"Some of the fires are still burning but both reactors are intact and she is underway, making 9 knots. They think they can get to 12 knots if not more, very soon. At least 50% of her air wing was taken out, but it doesn't really matter since she can't carry out flight ops. The primary hit was almost dead center of her flight deck and the fires there and on the decks below are spewing heavy smoke. Sterett is dead in the water and also burning, but she may be able to get underway soon. Our damage control is the best, as you know. Ingraham and Ford are with Sterett and will take her under tow if she can't get underway. The other escorts are all with the Abe. We're flying CAP out of Bahrain and also have the escorts' Seahawks in the air providing a perimeter."
CAP, Combat Air Patrol, ensured that there was always a flight of protective fighters over the fleet at all times. However, this was of little help against a swarm of low flying cruise missiles, as the successful attack had just shown.
"Any further attacks from the damned mullahs?" questioned Jankowski.
"Not yet, but they're sure to try and finish them off if we give them the chance. We need to hit back and hard," Williams stressed. "We need to neutralize all shore and naval installations where further attacks against us can be launched."
"When is our next satellite pass?" asked the CNO.
"About 30 minutes, sir. We'll know more then," replied Williams with an optimistic tone.
"We need to brief the President and the Joint Chiefs, ASAP," thought Jankowski. And it was his turn to wince.
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Kia ora - welcome to Ellerslie Bed and Breakfast Inn Catering exclusively to the discerning tourist and corporate traveller, EBBI sets an unmatched standard of excellence in Kiwi hospitality and offers a comfortable 'home away from home' experience to the weariest traveller. Nestled in a quiet section of Ellerslie in a new custom-designed building, guests not only enjoy easy access to many of Auckland city's landmarks and attractions, but can also relax away from the hustle and bustle in our courtyard garden while indulging in a quiet drink on the patio or curl up with a good book in our Guests Lounge. Guests have a choice from three tastefully designed rooms with individual ensuites and the use of a dedicated business centre with high-speed internet access as well as printing and facsimile services. We look forward to welcoming you and will endeavor to ensure that you will have a pleasant stay with us. For more information, please click on the links at the top/bottom of the page. We will be happy to answer any questions that you may have about the services that we provide or if you wish to find out more about us so please feel free to either send us a fax or email, or give us a call
6 Walpole St, Ellerslie, Auckland, 1051CP:1051,Auckland,Nueva Zelanda
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