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Chapter 2: Rob the Vampire
"Find anythin'?" Tor asked. The Orbots had split up again, and was searching a nearby cave complex, thinking that the archeologists and Galactic Patrol team might have taken refuge in the caves from whatever attacked them.
"Not yet," Bo replied. Boo was with her, looking around. She shook her head in the negative, as well.
"Nothing," Bort called in. Crunch's munching sounds could be heard over the radio.
"Nothin' here, either," Tor admitted. "Keep searchin'." He sighed. "I wish Rob and Oh-No were here. We could use the help."
"I know," Boo replied. She was very worried about her creator and the small child-Orbot. Something about Empress Vampia did not seem right to her, but she could not put her finger on it.
"I think we've found something!" Bort's voice suddenly broke though everyone's thoughts.
"What is it?" Tor asked. "What have you found?"
"I…I…I think it might be…" There was a pause, then a sound as if someone was retching.
"Bort!" Bo cried. "Are you okay? What happened?" There was more of the retching sounds, and then someone gasping to get it under control. After a few minutes, Bort's shaky voice came over the built-in communicators.
"I…I…I…t…t…think we've f…f…found t…t…them," he gulped. He did not go into any more detail than that.
"We're coming, Bort!" Tor said. "Everyone; Regroup and follow Bort and Crunch's signals!"
In no time, the Orbots were all together in another part of the cave. They found Crunch on the floor, seemingly to have lost his appetite. Bort was sitting on a nearby boulder, shaking. Boo went over to comfort him.
"What did you find, Bort?" Tor asked. Without a word, the blue Orbot pointed to a cave. Tor and Bo went to look inside, and immediately wished they had not. If a robot could blanch, they would have done so.
"L…l…let's get b…b…back to R…r…rob…" Bo whispered in horror.
"What is it?" Boo asked, looking up from where she was consoling Bort.
"Never mind that," Tor replied. "We have to get back and make sure if Rob and Oh-No are alright."
"But what about the missing people?" Boo asked. "Don't we still need to find them?"
"We found them, Boo," Bo answered. "We found them."
The Orbots flew off, visibly shaken by what they had seen. Each hoped that Rob and Oh-No were safe, given what they had found in that lonely cave.
The thought made them fly all the faster back to the castle.
Meanwhile, back at the Imperial Palace of Ichoria, Rob awoke to a strange, new kind of hunger. He arose from the bed and walked over to the door. Somehow, he felt –well—different…
He tried the door and found it to be unlocked. He opened it and stepped out into the upstairs hall. From below him he could hear voices. The Orbots had returned, and were talking with the Empress. They seemed agitated about something. Rob decided to go see what was going on.
"Where's our commander!" he heard Tor demand. The other Orbots were standing around him, waiting for Vampia to answer. With them was Oh-No.
"He is still asleep," Vampia replied. "He should be awake soon. It is almost time to dine."
"Good afternoon," Rob greeted cheerfully from the stairs. He made his way down. "Or should that be, 'Good evening'?"
The Orbots turned toward the sound of that friendly, kind voice, and gave a collective gasp of horror at what they saw.
"Rob…?" Boo began, unable to voice the question on her mind. In her concern, she forgot to address him as "Commander" when in public.
"Of course it's me, Boo," he smiled back. "Who else could it be?" When the Orbots did not answer, he stared back at them. They seemed very frightened of something. "What's wrong," he asked.
"M…m…maybe…y…y…you should s…s…see for y…y…yourself, R…r…rob," Bort stuttered. The blue robot transformed into a full-length mirror. Rob approached to get a look at himself. He gasped when he saw…
There was no reflection in the mirror! He could see the reflected portion of the room behind him, but, he, himself, was not in the mirror. Even though he was standing right in front of it!
"What do I look like to you?" Rob asked the Orbots, his voice shaking. "Have I changed in appearance from yesterday?"
"Yes," Bo answered. "Quite a bit, in fact."
"How?" he pressed. "In what ways am I different?"
"Your skin is now very white," Boo answered. "Not just pale, as if you lost blood, but white, as in snow, or milk or sugar or frost or…"
"I understand what you mean by 'white', Boo," he interrupted. "Anything else?"
"Your lips really stand out against the skin," Bo went on. "They're really red now. And I mean red, like ruby or blood red."
"Your hair and eyes are the same color, though," Tor put in.
"But I think I see…" Oh-No began.
"See what?" Rob urged. "What did you see, Oh-No?"
"I thought I saw –Oh, no!" she gasped. "Fangs! You've got fangs!"
Rob swallowed hard. His throat was dry all of a sudden. There was only one explanation for how he looked now, and for him not having a reflection.
"Only one creature I've ever heard of that looks like that, and has no reflection," he said quietly. "A vampire. I've been turned into a vampire." He looked accusingly at the Empress.
"A vampire?" Bo repeated. "As in…?"
"A walking, talking, thinking corpse," Rob finished. "I'm clinically dead, now. I do not breathe, nor does my heart beat. Almost all of my bodily functions have stopped. I only draw breath now to speak."
"And now, I crave only one thing," he continued. His eyes suddenly took on a wild, animal-like gleam. A servant girl walked in, carrying a tray with a decanter and two goblets. She saw the look in his eyes when he caught sight of her. Terrified, the girl stood frozen to the spot, unable to move, or even scream.
"The goblet, Commander!" Vampia cried. "The goblet is full of what you need! No need to take it from her!" She and the Orbots watched as Rob approached the frightened girl, his eyes on the prize.
"Please, no…" the girl whispered, afraid of what the young hero was about to do. She had not been the servant girl that had attended to the Empress and the Commander in his room, so she had not seen what had happened between them. But she could see that the handsome GP officer was now a vampire.
Rob's hand seized one of the goblets on the tray. In one long gulp, he downed the contents. Immediately, the craving left him, and he lowered his hand. He stared at the girl, feeling bad for scaring her.
"It's okay," he said comfortingly. "I'm not going to hurt you. The goblet did the trick. I'm fine now. Really." He smiled gently to show her that she was in no danger. Shyly, still a little frightened, she smiled back.
Rob turned to those watching the scene. His gaze went from one to another before he spoke.
"The liquid in that cup," he told them, "was blood. I can only drink blood, now. Whose blood was it?" he glared at Vampia. "Was it one of the missing people we've been searching for?"
"No, Rob," Bo said. "It wasn't one of them. We found the missing people. Or what was left of them."
"What do you mean?" Rob asked.
"We found their remains in a cave not far from here," Tor went on. "They weren't simply drained of blood; they were torn apart, as if by some animal."
"Glombies," Vampia answered. "Glombies are an offshoot of the Zombies that feed on the flesh of living beings. The Zombies feed only on animals." She turned and spoke to Rob. "Do not fear. The blood you drank is from the bloodmelon, a fruit not unlike your Earth watermelon, but filled with blood instead of water. No one died for the blood you drank, either a moment ago, or late last night."
"I drank blood last night?" Rob's eyes widened.
"When I came into your room and changed you," she told him. "You had your first taste of blood, although you may not remember it. Even then, it was the juice of the bloodmelon."
"Which leads to the next question: Why? Why did you change me into a vampire?"
"For a selfish reason, I'm afraid," the vampiress answered. "My husband and I have no children. We are very lonely, even in a castle full of servants. When I saw you, I decided that I wanted you for a son. So I sired you into a vampire. You are now my son, Prince of Ichoria."
"Let's get you back to headquarters," Bort urged. "M…m…maybe there's a c…c…cure…"
"No, Bort," Rob sighed in defeat. "There is no cure for this. No one can cure death, much less, undeath."
"What'll we do?" Boo wailed.
"Orbots; I want you to go to Earth and bring back Rondu and Dia," Rob ordered. "They need to know what's happened, and I have a favor to ask of both of them."
"I'll stay with you…" Oh-No volunteered.
"No, Oh-No," he answered. "Go with them. You may need Mighty Orbots. Tell Rondu, 'Code Isis is in effect'. He'll understand."
The Orbots nodded, and left to obey their leader. They had the feeling that it was going to be his last command.
"And he said that 'Code Isis is in effect'," Oh-No told Rondu and Dia. Rondu bowed his head sadly.
"What does that mean?" Boo asked. None of the Orbots had ever heard of "Code Isis".
"It comes from ancient Egypt," the Patrol Commander told them. "Isis was the goddess of magic. But she was the wife of Osiris, the god of the dead. Code Isis is the code Rob and I came up with for the most extreme emergency. Under normal circumstances, if he was dying, Rob would say, 'Code Isis' to mean, 'I am going to die; Dia is now the Orbots' Commander."
"But he isn't dead," Boo insisted. "He's a vampire!"
"Yes," Rondu nodded. "Undead. But he must remain in the Dark Star Cluster. If he was to venture into the sun, he would be destroyed. His body would self-combust –burst into flames that would consume him."
"He said he wanted to ask the two of you a favor," Bo said.
"Then let us go to Ichoria," Rondu commanded. The group left the room for the space port. In moments, they were on their way to the darkened planet of vampires.
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They said the game would be fully unveiled on Sunday, but they're doing a pretty good job of it already.
After the official trailer, Activision sent out the press release that described the latest CoD entry in some detail.
It re-confirmed the November 4 launch date, although it's interesting to note that while Sledgehammer Games is handling the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC versions, a separate - currently unnamed - team is working on the PS3 and 360 versions.
This is similar to Titanfall, as Respawn Entertainment did the next-gen version while Bluepoint Games produced the Xbox 360 iteration. As for Advanced Warfare, it's the first game in the franchise that will deliver super abilities via exoskeleton suit. ...did I just hear someone say Crysis? Anyway, the press release also promises a great story and announces Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey as Jonathan Irons, the leader of a fictional private military corporation.
In a statement, Spacey said it's "unlike anything I've ever done before" and as for that potentially fantastic narrative, here's the summary:
"Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare jolts players forward in a groundbreaking experience that's ripped-from-the-headlines-of-tomorrow, envisioning a future where both technology and tactics have evolved to usher in a new era of combat for the franchise. Set in the year 2054, a private military corporation (PMC) has emerged with the power to rescue humanity from a devastated world struggling to rebuild after a global attack on its military and infrastructure. You are the advanced soldier. Empowered with new, cutting-edge exoskeleton abilities, technological advancements, and high-tech gear, players join the ranks of a highly-trained, specialized unit committed to restoring order in a state of advanced warfare."
Also, don't forget that Advanced Warfare is the first title in the franchise's long history to use a three-year development cycle, and this has helped Sledgehammer create "a near photorealistic world." This will include "new performance capture and facial animation technologies that deliver lifelike characters," which certainly sounds encouraging.
Well, how's about some gameplay? Maybe that's what we'll get this weekend.
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And I'm intrigued by some of the mechanics that they're introducing. The new traversal options allowed by the exoskeleton and wall-climbing seem cool, but I'm afraid that they'll only be used in very specific situations within the campaign. I just think that if Sledgehammer wants to implement that kind of thing, they really need to open the game up to greater agency for the player through less linear environments. They should be brilliant additions to the MP for those that are interested, however.
Also, I was surprised by how good the trailer looked. Like, CoD's not known for pushing the technical boundaries, and AW certainly doesn't match up to KZ:SF, but it's a surprisingly pretty-looking game.
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Boyd: "Well, I been to Iraq. It's a lot like Detroit, except you have better music."
Can there be too much set-up in a season premiere? With action in three states, the introduction of the Crowes and the Canadian cartel, Ava's hopeless legal problems, a chainsaw torture scene (that they thankfully didn't show us -- hearing it was bad enough) and an incredibly high body count, I was sort of going, wait a minute, slow down there.
Raylan went to Florida for something to do with Darryl Crowe's probation, I think. The Crowes, and there were several, do indeed appear to be murderous, as advertised. Killing one of their own because he screwed up was cruel, although I guess you don't want to keep relatives around if they kill your business associates. Did Darryl actually feed Dilly's body to the crocodiles? I certainly got that impression that he did. There aren't any crocs in Kentucky. They'll have to find a friendly mine shaft for future body disposal, I suppose.
I was a bit confused about the "sugar business" they needed to replace, which was why they decided to relocate to Kentucky. Did they mean actual sugar? That wasn't a euphemism for something else? I was impressed with Wendy Crowe the legal secretary; she was smart and reckless. Darryl, not so much. He just kept reminding me of William Sanderson on the Bob Newhart Show talking about my brother Daryl and my other brother Daryl. That Haitian guy who played with crocodiles was a lot more intimidating.
Boyd and Wynn Duffy taking a road trip to Detroit was even stranger than the crocodiles, although there were similarities. Apparently the Detroit mafia is in free fall, and as a result, Sammy Tonin came to a swift end on the fifteenth floor of a very ugly building. And there are Canadian mobsters who like donuts. Maybe I'll figure it all out later.
I spent most of the episode feeling bad about poor outlaw Boyd who got shot in the ear, couldn't get his beloved Ava out of prison, and had to carry that briefcase full of cash for the entire episode. At least he and Wynn Duffy were fun together, and it was interesting how they managed to communicate effectively without saying a word. Maybe they're better partners than I thought they'd be.
And how cool is it that Jere Burns is now a cast member? Isn't it nice when you have a talented character actor doing such a great job with a small part that the producers keep bringing him back and giving him more to do, and voila, he and his amazing eyebrows are now in the cast?
There were lots and lots of guest stars and returning characters, like the wonderful Judge Reardon of the concealed Speedos, Wade Messer, and AUSA Vasquez, who deserves a plotline of his own. The wonderfully named Elvis Machado (Sucre from Prison Break) felt like a more significant guest star, but surprised me by meeting an early end. And I thought they were setting up Gregg Sutter, that nice middle-aged marshal in Florida, to die tragically, but no. Maybe later in the season. I'll try not to care about him.
Sam Anderson from Angel and Lost returned as undertaker Paxton, who apparently just met a much-deserved end for his over-the-top nastiness. His beautiful Latvian physician wife Mara said, "It's okay, baby. I'll take care of you." How? Will she embalm him?
And there was the wonderful pool scene with Dewey Crowe, a big favorite of mine, who used his settlement from the Marshal service to take over Audry's. Even though I saw it about fifteen times in the commercials, Raylan shooting out Dewey's pool was awesome. Raylan shot out a raft in Florida, too.
I was relieved that everyone was back in Kentucky by the end of the episode. Why did Winona move to Florida? To put some distance between herself and Raylan? It was sad that Raylan chose not to visit her and his new daughter. Maybe it was too hard to say goodbye, as Gregg Sutter, the nice marshal in Florida, said to Raylan.
Bits and pieces:
-- The episode began with a brief tribute to Elmore Leonard led by Timothy Olyphant. I think they're going to miss him. Until I read the Raylan books last summer, I had no idea how many bits of Justified were taken from Leonard's books. (The answer is, a lot. I also understand that a lot of Leonard's books are set in Florida and/or Detroit.)
-- Boyd is wearing Ava's engagement ring on his watch chain. I actually thought for a moment that he'd follow Paxton's suggestion and confess to killing Delroy himself. He still might, I suppose.
-- Jimmy, who I will forever think of as "Snake-in-the-face", is still one of Boyd's henchmen. His face is looking better.
-- Where's Cousin Johnny? I also missed Tim and Rachel.
-- The producers have announced that season six (next season) might be the last. As much as I love the show and would hate to see it go, I'm on board with them setting an end date and winding up the story while they're on top instead of continuing long past their logical expiration date.
Raylan: "You might want to note for the record that he thought he had four kidneys."
Jimmy: "Boyd, he got your ear."
Boyd: "I know. I'm the one who got shot."
Wade: "Can I get you a blow job or something?"
Raylan: "Just some water."
Raylan: "I'm gonna shoot your balls off and feed them to the squirrels if you don't tell me what you know."
Guy: "What happened to you there?"
Boyd: "Ceiling fan."
Raylan: "You're still here hanging out, pretending to be Tonton Macoute?"
Haitian guy: "Know what that means? Tonton Macoute? Uncle Gunny Sack."
I had no idea who or what Tonton Macoute was. Fortunately, the internet knows everything.
Canadian mob guy: "The idea behind organized crime is it's supposed to be organized."
I was certainly entertained as well as confused, but I wasn't blown away. Three out of four Canadian donut shops,
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Update: Seth Rogen has replied to Kid Rock's uncle comment. "What's super weird is that Kid Rock is my uncle," he wrote in a tweet. He also published a statement saying that he liked American Sniper and has nothing against veterans or the movie's subject, Chris Kyle.
Filmmakers Michael Moore and Seth Rogen's negative comments regarding the movie American Sniper — a contender for Best Picture at the Oscars next month — have evoked a rather colorful response from self-proclaimed "American Bad Ass" Kid Rock. The musician took particular umbrage with the Bowling for Columbine director's statement that Moore's uncle was killed by a sniper in World War II and that he was raised to believe snipers were cowards.
"Fuck you Michael Moore, you're a piece of shit and your uncle would be ashamed of you," Kid Rock wrote on his website. "Seth Rogen, your uncle probably molested you. I hope both of you catch a fist to the face soon."
He also paid his respects to the deceased Navy SEAL whose story was the basis of the movie. "God bless you Chris Kyle," he wrote. "Thank you for your service."
On the movie's opening weekend, Moore tweeted his comments and added, "Snipers aren't heroes, and invaders are worse." He later claimed that his tweet wasn't about American Sniper in particular and posted a lengthy Facebook missive to clarify his thoughts.
Regarding his own feelings about the movie, he offered, "Awesome performance from Bradley Cooper. One of the best of the year. Great editing. Costumes, hair, makeup superb!" He also praised the film's "anti-war sentiment" and its "touching" ending. Despite those compliments, he criticized the way the movie's characters call Iraqis "savages" and alleges that Clint confused Iraq for Vietnam with his movie.
Rogen sparked Kid Rock's ire by comparing the movie to the fictional Nazi propaganda film, Nation's Pride, screened within Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. He, too, backtracked on his original comments, saying American Sniper only "kinda reminded" him of the Tarantino satire and that he was not comparing them. He made no mention of an uncle.
Kid Rock is readying the release of his upcoming album, First Kiss, the title song of which has come out as a single. The LP is due out late next month.


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Welcome to Your World
- Artist: Michael Bliss
- Genre: Soul/R & B
- Release Date: 9/23/2003
Soul is a most elusive sensation, like love-something that has to be felt. But when you are in the grips and midst of soul, well, then you know it. As a prolific songwriter, Michael has drawn upon the sounds and rhythms of his youth-from the American textures of jazz, blues, and pop, to the R&B song craft of Muscle Shoals and Fame studios, to the gospel roots of his childhood. You will find the evidence of these influences on 'Welcome to Your World,' his second album on his own Grab A Mic Records, but Michael feels they're all different takes on the same thing. 'It's all music with feel,' says Michael. Real music. Soul music. Michael has performed with artists like Bonnie Raitt, the Chambers Brothers, Double Trouble, Roscoe Beck, and Malford Milligan (Storyville, Funky London, Boneshakers). He has toured throughout Texas, Arizona, California, and New York City with his own band. Backed by exceptional musicians, he lays out a fiery blend of adrenaline-charged funk-rock, infectious groove, and old-school soul. 'The Michael Bliss Band is all about playing live,' says Michael. 'When we hit that stage, we leave everything else behind. This is what we are about and who we are. Putting on a show just out of the joy we have for playing music.' Michael's second album, 'Welcome to Your World,' features guests Ivan Neville, Daryl Johnson, and Phil Keaggy. He is planning several tours to support the album.
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Occasion Quotes (12 quotes)
An inventor is an opportunist, one who takes occasion by the hand; who, having seen where some want exists, successfully applies the right means to attain the desired end. The means may be largely, or even wholly, something already known, or there may be a certain originality or discovery in the means employed. But in every case the inventor uses the work of others. If I may use a metaphor, I should liken him to the man who essays the conquest of some virgin alp. At the outset he uses the beaten track, and, as he progresses in the ascent, he uses the steps made by those who have preceded him, whenever they lead in the right direction; and it is only after the last footprints have died out that he takes ice-axe in hand and cuts the remaining steps, few or many, that lift him to the crowning height which is his goal.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.
I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in a certain order, or that that order has been, to a great extent, necessarybeing determined, either by steps of logical deduction, or by the successive introduction of new ideas and conceptions, when the time for their evolution had arrived. And these are the causes that operate in perfect harmony. Each new scientific conception gives occasion to new applications of deductive reasoning; but those applications may be only possible through the methods and the processes which belong to an earlier stage.
If it were possible for a metaphysician to be a golfer, he might perhaps occasionally notice that his ball, instead of moving forward in a vertical plane (like the generality of projectiles, such as brickbats and cricket balls), skewed away gradually to the right. If he did notice it, his methods would naturally lead him to content himself with his caddies's remark-'ye heeled that yin,' or 'Ye jist sliced it.' ... But a scientific man is not to be put off with such flimsy verbiage as that. He must know more. What is 'Heeling', what is 'slicing', and why would either operation (if it could be thoroughly carried out) send a ball as if to cover point, thence to long slip, and finally behind back-stop? These, as Falstaff said, are 'questions to be asked.'
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.
The bell ringing for church, we went thither immediately, and with hearts full of gratitude, returned sincere thanks to God for the mercies we had received: were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house. [Upon narrowly missing a shipwreck on the Scilly rocks.]
[Frequently seen summarized as, though not Franklin's own wording: Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
[Frequently seen summarized as, though not Franklin's own wording: Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Those who intend to practise Midwifery, ought first of all to make themselves masters of anatomy, and acquire a competent knowledge in surgery and physic; because of their connections with the obstetric art, if not always, at least in many cases. He ought to take the best opportunities he can find of being well instructed; and of practising under a master, before he attempts to deliver by himself. ... He should also embrace every occasion of being present at real labours, ... he will assist the poor as well as the rich, behaving always with charity and compassion.
What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner, and enable us to infer of one class of phenomena what we know of another. It has thus happened on several occasions that the discovery of an unsuspected analogy between two branches of knowledge has been the starting point for a rapid course of discovery.


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Stephane Wrembel and His Band
Composer Stephane Wrembel hits the road this first half of 2013 - bringing his jaw dropping talent, palpable musical rapport with His Band, and vivid and textured compositions to life on theatre stages throughout the country.
Raised in Fontainebleau, France - the birthplace of Impressionism and the home of famed gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt - Wrembel was shaped by the fertile creative landscape of the area from his very early years.
He began with classical piano at age 4 before exploring musical genres such as rock, Django, jazz, country, blues, Indian raga, West African, Middle Eastern and others - embracing the many cultures and musical styles he discovered along the way.
2012 was a huge year for Stephane Wrembel. The guitarist released his fourth album, Origins, to critical acclaim and performed his original song "Bistro Fada" (the theme to Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris) at the Academy Awards.
His arsenal of influences result in a sound unique to Wrembel; a music without genre. Audio/Video Clip Artist Official Website
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Grief Coaching
Hi! I'm Eydie and I've been where you are now. I've FELT your pain. I KNOW your hurt. I RECOGNIZE the hole in your heart. And I UNDERSTAND your journey. For me, journaling, and adult coloring, were amazing healing tools that I used during my recovery from grief, and now I'd love to help you through your recovery.
As someone who has "been there, done that", I understand that you NEED to tell your grief story over and over and over again. Family and friends soon tire of listening to you, but you're still not ready to stop telling your story.
During our meetings journaling and coloring will play a part, however, more important than the writing… is the telling. You will be free to tell your grief story over and over until you begin to feel some peace inside your heart. Because until you feel that you've found what you need to find; until whatever pain and fears you have bottled up inside have been quieted, you will never release the grief.
Journaling and Coloring has the power to:
- Allow you to grieve creatively.
- Reflect upon the events which brought you your grief
- Increase awareness of your feelings.
- Eventually accept the loss, move forward and heal….and find your "new normal".
Writing down your feelings and thoughts aids in reflection, exploration and discovery of who you are now and who you strive to become – because, as you already know, when you experience the death of a spouse, you change inside.
Journaling becomes a tool for expressing sadness, pain, heartache, fears and challenges. It also allows you to celebrate the good things in your life – past and present – and even the future. Journaling helps you to find your "new normal".
Coloring helps you to relax and release the stress and tension you have been building up in your body. It allows your brain to declutter itself so that you're open to new ways of looking at your life.
The healing journey is a rough road. Having someone walk along side of you can make it smoother.
Please know that if you are not comfortable with journaling, you don't have to.You can share your grief story with me, and I'll listen. You don't have to do this alone.
Along with talking with a grief coach, writing WILL bring peace to your heart.
Are you ready to begin your new journey?
Are you open to finding your "new normal"?
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving
Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone." Fred Rogers
Grief CoachingThe grieving process takes time, and it takes a lot of hard work on your part. You should never go through it by yourself. Working with someone who knows your pain first hand will allow you to feel comfortable and ready to let go of your hurt. Allow me to join you on your healing journey. Learn More
About EydieEydie has been a widow since October 2010. The passing of her husband was sudden. She went through the denial, disbelief, the anger and self-blame, depression and finally, the acceptance of her husband's death. Eydie also knows that sometimes you just want someone to listen. Learn More
BlogOn her Blog, "Through the Heart of a Widow", Eydie shares her experiences, as well as the experiences of others that she has coached along the way. Would you like to share your journey with her and her readers? Please email her at email@example.com for her guidelines. Read the Blog
DISCLAIMER: I don't diagnose. I don't claim to cure. If you are already in therapy, I'll require a note from your therapist that you can participate in my grief coaching and journaling system.


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August 28 at our 9am Breakfast Meeting in Felton, learn how hosted blogging and facebook blogging tie into your business marketing strategy. Meet bloggers and marketers who are effectively reaching audiences through their blogs and other social media.
This is also the introductory meeting for our Fall Workshop Series. Attend the meeting and learn more about our workshops and the professional social media speakers leading the programs.
Light breakfast, fresh fruit, coffee and tea will be served. See you at the Satellite in Felton this coming Tuesday, August 28 at 9am. email@example.com for more information.
Learn more about the San Lorenzo Valley Chamber of Commerce and our monthly breakfast meetings.


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This message is intended for students who currently are not registered with Parking Services or those wish to renew their Red Hawk Deck Semester Only permit that will expire on 12/31/2011. If you have already purchased an annual parking permit, you can ignore this message.
I am pleased to provide you with information relative to the Parking Registration process for the Spring 2012 semester. Please take time to review the Spring 2012 Permit Registration Schedule. When you are ready to buy your permit, you can log on to the FLEX website to make your purchase.
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students on a first come, first serve basis.)
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It is the responsibility of all students who procure a parking permit to read and agree to the Parking Polices and Procedures document (see the link - and other important links - below).
- 2011-12 Parking Policies and Procedures: http://www.montclair.edu/facilities/fs/taps/regulations.html
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Make sure to check out our full Lytro Camera review.
Lytro has announced its long-awaited digital camera. It's nothing like we've ever seen before, inside and out. The Lytro packs its light-field technology into a thin, rectangular tube made of ultra-light anodized aluminum structural skin and a rubberized grip. Inside, you've got Lytro's patent-pending light field sensor and light field engine, an 8x optical zoom lens, f2.0 aperture, and a system that capture 11 "megarays."
Lytro will easily fit in your hand and weighs in at a measly 7.55-ounces—which means it also sports a relatively tiny back-lit LCD touchscreen display (1.46-inches).
It comes in red hot, electric blue, and graphite. Check out the new design above, it's definitely unexpected. What are your thoughts on the revolutionary new camera?
Editors' Recommendations
- Meet the Lytro Immerge 2.0, a 95-lens VR camera that could soon shoot in 10K
- Awesome tech you can't buy yet: Folding helmets and emojis for your car
- Prototype Insta360 light field camera lets viewers move through the scene
- Got a new camera? Make the most of it with this camera guide for beginners
- Here is the best photo gear to come out of CES 2018


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Displaying items by tag: Ryan Lay
Welcome Webisode 16: Phone FetishThe Welcome team pumps out another webisode of their recent action.
Double Rock: AltamontFamiliar faces plus some young rippers you might not be familiar with yet, the Altamont squad ripped The Rock and made it look easy.
Welcome in The Eurogenous ZoneEvery Welcome rider has a unique bag of tricks. So, when you multiple that by eight riders and then add dozens of amazing spots, you get one creative, incredible tour vid.
Etnies' "Vegan Jameson HT" ShoesGathering inspiration from Ryan Lay's personal life choice and his performance needs in skateboarding footwear, etnies set out to create a durable, high-performance skate shoe for all vegan skaters.
Double Rock: WelcomeDays before the premiere of their Fetish video, the Welcome team barnstormed The Rock, destroying one obstacle after another–and making a few modifications of their own.
Welcome's "Fetish" VideoWe've rolled out a few of the individual parts this week, but there's much more for you to feast upon in the full-length. The 72 hour viewing period has ended.
Welcome's "Fetish" Premiere PhotosWelcome week continues with photos from last weekend's premiere at the Yost Theatre in downtown Santa Ana. Ears were ringing and faces melted by the end of the night. Your week is only getting better.
Ryan Lay's "Fetish" PartOne of the best nollies in the game and a deep bag of tricks, Ryan comes through with a hell of a part, and an even more hellish ender.
Welcome's "Fetish" TeaserStarting Monday we'll be showing selected parts from Welcome's new video Fetish, before premiering the whole shebang on Friday.
Meet the Welcome TeamWelcome's Fetish vid is about to seduce your senses. Until then, find out who's in the crew, where they're from, who's got the hottest dance moves and much, much more.
Tiago Lemos' "Press Play" PartWe've categorized parts as face-melters before, but we're upgrading this DC shoes part to face-vaporizer. Because there won't be any face left. Tiago drops a doozy on the skate world. Consider yourself warned.
Rough Cut: Miles Silvas' "Numbers Edition 3" PartHis recent Numbers part was an instant classic, so time to appreciate the raw clips in all their glory. There's nothing like the sound of the streets and tricks getting STOMPED.
Deathwish Part One: Jamie Foy and Jake HayesJamie Foy's reign of terror continues, while Jake Hayes rips down the curtains. Hide your family! These dudes are on the warpath!
Rough Cut: Jamie Foy's "Am Scramble" FootageHe's built like a linebacker and he's blitzing skate spots on every down. Jamie went completely ballistic on the Am Scramble trip. Here's a up-close look at the carnage.
Jamie Foy's "Welcome to Deathwish" PartIf he isn't one of your favorites yet, make room on the list. This guy is an absolute BEAST and no spot is safe when he rides into town. Give a big round of a applause for the newest member of the Deathwish family.
This is not the new Shane O'Neill VideoShane spent nine days in Melbourne filming lines with a VX in the middle of summer. No single tricks, just mind-melting lines executed with the kind of precision only he commands. Hell YES. The Skate Gods must be pleased.
Louie Lopez's "Spitfire" PartFor most of us, skateboarding is a Rubik's cube, but Louie unlocks the cheat codes and does the unimaginable with ease and total control. Time to appreciate the master at work.
The OJ Show: Episode 6The Season Finale! There's too much good stuff in here to start dropping names. Just click, and let the OJ squad squeeze out every last drop of stoke. Thanks for tuning in...
Riley Hawk's "Shep Dawgs 5" PartHaving already dropped a behemoth of a video part for Lakai, Riley left plenty in the tank for the Shep Dawgs encore. Raise your glass to another excellent blessing from the Hawk family.
Scram Trip 1: EARTHSKii tha Dolp Coast VideoScram is the real deal. 100% skateboarding through and through. This edit rules.
Tiago Lemos' "Indy" PartIf you thought Tiago already handled enough biz this year, you were mistaken. He's back to hit us over the head with more explosive, face-melting footage. This man is in a league of his own.
Globe's "Good Luck in Lisbon" Premiere:Hermosa Beach, CA - February 01, 2018
Jamie Foy BBQ and Skate Jam:Los Angeles, CA - February 09, 2018
Slashers West Coast Tour:California, - February 16, 2018 - February 24, 2018
Southside Party: Ben Raybourn x Nora Vasconcellos:Houston, TX - February 18, 2018
Pins of Light x Motorhome x Slashers x Warchild:Oakland, CA - February 23, 2018
In The Mag
Charging backwards down an 18-stair, Nyhah Huston fakie 50-50s onto the March '18 front. Much more 'Jah madness inside—18 pages of heavy hits accompanied by an interview with the man himself. On that travel tip, Cons gasses it to Greece for some gnarlage and the Globe gang packs their bags for some productivity in Portugal. Elsewhere… Jake Anderson and Dominick Walker both get the Heads interview treatment, Leo Romero discusses going upstream on handrails, Burnout muses on career longevity via Andrew Reynolds' example, Sieben critiques curb skating, Mark Suciu finds himself on the Firing Line and a 12-page photo feature rounds it out for those who only care to stare. Throw away your library card and subscribe to the only mag worth reading. Add this one to your collection.


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|Reviews for Just One Night
| Authenticait chapter 4 . 8/28/2006
errm... your eight worded message is only 7... but i LOVE the story idea! theres no OOC so that can be put put outta the warning!
| Lachen chapter 4 . 8/26/2006
ooh...kinda creepy! I wanna find out what they're going to do. _ I hope Botan and Hiei end up with eachother in the end though...even though right now they both seem like they don't care..:( Please update soon!
| Blue Angel 1245 chapter 4 . 8/26/2006
Nice chapter. Wonder what those two are up to. Keep up the good work!
| McGrady chapter 4 . 8/26/2006
You updated!
I really liked your simile between Botan's and Ayame's personalities and the drinks. They were very effective and original.
The ongoing self-debate within Botan is very easy to relate to. We've all had our selfish moments that we tell ourselves to forget.
Update soon!
| x.gone chapter 4 . 8/25/2006
Oh! Now I'm very interested! I hope you can update soon! And good luck in school!
| BrittanyPeePee chapter 4 . 8/25/2006
Update soon please!
| Blackie-chan chapter 4 . 8/25/2006
CLIFFY! CLIFFY! omg, i'm going to be hanging on the rope, omgosh dang. anyway, loved the chapter
| Thunder Ring chapter 4 . 8/25/2006
That was great! I loved it! Can't wait to see what their planing!
| smiling cat chapter 4 . 8/25/2006
I wish I would know too! Ad I want to hear Hiei's thoughts about theese three months.
| BrittanyPeePee chapter 3 . 8/21/2006
Yay, I read that Chapter 3 will be here soon!
| Authenticait chapter 3 . 8/18/2006
so... whens the update? :D
| McGrady chapter 3 . 8/14/2006
Good work, good work! I like how there are afterthoughts, creating a lot of room for you to maneuver. Do I sense another "one night" stand?
Can't wait for the next update!
| McGrady chapter 2 . 8/14/2006
Awesome chapter!
I can't help but to think that you and I write similarly. The angst is so tangible and I love it! Looking forward to the next chapter...
| McGrady chapter 1 . 8/14/2006
Very interesting so far! I like your scene changes, they compliment one-another well. Additionally, the transitions are short and friendly, without standing out too much.
You do a good job conveying the emotions behind the characters. The only character as of now who is even arguably OOC is Botan, but I would argue that she's still in-character.
You appeal to the five senses well! I always thought that the reader can imagine the scene much better when the author mentions a smell, and you did just that! Good job!
I'm glad I tumbled over this fic. I've got some more chapters to read!
| Keke Koorime chapter 3 . 8/14/2006
another great chappie!1 plz write more soon!


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Planning Assumption
2000 Forecast for the Application Integration Market
June 15, 2000
Mike Gilpin
Ever since the market for application integration solutions first began to emerge in 1997, the market has grown rapidly, first as enterprise resource planning (ERP), and later as customer relationship management (CRM) and e-business investments drove a significant ongoing requirement for integration of new initiatives with legacy or packaged applications. In the last year, the correlation to e-business has increased, to the extent that this now drives about 65 percent of the new uses of application integration solutions.
Reflecting these different uses of application integration solutions, the market has developed along parallel lines, leading to multiple market segments in which different vendors have established leadership depending on their special ability to dominate a particular segment. This combination of new uses, new vendors and growth in all the segments is driving rapid growth in the category as a whole, at what Giga predicts will be a rate of 57 percent growth for 2000 results over those in 1999. This will result in a market size for 2000 of $2.1 billion in products and closely related services, or of $1.3 billion in product license fee revenue alone.
Giga has been tracking this market for three years now, and it has reached a stage where it is possible to size the market with a reasonable degree of concrete data, since so many of the players are publicly traded, and for which it is possible to assess what share of their revenue comes from their application integration business.
Market Methodology
· The vendors included in this analysis were IBM, BEA Systems, New Era of Networks (NEON), Mercator, Software Technologies Corp. (STC), TIBCO, Vitria, Active Software, Constellar, Viewlocity, OnDisplay/Oberon, SOPRA, Software AG, Information Builders, NEON Systems, SAGA Software, Level8, CommerceQuest, Sun/Forté Fusion, and Microsoft (which will be a bigger player in 2001, but BizTalk revenue won't start accruing significantly until later in 2000).
· To be included, the vendor or the line of business had to be primarily identified as an application integration solution, including Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Internet Application Integration (IAI), and customer-centric or "front-office" integration solutions. For this calculation we chose to exclude revenue from webMethods, Extricity, Ariba, and other major players that are primarily positioned in the business-to-business e-commerce solution market, although the lines are fuzzy here. With the acquisition of Active Software by webMethods, as other similar changes occur it may be necessary next year to consider these markets together as one.
· For those vendors included, we considered all the revenue from the application integration line of business, both product and service. For those wishing to break out just product revenue, use an average for the group of 60 percent of revenue derived from products, making the 2000 product revenue market size $1.3 billion. Note however that our definition of service revenue in this context counts mainly services tied directly to the implementation of the application integration solution, not including more general systems integration. Although for application integration projects, we typically see a 50/50 split between product and service expenditures, the vendors tracked here average about 60 percent in product revenue because several partner with systems integrators to deliver a significant proportion of their service engagements.
· In assessing 2000 revenue, we compared the first quarter of 2000 to the fourth quarter of 1999 for a quarter-on-quarter growth rate, which we then applied to the whole year 2000, in most cases. In a couple of cases, we factored in other considerations to make adjustments to these projected growth rates, such as recent or impending acquisitions, or lines of business which are likely to be shed. We also looked at all four quarters of 1999 revenue to do a sanity check on the numbers and spot any seasonal variations, but for most vendors, the growth from the first quarter of 1999 through the first quarter of 2000 has occurred at very consistent rates. There were a few vendors, though, that hit a clear "hockey stick" during 1999, including Vitria, Active Software, TIBCO and Level8, and we took this into account in making a realistic assessment of their 2000 growth rates.
· We estimated IBM's revenue by tapping a number of industry sources, since IBM does not break out MQSeries revenue for financial reporting.
Vendor Analysis
The results of our research are tabulated (see Table 1) and summarized graphically (see Figures 1 and 2), surveying these results:
· For 1999, we estimate this market reached $1.3 billion in revenue.
· In 1999, the market leaders were IBM with a 34 percent share, New Era of Networks and Mercator each with a 9 percent share, and TIBCO and SOPRA with a 7 percent share. IBM's numbers appear somewhat inflated, because we are including all MQSeries revenue in the number for IBM, although one might argue that some of this revenue comes from uses of MQ that predate usage in this market. However, today, virtually all Giga clients using MQ are using it to do application integration, so we have chosen to count it all. Take this into account in comparing results to other vendors without a significant position in business-quality messaging technology. Also, some other vendors bundle their messaging technology and thus dont generate explicit revenue from it, like Microsoft with MSMQ.
· For 2000, we forecast the market will reach $2.1 billion in revenue, a growth rate year-on-year of 57 percent. The market is growing faster than last year (rather than the slowing in growth that we had earlier anticipated), primarily through the entry of new vendors into the market and the expansion of the market into adjacent business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions. Although growth rates will still probably decline somewhat in future years, we estimate this market will reach $5.5 billion in size by 2003. Whereas today about 65 percent of this market is driven by e-business, by 2003, that will have grown to at least 80 percent, leaving only 20 percent of the market (about $1.1 billion) for non-e-business uses like internal integration of ERP and legacy applications not connected with e-business. Thus, e-business integration will average a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 50 percent during this period, while non-e-business integration will grow at a much more modest CAGR of about 15 percent, reflecting a mature market.
· We predict that the market leaders by the end of 2000 (based on 2000 results) will be IBM (29 percent share), New Era of Networks (10 percent share), and TIBCO and Mercator each with about 9 percent share. The most significant increase in share among these vendors compared to 1999 results will be TIBCO, which is getting a lot of traction from various e-business and other "front-office" related integration efforts.
· The next group of vendors is predicted to have share in 2000 ranging from 3 percent to 6 percent, led by Vitria and SOPRA, followed by STC, Viewlocity, Information Builders and Active Software (now to become part of webMethods, but considered separately for this analysis, since the acquisition hasn't closed yet) and Level8.
· A third group of vendors that we predict will have share in the range from 2 percent to 3 percent includes BEA Systems, OnDisplay/Oberon (now to become part of Vignette), NEON Systems and Forté Fusion. Depending on how one allocates revenue from the WebLogic product line, one could consider BEA to be a bigger player in this market, but for this analysis, we included only BEA's eLink revenue, which today is based on the Tuxedo line of business.
· Another way of viewing this market is to factor front-office integration from back-office integration (see Figure 3). Looking at those vendors dominating the front-office category (associated mostly with CRM and/or e-business implementations), the leaders for 2000 will be TIBCO, Vitria and Active Software.
Table 1: Market Share of Application Integration Vendors
Source: Giga Information Group
Note that a difference of one percentage point one way or the other should be considered within the range of likely outcomes bracketed around the predicted figures in Table 1. A "+" designation indicates somewhat more potential to the upside of that figure.
Market Analysis
Although this market superficially resembles the application server market in the way a few larger players dominate the numbers, followed by a large group of vendors with lesser results, the market dynamics are not the same, for two reasons:
1. Whereas one Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) application server has a reasonable shot at replacing another, application integration solutions are, by and large, not interchangeable. Today, they are mostly implemented on much more proprietary technology, and once a solution is implemented, it is more likely to remain a strategic component (i.e. "locked in") over time.
2. There is also a great deal more identifiable segmentation in the intended purpose of various application integration solutions, by application type, vertical industry and correlation to front or back office.
These two factors act together to keep this market from becoming one large ecosystem, instead creating a number of smaller "micro-ecosystems" in which different groups of vendors are able to have local dominance. Figure 3 is the latest market segmentation chart, as presented at GigaWorld IT Forum 2000.
The overall growth rate of the application integration solution market is not as great as that of the application server market (57 percent vs. 178 percent). Although both markets are being driven substantially by the same external growth factors (including e-business, CRM and mobile applications), the application server market is newer and hence in a hotter growth phase, and is also on a trajectory to become at least twice as large in the long run. The key difference driving this higher trajectory is the fact that application servers are becoming fundamental infrastructure to most emerging applications in these emerging categories, whereas only the larger and more complex integration scenarios are tending to drive purchase of application integration solutions.
As the market continues to evolve, there are a number of forces operating to change this market dynamic:
· As discussed in earlier research (see Planning Assumption, Emerging Standards-Based Application Integration Solutions, Mike Gilpin), the application integration and application server categories are merging, becoming less distinct separate markets, driven by many factors, the greatest of which is the desire of customers to obtain one more unified solution set from a smaller number of vendors (ideally one) across both categories.
· Application integration solutions are becoming increasingly standards-based, making them more interchangeable. At the same time as this creates opportunities for smaller players to add value around solutions from larger vendors, it also moves the industry inexorably toward being more like the application server market, with a few dominant large vendors and a larger number of niche players.
As this transition occurs, for the vendors in the "niche" group, it will become increasingly important that they have a clear understanding of what their niche is, and a technology, marketing, and sales strategy to match that niche, just like in the application server market (or any more mature market). However, because of the increasing correlation between these solutions, some of the effective niche strategies may be the same, especially where the niche has a significant requirement for application integration. Such niches include mobile applications (which need complex synchronization capability across a number of dimensions with their nonmobile counterparts), as well as specific lists of applications that are applicable within each of the various vertical markets a solution might aim to focus upon. So, just as Active Software and Vitria are strong in telecommunications firms today, they are likely to maintain that strength going forward if they are able to keep their solutions relevant as the nature of the technology infrastructure continues to evolve.
Another scenario for some of these vendors not in the top group is to be acquired by a much larger company that has a significant sales channel already selling to the right audience. In this category, these may be application server vendors, or application vendors in the category in which the integration solution is most relevant. The example of webMethods and Active Software also points to another fertile ground for acquisition (see IdeaByte, Internet Application Integration Category Heats Up With Acquisitions of Active Software and OnDisplay, Mike Gilpin), unifying application integration with a relevant e-business solution domain.
The next most likely scenario is just a more pessimistic one, with the pessimism arising along one or both of two dimensions:
· Less market growth because of increasing disillusionment with the category: Although Giga still believes in the fundamental value of application integration solutions, we continue to hear persistent stories of some implementations that do not achieve the anticipated value, or which disappoint in some other way. While these circumstances are not unusual for new products in an emerging market, some of the products are now into their second or even third generation, and customers have, in some cases, lost patience with their suppliers. Today, that means switching to another supplier, but in the future, it could mean finding other ways of meeting the need for application integration, hurting the growth of the category.
· Even more rapid consolidation than is built into current assumptions could occur if smaller players begin to experience growth too slow to keep forward momentum, especially if this were to occur at a time when equity markets are off their peak. Extremely rapid consolidation, although it would still result in revenue growth for the acquiring vendors, could result in slower growth for the category as whole, especially to the extent it represents the failure of the smaller vendors being acquired. To date most acquisitions in this market have reflected success rather than failure, but that could change.
One of the reasons for disillusionment with this category of solutions is their continued reliance upon proprietary technology. The trend to more standards-based approaches discussed above could rescue this category just as it most needs it. Customers' willingness to invest in creating software assets expressed in a proprietary way (like the business rules in a message broker) will decline as alternative, standards-based ways of achieving the same objective become available, which should drive a more rapid transition to the new solutions than might now be evident. There are other important gating factors that could act to limit the growth of this market:
· Even with tools, the effort and duration of application integration projects can be large, and large projects are more likely to fail. Staged implementations can help, but if failures occur and are blamed on vendors (always a convenient if sometimes well-deserved scapegoat), it could contribute to further disillusionment with the category.
· As with all e-business projects, these integration efforts encounter limited supplies of the skilled resources required to understand integration requirements and to effectively grapple with integration toolsets to achieve the desired result.
· Limited solutions from most vendors today for managing the profusion of metadata that arise in the context of multiple application integration efforts contribute to a reduction in the opportunity to harvest or otherwise reuse the results of one integration effort in another. Until repository-based solutions for managing this metadata, and the tools support them, are more widespread, this will be a continuing problem that will sap the strength of integration efforts over longer periods of time.
· Event-driven application integration solutions, while useful, are not a panacea, and will not displace alternatives like extract, transform and load (ETL) solutions, at least not where those continue to be well suited to requirements to move large quantities of bulk data. These two ways of interfacing systems are just points on a continuum of solutions for moving data and events in the context of a business process.
Today, clients should consider these industry dynamics in the context of the overall set of weighted evaluation criteria discussed in Planning Assumption, How to Select an Enterprise Application Integration Solution, Mike Gilpin. The weighting and criteria along the seven dimensions will not only be specific to each company's context, but will also be strongly influenced by the particular vertical and application domains in which integration is to be performed. These company-specific criteria should be the main factor driving selection, although vendors' position in the market should also influence which vendors make the cut going to the short list. However, at this stage of market evolution, for specific integration scenarios, it can still be very much the best choice to go with a vendor that has the best fit to purpose, even if that vendor has only a 2 percent or 3 percent share of this market, as long as it has sufficient size overall to ensure continued product evolution and good product support.
For clients assembling e-business infrastructure, it is also appropriate to focus the selection of application integration solutions into alignment with the same infrastructure standards for communications, components, connectivity and data, like XML. This will naturally drive selection of solutions that are either from the same vendors that provide one's strategic application servers, or else are sufficiently aligned so as to interoperate with those servers smoothly.
When choosing an application integration solution that aligns with one's application servers of choice, give preference to those vendors that show leadership in the niches which are most closely aligned with one's vertical market alignment. This will continue to be important, since skills and knowledge of integrating applications in that vertical domain will tend to reside with those vendors, even as the underlying infrastructure technologies continue to evolve. This is just a special case of choosing systems integrator talent from those firms that know your business; in this case, that talent is embodied not only in consultants, but also in the product developers that build integration components that are closest to the application domain, such as adapters or connectors.
Planning Assumption, 2000 Forecast for the EJB Application Server Market, Mike Gilpin and Carl Zetie
Planning Assumption, Introducing an Internet Application Integration (IAI) Architecture Framework for E-Business, Mike Gilpin
Planning Assumption, Emerging Standards-Based Application Integration Solutions, Mike Gilpin
Planning Assumption, How to Select an Enterprise Application Integration Solution, Mike Gilpin
IdeaByte, Internet Application Integration Category Heats Up With Acquisitions of Active Software and OnDisplay, Mike Gilpin
IdeaByte, TSI to Acquire Novera: Another Sign of Application Servers and Integration Solutions Merging, Mike Gilpin
IdeaByte, STC eGate New and Improved but Not a Threat to NEON, Mike Gilpin
IdeaByte, Oracle Integration Server: Promising Vision, Limited Proof as Yet, Mike Gilpin
IdeaByte, NEON Integrates NEONImpact Message Broker (From CAI Acquisition) With MQSeries Integrator: Integrating the Integration Solution, Mike Gilpin
IdeaByte, Will Application Server Vendors Take Over the Application Integration Market? Mike Gilpin


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I was excited to check out Inversion's multiplayer offerings at a Namco Bandai event this week, as I liked what I'd seen of the single-player game to date. The idea of gravity manipulation hasn't been seen much in the video game world and could potentially be a great gimmick, provided it's well-implemented and developer Sabre Interactive (best known for the equally gimmicky TimeShift) can deliver on the technical front. While I certainly enjoyed my time with Inversion's multiplayer modes, I'm not totally sure if that was a delivery the folks at Sabre were able to make.
The key to Inversion's gravity manipulation action is the Grav-Link, a handy-dandy gadget that can be used to launch your foes into the air or make them too heavy to move quickly. All told, both powers feel like a stun of sorts, though unloading a full clip into a floating enemy is a far more satisfying experience. On the flip side, if you've been launched into the air via a burst of low-gravity, you can use your Grav-Link to increase your own gravity, bringing you back to the ground before your opponent can take advantage of your perilous state. It's a solid system, and I was happy to see that the Grav-Link has limited charges and can't be overused.
During my time with the game, I had the chance to check out two gametypes on two very different maps. First up was Gravity Slaughter, which is essentially Inversion's version of a standard Deathmatch game. The twist here is that you'll earn more points for using the gravity powers while getting your kills, so zapping an enemy into the air before finishing them off pays off even more in the end. The map we played on was called Junction, and it featured a central area with two rounded walls on either side (think U-shaped) that were part of the playing field. If running up a wall and firing down on the people still on the "floor" sounds like fun, it's because it is.
Next up was a gametype called King of Gravity, which tasked players with grabbing a single Grav-Link and getting kills while holding it to earn two points. Conversely, a single point could be gained by killing the Grav-Link holder. Since there was only the one Grav-Link, all of the gravity powers were held by the person in control of it, meaning they alone had the ability to launch people up in the air. This made getting the Grav-Link a huge advantage for obvious reasons, though getting the Grav-Link also placed a big ol' target over the player's head. The map, Crater, seemed fairly forgettable, featuring an open central area with a number of intersecting caves around the edges. Much of the action was centered around one grouping of caves in one corner, so I didn't really get to explore the map much.
While the gravity powers added an interesting wrinkle to the proceedings, much of the action was derivative, feeling like just another third-person shooter. If you've ever played the Gears of War series, you'll immediately feel comfortable with Inversion's control scheme, which features the now-obligatory roadie run. The game also needs a serious coat of polish before it's released, as jagged edges abounded and occasional framerate issues popped up here and there. If the folks at Sabre can iron these problems out and really nail the gravity angle (something I admittedly didn't see enough of in my brief time with the game), they could have a modest multiplayer hit on their hands.


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Weekend Plans With Big East's Val Ackerman: College Hoops, Dining Out, Sunday Night TV
For Big East Commissioner VAL ACKERMAN, the focus of this weekend is -- not surprisingly -- college basketball. Madison Square Garden is hosting the men's East Regional tournament games, and while the Big East does not have a team remaining, Ackerman will still be very involved in organizing, networking and handling media requests. In addition, her alma mater -- the Univ. of Virginia -- plays at MSG on Friday, so that will be a must-see game. Ackerman also will keep her eye on the DePaul Univ. women's basketball team, which will be competing in the Lincoln Regional on Saturday. But for the rare moments she is not attending or watching hoops this weekend, Ackerman will be hitting the streets of N.Y. and indulging at some of her favorite restaurants.
EMPIRE STATE OF MIND: The Big East offices are currently housed at 42nd and 8th Avenue, so we're in the Times Square neighborhood, and my home is in a neighborhood called Tribeca, which is in lower Manhattan. It's very convenient for me -- it takes me about 20 minutes to get to work. I take the subway, which is a block from my home and then my subway stop is right under the building that I work at. I have lived in New York City for a long time, since 1985 when I graduated from UCLA law school. I grew up in New Jersey and came back to the East Coast after law school and starting working here in 1985. I've wound up staying here largely because of work -- I've had job opportunities that have kept me here. I also have family in central New Jersey, about an hour and a half from New York City, so it is reasonably close to home.
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY: Besides work, the energy of New York has been addictive. I grew up in a small town so I never dreamed I'd last in New York City because it's a very different environment than the one I grew up in, but I've really become very addicted to the pace and the energy and the wide range of activities here. You can just go to a neighborhood and explore and see things you've never seen before. It's always changing, there's always a new corner to turn -- you see a new building or a new store or a new restaurant or new site. That's one of the benefits of living here -- there's never an end to a new experience.
FAMILY MATTERS: My husband and I raised our two daughters here in New York City, they're both in college now but they are creatures of the city. They tell my husband and I how happy they are that they were raised here. We did consider moving out of the city when they were small, but largely because of work -- my husband was a Wall Street lawyer for 33 years in Midtown Manhattan -- and our unwillingness to endure long commutes, we wound up staying in the city and that just became our way of life. My oldest (daughter) now is a senior at Yale and my younger daughter is a freshman at Wesleyan which is in Middletown, Conn. So they're both reasonably close by and they do get home fairly often.
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS: I tend to be early to bed and early to rise. On weekends I'll sleep in later than I do during the week, but I'm kind of a high energy person so I wouldn't sleep in much past 8:30am ET on a weekend. When I'm home, I generally use the weekend time to catch up on errands -- paying bills, doing paperwork, I may do some shopping and I'm also a compulsive cleaner. I may have breakfast at Bubby's, which is a favorite restaurant of mine in lower Manhattan. I sometimes just go for a morning cup of coffee and pancakes -- I love pancakes. My other indulgence is an appetizing store down in lower Manhattan called Russ & Daughters. It's a neighborhood store that sells the world's best smoked fish. We love bagels and lox and smoked fish. They've been there for many, many years and it's a family run operation.
FLAVORS TO SAVOR: We're New Yorkers, so our recipe file is largely take-out menus. My husband and I love ethnic food, and we live two blocks from Chinatown, so it's easy to go over and we can get everything there: we can get Chinese, Asian, Thai. It's all amazing food. It's just so flavorful. We also have a favorite Japanese place, a favorite Indian place. There's Italian places, and pizza of course. I try not to eat as much of that but I love pasta. We have a Whole Foods in our neighborhood so that's also one of my haunts. I spend many a shopping trip there. We sometimes cook. My husband likes seafood so we often have seafood if we do cook.
BREAKING A SWEAT: If a certain period of time goes by where I don't work out I'm really off-kilter. I need to sweat and stretch and get my heart rate up. That to me is a must-do. I belong to a health club down in my neighborhood so I try and get there as much as I can. Sometimes I bike. Along the west side of Manhattan now they have built out bike paths and in warm weather I get out on the bike. I've biked as far as the George Washington Bridge, which is about 11 miles from where I live in downtown Manhattan and back. ... Or I sometimes just walk. New York is a great pedestrian city. One of my favorite neighborhoods is the High Line District, it's an urban park that's been constructed on the west side of Manhattan. I like to walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, which is not far from where I live.
WHAT I LOVE ABOUT SUNDAYS: Sunday sometimes means reading the New York Times and getting caught up on magazines. I don't read as much as I should, which is really a function of time, but if I have time to get my nose in a book, I try to do that. Sunday night is a big TV night. We're fans of "HOMELAND" and "DOWNTON ABBEY" and "GIRLS." LENA DUNHAM is the creator of "Girls," and her younger sister is one of my older daughter's best friends. So we know the Dunhams, we know Lena, and it's been very exciting to see her being catapulted into the stratosphere. I don't watch many shows, but those are my favorite. That makes for some relaxation on a Sunday night.


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It's neglectful to declare Nashville's best bird a mere "weekly" obsession.
Nay, hot chicken is more than that. It's an every-week preoccupation, a craving that's driven Yo La Tengo to write songs and brought a professional TV eater to town for a taste.
The fiery poultry haunts the minds of all who have dared to digest it, and the craving strikes at the worst moments — usually on Mondays, when the numerous shacks take a break from basting birds with the piquant paste.
On July 4 — coincidentally, a Monday in 2011 — we take a break to praise our most famous hen and declare our collective civic independence from mere fried chicken. For the fifth time, the Nashville Hot Chicken Festival will set up shop in East Park on Independence Day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The festival was the brainchild of former Mayor Bill Purcell, the Pennsylvania-native-turned-hot-chicken-evangelist who proved once again that there's no zealot like a convert. It was Purcell who coined the Great Edict of Hot Chicken: "Order it hot. No one goes to a medium-chicken shack."
As high tradition dictates, the first 500 attendees will get free samples from the originators at Prince's, the classic Bolton's, rising star 400 Degrees, newcomer Pepperfire and hot chicken's Murfreesboro missionary, The Chicken Shack.
Late-risers need not fret, as all the shacks will, of course, have bird for sale. Once again, there will be an amateurs' contest, with mimetic homecookers vying for the top ranks.
Of-age patrons in need of a cooling local quaff can take a break inside Yazoo's tent, for what is a better match for Nashville's most celebrated culinary export than a Gulch-made brew?
New this year is title sponsor Piedmont Natural Gas, which lauds itself as "Nashville's oldest continuously operated business." Piedmont, a bastion of the business world, makes sense to couple with the poultry purveyors: Both specialize in a flammable substance without which our local economy could not survive.
Hyperbole? Only to those who have yet to fall victim to the spicy siren.


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BONN, Feb. 2 (JTA) — The junior partner in the conservative government of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said this week that it would look into finding a way to stop Nazi war criminals from receiving German state pensions. Leaders of the Free Democratic Party also said Sunday that their first step would be to consult legal experts. Earlier, the Labor Ministry had confirmed a television report that state- financed pensions had been issued to people directly involved in the Holocaust. Such pensions have been paid since 1950 to individuals who suffered from injuries or "other hardships" during World War II, the ministry said. A ministry spokesman said, "We didn't look into the criminal record of the beneficiaries, or into their possible involvement in Nazi crimes." Others receiving the pension include Nazi criminals in the United States, South America, Australia and elsewhere.
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text: Oe Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:05:26PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:> ugh? Where do i claim any such thing?You never said such a thing, but you said you believe it's not provablethat sys_read/write and hardware irq processing is secure in linux, so I wanted to get some statistical significance about your claim from youjust in case I was missing something. I obviously can't have in memoryevery single bug since 2.4.0.> while we are at it, please mention a single ptrace bug in the same> timeframe that could allow a bytecode 'client' to escape a ptrace> TRACE_SYSCALL jail at will.There was this bug around 2.4.10, IIRC a SIGCONT could let the ptracedtask to continue executing. I don't want to depend on other applicationsnot to send a signal by mistake to the ptraced task.http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0109.0/1049.htmlAn oom killer triggering by mistake on a strace -p would have beenenough too. You said if the ptracer is the group leader then the ptracedtask will be killed at the same time, but I doubt many apps depends onthis to be safe, that code is complex and it may break over time duringdevelopment if signal handling changes or if the exit code changes.The interesting point is that no app out there (except uml) becomesexploitable if you find some hole in TRACE_SYSCALL (at worse strace willscrewup a bit). I don't think an huge amount of research has been donein those code paths (unlike it happened in mremap and many other kernelAPIs). So even if there are bugs in ptrace they might not beingconsidered security related. And UML has no other way than to use ptracesince it needs much more of what I need and UML cannot be archindipendent.While any seccomp security bug is guaranteed to be a major securitylinux bug too, so I'm more confortable that more research has been donein those core code paths than in TRACE_SYSCALL behaviour.This below is all the code I had to write to secure the remote bytecodewith seccomp, and it's fully arch indipendent (licence is LGPL). Ok,the seccomp kernel patch is 500 lines, so we should add 500 lines plusthe below ~50 total ~550 lines, but the end result is much nicer andmore secure IMHO. Plus this is simple enough that perhaps Cpushare won'tbe the only project using it.class seccomp_protocol_class(protocol.ProcessProtocol): def __init__(self, seccomp, d_start, d_end): self.seccomp = seccomp self.d_start, self.d_end = d_start, d_end self.outReceived = self.enable_seccomp_mode def connectionMade(self): self.seccomp.cpushare_protocol.seccomp_protocols.append(self) self.seccomp.cpushare_protocol.transport.registerProducer(self, 1) self.transport.closeChildFD(2) # close stderr right away self.transport.writeToChild(0, self.seccomp.header + self.seccomp.text_data) def enable_seccomp_mode(self, data): assert data == MAGIC_ASK_SECCOMP, "didn't ask seccomp" seccomp_file = '/proc/' + str(self.transport.pid) + '/seccomp' if file(seccomp_file, 'r').read(1) != '0': raise 'seccomp already enabled?' file(seccomp_file, 'w').write('1') if file(seccomp_file, 'r').read(1) != '1': assert self.transport.pid is not None print 'Killing the seccomp-loader before it starts the untrusted bytecode' self.sigkill() raise 'seccomp enable failure' self.outReceived = self.send_to_server self.transport.writeToChild(0, MAGIC_GOT_SECCOMP) self.d_start.callback(None) # now the buyer is connected def send_to_server(self, data): self.seccomp.cpushare_protocol.sendString(PROTO_SECCOMP_FORWARD + data) def recv_from_server(self, data): self.transport.writeToChild(0, data) def errReceived(self, data): raise "shouldn't happen" def processEnded(self, status): self.seccomp.cpushare_protocol.seccomp_protocols.remove(self) self.seccomp.cpushare_protocol.transport.unregisterProducer() if status.value.exitCode or status.value.signal: if status.value.exitCode == 4: print 'Failure in setting the stack size to %d bytes.' % self.seccomp.stack if status.value.signal == signal.SIGKILL: print 'Seccomp task gracefully killed by seccomp.' elif status.value.signal == signal.SIGSEGV: print 'Seccomp task gracefully killed by sigsegv.' elif status.value.signal == signal.SIGQUIT: print 'Seccomp task killed by sigquit - should never happen.' self.d_end.errback(status) else: print 'Seccomp task completed successfully.' self.d_end.callback(None) def sigquit(self): if self.transport.pid is not None: os.kill(self.transport.pid, signal.SIGQUIT) def sigkill(self): if self.transport.pid is not None: os.kill(self.transport.pid, signal.SIGKILL)-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to email@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/