text: [[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_69799_front.jpg]]%%%% The Justice version of Duel Savior, which contains sexual content, does not meet content policy due to the presence of Rico.%% Please do not add tropes exclusive to this adaptation.%%Touma Taiga is a man of passions. Passion for sex, so [[EstablishingCharacterMoment he's in the middle of a plan to have a hundred girlfriends at once.]] While he's meeting a temporary setback, he and his [[LittleSisterHeroine sister]] Mia stumble across a strange red book. When they touch it, they are suddenly dragged into an alternate world where Mia is extended the choice to become the Messiah and enter the Floria academy. Feeling left out, Taiga demands to also be able to take the entrance exam despite male Saviors supposedly being impossible. To everyone's surprise, he passes when he calls forth the Aether Relic Traitor immediately after Mia calls her own Relic.Taiga isn't too concerned with what the job actually entails as he simply heard the promise that the Messiah can shape the world as they like after saving it from the destruction of Ruin and begins integrating into the new class, mostly by flirting with the girls in it. Before too long, however, things take a turn for the serious and Taiga finally shows his heroic side, making him one of the strongest contenders for the title of Messiah. But is it really that simple? After all, Ruin is beginning to make its move to destroy the world.Duel Savior is a fighting game with considerable story elements putting it close to visual novel territory. There are six heroines, each of which unlocks in later cycles of the game after being cleared. Finally, the story ends with a harem route, which was [[BleachedUnderpants redone minus sex scenes]] to focus on the princess from the original version.----!!This Work Provides Examples Of:* AFriendInNeed: Taiga, in the final route. More like "Love Interest in Need" but fits because at that point all the girls were still friendzoned.* AlternateContinuity: Berio and Kaede's routes. Justified since these two are more of a set up that introduce several elements that will be important on the other routes.* AlternateDimension* AmplifierArtifact: The more physically based Aether Relics appear to grant improved physical ability to their wielders. Righteous, Lily's glove artifact, enhances spellcasting and allows her to use magic that she would not normally be capable of yet at her age even if she is a genius.* AnnoyingArrows: Averted. Mia's arrows ''sting''. [[spoiler:Especially when Justy awakens.]]* ArtifactOfDoom: The Messiah's armor in the hands of an Apostle will awaken them into the Messiah, but it will be a raging, destructive Messiah who attempts to destroy all of humanity. [[spoiler:Which is what the Messiah is supposed to do anyway.]]* ArtificialStupidity: On the earlier routes, the AI is content to just float around during battles instead of actually fight you.* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:In the final route, Taiga gains the power of the Messiah, is rejected by God and thus can't be controlled and then proceeds to fuse the two most powerful Aether Relics together. After that, he then adds the power of every other Aether Relic to it, putting him on par with or even above God, who is flat out omnipotent. Also, he's apparently immortal and tireless since he had time to beat God millions of times without seeming to age.]]* AscendedExtra: In Destiny, Crea gets a larger role when the farewell party would have gotten... frisky... and takes over as the main heroine. Unfortunately, the last scenario was written without her in mind and only superficial details were changed.* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler:Nanashi's ending implies that she and Taiga will become the new king and queen of Avatar.]]* TheBattleDidntCount: A lot of the boss fights seem to work like this, including several in a row during the final route where you're not really supposed to be winning with what they've given you. Especially when [[spoiler:you've probably never even USED Black Papillon before.]]* BigBad: Downy Reed.* BittersweetEnding: Most of the endings tend to end well for Taiga and the Savior candidates, but after that it's anyone's guess as to how happy anything will be.** Kaede and Berio's routes get what are probably the cleanest endings [[spoiler:with Floria essentially intact, the princess surviving and most of the population surviving.]] The only downsides are that the fundamental problem in the setting is only stalled, [[spoiler:Selbium is dead]] and [[spoiler:some of the Lords of Ruin may have survived, though they're presumed dead.]]** Rico and Nanashi's routes have a lot more civilian casualties, [[spoiler:Avatar's population centers have been essentially obliterated and took some heavy damage respectively]] and [[spoiler:the princess is dead]], but we're getting closer to really fixing the problem in this world. [[spoiler:Taiga is presumed dead in Rico's route and in Nanashi's route he ''is'' dead, but his soul was moved into an immortal homunculus body and made immortal.]]** Mia's route has two endings, A and B. You get B first and it's (supposed to be) even less happy than the alternative, which involves [[spoiler:Mia slaughtering thousands of innocent people, turning Selbium evil, killing Crea and nearly causing the apocalypse out of her own free will.]] In the A ending, though, Taiga [[spoiler:stops Mia without killing her, so at least they get to be happy since Mia doesn't have to live with the consequences of her mass murder and betrayal thanks to LaserGuidedAmnesia.]]** Lily's route has almost as much damage property damage as Rico's route, but much more recoverable [[spoiler:since most of the population was apparently able to evacuate thanks to the heroics of the royal army]]. [[spoiler:Muriel and Lily never see each other again, but when she does finally return she sees that Floria has established policies that will help ensure no Messiah is ever made while remaining strong enough to stop Ruin when it returns.]] All in all, a pretty happy ending.* BleachedUnderpants: Destiny removes several sex scenes, cleans up some of the iffier normal [=CGs=] and fades to black when the remaining sex scenes would have occurred in the original. Finally, the last route is changed from a harem route into a Crea route.* BookEnds** Mia A and Rico routes ends have Taiga talking on the phone while walking down the street, same as the beginning of the game.** Berio's route ends with Taiga flirting with a girl and making the same name mix up he did at the beginning.* BrotherSisterIncest: Mia. [[spoiler:Shezar also had sex with Berio.]]* TheCameo: Several characters on the Practice, Parry and Endless Modes.* CastFromHP: Though it doesn't show up in gameplay possibly due to [[CutscenePowerToTheMax not enough power being used]], Justy's attacks in its second form are immensely powerful at the cost of draining the user's stamina rapidly.* CerebusSyndrome: This game suffers from an extreme case of it.* ChekhovsGun: Of all things, Traitor's name. By the time you finally understand why he's named that, its already so commonplace that you are likely to have forgotten the true meaning of the word.** Kaede's resistance to poison.* {{Combos}}: Chaining attacks and dealing damage fills up the red meter. One bar of red is required to do an attack cancel and two are used to use a super. You're limited to two bars at the start, which increases as you gain levels.* CompleteImmortality: [[spoiler:God. He can be injured, his avatars can be beaten and he can be attacked and beaten on his home ground, but you can never kill him.]]* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: The AI is capable of spamming attacks and dodging without any delay, and gains a massive defence bonus whenever their health enters the green area. There's also [[spoiler:God, who is capable of freezing time, breaking your guard, then hitting you with an instant kill attack before you can control Taiga again.]]* ConvenientlyOrphaned: The Touma siblings, as well as most of the cast.* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Righteous final spell. It sends the whole region around the caster to a black hole-like dimension, including the caster.* DarkIsNotEvil: Necromancy is not actually evil. Technically, holy magic and healing are a subset of it, making Berio a necromancer. She's never called one though since she's terrified of undead and doesn't raise them.* DavidVersusGoliath: In the final route [[spoiler:Selbium versus Downy. And no, it's not supposed to be a hopeless boss fight.]]* DeusSexMachina: Though in Destiny there's a fade to black where the sex scene would be, it's still clear what has happened. One of the early examples is [[spoiler:Rico randomly pulling Taiga into a pocket dimension so they can have sex]].* DevelopersForesight: ** If you deal enough damage to the golem fight before Taiga gets Traitor, the battle ends and the principal and Dahlia remark on how Taiga would be a great soldier.** In Nanashi's route, if [[spoiler:you beat the four members of Ruin at once instead of losing, you're treated to a scene where they're revived from the border of death, since killing them would solve the plot]].* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:God is the GreaterScopeVillain but only faced in the final two routes.]]* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:Lily Sheerfield]]'s epilogue take place long after everyone involved with the story is long dead when [[spoiler:her mother]] returns home.* DownerEnding: Mia B ending has [[spoiler:all the bad stuff from the Mia A good ending, but also Touma accidentally killing Mia and then having to commit suicide to prevent himself from ending the world.]]* DuelBoss: A few such as one against Mudou and a string of them during the end of the final two routes.* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Princess Crea]] in the third and fourth routes.* EleventhHourSuperpower: Though often more in the form of just getting to use a different character.* EmpathicWeapon: Aether Relics are all alive, sentient and capable of speaking to their wielders, but they never really do anything. Traitor doesn't even have any lines after his intro until the last route. Lily says that Righteous once told its wielded the ultimate spell it was capable of and Taiga internally monologues that he and Traitor barely speak let alone do that much. [[spoiler:In the final route we finally learn what they actually are and they get a little more focus as they finally get the chance to explain what's actually going on.]]* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: What Ruin seeks, [[spoiler: and what the MessianicArchetype is really about.]]* ExtendedGameplay: Endless Mode. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.* FloralThemeNaming: Most of the characters are named after plants.* {{Foreshadowing}}: There's a lot of foreshadowing of later route's twists early on. For example, the game is not terribly subtle about Nanashi's importance.* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:Downy's reason to be a part of Ruin.]]* FrothyMugsOfWater: That is totally orange juice they are drinking. Not alcohol. Nope.* [[spoiler:GodIsEvil: God created the world but apparently not humanity or something since they fall so far outside of his expectations that he got pissed off and keeps trying to blow up the world.]]* {{Golem}}: One of the rarer miniboss types are golems, of which there are at least three variants not counting pallet swaps.* GoryDiscretionShot: When [[spoiler:Selbium]] dies in Berio's route.* GratuitousEnglish: A few of the Aether Relics are named in English. Traitor, Righteous and Elder Arc, for example.** The opening video informs you that "You were chosen fatally to Avater, the first quadrant."* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:God, who is the TrueFinalBoss, but is not responsible for the actions of the plot except indirectly.]]* GuideDangIt: How many people suffered the "Mia C" ending (a.k.a. Bad Ending) before knowing that you're supposed to get the girls in a certain order?* HappyEnding: The harem/Crea route has [[spoiler:everyone survive, Ruin stopped for good and rather limited casualties.]] There's a teaser that [[spoiler:Taiga may be stuck fighting God forever]] but apparently not: [[spoiler:The epilogue for Crea reveals that after beating God ''several million times'' in a pocket dimension with vastly accelerated time the completely magically inept but apparently immortal Taiga eventually came up with a magic seal so powerful that he could seal God and finally go home no more than a few years after he left.]]* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose:** Some fights that you're required to win still seem to result with Taiga losing.** If you beat [[spoiler:Shezar]] while being forced to use [[spoiler:Black Papillon instead of Berio]] she's amazed that she won, but it's quickly revealed that all she beat was a body double.* HopelessBossFight** During one of the routes you have to face off against Mudou, Shezar, Imnity and Lobelia all at once. By yourself. Good luck. It's technically winnable but you're supposed to get thrashed.** During the final route you'll run into several of these. If, for example, you [[spoiler:beat Shezar with Black Papillon or Lobelia with Nanashi (both of which are surprisingly easy to do)]] they just stand up and basically undo the victory so that you can beat them the way you're supposed to this time.* HumanityEnsues: [[spoiler:Taiga strips Imnity and Rico of their status as spirits at the end, converting them into humans.]]* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:Super Mia and Selbium vs Taiga in the cursed Messiah Armor, though it's briefly interrupted by a fight between Selbium and Downy.]]* {{Immortality}}: Rico and Imnity are almost unkillable. Lobelia has survived as an undead for a thousand years, though for much of it she was sealed. In Nanashi's ending, [[spoiler:Taiga joins her as an immortal homunculus]] and finally in the true ending [[spoiler:Taiga returns to the world of Avatar after decades (at least) of nonstop fighting against God apparently the same age that he left.]]* ImprobablyFemaleCast: There are only five even mildly important male characters in the entire story and three are villains.* {{Infodump}}: Subverted at one point. Crea starts lecturing Taiga on the history of Avatar and about the Messiah, but he just falls asleep and misses the entirety of it.* InstantDeathRadius: The last two bosses have absolutely massive range, great damage and surprisingly small hitboxes while you're using the pure melee Taiga. Good luck getting close before they unleach the apocalypse on you.* IWillWaitForYou: [[spoiler: Crea, in her ending. The story cuts off just as Taiga arrives to see her after successfully sealing God.]]* KarmaHoudini** [[spoiler:In Mia's good ending, she doesn't even have to feel guilty over atrocities she knowingly committed or the friends she betrayed at least partially willingly. Do note that she killed thousands of people including the princess and left her friends to die after she tried to get them petrified in the first place. As a point of justification, this could be argued to be because the hero of the entire world vouched for her.]]** Downy's backstory involves [[spoiler:a noble who pitted children against each other in fights to the death. After his sister died and he grew up, he returned to get revenge, only to find the noble had died peacefully surrounded by friends and family.]]* KirkSummation: Attempts to talk down [[spoiler:Lobelia, the undead guarding the Messiah Armor or Sel in Mia's route]] never work.** ShutUpKirk: From the first and third of those three.* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:The Messiah is supposed to bring about the end of the world.]]* LimitedWardrobe: The girls are always with the same clothes. This is particularly jarring on the DistantFinale of the final route, four years later. * LivingWithTheVillain: [[spoiler:Downy is the big bad, a spy and a teacher at Floria while Mia is the true White Apostle.]]* LoveTriangle: Lily, Taiga and Mia in Mia's route. [[spoiler:Mia goes absolutely apeshit over the matter and ends up killing thousands of people.]]* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Though the strategically placed scene cuts stop the scene from being shown, it becomes clear what people are actually doing in the middle of a ruined city, in the middle of a cafeteria with seven people or, perhaps most glaringly of all, in the middle of an enemy prison. While waiting for rescue. And so many times that when they stop to think about it they realize they're not sure they can even walk anymore, let alone run and fight.* MarryThemAll: In the Crea route that replaced the harem route Crea refers to the other girls as Taiga's lovers to [[spoiler:her son]] noting that nobody ever said Avatar exclusively practiced monogamy. It's unlocked after completing the second Mia ending and resolves the story more than any other route preceding it. It's also what Taiga is aiming for from the beginning.** {{Polyamory}}* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:The reason for Traitor's name is not clear until essentially the final boss. Turns out, his name means he's Blade of Rebellion against God.]]* MementoMacGuffin: The picture they take in the final route ends up helping them all during their final battles. * MightMakesRight: A core piece of White Law is the idea of survival of the fittest. The strong dominate the weak.* MindRape: [[spoiler: What God does to the Messiah when she's chosen.]] * MultipleEndings: Six heroines and one group route make for seven routes. The order is Kaede/Berio -> Rico -> Nanashi -> Lily -> Mia -> Crea/Harem depending on version. Mia has two endings and the final route gets a bonus scene on second viewing.* {{Necromancy}}: It has the classical interpretation for the most part. Healing is associated with necromancy and raising the dead is not seen as evil, though the undead are seen as tools at best and more frequently as creepy. Lobelia is the prominent necromancer in the story [[spoiler:though her good counterpart Rubinas also performs necromancy in order to save Taiga's soul after she kills him before using alchemy to make him a homunculus]]* NewGamePlus: If you carry over a save, you gain the ability to use the heroine you just cleared in any maps she's available in.* NoConservationOfEnergy: When you boil down all the fluffy terminology, White Law is basically science and logic and Red Law is magic and emotions. White Law has consistent rules that follow principles a scientific society gradually uncovers while Red Law has to do with making something out of nothing, which is the core reason they don't really mix very well. From a White Law perspective, Red is something like 0x1 = 2 rather than nothing.* NotBloodRelated: According to one ending, Mia and Taiga aren't actually related. [[{{Retcon}} According to another]], they are. And it's kind of important that they are too.* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: During the final route, all the girls stay back to fight their respective arch nemesis, and though they win their fights, they don't exactly come out unscathed. Each scene ends with what would be their dying scene. But they all show up a few minutes later to help Taiga break free of God's control.]]* TheOmniscient: Specifically averted. God is all powerful but not all knowing. [[spoiler:This means he wants to destroy humanity and restart the universe since he apparently hates not knowing what people are going to do.]]* OneHitKill: One of [[spoiler:God's]] attacks. You can't dodge it, and blocking doesn't always prevent it from killing you. You're also supposed to ''win'' this fight.* PaintingTheMedium: People are able to tell when Nanashi is using the wrong kanji in her speech. The equivalent in English (and how it's translated) is using the word 'weight' instead of 'wait.'* PostEndGameContent: Endless Mode only unlocks after finishing all the routes.* ThePowerOfFriendship* ThePowerOfLove: One of the factors that made possible for Taiga to be summoned, in the final route. [[spoiler: Because of a StableTimeLoop, Taiga saves Crea as a little girl from an attack from God. With his image ingrained in her because of that event, it made possible for Traitor to summon him in a gambit to destroy God.]]* PsychoRangers: The Lords of Ruin are basically the White Apostle candidates as opposed to the Red Apostle Savior class.* TheReveal** [[spoiler:Nanashi is an ancient hero with a sealed memory.]]** [[spoiler:Aether Relics are the souls of former Messiahs who were forced to destroy their own world and create a new one.]]* TheRestShallPass* SealedGoodInACan: [[spoiler:Aether Relics, though thanks to God keeping a close eye on them there's not much they can do about him until the end.]]* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Lobelia is sealed into Rubinas' rosary in the final route.]]* SealedEvilInADuel: [[spoiler: Invoked. Taiga goes to fight God with the expectation that God is unkillable. And he's right. However, so long as God is busy fighting him off, he can't keep bringing Ruin to the world. In the end, Taiga 'kills' God so many times that he apparently figures out how to make a proper seal to bind him despite how terrible he is at magical theory. He beat him several million times.]]* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Selbium]] gets hit by [[spoiler:Mudou's]] mind control, and has to be killed for Taiga to get to [[spoiler:Mudou]]. Taiga kills them, but he ultimately fails his task of killing [[spoiler:Mudou]].* {{Shapeshifter}}: [[spoiler:It's briefly mentioned that Rico and Imnity used to look different, but are hiding their true identities.]]* ShapeshifterWeapon: Traitor's default form is a sword, but it can also become a three sectioned staff, a giant axe, bombs, a hammer or increase its length. [[spoiler:Traitor's super form is shown to change into even more weapons, such as a trident.]]* ShoutOut: [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Jerry got eaten by a cat monster. Tom was torn apart by rat monsters.]]* SituationalSword: Traitor changes shape depending on what kind of attack its wielder wishes to use, even spawning explosives if necessary. Justy has a more exaggerated effect in that after [[spoiler:Mia awakens as the White Apostle]] its true power is unleashed, making it an incredibly powerful but life draining weapon.* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Crea's son [[DeadGuyJunior Taiga]] in the final ending. Not that Taiga is actually dead and he returns after a few years.]]** The same also applies in [[spoiler:the harem ending, where every girl has their own child named Taiga. And unlike in the Crea route, there's no sign that Taiga is coming back]]* SummoningRitual: How Rico summons Savior Candidates to Avatar.* SurpriseIncest: Taiga and Mia think they're completely unrelated, but Mia learns in the final route that she's actually his half sister. After a very brief moment of awkwardness everyone completely ignores this for the rest of the story since it's a bit late to do anything about it ''now.'' Not after the night before.* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler:Taiga realizes that Downy is driven by a past that could easily have led him to the same conclusion.]]* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:Taiga, upon finally becoming the Messiah, decides he'd rather punch out God than remake the universe.]]* TalkingToHerself: Nanashi, Rubinas and Lobelia share a voice actress. [[spoiler:Which only makes sense since Nanashi is Rubinas' soul and Lobelia is in Rubinas' original body.]]* TaremeEyes: Most of the girls with the obvious exception of [[{{Tsundere}} Lily]].* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: [[spoiler:There are actually two Apostles, Red and White. One has to kill the other to become the Messiah.]] However, it turns out there's a loophole [[spoiler:because by either acquiring the Messiah armor or destroying it and having an Apostle sit in God's Throne, that person will still become the Messiah.]]* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Taiga summons Traitor in front of a monster but instead of fighting it with it, he throws it on the tentacles that are holding Lily, so Justy can use Traitor as a target and blast the monster away from Lily.* TimeTravel: Mentioned in passing as the consequence of not having a proper anchor when dimensional hopping. It's apparently nothing you can exploit and may only go in one direction.* TookALevelInBadass: Mudou. What was once someone completely nonthreatening is capable of perfectly blocking attacks nearly all the time in later routes. Other enemies get this as well, but only much later.* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Butterfly God.]]* VillainsNeverLie* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Several. For example, Crea route shows us [[spoiler:all the girls cleaning up the remnants of Ruin and returning home to make a report, at which point Taiga returns.]]* {{Woolseyism}}: Invoked. Aroduc, the translator, points out a lot of silly mistakes Giga made and his attempts to correct them, for better or worse. Apparently, he did not appreciate some of the puns or consistency issues.* YearInsideHourOutside: As well as [[YearOutsideHourInside the reverse]] depending on the relation between two places. The most extreme example of this is [[spoiler:at the end of the final route, Taiga has time to beat God millions of times and then set up a seal and return six or seven years after he left.]]----


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Standoff In Smuggler's ParadiseGeoff Winestock
When Cary Languirand, who distributes Mexico-brewed Corona beer in Russia, checks the price of other imported beers at street-side kiosks in Moscow, he's always amazed. Given that the import tax alone comes to $1.40, rival beers should cost at least $2.50 a bottle. Instead, Languirand can usually pick one up for about $1. But his own Coronas sell for up to $5. What's going on?
That brain teaser reflects one of the toughest problems facing the Russian economy today. The sharp variations in retail prices of imported goods--from beer to luxury cars--reflect the sorry state of Russia's customs authorities. They are budgeted to collect $2.7 billion in taxes and duties this year. But because of corruption, smuggling, and poor organization, they'll be lucky to gather in a third of that.
FRENZY. Now, under pressure from the International Monetary Fund to pump up its revenues, Moscow is toughening up. It's cracking down on some of the most obvious scams. Imported cigarettes and alcoholic beverages must now carry a government tax stamp or face confiscation. But critics question whether top Kremlin officials, including President Boris Yeltsin himself, have the nerve to shut down the smugglers completely. Says Vladimir Drebentsov, a Moscow-based trade economist for the World Bank: "Every time a scheme is stopped, another takes its place."
Undercut by competitors with sweet customs deals, honest importers are forced to shave their margins to stay competitive. "It's like a feeding frenzy across the country to find out where you can get the best deal," says Languirand. Take cigarettes. In Moscow, the minimum price for a pack of prime-quality cigarettes should be more than $1. But the price is often as low as 50 cents, because shady importers bribe customs officials or use semilegal ruses to avoid full taxation.
The scams extend to the luxury-car market, where import taxes should add 100% to the sticker price. Yet dealers estimate that a third of the cars sold have been smuggled in tax-free. Max Dajnowicz, a Moscow-based vice-president for General Motors Overseas Corp., says dealers have even approached him with smuggled cars. "They offered me a BMW roadster for $40,000," he says. The car should legally cost twice that.
Smuggling in Russia starts small, with "shuttle traders"--individual tourists who travel from hot trading spots such as Turkey or Poland carrying suitcases full of cigarettes, electrical goods, and beer. They bribe or argue their way past low-paid customs officials. Bigger-time traders have developed more regular smuggling channels. They are helped immensely by Russia's thinly policed 16,000-kilometer border, where customs posts sometimes lack even telephones.
But the biggest rip-off by far involves import tax exemptions that are approved by top officials. One famous case involves Yeltsin himself. Always a tennis fan, Yeltsin this year granted huge exemptions to the National Sports Fund (NSF), an umbrella organization for sporting clubs. The deal was pushed by Yeltsin's regular tennis partner and former champ Shamil Tarpishchev, who also heads the fund.
The exemptions have paid off big for the sports clubs. They now import 60% to 80% of all cigarettes and alcohol, costing Russia about $1 billion annually in lost taxes. Meantime, the clubs expect to earn some $250 million this year using the exemption. Although Yeltsin signed a law passed by the Russian Parliament to do away with the clubs' tax exemption this summer, he then used his powers to extend the exemption until at least November.
Meanwhile, importers, including some U.S. companies, continue to benefit. The NSF allows them to become honorary members carrying a tax-free import status in exchange for hefty commissions. Officials insist that such deals help fund sports. "The good that we do compensates for the fact that we import beer," says Valentin Balikhnichev, head of Russia's Track & Field Assn.
A CRIMP. While the import situation remains murky, Russia seems to be making progress in stemming illegal exports. Mysterious trainloads of raw materials, especially copper and aluminum, still make their way across the border to entrepots in the Baltic and the Russian Far East. But other commodities such as oil are being smuggled out less often, as domestic prices come in line with world prices, removing some of the incentive for smuggling.
To put a crimp in illegal importing, U.S. executives argue that taxes should be lowered to encourage compliance and thus raise revenues. Lower tariffs would also help Russia in its current bid to join the World Trade Organization, they claim. But Russian finance officials insist they need massive revenues in a hurry. Trouble is, nobody seems willing to come down really hard on the smugglers and corrupt officials.
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Ten years ago this week, I was in the hospital with a rare acute allergic reaction called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. I had been taking a mild antibiotic that had Sulfa in it…I am allergic to Sulfa based drugs, but did not know it. It started with flu like symptoms and a sensitive rash that turned into blisters. Once my rash and blistered covered body worsened, and my ulcerated mouth made eating a challenge, I was admitted to the hospital. I spent eight days and seven nights in the hospital as the Sulfa burned through my skin.
My skin has always been a perfect blend of my dad (who is Black) and my mom (who is White). I have always LOVED and embraced being mixed. As long as I can remember, I made it clear to everyone that I was both Black AND White. In the 4th grade I even spoke to a university class, with my parents, about being mixed.
As I got older, I recognized that my skin changed with the seasons. In the winter, I was lighter. In the summer, I was darker. My ever changing color always makes picking out the "perfect shade" of make up a challenge! In the summers, I would try and get enough sun to last as long into the winter as possible. This was mostly because I felt I looked healthier with darker skin. I know that sounds silly, but it's just how I felt, and still feel sometimes. My skin has always ignited discussion from others. I have usually taken advantage of their curiosity by answering their questions, sharing my mixed story, and educating them about what it means for me to be mixed.
Changing Shades.
As I sat in the hospital, a few weeks before graduating with my Bachelors of Social Work from Azusa Pacific University, watching my skin literally flake off my body, I had a lot of questions for the doctors about what the final results would be. At this point, the skin that had fallen off was leaving very raw, fresh, pale pink, and sensitive skin. There were spots of this new skin surrounded by darker, unblistered, and unaffected skin. One day the infectious disease doctor came in for his daily visit.
Me: "What am I going to end up looking like?"
Doctor: "What do you mean?"
Me: "Am I going to look like Michael Jackson?"
(I know this might make me sound vain…and maybe it was a little…but I had stopped looking at my reflection. I no longer recognized myself in the mirror, and was having a difficult time remembering what "normal skin" felt like. I was beginning to realize that I might never look like my old self again.)
Doctor: "Well its hard to tell. We don't really know." (Looks at my mom) "You will probably end up being about her complexion."
(My heart sank. Not because my mom isn't beautiful, but because I LOVED my mixed skin. That is who I am, mixed. If it is washed away…than who would I be? I was speechless.)
My mom pulled out my senior picture to show the doctor.
Mom: "This is what she normally looks like."
It was written all over the doctor's face. He did not realize that I was mixed. I had been in the hospital for at least three or four days, and the doctor didn't know I was mixed!
Doctor: "Oh, well, uh, we will just have to wait and see. Time will tell."
WHAT!?! You are the doctor! You can't tell me what is going to happen! As I was quickly learning, no one really knew the exact outcome of Stevens-Johnson. They didn't even know what was the best way to treat it or prevent it from getting worse. Nurses from all over the hospital came to visit me. They had worked there for 10 years and had never seen a case. The only thing the doctors could tell me is that it has to run its course as it works through my system and out through my skin.
The doctor left and I was left in epidermis limbo. I was forced to start the process of coming to terms with my current changing color of skin.
Picture taken May 1, 2004. This was Day 7 in the hospital.
As my skin continued to flake off, my face was light, and like new baby skin. My arms and chest and back were spotted. Slowly the light spots gained pigment. I was hopeful that my skin would even out. However, the light spots continued to darken, eventually hyper-pigmentating. Now I had my color back, but I was spotted. After about nine months, lots of prayer, and a series of microdermabrasion treatments with my Dermatologist, my skin evened out. I still have a few lingering scars, but only I see them.
As I reflect back on the experience, I am thankful, and feel blessed, that my mixed skin was restored, but if it hadn't been…I still would have been mixed, for mixed blood runs through my veins. My worry was never that I might be different, or having to come to terms with an altered appearance. I think my worry was that if my skin was lighter, spotted, or looked like Michael Jackson, that it would no longer be a catalyst for conversations where I could educate others about my mixedness. For someone who has always felt comfortable with my mixed identity, the thought of that being stripped away was scary. I realize now, more than ever, that being mixed, for me, is more than skin deep. My skin would have still been a discussion starter…but for a new purpose…surviving Steven Johnson. Now my skin tells an even more complex story, not only one of my mixed heritage, but of surviving Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. Who I am is obviously more than skin deep, but skin, for me… is a story starter.


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Taking stock of Week 11 in the Pac-12.
Team of the week: Stanford's showdown with Oregon State was the game of the week, with the winner becoming the top potential challenger to Oregon in the Pac-12 North Division. When the smoke cleared from a highly physical contest, it was the Cardinal and freshman quarterback Kevin Hogan, who had made his first college start, making the key fourth-quarter plays to notch the victory 27-23.
Best game: While a furious Washington State comeback made things interesting against UCLA, it was another weekend mostly of blowouts. So Stanford's gritty victory is hard to ignore. Hogan threw a 13-yard TD pass with five minutes left to put Stanford ahead, and the Cardinal defense made it stand with a pair of subsequent defensive stops.
Biggest play: With 8:34 left at Stanford, Oregon State quarterback Cody Vaz lost control of the ball without contact, and Stanford recovered at the Beavers' 29-yard line. That set up the Cardinal's decisive score. It also seemed to shake Vaz, who was out of sorts on Oregon State's next two possessions.
Offensive standout: While it was against the terrible Colorado defense, it's impossible to overlook Arizona running back Ka'Deem Carey, who set a new Pac-12 single-game rushing record with 366 yards against the Buffaloes. He averaged 14.6 yards per carry and scored five touchdowns in the blowout win.
Offensive standout II: Despite getting banged up in the first half, Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota was brilliant in the win at California, completing 27 of 34 passes for 377 yards and six touchdowns. He also rushed six times for 42 yards. He's now No. 1 in the nation in passing efficiency.
Defensive standout: UCLA outside linebacker Anthony Barr recorded eight tackles, 2.5 sacks -- one of which produced a safety -- and blocked a punt in the win over Washington State. He has 10 sacks this season.
Special-teams standout: UCLA's special teams, lauded by the Pac-12 blog last week but derided by Sam From Los Angeles, blocked two field goals and two punts against Washington State.
Smiley face: When California went 74 yards in nine plays for a touchdown on its first third-quarter possession to cut Oregon's lead to 24-17, there was just a tremor of worry among the Ducks' fan base, right? Weird things happen to Oregon in Berkeley. And Alabama already had lost, making it feel as though it might become one of those weekends in college football, when things go haywire. But the Ducks answered emphatically, rolling up 35 unanswered points to turn the game into another blowout victory. Oregon is flashy, yes, but as important is its poise and mental toughness.
Frowny face:: Because there are two sides to every story, the best assessment of the Marquess Wilson versus Mike Leach dustup is both parties probably haven't always conducted themselves in a laudable way. Wilson's attitude and effort were often transparently mediocre, something you could see during games and ascertain from practice reports. But there's also this: Leach's motivational techniques have failed this season. He inherited a team that had potential to get to a bowl game and made it worse. That doesn't mean things won't get better -- way better, perhaps -- in the future. It only means that he seemingly sacrificed this season to install a "my way or the highway" approach that included a near weekly calling out of his team's character. The media love Leach's intelligence, humor and candor. But they also sometimes make just about any observer squirm.
Thought of the week: If things hold true to present form, Oregon will meet Kansas State for the national title on Jan. 7. That means the infamous canceled series between the two could end up getting played on the biggest stage in college football. That surely will settle things! And talk about a story that will get beaten to death for weeks in advance of the game. If the Wildcats lose to either Baylor or Texas, then it's likely the Ducks would meet Notre Dame. If Notre Dame loses to either Wake Forest or at USC, then the Ducks probably would play the SEC champion -- Alabama or Georgia -- for the national title.
Questions for the week: Which of Oregon's long list of injured players on defense will play against Stanford on Saturday, and which will not? At some points against California, the Ducks were playing five freshmen along their defensive front seven. The Cardinal, with a much better offensive line than California, will have a chance to exploit that. If D-linemen Taylor Hart (foot), Dion Jordan (shoulder), Isaac Remington (ankle), Ricky Heimuli (knee) and tackle Wade Keliikipi play, then the Ducks defense will have an advantage up front. If they -- or most of them -- don't, then things could get interesting.


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Break my heart for what breaks Yours…
We sang a song at church this morning that has been with me all day. I'm guessing most of you know the song, but in case you've missed it the lyrics are below.
This is really representative of my passion for my life and for the church right now—the cry of my heart is especially reflected in the words in the bridge: "Heal my heart and make it clean—Open up my eyes to the things unseen—Show me how to love like You have loved me—Break my heart for what breaks Yours—Everything I am for Your Kingdom's cause…"
Yes, Lord. Break our hearts for the things that break Your heart. Let us really see into the eternal as we go about our day-to-day lives; give us Your perspective. We want to notice those around us who are broken and lonely and lost, and extend grace and love to them in the same way that You have loved us.
We don't want to settle for the status quo that we have come to value, but to live in such a way that Your Kingdom is really first in our lives. This is a choice we make, Jesus, to be incarnated into those situations where we must set aside any position of comfort we may have and be ready to touch all those Xanax Online who need you.
Our families need to be transformed; our neighborhoods and cities desperately need to be transformed; our schools and places of employment must be transformed; and our churches will die a slow but certain death if they are not open to being radically transformed by Your power towards Your purpose.
But first, transform our lives. Bring real revival to our hearts, and then let it flow through us and out to our world so that people who meet us will have a radical, life-changing encounter with You.
I see the king of glory
Coming on the clouds with fire
The whole earth shakes
The whole earth shakes
I see his love and mercy
Washing over all our sin
The people sing
The people sing
Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest
I see a generation
Rising up to take their place
With selfless faith
With selfless faith
I see a near revival
Stirring as we pray and seek
We're on our knees
We're on our knees
Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest
Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like you have loved me
Break my heart for what breaks yours
Everything I am for Your Kingdoms cause
As I walk from earth into Eternity


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Night Terrors: 1 - The Beginning of the End
A man dressed as any other criminal, walks a dark and messy alley, among the vagabond homeless and the rats, his boots knocking the ground as he passes through the shadows toward the scene of a vulgar crime of one man and a defenseless woman held at knife point. On the wall, completely hidden in darkness, silent and sheathed in shadow, crawl the creatures of the night, watching, always waiting for a kill, to scavenge the remains of bodies or less.
The walking individual says,
"Did you not know that the royal hunting grounds are always forbidden," to the vile criminal who turns and lunges. The vigilante takes the leading arm and throws the miscreant to an even darker part of the alleyway.
"Kill him," whisper the shadows.
"Kill him," shouted the assailant.
"They will not kill the killers," replied the nightwalker.
He draws a gun on the wretch who scours by hand the dirty and slimy alley floor for a weapon without having pulled up his trousers.
"What color is the night?" asked the man with the gun.
On the ground, he halted his search for defensive object; in confusion, he asks the man, "What?"
"What color is the night?" the man with the gun asked again.
"…Black...?" the thief replied.
"No...," a flash of light, "...white."
He walks away with the shadows feeding in the darkness.


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EVERETT — Money was the last thing on anyone's mind when rescuers rushed to search for survivors and retrieve the dead.
Two weeks into the response to the March 22 Oso mudslide, the financial toll is starting to seep in.
The costs come from supporting specialized search teams from outside the area. There's overtime for nearly every county department, plus bills for food, fuel and leased heavy equipment.
While hundreds of volunteers have donated their time, supporting them isn't free.
Even with the state and federal governments picking up most of the tab, Snohomish County is certain to be out millions of dollars.
"Everything we're doing is costing money," Deputy County Executive Mark Ericks said. "We're feeding about 800 people per day. You can't put people out in that muddy mess and not feed them."
All that food? That costs about $15,000 per day — more than $100,000 per week, Ericks said.
Five specialized search teams from outside Snohomish County have joined the effort. One Pierce County team alone, Ericks said, costs $143,000 per day or more than $1 million for a week.
Operating expenses for a helicopter can run more than $1,000 an hour.
The county has had to hire trucking companies to cart away debris.
The state's also racking up costs. The Office of Financial Management by Tuesday tallied up $1.7 million in state expenses. Much of it's tied to mobilizing the National Guard and overtime costs for state agencies, including the state patrol, Department of Transportation and the Department of Natural Resources.
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama declared the Oso slide a major disaster. That allows Snohomish County to seek reimbursement for 75 percent of eligible expenses. Of the remaining 25 percent, the state government is likely to pay for half.
Even so, Ericks said, the county may find itself without enough cash on hand to pay for operations as the weeks drag on.
While county officials have led the disaster response, other local agencies have participated, including fire departments and the town of Darrington. The governor acknowledged that they, too, have stretched their resources.
"We will have challenges for some of these local governments going forward," Gov. Jay Inslee said. "We don't have a full answer about how to help them yet but we are going to explore all options."
County Council Chairman Dave Somers said the focus remains on the emergency response, but he knows the slide is likely to shape budget discussions this fall, and what kinds of services the county can provide.
"It's going to be a hit," he said. "It could impact services. It's too early to say what kinds of funding decisions we'll have to make."
There are long-term costs to consider, as well.
For at least several months to come, crews will be hauling away debris, some of it toxic.
"There are different kinds of hazardous materials out there," Somers said. "Gas, propane, septic. All of those materials have to be handled in a specific way."
The slide warped the landscape, creating new stream and river channels. Local, state and federal governments might want to modify the river to improve safety, drainage and ecology, Somers said.
The slide wiped out more than a mile of Highway 530. With mud piled up in some spots, several stories above where the state highway used to run, portions of any future road will need to be elevated, Somers said. And that will cost money.
Other costs will continue for years, as county social workers help survivors who were directly affected by the slide, by losing homes, breadwinners or jobs.
Ericks could only offer a guess at the price tag for what he called a "huge, huge event with huge, huge expenses."
"We're going to go on for as long as we have to," he said.
Jerry Cornfield contributed to this report.
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Volume 1, Issue 1 • October, 2016
Welcome to the inaugural resort properties newsletter! I have spent the last few weeks building my statistical database in anticipation of the launch of our new website, and it is interesting to see the trends that pop out in the graphs.
Sales of luxury properties in Kona in October numbered 11, the same as September. That would be 8 houses, 2 condos and 1 piece of land. Two of the 8 houses were in Hualalai Resort, 1 was in Holua Kai at Keauhou, the new oceanfront development, and the rest were scattered throughout Kona. Of the condo sales one was at Kohanaiki and one at Hualalai Resort. The lone land sale was also at Kohanaiki for just over $1 Million.
Of the two houses at Kohala there were one each at Mauna Lani Point and 49 Black Sand Beach. The condo looked like a free standing house and the sale was at KaMilo at the Mauna Lani.
Video Update: November, 2016 Luxury Report
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Economic Update
- Visitor counts top 780,000 people in August, a new record for the state. That is a 3.1% increase compared to last August. Visitors increased from the mainland and foreign countries but declined from Japan and Canada.
- University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization says the construction industry will begin to slow down by 2018. They think it will be more of a plateau than a decrease after all the high rise towers in Honolulu finish up. Currently there are 5,000 construction workers in the state.
- Holua Kai, the newest oceanfront project in West Hawaii, has its models open in Keauhou and they are gorgeous! Now before you think about heading over and checking them out, make sure you take me with you. They have a strict registration process to get representation and you don't want to miss out on that! High-end finishes, dipping pools, air conditioning, and there is a whole row available perched on the edge of the Pacific Ocean… call me today!
Kona Luxury Residential Listed Over $1 Million
The luxury market has stayed fairly consistent with pendings and sales, however available inventory started rising in August of 2015 in anticipation of Festive Season on the Gold Coast, and has only dissipated slightly since.
Luxury Condo Sales
When you look at the stats and you see 8 Kona luxury houses sold… remember that is out of 107 available properties. Now granted they come in all kinds of flavors and locations but that is a steep curve. Statistically speaking that is a 14 months' supply.
In condos, we saw 2 sales in Kona with 35 available… that is an 18 month supply if we sold 2 each month.
In land in Kona, you will be overwhelmed by the inventory in every resort. With only 1 sale, last month, if that were to hold true it would take them… well I think you have this one: 58 months to sell out… hmmm.
Resort Market Snapshot
When it comes time to sell your property there is no one with more expertise then Gretchen. We followed her advice about property improvements, pricing and inspection and our condo sold very fast. And that was in a crowded market! This is our first experience with her on the selling end of real estate and from start to finish it was smooth sailing!!
~ Tom & Heather Bandt
Notes from Gretchen
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They have to make all the numbers work for the buyers/sellers/agents/lenders and coordinate all of the documents needed to make it happen, including ordering the deed and reviewing it for accuracy.
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text: Hi, all. I plan to make a eukaryotic protein in E coil. This protein has a signal peptide. Before starting my construction, I want to know if I need to delete this signal sequence form my construction? Does it interfer the folding process of mature protein and where will this protein be ( in culture medium, membrane or cytosol ?) if this signal peptide is included in the construction? Thanks. Chunlin C.Lu@ cellbio.duke.edu


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Batman: Arkham Asylum is one of the greatest video games of this generation; its sequel, Arkham City, took the game formula and gave players even more mechanics in an even larger virtual world with a better story. Gamers' hopes were high for the third title in the series—Arkham Origins—a prequel set five years before the first game and featuring a less-experienced Batman. New developer Warner Bros. Montreal didn't raise the bar, but this is still a spectacular game and a must-have for any serious player or Batman fan (considering that most people in the world are one or both, that translates into "everybody").
Going dark
Gone are the wit and whimsy of the first two games, which somehow managed to feel cartoony and fun (in all the right ways). The villains were scary, but their schemes were so outlandish and sprawling that they could hardly be taken seriously. In Arkham Origins, however, Batman isn't taking on an army of genetically enhanced supersoldiers or a mad scientist who has built his own city-sized prison; he's up against the Black Mask, one of the last old-school mobsters in Gotham City. Despite wearing a helmet in the shape of an ebony skull, Mask's a classic gangster through and through: impeccably dressed, tough as nails, and undeniably cruel. The Black Mask has taken a hit out on Batman, giving nine deadly assassins a chance to do in our hero on a stormy Christmas Eve.
What follows is a series of fights that will push Batman to his limits, all interwoven with a mystery involving a new guy in town called the Joker, and a healthy dose of optional side missions for those wanting even more story and gameplay. Bruce Wayne has only worn the cowl for two years at the time this game takes place and is still growing into his assumed identity. He is more angry and brutal than in the previous editions; within the first few minutes, he pins one villain down and beats him mercilessly—an interrogation that takes a very large step over the line into torture.
Enemy territory
Boss battles are far more personal and challenging. Fan-favorite supervillain Deathstroke—often considered one of Batman's few equals when it comes to martial arts mastery and tactical brilliance—makes an appearance and proves to be among the game's toughest encounters, requiring split-second timing and total situational awareness.
The game's combat interactions also feel more challenging. During the series's signature "predator" encounters, in which Batman hides in the shadows to eliminate overwhelming numbers of heavily armed enemies, the opposing force moves with more care than previously. Separating enemies one by one to take them down via stealth and guile becomes an exercise in patience that requires every tool Batman has at his disposal. These skirmishes are tremendously satisfying and, more so than the other entries, make gamers feel as if they are disappearing into the role.
The "vigilante" encounters—straight combat against crowds of varying sizes using hand-to-hand close quarters tactics and numerous gadgets—are artificially difficult in this installment, though. Controls feel stiff and unresponsive and lack the previous games' precision. Plainly put, enemies fight unfairly—perhaps the developer is trying to drive home that this Batman has not earned his reputation as a dark and terrifying creature of the night just yet, so it's far easier for enemies to take cheap shots.
Designing Gotham
The design of the world is welcome and will be familiar to comic book fans, with dark tones, dramatic lighting, and lots of high places from which to dive onto unsuspecting criminals. Unfortunately, Gotham City feels lonely and dead. Criminals and crooked cops are the only people on the streets, bringing a severe lack of character to the environment. The developers did think to add Christmas decorations at least, and new vertical areas bring an added sense of challenge to predator encounters that occur out in the open. It's now more likely that there will be enemies directly above and below Batman; less linearity to the levels of most structures makes for more intense combat and more creative ways to play cat and mouse with enemies.
While the faults of Arkham Origins are numerous, the story is compelling, the characters are well acted, and it never gets old watching Batman sow the seeds of friendship with Jim Gordon and find an eternal nemesis in the Joker. The challenge mode allows for infinite replayability and makes for great library programming: have participants compete for the highest score in self-contained vigilante and predator encounters. An online multiplayer mode exists—two teams of thugs fight for territory while Batman and Robin work together to take them down—but it's basic at best and feels tacked on.
Younger, less experienced gamers will want to play in easy mode to help curb some of the game's at-times arbitrary challenges, but being Batman is a dream come true. The earlier series games were better, but it's likely that once you play one, you'll want to play them all.


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Men of Silicon Valley: We're sexist, we just don't know it.
As someone who moved to San Francisco about a year ago from Dallas, I was really struck by how progressive everything here was. Silicon Valley seems to be the embodiment of the American Dream, and one of the few places left in the country where you have a good shot at realizing it, especially in Read More


text: > > This isn't really an X-PLOR question . . . > > Is there a site on this side of the Atlantic where I can download the > latest version of PROCHECK? I've been trying to get the new version > from London for a month now and every time it dies about 80K into a > 700K file (when it answers at all). > I use a variation on Gerard Kleywegt C-shell script, which was written to download the versions file from the Uppsala "O" ftp site, to download large files at night. Simply work out when the internet will be quite, around 5 am here in the UK, and put an appropriate cron job infront of it. e.g. "sleep 40000;ftp.com &" and next morning it will probably be done. Fraser Dodd for example ################################ #!/bin/csh -f onintr done set tmp=./ftp.$$ # make input file for ftp cat > $tmp << EOF user anonymous fed at dl.ac.uk cd /pub/Weis binary get weis_iv.tar.Z bye EOF # get file(s) ftp -n pfweis.kek.jp < $tmp >& /dev/null done: if (-e $tmp) /bin/rm $tmp exit 0 ###################### -- Fraser E. Dodd, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, Telephone: +44 (0)1925 603625 WA4 4AD, Fax: +44 (0)1925 603124 U.K. E-mail: F.E.Dodd at dl.ac.uk --


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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: DB Link timeout
I'd say 80% of the developers at my side do not know that they should be
closing DB Links.
When they start hitting max open links in their procedures {yes, we have database links
in a Star Architecture, one Corporate DB connecting to 5 to 7 Manufacturing DBs}
I have to tell them how they should be closing database links, committing transactions,
handling outages in any of the remote databases, nudge them to using Materialized Views
rather than hitting the remote database everytime a user wants to run a query etc
At 07:26 PM Tuesday, rjamya wrote:
>Being a good developer that we all are, we shuld close the db link using
>On 6/13/05, Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > List
> > > If a user logs into database A and executes a query against database B
> > > over a database link, then signs out, will database B show an active
> > > session for some period of time afterward? Your thoughts appreciated.
> > >
> >
Hemant K Chitale
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Anger Management was an instant hit from the moment it premiered. Now in its second season, the show, starring the infamous Charlie Sheen as a former baseball player turned therapist specializing in anger management, is showing no signs of stopping. We chatted with Mexican raising star Daniela Bobadilla, 19, about playing Charlie's daughter Sam, what the third season has in store, and more. Check it out below!
Anger Management has broken ratings records and got renewed for a new season. Did you expect the show to be such a huge hit?
I can't say I didn't think about it, but never to this magnitude. I mean it all started with one episode and to now have reached 100 is amazing. I always believe in taking a risk and hoping that you make it, but I never thought it was going to be this huge.
What has your experience been like playing Charlie Sheen's daughter Sam?
It has been an amazing journey. We are shooting our third season as we speak and the experience has been so much fun. Right from the start, we just instantly hit it off. I remember when I went to the studio for the test and he was so sweet. I was so nervous and I didn't know what to expect. I remember thinking, 'He's Charlie Sheen! The entire world loves him and there's so much speculation around him.'
The first thing he said to be was, 'Hey, nice to meet you. I love your last name!' He was so human from that moment on and I realized I really couldn't be nervous around him. He has literally proven that he has taken me under his wing. He asks me, 'Can I help you with your lines?' He's the sweetest and has taken such a fatherly role. If there's a little something crude or R-rated in a scene he will joke and say, 'Cover your ears.' His daughter in real life is named Sam and I feel like sees me that way too.
What would you say that you've learned from working alongside Charlie?
He has taught me to be more spontaneous and to have fun while you work. I feel like he's always trying to make himself a better actor, which also makes you a better actor. He taught me to relax and just do it because the rest will come naturally.
Are you anything like your character in real life?
Definitely. She has OCD and I actually think I have it now! [Laughs] I feel like I check my doors just as much as she does and I don't think I did that before. Also because she's a teen, I feel like I went through a lot of those growing pains too. I can laugh about some stuff now that I didn't back then.
What can fans expect from the next season of Anger Management?
Things are definitely getting crazier! Charlie is still after Selma Blair's character [Dr. Kate Wales], who is his intimate buddy. It's really fun to see Charlie not giving up on her. On my end, Sam is growing up super fast. In the new season I'm 16 years old so it entails everything you can imagine like starting to date and dealing with her dad. It's really fun.
Anger Management airs Thursday's at 9:30pm on FX.


text: On Tuesday 30 August 2011, Richard Kuo wrote:> +/*> + * Many archictures support both sys_mmap and sys_mmap2, which use> + * a common do_mmap2 function to do the work. So long as we support> + * only mmap2, we do it all in-line here.> + */> +asmlinkage int sys_mmap2(unsigned long addr, size_t len, unsigned long prot,> + unsigned long flags, unsigned long fd,> + unsigned long pgoff)> +{> +}> +> +/* apparently this should only map on page boundaries */> +asmlinkage int sys_mmap(unsigned long addr, size_t len,> + unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,> + unsigned long fd, off_t off)The first comment doesn't make sense when you have the seconf functionas well. I thought I had commented that you should not provide either oneanyway and just use sys_mmap_pgoff() directly, like openrisc does.It would probably be useful to change asm-generic/unistd.h to do that bydefault, and change the architectures that still use mmap2 withasm-generic/unistd.h to do a manual override. Arnd


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AT Email: Spong - The Best Coffee Grinder You Don't Know About - 1.28.08
January 28, 2008
This is top secret. In fact, I shoudn't even be telling you this because you'll probably go online, bid up the prices and I'll get in trouble with my dear friend who gave me this tip: The best coffee grinders of all time were designed and made in England over a hundred years ago by a fellow named James Osborne Spong.
Our friend, we will call him Neil (see pics above), is a coffee fanatic as well as a lover of good design who loathes the proliferation of electric appliances, which don't always do a better job. In his search for the perfect cup, he moved from an electric grinder to trying a Spong grinder and was surprised how much better the coffee was. Then he set off to find out more. After a lot of research, Neil has become a big Spong player in the lively online market that eagerly buys and sells Spong's famous machines.
We had dinner with him just a few weeks ago and had to agree. Grinding the coffee right in front of us, the room filled with the rich odor of the beans and the resulting cup was divine. In short, if your uncompromising with your beans and your maker, the grinder is the missing link.
James Osborne Spong was an English inventor who pioneered many "labor saving devices" in the 1800's. In fact, he invented a host of machines in the name of efficiency which ranged from the 'Original Sausage and General Mincing Machine' to an ice cream freezer. During his lifetime, Spong raised patents on over one hundred labour saving and safety devices and "Spong & Co proved to be manufacturing leaders in this field boasting sales of 200,000 mincers by 1882."
Spong made five Coffee mills, based on his famous spice mincer and numbered them according to size from 0 through 4 (the 0 is the smallest and super cute). Each mill works in the same way: the whole beans enter in the top, are ground by the spindle and blades as the handle turns and the powder falls into the dish below. In the design there is nothing wasted and the dish becomes a lid when not in use.
Neil has four Spongs, as he calls them, and has a number of Google and eBay alerts working for him so he can complete his set. As design icons they are beautiful objects, but the cup of coffee they contribute to completes the deal. We pulled together a few good links below for you to peruse, and be sure to thank Neil when you finally use one of these.
Best, Maxwell
p.s This is for you, Neil! ;-)
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Paul Wells says the almost forgotten leader of Her Majesty's loyal opposition in Parliament is doing his job, but illustrates it with a great example of how political rhetoric sometimes warps reality in favour of a more headline-worthy claim:
Here's what he said: "After promising to protect all future increases to provincial transfers, Conservatives announced plans to cut $36 billion, starting in 2016," Mulcair told the CMA. "This spring, Conservatives will announce, with great fanfare, that there is now a budget surplus. I'm here today to tell you that an NDP government would use any such surplus to, first and foremost, cancel those proposed cuts to health care."
This needs parsing, but first, let's let Mulcair finish: "Mr. Harper, it's time to keep your word to protect Canadian health care. After giving Canada's richest corporations $50 billion in tax breaks, don't you dare take $36 billion out of health care to pay for them!" He said that part in English, then repeated it in French, which has become the way a Canadian politician delivers a line in italics.
Well. Let's begin with the $36 billion. In December 2011, Jim Flaherty, then the federal finance minister, met his provincial colleagues to announce his plans for health transfers after a 10-year deal set by Paul Martin ran out in 2013-14. The 2004 Martin deal declared that cash transfers to the provinces for health care would increase by six per cent a year for 10 years. Harper simply kept implementing the Martin scheme after he became Prime Minister.
What Flaherty announced, without consulting with the provinces first, was that health transfers would keep growing at six per cent through 2016-17. Then, they would grow more slowly — how slowly would depend on the economy. The faster GDP grows, the faster transfers would grow. But, if the economy tanked, the rate of growth could fall as low as three per cent per year. Flaherty said this scheme would stay in place through 2023-24.
Add up all the shortfalls between three per cent and six per cent over seven years and you get a cumulative sum of $36 billion. Despite what Mulcair said, this isn't a "cut," it's a deceleration in increases. And $36 billion is the gap's maximum amount. If the economy shows any health, the gap will be smaller.
We could have fun complaining that Mulcair calls something a "cut" when it extends what is already the longest period of growth in federal transfer payments in Mulcair's lifetime. But it's more fun to take him at his word. He promises to spend as much as $6 billion a year in new tax money on health care. Mulcair couldn't buy much influence over health policy with that money; he would simply send larger cheques to provincial governments. If he has other plans for the federal government, he'd have to pay for them after he'd sent that up-to $6-billion cheque to the provinces.
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Today the Code Zeros were bought into play on the downwind legs. Underlining their depth of training the New Zealanders did not fly a Code Zero gennaker on the second downwind leg, as the cross-over was marginal between the use of the sail and sailing with jib and wingsail alone. Luna Rossa did set their Code Zero, with Chris Draper making the call soon afterward 'we are slower than with the job only'.
Today was also a repeat of what had gone before with Luna Rossa sailing a greater distance - today the Italians sailed 459 metres more, and sailed on average, over a knot slower.
While the Italians seemed to take drubbing in this Final, time will tell as to their real place in the Regatta, and come the end of the 34th America's Cup they may well have been the second fastest boat in San Francisco.
What is not widely recognised is the fact that the Italians were up against the most successful sailing team in the world - with Team New Zealand having been competing since 1987 in the America's Cup, but also in the 2011/12 Volvo Round the World Race - placing second overall. Many members of the team have been with the team right through that period, as have key sponsors and supporters. In short it was a big ask - even for a team as experienced as Luna Rossa, and their previous rendition as Prada, who were the Challengers for the America's Cup in 2000.
The Italian intention was always to compete in the 35th America's Cup, and the 34th event was alwasy seen a stepping stone. Whether they continue with that course of action probably hinges on the outcome of the Match. But certainly they came into the America's Cup late, purchased a base design from Emirates Team New Zealand. However with a large design team engaged, they did make substantial modifications to the original, within the limits allowed.
On the credit side of the Regatta Luna Rossa did take one point off the New Zealanders - after the Kiwis suffered a complete power failure. The margins in this Regatta were less than in the Round Robin series where the Italians were twice scored as finishing outside the five minute time limit.


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