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Through Rapid Response, the state or designated entity delivers services to enable dislocated workers to transition to new employment as quickly as possible.
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Jungle Base Diorama (Small)
Display your Assault Series Figurines on these jungle bases to form a beautiful diorama of soldiers in a tropical jungle. We hand-make these bases from scratch to mimic actual jungle ground, then top them off with plants imported from overseas hobby shops.
This jungle base size is good for one figurine, two with a tighter fit.
A made-to-fit 13cm acrylic case and standing metal plate are also available to complete your display or to package as a gift!
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Fear is all consuming—it hits you like a ball of fire, it's instant like foil sparking in a microwave. It's blinding—chilling—leaves you avoiding all sense of who you are.
Your gut allows time for you to analyze the situation. It's a feeling that your foundation is at threat whereas fear is an avoidance of your foundation. Your gut collaborates with your brain. It allows it time to catch up. It's patient at first but until you take notice it will continue to throb slowly, sending signals through your body to help wake up your mind.
If fear is the devil, then God is your gut. Your gut says, "I love you, but you need to get out."
Fear has you out the door before you can even process what just happened.
Fear is gunfire; your gut is a cease-fire.
Your gut is knowingness. It doesn't need a gunshot in the air to get your attention. It needs you to listen. It's waiting for you to join it in silence. It's calling you to stop what you're doing and pay attention to the call.
It's a vibrating cell phone at a loud dinner party that everyone begins to hear as each person falls silent. Someone is calling.
Your gut is calling you to remember who you are, what you are and what's truly good for you…and what's truly bad.
I've witnessed myself give in to fear with the people that I love, people that I know love me. I've run away from them triggered by the gunfire, lost in paralysis, flying high above the clouds just to fall back down steaming through the Earth's core hard and thorough. I've found myself re-emerging from the wreckage, seeing all the destruction I caused and coming back to myself. These people love me. They didn't mean to hurt me. I need to trust—I must choose to trust. I must choose love.
"Perceive with love, perceive with love." I take a deep breath. I am back and know I love them and they love me. I didn't mean to hurt them. I let the fear send me out the door. But I am back in love and I am back inside where I am safe with their love.
I thought that perhaps this is what I had done with someone else. I thought maybe my fear voice is what scared me away from them. Maybe they didn't mean any harm—maybe they really love me and I was too scared to see it.
So I let them back in.
Now as I sit on my bed, I hear God saying, "I love you, but you need to get out."
I am not jumping at gunfire and running out the door. I am taking a deep breath, allowing my gut to guide me back to love and staying in the presence of love all around me. That's what will guide me out. Love and truth.
Now I finally recognize the difference between letting fear block you from love and allowing your gut to guide you back to love.
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Welcome to Heymann Nursery. In Nursery the staff are Mrs Stables, Miss Inglis, Miss van Kleef, Miss Shaw and Mrs Siva.
We have been delighted at how well the children have settled into nursery. The weather is very changeable at the moment so please make sure your child has appropriate clothing and footwear for working in our outdoor area. Please check you have named your child's coat and school clothes as things are going missing and we are struggling to return them if they are not named.
We have PE activities in the hall on Tuesday mornings and Friday afternoons. We will be doing some Yoga activities and making different movements to stories. We will also be climbing and balancing on the large equipment.
In phonics we are doing lots of activities to encourage the children to take-turns in conversations and to speak in a group. We are using our mouths to make different sounds and trying hard to pronounce them correctly.
At the beginning of the Autumn Term we are learning about 'Ourselves' and our nursery environment. We will be looking at, and displaying, your family photographs, so please send one in. As we approach half term we will be exploring 'colour' through stories and art activities. We will also be celebrating Diwali and taking part in activities with the Reception classes. Please see the attached documents for a copy of our curriculum map. This includes ideas on how you can support your child at home.
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Executive Summary:
- Advertising has moved from print, TV, and radio to digital
- Google and Facebook control 90% of all digital advertising growth
- Amazon has moved from fifth to third in digital advertising by earning $2 billion per quarter
- Traditional media lives or dies based on advertising revenues
- Google, Facebook and Amazon are choking off traditional media's advertising revenues
- To survive, which is essential for democracy, traditional media needs to discover new revenue streams
- The biggest obstacle to traditional media making these changes are its leadership
- To fight back traditional media must change the battlefield on which it chooses to fight
Amazon Is Stealing Market Share From Facebook and Google Amazon Monopoly grows. Now threat to traditional media.
It wasn't that long ago that all the talk in the digital advertising market was centered on the duopoly of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Google, a division of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG).
In late 2017, Digital Content Next reported the pair would account for about 63% of online advertising in the U.S. last year, with Google nabbing 42% and Facebook garnering 21%. Even more telling, Brian Wieser of Pivotal Research Group estimated that the two companies accounted for 90% of the growth in the U.S. digital ads industry in 2017.
The stranglehold enjoyed by the two top dogs may be loosening. Forecasts suggest that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is taking share from the leaders. While the e-commerce giant will account for just 2.7% of digital advertising this year, that number is expected to grow to 4.5% by 2020, which will make Amazon the third-largest online ad seller in the U.S. — up from fifth place today, according to Opens a New Window. data provided by eMarketer.
A much greater opportunity going forward. The majority of Amazon's advertising revenue thus far has been from merchants seeking to highlight sponsored products on its e-commerce website. During the first-quarter conference call Opens a New Window. , Amazon's chief financial officer, Brian Olsavsky, reported that advertising was "now a multibillion-dollar program and growing very quickly." That growth has continued, and has topped $2 billion in each of the past two quarters.
Hordes of data. The reason for Facebook and Google's dominance in digital advertising is simple: The companies count billions of users each day, and collect mounds of information from each one. The combination of eyeballs and data allows for advertising that can target specific groups of consumers that are more likely to act on those ads.
Amazon's advantage is similar. By promoting sponsored products on its site, shoppers are introduced to new brands and products, while sellers are able to more effectively reach their target markets. This is evidenced by the rapid growth in the company's advertising business, which has increased by 132% and 139% year over year the first and second quarters, respectively. That growth could accelerate. Monica Peart, eMarketer's senior forecasting director, notes, "So far, it's been conservative in its ad load. It remains an open question as to when Amazon will take advantage of its significant reach and dominance in rich shopper data to ramp up the placement of ads in other areas."
Is there an Echo in here? Another potential avenue for the company's advertising ambitions is via its Echo smart speaker, controlled by its Alexa voice assistant. Amazon is believed to have sold more than 35 million of the devices, controlling about 70% of the market, according to research conducted by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. Reports from earlier this year indicate that Amazon was in talks with a number of companies about promoting their products on the voice-controlled Echo, including consumer products companies Procter & Gamble and Clorox, according to reports from CNBC. Amazon subsequently denied those reports, indicating that it has no plans to advertise on Alexa at this time. That doesn't mean that advertising can't be introduced on the devices at a later date.
An increasing number of paths to growth. Amazon already owns a significant percentage of the e-commerce market in the U.S. and is attempting to replicate that across the globe. The company also is the leader in cloud computing Opens a New Window. and smart speaker penetration, and is second only to Netflix in the realm of streaming video. With the rapid expansion of its digital advertising business, it appears that Amazon is looking to add another feather in its cap. Based on how it's doing so far, it just might succeed.


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The first is a child's lie. "No, I didn't take a cookie out of the cookie jar." This kind of lie is subject to objective refutation, and is mostly avoided by the most sophisticated liars.
The second is much more sophisticated. It is context that provides the meaning for any statement, and a factual statement placed in the wrong context becomes a non-factual statement.
"George Bush is just like Hitler". What is the context of that statement? There is none, so you are left to fill in your own context, and most people would assume the context in which those two figures are most often discussed, that of being the top leader of a country. Leaving the context undefined, implying the widest possible context, is often a form of lie, when it isn't just the result of sloppy speaking.
But it's a factually correct statement, given the right context. Bush is of the species Homo Sapiens. So was Hitler. Of course, that context is one nobody would bother working in. There are policies Bush has pursued that are similar enough to some policies Hitler pursued that the statement could be considered factually correct in the narrow context of those policies as well. But that still leaves the statement in full context of the leadership of a country untrue.
A stopped clock is right twice a day. But still, even on those two minutes each day when it, through sheer coincidence, is reporting the correct time, it is lying to you. Coincidental correspondence to fact is not the same thing as truth.
You have no way to know when the stopped clock is right. You know that for 1438 minutes of the day it is lying, and for two minutes it is correct, but the only way you can know which two minutes are the correct ones is to trust that the clock is always giving the correct time. If you always checked it against another clock, the first clock's statements about the time would be redundant and useless. Once a clock's veracity is determined, it becomes its own standard of truth.
Until it is caught in a lie, that is. From that point on, everything it says has to again be considered a lie. An intelligent and malicious clock, one determined to mislead you about the real time, would realize that it could occasionally give you the correct time, yet still be providing misleading information. The bonus is that if you called it out on one of those statements, it could claim "See, I was telling the truth.". And a really clever clock could claim that the time it gave was correct, in some context other than the one you assumed it was working in. The time was correct in Singapore, so technically, the clock wasn't lying. But now you know that it is always lying.
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Subject: Xabel's - semi-complete - Info sheet
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Basic Info
Proof of Existence:
The Warring Principality
Arm blades and Greeves
Elemental / Power:
World of Origin:
Twilight Town
18 at death, counting years as a Nobody, he totals out at 43.
Messy/spike dark-gray hair that reaches shoulder length. Just above, but not covering, his left eye, there is a group of several strands of hair that are darker than the others.
Earthy green, this means, there are a few colour variations of bronze mixed in here and there.
Not extremely tan, but not entirely pale either. Hrm...I'd guess it would be a mild tan.
185 lbs.
Distinguishing Marks:
From several different attacks, he has four scars on his back, three of them are gashes, and, strangely, are set in the rough dimensions of a triangle. The fourth is in the middle of these three, and is roughly circular.
Nobody, formerly Derkri. Basic info on that will be found in the "History" section.
Brahmin: (Ba-rah-men) A short sword (the blade is about 21", and the hilt is roughly 4 1/2", for a total length of 25 1/2") The first sword to come into Bale's (now Xabel's) possession, it was both forged and gifted to him by Ja'al (Jah-ale), his hero and mentor. Both the hilt and the blade are curved slightly for ease of grip, and attacks with hard-to-predict angles. The hiltguard is, in its own right, a blade as well. Three inches (3") long and positioned about half an inch (1/2") above the actual handle, it sports a jagged edge, and protects only the fingers, not the back of the hand. The main blade of the weapon is engraved, by Xabel himself, in the runic written language of his species. These runes form a prayer to the Harbinger (the Derkri's God of war, scouts, and messengers) meant to give the warrior a calm, clear, mind during battle.
Caim: (Kai-am) A fairly-sized (14" from pummel to blade tip) elven knife, gifted to Xabel by Mesajinx for his 'birthday'. This weapon, while sharp, sturdy, and expertly forged, rarely sees any actual combat outside of sneak attacks. Instead, it sees more practical uses, Xab has it on him at all times, and wears it in a sheath on the back of his belt.
The Pu'rael: (Pew-ray-el) A pair of crescent blades worn on either of Xabel's arms, and one half (or two fourths) of the weapon set that he was given upon his "birth" as a Nobody. The blades themselves are simple in appearance - the metal they are forged from is a deep gray, and stained black in places from use and blood stains that Xabel was too slow in cleaning off. These blades are attached to the arms by metal bracers which are actually extended parts of the blades' spines. These bracers are, by far, the strongest part of the weapons, which are already extremely durable as it is. Also, being made of metal themselves, the insides of the bracers are lined with a special, conforming 'leather' for the comfort of the man wearing them. Each of the two blades are fairly heavy, each being closer to a Kanabo in weight than to a sword. However, Xabel's strength allows him to wield the blades, and move his arms when wearing them, fairly easily, which helps him in managing the odd fighting style he utilzes when armed with these blades.
The Rath'ael: (Wraith-ay-el) A pair of grieves (The leg armor worn by knights) that cover up to the top of Xabel's calves, and the other half of the weapon set he was given upon his 'birth' as a Nobody. Whereas the Pu'rael are simple, the Rath'ael are intricate and elegant - the main body of the greives being the off-white that symbolizes the Nobodies, with designs, and raised areas in the blended purple that so many of the Lessers enjoy wearing. The armor is durable, and fairly heavy, but lighter in comparison to say, the greives that Xiron wears. Also unlike the Pu'rael, the Rath'ael are worn almost constantly, as opposed to the normal, leather boots worn by the other members of the Orginazation, for the extra 'oompf' they give to Xab's kicks. While technically not a weapon in their own right, any "holy" energy delivered through the grieves is amplfied, increasing its strength. This fact is put to great use in the odd fighting style that Xabel utilizes while wielding the Pu'rael.
Clothing / Appearance:
Xabel owns the same type of coat that Xiron does, as was suggested by the Lord Knight himself, knowing that Xab would need an outfit designed for field use rather than wearing as a simple signifier as belonging to Organization Eternal. Beyond that, his attire is usually fairly simple, typically just jeans and a white T-shirt. Though, he will sometimes wear other clothes, beyond what he wears at his home and his world forms. As for his body, he appears essentially the same as he did when he died, that is to say that
he still looks to be eighteen
, both in his face, and upon close examining. However, after twenty years of life as a Nobody, he gone through many psychological changes that come with age, and holds and carries himself as an adult would. His muscular build is somewhat of a combination between the builds one would expect in a runner and a climber. He has several dozen superficial scars all over his body, the largest concentration, surprisingly, on his forearms than anywhere else. Hey, what can you say? Plant thorns are fucking SHARP. Most of the rest of his scars are either from battle, or from particularly vicious animals.
Personal details
Xabel has the capacity to be a kind, loving, and generous man. However, on the same wavelength, he also tends to be quiet, drawn-in, and generally sarcastic. However, during recent months, his personality has slowly shifted towards a middle ground of the two, and he will often confuse people, likely by being both generous and sarcastic at the same time. Deep down though, his family is first and foremost in his life, and he loves them dearly, but often has trouble showing this, and likely would even if he was capable of true emotion. Additionally, he has recently become the "king" of his wounded, and rebuilding, world. This status, however, takes the pride that he's held throughout his entire life, and puts it on a pedestal, and makes him feel that he's forced to uphold it, to defend it completely, even when it would be better for his health to let something go. As such, he has recently come up with a new goal which he has shared with a precious few people.....
Fairly intelligent, able to move quietly and quickly, tends to travel light, he also has a tendency to train until his muscles lock up, believing that training is the same as working out: "One must work to and past the burn to improve." Likewise, while he won't go all out on every opponent during battle, he certainly won't take it easy on them, either.
Scouting, cartography, swordplay (derived mainly from an improvised variation on a style from his home world), swimming, spear fishing, hunting, trapping (of animals and intelligent beings, both skills are only basic), archery.
Battle (not to the point of being a berserker, he just finds it to be fun, almost like a sport), Running, and general exercise, his family (one should hope so), pumpkin pie, food roasted over an open campfire
Stupidity (his own included), Ignorance (again, his own included), His current position as King (won't admit that as to not look 'weak'), people who endanger his family (embedded deeply into his brain due to his culture), Those who are racist or speciesist (He's both a Nobody, and a member of a different species, he's allowed to have hate.), and, come on, its nearly impossible to list a person's likes and dislikes, the two lists are long enough, but not complete.
Xabel is fairly well rounded, his element alone allows for short-, medium-, and long- range attacks, as well as defensive techniques, his weapons and training acquired as a somebody further prepared him for battle, as he learned how to wield a multitude of weapons, from swords and maces to spears and longbows. Of course, he can wield no weapon perfectly, except perhaps Brahmin and the weapons he was granted upon his 'rebirth' as a Nobody. Additionally, combining his element with the Rath'ael allows for area-of-effect attacks, in the form of shock waves, with varying ranges dependent upon the amount of energy put into it. Furthermore, he also has great physical endurance, and his capacity for using his element (i.e.: elemental power) is quite high..
..His strengths, however, are all counter balanced by several weaknesses. The first of which is, considering he no longer carries a bow, and never carried a spear, all of his medium and long range attacks are limited to techniques aided by his element. The fact that he can wield Brahmin, and other similar swords, near-perfectly is countered by the small fact that the blade has broken three times since he's come into possession of it. His endurance his weakened by two things, one of which also counter-balances his high capacity of elemental power. Those things are, firstly, the fact that, while he knows when he
give up on a fight or a training exercise, rarely means that he
give up on it. No, more than likely, he will keep on truckin' until his opponent surrenders or succumbs, or some one comes along to forcibly bail him out. The second fact, the one that also counter balances the elemental power, is the tiny fact that
his power burns away at his skin
. That's right, he literally hurts himself when he uses his own power. You see, his "holy" energy takes the form of a burning, white-hot flame, which burns away his skin and causes him to bleed. However, the effect his power has on him is reflected three times over on his opponent; whereas the energy gives Xabel little more than very bad first-degree burns, the opponent can receive anything starting from a horrible second degree burn and up, in addition to the sheer impact force of the attack. But, the fact still holds true that, if you burn your skin away when you attack, you're still cutting into your own endurance.
Xabel's history as a Nobody.....The Abridged version!: Okay, yes, firstly, the man was killed, by the woman he was arranged to marry no less, 'course she was corrupted with Darkness and all that, or else she woulda killed him, and that murder woulda been the end of it. But, instead, he got 'lucky' and received another chance at "life", huzzah! Along with that, he got command of a rather burn-inducing element, and two weird-arse weapons. So, following that, and waking up in Traverse Town, rather than in front of the Mansion in Twilight Town, he eventually came into the possession (read: stole) of a Gummi Ship, which he had to learn how to use very quickly, as most of us would when faced with a group of pirates (read: the previous owners of the Gummi Ship) who had targeted him as their next victim (read: victim of the penal system). Surprisingly, however, he hit a button my mistake, and this button happened to be the activator for the Warp Drive, which put him in no other world than the Pride Lands. Now, since he himself was already used to such a world - savannas and all - he did not take on an animalistic appearance, but rather retained his humanoid one, and so set out to find other people. Which he did, and, taking up a home among the tribes off Africa (read: stealing a ride on the first Gummi ship of white people that he found) he eventually made his way to Deep Jungle, where he actually stayed for a while, honing his skills with his power, and trying not to burn down the Rain Forest. Here he did, indeed, meet Tarzan, and though they had a rough relationship at first (i.e.: Tried to kill each other on more than one occasion), they eventually warmed up to each other, and became friends of sorts. Here, Xabel also spent time learning the English language from Jane, who had (as any idiot who's seen the Disney movie knows) stayed behind to live with Tarzan. Of course, the learning conditions for Xab's learning were more of a "make gestures that seemed to indicate he would snap her neck, then point at a book written in English" variety than the reasons she taught Tarzan.
Eventually, his stay on this world was over (i.e.: he found another Gummi Ship to bum a ride on) and he made his way to Twilight Town. Now, by this time, he was still going by the name of "Bale" as it was what he remembered, but, being drawn to the aforementioned Mansion, a large bat-lie creature appeared in front of him, offering a home, and the proposition of a "new you", after which he promptly wrote his name in air with golden letters, added an "X" and made the word "Xabel". Now, this went over oddly with the man; while he did take the new name, and accept the offer of the 'new him', he did not go with the bat, opting instead to hunt down the old him, murder him brutally, and then continue on his merry way. So, upon leaving Twilight Town on yet another hijacked Gummi Ship, Xabel made his way from world to world, stopping on each only briefly, until he eventually (eventually should be read as "taking up ten years of his time") found his home world.
Upon landing on said world, he found that his memory had only served him half-right: He had remembered entire cities being decimated by a strange, black mass he had now come to know as the Heartless. However, he was soon informed by those he asked that, aside from the Capitol City, and a few tribal villages, not much else had been destroyed. He also learned, however, that no repairs were being made, because the leaders of the Tribes, and the King, had all been killed in said invasion (read: Giant fucking power vacuum means no clean up gets done until the dispute is resolved. And, apparently, the Derkri aren't the best at resolving power disputes, because it had taken Xabel eleven years to get to his home world. MOVING ON.). With that information, Xab was left scratching his head for as what he should do next. Luckily, a whisper-in-the-winds hit him upside the head, and pointed him in the direction of a very large camp he had lived at for the majority of his life. To make that emotion- and memory-filled story short: He found the camp, cried a lot, smiled and laughed a whole lot more, and found the sword that he had used during his life as a Somebody. SO, with a bunch of memories, and a new sword, in hand, he made the long trek back to his Gummi Ship, and took off again, not quite caring WHERE he went.
Enter the revisital of Traverse Town. He didn't end up staying here for long, maybe about two years or so, as compared to the amount of time he spent on Deep Jungle and his home world. However, he did manage to pick a fight with a man named Xeran, who promptly beat his ass (hey, Xab was drunk, screw off), realized that, like he himself, was in fact a Nobody, and took him back to The World that Never Was to join the Organization Eternal. But, did Xeran actually BRING Xabel to this place, this home of all homes? No. He did not. Instead, he left the very unconscious and very bleeding man he had carried through a corridor of darkness under the over hang of a building. In the rain. Several miles away from the building Eternal was based in. Without so much as any hint what-so-ever as to where he should go. So, Xabel woke up, headachey and bloody, and now confused at to where the fuck he was, to wander for about a week until he mercifully collapsed on the top step of Memory Skyscraper, where, luckily, Organization Eternal made its home.
From there, Xabel was welcomed into the ranks, made friends and enemies, and began to build his family. And, these days, is focused on two things: As the "King" (hey, Derkri may be strong, but, they ain't got nothing on a Nobody version of themselves) of his species, his goal is to rebuild the Capitol City, and the villages that were destroyed. As himself, his goal is to find the one person he believes can actually fit the bill of "King", and then settle down so he himself can instead rebuild his scattered Tribe.
Vera is his sister (and also one of his Lesser Nobodies), He is married to Xeros, and has two children: A daughter named Xelda (shut up about the whole princess shtick, we call her El >.>), and a son named Zedek (who I call Zed because it reminds of one of the villains from the original Power Rangers. -w- Yes, I'm a nerd, shut up.) He himself has adopted Mesajinx as his younger sister, which would mean he's related to Xiron, if the giant Tin Can would grow a pair and ask her to marry him, and Xirak herself has made the same claim to Xabel, meaning the same relation to Xejan as with Xiron.
Fen, Jinx, Xirak, Xiron, X'elon, Xejan, Raxen.
Zerikx (Remember the "hatred of ignorance and stupidity"? This insect here epitomizes both of those, and the word "idioticly self-righteous" and "traitor" If this one isn't dead, Xabel will make certain that he's the one to fix that.), X'elon (more of keeping an eye on him, as he seems to be rather volatile, hard to tell what his actions will be), Raxen (Rax does a lot of dumb ass shit. Xab counts him among his friends for two reasons: He's got hope for the boy, and, once in a rare while, Rax will do something to redeem himself.), Xki (If I listed the shit Xab finds wrong with this woman, this sheet would be lengthened exponentially.).
Bale's history, in point-by-point format:
- Born to his mother as the result of a one-night stand, four years later, his sister, Vera, is born.
- Four weeks after the birth of his sister, their mother is burned at the stake for giving birth to two children out of wedlock, and under accusations of being a "witch".
- Bale is thusly forced to raise his sister, with some help from friends of his mother.
- Vera turns four herself, leaving Bale at eight. With the company of a small group of travlers, the children leave their village and their tribe behind.
- They travel much of the continent, eventually the group is attacked by bandits.
- The bandits are, in turn, attacked by a small group of mercenaries, led by a man named Ja'al. This family-like group takes in the caravan's survivors, of which, Vera and Bale are included.
- How ever, in this make-shift "tribe", every one is expected to pull their own weight, and so, all learn the basics of fighting, cooking, and survival. Bale himself is trained by Ja'al.
- Three years pass, Bale is now eleven. Ja'al gives him the first weapon that is truly his possession, a sword by the name of Brahmin which Ja'al himself had forged. In this same year, a girl named Diana joins the "tribe".
- Bale continues to be taught by Ja'al, and aspires to be his equal when he's grown; he and his sister, who is being taught as an archer, begin to form a friendship with Diana, who is twelve.
- Years go by. Bale has become a scout for the "tribe", Vera and Diana are both assassins of a sort. Diana and Bale began 'dating' when she was fourteen and he was thirteen, now with her at nineteen, and him eighteen, it is apparent to the others in the group that the two are likely to marry.
- This assumption is cut short, however, when growing Darkness in Diana's heart, seeded by the murder of her uncle, and fueled by her work as an assassin, acts as a beacon to the Heartless. These creatures invade the world, starting at Captiol City, where the tribe had been stationed, causing general chaos, and ending most of the inhabitants. Diana herself, controlled by the Darkness, pierces Bale's lungs, ending his life.
- Half a day later, Bale wakes up, groggy, disoriented, confused, and oddly empty, in a room on Traverse Town. He leaves a month before Sora arrives from Destiny Islands.
- Everything beyond this is in his background.
Married, with two children, to Xeros.
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For reasons of his own (and I quote "I refuse to be the type of moron to give out information on my syle of fighting to potential enemies"), Xabel is currently refusing me permission to share his fighting style with you.
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As stated in the introduction to this issue, political and economic events, are evolving at a breakneck speed since April 2017.
And the elite in most countries are at loss - as it is difficult to foresee future's trends and plan accordingly. Nasty surprise can even occur overnight as witnessed at the beginning of June 2017 by the sudden economic blockade of the State of Qatar by neighboring Arab countries - Saudi Arabia, Emirates and few followers.
Europe and America are particularly affected by this astonishing change of rhythm. Their power structures are increasingly unstable - as here briefly exposed.
This issue discuss political and economic uncertainty in three African countries: Libya, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.
- The Uncertainty in Libya is Undisputable
In 2011, Nato's member states France, the UK, Italy, Germany and the United States of America staged the destruction of Jamahariya Libya. Africabiz Online extensively covered the onslaught and demolition of the most prosperous nation of Africa. Read in particular this delivery which gave the real reason of the vicious attack on Libya by Nato member states, in which the following had been stated:
put, Nato's member-nations
are trying to steer back Libya Central Bank into the mainstream financial structure,
under the watching eyes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund,
to provide (reconstruction) funds to Libya with hefty interests payments - and
transform a country which was free of debts (for four decades running) into a
heavily indebted country - as done everywhere else in sub-Saharan African countries."
put, Nato's member-nations
are trying to steer back Libya Central Bank into the mainstream financial structure,
under the watching eyes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund,
to provide (reconstruction) funds to Libya with hefty interests payments - and
transform a country which was free of debts (for four decades running) into a
heavily indebted country - as done everywhere else in sub-Saharan African countries."
Six years after the destruction, had western countries achieved anything substantial to fully take control of Libya? Sure, they have the control of the new Libya Central Bank they moved from Tripoli to Benghazi. But they are struggling to stabilize the country. The Government of Unity they sponsored, and established at Tripoli, is daily challenged by the one located at Benghazi led by a new strongman Khalifa Haftiar, which is having the backing of Russia.
Oil production level is one tenth of the level achieved in 2010 by Jamarahiya Libya. Oil rigs are under permanent siege and regularly attacked by the Resistance to the intervention. And the persisting chaos in the country opens the floodgate of refugees/migrants to Europe.
In short, Nato intervention to topple Gaddafi is a disaster for the military alliance and western countries, which now have Russia inside Libya, backing a new strongman! Therefore, uncertainty would prevail till one of the faction win. Would it be the Nato's backed so-called Government of Unity, or the new one in Benghazi led by Khalifa Haftiar and back backed by Russia?
- Uncertainty Prevails in West Africa
Two west African economic powerhouses, Ivory Coast and Nigeria are politically in "deep" trouble.
In Ivory Coast, the former rebels who prompt-up Alassane Wattara to power, are on a permanent rebellious mood, that taints the undeniable economic recovery staged by the government since the end of the civil war in 2011. How this would evolve is an unknown equation that would find an eventual answer with the presidential ballot scheduled for 2020.
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The uncertainty in Ivory Coast and Nigeria is very bad for the economic future of the ECOWAS region, which is planning to establish a regional currency for 2020 horizon.
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Looks like SoundCloud, the digital music service and favorite of independent artist, will live on. The struggling brand secured a fresh round of funding that assures SoundCloud will remain independent, even as a new executive team takes over to steer the service into the future.
The new injection of cash comes via The Raine Group, a boutique merchant bank, and a Singapore-based investment company named Temasek. Together they are leading a $169.5 million investment round that infuses SoundCloud with much-needed cash.
Along with the new money, SoundCloud also will have a new CEO and COO. Former Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor succeeds founder Alex Ljung as chief executive, and Michael Weissman, another former executive at the video platform, was named SoundCloud's chief operating officer.
Ljung and SoundCloud co-founder Eric Wahlforss will remain with the company they founded a decade ago. Ljung will serve as chairman of SoundCloud's board, and Wahlforss as chief product officer.
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He died just weeks before his 112th birthday and was officially credited as the world's oldest man by the Gerontology Research Group in California.
The supercentenarian (someone who lives past 110 years) saw two world wars, the Titanic sink and the Berlin Wall come down, but, in an interview last month, he claimed mankind's greatest triumph was the invention of the airplane. The Wright Brothers successfully tested their first plane when he was a baby.
During meditation this morning, I sat in peace, no longer troubled by petty wrangles from colleagues or neighbors. I compared my life to my daily stroll up and down the steep footpath outside my home. Walking on two legs with the aid of four wheels, I'm like a beetle, passed by scurrying ants with their legs flashing by so fast I can hardly catch their movement. And on the narrow road beside me, cars whiz by like insects.
It seems to me that when age forces a withdrawal from the helter-skelter rush of society, an aging person is forced to look into themselves and see their attributes. I've made many mistakes in my life, but I've forgiven myself and moved on. Now is the perfect time to write. For me, that writing takes the form of novels, where I can infuse my stories with experience and imagination.
Something protruded from the rock beside him. Flaking red and grey paint dotted the ground. He bent close to a line of scurrying ants. A clear shiny substance, like wings of a dragonfly, covered some crumbling material that resembled soft white bark. With a light touch to avoid more damage, he grasped the object. The wrapping filled the palm of his hand. Something hard inside. He reached through a slit and pulled out a metal object smaller than an oak leaf.
Hm, what was it? A long square box with windows in the side. Six tiny wheels spun along the bottom. Once, he'd dreamed about sitting inside a gigantic version of this thing. He'd been with Cerridwen and she'd called it a train. Felt like a dragon had swallowed them and hurtled along the ground with them bouncing in its stomach. His memory faded, he couldn't recall what the dream had been about. Only that she was there with him, telling him everything was all right.
Aron studied the small wheel-thing in his hand. A train for ants? He snorted. About to throw the before-times trash away, he changed his mind. He'd ask Cerridwen if she'd seen anything like it before.
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Two years ago I shipped my bike from Kauai, Hawaii to Seattle, Washington and I've been riding all over the west since. I've been to Yellowstone, Zion, Bryce, Glacier, Crater Lake, Grand Teton, Great Basin, Lassen Volcanic, Mt. Rainier, Joshua Tree, Redwood and Rocky Mountain National Park; twelve total. I've rode my bike in WA, CA, OR, WY, MT, ID, NV, AZ, KS, OK, TX, CO, NM, and UT; fourteen states total. I crossed the U.S.-Canadian Border a number of times exploring from Vancouver to Clinton to Kamloops to Osoyoos in British Columbia. My Bike has crossed the Cascades, the Rockies, been down the Pacific Coast Highway, through the Mojave Desert and across the Texas Panhandle. It's been a great experience with more to come; two years of road signs.
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Em's team did great yesterday and were 6th in the standings; so today's three touchdowns probably knocked them down to 8th, last place. However, she is having a great time so all is good. [eta: nope, they finished 6th!)
Can't find the memory card reader so no pics of Bub's soccer game yesterday. Morning club game (team IMHO looked bad) was a 2-0 loss. Afternoon indoor game was a 3-2 win: team ended the season 1st place in their division and the boys all got champion t-shirts! On top of that, Z had open gym for his school team from 7-9 this morning - kid is sore and tired right now!
The freshman scholar athlete breakfast is Tuesday morning - which is ironic because his grades right now are suckish and he only has two weeks to get back on track.
The boys went to Z's conferences recently and it was more of the same stuff: great kid, bright, first one in the class to get concepts, lots of potential blah blah blah. Why can't he get his act together???
His courses for sophomore year? American Studies (Sophomore English class), Principles of Engineering, Honors Spanish III, Honors FST (Functions, Statistics and Trigonometry), Honors BESS (Biology/Earth Systems Sciences) and *choke* Physics. Next year is going to be interesting. And by interesting I mean Oh crap.
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Ben and Emma are however - for the Varsity All-Star Cheer Championships!
Good luck baby girl!!
BCE better frickin go to this competition next year *grumble grumble*.
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On of Em's friends made such a big deal over her hair the other day (she actually brushed it that morning) that today not only did she brush it BUT she also had me dry and flat iron it!
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Em is 57 1/4 inches and 72 pounds (nurse forgot to give me the sheet but it looks like 37th percentile for height and 15th percentile for weight) - she has grown an inch and a half since she stopped gymnastics! She too is very healthy and apparently got her dad's eyes because her vision is fine!
Poor sweetie got her Tdap and Gardasil vaccines and the flu-mist so she is resting on the couch!
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I had to take Em to Sweet & Sassy today because last night, I had to cut a comb out of her hair. ("Moooo-oooom, why didn't you just tell her I got gum stuck in it? She kept asking me how on earth I got a comb stuck in my hair!" Funny, I was wondering that as well....) She got a trim and a beautiful 'do!
After her orthodontist appt yesterday, I realized how much her teeth have already changed in just 6 weeks. I don't think the top picture really illustrates the change (and ignore the fact that her teeth are blue from Sweet & Sassy pucker powder....) but she no longer has "fangs"!
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In the past, I've written two blog posts about under-fed athletes and how correcting their macros resulted in amazingly fast progress. The first example was about Bri (click for post), an athlete that was being DRASTICALLY underfed. Fixing her diet through the addition of about 1000 calories a day solved a bunch of scary symptoms, dropped about 10 lbs off of her and increased her performance dramatically. The second example was about Mia (click for post), where we increased her diet, but to a much smaller extent, and once again saw huge benefits in both performance and body composition pretty much immediately. In both of these cases, the women were hyper-responders to the new plan. In my experience, this happens in about 1/3 of cases. Its great as a coach because the emotional response is obviously a positive one and it helps the client to buy in fully to what we're trying to do.
Sadly, not everyone responds this way. In many cases, there's a period of weight GAIN that proceeds the leaning out process but no one really wants to talk about this. It doesn't really generate a lot of likes on IG when you post updates of:
"I've added a bunch of calories to my diet and I'm becoming a healthier person that's going to see progress in 3-5 months, but right now I've gained weight and mentally having a hard time with it."
Its difficult to see a virtual world where people are posting all kinds of progress pictures with leaner physiques and not be "in the club" despite doing exactly what you're told by your nutrition coach. With that in mind, I thought it might help to share a story about a client that dealt with just these same issues and ultimately persevered to become a huge success story... plus I'm really proud of her and I want to brag :)
Let me introduce you to Sam...
Sam came to me having worked with another nutrition program that had put her on some pretty low macros for what she was doing in the gym, and while she had seen progress physically, there were consequences.
"I have somewhat of a bad relationship with food and have a hard time with my body image. I have been tracking macros for about the last year and have had some great success dropping body fat, however when I cheat I tend to binge uncontrollably and it's hard to get back on track. I know I need to eat more. I'm currently around 2000 Calories a day but I have a hard time knowing if I'm doing things the right way." September 2017
Based on what Sam had told me about her training I knew she needed to eat more and she did as well. I told her that it might mean some temporary weight gain and that she would need to work through that process with me to restore some health factors, and that ultimately she would be where she wanted to be. So we increased her macros pretty substantially for the first 2 months and this is what happened.
It may not look like big changes, Sam was clearly still lean but it was a step backwards from Day 0, and it was hard for her mentally to be OK with it.
"I just see these top athletes look the way they do, and I just want to look the part. I know I'm very hard on myself. And I have a poor relationship with food but it would be nice to see that its possible to make body comp changes eating this much."
The good news was that she was seeing nice improvements in her performance and we could try and focus her attention on that. Sam also started to report that she was getting HUNGRY, which was a really good sign, so we increased her macros, and she ended up even MORE hungry... again, a good sign so we bumped the numbers up again. This took a ton of trust on Sam's part to stick with me through this phase as the first time I bumped her macros, she gained weight.
So a few months go by and we decided to take a few more update pictures along the way.
Day 30-75 was encouraging, but Day 110 was absolutely amazing. It was the final bump up to around 360 grams of carbs that really pushed us into the right direction.
Now we're focusing on pictures here because thats a major component of why Sam hired me, but I can't help but brag about the insane number of PRs that she hit along the way. If anyone follows our IG feed, you'll know what we prefer to post about athletic accomplishments instead of physical changes. Abs are cool and generate a ton of likes, but thats not why we do this. We do this to help someone have a better relationship with food. We do this so people can improve their performance. We do this so someone can hopefully realize a dream someday. I'm happy to report that Sam is on the path to making those things happen. She doesn't have nearly as many binge issues and we're working on not beating ourselves up when they do happen. Her performance is through the roof as evidenced by her qualification in the Elite division at Wodapalooza this weekend. I can't wait to see her out there competing on the floor.
What can we take away from this???
- You might be able to generate a nice set of abs in the short term by putting someone on a heavily restricted set of macros, but long term this won't work physically, and we may do even MORE damage mentally if you can believe it. Your Day 0 to 60 update picture might look pretty amazing, but what does it look like 2, 3, or 4 months after that?
- Progress isn't always a nice linear path. Sometimes we need to go backwards with body composition to ultimately take a much bigger jump forwards.
- Results are not just found in body composition. Signs that we're on the right trajectory could be improved sleep, improved performance, better mood or even just a healthier relationship with food.
When you look for nutrition coaching, what does that company or that coach prioritize? Is it short term results that look good on an IG page? Or are they more concerned with the person behind the picture? This is one of the central tenets of what we do here at M2PN. We have to connect with the client and see them as more than a set of macros, or a set of abs. These are PEOPLE that we're working with. People with concerns and fears, emotions and frustrations. Templates cannot account for those emotions and help guide you through the rough times... but a good nutrition coach can.


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Aircraft Structures and Systems
Eur Ing R Wilkinson BTech CEng MRAeS
Price £24.95 paperback, 320pp
A straightforward yet comprehensive introduction to airframes and aircraft systems. Taking a non-mathematical approach throughout, the book encourages an interest in the form and function of an aircraft and identifies the reasons for the major differences between various types of aircraft. It gives students a thorough understanding of the many system that are necessary to allow an aircraft to operate efficiently.
The book begins with the reasons for the external shape of aircraft, continuing through the loads experienced, the structures required to support these loads, and the materials and manufacturing techniques required to produce these structures. It then looks at each major component of aircraft in more detail describing the internal structure and major design features. The function and composition of major aircraft systems, from hydraulics to avionics, are described, including a complete chapter on missile systems and an extensive description of aircraft cockpits and their equipment.
A major revision has been made for this edition, including a chapter on unmanned air systems and another on regulation, certification and safety. The sections on electrics and hydraulics have now been expanded to full chapters.
- provides a basic understanding of airframes and aircraft systems without using formulae
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Aircraft Structures and Systems is written for those studying first- or second-year undergraduate and HND courses in aerospace engineering and technology degrees, and aeronautical options on HND courses in mechanical engineering. It is also useful reading for students on Air Training Corps courses, trainee pilots and for aerospace technician apprentices.
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In an action against a bank seeking compensatory damages, plus multiple damages and attorney's fees under G. L. c. 93A, on the theory that the bank, having agreed to provide the plaintiff with a line of credit, failed to extend the credit in breach of the conditions of the agreement, it was error to allow the defendant's motion to strike the agreement, it was error to allow the defendant's motion to strike the plaintiff's amended complaint on the ground that it violated Mass.R.Civ.P. 11(a), where the amended complaint did not show beyond doubt that the plaintiff could prove no set of facts in support of its claim which would entitle it to relief, and where the record was devoid of a factual basis for concluding that the plaintiff's claim was either frivolous or improperly motivated. [406-409]
CIVIL ACTION commenced in the Superior Court Department on March 13, 1989.
The case was ordered dismissed by Roger J. Donahue, J.
Joseph Wine for the plaintiff.
John J. Kuzinevich for the defendant.
ARMSTRONG, J. The plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing its amended complaint with prejudice under Mass.R.Civ.P. 11(a), 365 Mass. 753 (1974). The relevant history is as follows.
The original complaint alleged that the defendant agreed to provide the plaintiff with a line of credit in the amount of $250,000 and failed to extend the credit in breach of the conditions of the agreement. As a result, the complaint alleged, the plaintiff "suffered great financial loss, was put to great
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expense and sustained a diminution in the value of its business"; it sought $1,000,000 in compensatory damages and three times that amount, plus attorney's fees, for a bad-faith violation of G. L. c. 93A. The defendant moved to strike the complaint for two reasons: first, violation of G. L. c. 231, Section 13B, prohibiting the inclusion of an ad damnum or specific monetary amount unless damages are liquidated or are ascertainable by calculation and supported by an affidavit setting out the method employed in the calculation; and, second, violation of Mass.R.Civ.P. 11(a), [Note 1] because "[i]t is obvious that the [p]laintiff has merely selected a number out of the air, without good grounds for support, for the purposes of annoyance, intimidation and harassment. . . . Plaintiff's unverified and unsupported claim is not advanced in good faith. . . ."
The motion to strike was allowed without a statement of the ground, but the plaintiff was given leave to file a motion to amend the complaint. In response, the plaintiff filed such a motion, together with an amended complaint, different from the original complaint only in that it did not specify the amount of damages sought. The defendant filed an opposition and a motion to strike. The ground was that the complaint still violated rule 11. Five transgressions were listed: (1) The commitment letter was signed not by the defendant but by the First National Bank of Boston, (2) count 2, for breach of contract, is redundant of count 1; (3) count 3, seeking damages for fraud and violations of c. 93A, fails to identify the misrepresentation with the specificity required by Mass.R.Civ.P. 9(b), 365 Mass. 751 (174); (4) the complaint, by failing to substantiate some amount as damages, fails to show that the Superior Court had jurisdiction as opposed to the District Court under G. L. c. 231, Section 102C; and
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(5) the Civil Action Cover Sheet [Note 2] was filed in bad faith, because it states that the plaintiff was "harmed in reputation" but nowhere is a libel or slander count pleaded. Pervading the motion were two other objections: first, that the complaint is substantially unchanged from the one previously struck, except for deletion of the ad damnum; second, that the $1,000,000 claim for damages (still appearing in the "Civil Action Cover Sheet") is "absurd on its face" for breach of a commitment to lend $250,000 "since it assumes that the U.S. Funding had a four hundred percent rate of return on its assets after carrying costs, expenses, and salaries . . . . Rather, on information and belief, [p]laintiff had a return on assets of 1.2 percent; below the industry average of 6-8%."
The motion to strike concluded as follows: "The only inference after reviewing the [c]omplaint and its patent deficiencies is that the suit was filed for the purpose of harassing the [d]efendant and attempting to recover some nuisance value from the transaction. It is clearly improper and not advanced in good faith. It should be stricken and sanctions imposed."
It was error to strike the amended complaint. The complaint is a common garden variety pleading, stating claims for breach of contract and G. L. c. 93A. Shorn of its ad damnum, it is an acceptable complaint, not particularly detailed, but well within the boundaries laid down by Nader v. Citron, 372 Mass. 96 , 98, 104-105 (1977). It does not show "beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief." Id. at 98, quoting from Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41, 45-46 (1957). See also Charbonnier v. Amico, 367 Mass. 146 , 152-153 (1975); Whitinsville Plaza, Inc. v. Kotseas, 378 Mass. 85 ,
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89 (1979); Wrightson v. Spaulding, 20 Mass. App. Ct. 70 , 71-73 (1985).
The specific points urged by the defendant in its motion to strike border on the frivolous. (a) There is no rule of law that limits damage awards for breach of a contract to lend money to nominal damages. Actual damages that were foreseeable can be awarded if substitute financing is unavailable. See Harsha v. State Sav. Bank, 346 N.W.2d 791, 796-797 (Iowa 1984); W-V Enterprises, Inc. v. Federal Sav. & Loan Ins. Corp., 234 Kan. 354, 367-368, 373 (1983); St. Paul at Chase Corp. v. Manufacturers Life Ins. Co., 262 Md. 192, 240-243, cert. denied, 404 U.S. 857 (1971). Compare First Pa. Mortgage Trust v. Dorchester Sav. Bank, 395 Mass. 614 , 627 (1985). See generally Restatement (Second) of Contracts Section 343 comment e & illustration 15 (1981); 5 Corbin, Contracts Section 1078, at 447-448 (1964); 11 Williston, Contracts Section 1411, at 614 (3d ed. 1968); Annotation, Measure and Elements of Damages for Breach of Contract to Lend Money, 4 A.L.R.4th 682, 698-703 (1981). (b) The Superior Court had jurisdiction even though the action might be remanded to the District Court under G. L. c. 231, Section 102C. See G. L. c. 212, Section 4 (general jurisdiction of Superior Court); G. L. c. 218, Section 19 (concurrent jurisdiction of District Courts in "all civil action[s] in which money damages are sought"). (c) While Mass.R.Civ.P. 9(b) requires specification of circumstances in "averments of fraud, mistake, duress or undue influence," the concept of "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" made actionable by G. L. c. 93A "goes far beyond the scope of the common law action for fraud and deceit," Slaney v. Westwood Auto, Inc., 366 Mass. 688 , 703 (1975), and does not necessarily require similar pleading specificity. (d) The reference in the cover sheet to seeking compensatory damages for injury to the reputation of the plaintiff's business may be unachievable under settled law but it is not a basis for dismissal of the complaint (which makes no reference to such damages). (e) If there is any ground for the defendant's motion that has possible merit, it is that the plaintiff's dealings were with First National Bank
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of Boston rather than with the named defendant (Bank of Boston Corporation). As to this, however, the record supplies on factual basis for a conclusion that the plaintiff did not contract with Bank of Boston Corp. If it did, the appropriate remedy would normally be substitution of the correct party defendant rather than dismissal of the action -- particularly if it is shown that the corporations are related and that there has been no prejudice caused to the correct defendant by the delay.
More generally, we think that the judgment in this case represents an inappropriate use of rule 11. It is true that rule 11 is "a useful tool to restrain frivolous and abusive litigation," Anderson v. Cryovac, Inc., 96 F.R.D. 431, 431 (D. Mass. 1983), and that, unlike Federal rule 11, [Note 3] Massachusetts rule 11 retains the provision for striking pleadings that are signed with intent to defeat the purpose of the rule (such as an intent to harass or to cause needless delay or expense). Dismissal was ordered in this case, however, before the filing of any answer or other responsive pleading and in the absence of affidavits, depositions, answers to interrogatories, or testimony. The result is a record devoid of a factual basis for concluding that the plaintiff's claim is either frivolous or improperly motivated.
"All fact issues raised by pleadings or other papers should be resolved by the usual litigation processes before questions of honesty are addressed, and no investigation or discovery directed only toward honesty should be allowed until such issues have been resolved, by trial or otherwise, in the moving party's favor." Risinger, Honesty in Pleading and Its Enforcement: Some "Striking" Problems with Federal Rule of
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Civil Procedure 11, 61 Minn.L.Rev. 1, 61-62 (1976). "Rule 11 should not be used to raise issues of legal sufficiency that more properly can be disposed of by a motion for a more definite statement or by a motion for summary judgment." 5 Wright & Miller, Federal Practice & Procedure Section 1334 (1969).
The cases relied on by the defendant do not support the use of rule 11 to jump the gun. Rhinehart v. Stauffer, 638 F.2d 1169 (9th Cir. 1980), permitted dismissal apparently at the pretrial conference stage of the litigation after it appeared that the plaintiff's attorney had signed a complaint without sufficient knowledge of the matter to be able to discuss it with opposing counsel and without having even discussed the case with, or received information about the case from, his client. In Murray v. Dominick Corp. of Canada, Ltd., 117 F.R.D. 512 (S.D.N.Y. 1987), the dismissal came during a trial that showed that certain pretrial submissions of the plaintiff contained material statements of fact that the judge found to have been knowingly false. In Anderson v. Cryovac, Ltd., 96 F.R.D. at 432, the complaint was not dismissed.
A defendant who wishes to avoid the expense of a trial to defend against a frivolous, improperly motivated claim, is not without recourse. "If a complaint lacks merit, the defendant should take the appropriate steps to cause the matter to be brought within the purview of rule 56(b), 365 Mass. 824 (1974)." Wrightson v. Spaulding, 20 Mass. App. Ct. at 72. Having first established that the complaint lacks merit, the defendant may then proceed in appropriate cases to avail himself of the remedies afforded by rule 11 and by G. L. c. 231, Section 6F, which may include costs, damages, and attorneys' fees. See New England Allbank for Sav. v. Rouleau, ante 135, 141 n.5 (1989).
Judgment reversed.
[Note 1] In relevant part the rule reads: "The signature of an attorney to a pleading constitutes a certificate by him that he has read the pleading; that to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief there is a good ground to support it; and that it is not interposed for delay. If a pleading is not signed, or is signed with intent to defeat the purpose of this Rule, it may be stricken and the action may proceed as though the pleading had not been filed. For a wilful violation of this rule an attorney may be subjected to appropriate disciplinary action."
[Note 2] Superior Court Standing Order No. 1-83 (1983) requires one filing a civil complaint to fill out a Civil Action Cover Sheet that describes the type of action and damages sought "to facilitate court case data collection and the transfer procedure in the Superior Court Department . . . ." The plaintiff, in completing the form, is required to set forth a "statement specifying in full and itemized detail the facts upon which the plaintiff then relies as constituting money damages." Superior Court Rule 29(2).
[Note 3] See New England Allbank for Sav. v. Rouleau, ante 135, 141 n.5 (1989). The history and reasons for the 1983 amendment to the Federal rule 11 are discussed in 2A Moore, Federal Practice Section 11.01[4] (2d ed. 1987), where it is said, at 11-5 (citations omitted): "The provision in the original rule for striking pleadings and motions as sham and false has been deleted. The passage has rarely been utilized, and decisions thereunder have tended to confuse the issue of attorney honesty with the merits of the action. Motions under this provision generally present issues better dealt with under Rules 8, 12 or 56."


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The long-term contract that everyone wants for Martin O'Neill is about to come to fruition, with Randy Lerner set to table a massive #2.5 million-a-year deal to secure the Ulsterman's future at Aston Villa.
Despite constant protestations that he is happy with his current agreement, O'Neill will be offered #15 million over six years to stay at Villa Park and complete the remarkable turnaround that has characterised his first two months in charge.
According to sources close to Lerner, the American billion-aire has not only been impressed with O'Neill's leadership of the Premiership club but has enjoyed being involved with English football, perhaps more than he expected.
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O'Neill's famed motivational powers have brought the best out of players like Juan Pablo Angel and Gareth Barry with the latter pledging his own future to Villa on the strength of the new manager's arrival.
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Meanwhile, striker Luke Moore could be back in action as early as January after his shoulder injury was discovered to be not as serious as was first feared.
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O'Neill said: "The good news is that Luke could be back in as little as three months. I was worried it might be a season-finishing injury, but physio Alan Smith assured me that will not be the case.
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Sorry, Miko: Tannehill elected as a captain by Dolphins teammates
Adam Beasley's Miami Dolphins report: Wednesday
Miko Grimes was wrong about Ryan Tannehill.
His teammates do like and respect him.
And here's the proof: Tannehill is one of five Dolphins elected by the players as season-long captains.
The other four: center Mike Pouncey, defensive end Cam Wake, safety Reshad Jones and special teams ace Michael Thomas.
"The fact the we did have a good variety of people voted for ... is encouraging, because that means a lot of guys look up to guys than just those five," said coach Adam Gase. "I think those five guys, at least in my experience here so far, stood out as leaders to me. Those are guys that are always approaching me. You see them working with younger guys. I guess I wasn't really surprised by who was voted in."
Tannehill has been elected as a captain for the second time in five seasons. He also served on Joe Philbin's leadership council.
And it's a clear repudiation of what Brent Grimes' wife wrote about Tannehill last fall. Miko Grimes has repeatedly roasted Tannehill on social media, most notably when she said the whole team "hated" Tannehill.
That's obviously not the case.
"Every year I see this guy grow," said receiver Jarvis Landry. "For the last three years, [he's grown] more and more as a leader. It's something that this team needs. He stepped to forefront, and obviously being elected captain shows it."
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