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Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Saturday that Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad should not take part in the proposed peace talks aimed at ending that country's deadly conflict.
"It is impossible for Assad, his regime and its affiliates to play a role in the future of Syria," the Saudi minister told reporters in Jeddah.
An upcoming peace conference, expected to be set in Geneva, is a joint Russian and U.S. proposal to bring together representatives of the Syrian opposition and Assad's regime.
However, the opposition's long-standing position has been that it will not negotiate until Assad agrees to leave, and there is no formal precondition for the conference of him stepping down.
On Friday, Russia said it received the Damascus government's assurance it would take part in the talks.
But the move was met with skepticism from the opposition.
"We were surprised that this announcement was made in Moscow, not in Damascus," Safi told the BBC. "The first reaction is that we would like to hear it from the Syrian government."
Prince Faisal said he believes the Syrian National Coalition should be supported as a true representative of the Syrian people.
"We support the will of the Syrian people, which has expressed its will clearly, saying it does not wish to see any role in the conference for Bashar al-Assad, or any of those whose hands are stained with Syrian blood."
More than 94,000 people have been killed in the two years since, according to rights activists.
Prince Faisal voiced hopes that the upcoming Geneva II peace talks will put an end to bloodshed in Syria.
Faisal said he hoped the conference would lead to an "immediate ceasefire and meet the aspirations of the Syrian people to achieve a peaceful transfer of power."
On the topic of Iran, meanwhile, the Saudi foreign minister asked that "Iran play a part in calming regional conflicts, instead of fanning the flames," while also stressing the regional danger of Iran's controversial nuclear program.
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Paul Hommert, director of Sandia National Laboratories and president of Sandia Corp., will speak about national security Tuesday (Nov. 12) at Purdue's Discovery Park. Hommert, who holds graduate degrees in mechanical engineering from Purdue, will speak at 3-4 p.m. at the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121. His speech title is "Research and Technologies for National Security: A Perspective From a National Security Laboratory."Read Full Story


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A step by step photo essay following yet another tsuba with a tiger and bamboo on it.
I'm really enjoying exploring the way artists of old designed and carved this theme and finding out how my own evolving aesthetic intersects with that.
The sequence starts with the reverse being tackled first. The material is some beautifully finely forged 120 year old wrought iron.
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Before the World Cup began, they dared float the notion in France that rugby might take over from football as the nation's winter sport of preference. It seemed daft at the time and even dafter when the hosts promptly lost their opening game to Argentina.
It doesn't look quite so silly now. France has gone rugby-potty over the past five weeks and the future of the oval game looks as bright as it ever has. The quarter-final triumph over New Zealand was an act of atonement, a release from the burden of shame. A little sporting epic.
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New Zealand's reaction to defeat by France was predictably - and by now familiarly - lugubrious. But sadness was animated by some waspish criticism of referee Wayne Barnes. The sin-binning of Luke McAlister and the forward pass in the build-up to the winning try by Yannick Jauzion provoked a storm of ref-bashing on all the outlets known to modern humankind.
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O'Brien has been nothing but a success in the job. 'If you have a problem with referees, talk to us.' This has been his mantra from day one. 'Don't blaze away without knowing the full story.'
He has invited anyone who wishes to see the ways of elite referees to their workshops. Maybe I was brainwashed - there may be some proselytising in the new openness - but I left one such session at the Lensbury Club in London with two impressions. First, rugby is faster and more complicated than ever at the topmost level. Second, the refs could not work harder to keep their error-rate low.
At that particular seminar, the spear-tackle - it was after the dumping of Brian O'Driscoll in the first Test of the Lions series of 2005 - was the new bete noire. Scores of examples were shown. The refs argued over what was dangerous and what was not for hours.
In the end, one simple directive was sent out: if one player picks another up he is responsible for how he comes down. The spear-tackle - touch wood, and with Paul Emerick of the United States against England here in round one as the exception to prove the rule - has largely disappeared.
'Referees will make mistakes. No question,' admitted O'Brien. 'So do players. And journalists.'
I think Alain Rolland of Ireland made a mistake in the England-Australia quarter-final. He penalised England when it seemed clear that Australia were struggling to hold up the very first scrummage of the game.
But Rolland's instincts were sound enough to tell him what was going on. The game was not spoilt at all.
New Zealand did not lose to France because of the forward pass. The momentum of the game had already swung. The All Blacks had started imperiously but France were on an irresistible surge.
No side plays the referee better than the All Blacks. The difference between cheating and realising faster than most what the referee will not notice at, say, the breakdown, is fine to the point of non-existent. And nobody reacts quicker to the interpretation of the hour than your rugby-playing New Zealander.
New Zealand, that is, make life as demanding for the rugby referee as they possibly can. They are looking for as much of an advantage from him as they are from their opponents. It is all part of their game. If referee Barnes missed in the blink of an eye a forward pass, it is all part of the circumstances they have created. So, get over it.
As for the sin-binning of McAlister it should be shown in future seminars of a perfect example of how subtle fouls - a check off the ball - can be as disruptive as a spear-tackle. McAlister was spotted. Excellent work by the referee.
Everybody, but everybody, who has ever played or watched a game of rugby will have had reason at some stage to have a pop at the referee. It is as natural as breathing.
Decisions will go against you. Some will work in your favour. Over the course of a season they will even out, as they say in cricket. And possibly don't say in football. The French, as they ponder whether to turn their flirtation with rugby into a lasting and passionate affair, might bear in mind this lesson in stoicism from a summer sport they will never embrace.


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Cain posits a meeting between Shag and Robert Cecil (Jonathan Haugen), advisor to King James (John Tufts), in the aftermath of the foiled Gunpowder Plot. In 1605, Catholics determined to reclaim England from Protestantism attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament, as well as the king and his family, with 36 barrels of gunpowder. Cecil calls on Shag to produce the authorized version of the story, which will stand as the last word as far as the public is concerned.
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Hi. I abso-fucking-lutely love this fandom. I'm tearing my way through every available story I can find. And now, while half delirious on sleep, I'm writing stuff about it. Don't mind me.
Harry's driving left much to be desired, but Perry wasn't in a fit state to be picky and he settled for shouting only when Harry would glance over at him instead of the road. His leg hurt like a bitch. The stupid drug-dealing asshole had taken off right when Harry mentioned the boy's stepfather, which Perry had told him a million times not to do, and he and Harry were forced into an hour long foot chase through the city. It wouldn't have been so bad if not for the fact that the kid started climbing balcony ladders. For once it was Perry, not Harry, who took a fall and landed hard on his left leg.
"Harry, watch the damn lights!"
Harry yanked his gaze away, but it slid back all the same and Perry sighed, shoving his forehead hard into the palm of his hand. If this was how Harry acted when he got hurt, Perry was very thankful that the man had been unconscious during the worst of Perry's recovery last Christmas. He could just imagine a fleet of nurses having to steer Harry away from the surgery room every few seconds.
"I would like to make it home without any further incidents, you know."
"How's your leg? Are you in a lot of pain? Are you sure you don't want me to take you to the hospital?"
"Jesus, Harry, you almost ran that lady over!" Perry grabbed the panic handle and held on tight. "Yes, I'm sure. I just want to go home. Besides, the hospital's on the other side of town and if I have to spend another twenty minutes in this car with you, I'm going to hurl."
"In your own car," gasped Harry, slanting his eyes to the side and attempting a smile. "I'm shocked."
"That's how bad your driving is, dumbass, now eyes forward!"
When the house finally came into view, Perry let out a silent prayer of thanks to a being he didn't even believe in and finally released the panic handle. Perry didn't usually enjoy depending on people, but Harry was as harmless as they came and so eager to please that Perry didn't even pretend to not want help and leaned heavily on the other man until they made it to the couch.
"Alright, you wait there and I'll get some pain pills." Harry patted the pillows and brought him the remote, water, Advil, the works. Then he was knelt at Perry's feet and working on the laces of his shoes.
"You're a regular little housewife, Harry." Perry's head slumped into the back of the couch and he sank into the peaceful feeling of careful hands sliding along his foot, a thumb pressed just so on the underside of his ankle bone. God, this was domestic. Perry didn't do domestic.
"Only for you," said Harry and he set a palm against Perry's uninjured calf.
Perry opened his eyes and looked down to see if Harry was smirking at him, but the only expression on the man's face was sincerity and Perry felt something like delight curl sweet and uninvited in his chest. Fuck, Perry could have punched himself.
But he was already injured, so maybe he could indulge himself. Just this once.
He set a hand on Harry's cheek and Harry turned into it, eyes closed. "You get sweet when you're tired," murmured Harry.
"Yeah, well don't tell anyone."
"Like they'd believe me."
"Can we blame this on the sleep deprivation later? Or the injury or the Advil or, fuck, anything?"
"What? What are we blaming Advil for?"
Perry sat up, ignoring the pain in his leg and grabbed Harry's t-shirt to drag him forward. "This," he growled and kissed him. Harry's mouth parted on a gasp of surprise and Perry drank it in, let himself adore the sweet taste of smoke on Harry's tongue, reveled in the rough scratch of stubble and the feel of having Harry close.
Both Harry's hands had fallen on Perry's spread knees and Perry cupped his partner's jaw with both hands and pressed in closer, drinking his fill. If this was going to be it, he was going to damn well enjoy himself.
Harry seemed to take his suggestion they write this off later to heart because he tilted his head and slid his tongue into Perry's mouth without an ounce of reserve. And, oh, but that made it better.
"Oh, Harry, Harry," breathed Perry on a grin and Harry said, "Shut up, you're tired remember?" while climbing onto his lap, careful to avoid the bad leg.
"Feisty," replied Perry, not sure why he was still talking. That was Harry's problem, not his. The damn New Yorker was rubbing off on him in more ways than one. Pun in-fucking-tended, thank you very much.
Harry shut him up with another kiss and Perry got his hands around slim, stupid hips, up under his ratty shirt, and kissed back.


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Microsoft will launch its new tablet Surface Pro in a few weeks from now. The news was announced on Twitter by the company's general manager.
Some hours ago, Panos Panay, Microsoft Corp.'s general manager, tweeted about the upcoming arrival of Surface Pro. Panay teased on his personal Twitter account that he was going to the "factory" to see the new tablet. Also, the company's general manager wrote that Surface Pro will hit the stores "in the coming weeks".
These news were somewhat expected. Microsoft has already announced its plans to launch a Surface device with the Pro edition of Windows 8. Moreover, that giant has made some references to the tablet's release date, saying that it will be introduced about three months after Surface RT. The RT model of Surface was released back in October 2012. That means that Surface Pro may be available for purchase this month.
What is known about Microsoft's Surface Pro is that it will be released in two editions – a 64GB and a 128GB. For the lower memory capacity, consumers will need to pay $899. Those who want to take advantage of the impressive 128GB version of Surface RT will have the chance to buy it for $999.
The device will have a 16:9 ClearType screen with a resolution of 1,920×1,080. Also, it will come with a Mini DisplayPort. The port can be used to transfer the screen image from the tablet to an external device with a resolution of up to 2,560×1,440.
Logically, Surface Pro will rock Microsoft's latest operating system Windows 8. In addition, it will run on an Intel Ivy Bridge processor. The processor is one of the fastest ones that can be found on a tablet. Moreover, Surface Pro's processor is said to be better than those of its main rivals, among which is also Apple's iPad.
In terms of design, Microsoft's Surface Pro is also doing an excellent job. Insiders assure that the device has a slick and nice look that makes the work with it a pleasure.


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$600 Billion In Trades In Four Years: How Apple Puts Even The Most Aggressive Hedge Funds To Shame
By Tyler Durden
Everyone knows that for the better part of the past year Apple, Inc. ("AAPL", or "The Company") was the world's biggest company by market cap, with Exxon finally regaining that title on Friday, following AAPL's latest price drop in the aftermath of its disappointing earnings. Most know that AAPL aggressively uses all legal tax loopholes to pay as little State and Federal tax as possible, despite being one of the world's most profitable companies.
Many also know, courtesy of our exclusive from September, that Apple also is the holding company for Braeburn Capital: a firm which with a few exceptions (Bridgewater; JPM's CIO prop trading desk) also happens to be one of the world's largest hedge funds, whose function is to manage Apple's massive cash hoard, with virtually zero requirements, and whose obligation is to make sure that AAPL's cash gets laundered legally and efficiently in a way that complies with prerogative #1: avoid paying taxes.
What few if any know, is that as part of its cash management obligations, Braeburn, and AAPL by extension,has conducted a mindboggling $600 billion worth of gross notional trades in just the past four years, consisting of buying and selling assorted unknown securities, or some $250 billion in 2012 alone: a grand total which represents some $1 billion per working day on average, and which puts the net turnover of some 99% of all hedge funds to shame!
Finally, what nobody knows, except for the recipients of course, is just how much in trade commissions AAPL has paid over the past four years on these hundreds of billions in trades to the brokering banks, many (or maybe all) of which may have found this commission revenue facilitating AAPL having a "Buy" recommendation: a rating shared by 52, or 83% of the raters, despite the company's wiping out of one year in capital gains in a few short months.
The Perfectly Legal Tax Evasion Scheme
Apple's massive cash hoard is something that gets its 15 minutes of fame each and every quarter, because for now at least, it keeps growing and growing and growing. However, that is not exactly correct. In fact, the company's cash and cash equivalents at December 31, 2012 is just $16.2 billion: barely $9 billion more than it was 4 years ago, on December 31, 2008. Where the bulk of AAPL's profits are kept, however, is not in cash and equivalents, but in various undisclosed short- and long-term securities.


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Chill Out: Frozen Iced Tea
Looking for another frozen treat to make before summer closes? Melissa Clark put together this tea-infused frozen dessert for Gilt Taste, and we can't wait to try it!
The recipe calls steeping flower-scented tea in sugar water, preparing it as granita, and serving with a dollop of fresh whipped cream and raspberries. It's a far cry from some of summer's ultra-sweet desserts and a refreshing end to a lazy summer dinner.
How do you use tea to flavor your cooking?
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Our Progress in Mechanical Engineering
Improved Expansible Pulley
The Telelogue
Capt. Gaumet's New Apparatus For Optical Telegraphy
The Kidder Printing Press
Steam Wagons
New Astatic Galvanometer
Eastgate House, Rochester
The Electric Discharge through Colza Oil
Flexibility of Marble
The New Buildings for the Medical Department of the University of Halle A. S., Germany
Opium Smoking in America
Soap and its Manufacture from a Consumer's Point of View
The Fuegians at the Jardin D'Acclimatation, Paris
A Natural Wood Preservative
The Essential Oil of Ginger
Paraffin to Preserve Eggs
Ozone the Cause of Phosphorescence
The Philosophy of Insanity
Borate of Quinoidine
The Disposal of House Drainage
Plows and Plowing
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It's time to dare.
The true treasures of life are not to be found in a bank on Wall Street or anywhere else -- no matter how majestic or important the bank may seem to be -- but in our own heart.
It seems to me that those who share in the "Occupy Wall Street" movement burgeoning around the world are reminding us of this ancient truth. They want a chance to fulfill their true potential in life. They want some fair ground rules established so that everyone has a chance to fulfill their true potential.
And they are not alone. Just this morning I was reading of a network of over 700 business leaders and wealthy individuals in the top five percent of income and/or wealth in the US that advocates for fair taxes and corporate accountability. "Occupy Wall Street is a budding movement that can be a tipping point for what we at United For A Fair Economy have been working toward," says the network on its blog. "For a decade and a half we have fought to push inequality to the center of the tax and economic policy debates in order to build an economy that works for all people."
It is a dream that will not come true without daring.
A time to dare
Our heart loves to dare. It is one of our most precious attributes, a gift we must never surrender. Daring makes it possible for us to follow our dream and meet the challenges of life no matter how daunting they may appear to our mind's eye. Daring has magic in it. It guards the gate of freedom. It makes it possible to find happiness and inner peace, and opens the door to beauty.
Without daring, how can we possibly give the gift we came to give, or find our true destiny?
How a bicycle opened a door to freedom
When I was 15 or 16 my parents gave me a new bicycle for my birthday. It was a real grownup's bicycle with racing handlebars, very flashy, and smart. A beautiful pale blue. It got me dreaming immediately.
I was an only child living with my parents in a traditional middle-class suburb in South London. But suddenly, a new world beckoned. Soon after I got my hands on this bicycle, a brilliant idea bloomed in my mind. I could go on a cycling trip across England, staying at youth hostels.
I remember to this day how magical the feeling of freedom and daring was. It was intoxicating. I bought a bunch of maps. I plotted and planned. And how I appreciate, with hindsight, the forbearance and trust of my parents in letting me go. The open road was before me and it gave me an opportunity to experience an aspect of myself I had never experienced before. A love of adventure. A love of freedom.
Daring has magic in it
Daring has magic in it, as I say. It is as critical to our health and well being – and the health and well being of this planet -- as our heart, our liver, or any other aspect of our being.
Daring does not only relate to outer activities and adventure. It relates to our inner life too. As the author Eudora Welty pointed out: "A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."
Daring will not only bring us through the challenges we face. It will open a door to the truth at the core of our existence in which all true meaning and happiness eternally reside.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the above. Do you have any experiences of daring in your own life you'd like to share?
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A few weeks ago, I was participating in a conversation where everybody was trying to come up with band name puns related to data communications. One of my contributions to the stream was "AT/DT". After sharing it, I decided that I wanted to have it printed on a T-Shirt, in a similar style to an AC/DC shirt. Rather than pay to have a one-off shirt made, I asked around to see if anyone else might be interested in such a shirt. I only needed to find 5 other like-minded geeks to meet the minimum order for a silk-screen print run which would keep the price lower. I ended up with 27 orders (including myself). I decided to order a few extras as well, just in case anybody else wanted one. I ordered 34 shirts and I'm down to only 2 extras left now and I expect those to go quickly.
Once they're gone, I'll be referring people to an on-demand order page that I've set up. Interestingly, it looks like two people have actually stumbled across that storefront on their own and ordered shirts from it already. If you'd like one for yourself, here's the link:


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I was thinking of:
Garchomp(This is open to suggestions)
Should I choose Spiritomb who will be using trick scarf to allow lucario a sure setup or Dusknoir?
And should it be Garchomp as my 3rd Pokemon? Suggest a Pokemon you think may be better for this spot.
The sets are:
Lucario- Life Orb- Adamant
~ Swords Dance
~ Close Combat
~ ExtremeSpeed
~ Ice Punch
EVs:252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Spiritomb- Choice Scarf- Bold
EVs:252 HP/124 Def/ 132 SpDef
Dusknoir- Leftovers- Impish
~ Will-O-Wisp
~ Pain Split
~ Fire Punch
~ ThunderPunch
EVs:252 HP / 28 Atk / 228 Def
Garchomp- Choice Band- Jolly
~ Outrage
~ Earthquake
~ Fire Fang
~ Crunch
Do you think this team could work? And what Pokemon can replace Garchomp in my team?


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Last call for entries in the Nike Sportswear x The FADER x Pitch Perfect Giveaway. But, you can't win if your name isn't in and today is the last day. We'll be announcing winners by Friday.
Respect to Nike Sportswear and FADER for hosting this thing with us and their campaign to educate the masses on AIDS awareness.


text: On May 13, 2010, at 10:12 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Dylan Reinhardt > <python at dylanreinhardt.com> wrote: >> I missed OpenStreetMap. So three. :-) >> >> Obviously, there's more of a "culture" focus at OSB than an "implementation" >> focus and Python isn't really heavy into culture. That's one of the things >> I value about Python, actually. >> > > I value the culture, one of Python's fortes. > > Lightning Talks for example. Oh, sure. And I value our sense of humor. But compared with some other communities, Python spends an impressively small amount of time plumbing the depths of its own soul or demonizing outsiders. I like that too. :-) Dylan


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While it's the icy conditions that keep the drivers on the edge of their seats -- as well as the viewers of "Ice Road Truckers" (Sun., 9 p.m. ET on History) -- it was an accident of a more mundane variety that had them holding their breath in this week's episode.
The accident was triggered by the icy conditions, there are no road conditions in which a 4,000 pound vehicle colliding with a 16-ton big rig is anything other than terrifying.
"I think everybody reacted like it was their own brother or sister," one of the drivers said. "We take care of our people up here."
When sharing such a treacherous vocation, it's understandable that these people come together like family. Trust in the expertise of the fellow drivers on the road is tantamount to success when one mistake can cost lives.
The tension rises every week on "Ice Road Truckers", Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on History.
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What I'm trying to do is generate a path in Pathauto using the hierarchy of a taxonomy term. Essentially, if my content belongs to Term 1 > Term 2 > Term 3, then my path should be term-1/term-2/term-3/content. I'm using the title module to replace the name field.
This works fine, when editing content in the same language as the page. What doesn't seem to work is editing content in a different language. For example, if (using Entity Translation), I attempt to translate the English content using the French backend (or vice versa), I get the wrong parent terms (but the right term and content). Trying to import content using Migrate in both languages at once has the same problem.
I tracked this down to the function token_taxonomy_term_load_all_parents($tid). When taxonomy_get_parents_all($tid) is called, it loads the parents in the current language and nothing is being done to translate the labels of those terms.
The ideal solution (I think) is that this should be entity_label('taxonomy_term', $term, $langcode); and $langcode should come from $options['language'] from the tokens_tokens() call. This runs into the problem of #1775768: Backport langcode support for all entity labels though, which prevents title_entity_label() from using the $langcode parameter and probably doesn't let i18n_taxonomy play with it either. Alternatively, we could hack it for now (either reimplement entity_label with a $langcode parameter OR detect if title replacement is enabled and call the callback directly (as well as some solution for using i18n_taxonomy's method to fix the string as well)).
I kindof need this, so I'm willing to put in some work and submit patches where needed, I'm just not really sure on which direction to take to get this ironed out for now.
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Bad decisions, play calling, penalties and a porous defense along with a myriad of dropped passes from receivers did the Bucs in against the Philadelphia Eagles. It seems like it's a bad dream every week, the team does the same exact thing expecting different results. Until and only when the team decides to change things up and actually sticks to a plan will they then succeed on the field.
Jimmy Wilkerson – After registering 2 sacks through four games Wilkerson broke out and nailed the trifecta against the Eagles. The Eagles had only given up three sack through 3 games until Wilkerson stole the show and dropped McNabb three times.
Kellen Winslow – Nine catches 102 yards and two touchdowns, when was the last time the Bucs had a tight end go over a 100 yards receiving in a game? Winslow showed great poise, energy and game breaking ability too bad the rest of the teams tight ends and receivers didn't show the same intensity level.
Play Calling – Dink & dunk just wont get it done, when the team did have success it was because Olson dialed up some deep to intermediate passing plays, but the lack of conviction to the ground game is puzzling to this observer considering they are trying to find an identity and become a downhill physical running team the pushes the ball down field in the passing game.
Offensive Line – It's a mixed bag of manure at this point, it's heckle and jeckle it's just about any adjective you want to use to describe the play of the line through five games. There seems to be no passion for run blocking, are the Bucs a zone team or a man on man blocking team the constant flip flopping between blocking schemes is half the problem, after installing the zone scheme in off-season workouts and training camp there no continuity and gelling going on in the trench.
The Ugly
Decisions – To go for it not once, but twice in the first half with a young quarterback and a team looking for some positives instead of kicking the field goals, then right before the half with six second on the clock to forgo another field goal attempt that could have had the score 16-21 and the team feeling good going into half time, the team went for it and gambled and came up with goose eggs instead of riding a wave of confidence and gaining some momentum the team wobbled into the locker room with heads hung low and all confidence lost.


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However, there is a manual way to do the conversion which requires creation of Gmail IMAP account in which you need to drag and drop the Outlook for Mac emails. Thereafter, the user can open that IMAP account in MS Outlook. But this method works fine only when there are a few emails that are to be converted from Outlook for Mac to MS Outlook .But if you are looking forward to convert the entire mailbox then manually performing the conversion could not only be tiresome but time-consuming as well. Therefore, using professional software to do the same is a smart choice to make.


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Enter an animated world
Watch several award-winning animated films courtesy Alliance Francaise at Sakshi Gallery as part of their Art Thursdays
Apart from hosting exhibitions and showcasing artworks by various artists, Sakshi Gallery is also doubling up as a venue to screen films. They have collaborated with Alliance Francaise, Mumbai, to screen films at their gallery once every month and for over the last six months, the gallery has been screening films on their Art Thursdays. Today, they will be screening seven films that have won awards at The Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
The gallery will also be inaugurating a new art show by Chennai-based artist Nandini Valli Muthiah on Lord Krishna. "We are one of the very few galleries that are also screening films. We started this initiative a while ago and we are happy with the response," says Sanyogita Deo, Assistant Curator at Sakshi Gallery, adding that the films are curated by Alliance Francaise.
The line-up of films includes The Lion and the Song, a film by Bretislav Pojar. It won the Grand Prize award at the first Annecy International Animated Film Festival that was held in 1960. The film is a poetic drama, which uses the help of expressive puppets to tell the story of a harlequin (clown) who is survived by his art. The Lady and the Cellist by Jean-François Laguionie is a story about a cellist who raises a storm in the sea by playing his instrument.
The Annecy International Film Festival is considered to be one of the most famous animation film festivals of the world. All the seven films that will be screened have received awards in this festival between 1960 and 1970.
"We wanted to bring these films to the Indian audience. We take up things that sound original and that will interest the audience here," says Sheryn Mulla, Executive and Cultural Assistant, Alliance Française de Bombay.
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Skip to comments.The Meaning of Iranian Inspections
Posted on 12/19/2003 5:03:57 PM PST by Eala
Now that Iran says it will allow outside experts to inspect its nuclear sites, it might behoove other governments to listen to the words of an expert inside Iran. In a public session of the Iranian Parliament on Nov. 24, Ahmad Shirzad, a deputy from the city of Isfahan, attacked the regime's nuclear policies, provoking a controversy that has not yet died down.
Mr. Shirzad is no novice in these matters. The son of President Ali Khatami remarked once that "If there are three persons in Iran able to address atomic questions from a specialist point of view, Mr. Shirzad is undoubtedly one of them."
In the course of his lengthy speech, Mr. Shirzad revealed that the regime had constructed a vast underground laboratory in Isfahan, 50 meters below the ground. He specifically referred to centrifuges and suggested that the underground facility covered more than 20,000 square meters, an enormous area. This is consistent with other information about covert Iranian weapons projects; there is another large underground facility near the city of Parchin, where the Shah started an industrial research and development operation.
Mr. Shirzad went on to spell out the effect of the covert nuclear program, and Iran's unceasing support for the terror network that is killing Westerners all over the world. Iran, he said, had been made into a pariah country, its image changed from "a popular, peace-seeking, egalitarian society based on justice, into a hub for totalitarianism, disdain for human rights, violence, support for international terrorism in search of weapons of mass destruction and alienated from its own people." Not a bad summary of the mullahtocracy.
Mr. Shirzad was instantly silenced, and is now awaiting the inevitable charges from the regime's Islamic tribunals. Until the Western world--above all the United States--decides to support democratic revolution in Iran, the mullahs will continue to oppress their own people and plot the death of outsiders. Mr. Shirzad is destined to join the ranks of thousands of brave critics of the regime who have one glorious moment of protest and are then consigned to the regime's torture chambers.
Alas, there is no sign that the West is willing to accept the truth about Iran, and therefore the imperative for action. Instead, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell pronounced himself "very happy" with a feeble U.N. criticism of Iran's nuclear program that bemoans Iran's longstanding violation of its international agreements but does not shut down the program. At the moment the world is trusting that the Iranian rulers have been true to their word, and suspended their uranium enrichment, despite testimony to the contrary from Mr. Shirzad and many others (I am told that they have actually speeded up the enrichment program), and despite the explicit statement by Iranian National Security Council head Hassan Rohani during a news conference on Saturday, "Our uranium enrichment program has been suspended voluntarily, temporarily, to build trust," he said, adding that "the issue of ending uranium enrichment is not in question and never has been nor will be."
As for the inspections promised yesterday, we are all diligently repeating the same mistake we made with Saddam Hussein, and the Iranian rulers are copying his methods. They have already moved much material from underground locations in and around Tehran (including special branches of the subway system) to mountain tunnels of the sort used by al Qaeda in Afghanistan, which is why the inspections may matter less than people realize.
Just as we gave the terror masters nearly a year and a half to scatter and hide the Iraqi weapons, and organize their Iraq strategy, so we are giving the Iranians precious time to pursue their weapons program and solidify internal terror.
This delay has also eased the pressure on the mullahs' nuclear team to organize an early test. Throughout the late summer and early autumn, the regime's leaders were demanding that their scientists (mainly from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, North Korea and China) go all out for a demonstrative nuclear test as quickly as possible. Now the pressure is off, and they can proceed at a more leisurely pace.
Meanwhile, Iran's clawprints are all over recent terrorist depredations. The Saudi press reported last month that the orders for the Nov. 8 bombings in Riyadh were given by al Qaeda's security chieftain Saif al-Adel by satellite phone from Iran. The Turkish press reported that the suicide terrorists who killed Turkish Muslims and Jews, and British diplomats, in Istanbul in the two attacks on Nov. 15 and the 21 were trained in Iran and in Iranian-controlled areas of Afghanistan; and on Dec. 2 the newspaper Hurriyet wrote that Turkish authorities had concluded that Aywan al Zarahiri, Osama's right-hand man, had given the orders. The Turks have announced they had captured the leader of the operation, just as he was trying to slip across the border into Iran. The Italian press has also reported the arrests of five persons in Italy and Germany, of whom the key figure, Sheikh Abderrazak, is an Algerian with proven connections to al Qaeda kingpin Abu Mussab al Zarkawi. Zarkawi is a Jordanian who, according to both Italian and German court documents, has long operated from Iran.
American officials at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad have recently been informed that Iranian intelligence operatives have taken over full control of the Badr Brigades, Iraqi-born Shiite fighters who spent the past 20 years in Iran around their religious leader, the Ayatollah Hakim (himself killed in a suicide attack as he came out of the main mosque in Baghdad, almost certainly because he ignored orders from Tehran).
If that is not sufficient to galvanize Western action, how about the discovery of Iranian diplomats in London taking late night pictures of a synagogue, and in New York at 1 a.m. snapping photos of the subway system? Do U.S. leaders think there is a new phototourism fad among the Iranian diplomatic corps?
Iran has long been the keystone of international terrorism--even the State Department admits that in its annual report--and it is on the verge of producing nuclear weapons. It is also uniquely vulnerable to President George W. Bush's announced strategy in the Middle East. The Iranian people are enthusiastically pro-American, hate their oppressive regime, and are fully ready for democracy. Unlike Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. does not have to invade Iran in order to liberate it. It needs only support the people, as it did the Serbs against Slobodan Milosovic, the Filipinos against the Marcoses, the Poles against Soviet Communism.
Iran is the ultimate litmus test of the seriousness of the Bush Administration, and in all likelihood its ability to conduct an effective campaign against the mullahs in Tehran will determine the outcome of the war against the terror masters. Time is decidedly not in U.S. favor.
Michael A. Ledeen holds the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute.
Education? I don't know. A few of us Americans turned out here.
"Blessed are the cheesemakers; for they shall be called the children of Gouda.
Action Plan:
1) Defeat Baathist revanchists.
2) Create rudimentary functioning government, markets and civil society in Iraq.
3) Rest, relaxation, rotation and re-tooling for the troops.
4) Actively foment unrest in Iran.
5) Find provocation.
6) Invade.
Patience, gentlemen. We'll be there in due course.
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The Family of Kathleen Pendle
The Family of Kathleen PendleUpdated February 9, 2001
|Kathleen Rhea Pendle
|Hi!I'm part of a vast family in which I only have part of.I would love any help that anyone could give me and in return you can take any info you need from mine.
The Fonseca line came frome Spain, but that is all I know for now.The gentleman who came over from Spain was my Great Grand Father, he had two known children, a boy and a girl.The girls name was Elizabeth Earl Fonseca and was born on Dec. 03, 1921 in FallRiver, Mass. and the boy is unknown.Elizabeth (known as Betty)was married to Charles Alphus Martin in about 1941 or 42 because my dad was born Sept.06, 1942.
The other part of the family that I need help on is on a Gentleman by the name of David Jay Evans, born 1855 and married to Ida Elizabeth Stayner on Sept 07, 1906.He died in Ogden Utah in 1921 but this is all I know about him going back in his family.He had a son named David Jay too and I need his first wife's name.She is the mother of Ellis B. Evans born in TX. on March 26, 1902 and died in Santa Barbra, CA in Oct. 1985
if you can help me fill in the gaps then please let me know.Thank you very much
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It has come to my attention over the years that mountain towns have a language all their own. Nowhere is this more true than in my beloved town, Jackson.
First allow me to clarify one important point. I live in the town of Jackson, Wyoming which is located in the valley of Jackson Hole. 'Hole' is an old name for valley. Jackson Hole is also the name of the ski resort (full name: Jackson Hole Mountain Resort). But please stop asking me if Jackson, Wyoming is near Jackson Hole. Just remember: locals live in Jackson, and tourists visit Jackson Hole. Some of the new kids call it "J-Hole". They need to re-read the above paragraph or I need to get with the times. One of the two.
So in J-Hole, the bro-bras are known for dropping some pretty sick shit. Sometimes they're just spraying, but we really do rip wicked lines with top to bottom face shots because our gnar gnar mountain IS the shit. If this doesn't make any sense to you, see below.
Urban dictionary defines gnar gnar as: Shortened modernized version of gnarly typically used by stoners. e.g. "Dude that shit is gnar gnar." Since Jackson doesn't really differentiate our general population from the "stoners" (they are one in the same), I'll go along with this one.
"Dropping" and "hucking" are ways to describe subjecting one's body to the undeniable forces of gravity via a terrain park or just an old-fashioned cliff. In other words, jumping off "stuff" with one or two sticks attached to your feet. Incidentally, Jackson is a great place for knee operations and physical therapy in general.
Our "lines" are the routes we choose on our way down the mountain and terms like "shit" and "sick" actually mean exactly the opposite of their literal interpretation. When someone is good at sliding over the snow, they "rip". "That chick rips" is one of the higher compliments a woman can receive in this valley.
So who are the "bro-bras"? They are the guys and gals who use insistently and excessively use these terms. When they brag/exaggerate about their brilliant gravitational defiance, the rest of us say they're "spraying". And nobody likes a sprayer. There is a lot of raw talent in this valley, but the coolest athletes are the ones who are secure enough with their talent to put it out there for the world to see and let the buzz build on its own- or not at all. After years immersed in this environment, it really just comes down to how much fun you're having out there.
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When I was 25, I had my first child. I had trouble with my pregnancy and no health care. When I had the baby, I had 3 D&C's in 24 hrs. I received 11 pints of blood. That was 11 people that saved my life. I tried to give blood for 10 yrs. but never weighed enough. Finally when I moved to TN. in 2000, I was able to start donating. I have donated plasma, platelets, and in 2009 I became a member of the one gallon club. It took me a long time to give it all back, and I'm going to keep on giving as long as I can!


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Author's note: So this is something like the third one-shot that I am not-coincidentally spurred to finish and post during a Farla NaReWriMo. Thank her for getting me to write one-shots.
Thanks to opaltiger and elyvorg for beta-reading and offering general thoughts.
"Metapod, just a bit more! Hang on!"
And at that moment, blinding, searing light burst out of your cocoon, and I knew that you were evolving. This was the dream: I'd been training you tirelessly for weeks, after so many failed battles against Brock, and the sheer elation of realizing that this was it, that you were finally becoming a Butterfree, felt at the time like the ultimate climax of my journey.
I remember when you crawled out and spread your fragile little wings for the first time. I remember how they quivered as you stretched them out, how your antennae twitched, that glorious moment when you jumped up and took flight. I remember how you fluttered in a quick circle, and Brock's Onix growled, and I said "Confusion!" and you cried out and then…
Of course I remember it. It was my first gym victory; how could I ever forget? I remember the Onix roaring and collapsing, the rumble under my feet as it hit the ground. I remember Brock's calm voice telling it to return while the widest grin I had ever sported spread over my face. I remember literally jumping for joy, feeling as if my heart were about to explode, and seeing you flutter down towards me in a little playful loop before landing on my head and snuggling into my hair.
It feels like yesterday.
It also feels like very, very long ago, because it is.
Trainers aren't supposed to have favorites, but you were my favorite. I loved Charmander and Pidgey and Nidoran to death too, of course, but there's still just something about the first Pokémon you train to a full adult form, and Butterfree had been my favorite Pokémon since I was a kid. When the others were struggling, I could always count on you, and when we were faced with a difficult foe, your powder moves were indispensable. For those months you were my most powerful Pokémon by far, the pinnacle of my team; I don't think I could ever explain just how proud I was every time I sent you out of your Pokéball and heard your defiant battle cry, every time a far larger Pokémon's eyelids drooped as it breathed in your Sleep Powder and slumped helplessly on the ground, every time an opponent admitted defeat and you landed triumphantly on my head, giving me that cute little snuggle of yours. Silly as it seems now, I earnestly felt like you were invincible. I imagined you putting Lance's dragons to sleep. I imagined carrying you on my head into the Hall of Fame as I was crowned the champion. I imagined it would be you and me on the covers of the newspapers, me grinning at the camera while you nibbled on my ear.
And then… you started losing. Just the occasional battle, at first. It hit my pretty hard when that hiker's Onix, the same Pokémon you had so handily defeated in Brock's gym, slammed you into the ground with its tail and you didn't rise up again, but I knew you were at a severe type disadvantage, so all things considered it wasn't that strange. But then it started happening more and more. My other Pokémon evolved, not only catching up with you but overtaking you, and so did the Pokémon possessed by the other trainers around me. It started to dawn on me, very slowly – I think I was in denial about it for a while – that you were frail and not very fast. I tried to feed you carbos, but still more and more of the Pokémon we faced would land a heavy blow before you even got the chance to launch a Sleep Powder. Eventually, with a heartwrenching feeling of dread in my stomach, I gave in to my nagging suspicion that you were underperforming compared to the rest of my team and decided, silently, to start keeping track.
It was true. You fainted more often than any of them and finished the fewest battles on your own. And the margin was increasing.
Initially I think I explained it as being that I'd been overconfident, that I used you in too many battles you weren't well suited to while I was more careful with the others. I got careful about not doing that. It helped, a little, but eventually I had to face the fact that you just weren't keeping up.
I wasn't disappointed in you. It's hard to explain, but it wasn't like that. It broke my heart to realize you were falling behind, not because you weren't good enough but because I loved you and loved your joy when you won and loved being able to trust you to win any battle. It broke my heart to have to recall your unconscious form after you'd done your absolute best, to let my hand wander past your Pokéball when I knew you wouldn't be able to handle the Pokémon my opponent had just sent out, to switch you out and send out Charizard instead because you couldn't take another hit. And more than anything, it broke my heart to see your battle cry change, gain just a hint of nervousness, something I heard in your voice because I knew you so well but also knew you would never, ever want me to hear.
(I never told you that I could tell. I never told you that I could feel the increasing desperation in your victory snuggle. I never told you how I felt, or that I knew how you felt. I don't think I could properly admit it to myself at that point.)
I started using you less and less, only when I was facing a Pokémon that seemed like particularly easy prey for you. I suspect you noticed, but you never complained. I know now that it must have broken your heart to see that loss of confidence in your abilities, but I didn't see that far then.
And then I started rotating my team. That wasn't because of you – I'd caught more than six Pokémon now, and I wanted to use the others and be able to pick the most adept team for any situation. But it wasn't long before you were rarely on my active team. I felt guilty every time I left you on the PC – I would think to myself that after I'd gotten past this route, or beaten this gym leader, or battled these trainers, I'd get you out again and we'd find someplace where you could really shine and get some training. At first I really did it. Then I started occasionally deciding it wouldn't hurt if I just used some of my other Pokémon that also needed training and were better suited to the wild Pokémon in the area for now, and I could just get you out later. And then I started putting it off because I knew you were undertrained compared to my other Pokémon and would have a difficult time either way. And then I promised myself when I got the chance I would take you the last spot we'd successfully trained at and there I could surely get you back on level with the rest of my team again.
When I finally did get the opportunity to go there again, I simply forgot. I have no excuse. I had gotten caught up in my journey; I loved my other Pokémon, I was excited about getting Blaine's badge before my friends, you had been pushed to the back of my mind, and I just forgot about it. When I remembered, I was already on the way to Seafoam Islands to investigate rumours of Articuno sightings; I couldn't just turn back.
By the time I had returned, I was too ashamed to face you. It had been so long. I had left you to rot. I tried to get myself to go and get you, but I didn't know what I would even say to you. I told myself I had important other things to do, that I had just one gym left and I might as well get that done without having to first spend the weeks it would take getting you caught up by this point.
I defeated Giovanni. I triumphantly watched Gyarados Hydro Pump his Rhydon to kingdom come. And as I left the gym with my badge and looked out towards Route 22, I realized you would never be on the team I would take to the Indigo Plateau to take on the Elite Four, and that Victory Road just wasn't any place for a Butterfree. I decided, really decided, that I'd train you up when I'd taken on the Elite Four; then, surely, I could relax and train whomever I wanted, wherever I wanted.
I became the champion with Charizard by my side. I was ecstatic. My original dreams, that image of you buried in my hair in the Hall of Fame, had faded; I'd moved on, and by this point I'd developed new dreams, dreams about a victory flight with Charizard. And that was everything I'd hoped for. I didn't even remember that you weren't there until I was back home, being congratulated by my mom.
Again, I was ashamed. I didn't want to have to tell you I'd taken on the Elite Four without you. I had other Pokémon who needed training, more rumours of legendary Pokémon, and an offer to go to the Sevii Islands.
I told myself I'd take you out and train you later.
It's been six years.
Now I stand facing the sunset, on the road leading to Viridian Forest, where I first met you that fateful day I headed out on my journey. The breeze is light and cool, just like it was that day, and I can still remember you, as a Caterpie, crawling out from behind a tree, my first challenger and my first catch. Now all I can think is that you should have stayed hidden, evolved in your own time, and maybe gotten another trainer, a nice bug catcher or somebody, who wouldn't betray you like I did.
I take a deep breath and my hand trembles as I reach for your Pokéball. The scratches and tiny dents in its surface are nostalgically familiar; I haven't touched this ball in so long I'd forgotten it was so worn, but now that I feel them it seems as if I always remembered somewhere in the back of my mind. I press the button and feel it maximize in my hand. A part of me is still hesitant, still wants to put you back on the PC and pretend this never happened – but that's not an option. I know that now.
With guilt clenching at my gut, I drop the ball onto the ground and watch you emerge from it in the air, facing away from me. I see you scanning the area for an opponent, then fluttering in a circle and turning around, looking at me questioningly.
Your face can't form expressions like a human can, but I can see anyway in the slight tilt of your head, the twitching of your antennae, the slight slowing of your wing flaps, that it takes you a moment to recognize me. That wrenches at my heart more than anything; suddenly it occurs to me that your sense of time on the PC was muddled, that your first realization of how long it's been is seeing me suddenly a teenager in place of the child that you knew. You hover there silently for a second, just staring at me with those unblinking red compound eyes; I don't know if the accusation I see in them is real or just a projection of my own guilt. I try to imagine what must be going through your mind, what it might feel like to realize you've been in stasis for years, that everyone you knew has moved on without you – but I can't even begin to comprehend it.
"I'm sorry, Butterfree," I whisper; my voice is hoarse, and as I say it, as that pathetic apology escapes my lips as if it could ever make up for it, tears start pricking at the corners of my eyes. "I should have done this so long ago."
It's painful to speak, so I point the ball back at you and press the button, showing you that nothing happens, that I've deactivated the Pokéball. I throw it away; it bounces off the ground and comes to a rest by the roadside. You stare at it for a second, then look back at me.
"I kept telling myself I'd keep training you," I say, fighting the urge to avert my eyes, the feeling that I don't have any right to look at you anymore (I don't, but this whole time I've been refusing to face you, and I can't do that anymore). "And I never did. I released the others I couldn't get the chance to continue training, so they could move on and have a life, but not you. I could never accept that you'd be better off without me. But you would."
You look at me for a moment more, and then you flutter upwards, circling a few times in the sky for the first time in six years – six years that you never even knew. I try to swallow the lump in my throat, but I can't; my mind is full of every time I avoided using you, every time I put off training you, every time I remembered you and realized I hadn't thought about you for weeks. It's an aching, suffocating feeling of opportunities lost, potential wasted and friendship neglected.
I expect you to turn in the direction of the forest and fly off, but you don't. Instead, you take a graceful dive toward me, land on my head and bury yourself in my hair. A thousand memories blend together, guilt mixes with triumph and joy and love; everything shatters to pieces inside me, and I break into sobs. I dimly realize tears are streaming down my cheeks, too; I don't know how long they have been.
"No," I say without thinking, my voice thick and strained, "no, I'll train you up again, we'll train and be together and make everything the way it was supposed to be and I'll never leave you behind again, not ever – please don't go."
You don't. You stay, nibbling lightly at me, a comforting weight to remind me you're still there, while I cry and cry and can't stop. You stay while I run out of tears and just stand there shaking. You stay while I finally collect myself, wipe my face and take a few deep breaths. I don't deserve your loyalty anymore but you stay anyway, and a part of me hates that, wishes you'd just hate me as much as I do so I can stop feeling so undeserving.
"I'm sorry," I say when I regain the ability to talk, staring unseeingly at the pink-tinged clouds in the distance. "I have no right to want anything from you. It's your life. I've taken enough of it away from you already. I just want you to be happy."
You snuggle up to me a little, and whether from the gesture alone or with the help of some psychic nudge, I know what you're trying to say: you're happy when you're with me.
There's a burning feeling in my throat as I swallow. Don't you understand? Is the situation lost on you? I reach up, pull you as carefully as I can off my head and let your wings take over to hover in front of me. "Butterfree," I say hoarsely, looking into your eyes, "it's been six years. You were falling behind and I started thinking training you was a chore so I put it off and forgot about it. And then I didn't do it even when I remembered because I couldn't admit it to you, so I just… left you there."
And don't you see how selfish that was? Don't you see that a true friend would never do something like that?
There is a pause. I can see your antennae droop a little, and immediately I wish I hadn't brought up your battle performance; it seems like I'm blaming you for it, and I can tell it's making you anxious. "It wasn't your fault," I add. "I was being impatient and it was unfair. I should have just…"
I trail off. To be honest, I'm not sure if there is any one thing I should have just done. Would you have been happier if I'd given you special extra training to keep up, a constant reminder that you couldn't just be part of the team like the other Pokémon but needed special attention? If I'd continued to send you out only against the weakest of opponents? If I'd continued as normal and you'd just gone on being beaten up and getting more nervous about battling until you dreaded it altogether?
And as I'm thinking that, it finally occurs to me that it's been a long, long time since you loved battling the way you did at the beginning. You started losing your enthusiasm when you started losing battles, and my misguided attempts to prevent that never really helped. I'd been dragging you on even before I left you behind.
"Do you even want to battle anymore, Butterfree?" I whisper hopelessly, realizing now how naïve my earlier declarations that we'd train and make everything the same were, because things just aren't the same – and a thought illuminates my mind, a thought that has to come from you because it feels alien: you never cared about battling in the first place. You just wanted to win… for me?
I stare at you in incomprehension, part of me thinking that's ridiculous and can't be it, part of me realizing now everything makes sense – you lost your enthusiasm because you thought you were letting me down, not because you hated losing, and of course when my reaction was to use you less and give you intermittent special training sessions just to keep up with the rest of the team, that only reinforced that.
You look at me with those eyes, and I get the feeling you're nodding.
For a few seconds I can't speak; I just stand there, looking at you, a mixture of emotions fighting within my brain. "Butterfree," I finally manage to say, "we don't have to battle. You don't have to battle to be my friend. Or if you do battle, I don't care how you do, so long as you're having fun doing it. We can just… if you want, you can just come along and… not battle. Or you can battle, if you want. Just tell me when you want to battle and…"
You fly at me to snuggle into my hair again, like you're happy and everything's okay now. My mind is numb. Everything is not okay. I still don't even feel right about taking you with me again; it's what you want, but I can't shake the feeling that it shouldn't be. It could all have been avoided if I'd paid better attention, or tried to understand you more fully, or just talked to you instead of leaving you on the PC so I wouldn't have to – if I'd really treated you like someone who had feelings, instead of something that induced feelings in me. It was my stupidity that led to all this hurt, from beginning to end.
But this is about you, not me. And I truly do want you to be happy. So I take a moment to compose myself, then clear my throat and say, "Okay. We're heading for the Viridian Trainer House."
I got used to having you around again. It's easy to almost forget what I did to you when you're there, keeping me company, cheering my team on, as if those six years never happened. You really do seem happy. I don't understand it, but your joy warms my heart, like it always did. And still, sometimes it really nags at me: why would you forgive me so easily?
Maybe it tore you apart, but you pretended to be okay for my sake, in the same blind devotion that made you keep battling even when you had grown to hate it. You'd never admit that to me, so how could I know?
Or maybe you really didn't care about those six years. What do I know of a Pokémon's view of life? Maybe, somehow, the notion of being abandoned is meaningless to a Butterfree. Maybe you don't have a concept of betrayal. Maybe the past just doesn't matter to you, as long as I'm with you now, and you'd find the idea of guilt puzzling. I don't know.
But if that's the case, then would you have done the same if I had beaten you? If I had starved you?
If I had just sent you out again into a battle after six years, without a word, without regret, expecting you to just fight as if nothing had happened?
I don't know.
I'm not sure I want to know.
As Charizard deals the final blow to that Alakazam, you snuggle into my hair, the way that you always used to do, and I just know that your happiness must be real. What else could it be?


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Norbert Sewald was born in Munich in 1961 and studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich. After he finished his PhD thesis in Organic Chemistry ("New Strategies for the Synthesis of Trifluoromethyl Substituted Heterocycles, Amino Acids, and Hydroxy Acids") in the group of Prof. Burger, he worked from 1991 to 1992 in the group of Prof. J. E. Baldwin at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford University ("Studies towards the Biomimetic Synthesis of Penicillin"). In 1998 he finished his habilitation at the University of Leipzig ("Peptides Containing b-Amino Acids: Asymmetric Synthesis, Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis, and Conformational Analysis by NMR Spectroscopy"). Since 1999 he is a Professor for Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry at the University of Bielefeld.
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As an urban twenty-something with a CSA farm share, a crush on Michael Pollan, and the occasional yearning to dangle tomato plants from my third-story apartment windows, I think a bit too much about where my food comes from. I often wonder how much of my insanity I will impart upon my future offspring. Will I blend my own baby food? Withhold McDonald's? Send my kids into my jungle of a garden to weed and bring back dinner?
With the increasing momentum of the local food movement, a bevy of conscientious young parents are likely seeking media to further educate/indoctrinate their children. What better way to instruct your urban children in the true origins of their local, organic chicken dinner than with artist Julia Rothman's Farm Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life (Storey, October 2011)? Although published for adults, Farm Anatomy is little more than a hefty, hipster-friendly visual dictionary with a dash of farmer's almanac, making it a good choice for the whole family to share. Rothman's pen and ink illustrations are heavily hand-labeled, detailing every part of farm life from soil composition to the twenty-six distinct styles of rooster combs.
Rothman's images can be a bit pastoral and rosy, but the book's content doesn't sugarcoat the realities of a working farm. One glance at the double-page spread full of archaic, frightening-looking "tools of the trade" makes me grateful that my urban existence does not require something called an "ear-notcher".


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A very interesting article in the UK The Guardian about this.
Avon are in chaos it seems.
You can view the page at http://www.basenotes.net/content/115...sition-attempt
A very interesting article in the UK The Guardian about this.
Avon are in chaos it seems.
I respect people that go out and try to make a living selling Avon.
Avon needs to go right on being Avon, so that those of us who aren't too well off (or just too snobbish :) ) to be seen with an Avon rep have someplace to go for good products, which they usually are, at a great price. A Coty merger WOULD raise prices, as such things often do, and frags I love would be lost.
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I have not seen or owned an AVON product for 25+ years.
With that said, I have good memories of AVON's soap on a rope when I was really young. It was cool to hang the soap from the bathtub taps. Maybe this is when I started my interest in scents.
When I smell a discount cologne and the opening burns my nose with alcohol...its Coty.
If I'm in blind buy mode I dont buy Coty anymore. So maybe its good AVON is free of Coty.


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Holy shit could it be even more content on the main page? Yes it seems for some reason we've upped our workrate around here so I figured I might as well contribute. Yes I know the Lethal women of rasslin tournament fizzled (but come on it's women's wrestling…so who cares anyway). But despite being burned out on wrestling in general, I had to write something because behind the scenes the WWE with Vince McMahon at the helm might be driving their ship straight into an iceberg.
What iceberg could be so big that it could sink the WWE you ask?
The WWE Network; That's what. We haven't heard much about the WWE Network lately and well there's a good reason for that. The little news there is not too good.


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Miley Cyrus gets social media, y'all!
After premiering her new single "We Can't Stop" Monday morning on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS FM show in L.A., she hopped on a jet and made her way to Silicon Valley. The reason? To meet with the staff at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Vine—or as she calls them, "the homies!"
If we're keeping tabs on her online trail, Miley first paid a visit to the fine people of Instagram. She sure looked happy to pose with their crew, sticking her tongue out in picture she—duh—Instagrammed and captioned, "Say INSTAGRAM!!!!"
Next up, Miley girl hit up Facebook, posing in front of a colorful, kitschy wall at the company. While we like the background messages of "Relax" and "Move Fast and Speak Clearly," the "It's Your Duty to Hack," and "Hackers Gonna Hack" are a teeny bit troublesome. (Be kind online. Karma exists outside of reddit!)
As of this afternoon, Liam Hemsworth's love was still making the rounds at Twitter and Vine, and naturally sharing some fun pics along the way. You know, just the typical booty shot while you're looking out on the horizon with your friends, full-body pic with your makeup artist, that kinda thing.
You twerk it, girlfriend.


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