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NEW BEDFORD — Lee R. "Smitty" Smith, 61, of Fairhaven, passed away unexpectedly Thursday, March 27, 2014 at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford.
Born in Acushnet, son of Doris (Bouthillette) Smith of Orlando, FL and the late Kenneth Smith, he was a lifelong resident of Fairhaven and graduate of Fairhaven High School.
Smitty was a mechanic for several years for the Union Street Railway and also drove truck for several independent contractors. He loved the outdoors and enjoyed hunting, fishing and boating.
He is survived by his mother; a son, Justin Smith of Fairhaven; and a sister, Kathryn Pemberton and her husband Albert and their son Kenneth of Orlando, FL.
He will be cremated and memorial calling hours will be held Thursday from 4-7 pm in the Fairhaven Funeral Home, 117 Main Street. A graveside service will be held Friday, April 4, 2014 at 11:30 am in River-Side Cemetery, Fairhaven.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to a Scholarship Fund to be established for Justin.
For memorial register or facility directions go to, www.hathawayfunerals.com or call (508)994-9471.
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Just seeing if anyone has built there own workstand?
I've been pondering having a crack sometime soon after I figure out what material to use
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Pity the foolish cyclists who brave the winter mornings in summer cycling gear. The rest of the bunch are wearing their jackets, leg warmers, arm warmers, skull caps, winter gloves, booties and some have even prepared there water bottles with warm water. Yes… it is cold out there and you will suffer if you are underprepared. Phew are a […]
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I made someone a workstand once out of an old towball bike rack (or carrier), the sort of thing safe to leave out in the carport as no one would ever steal it. I used some square section steel tube to make a triangle of two legs bolted to where the towball met to make do as legs, even cable-tied an ice cream container to the shaft as a tool bucket. The 'legs' were made to lay flat on the ground and extended under the bike, balancing the load. Just use a bike carrier that is easy to open and won't mangle your bike. Still in use 10 years later.
There are several examples of people making workstands out of PVC tubing, if you aren't up to metalworking.
There are several examples of people making workstands out of PVC tubing, if you aren't up to metalworking.
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Pretty sure it was Jean did a great BB support unit using a sawhorse and chopping board.
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You can also use a pedestal fan base, just pull the fan off and you're done. Mainly for painting frames as they aren't rock solid, but no effort required.
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i got bored at work and made this
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A couple of threads on this before, including mine as mentioned by Mulger above.
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This is Greg (cohawk), and I don't appreciate whatever gutless excuse for a person is posting stuff under my alias.
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By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: June 20, 2003
WASHINGTON, June 19— Federal law enforcement officials said today that they had uncovered a plot by operatives of Al Qaeda, using an Ohio truck driver as a scout, to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge and other targets as recently as March.
The truck driver, Iyman Faris, a 34-year-old naturalized American citizen from Kashmir living in Columbus, Ohio, was secretly arrested about three months ago. Mr. Faris agreed to plead guilty in May in closed proceedings before a federal judge in Virginia to charges that he had provided material support to terrorists, officials said today. He now faces 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors said Mr. Faris traveled in Afghanistan and Pakistan beginning in 2000, meeting with Osama bin Laden and working with one of his top lieutenants, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, to help organize and finance jihad causes. After returning to the United States in late 2002, officials said, he began casing the Brooklyn Bridge and discussing via coded messages with Qaeda leaders ways of using blowtorches to sever the suspension cables.
The plotting continued through March, as Mr. Faris sent coded messages to Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. One such message said that ''the weather is too hot.'' Officials said that meant that Mr. Faris feared that the plot was unlikely to succeed -- apparently because of security and the bridge's structure -- and should be postponed. He was arrested soon after, although officials would not discuss the circumstances of his capture.
In a news conference here today, Attorney General John Ashcroft said that the authorities took Mr. Faris's plot very seriously and that the case ''highlights the very real threats that still exist here at home in the United States of America in the war against terrorism.''
The New York City Police Department, which was told of the plot in March, said it considered the threat so serious that it had increased land and marine patrols around the Brooklyn Bridge several months ago. ''He is the principal reason why we have the kind of security you see on the Brooklyn Bridge,'' a law enforcement official said of Mr. Faris.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said: ''We spend a great deal of effort and money in keeping this city secure. In this case, it appears that money was well spent. It may have saved the Brooklyn Bridge.''
An F.B.I. official said investigators were still seeking to determine just how far the plot proceeded and how serious a threat Mr. Faris posed.
''Obviously he had contacts with people at Al Qaeda so he has to be considered somewhat important, but to say whether he really could have accomplished this or not, we're still not sure,'' the official said.
Justice Department officials decided to announce the case at a time when Mr. Ashcroft has been put on the defensive by charges from his own inspector general this month that the department mistreated many illegal immigrants after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in its aggressive pursuit of terrorist suspects.
The Faris case allowed Mr. Ashcroft to claim another high-profile victory in the campaign against terrorism, and he compared it to other significant prosecutions against terrorist supporters in Detroit, Lackawanna, N.Y., and elsewhere. Although he declined to discuss details, he said the timing in making the case public was driven solely by law enforcement concerns.
''I firmly believe that for us to have announced this case a day sooner would have carried with it the potential of impairing very important interests,'' Mr. Ashcroft told reporters today.
Mr. Faris was arrested soon after sending the message overseas about the bridge being ''too hot'' to attack, but the authorities refused to say how or where he was apprehended or what led them to him. Details cited in court documents indicated that the F.B.I. might have used electronic surveillance or intelligence sources to track his activities, but Mr. Ashcroft and other officials refused to discuss the surveillance because they said it could compromise national security.
J. Frederick Sinclair, a lawyer representing Mr. Faris, did not return phone calls seeking comment.
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Mr. Faris, also known as Mohammad Rauf, came to the United States in 1994, officials said. He lived on a clean, tree-lined street in a racially mixed neighborhood in Columbus in the late 1990's, until he and his wife apparently separated in early 2000, neighbors said today.
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Negative thought: You can't shake your nerves on race morning.
Combat it: "Translate your nervousness into 'arousal,'" Winsberg says. "Everyone gets nervous. Joe Montana used to get nervous before every game—the best athletes still get nervous. It's a part of competing and you have to reframe it as arousal. You need some nervousness to race well. Being too blazé is not a good way to start a race. Just think of it as getting fired up."
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- 1 1⁄2 lbs flank steaks (or inside round or sirloin tip)
- 1⁄2 cup beer or 1⁄2 cup ale or 1⁄2 cup sherry wine
- 2 -3 garlic cloves, minced
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- 1 tablespoon chili powder
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Brook Injured, Hearn Confirms, Kell To Withdraw Again?
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UPDATE: Brook's promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed on Twitter that his boxer did indeed injure his foot and is currently receiving treatment. Hearn did not indicate if the injury is serious enough that his boxer needs to withdraw.
According to a report in UK outlet Daily Express , Kell Brook has suffered a foot injury in training and may withdraw from the rescheduled fight with IBF welterweight champion Devon Alexander, currently set for May 18th at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. The fight had already been postponed, twice, due to injuries. Originally it was set for January 19th, but Brook withdrew with an ankle injury. It was then set for February 23, but Alexander pulled out after hurting his bicep.
At the present, there has been no confirmation regarding the injury from Brook or his promoter, Eddie Hearn, or Alexander's promoter Golden Boy Promotions..
Alexander's the champ, find another opponet and move on. No one knows Brook anyway.Comment by MeanestNiceGuy on 04-12-2013
Screw both of these guys AND this fight. If anything, Brook needs this fight more than Alexander. Move these bums out of the way, and not allow them to ruin this lovely boxing schedule for the 3rd time.Comment by JmH Reborn on 04-12-2013
Yeah...I am probably over the anticipation of seeing Kell Brook now. He can stay in the UK now. I was hoping he could be the one to finally rid us of Alexander from premium TV. Guess notComment by witter87 on 04-12-2013
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Glenda Goertzen in the Great Sandhills of Saskatchewan, Canada
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Glenda Goertzen (born January 14, 1967, in Morse, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian author of children's and young adult fantasy, including the best-selling children's novel The Prairie Dogs.
Life and Work[edit]
Glenda Goertzen commenced her writing career at the age of four, beginning with picture books and comic books to share with her friends. Her first act upon attending grade one was to vandalize her school books by adding her own characters to the pages. An annual project involved absconding with her mother's copy of the Sears Christmas catalogue and creating her own little story within the pages. The plot involved a group of tiny children trying to make their way to the toy section. There was a challenge on every page—trying to avoid getting stepped on in the shoe section, for example, or treasure hunting in the jewellery department.
The first draft of The Prairie Dogs was written while she was in high school. The novel was based on the imaginary adventures of her childhood toys and the real adventures of dogs she had grown up with. When she attended university, however, it was to get a degree in Film and Video from the University of Regina so she could be a cartoon animation artist. She enjoyed a brief career as a computer graphics and animation artist, then went to work for CKTV Regina in a variety of technical positions. Much of her writing took place during quiet graveyard shifts. Early drafts of manuscripts were scribbled on the back of programming sheets for the Flintstones and other favourite shows. In the course of producing a short children's program, she met local children's authors who encouraged her to pursue her own writing career.
In 1998 she moved to Saskatoon to take the Library and Information Programme at SIAST. One day while working on a homework assignment, she picked up a piece of scrap paper and noticed it was a page from an old draft of The Prairie Dogs, which she had unsuccessfully attempted to have published several years earlier. She dug up the old manuscript and started reworking it. Shortly after moving to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to launch her new library career, The Prairie Dogs was published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside.
Goertzen's trademark style is a fast-paced balance of humour and suspense. Her love of biology and quirky ecosystems plays a strong role in her books.
The Prairie Dogs[edit]
Meet Pierre, the abandoned agility champion; Dare, the terrier that nothing can scare; Mouse, the fainting Chihuahua; and Mew, the puppy who thinks she's a cat. Together, they're the Prairie Dogs, their mission to have fun and stay out of trouble. Quick wits and quick feet keep the little strays one step ahead of disaster until the night a friend's life is in danger. To save him, the Prairie Dogs must leave the safety of their badger burrow hideout to venture deep into the heart of a rival pack's territory. And the Bull Dogs aren't the only dangers awaiting them in the prairie night…
City Dogs[edit]
When Pierre and Dare are abducted from their small prairie town, their friends hop a train to the big city to rescue them. New companions and old enemies join the Prairie Dogs as they race through the city in an effort to be reunited with one another. With the help of a team of sled dogs and a smoking magpie, they manage to elude a pair of ruthless thieves, television cameras, and the dreaded Crunchy Nibbles. But time is running out—Dare's new puppies are on the way!
Miracle Dogs[edit]
After meeting a group of Assistance Dogs, Pierre decides to train his troublesome puppies for this prestigious career. His efforts are sabotaged by his outrageously misbehaving companions, a band of feral cats who have a score to settle with Dare, and a freak accident on the Telemiracle stage. If the Prairie Dogs ever want to see the puppies again, they will have to brave the perils of the winter prairie to perform a desperate rescue mission. It will take a miracle just to get everyone home!
The Prairie Dogs reflects Goertzen's own childhood; moving from a big city to a small town, long walks across the prairie, her interest in prairie animals. City Dogs reflects her older years, particularly the years she worked in a TV station. Miracle Dogs reflects many different areas of her life. Its setting includes a museum; a combination of the award-winning museum in her home town of Morse, Saskatchewan and the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, which she visited frequently as a little girl. It also takes place at Telemiracle. Goertzen attended several Telemiracle productions, both as an audience member and as a CKTV employee.
Lady Oak Abroad[edit]
The first year of the new millennium has not been kind to Audrey O'Krane. She's been run over by a bus, her boyfriend dumped her, her principal just expelled her. She longs to discard her dysfunctional world and start over. Her wish is about to come true—in more ways than one. When her batty old aunt disappears through a portal in their front yard, Audrey discovers Migrara, one of the many fascinating worlds that overlap our own. Migrara is home to an array of bizarre and often dangerous characters, including Keirt, a quirky young mage hunting a powerful enemy. Audrey herself turns out to be a powerful "worldhopper" with the ability to travel from world to world. She gladly abandons Earth to join Keirt on his quest. But the beautiful Migrara hides a terrible secret. It's up to Audrey to challenge the most dangerous forces in the universe in order to save her friends, her family and her world.
Goertzen wrote Lady Oak Abroad to entertain and empower female readers of fantasy/science fiction. The intricately plotted novel is a unique blend of humour, romance and adventure, powered by a boundless imagination.
- The Prairie Dogs (2005), ISBN 978-1-55005113-1
- City Dogs (2007), ISBN 978-1-55455005-0
- Miracle Dogs (2012), ISBN 978-0-98792320-2
- Lady Oak Abroad (2014) ISBN 978-0-98792321-9 (eBook)
Selected Awards and Honours[edit]
- 2005 Saskatchewan Book Award shortlist for The Prairie Dogs
- 2006 Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Award shortlist for The Prairie Dogs
- 2006/2007 Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Diamond Willow Award shortlist for The Prairie Dogs
- 2007 Saskatchewan Book Award shortlist for City Dogs
- 2008 Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids & Teens, City Dogs
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Many residents have voiced their concern of closing the building before the new one is built, but according to Commissioner Bill Gibbons and Assistant Commissioner Lori Bullard of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, who visited Dyer County in October, the closure is necessary because the department will be migrating to a new system beginning Jan. 1, 2013. The new system requires new equipment, which is not compatible with the old facilities on James H. Rice Road and would not be able to accommodate the size of the equipment.
According to Sgt. Robert Moore of the THP, the building on James H. Rice Road opened in 1980 due in large part to the dedication of five troopers, who rallied the community behind them to build the facility. The troopers included: Elmer Hatley, Jerry Baker, Jerry Strain, Mike Boals and Leon Goff. The troopers were working out of the American Legion office on St. John Avenue and realized there was a need for a facility to call their own.
Boals, who is currently a chief deputy for the Dyer County Sheriff's Office recalled on Thursday how the big five factories at the time all contributed $5,000 apiece and the rest was raised from donations from the community. Dyer County also stepped in and granted the troopers a 99-year lease for the site to build the complex.
"We did most of the construction work ourselves," said Boals.
The facility included a firing range for troopers when it first opened and a driving course. According to Moore, the facility's location was ideal to support the firing range because there was nothing in the vicinity. The building was constructed before the fair was moved to its current location and before the ball fields were built on Community Park Road. However, once the area became more populated the firing range was removed.
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Innovation in video games
For those who are my friends, they no there isn't much that I like more then video games, except maybe my friends, and girls, and my friends, who are mostly girls…
Anyway, I would like to discuss with the three of you who read this blog, what I think are the most important innovations in video games. WHOO! Lets start.
NUMBER ONE: Invisible walls!
Not only are invisible walls an amazing idea (I wish I had in invisible wall on my window, so my dog would stop jumping out it, and running away), but Invisible walls are amazingly useful. They keep people from wondering outside the map, and seeing the outside sections where the lazy developers just couldn't cut it. Of course why settle for invisible walls when you can instead use invisible death grids. Instead of preventing the player from moving though them, you simply annihilate anything that passes through. That way the player doesn't feel limited by your invisible wall technology. Want to have some real fun, just dangle a powerup on the other side of the invisible death grid.
NUMBER TWO: Undodgable Enemy Attacks!
You know the one. You're playing your favorite action RPG game, you trudge miles down all those dark spooky ass caverns, killing all kinds of monsters, and finally you reach that big nasty spider boss, and then… He hits you repeatedly with a move you are too close to dodge from until you are dead. Undodeable attacks add a whole new level of depth to you RPG/Shooter/Platformer/Actions Game/Skateboarding Game. They require you to get inside the enemies head, think about what they're going to do next, and then feel totally worthless when you guess incorrectly. They add new meaning to the phrase "hard but fair." More appropriately they change it to "hard and unfair." Just wait until the developers figure out how to give you undodgable attacks. That would be the best.
NUMBER THREE: Instant death attacks!
Now I know what you're thinking about. Oh I assure you I do. You don't beleive me, well here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC3Gil_8-dA How many times did you watch that cutscene playing resident evil 4. It must have been like 20 for me. You know, sometimes I would intentionally freak out and unplug my controller, and then watch helplessly as Leon got his head cut clean off, just so that I could feel that humiliation of, well getting my head cut clean off. What's that, you only died twice. Well I don't care how much better you are at Resident evil then me, because I'm still better at Smash Bros (unless you are better at smash bros). For some real fun, try combining this with the previous entry, and then have some real fun.
NUMBER FOUR: Grinding!
Sweet, I only need to kill 500 more spiders before I can beat the next boss. Enough said.
NUMBER FIVE: Cutscenes!
Now, not any old cutscene will cut it for this one, I'm talking specifically about ones you can't skip, because nothing is more fun then when you're stuck on something, and the game assists you by showing you the same cutscene again and again each and every time you fail. Just imagine if Hideo Kojima started implementing this. I'm getting nauseous feeling just thinking about it. Nausea is a good felling right. It's like the equivalent of winning the game of the year award.
NUMBER FIVE: Escort Missions!
"LEON HELP!" I love hearing that. It just makes me feel like needed, you know. Like someone cares about me. Someone other then my pillow. I wish my pillow was filled less with tears. I'm going to go make some warm milk, and pretend someone else made it for me. Be right back.
NUMBER SIX: Walking Really Slowly!
This trope is common in lots of games. Like in slender man, where you aren't even allowed to walk fast, or like in the abstergo sections in assassins creed black flag. You get lots of time to look around the amazingly crafted office building, while you walk around to see if the new computer room is open, again, and again. This trope also appears in Metroid Other M: Where Samus is often tasked with trading in her fun actions sequences for walking really slowly in empty rooms. Some other games that this trope appears in:
Halo 3 (when cortana talks to you)
Grand Theft Auto (On the phone)
Uncharted (When talking to sully)
Every RPG game ever made!
You know what the best part of spending $60 on a game is. Finding out it has a cliffhanger ending, and waiting two the three months to pay more money for DLC. But that's not the only thing DLC is good for, you can also use it to add cool new weapons that weren't included in the game, or even better useless new weapons that weren't included in the game. What about a stoner themes decal for the side of my car, or the ability to put underbelly lights on it. Oh, I know, instead of adding an RGB color mixer to our game, we'll include it as DLC. The only thing better then DLC, is expensive DLC. It's like all the pain of Christmas shopping, except you get to be underwhelmed by your gift right now, instead of on Christmas. No where did I put my horse armor.
NUMBER EIGHT: Quick time events!
Why should we require players to use their skill to dodge out of the way, when we can link it to a button press instead. Even better, we'll link it to a bunch of button presses over the course of a long unskipable cutscene, and if they fail even one they have to start all over. I know, how about we try one right now. Here's how this works, I'm going to write a button prompt about 20 lines below this sentence, and I want you to scroll down as fast as you can and press it. GO!
There you have it, the definitive list of video game innovation. Now go armature game makers, go and innovate. Like do it. NOW!
Lathe, only machine to make itself?
In my Materials class last week we watched a video that bothered me with a statement that the Lathe was the only machine that can reproduce itself. Its not as if there aren't other machines that can do that, right? Actually wrong, after a small investigation the Lathe and the Mill are the only 2 machines that have a chance of making themselves in the manner that I now think of it as. Many people on forums mentioned Dave Gingery who actually produced parts of a lathe using a casting then proceeded to use that lathe to make the parts more accurately and make the lathe more efficient. I have never seen this process before but I can tell you with almost absolute certainty that a 3D printer cannot do that. Of course a 3D printer can produce most of its support structure but many of the moving parts need to move along a straight metal rod, or multiple rods depending on the design, and many 3D printers cannot print metal so it is going to be a while before they can fully reproduce and they can't make themselves from nothing unless I missed something. The only part of a lathe that cannot be made by a lathe is a power source which means that somehow you will have to hook it up to an engine or some type of turning machine (waterwheel maybe?). Assuming that the 3D printer would not be able to make the computer which is like the power module for the 3D printer but neither can it create the wires which power all of the processes while the gears would be easy to make in a lathe with some modifications.
So I say that the video about lathes when they say the lathe is the only machine to make itself is most likely right other than the fact that it can't do that without an operator which is an argument in its own right.
Reviewing my Moto G from Republic Wireless
Hello one and all, I haven't posted anything of significance lately but I have recently bought a Moto G 1st generation from a new and awesome carrier. So, first off, if you haven't heard of Republic Wireless I don't really blame you but I saw the beta going on a few years back and had more recently ordered a Defy XT off of ebay and activated it. The main thing about this service is that it can use almost any wifi network to make calls even if you don't have signal in the house. My grampa has one of the slowest networks that I know of (hughsnet in the middle of nowhere) though me and my mother were both able to talk on our phones through that network easily.
Now Republic is not without it's problems, such as the first phone I had, The Defy XT, could not do picture messaging and could not turn over calls to the cellular network if you started the call on wifi. The new Moto G still has some problems but it is a large step up from the Defy.
Specs: A bunch of data that makes no sense to the average person who wants to know only "does this thing actually work?"
So, The speed is decently fast, there are hiccups here and there but that only started to appear when I started to use custom launchers, my daily launcher is Yahoo Aviate. The phone has clear audio compared with any phone I had before including my nexus S 4G which was a very good phone.
I think that the wifi calling is a great thing but I have had to transition a few times onto the cellular to hear the person on the other side, though this mostly happens at times when there is high internet traffic in the area I do get a bit annoyed. The battery will last all day with location and bluetooth off but I usually have to charge it twice in one day which is near impossible to some people so buyer be warned when it comes to battery life.
I would like to add other things to this review so if anyone has a question about the phone leave a comment below and I'll be sure to respond as fast as possible.
Vampire High
That's right, I'm reviewing a book, deal with it! This book is called vampire high! GO:
So I hope you like corn and lots of it because this book is corny. It's about a boy named Cody Elliot who is attending his first year at a high school about vampires! But not the bloodcurdling vampires of Draclua fame, nor the sparkly vampires we've become accustomed to in recent years. These vampires are somewhere in between, and in truth are more like regular old children, hence the corniness. But corniness aside, they're actually likable, and relatable high school students who are dealing with relatable high school social problems.
The problems start when Cody attends school, and everything is super weird. Then he picks a fight with school bully protecting a kid named Justin. Then the bully is all like "Are you stupid bro (not an actual quote) I'm gonna kill you and your face," but this girl named Ileana marks him, and then everyone leaves him alone. Then Justin is all like "Dude, are you stupid (still not an actual quote) you're like human and we're all like Vampires bro." In the real book Justin isn't so obnoxious sounding, I swear, but that's the gist. So Cody finds out the school is all Romanian and vampiresque, and that the only reason he attends is to be on the water polo team because Vampire's can't swim. He befriends Justin, falls in love with Ileana, and shit hits the fan. The story picks up from there.
So there is the corniness, but despite this I ended up really liking the book. The Jenti students (their word for vampire) are relatable, Cody is relatable, and so are his problems, and additionally everything is charming. At first it seemed like it didn't need vampires, but they end up winning you over by the end, and the book world is well fleshed out, and feels like it is very real in it's own vampiresque (yes I made up that word) way, and it comes to a pretty satisfying conclusion, that attaches you to Cody and the story overall.
It's certainly not a deep book that is going to radically redefine your perception, but it's a charming story that's fun to read.
Citations and plagiarism
How are we not supposed to plagiarize in school when everything they have us do gets different rules each year? I know I might be a little bit nit picky but MLA has changed at least 4 times if not more just in my 4 years of high school and going into my fourth year of college! Writing a web citation in MLA went from including any information that could possibly exist on the page down to the original website and the article (from reading my notes you people looking for a citation now!) I agree that Citing sources is important and these sources might change over time but if there is a standard set in one class and the next class is supposed to use this standard they have to reteach it completely. I took all of my high school english classes and my teacher in College also taught us how to do correct citations for the web because they change every school year!
I'm not saying that plagiarism is not bad, it is absolutely no good for anyone to plagiarize peoples work; but does it really need to be so hard to give credit to another piece? All I am asking for is some basic rules that will not change yearly and allow us to work without worrying if we are using the latest citation type.
Quality of teachers vs. Quality of classes
This semester has been an interesting one, it marks my first online class at IvyTech and also my second highest GPA since high school. As I prepare for final exams I have to remember some of the teachers who helped me get where I am today looking through my Chemistry book in the nice quiet Panera Bread. But why do we remember teachers and not the classes themselves? the class was not necessarily developed by the person teaching it and a majority of my college classes so far have been put together by a committee of teachers who, if I can be so bold, cannot agree on any changes to save their students GPA. Though the teacher, also especially in college, gets freedom to determine the test questions and what type of lecture they provide. While some teachers are very limited by the course itself it is not always fair to blame either for your mistakes.
I have had teachers ruin subjects for me and some that have made it more entertaining but if you have the first type of teacher it might be good for you to put in a bit more effort. I was failing Calculus 2(ended up dropping it after getting near the end and realizing I could not bring my grade up even if I got an A on my final exam) I realized that it was not my teachers fault and made corrections, though I made them too late. The instructor barely used class time and mostly told stories but many people were still passing, and even excelling, in the class. I asked them what they were doing and it turned out that many of my classmates came to lecture only to review and have already watched several lecture videos online. It was way too late to start that so I decided to drop before my time was up but when I take Calculus and Calculus 2 again I will most certainly be looking for those tutorials online in order to find some help.
There are also many alternative tests out now which really help, CK12 offers flexbooks and lessons that are more understandable than most classrooms! I do not really like the way all of them are laid out but CK12.org has been a great resource since I learned about the project. And if neither of those work go to a tutor of form a study group! This year in Chemistry has been the first time I've actually had a study group (4 people works better than 2 I think) and I have been excelling by helping them get the questions and also by asking them questions. I'm at 90% right now and that is mostly because of the slight mistakes here and there. Thats all for today, I'll hopefully be posting much more often this summer so stay tuned!
Simplifying: applied to life
To simplify a math equation all you need to do is to plug in variables or reduce it down, it's simple, clean, and unique to each problem. Life is no different, or so I'm told, there are plenty of books out on how and why you should simplify your life and it mostly boils down to one reason (in my circumstance) I have too much crap! I have been accumulating for 21 years! My entire life I have been sentimental about keeping stuff that I don't need like a way of saying: "I still remember that person who gave me that" but it is time to stop gathering crap and start gathering stuff I actually need. I'm not going to make a 30 or 90 day commitment because I would not follow it anyway and it would be a waste of time to do so, what I am doing is saying that I really need to get rid of stuff before our next move (which might be next week for all I know).
I think my collecting of stuff started when I was young. I would never want to get rid of anything and my room was piled with broken toys that I would get around to throwing away but never did. This is fine for a kid but now I have shoes that are torn apart that I do not need, clothes torn that I will never wear again, and cords that belong to electronics I no longer use or sometimes even own! Those aren't the larger problems though, in reality I think I have one pair of shoes that really are in bad condition and my clothes are thrown out regularly as they tear but paperwork and physical media seem to be big issues with me. I used to think I needed to own every movie on DVD and all my music on compact discs even after Itunes, Rhapsody, and many other software has made DVDs and CDs pretty much unnecessary since your purchases can even be backed up online. The final push to get rid of my excessive CD and DVD collection (what seems excessive to me may not be too much to you) I will have to repurchase about 30 movies online or make the choice that I do not need these which will be a hard decision though most of my music is already in my digital library and I no longer need the CDs in that form to use the music.
The paper from notes and other school assignments I think will be the hardest to get rid of since there is still not a simple way to transfer all of it to digital (since it mostly consists of spiral bound awesomeness and drawings in the pages that I will never make again) I just have to make the decision of what I really need, the textbooks are useful but I may never use them again. additionally they take up a lot of room in my bedroom and I never really pick it up and use it so my next task is to take them all and get rid of them but maybe take the name and isbn to put in a database and make sure I can find them if I need something from them.
If anyone has more suggestions I would love to hear them there is a comment section below, thanks for reading.


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Two – Thieves
'Few people in Saffron have seen a natural Pokémon now; they are scarce, requiring more food and less-polluted habitats than any of the artificial ones. It does not matter. League-produced Pokémon are exactly the same, but improved.'
"Good morning, Riley."
"Good morning, Gwyn," replied Riley chirpily. "What can I do for you today?"
"Display messages," I replied, and illusory green text flickered over the windscreen of the car.
"I'm afraid I shall have to move these as soon as the car starts moving again," said Riley warningly. "It would be a terrible hazard for your attention to be divided between the road and your messages in such a way."
"All right, whatever." I glanced at the traffic lights – still red – and back at the messages. Thirteen new ones, ten of them station-wide alerts about new developments during the night shift, and three addressed to me personally. I poked one, and it expanded into three paragraphs of apology from Jack for shooting out the Charizard's flame sac the day before. I sighed. "Delete."
It vanished, and I moved on to the next one, which was from my sister; it was a gentle reminder that it was my niece's birthday next week, and it would be very much appreciated if I remembered it this time.
"Riley, remind me to get her a present tomorrow and see if I can take Tuesday off."
"Naturally. I shall compose a request immediately."
I returned my attention to the windscreen, and had just enough time to see that the subject of the last message was 'Urgent Request' before the lights went green and it disappeared.
"For your safety, I have removed your inbox from sight," Riley informed me.
"I noticed, thanks," I muttered, and drove on. Without the illuminated text in front of me, there was almost no light save the numbers and dials on the dashboard; this morning, the city was thickly shrouded under a dense, slate-grey fog. The car's headlights penetrated only a few feet in front of me, just about showing the back of the truck in front; were it not for the fact that I knew exactly where I was going, I'd have had to stay at home today – that or risk using the satnav, which had picked up a rhinovirus last week and was still not feeling well.
The fogs were getting more common these days, and no one really knew why. Every expert had their own theory, and none seemed very convincing; for my part, I could never rid myself of the conviction that it was Saffron's way of protesting at the way we defiled it – protesting the abominations that we built and that called its alleys home, protesting the decaying monsters in the sewers and the poison that the laboratories poured into its veins. I shivered as I thought over it. I wasn't usually so morbid, but the fog had a way of getting into your head. I wouldn't have been surprised if it had been alive itself, a malignant spectre that leeched all your good spirits away and spat acid back in their place.
Thanks to the fog, it took me a full forty-five minutes to get to the Gym, and by that time I'd half-forgotten about the 'Urgent Request'; it was only as I was parking that Riley chirped up:
"You will be stationary imminently. Shall I display your inbox again?"
"Oh. Uh, yeah."
I turned off the engine, and the list of messages reappeared on the windscreen. Unbuckling my seatbelt, I poked the 'Urgent Request' one and read its contents:
Agent Cadogan, I would very much appreciate it if you could contact me as soon as you arrive at work today. There is something I require your assistance with. More details will be made available when you get here.
Professor Maxwell Blaine
I stared.
"Riley," I said, "this message is from Professor Blaine."
"Yes," it replied. "It is."
"No, you're missing the point," I said, rereading the message and still not quite believing it. "It's from
Professor Blaine
. The best geneticist in Sinnoh and the main thing standing between the League and total genetic anarchy. You know,
Professor Blaine?"
"Yes, of course," Riley said. "After all, there is only one Professor Maxwell Blaine registered in the personnel database."
I shook my head.
"You really are a robot," I sighed. "All right. Turn off."
"As you wish," Riley said, and the message disappeared.
I got out and walked to the elevator slowly, wondering what Blaine could possibly want with me. As a young man, he'd ushered in the genetic revolution of the late Noughties from his lab on Cinnabar Island; now, as an old one, he'd retired from his position as Cinnabar's Gym Leader to become the head geneticist for the entire League – which meant he was here in Saffron, where the biggest laboratories were. They'd wanted to put them up on the Indigo Plateau, where the League headquarters were, but getting supplies out there was a *****, and things were generally just more convenient down here in the capital. Besides, no one in Kanto
wanted to be sharing anything with the Johtonians – and definitely not our genetics labs.
Where exactly Blaine worked in the building was a mystery to me; what he did was so secret that very few people actually knew what it was and where he did it. To find out, I went to reception and asked them to call Blaine and tell him I had received his message; I'd have asked him directly, but his biocomputer wasn't accessible from the Gym network. A moment later, I got a reply that told me to meet him in the third sub-basement, and I went back to the lift and down.
As soon as the lift doors slid open, I knew something was up. Two armed Mr. Mimes stood in the corridor, tapping their fat fingers against their thighs; they had an aura of menace about them, and I was sure that they were trained combat models. If they got the slightest idea that there was a threat present, people were going to start dying pretty damn quickly.
"Agent Cadogan!" I looked past the Mr. Mimes and saw a bald man in a linen suit and round sunglasses approaching. "Agent Cadogan, you got my message."
He seemed casual enough, smiling broadly beneath his impressive moustache and waving his cane around with friendly abandon; immediately, I began to feel slightly suspicious. After all, there were two military-grade Mr. Mimes in the corridor with us. There was no use acting as if nothing had happened when something like that was going on. Still, if that was the way he wanted to play this, I wasn't going to interfere; he was the one in charge here.
"Professor Blaine," I said reverently. "It's – it's an honour to meet you, sir. It really is."
"Oh, no, Cadogan, the pleasure's all mine," he replied, guiding me down the corridor. "You've quite the reputation – the Saffron Gym's most valuable resource, so they tell me."
"I'm good at what I do," I admitted.
"I'm the same, Cadogan, I'm the same," said Blaine breezily. "But you were no slouch in the genetics department either, were you? The finest mind of your generation, they say."
"If you're referring to the reports, sir, they tend to exaggerate things. The League likes to think they made the best possible acquisition when I turned."
Blaine laughed.
"You may be right there," he said, ushering me into a laboratory and closing the door behind us. "Now, to business," he continued, and his whole manner changed abruptly: anxiety replaced levity and a frown his smile; all at once, he ceased to look jolly, and instead looked like a man with the world's battery ranged against him.
"What?" I blinked for a moment, startled by the sudden shift in mood; it took me a moment to realise that his apparent good humour had been an act, designed to conceal the fact that something was very obviously wrong. "Wait – what – why the subterfuge?" I asked at last.
"We can't be too careful," said Blaine. "Someone – or more probably some
– got past security last night, and got down here too. This floor's been evacuated except for a few select employees, but I'm not sure I want to trust that anywhere outside this lab is safe."
"Wait," I said, trying to sort things out in my head. "There's been a break-in?"
"Yes," replied Blaine, and shook his head slowly, sighing. "And that's not the worst of it."
"What is the worst of it?" I asked, afraid of the answer.
"They broke in in search of something," Blaine told me. "There's been a theft."
I stared at him.
"Some hacker group has entered here and stolen the embryo my team and I were working on," said Blaine.
"That you...?
I couldn't keep the disbelief out of my voice. It was strange enough that someone had actually got into the Gym, but to have managed to overcome whatever security measures Blaine had in place and take his work... I hadn't thought it was possible. Where Blaine and his research was concerned, the League spared no expense in keeping things secure.
"Yes," he said. "My project."
I didn't ask what the project – this mysterious embryo – was. If I was meant to know, he would tell me; otherwise, it wasn't my place to ask.
"I – God. Do we know how it happened?"
"We've got a few things pieced together," Blaine told me, crossing the lab and stopping before another door. "We know there were two intruders. One that broke into this lab and actually committed the robbery, and one that disengaged the alarms and cameras before the theft took place."
"How do you know there were two of them?"
"Because we have one of them in here," he said, and pushed open the door.
Beyond was a standard examination room – much like a morgue but without nearly as much charm. On the steel table was a small abomination spread out in various chunks across the table; it looked like its body had exploded and blown its limbs and head apart. A scientist leaned over the whole, investigating the contents of its abdomen with a probe and scalpel.
The scientist looked up at our entry; Blaine motioned for her to keep working and turned to look at me, evidently expecting a reaction of some sort.
"What the hell is that?" I asked.
"We have no idea," said Blaine. "It uses the standard Base v04.1.3 code, but the rest seems to be home-grown – completely made from scratch."
That put the ugly little monster in a new light. I studied it more closely: round, oval head studded with eyes, apparently at random; tubular mouth with needle-shaped tongue; fat little body and two long, thin arms that terminated in three-fingered hands. If it had any legs, they were missing.
"A security guard found it in the watchroom," Blaine went on as I scrutinised the beast. "Looked like it had burst at the base of its body, ripping up its sides and shredding its legs. We're not sure how it managed it; it was as if—"
"Someone ruptured a flame sac," I murmured, thinking of yesterday.
"Perhaps. The damage is consistent with a small flame sac – but there's no residue."
"Really? None at all?"
Blaine shook his head.
"I have no idea how it exploded. All I can say is that it did, and that before it did it strangled the guard watching the cameras, hacked into the security computers and disabled the alarms. It also erased the entire night's security footage and turned off the cameras."
I whistled.
"That's... an impressive little monster."
"Yes. It's worryingly intelligent, actually," Blaine said. "And yet its brain is tiny – it looks like it came from a fish."
"Sir?" asked the scientist, looking up from her reconstruction work. "We've confirmed that now. The brain is based on something."
"Not home-sequenced? Thank God for that," said Blaine. "I'd be worried if there were hackers who could create scratch brains so easily as to throw them away like that. What is it?"
"It's loosely based on a tuna brain," replied the scientist. "But it's got three or four strange nodes in it that we can't identify."
Blaine raised his eyebrows.
"Keep looking," he said. "We need to know more about this monster."
At this point, I decided I'd heard enough; it was time to go for the big guns.
"Sir," I said, "what did the scratch let into the lab? What broke in and stole your project?"
Blaine hesitated.
"We don't know," he admitted after a while. "It may have been a person, but if it was, it was someone who was known to the night staff. Someone who wouldn't have been noticed. I've already had people ask questions, but no one saw anything out of the ordinary."
"But you don't think it was a human, do you?"
He sighed.
"No, I don't," he confirmed.
"Why not?"
"Because there were
dead guards in the building this morning. The one strangled in the control room, and another lying in the corridor down here, crushed beyond all recognition and covered in three-inch puncture wounds."
My eyes widened involuntarily.
"What? What the hell
this thing?"
"We don't know, remember?" Blaine threw up his hands in frustration. "Hell, this whole mess is one big question mark! Whoever orchestrated this, they aren't a hacker group we know about; no one's this good, this well-organised." He gestured at the tuna-brained beast on the slab. "No one can take a tuna brain and make it do what that thing did." He sighed again and turned back to me. "That's why you're here, Cadogan. You're uniquely placed to figure out who did it and how."
"Me?" I'd been expecting this, but I still couldn't see why me exactly. OK, so I knew a lot about how the hackers operated, having been in their line of work myself for so long – but my knowledge was three years out of date now, and it wasn't really going to help me track down these mysterious thieves.
"Yes, you." I could feel Blaine's eyes boring into me even through his sunglasses. "Cadogan, it isn't just that you understand the hackers, it's that you're a good detective. You must admit, your insider knowledge would get you nowhere without a certain aptitude for problem-solving – and for monster-killing. It isn't the one aspect or the other that draws the League's interest in you, it's the
." He paused. "That was the report given to me by Lauren, and I trust it. So, this investigation is yours and yours alone. This embryo must remain entirely secret, it must be recovered, and the hackers who took it brought in for questioning. You have the entire support of the League behind you." Another pause. "Any questions?"
I took a deep breath, and tried very hard to act nonchalant.
"No, sir. I'll – I'll start right away."
"Excellent," said Blaine. "I've arranged for you to have your own office on the fourth floor. I'll take you there now, and show you what we have so far."
As I followed him back out to the corridor, I couldn't help but grin. If I wasn't very much mistaken, I'd just been put in charge of the League's most important investigation and been confirmed as the best agent they had, all at once. Pretty good for a morning's work.
My new office was a significant improvement on the old: austere, white walls, handsome furniture in pale wood, glass and steel, and a floor-length window to the right of the desk that looked out over the top of the fog, letting in bright sunlight and making the city look like it was flooded three storeys deep in grey sludge.
"Whoa," I said, unable to hold back. "Now
is a workspace."
"Yes, it's very good," agree Blaine distractedly. "Over on the desk here are the requisite files – hard copies only, you understand? Nothing about this gets onto the database. This are real state secrets we're working with here."
I wondered what they could have been creating that could be so devastatingly important, but didn't dare ask.
"OK," I said aloud, picking up the folder. "What's in here?"
"Everything we know so far," Blaine told me. "Which, I'm afraid, isn't much." He paused. "I'll leave you to read it. I'll be downstairs trying to recover something from the mystery scratch, if you need me."
"All right. I'll be down soon, I guess. Might as well start with the crime scene."
Blaine left, and I took a moment to spin around proudly on my new chair and look imperiously out of the window before opening the folder and flicking through its contents.
There wasn't much in there that I didn't already know: two creatures had broken in somehow, turned off the cameras, killed two guards and stolen something unbelievably important from Blaine's lab. I sighed, set the folder down on the desk, took a last proprietary look around and went back downstairs.
"Still no idea how the brain works," he told me as I came in. "This thing should barely have the capacity to work its own legs, let alone use the computers in the watchroom."
"We have got something back from it, though," said the scientist who'd been dissecting it earlier. "It's got very unusual blood."
"How is it unusual?" I asked.
"It's human," she replied.
"Human?" I repeated. "You're sure?"
"Yes," she said. "I can even tell you the blood group. AB negative." She shook her head. "With traces of P-37, of all things."
P-37 was the primary constituent of the fluid that ran in the veins of Poison-type Pokémon; what it would be doing mixed with human blood in a scratch monster was anyone's guess.
Human blood...
That rang a bell, somewhere in the back of my head. Human blood, a blown-apart body, P-37. I'd seen this before, somewhere – read about it, or heard about it. Something experimental, that we in the hacker gangs had been talking about but had never actually tried.
"Hang on," I said. "Tell me about this little monster's skeletal system."
"Weird as hell," replied the scientist. "It's built like a birdcage – all the way around the edges of its body. The whole thing snapped to bits when it blew up."
"Is there a little stubby bit in the middle?" I asked. "Like a truncated spine?"
"Yes, actually," she said, puzzled. "How did you know?"
I smiled grimly.
"The brain you've got there is a decoy," I said. "There was a second brain in there. A human one, illegally modded with an Abra psi gland and supported on a bone stem."
"Of course!" cried Blaine. "Someone grafts their brain into this little robot scratch, gets it into the building, pilots it to the watchroom, turns off the cameras and teleports out, leaving us with what looks like a sentient scratch to puzzle over." He frowned. "But the explosion...?"
"No such thing," I told him. "It was an
. The brain suddenly vanishing from inside the body creates a vacuum, and the pressure outside gets too much for those spindly little ribs." I pointed at the thin bone fragments on the table. "The whole thing snaps in the middle, and the psychic field sets off the P-37."
P-37 reacted badly to psychic fields, and so the teleportation would have caused accelerated decay in the rest of the body – hence the extensive damage. Instant collapse, just add psi waves.
"Someone implanting their brain into an automaton... but that's incredibly dangerous!" pointed out the scientist. "They'd be running a huge risk – in such a fragile body, they might easily die, and the return teleport would be completely blind. There'd be a large chance they'd never make it back to their original body."
"Which means that either the thieves are lunatics, wanted this thing
badly, or both," I concluded.
Blaine nodded slowly.
"They said you were good, Cadogan," he said. "I guess they really meant it."
Despite the circumstances, I couldn't help but smile; I'd just been complimented by Professor Blaine, probably the greatest geneticist the world had ever seen, on a problem of forensic biology. That was something that didn't happen every day.
"Unfortunately for them, these guys picked exactly the wrong person to send in on this mission," I went on.
"What? Why?"
"The blood. AB negative is pretty uncommon – the rarest type, I think. I don't know the exact figures, but it's definitely less than one per cent of the population. We should be able to at least make a start here by looking through the people in the AB negative blood group."
"Well, Cadogan," said Blaine. "Good start. Contact me the moment you find anything."
I nodded.
"Will do, sir."
I turned and walked out, grinning to myself like an idiot. I knew this was serious, but it was going so damn
"Welcome back, Nadia."
The blackness was receding, and she thought... yes. There was a face, and a light, and a harsh, pounding headache that felt like a giant drumming on her skull.
"****," she mumbled. "Hurts."
"Yes, it'll hurt. Not much we can do about that, really – brain surgery's pretty painful stuff."
What was that noise? Why was there noise? Nadia tried to wave it away, but her hand barely moved at all; her body felt clumsy and disconnected, as if it belonged to someone else.
"Hang on there. You can't move yet. You haven't quite reconnected."
"You're loving this, aren't you?"
A new sound, this time. Different – higher, sweeter than the other.
"Christ, just put her under for a while longer. She's a ****ing hero; don't leave her in agony."
Why wouldn't the noise stop? It hurt so much, stabbed her in the ears with sharp, needling pains...
"She's not in—"
"Yes she is. Put her under. Now."
The sounds were fading, drifting further away; Nadia felt consciousness dancing before her, just out of reach, and gratefully let it slide into the distance.
When the light came back a second time, she felt a little better. She knew who she was now, if not where she was, and she was pretty sure she could move. She curled and uncurled her fingers, and wondered vaguely why everything was so red; then she realised her eyes were shut, and opened them.
There it was – a face.
"She's coming round," it said, and now Nadia understood the words. "She's back! Nadia's back!"
"What – where am I?" she managed, through dry lips and a fumbling tongue.
"Back at the base, Nadia," said the face, and for the first time she realised it was attached to a body. "You did it. Everything worked, just like the boss said."
Then memory returned like a sudden blow, and Nadia gasped.
"The embryo—?"
"Safely in the incubator. It looked like it might not make it for a bit, but it's stable now. We did it.
did it."
"I did?"
"Thank God." Rational thought was returning now, dripping back into her skull as the stem cell wash in her head fixed up the last few neuronal connections. "Christ. I've got a ****ing bad headache."
"Kind of the price you have to pay to have your brain transplanted. You almost didn't make it back to the lab, you know – you teleported into a bin. We had to clean leftover Chinese takeaway off your medulla."
"Nothing left?"
"Good." Nadia closed her eyes. "Look, I need to sleep, S – So – Sam—"
"I'm Jack."
"Yeah, Jack. I'm just gonna – gonna sleep for a bit..."
The red glow of the light through her eyelids went out, and Nadia descended once again into exhausted, painless sleep.
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