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Oh, where oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.
- Wayne Cochran, Last Kiss
His eyes flew wide open at first, but everything looked like a blur; completely disoriented, he had no sense of time or space, but he tried to squint and focus slowly until the first conscious thought came to him: where are my glasses?
Instinctively his hands darted out, scrabbled over the bedside tables, trying to find them, but no, there weren't any bedside tables, or for that matter, he wasn't in his bedroom. His nose sniffed the air; it smelled dank and cold.
No, his bed was made out of hard foam encased in cotton fabric, and that he can now see the concrete-gray ceiling.
The shock of reality now came to him with the sudden intensity of a bomb dropped over his head.
He was in jail.
More precisely, inside the jail cell of Number One Stockade of NERV Security Forces Group, behind carbon-steel bars and reinforced concrete a foot thick on three sides.
Worse, he felt that his left hand was tightly wrapped in something, so he lifted it up to find bandage covering up much of his palm, where Adam was once used to reside.
Now all of his memories suddenly came back rushing with a vengeance, including the last scene he witnessed before blacking out.
Indeed, Fuyutsuki had Adam surgically removed from his hand, and it hit Gendo Ikari right in the gut that it made him stand up on the cot and look around his surroundings before focusing on his garments, which was nothing but a prisoner's cotton jumpsuit.
He was no longer the Commander but a powerless inmate stuck in the very same cell where less than 12 hours ago, here he consigned Fuyutsuki and many others for trying to conspire against him.
It made him furious, sick to the stomach that he had no choice except to vent his ire by repeatedly pounding his other functional hand, formed into a fist, on the mattress while muttering profanities in a display of rage he had never expressed in years.
Whatever hopes and dreams he had were finally dashed in this dark jail cell, even as the lone video camera installed on the ceiling monitored his angry fit.
An alternate path fanfiction by soulassassin547
Written on 9/26/2012 19:02 a9/p9
As they walked out of the communications room, after Fuyutsuki said that they'll have lunch, Shinji didn't know what else to say except an avalanche of questions came crashing upon him, as to how and why his mother came to assume prime importance in his father's life, and then he wondered, Did he intended to marry her? For what good?
He watched Fuyutsuki briefly converse with General Yamamoto and some others before they bid goodbye to work on their preparations for the eventual battle, before they walked on to the direction of the elevator doors.
I don't understand except… Was he really that mad? Was all of this worth the ambition?
Shinji sighed, but then his hand found itself clasping with Asuka's.
"I don't know what else to say," the girl said. "Either that old man's bullshitting or he's telling us the truth."
"Mother," Shinji said.
"All of what he said had occurred before, from what I heard about, with that old fart linking you with… Jesus. I mean, it's still far-fetched, there's no solid proof that He ever managed to survive after being crucified."
Shinji shook his head, the burden of information weighed against his mind. "I'll never know. It's too overwhelming."
Just a couple of meters abreast, Fuyutsuki and Misato were discussing about Lorenz's allegations. Though the hologram images looked authentic, both of them doubted the veracity of the old man's facts.
"Do you think all of that is possible?" Fuyutsuki asked.
"It's too unlikely," Misato said. "I mean, sir, anyone can make up a story on paper or parchment, even if it's a couple of millennia old."
"I believe that, thousands of years ago, the human mind, conditioned to superstition and the supernatural, will believe in anything presented as fact. Religious relics are one of several examples; these are highly venerated by the common folk as miraculous and coming from holy men, even if there's no definitive proof of their authenticity, and more likely manufactured by those in the know."
"Isn't there's some books that debate over the divinity of Christ?" Ritsuko said as she walked up.
Fuyutsuki nodded. "Of course, with some trying to prove or disprove, but it all comes down to a matter of faith."
"Ikari himself may have to explain as to how and why he came up with this in the first place," Misato said. "There has to be a motive, a reason for madness."
Just then Hamamoto came up to Fuyutsuki's side, with a phone in hand, said, "My boys got Ikari's room secured and the safe cracked open. I've ordered them to bring out anything that can be used as evidence."
Fuyutsuki and everyone else paused in mid-stride. "What?" he asked.
"They've got tons of documents," Hamamoto said. "The whole nine yards, everything from his journals, to memos… well, enough to implicate."
Again, Hamamoto's phone rang, cutting him off, prompting the director to converse with a subordinate on the line, before he returned to Fuyutsuki.
"Well?" he asked. "What else?"
"Ikari is awake now," Hamamoto said. "Unfortunately they had to restrain him down because he was throwing a serious fit in the cell. Anyway, if you wish to talk to Ikari, I'll give orders for them to bring him to the interrogation room."
Grimacing, Fuyutsuki turned to Misato and Ritsuko, but Shinji and the other Children looked surprised.
"Father's awake?" the boy asked.
Fuyutsuki nodded. "Yes."
"Can I speak to him?"
The former professor thought of this for a moment, before he made a decision.
"I think you have the right to listen as much as I do," he said, "because whatever he says could put your doubts to rest once and for all, and could also decide our fate, so come with us."
"Thank you, sir," Shinji said, nodding and then turned to Asuka. "I have to go."
"It's okay," Asuka said, watching him walk over to Fuyutsuki and Hamamoto.
"Are you ready for this?" Fuyutsuki asked.
"Yes," Shinji answered. "I regret nothing."
Fuyutsuki then focused his attention to the two women. "The rest of you," he said. "Go ahead and have lunch without us, then head to the testing room. We'll catch up later."
Misato saluted. "Yes, sir."
"And Akagi," Fuyutsuki added. "Put Nagisa through the wringer. You and your people know what to do."
Ritsuko nodded. "It'll be done, Professor."
Outside, while the rest of his tank squadron were busy setting up their firing positions, Sergeant Taro Miyazawa went about checking his Type-10's electronic fire control system, just a couple of feet away from the 120mm L44 smoothbore cannon.
He eyed the total loadout on the multifunction LED panel, which gave him a tally of thirty kinetic-energy HEAT rounds sitting in the loading bin; these were the same type of munitions used in the American M1A1 Abrams, but manufactured locally under license as part of the Mutual Defense Treaty.
The 48-ton Type-10 main battle tank was built as a stronger successor to the Type-90, with greater emphasis on selectable firepower, armored protection, speed (up to 70 kilometers per hour), automation and connectivity, all the while having to meet strict standards as not to ruin pavement.
The autoloader system also allowed for a smaller crew, and provides them greater freedom to concentrate on the fighting than worry about mechanical reliability and timing.
Miyazawa sighed in satisfaction, knowing that his tank was well-prepared for the task, but for the first time his unit would soon be engaged in battle.
Then he thought of the last thing he needed to do before lunch, so with his fingers Miyazawa reached in the insides of his left breast pocket, fished out a laminated picture of singer-actress Atsuko Maeda, which he kept for years after she graduated from AKB48, and using a roll of duct tape, he stuck the picture next to the MFD panel.
To her portrait he then whispered reverently, "Acchan… Watch over me, just as we'll have to fight soon on your behalf."
The interrogation room was bare, finished in non-gloss white and with one side of the wall faced with one-way glass – the observation mirror – save for a folding table and four seats; on the table, the obligatory pitcher of water and two stainless-steel tumblers, a pad and a pencil, and a telephone.
Sitting on a folding chair and facing Fuyutsuki, and with Hamamoto and Shinji watching behind the mirror inside the observation room, Gendo Ikari looked very much the defrocked prophet who once envisioned the inevitability of Instrumentality, now dressed in a jumpsuit, with his ankles cuffed with manacles, wearing a morose face with slatted eyes that stared at the white vinyl tiles beneath his slipper-sheathed feet.
Behind Gendo was a pair of BDU-garbed guards standing, parade-rest position; they were present to restrain him with strong-arm should Gendo decides to behave the wrong way.
However, in this situation Gendo looked bitterly defeated and thus accepted his fate.
"What do you want from me?" he asked.
"No, but how are you feeling?" Fuyutsuki questioned instead, with a tone that implied an attempt to understand than provoke hostility.
Gendo looked down at his left bandaged palm. "What have you done?" he asked.
"It is my prerogative, I'm afraid to say, that I must protect you from yourself."
Ikari sighed again. "This is my dream… and you took it away," he said.
"You may call Instrumentality a dream for you to achieve," Fuyutsuki said, "but what of this world? Do you even care if it could possibly jeopardize the balance of life and of this universe?"
Instead of a characteristic outburst, Gendo said nothing, so Fuyutsuki decided to tone down his voice.
"I'm sorry," he said. "This is the only way for me to save you from your madness, to bring you back to reality."
"What else?" Gendo asked, apparently wishing to change the subject.
"Let's be frank for the first time," Fuyutsuki said. "It's just you and me now."
Gendo nodded.
In a seemingly sympathetic tone, Fuyutsuki said, "I haven't asked you about this for a very long time, but what made you decide to pursue Metabiology?"
The elder Ikari took a breath, and answered, "In the beginning, I had no interest in anything else, except trying to escape the mediocrity of family life."
And so he began to tell his untold story.
Back in the early 1980s, in the days when Japan rode on its economic success, with the bubble burst unforeseen and still far away, Gendo was the only son between a father who worked late and sometimes came home drunk, and a mother who kept on being faithful despite some nights when they bickered and she had to suffer the blows.
Yes, he could still remember the miasma of his father's alcoholic breath, the old man degenerating into a spiral of alcoholism, finding empty bottles in drawers, wastebaskets, the kitchen sink and even in the miniscule bathtub.
The old man was obsessed at trying to work hard, even to the point of dressing up with painstaking detail, but intentionally forgetting that he had a family to give more time. As Gendo grew up, he realized that his father married his mother out of convenience, that is, just to make her pay attention to his needs as he went to and came back from work: serve him beer, wash and iron his clothes, fix his bed, and even give him a blowjob without intercourse.
Yes, she did all of that, and then the occasional flare-up of domestic violence, their shouting filling up the house (and never a home) that Gendo, sickened by the chaos of flying pans and shattering dishes, obliged himself to escape through the door without them paying attention, and wander in the streets until everything was settled by the time he came back at two in the morning.
Alone on the streets, Gendo would find himself picking fights with other rival gangs, closed-fist white-knuckle battles, with him earning cuts and bruises, but sometimes he would lose in skirmishes and would be left lying unconscious on the concrete, but only Gendo had the animal brutality that instilled fear and respect among those who came across his path.
But violence and being feared weren't the only things that consisted of Gendo's personality, for instead of resorting to truancy, and to wean himself away from dysfunctional family life, he paid more time studying without needing anyone's help; at the local library he found himself buried in books until closing time, or hanging around at the bookstore, browsing every tome for anything that might be of interest for him.
Until Gendo came across a bunch of books concerning about ancient secrets and supposed secret societies, cabals who possessed absolute power to manipulate and shape the destinies of nations; the books painted pictures of secretive men presiding over councils, discussing and deciding the fate of any individual, group, society, even whole governments and militaries, twisting all of them according to their needs like sheep being herded to anywhere they wished.
Tantalized with the possibility of wielding unthinkable power, the books gave him an idea: Why I can't be somebody? Why I can't forge my own destiny?
"That was what I told myself," Gendo said, his hand placed over a tattered paperback Japanese copy of Holy Blood, Holy Grail. "That was when I began to search something that I can use, in order to show the world what I could do to utterly change it, the idea of power in my hands."
A guard had already carted in one of several boxes consisting of Gendo's personal papers and books, all of which became the basis of his personal drive to seize Instrumentality. On the table there was now a pot of steaming green tea, two small cups, and a pack of cigarettes, a lighter and an ashtray.
"Even if possessing that power means you tampering with the fabric of time and space?" Fuyutsuki asked, his hand cradling a cup full of tea.
Gendo nodded before he leaned forward.
"When the history of man comes to an end," he said. "I'm supposed to act as a savior from God… Yet, I don't need His salvation but I seek vengeance upon that deity, nor I wish to be reborn as His child."
"You wanted to be a demigod?"
"No," Gendo disagreed. "I want to become God; I want myself to replace God so that I will never lose anything again."
Fuyutsuki looked unconcerned. "It makes sense that you decided to become a geneticist."
"Exactly, for through the manipulation of genes there is greater power inherent in such an act than launching nuclear weapons; ultimate power is thus found in creation than destruction."
"You mean the power over life and death, and the possibility of conquering death?"
"That was what I sought for, the mythical Tree of Life, but then Lorenz had the means to make that possible."
Fuyutsuki took a sip of his tea, and then asked, "Is that why you decided to find Yui?"
"Yes," he said. "Her father had access to Lorenz."
"How did you know much about her?"
"The Dossiers Secrets provided me the answer, and from there I found a way to insinuate myself into the power structure."
The Dossiers Secrets, or more precisely Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau or Secret Files of Henri Lobineau, was a 27-page document compiled by Philippe Toscan du Plantier and deposited in the Bibliotheque nationale de France in the 1960s. Despite questionable authenticity, the document attempted to prove that the Plantards and the Saint-Clairs were the legitimate royal blood of France, and thus included genealogy diagrams to link the family back to Dagobert II, the Merovinginan king of France.*
While researching on the Internet, Gendo discovered scanned copies of the Dossiers, and then perused the translations to know where to find. To his surprise, he found that the eldest scion of the prominent Saint-Clair family had married a Japanese national, and produced a daughter named Yui. Gendo went about tracing the whereabouts of this young woman, and conveniently she was studying in Kyoto University.
Naturally, Gendo decided to wait for an opportunity, and then one day he found Yui struggling with the vending machine, trying to get her drink out. He offered help, took out the can and gave it to her, before introducing himself.
Despite his questionable, dangerous reputation, Gendo was personally astounded that a sophisticated, blue-blooded woman like Yui would fall for him, but even then he had to go through her gauntlet by coming clean, forswearing street brawling and drinking and turning his energies to further study, himself a ferocious beast tamed by a beautiful nymph.
Later, upon his graduation he found himself approached by one of Keel's representatives, offered him a lucrative job on the spot, and accepted it. Again, he was impressed by Yui's capacity to pull strings for his benefit.
From there, and as a geneticist, Gendo had to make a good impression on Keel, doing his best to integrate himself into the SEELE power structure on a step-by-step basis, until he came far into the nomenclature that sooon he came face to face with the enigmatic man who had the world in his pocket.
Inside the observation room, Shinji and Hamamoto were eating ramen as they watched and listened to the conversation at the other side of the one-way mirror.
"Definitely your father had planned all of this from the beginning," Hamamoto said as he put down his bowl on the table.
Shinji nodded as he slurped the noodles, but then noticed the video camera mounted on a tripod. "Sir, is that camera running?"
"Yes," Hamamoto said. "Everything he says will be used as evidence."
"I never thought he began all of this from an idea," Shinji said. "Heck, I haven't even met my grandparents."
Hamamoto sighed. "I personally checked your father's background, and from what I remember, regrettably both of his parents are now dead."
Shinji set down his now-empty bowl on the table. "I certainly wouldn't last long if I were in his place."
"I think you're lucky he wasn't your role model, and probably never will," Hamamoto said. "Living in a dysfunctional family can either make or break a man, to build character into a hero or create a monster. You see, in your father's case, he was trying to find an identity for himself, he wanted to run away, to turn a new leaf… except he was also driven by ambition, wanting to become what he couldn't be."
Shinji shrugged. "I simply wanted to live a normal life."
"Good," Hamamoto agreed. "Are you ambitious?"
"No, I'm not, sir."
"Then I hope you'll live a better life after this."
"What about you?" Shinji asked.
"Me?" Hamamoto replied. "When this is over, I'm retiring for good, and I mean, my doctor said that I have to check on my stress levels."
"You mean you're becoming tired?"
Hamamoto shook his head. "No, not like that, son," he said. "If I push myself too hard I could suffer myself a coronary or something, as I'm still trying to cut down my intake, like watching what I eat, drink or smoke."
"But, sir, you still look fine."
The older man looked up at the glass. "Tomorrow… I don't know what's going to happen to me, or to my family, or to all of us. Even with our best planning and preparations, anything can happen. We could win the day or lose altogether."
"Like being killed."
Hamamoto looked thoughtful. "This morning," he said. "I thought about my life and what fate I could be meeting soon. I've seen everything; I lived a life that I tried my best to make it worthwhile, all the while I fought my little wars, losing some, winning some, and yes, I've grown damn old enough that I don't think death should be feared."
"I see," Shinji said.
"Son," Hamamoto said. "The great beauty of life is that only if you're not ambitious or afraid or greedy or vain or having any of those defects of the material world, you realize that simplicity makes mortal life more meaningful while we exist on this planet. You have friends not because you have riches or power or strength, but because you seek companionship, warmth and trust, and that you prove your friendship by returning them with an equal favor."
Shinji nodded.
"Another thing I'd like to ask."
"Sure, why not, sir?"
"You're steady with Asuka now?"
The young man chuckled. "Yes."
Hamamoto grinned. "You two study hard till you finish getting your degrees, and then get hitched and create a family. You certainly don't want to be like your old man."
"Nope, I'm not going to be."
"In case I die before we win," Hamamoto said. "You have the power to begin a new age, and tell the world that they should never forget this accursed folly of madmen, as a burning reminder to rebuild humanity and create a paradise on earth without the sins and cruelty of the past… without want, malice, fear, or hunger."
"But everyone can't depend on me," Shinji said. "I'm just a boy."
"Yeah, son, and I know you're not a god, except only after this," Hamamoto said. "You and Asuka, and your friends, or for that matter, your generation and the next, will have to start from scratch, without shitty self-destruction. However, all of that will not be possible unless if you, the Married Couple, must first win tomorrow's damned battle."
"…and so in order to pursue your agenda, you decided to sell yourself out to Keel, right?" Fuyutsuki questioned.
"I have to," Gendo answered. "He has the means, for after all he discovered the power that created life on this world. So I helped him unlock the mysteries to Adam, and whatever I found indelibly were linked to ancient texts that they kept for centuries, confirming those secrets as real than mythical."
"That explains why, in trying to bring back Yui, you decided to take Keel's plans and make them your own."
Gendo stared at Fuyutsuki right in the eye and said, "I say again, I never wanted to lose and I want her back. Instrumentality is the only way to make it possible."
Fuyutsuki shook his head. "Lorenz used us all for his ends, sold us out, and tomorrow he'll make his promise true."
"He said that?"
"Yes, and he shall bring Instrumentality right on our doorstep, which is why we're preparing for the worst, and if possible, stop him."
Gendo looked down and stared at his bandaged hand. "The initiative should have been mine…" He then looked up to Fuyutsuki and shouted, "WHERE'S ADAM?"
The elder Ikari slammed his right fist on the table, and the sudden outburst provoked the guards to step forward quickly, ready to grab Gendo. But their charge never rose from his seat, and seeing this, Fuyutsuki raised his hand, telling them to stand down.
It's OK, everything's under control.
"That creature has now been kept safe from you," Fuyutsuki said coolly, surprisingly unfazed by Gendo's explosion of anger, watching the guards step back and resume their positions.
Ikari was breathing heavily through his clenched teeth. "What?"
"You have to restrain yourself. Whether it's you or Lorenz, either both of you could hasten the end of human existence as we know it."
"I don't care. I want Yui back."
"But… Does bringing her back would make you or her happy, at the price of sacrificing humanity? Would it make your life more meaningful?"
Gendo said nothing, looking sullen without having anything to contradict.
"If I were you, I would've accepted her fate a long time ago, and move on with life."
"I just can't. She's the only one that matters much for me, even if I have to fight against the world."
Again, Fuyutsuki shook his head, finding Gendo's stubbornness a hard, brick wall where any attempts at persuasion ended in futility of hurled water-filled balloons exploding on that wall.
This now meant changing to a different tack.
"Yui isn't here anymore in this plane of existence, but Shinji is the only family you have right now," he said.
Gendo looked away, as if to ignore the former professor, before he slowly buried his face upon open palms.
"When I'm with Shinji, I only hurt him," he said in a bitter tone, almost a whisper but trying to make his words heard just enough for Fuyutsuki to hear. "So, for me now… it's better that I do nothing."
There was a moment of silence between the two men, before Fuyutsuki, for the first time in years since he left the waterfront slums at Gendo's behest, reached out for the pack of cigarettes and the lighter, shook out a stick and lit up. Trying to remember how to inhale, on the first puff he coughed loudly, prompting the guards to come to assist him, thinking that he could collapse from asphyxiation, but he waved them off as he got the routine right even as he was seeing stars.
"You want to smoke?" Fuyutsuki offered after a minute, pushing the pack and lighter across the table.
Gendo didn't move for a second or two, and then begrudgingly he turned around, tapped the pack for a stick and put the tip to the butane flame.
Soon the room was filled with wisps of smoke.
"What changed your mind?" Fuyutsuki asked, as he carefully puffed.
"I'm afraid of him," Gendo admitted, referring to Shinji.
"I'm not worthy of love because… I don't believe that I can be loved by others."
"Except you gave everything for Yui?"
The elder Ikari sighed. "Yes. She was what I cared for… she had everything that I didn't have, but no, not her wealth."
"You craved for her affection?"
Gendo nodded.
"It's understandable now, as you've said your parents gave you nothing but misery."
"From what I heard, your son wanted your affection, attention… everything just to make him feel happy as if he's like any other kid in the world, with caring parents. But you decided not to, so all the time you shut away your heart."
Fuyutsuki pulled a drag, and added, "Instead we became his surrogate parents and siblings. We tried our best to provide him a substitute in your absence, but I understand he wanted you to be his only father."
"It's too late," Gendo said tersely. "I'll die anyway."
"No, it's never. Not while you're still living."
The old man decided that figuratively he'll have to transport both of them back to Kyoto, and so he took on a professorial tone.
"Listen to me," he said. "You'll always be my student, so you still have a chance to learn again."
Gendo said nothing.
"I teach everyone and grade them all," the old man said, snuffing out the cigarette into the ashtray. "I tried my best, but should they fail, I give them a fair chance by making up at the next semester, even if they repeat the course all over again."
"Why are you saying this?"
"I am not a god," Fuyutsuki said as he poured himself another cup of tea. "I'm just a fallible human being who understands how much it takes for someone to redeem himself. So, which is greater, a man born pure and holy, or a man who takes the hardest effort to cleanse himself of sin, to wean himself away from his dark upbringing and into enlightenment? Think about it."
Fuyutsuki then drank, before standing up from his seat.
"I'll give you a few minutes to reflect," he said, but paused and added, "Also… do you wish to talk to your son?"
Meanwhile, in the synchro test facility, Ritsuko was standing right behind her workstation, which was at the moment connected directly to the MAGI. Outside the control room, she could see Kaworu's Entry Plug, half-immersed in coolant, and the top of the Plug had hundreds of cables and hoses connected.
Below the surface of the coolant pool was one of three remaining simulation bodies that managed to escape unscathed by a microbial Angel attack months before, as they were stored separately at the time. The simulation bodies themselves were leftovers from early attempts at creating the Evas; biologically they resemble and function like the real thing, except they were all headless and limbless.
Standing besides her was Asuka, watching everything intently. She was hoping to learn much from Kaworu, as she hasn't seen him practice in the simulator.
Not far from them was Misato, sitting on a chair, right behind Maya, who was busy readjusting the system parameters; Rei likewise was sitting alongside the older woman, nursing her cup of tea and watching quietly.
There were also a dozen more technicians in the control room, all making final adjustments; their fingers clacking on the keyboards, eyes alternately looking down at the pool below and going back to their monitors.
On one of the displays providing a video feed from the Plug interior, Kaworu was clad in his black-and-blue Plug Suit, calmly sitting in the cockpit, breathing in the fresh infusion of oxygen in LCL that filled up the inside three minutes ago.
"Okay," Ritsuko said into the microphone. "Listen up."
Kaworu nodded.
"For now, you'll have to undergo a harmonics test, which means that we have to establish a initial baseline datum for an hour or so before you, Shinji and Asuka have to dance together on the floor."
"Sorry," Ritsuko apologized before she chuckled. "I mean, you'll go up against two of them, and that's when we'll start recording your combat data, and then use the data to create nine simulacrums of those MPs."
"I see," Kaworu said. "What about the data last time?"
Ritsuko shook her head. "Nope, I don't think they'll apply. Instead we'll have to make you go through a fine comb this time, with more data points to build up a clear and accurate picture of your fighting capacity so that the MAGI can use all of this to construct a near-exact replica of the Dummy Plug."
"What about you?"
"While you sit right there, we'll have to code the whole recording program from scratch, which should be able to obtain your brain waves while all three of you go through the practice session, mano-a-mano. By the way, for the dress rehearsal, we'll be using the initial build data from Unit Four, which was supposed to be your assigned Eva."
"Yes," Kaworu said. "And… How long that rehearsal would take?"
"Asides from sparring," Ritsuko said. "All three of you will also have to do some serious target practice with simulated Angels, which would take anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour, with five to ten minutes per round, and three minutes for a breather after five rounds. I'll have to throw every possible battle scenario that should be able to stimulate your brain hard enough and generate lots of neural activity. As if it's not enough, I'll set the enemy AI difficulty at the highest possible level. Is that clear?"
"Roger," Kaworu agreed as he softly tugged the butterfly controls and squirmed a bit in his seat for comfort.
"Only then you'll spar against that married couple, nine against two… Any further questions?"
Kaworu shook his head. "No."
"Okay, then," Ritsuko said, "Let's get started."
Shinji walked into the interrogation room, uncertainty and discomfort marked on the young man's face, as he was shivering inside, but steeling himself to prepare for their very first conversation since his father's arrest and detention.
The young man then sat down on the empty folding chair, facing Gendo, the former Commander looking glum and bitter.
Now father and son were trying to find the right words to initiate the exchange. The old man could also feel the tension in the air, and then Gendo was the first to speak.
"I've must failed, right?" he said, speaking in a low voice.
Shinji blinked. "What?"
"You don't want to follow me, but otherwise you get going by listening to someone else other than me," Gendo answered. "Words that trigger your impulses to fight on their behalf, like 'I beg you', 'pilot it', 'I believe in you'…"
There was a three-word sentence that made Gendo pause for a moment, and Shinji noticed the older man's discomfiture, before saying with his willpower, "…and 'I love you'."
Deciding that picking up the bat and stepping up to the batting plate was better than warming the bench throughout the whole game in the dugout, Shinji said, "What's wrong with me fighting for them?"
Gendo sighed.
"I can't bring myself to love you as a son," he bitterly said. "Never felt love in my whole life."
"But what about Mother?" Shinji asked. "I thought you—"
"From the moment you came into this wretched world," Gendo said, interrupting, "your mother's affection for you made me jealous."
Shinji frowned. "What?"
Gendo leaned over the table, his eyes staring right at Shinji's, as if he wanted to make it damn clear and focused for him to understand the loss and the pain he had bottled up for years.
"Your mother was my salvation," Gendo said. "She was my support, my hope, the only person whom I can connect with after all the time I was denied affection but given hatred, chaos and pain, all the while I was then crawling on my knees in the darkness, so she's the only one I was able to thank God for that one piece of mercy given to me.
"I married her because… not because she was connected to SEELE and gave me everything I wanted, but yes, she also pulled me out of the quagmire of hell that was my old life."
Shinji was silent but listening, never taking his eyes off.
"Yet in a blink of the eye," Gendo went on, "she was taken away. Snuffed like a candle, which left me cursing God and asking why He had to give, but also to take away. So why? Why does He keep on doing this, the carrot-and-stick act? Is this a punishment for all mankind? Are we nothing but ants to be stepped on at His cruel leisure?"
"If I remember, we were taught that we came from dust, and soon will return to it," Shinji said, dimly recalling the words of a village priest not so long ago before coming to Tokyo-3.
"Nothing is permanent," Gendo said. "Everything in this world can be taken away. Soon Keel will have his victory and all mankind will be destroyed. That is why I have undertaken to create and build up this project, to seize that power to decide life and death, to beat God at His game."
Shinji shook his head.
"But I'm here," Gendo said. "I've lost that game. You're supposed to avenge your mother for me, to fight God, and yet—"
"God has nothing to do with this," Shinji said, cutting him off. "It began with a man, and so with this disaster coming tomorrow to destroy everything, we as humans will also have to stop it, right here."
"Keel is relentless," Gendo said, "which is why you have Unit One to control."
"I know."
"You should be able to comprehend why I created Project E, and at the same time my feelings. You'll pilot soon, but I have no hope for this world, and I still have my contempt for it."
A moment of silence settled on both father and son, letting the words sink in.
"Father," Shinji said.
"I've learned many things," the young man said. "Kaworu was a good teacher to me, making me able to accept for what I am in this world, my purpose, and my reasons for living, and therefore I was also able to love myself, and to invest in hope."
Gendo said as if wounded. "Why do you have to put much of your faith in that Angel?"
"In the same way he was able to place his trust in humanity, rather than destroying them as he was supposed to do."
The older Ikari bitterly laughed. "Absurd," he chided. "He played you around like a fool. Even demons can quote the Bible if they wish to."
"I'm not bullshitting this," Shinji objected without humor. "What love he felt for Rei was real. Out of this love he chose to disobey Lorenz because of the hope he found in people, people who wish for a better world to live in than to escape from it."
"He could still betray you at the last minute," Gendo said, trying to contradict him.
"Kaworu was very sincere even to the point I almost killed him," Shinji said with conviction and clarity. "Now he willed himself to join the battle alongside us on our behalf, because I believe that unlike before he'll want humanity be given a fighting chance, and we have suffered enough for too long."
Internally, Gendo was shocked at Shinji's mature firmness and choice of words, something that he had not seen in him in years, leaving him to wonder if he had truly grown up, more than ever he could imagine.
"I understood my purpose in this world, and so you must," Shinji went on. "I'm not the son you used to look down. I used to hate myself, and think of running away; sometimes I wished to die just because I'm weak inside. I never wanted this being involved here and then, to pilot Eva, but now I have a reason to change, to think about life and its beauty all the while making it worthwhile."
"I want to live and to love, because there's more to life than just Eva," Shinji said. "That'll be my reason to fight and defeat not God but a lunatic's delusion. Now if you really love Mother, if you want to take a stand, then I'm sure she'll love you more if you could just…"
Gendo can only stare at Shinji with distraught eyes, eyes that once used to be hidden behind amber, those eyes that were once cold, harsh and unforgiving, and even able to pass cruel judgment without a word.
For a second, Shinji hesitated as if to taste the words before speaking them out, with his eyes expressing a pleading need:
"Father, you have to learn how to let go."
As Kaworu silently sat in the Entry Plug, getting his harmonics checked over through the data acquisition phase, and while Misato and Ritsuko were talking over coffee, discussing about how to create a mock-up version of the Mass-Production Evas, Rei and Asuka were conversing about the confrontation at the holographic communications room.
"I expected a James Bond villain," Asuka said. "But… I don't know, except he's more like Doctor Evil."
"Who are they?" Rei asked.
"Oops, sorry," Asuka apologized. "I didn't know you're hardly into movies or pop culture, but simply put, James Bond is a fictional British spy who's called in to save the world from a bunch of baddies, while Doctor Evil is a villain from a movie called Austin Powers, and… if my memory serves me right, Doctor Evil was based on a Bond arch-enemy named Blofeld."
Rei nodded. "I see."
"Anyway, he looks damn old, as if he really saw the last world war, fought in it, and even now he still keeps himself standing even at that age without having to rely on a crutch. You think it's a bit odd?"
Rei shrugged. "I did not notice anything out of the ordinary."
"Must be that, given the amount of influence he wields, Lorenz probably had an alloy spine stuck into him, and with the visor he's wearing, more likely Lorenz is a cyborg, which may explain why he's into the Instrumentality Project."
"It makes sense for him trying to seek out immortality," Rei said. "But at what price? If his manner of speech and how he expresses himself were to be gauged, then I suppose that he is clearly bent on accomplishing what he truly wants."
"Sounds more like Shinji's father," Asuka said, "except the old fart is definitely a plutocrat, so if he can't rule over mortals in the physical world, why not rule in eternity, like 'better reign in hell than serve in heaven'?"
"Who said that?"
Asuka looked up, as though she was thinking. "John Milton. The phrase came from Paradise Lost, and I heard it once in an English lecture back in college."
Rei nodded. "I see."
"In that phrase, there are those who feel they rather be in control, masters of everything no matter they'll do good or harm, than to be chafed and bound by rules imposed by a supposed omnipotent being who doesn't exist in the physical world; they prefer to rewrite everything to their whim, their rules or just plain anarchy."
"Yes, to be a demigod, if not God itself," Rei said. "It is an ultimate form of egomania and selfishness, hence very dangerous."
"Rules and laws exist because humanity is supposed to be on top of the food chain, and he should be bound by the difference between right and wrong, to differentiate himself from animals, and yet the more rules and laws are written and imposed, the more people choose to disregard them because they feel that too many laws makes their lives complicated and restrained; for those folks they would rather make profit and put the food on the dinner table."
"Laws were created to bring order from chaos," Rei said, "but never to cause burden. Yet through Instrumentality, it has become the intent of Lorenz to destroy God, by simplifying everything back to chaos, and thus promote devolution."
"Simply put," Asuka replied. "He's fucking power-mad that he thinks we should go down onto our knees and drink his Jonestown Kool-Aid, that is, hara-kiri with fruit punch."
His father still not uttering a word since Shinji told him to let go, so the young man rose from his seat, as if being moved to urgency.
"I'm sorry, but I'm supposed to leave now," Shinji said. "We need to do a lot of practice."
"Practice?" Gendo asked, thus breaking his self-imposed silence.
"Yeah, we have to learn how to fight off Lorenz's army, which includes those fake Evas they could launch against us, the Mass-Production types, as Kaworu and Doctor Akagi told us about. They're supposed to be more advanced than anything we have here, but those Evas should have a weak spot or two… and I don't think I'll look at this as easy."
Shinji looked at the wall clock, and thought, Still a few minutes to spare. He then sat down again.
Gendo blinked. "I thought you're leaving?"
"Not yet," Shinji said. "Just a question about Mom… I still wonder why she fell for you back then, despite your personality."
The elder Ikari frowned, apparently uncomfortable with the question aimed at him as he racked his brain for an answer.
I was an animal back then, a beast who longed to reach for the stars, Gendo thought. I was feared, hardly liked, never loved…
"I don't know," Gendo answered, distraught and unable to fathom any further. "I should have asked her a long time ago. Maybe she saw something in me that I couldn't understand."
"Or she should've told you the truth," Shinji said. "Mom fell in love with you for a very good reason."
"And what is it?" Gendo sounded skeptical.
"Since you said you had next to nothing, maybe Mom thought she saw the good inside your heart, and thus still worth saving as you were trying to swim but drowning instead, even if she might have been told everything to the contrary, like she didn't gave a damn but for you."
Shinji then stood up. "Call me wrong or naive," he said, "but there's enough time left to change your mind. Whatever crap you have done in the past, you're still my father."
The elder Ikari was instantly struck by those words. His arms suddenly sagged to the sides.
"But… You hate me," Gendo said in a pained tone, as if trying to punish himself. "Ritsuko hates me… everyone hates me. I am terrible, a monster!"
There was a momentary stillness as the last word echoed in their minds.
"No," Shinji disagreed calmly, head shaking. "Not this time, for I finally heard much about your story, knew the truth and everything fell into place. So I'm not running away from this, nor I'm closing my heart – soon I have to stand on this ground even if I could die trying."
Gendo sighed as he hung his head in dejection.
"You can go now," the older man said, voice almost cracking, cradling his face with palms, but not seeing Shinji walking up to the door.
"Thank you, Father," Shinji said, looking back but with a small, beatific smile. "I hope you'll understand this time as much as I did."
Once Shinji walked out of the room and closed the door, for the first time in years since twelve and brooding in his bedroom, the older Ikari was shedding tears for real, sobbing like a child now, as he didn't expect his son to be completely changed… and eloquent.
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*in this manuscript, the origins and content of the controversial Dossiers Secret were slightly altered for the fictional storyline. For more information, you can search it but caveat emptor, what you get might give you a mixed reaction.
Peeps… Forgive me for being this damn late, as it took me months since the last upload, thinking about writing this, looking for ideas on how to open this chapter, visualizing it, and in between complete disruptions and distractions (it ain't fun writing when being disrupted several times in a day when you actually wanted enough quiet time to think about prose before committing them to the drive), gone through several revisions while trying not to go overboard.
Until a friend posted this on Facebook about three weeks ago:
"I have this feeling of dread that all the characters in my unfinished stories, all these characters I breathed life into but whose stories I never finished, they will one day come out to get me. So I must finish this one story. I must finish her story. So I would have at least one ally when the time comes that all my little darlings come out to kill me."
That kicker got me off my ass, and now, this is it and I've done Numero 47, helped along with several albums worth of Two Steps from Hell.
As usual, comments and criticisms are welcome, and I'll try to answer them if possible.
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When Elaine Sands auditions as a singer for the Wind River Band, her wildest dreams seem to be coming true. But soon it is clear that someone is out to ruin her success. During her first night on stage, Elaine barely escapes receiving a fatal electrical shock. Threatening phone calls suggest she has become the target of some obsessed fan. Yet Elaine notes undercurrents of resentment directed at Rex Tobin, handsome singer and part owner of Craft Music Productions. Rex, not Elaine, might be the actual target. Elaine is shattered when she finds out Rex has a reason to want her out of the way-and may have hired her for the sole purpose of staging her death. What started out as a once-in-a-lifetime adventure suddenly becomes a tour of fear.
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Real Image Media Technologies heralds the coming of a new technological revolution in the film industry with the installation of Qube XP hi-def Digital Cinema Servers at all four theatres in Chennais Abirami Complex, making it the first cinema complex in India to go completely digital.
The Qube Cinema Server, completely conceptualized and developed by Real Image Media Technologies, is highly versatile in handling picture and sound. Designed to be format independent and future proof, it is upgradeable to support new formats that might emerge across the world. Each theatre equipped with the Qube Cinema Server has the capability to offer audiences high quality, high definition digital cinema with rock steady picture, even illumination, unsurpassed 6-track digital sound and the absence of any scratches, even on the 100th day of screening, making it the ultimate experience in movie viewing.
With the Tamil New Year fast approaching this April 14th, audiences in Tamil Nadu will also have the satisfaction of viewing movies digitally when 30 theatres across the state will be equipped with Qube Cinema Servers and 3-chip DPL digital projectors. This will mean digital projection of the latest movie releases at several cinema halls within Chennai and at other locations in the state.
The first Indian technology company in the media space to go truly global, Real Image has won rave reviews across the globe for the path-breaking digital technology that is Qube. The Qube Cinema system has also recently been chosen to steer a Digital Cinema Network in Portugal, operated by the Institute of Cinema and Multimedia (ICAM), under the Ministry of Culture.
The inauguration of the 20-cinema network took place on Feb 17 at Lusomundo Cinema in Lisbon with a digital presentation of a Portuguese film. The Secretary of State for Culture, Government of Portugal and other officials of the Ministry, Mayors of several Portuguese cities along with filmmakers in the country presided over the event. Theatres equipped with the Qube Cinema Player will be networked to receive feature films and other content digitally using Real Images unique QubeCentral control and monitoring system.
For a company that is all set to go places with its path-breaking digital cinema technology, this achievement comes as no surprise. It was in May 2004 that Real Image was invited to present a demonstration of the Qube technology for a European digital cinema evaluation at Berlin, Germany, and was adjudged amongst the top two digital cinema servers against 14 such competitors worldwide.
In November 2004, the CEO of Intel, Craig Barrett, during his visit to Delhi to address the industry on his perspective of the country and where it stood among other nations in terms of technology, commended the potential of Qube Cinema. In his presentation, the Intel CEO showcased the Qube Cinema Server, highlighting how an Indian company in the digital arena had innovatively used technology. He discussed the potential the Qube Cinema system had to transform the cinema industry worldwide.
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He could offer nothing but his role as a glorified cheerleader. Yet for some reason, Florida coach Ron Zook let the injured senior travel for road games. For some reason, his teammates wouldn't have it any other way.
"That tells you something," said Zook, who used a roster spot just so Dixon could root his team on. "He's an important part of this team – whether he's playing or not."
Sure, he was a leader. But now, he's back to being a player.
Despite a 38-33 loss to Miami, it was Dixon who kept the Gators in the game far longer than anyone expected.
Dixon led the Gators to their most impressive defensive performance under Zook, forcing and recovering a fumble and intercepting a Brock Berlin pass.
The redshirt senior became the perfect poster boy for a defense doubted by so many.
"Last year was hard on me," Dixon said.
Last year wasn't so easy on the Gators, either. A season ago against Miami, Florida gave up 508 yards of offense. Willis McGahee rolled to 306 yards on the ground.
But this year? In the first quarter, the Gators didn't give up an inch of rushing. They gave up just 16 yards of total offense in the first half.
With a new defensive coordinator in Charlie Strong, Florida's defense has made the quarterback controversy step aside. The program known for so long its offense has turn offensive powerhouse has turned into a defensive power.
And it was Dixon who spurred on a slew of impressive performances from cornerbacks Johnny Lamar and Keiwan Ratliff and linebacker Channing Crowder. All produced the big plays Florida has been looking for since Zook arrived.
"We're the backbone of the defense," Dixon said. "They can't score if they don't get through us."
Before the game, defensive end Bobby McCray said it would be "a party in the backfield." For the first half, forget the party. This was New Year's Eve.
Keiwan Raliff picked up a fumbled screen pass and returned it for a touchdown – the third defensive score in two games. (Florida scored just three defensive touchdowns all last season.) Later, Ray McDonald rocked Berlin for a sack. Then, Dixon picked up his fumble and interception.
Keep in mind, the Gators picked up 10 fumbles all season. They ranked 91st in turnover margin at –9. At the end of the third quarter, they were at +4 for the season.
Reminiscent of last year's game against Tennessee, Saturday's success was the result of turnovers. The Volunteers handed over three possessions in the 30-13 upset.
This one was different. It was bigger. After all, Florida was the biggest underdog – 14 ½ points a day before the game – that it's been since 1988.
At the start of the season, it was inexperience that called for the most questions. Saturday, it was a senior who started providing some the answers.


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Melbourne Storm outplayed Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and fully deserved to lift the 2012 NRL premiership trophy, according to Fox Sports NRL commentator Brett Kimmorley.
Let me start with a massive congratulations to Melbourne Storm. They were the better side and deserving winners in 2012. The Storm were clinical in the first half, they dominated field possession and never let up. They had countless sets on Canterbury-Bankstown's line, and to the Dogs' credit, they kept them out for as long as they could. The Storm came into the decider in great form, and that continued in the most important game of the season.
It looked for one stage at 4-4 that the Bulldogs would be able to somehow withstand the Storm's pressure and get into half-time level, but a couple of errors cost them dearly with Billy Slater and Justin O'Neill going over to push the Storm ahead. O'Neill's try right on half-time was a huge turning point. It gave the Storm all the confidence for the second stanza and deflated the Bulldogs.
Melbourne halfback Cooper Cronk was in fine form. His kicking game was on-song as he steered his side around the field really well. The Storm's defence was monumental late in the game when the Dogs mounted their charge. They made some crucial tackles when they needed to and they were definitely deserved winners. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, they weren't able to get into the game. If they had scored late on, it would have set up a grandstand finish. But it wasn't to be for the men in blue and white.


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The news had been in the market last Friday, but more details reported since then pulled share prices lower today. As funds grappled with last year's deadly foe once again, the Hang Seng index retreated 236.83 points or 1.9% to 12,147.11.
Cathay Pacific Airways, which was badly battered by last year's Sars outbreak, dived 40 cents or 2.7% to HK$14.50.
The jitters come at a bad time for Hong Kong. The market, whose interest rate cycle is tied to that of the United States, has been unsettled by speculation that the US Federal Reserve could tighten monetary policy sooner rather than later.
In addition, the China-linked plays that had excited investors for months were pulled back from their bubble-like valuations as investors reappraise prospects and the euphoria fades.
The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, which tracks H-shares, today slumped 177.91 points or 4% to 4,326.03.
Further dampening the mood was widespread speculation that Morgan Stanley may rejig its Asia-wide index, slicing Hong Kong's weighting in favour of other centres. As the benchmark is widely used to gauge fund managers' performances, confirmation of that revamp would be negative for blue-chips in the former British colony.
As investors took note of bearish factors, properties and banks led an across-the-board retreat.
Cheung Kong, the top developer, was clipped by HK$1.50 or 2.4% to HK$60.75, Sun Hung Kai Properties dropped HK$1.75 or 2.5% to HK$78.50, and Henderson Land Development traded at HK$36, weaker by HK$1 or 2.7%.
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Sars lashed Asian markets last year when it appeared for the first time. Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore-bore the brunt of the selldownas scientists struggled to get a handle on the bug that left more than 800 dead worldwide.
The new China outbreak appears to have originated from a laboratory that studies the disease. A similar incident in Singapore last year rattled markets there briefly but the threat was rapidly contained.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) played down the latest scare. 'In the next week or so, there may be a few more new cases but right now we don't see any new chains of transmission,' a spokesman told reporters.
Four new suspected cases were reported in Beijing. They come after two confirmed cases were reported last week and one suspected Sars death.
As the China bubble continued to deflate, investors took to their heels. Phone group China Unicom, dived 40 cents or 5.9% toHK$6.40, while the Aluminium Corp of China slumped 25 cents or 4.6% to HK$5.25.
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Esta é uma bela família orientada casa no 5. 5 acres privado. 20 x 40 em terreno piscina com slide. pátio .Large com área de deck da piscina com vista para tier 2. Acomoda 8 pessoas em 3 quartos. 2 quartos têm camas queen size eo outro tem 2 futons dobra para baixo com 60 polegadas na parede tv com tempo warner cabo e DVD player. Casa de banho completa com banheira e chuveiro. Porão com máquina de lavar roupa, mesa / piscina e mesa de ping pong. Cozinha totalmente equipada. Lareira, a / c, TV de tela plana com Direct TV e DVD player. Todos os linhos incluído. Você traga toalhas de praia / piscina. Abundância de estacionamento. Curta distância de Bolton Landing e 15 minutos para Lake George aldeia.
1) Owners communication was specific, timely and helpful.
2) Owners met us at check in and were very welcoming.
3) If you like cooking, there is a fully equipped kitchen that includes every possible item that you'd need,,,including Pampered Chef utensils! But for those of us that don't cook - there is a pizza place in town that delivers!
4) Outside eating and seating for your family and guests on a beautiful multi level deck with many many options for seating.
5) Basement is stocked with games that the kids loved.
6) Secluded,,,yet close to town. The perfect combo.
7) Trust me on this, the photos don't do the home justice...and I like that. You will have a WOW factor when you arrive.
8) I wish I had a washer/dryer as nice as the ones at this vacation house!
9) Bolton Landing has a Stewarts and full size Grocery store to pick up items. You can pack lightly; bring your beach towels and you are set to go!
Wonderful family vacation. From ages 2 to 72, the house AND pool met all our needs. House was immaculate and owner couldn't have been nicer. Very well equipped.
So glad there was AC. I would highly recommend this property!!
House was great! Truely wonderful time. We had 4 adults and 3 teenagers. House is a lot nicer and bigger than pictures. Clean, comfortable beds, full kitchen, nice living room sectional. Pool awesome! Nice patio furniture with closed in gazebo and cushioned lounge chairs made us just want to stay there all summer. Relaxing by fire pit every night was a dream. Location was fantastic. Bolton landing is far enough away from everything if you want peace and quiet but close enough to everything for a short drive. Bolton village very nice beach on Lake ,good restaurants or just going out to get ice cream. Plenty things to do in the area. Robin the owner goes out of her way to make sure your stay is the best. Would stay here definitely again. Will be back!
This house was wonderful for our family vacation. There was lots of room and everyone loved the pool. We are looking forward to next year.
The pictures do not do justice! Absolutely fantastic, Robin was gracious and helpful. The house was so comfortable and decorated beautifully. All you need is food and your clothes and beach towels. Pool was awesome, the kids were all crying to come back to the pool when they were at the amusement park! We are planning for next year. You can't go wrong at this beautiful home! Thanks Robin, see you next year😀
The owners of this home were wonderful. Robin communicated with you from the time you decided to rent until you left. They also put a great reference guide together of all the hot spots, which came in very handy if you are not familiar with the area. The house is very cozy and equipped with everything. Definitely a home away from home. There is a beautiful big pool in the back and a game room downstairs. The house is about 20 minutes from everything, but set back and secluded for privacy. We were very happy there.
Nossa casa é de 15 minutos do Lago George Village. Há 6 Flags Great Escape, Water Slide World, Magic Forest, Wild West Ranch junto com a abundância de lugares mini-golfe. 25 minutos é The Painted Pony Rodeo. Para aqueles que adoram fazer compras outlet isso também é cerca de 20 minutos na saída 20.
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Jeremy Bamber still waits for the evidence that might clear his nameSimon Hattenstone and Eric AllisonThirty years on, Essex police continue to withhold crucial material related to one of Britain's most infamous criminal cases
The panel How should the UK respond to the crisis in Syria?Alison McGovern and othersAs the carnage in Aleppo continues, our panellists debate if a no-fly zone would work and whether a peace deal can be brokered with Russia and Syria on board
First thoughts Labelling Peter Tatchell as a racist isn't no-platforming. It's just ignoranceArchie BlandAn NUS representative's refusal to share a stage with the gay rights campaigner is her decision – and her loss. Freedom of speech should be for everyone
How brave Muslims are being silencedNick CohenThe most vocal attacks on a group fighting Islamophobic attacks are not racist yobs but friends of the Islamist right
Peter Tatchell and Ellie Cumbo discuss whether a lowering of the age of consent would send the wrong signals to older sexual predators
Peter Tatchell: A book that changed me: The 1971 manifesto expanded my civil rights perspective into a radical critique of heterosexism, male privilege and gender roles
The debate Is Chris Brown's rehabilitation now complete?Andrew Emery and Laura Snapes
The conversation Is Pride today about gay rights or just partying?Interview by Oliver Laughland
Peter Tatchell: Barack Obama's move throws the spotlight back on David Cameron and recent wavering in the Tory ranks on this issue
Nick Cohen: The human and gay rights activist is as indefatigable as ever. We should cherish him
The tyranny of marriageLara PawsonLara Pawson: It conveys gravitas and status, but it's a smug club to which my partner and I no longer want to belong
Gay rights in Africa: now for the good newsPaul CanningPaul Canning: Although times are still hard for gays and lesbians in many African countries, hard-won gains are being made
Matthew Adams: I had high hopes of the gay activist's appearance at Greenbelt Christian festival, but he failed to challenge his audience
Making Pride seriously funTom WickerTom Wicker: Gay pride parades are no longer at the forefront of political change, but that doesn't mean they are just carnivals
Liberty and the state A ludicrous ban that will only comfort bigotsCatherine BennettCatherine Bennett: Suppressing a play exposing homophobia and racism will please only those who hold such vile views
Julian Clary and Peter Tatchell are part of a campaign for a naturists' area at the men's bathing pond on Hampstead Heath, London
Diplomacy's immunityConor Foley
Conor Foley: Peter Tatchell is wrong: calling the cops on Robert Mugabe is a diversion from the real task of combating impunity
Vox pop: Why democracy? Answers from Peter Tatchell, Ariel Levy, Rizwan Ahmed and more.
Vox pop: Why democracy? Answers from Brian Eno, Camila Batmanghelidjh and Peter Tatchell.
Leader: From the suffragettes to the Montgomery bus boycotters, history is littered with characters who kick-start progress by being awkward - and awkwardness is something Peter Tatchell has in spades.
Chained reactionsFrancis Sedgemore
Francis Sedgemore: Talking about his recent experiences in Moscow on the Today programme this morning, Peter Tatchell received a depressingly woolly-headed response.


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Every so often I hear the claim that some service or other has deliberately chosen not to support IPv6, and the reason cited is not because of some technical issue, or some cost or business issue, but simply because the service operator is of the view that IPv6 offers an inferior level service as compared to IPv4, and by offering the service over IPv6 they would be exposing their clients to an inferior level of performance of the service. more»
The Internet is undergoing an evolutionary transformation resulting from the explosive growth of things that are interconnected. From single purpose sensors through wearable technologies to sophisticated computing devices, we are creating, exchanging, and consuming more data at rates that would have been inconceivable just a decade ago. The market suggests the average consumer believes this is the best world possible. As technologists, we have a responsibility to consider if we are building an Internet that is in the best interest of the user. more»
Large-scale IPv6 deployments suggest that IPv6 is at least a technical success, the technology works. Time to visit the other important question: does it work commercially. Does IPv6 really come with a positive business case? We are about to find out, if you help us... The Internet technical community has spent about two decades making IPv6 work on a technical level. We have developed the protocol, modified and expanded a few others; we set up the registry system and distributed the addresses. more»
Four years ago today, thousands of websites, including Facebook, Google and Yahoo, and hundreds of networks permanently enabled IPv6 in what was called "World IPv6 Launch". One year before, on June 6, 2011, there had been a 24-hour test in "World IPv6 Day" but by June 6, 2012, IPv6 was enabled permanently for the participating sites and networks. One of the many IPv6 statistics sites many of us have watched since that time has been Google's statistics. more»
If you are located in Africa or the Asia Pacific region, this coming Tuesday, May 31, is the application deadline for an excellent series of grants related to Internet infrastructure, development, security and education. I just wrote about the Internet Society Cybersecurity Grant for up to $56,000 AUD (roughly $40K USD) in the Asia Pacific region... but it is part of a larger set of grants that all have a deadline of May 31. more»
Those of us who have been working on IPv6 for over 15 years know what it means to be an advocate for an infrastructure technology that cannot be easily tied to new revenue or short-term risks. It is a battle on an icy uphill slope with head winds and a gallery of skeptics who call themselves realists and cheer your every bruise. This has often made us cheer any news of a new IPv6 deployment, as a means to keep faith. However in doing so, it sometimes made us overlook the substance of that news... more»
Is the global, open Internet moving away from a network of networks that is universally accessible to a series of networks fragmented along policy, technical or economic lines? As some governments pass laws related to data localization and restriction of cross-border data flows, what will the impact be? What about the increasing use of DNS and content filtering? What other factors have the potential for causing fragmentation? more»
Yesterday Apple declared that as of June 1 all iOS apps submitted to the AppStore MUST support IPv6-only networking. Back at their June 2015 WWDC event, Apple announced that all iOS 9 applications must support IPv6 - the news this week is reinforcing that requirement... As Apple continues to point out, the vast majority of application developers will not need to do anything to support IPv6. more»
Do you live in the Asia-Pacific region and are interested in accelerating the deployment of key technologies such as IPv6, DNSSEC, TLS or secure routing mechanisms? If so, my Internet Society colleagues involved with the Deploy360 Programme are seeking a "Technical Engagement Manager" based somewhere in the AP region. Find out more information about the position, the requirements and the process for applying. more»
I've already shared my thoughts following a session of the IPv4 Sunset Working Group at IETF 95 that considered whether to declare IPv4 an "Historic" specification. Of course, as one would expect for a meeting of a Standards Development Organization (SDO), that wasn't the only standards process discussion through the week. Another session, this time in the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group, considered the related topic of whether to make the IPv6 specification a full Internet Standard. Let's look at that proposal. more»


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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Three Little Kittens Make Cherry Pie
6 comments :
- Lindsay said...
oo that pie looks super tasty! Love the mini spring form pans!
- January 11, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- Wonder Mom said...
But did you let them eat the pie with their mittens on? :0)
- January 11, 2011 at 8:53 AM
- Raising a Happy Child said...
This pie looks so yummy, and the playdoh extension is rather neat too!
- January 11, 2011 at 12:29 PM
- Wilma Lee said...
wow looks great and yummy. If you like cherry recipes like I do, you can get a free tart cherry recipe book from Traverse Bay Farms
- January 11, 2011 at 4:56 PM
- musicalmary said...
This looks so good.... I have made apple pie playdoh and cranberry playdoh, but cherry sounds like fun, too. I'm visiting you from Childhood 101 and I am your newest follower. I hope you get a chance to visit my blog - I have lots of ideas of things to do with your little ones!
Blessings -
Mary @ Homeschool Success
- January 11, 2011 at 6:15 PM
- Christie - Childhood 101 said...
Oooh, those mini pans are great. I wish we had Koolaid in the stores in Australia!
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Obviously, I mean that the actor Billy Boyd was at the Vancouver Fan Expo and for me, it was the highlight of the weekend so far.


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A mechanic whose van was crushed by a tree almost a year ago has insisted the "eyesore" will stay on his driveway until his housing association pays for its removal.
Tony Tebboth's van was flattened by a 60ft sycamore tree when it came down in the St Jude storm on October 27.
The Ford Transit was written off but the wreckage is still outside the 64-year-old's house in Keswick Road in East Putney, where homes can fetch more than £1 million. Mr Tebboth is in a dispute with his housing association over whose insurers should pay to replace it and is threatening to sue.
He said: "People have been surprised it's still there. Some people may think it's an eyesore... they can't believe how it is being handled. It's outrageous. I just wanted to make an insurance claim but now I have been left with no choice but to take legal action."
Mr Tebboth claims Paragon Community Housing Group should pay for the van to be removed because of its "failure" to cut down the weakened tree, which he had first warned staff was rotting in 2007. He filed a claim to Paragon's insurers, Zurich Insurance, but said his claim was refused because the tree was scheduled to be cut down, making Paragon not liable.
Mr Tebboth, who lives with his wife Gillian and disabled son, is threatening to sue Paragon for negligence and said he wants the van to stand as a reminder to the housing association and its insurers that his claim is not going away.
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Anton Gecas, 76, a retired mining engineer who came to Britain as a refugee in 1948, has been the subject of a Scottish police investigation since the War Crimes Act was passed in 1990, extending jurisdiction for murder to men who were not British at the time the crimes were committed. During the Second World War, he was an officer in a Lithuanian 'police' battalion set up under the Nazi occupation.
The Scottish police team - a small unit under Lothian and Borders force, based in Edinburgh - has completed its case against Mr Gecas, but is relying on 13 former members of his old platoon now living in London and Yorkshire. The Scots believe these 13 men should be given immunity from prosecution.
However, the Scotland Yard War Crimes Unit, which is responsible for investigating suspects living in the rest of Britain, wants to retain the right to prosecute these men as well.
Mr Gecas was found to have committed war crimes by a Scottish civil court earlier this year, after he had sued Scottish Television over a documentary about him in 1987. The issue came to a head this week, because until Thursday it was still possible that Mr Gecas would appeal against the verdict of the libel trial. He did not and is now out of time.
The issue will be discussed at a meeting in London next Thursday of the two forces, together with representatives of the English Crown Prosecution Service, and the Scottish Crown Office.
The Scots are expected to argue that unless they are granted immunity, the 13 witnesses will say they cannot remember in any detail events which took place 50 years ago, and that their crimes were less heinous, because they were privates while Mr Gecas was a lieutenant.
Before and during the libel trial there had been doubts over the reliability of elderly Lithuanian witnesses, some in poor health, who had diluted their allegations against Mr Gecas since making them on camera in 1987, before Lithuanian independence. He had claimed the evidence was a conspiracy against him, the result of KGB pressure on witnesses.
But the trial judge, Lord Milligan, found the case against Mr Gecas overwhelmingly proved. In his judgment, delivered in Edinburgh on 17 July after a long libel trial including evidence from witnesses in Lithuania, Lord Milligan said he was 'clearly satisfied' that Mr Gecas had 'participated in many operations involving killing of innocent Soviet citizens, including Jews, in particular in Belarus during the last three months of 1941, and had committed in addition war crimes against Soviet citizens including old men, women and children'.
He also found it proved 'Gecas was platoon commander of the 12 Auxiliary Police Battalion and that the platoon participated specifically in six operations. It inevitably follows that (Gecas) committed war crimes against innocent civilians of all ages and both sexes in the course of those operations'.
Mr Gecas accepted that he joined the battalion in 1941, stayed with it as a lieutenant when it went with the Germans to Belarus, then after 1943 wore a German uniform and went to fight in Italy. (Later he switched sides along with the rest of his platoon and joined Free Polish forces fighting for the Allies, and was decorated for bravery. Many of his comrades later settled in Britain.)
But if Jews were rounded up and killed in tens of thousands by Lithuanians, as historians and contemporary documents produced in court said, Mr Gecas said he had no knowledge. If his battalion took part in killings, he maintained, his platoon was always elsewhere at the time.Reuse content


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THE Eagles only have 8 picks. That said, I'm aware that they can't use a pick on every one of these positions. This is just an overview of where those picks would best serve them. The needs are in bold.
DE: Regardless of whether they're running a 3-4 or 4-3 this year, the idea is that they're transitioning to a 3-4, which means they have to build for it. Aside from possibly Cox we don't have any 3-4 ends at all. We have a ton of 4-3 ends, all of whom I think would be liabilities in coverage, but… The bottom line here though is we need a guy. But unless you want a guy who's a playmaker at the position, grabbing a June FA should be sufficient.
DT: Talented AND flexible even with the loss of Cullen Jenkins. That says something.
OLB: There is no 4-3 depth here as the only legit 4-3 starters are Kendricks and Barwin and there is maybe only one 3-4 starter in Barwin. OLB's should not get you beat early in coverage and if we can't find someone to do both or find a way to mask the weakness, that weak link can undermine the integrity of the entire unit. We need a guy.
MLB/ILB: Ryans and Kendricks could function well here, and with Matthews being coached by the guy who got him drafted, maybe we'll even have some depth.
S: Lot of bodies, but show me a guy who can play AND stay healthy. We need a guy, but I think we've already seen the franchise's answer to this problem.
CB: We have a couple of starters, but we could use a steep upgrade.
P: Often quoted but little appreciated, the Punter is your first line of Defense. More than distance what we need is hang-time and placement. Returners who have to signal fair-catch can't make your coverage team look bad.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011
DJ Paul Christy gets a shot at 93.7 The Arrow KKRW
"It's a pleasure to be back with the Clear Channel family in Houston," Christy told the mikemcguff.com blog. "At Arrow, I've worked with so many of the staff it's like going home. Steve Fix, The Colonel, Kelly Ryan--all buds of mine, and I'm a big fan of Walton and Johnson."
His radio resume is impressive:
Afternoons at KHTC, Houston 2004-2008
Swing/Wknds KRTH, Los Angeles 2003-2004
Afternoons at KHMX, Houston 1991-2003
Mornings, PD KZFX, Houston 1989-1991
Mornings, PD KRBE, Houston 1983-1989
Also KFI, Los Angeles, KFRC, San Francisco, others (In these cities he was known on air as Eric Chase)
Christy will also be lending his voice to other Clear Channel stations nationwide. Speaking of his voice, Christy has been recording voice overs for years. You've probably heard him in commercials. Here is his VO website.
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Can you imangine if Paul owned a chain of radio stations how sucessful they would be. He is a great talent. Great story Mike!ReplyDelete
Paul brought a professional touch to classic rock and donned the power 104 phrase in 1986. He was a professional and an Icon in Houston radio.ReplyDelete
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In the next three weeks NSW Health is looking to fill more than 3600 Junior Medical Officer (JMO) positions available in the state's public hospitals and health facilities in 2015.
The annual JMO recruitment campaign, the largest of its kind in the state, begins today. Last year more than 47,000 applications were received for more than 3500 jobs.
NSW Health is continuing to grow the number of JMO positions to meet staffing needs and improve patient care. In the past three years the number has increased 2 per cent.
JMO positions are for doctors who have done at least one postgraduate year, and allow them to start specialist training in everything from obstetrics and gynaecology, pathology, dermatology, emergency medicine, and psychiatry.
In this year's campaign, NSW Health is encouraging applicants to think about specialties in areas such as psychiatry, nuclear medicine and geriatric care.
As in past years, there is also a push for doctors to consider generalist rural training under the NSW rural generalist training program.
The program, which started in 2011, supplies doctors to rural areas and offers training in advanced skill procedurals.
Doctors can enter the program from their second postgraduate year and are supported to do procedural advanced skills as well as normal GP training, which then allows them to work in hospitals providing services such as anaesthetics, emergency medicine or obstetrics.
"It is a great career option for junior doctors who can choose to undertake a specialty area of training in anaesthetics, obstetrics and emergency medicine and each year the interest in the program is growing," says Associate Professor Kathleen Atkinson, executive director of medical services for Murrumbidgee Local Health District.
"We also have an ongoing need for getting more JMOs in mental health, which is also a growing area. In Wagga Wagga we have just opened a 50-bed mental health unit and are now seeing more people coming through to do training in psychiatry. Aged care is another growth area both in the city and country, and general medicine practitioners who can cover geriatrics, respiratory medicine, kidney and renal medicine are also needed."
Positions will be advertised from today (July 24) on the JMO website (health.nsw.gov.au/jmo). All applications must be completed online by the eRecruit system before August 14.
Professor Atkinson says it's essential those applying for the positions read the criteria carefully and not leave applying until the last minute.
"The number of applications last year indicates that most people apply for more than one position," she says. "Candidates should look at all positions and opportunities and not limit themselves either to one hospital, region or specialty."
As there are so many applicants for each position, Professor Atkinson advises candidates do as much research as they can on each position to ensure they make a good first impression.
"Each position will have a contact person to whom candidates can speak to find out more about the position. There are FAQs on the JMO website to answer any questions candidates may have, otherwise a helpdesk is available," she says.
"Sometimes there is a second round of offers but it's best candidates apply for every job they want in that first round. NSW Health is keen to employ as many new doctors as it can."
This story is part of an editorial feature on Junior Medical Officers. Content was produced without advertiser influence.