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John Carter: Toxin, derived from a puffer fish, simulates death.
[Carter finds the medallion on Matai Shang's body]
Edgar Rice Burroughs: You never found the medallion?
John Carter: No. That's why I'm so grateful to you for bringing me one.
Edgar Rice Burroughs: I... I was just bait?
John Carter: No. You're far more than that. I really do need a protector. That is, if you're willing.
[Ned agrees and hugs Carter]
John Carter: Goodbye, Ned.
John Carter: [Carter turns to go into the mausoleum] Oh, and Ned. Take up a cause, fall in love, write a book.
John Carter: [about to close the mausoleum] It's time I went home.
John Carter: [he shuts the door, lays down on the body slab, and says the phrase that will return him to Barsoom] Ak Ohum Oktay Weez...
John Carter: [he sees Dejah saying 'Barsoom' and smiles before repeating the word] Barsoom.
John Carter: Stand behind me, this might get dangerous.
[John fights the Zodangans. When he loses his sword, Dejah takes it and kills the remaining enemies]
John Carter: Or maybe I ought to get behind you...
Dejah Thoris: [Cleans the blood off the sword with John's clothes] You let me know when it gets dangerous.
Tars Tarkas: [to John] You are ugly, but you are beautiful. And you fight like a Thark!
Tars Tarkas: Did I not tell you he could jump!
Edgar Rice Burroughs: I am the key. I am the key! I, Edgar.
[he looks for clues on the mausoleum door]
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Ed! E... D!
[he presses the letters E-D in 'Inter Mundos' engraved on the mausoleum door, but nothing happens, frustrated Burroughs takes out the telegraph Carter had sent him and reads]
Edgar Rice Burroughs: 'Dear, Ned'. He never called me Edgar. He called me Ned!
[he presses the letters N-E-D in the 'Inter Mundos' engraved on the mausoleum door and the door opens, Ned is shocked to discover his uncle's body is missing, Matai Shang appears behind him, about to kill him, but Carter appears and shoots him]
John Carter: Hello, Ned.
John Carter: You got me. I surrender.
Tars Tarkas: [Fist on his chest] Jeddak.
John Carter: Jeddak?
Tars Tarkas: Jeddak. Tars Tarkas.
John Carter: Tars... Tarkas.
[Tars smiles]
John Carter: Captain John Carter. Virginia.
Tars Tarkas: Vor... ginya.
[Points at John]
Tars Tarkas: Vorginya!
John Carter: No. My name is John Carter, I'm from Virginia.
Tars Tarkas: [Continues to point at John] Virginia.
Tars Tarkas: Zodanga, red flags. Helium, blue. Zodanga is winning the war. But I say let red men kill red men until only Tharks remain.
John Carter: That doesn't look like a fair fight.
Tars Tarkas: Zodanga never fights fair.
John Carter: [Seeing the carvings in the temple of the Tharks] Can you read it?
Dejah Thoris: It's old scripture.
John Carter: What's it mean?
Dejah Thoris: Don't rush me. "To those who seek the solace of eternity, may journey down the river through the sacred Gates of Iss and find everlasting peace in the bosom of Issus".
John Carter: The Gates of Iss.
Dejah Thoris: What if I could take you there?
John Carter: What if I didn't trust you?
Dejah Thoris: Then we'd be even. I can take you to the gates, to the answers that you seek. A way back to Jasoom.
John Carter: Earth.
Dejah Thoris: Earth. So this I can to repay you from getting us out of here. Assuming that you can.
John Carter: Deal.
[Places his hand in front of her. Dejah looks confused]
John Carter: Go on. Shake it. It's a sign of trust.
[Dejah takes his thumb and gives his hand a light shake]
John Carter: Good enough.
John Carter: Fifty millions miles apart, and no way to bridge the gap, no way to return my body and my soul to their true home. Like a fool I'd thrown away my medallion. Then I recalled Matai Shang, his knowledge of earth, of my history. It mean Therns were a presence on this world, the cave in Arizona was proof. There might be other such proofs, other Thern way stations hidden all around the world. I knew now what the cave of gold must be used for. So for ten bitter years I searched, on the trail of rumor and legend, I fared it out every possible evidence of Therns, but I found no medallion. And then it came to me. And once it came, there were many plans I had to make in secret. I could trust no one else. I had long suspected that the Therns were following my movements. Now you'll understand the cause of my sudden death. The reason for my bizarre funeral instructions. Why the door can only be opened from the inside. For if my body dies on earth, then my copy dies on Mars. You are the key, this is the task I entrust to you along with all my fortune. Protect my body, the Therns will attempt to destroy it. In the time it has taken you to read these pages, they may have already done so.
Tars Tarkas: When I saw you, I believed it was a sign... that something new can come into this world.
Dejah Thoris: [to Tars Tarkas] Jeddak of the Tharks. I am Dejah Thoris, regent of the Royal Helium Academy of Science. My research...
Tars Tarkas: [Pushes her away to John] Your share of the spoils. Sola, tend to Virginia's property.
Sola: Yes, my Jeddak
[Holds Dejah's arms behind her back]
Dejah Thoris: [to Tars Tarkas] You know when Sab Than has conquered us, he will turn his weapon upon you!
Tars Tarkas: I know that Zodanga has found a way to defeat you. And now you seek a mighty weapon of your own. But Virginia fights for us! He will fight the Torquas in the south. The Warhoons in the north! And he will be called Dotar Sojat! "My right arms"!
John Carter: No. I don't fight for anyone.
Tars Tarkas: [to John] Virginia. You reject this honor, then I can't guarantee you the safety of your red girl.
John Carter: [Looks at Dejah being held captive by Sola] I am... Dotar Sojat.
Tars Tarkas: [voiceover] Mars. So you name it and think that you know it. The red planet, no air, no life. But you do not know Mars, for its true name is Barsoom. And it is not airless, nor is it dead, but it is dying. The city of Zodanga saw to that.
John Carter: [voice over] My dear Edgar, I remember how I used to take you on my knee and tell you wild tales, which you always did me the great courtesy of believing. Now you are grown, time and space have parted us, but I reach out across that distance, to that same wide eyed boy and ask him to believe me once more. This wild tale begins thirteen years ago, in the Arizona Territory, between the Pinaleño Mountains and the backside of hell.
Dejah Thoris: In the Hall of Science.
John Carter: And where's that?
Dejah Thoris: [chuckles, while smiling with her head down] Helium.
John Carter: [Carter becomes angry, thinking that Dejah is still trying to convince him to go to Helium] Then quick! Let's just head on turn on back to Helium.
[Carter grabs Dejah's arm in anger]
John Carter: What do you take me for?
Dejah Thoris: I take you for a man who's lost!
John Carter: I won't be lost if you just tell me how to work this thing!
Dejah Thoris: I will! But everything I need to understand the medallion is in Helium. I'm trying to get you back to your cave of gold. Isn't that what you want?
John Carter: Yes.
John Carter: I won't be lost if you just tell me how to work this thing!
Dejah Thoris: No, I don't believe you. We may have been born worlds apart, but I know you, John Carter. From the moment you caught me in the sky, I knew. I felt the heart of a man willing to lay down his life for others. A man willing to fight for a cause, here, on Barsoom.
[Suddenly Carter kisses Dejah, but he has a flashback of his wife and daughter and pulls away from Dejah]
Dejah Thoris: Don't you see? Carter, I fled to find another way. You are the other way.
[suddenly they hear Sola calling out to Carter, as they leave the cave they see a tribe of Tharks, led by Matai Shang, shooting at Sola]
Dejah Thoris: [Pointing with a stick at the solar system she drew on the ground] Sun. Then Rasoom.
John Carter: Mercury.
Dejah Thoris: [Points to the second planet] Then Cosoom.
John Carter: Venus.
[Points to the third planet]
John Carter: Then Earth. Us.
Dejah Thoris: That is Jasoom.
[Points to the next planet]
Dejah Thoris: You are on Barsoom, John Carter.
John Carter: Mars? I'm on Mars...
[Gets up, shocked]
John Carter: Good God, I'm on Mars.
Dejah Thoris: So your home is Jasoom? And you came on one of your sailing ships across millions of karads of empty space?
John Carter: No. Not like that.
Dejah Thoris: Go on. Shock me. How?
John Carter: [Points at the thern medallion kept by Tars Tarkas] That brought me here.
Dejah Thoris: Oh. Well, that explains everything then.
John Carter: It does?
Dejah Thoris: Yes. You are a thern. And you simply wish to return to your rightful place, isn't that it?
John Carter: Yes.
Dejah Thoris: [Begins to walk away] Then let's sort this out right now. Come along!
[John follows]
Dejah Thoris: [to John, as Matai Shang disguised as Dejah is fleeing] I'm getting away!
[John and Dejah pursue the other Dejah]
Matai Shang: We do not cause the destruction of a world, Captain Carter. We simply manage it. Feed off it, if you like.
Tardos Mors: Dejah, ever since you were a little girl you've always met the expectations placed on you...
[Dejah gently places her hand on his]
Tardos Mors: It's Sab's terms.
Dejah Thoris: What are they?
Tardos Mors: He will spare Helium if you accept his hand in marriage.
[Places his hand upon hers but Dejah quickly takes it away]
Dejah Thoris: No. He is a monster! You must refuse him!
Tardos Mors: He's already on his way here.
Dejah Thoris: But all of my work... I just need a little more time.
Tardos Mors: Dejah.
Dejah Thoris: How can you... You can't just bow down to Zodanga!
Tardos Mors: A wedding will save the city!
Dejah Thoris: Perhaps but it could lose you Barsoom!
Tardos Mors: Dejah.
Dejah Thoris: With no one to stop Zodanga will be the beginning of the end! You are a Jeddak of Helium! You must find another way!
Tardos Mors: There is not another way!
John Carter: War's a shameful thing.
Dejah Thoris: Not when a noble cause is taken by those who can make a difference. You made a difference today, Virginia.
John Carter: Okay. See, my name is John Carter. Virginia is where I'm from.
Dejah Thoris: Where did you learn to jump that way?
John Carter: I don't know. How'd you learn to fly?
Dejah Thoris: Your ships cannot sail on light in Virginia?
John Carter: No, professor. See, our ships sail on the seas. Endless water everywhere.
Dejah Thoris: [Stares at him then begins to walk around him] Skeleton structure normal...
John Carter: What are you doing?
Dejah Thoris: [Continues to study him] It must be the density of your bones.
[Spanks him]
Dejah Thoris: Jump for me!
Sola: Enough! There will be time for playfulness later!
Dejah Thoris: I want no playfulness from him. I want his help. Explain to me how you do it. If it's a skill, teach it to Helium. Name your price.
John Carter: I'm not for hire. I've got a cave of gold of my own. Somewhere
[Begins to walk away]
Dejah Thoris: Only a madman would rave about the times of oceans!
John Carter: Is that your expert's view? I'm mad?
Dejah Thoris: Or a liar.
Sola: She's a good match for you, Dotar Sojat.
John Carter: Don't call me that.
Dejah Thoris: There are no seas on the planet.
John Carter: You said planet...
Sola: Where are you going?
Dejah Thoris: To your temple.
Sola: No! No, you cannot enter here! It is forbidden! You are not Thark!
[Dejah and John enter so she follows]
Sola: Dotar Sojat, it is forbidden. It is forbidden!
Dejah Thoris: Well, you speak for the goddess. What does she say?
John Carter: [Seeing the engraving on the temple's wall] You called me a thern. Is that what she is?
Sola: No! She is Issus. Therns are holy messengers of the goddess. In the time of oceans they walked among us, guiding us. We must not offend. Let us go!
Tal Hajus: We are strong, because we despise weakness! Let them be crushed, like unhatched eggs!
Matai Shang: [during the battle between Helium and Zodanga, Sab Than's ship gets attacked by a mysterious blue light in the sky, Sab Than notices three figures floating towards him, one of the men, Matai Shang, gives Sab Than a blue arm band which is a special weapon, Sab Than immediately uses this to kill Matai Shang but Shang quickly deflects the attack] Being a fool is a great luxury, Sab Than. Get up.
Sab Than: [slowly gets up] What are you?
Matai Shang: We serve the Goddess, and she has chosen you to receive this weapon. Do as we command and you will rule all of Barsoom, with none to defy you and nothing to stand in your way.
Telegraph Clerk: [on Earth, Carter goes to a telegraph office and places a telegraph on the counter] Ten words a minimum. That's fifty cents, unless you want special delivery.
Telegraph Clerk: [Carter places a coin on the counter making the telegraph clerk look up and take the coin] Special delivery it is. Name of sender?
John Carter: Carter. John Carter.
Dalton: [after receiving Carter's telegraph, his nephew Edgar Rice Burroughs arrives at his estate to find out that Carter had died] His death came as a shock to all of us, he was a model of health and vigor. He just dropped dead in his study, not five minutes after sending word for me and the doctor. When I arrived he was already gone.
Dalton: [Burroughs looks around at Carter's office in awe as he sees all the strange and exotic findings from all over the world] The man never stopped digging. All over the world. No sooner he started digging one hole then he was off to Jaava or the Orkney Islands digging another. He said it was pure research, but it always seemed to me like he was looking for something. Well, God granting, he's found it now.
Dalton: [Burroughs picks up a photo of Carter and looks at it] Every inch a Cavalry man, to the very end.
Edgar Rice Burroughs: My mother always said that Jack never really came back from the war. That it was only his body that went West. He used to tell me the most wondrous stories.
[he turns to Dalton]
Dalton: I'd like to pay my respects.
Dalton: [Dalton and Burroughs stand outside Carter's tomb] You won't find a keyhole, thing only opens from the inside. He insisted, no embalming, no open coffin, no funeral. Well, you don't acquire the kind of wealth your uncle commanded by being like the rest of us, huh? Come, let's go inside.
[Dalton turns and leave, but Burroughs hesitates, walks towards the tomb and places his hand on the door]
Dalton: [back at Carter's estate, Dalton reads from Carter's will] And lastly, I hereby direct, that my estate shall be held in trust for twenty five years. The income to benefit my beloved nephew, Edgar Rice Burroughs. At the end of which term, the principal will revert to him, in full.
Edgar Rice Burroughs: [Burroughs looks shocked] Of course, I always adored him, but it's been so long. Why me?
Dalton: He never offered an explanation, I never asked him for one.
[Dalton passes an old looking journal to Burroughs]
Dalton: It was his private journal. He was most explicit that you, and only you, would read its contents. You might possibly find some kind of explanation in here. I'll leave you now.
[Dalton stands and offers his hand to Burroughs]
Dalton: Again, my condolences.
[Dalton turns and leaves]
Tars Tarkas: [on Barsoom, Carter discovers due to his different bone density and planet's low gravity, he's able to jump high, after which he runs into the Tharks and their leader, Tars Tarkas]
Tars Tarkas: Hello! Don't run. Don't run away.
John Carter: [Carter hides behind some rocks not understanding anything Tarkas is saying]
Tars Tarkas: [subtitled] Hello. Don't run. Don't run away.
John Carter: [Tarkas slowly walks towards Carter and Carter comes out from behind the rocks] Alright. You've got me. I surrender.
Tars Tarkas: [Tarkas points to himself] Jeddak.
John Carter: Jeddak?
Tars Tarkas: Jeddak. Tars Tarkas
John Carter: [Carter salutes as he introduces himself] Captain John Carter, Virginia.
Tars Tarkas: Vir... ginia. Virginia!
John Carter: No. My name is John Carter. I'm from Virginia.
Tars Tarkas: [subtitled] Virginia. Jump as you did before.
John Carter: [not understanding what Tarkas is saying Carter repeats the word for jump] Sak?
Tars Tarkas: [subtitled] Jump, yes?
[Tarkas mimes the motion of jumping with his hands]
Tars Tarkas: Sak.
John Carter: Sak! Yes, sir.
[Carter salutes and jumps and as he lands he grabs the weapon that Tarkas had thrown to the ground]
Tars Tarkas: [shouting to his men as Carter points the weapon at Tarkas]
Tars Tarkas: Don't shoot it! Don't shoot it! Don't shoot it!
[as Tarkas lunges himself onto Carter, one of his soldiers shoots Carter in the butt, after which Tarkas takes him prisoner, straps him to one of their alien horse creatures, along with some Thark hatchlings]
John Carter: [shouting] What is this place? Where am I?
Tars Tarkas: [subtitled] Virginia. It's okay, just relax.
John Carter: Where's my damn gold?
Young Thark Warrior: [one of Tarkas' soldiers walks up to him to inform him about the eggs]
Young Thark Warrior: Eighteen have not yet hatched, Jeddak.
Tars Tarkas: [subtitled] Then they are not our kind. Leave nothing for the white apes.
John Carter: [Carter watches as Tarkas' soldiers shoot the unhatched eggs] Where on earth am I?
Tardos Mors: Dejah, ever since you were a little girl, you've always met the expectations placed on you. It's Sab's terms.
Dejah Thoris: What are they?
Tardos Mors: He will spare Helium, if you accept his hand in marriage.
Dejah Thoris: No! He is a monster! You must refuse him!
Tardos Mors: He's already on his way here.
Dejah Thoris: But all of my work! I just need a little more time!
Tardos Mors: Dejah.
Dejah Thoris: How can you...? You can't just bow down to Zodanga!
Tardos Mors: A wedding will save the city!
Dejah Thoris: Perhaps! But it could lose you Barsoom!
Tardos Mors: Dejah!
Dejah Thoris: With no one to stop Zodanga it will be the beginning of the end!
Tardos Mors: We do not... we do not have the luxury.
Dejah Thoris: [shouting] You are the Jeddak of Helium! You must find another way!
Tardos Mors: [shouting] There is no other way!
[Dejah looks away from Tardos]
Tardos Mors: If there were, I would risk anything to cease it. This is the chance we have been given. Perhaps it is the will of the Goddess.
Dejah Thoris: No. It is your will. When I was little and we would look up at the stars, and you would tell me of the heroes whose glory was written in the sky. How there was a star up there for me. Is this what you imagined would be written on it?
Tardos Mors: [before Tardos answers her Kantos enters with his men]
Kantos Kan: My Jeddak, Sab Than's Corsair approaches the city. They signal for permission to land.
Tardos Mors: Grant it.
[Dejah turns away from Tardos in disappointment and sadness]
Tardos Mors: And let us prepare ourselves for a wedding.
John Carter: [as the trio arrive the Gates of Iss which looks like a giant umbrella-like rock formation] Professor.
Dejah Thoris: Impossible! I've never seen this kind of structure before.
John Carter: I wanna get a better look.
[suddenly Carter grabs Dejah and leaps to the top of the rock formation]
Dejah Thoris: Carter, your feet!
[the medallion Carter carries lights up blue and as they look down they notice the center of the rock begins to lower and a set of stairs emerges, the stairs lead into a cave where the walls form blue webbed material]
Dejah Thoris: This is not the work of Gods. These are machines. Your medallion.
John Carter: [Carter gives her the medallion and Dejah places it on the glowing spider carving on the cave ground] The spider.
Dejah Thoris: [nine blue glowing rays suddenly appear out of the spider symbol] Nine. Nine rays. Nine! The Ninth Ray is real! It can be harnessed, do you see? This entire structure runs on Ninth Ray isolates. The Iss is such power, and somehow Zodanga has it. The Therns, they must be real. And you, you are John Carter of Earth?
John Carter: Yes, ma'am.
Dejah Thoris: And the ships that sail on the sea, you've seen them?
[Carter nods his head]
Dejah Thoris: That must be a beautiful sight.
John Carter: It truly is.
[as Carter steps on the blue ray light suddenly the set of symbols connects and the solar system appears on the ground]
Dejah Thoris: It's our solar system!
John Carter: [Carter steps on the symbol of Earth and a set of symbols connects the planet to Barsoom] What's it saying?
Dejah Thoris: I'm not sure.
John Carter: Okay. What do you think it says?
Dejah Thoris: It appears to be... a kind of technical diagram. Here is Barsoom, there is Jasoom. This bit here, it's like our symbol for a transcription. A copy, sent along these lines here, between the worlds. Like...
John Carter: A telegram. You're saying I was telegraphed here. I'm a copy of myself.
Dejah Thoris: Possibly. Making these words here, the command for travel.
Dejah Thoris: [referring to the symbols they've just discovered] I don't like guessing. I need more information, I need charts, codices.
[Carter looks at Dejah with suspicion]
John Carter: Right. And where might we find those?
Sola: [as they follow Dejah who is supposed to be taking them to the river Iss] Dotar Sojat. Carter! I do not think she leads us to the Iss.
John Carter: Alright then, Sola. Just play along.
John Carter: [Carter rides his lizard-horse creature closer to Dejah and suddenly grabs her rains] What do you think I'd do once I saw your city and not some river?
Dejah Thoris: What do you mean?
Sola: Cloras Anthorea, they should be at our backs by now. You lead us toward Helium!
Dejah Thoris: Once we reach there, you would see for yourself the virtue of our cause.
Dejah Thoris: Everyone thinks their cause is virtuous, professor.
[suddenly he grabs her stuff and throws her off her lizard-horse creature and he and Sola take off leaving her behind]
Dejah Thoris: What are you doing? No! John Carter! You can't!
Sola: [as they pretend to leave her] I like this plan better.
John Carter: Just wait. She'll come around.
John Carter: [as they are pursued by the Thark tribe, Carter touches Dejah's hand and has flashback to coming home after the war to find his home burned with his wife and his daughter inside]
Sola: Dotar Sojat!
Dejah Thoris: What are you doing?
John Carter: [he jumps off the lizard-horse creature] Sola, get her out of here.
Dejah Thoris: No! Carter!
John Carter: I was too late once. I won't be again.
Dejah Thoris: No! No! No! No!
[Carter tries to force Woola to flee with the women, but Woola remains, as the Thark tribe reach him, Carter leaps in the air and onto the warriors, with each slash of his sword he flashbacks to burying his wife and daughter and placing his wife's wedding ring on his hand, then the Tharks begin to overwhelm him and Carter disappears under a pile of Thark warriors]
Tardos Mors: [In Zodanga the wedding procession is taking place, Dejah walks towards her father] I know that this is not the fate you'd have chosen for yourself, or for Helium. But choice is a luxury, even for a Jeddak of Barsoom. Even if in your heart...
Dejah Thoris: The heart is a luxury.
[Tardos starts walking Dejah down the isle towards Sab Than]
Tardos Mors: Steady.
Matai Shang: [Matai Shang is next to Sab Than as they watch Dejah and her father walk towards them] Remember, she is not the prize. The prize is Barsoom.
John Carter: John Carter of Earth.
[he tosses the medallion over the balcony]
John Carter: Yep. John Carter of Mars sounds much better.
[Carter turns to go back to Dejah, but a guard stops to him to thank him]
Humble Guard: Sire, I must express the deepest of gratitude for saving Helium. Please, the honor is mine.
[suddenly the guard morphs into Matai Shang]
Matai Shang: Fair enough, Earthman. Now it's your move.
[Matai Shang touches Carter, repeats the command phrase and sends Carter back to earth]
Matai Shang: Ah. American.
John Carter: Who are you, sir?
Matai Shang: "Sir." Definitely from the South. The Carolinas? Virginia? It's Virginia, isn't it? Lovely place.
John Carter: Do you know it?
Matai Shang: Not as well as I should. But I will.
Dejah Thoris: Homesick for the Thark nursery?
John Carter: I'm sorry. I couldn't sleep. I had that feeling you get suddenly that... you left a light burning or a door open.
John Carter: Go back to bed. I won't be long.
[she kisses his hand and returns to their room and Carter takes Woola for a walk]
Dejah Thoris: You mad fool! You're not from Earth! There are no Gates of Iss! I only told you what you wanted to hear so you'd get us out! Stop! I can't! I cannot marry him!
John Carter: Can't marry who?
Dejah Thoris: The Zodanga Jeddak you fought. Sab Than. He offered a truce to my father in exchange for my hand.
John Carter: Your father?
Dejah Thoris: Tardos Mors.
Sola: The Jeddak of Helium. She is a princess.
John Carter: A princess of Mars. How about that? A princess who didn't wanna get married, so she ran away.
Dejah Thoris: No.
John Carter: Is that all there is to this story?
Dejah Thoris: No! I didn't run away! I escaped!
John Carter: From what? His breath? So marry the guy and save your people.
Dejah Thoris: A life of oppression, that's not living!
[as she runs to follow them Dejah falls, Carter suddenly turns back and offers to help her up]
Dejah Thoris: If you had the means to save others, would you not take any action possible to make it so?
John Carter: No good will come out of me fightin' your war.
Dejah Thoris: I would lay down my life for Helium. Yes, I ran away. I was... afraid, weak. Maybe I should have married, but I so feared that it would somehow be the end of Barsoom. I tell you truly, John Carter of Earth, there are no Gates of Iss. They are not real.
John Carter: I'm sorry, princess. But this...
John Carter: [he shows her the medallion that brought him to Barsoom]
John Carter: This is real. And so is my cave of gold.
[he offers his hand to Dejah to help her up which she reluctantly takes]
John Carter: I claim the right of challenge!
Tal Hajus: You have no right to challenge! You are not Thark!
Tars Tarkas: He is Thark! He is Dotar Sojat!
Sola: Dotar Sojat! Dotar Sojat! Dotar Sojat!
[the crowd of Tharks start to chanting Dotar Sojat, Tal Hajus leaps towards Carter and as Carter leaps up he kills Tal Hajus in mid-air with his sword]
John Carter: The Jeddak of Zodanga means to quash Helium this very night, and if Helium falls, so does Barsoom. We must throw out the thought of old hatreds. Tharks did not cause this, but by Issus, Tharks will end it! We ride for Zodanga!
Matai Shang: Increased strength and agility. Simple matter of gravitation and anatomy, one we ought to have foreseen.
John Carter: We?
Matai Shang: No apparent increase in intelligence. Still this will not do at all.
[he holds up the medallion that brought Carter to Mars]
Matai Shang: Your kind of Earthmen projecting themselves over here, leaping about, causing all manner of disruption.
John Carter: You're a Thern.
Matai Shang: Therns are a myth.
Tars Tarkas: [subtitled] Watch. Everyone, step back. Show them, Virginia. Jump. Jump!
John Carter: [spits]
Tars Tarkas: By Issus, you will jump tomorrow, Virginia.
John Carter: [sees Woola] Easy. Nice monster dog.
Kantos Kan: Ah, Zodanga, where the men are as limited as the menu and woman are as hard as the beds.
Kantos Kan: My name is Kantos Kan. I serve Princess Dejah.
John Carter: Dejah?
Kantos Kan: Uh-huh. From what she tells me, you can get us over... there.
[he points to Sab Than's palace]
John Carter: She said I could make that?
Kantos Kan: We could always surrender. Is that what you do on Jarsoom?
[John grabs a hold of Kantos and leaps into the air far enough to grab the palace's stone ledge and tumble into Dejah's bridal suite]
Tars Tarkas: My right arms offend me, I will cut them off!


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Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) - In May 2009, then 36-year-old Sterling Heights firefighter Chris Slezak, went to his doctor on a Monday because he felt out of shape and worn out. By that Friday, Slezak, who was active and healthy his entire life, got his first round of chemotherapy for leukemia.
Slezak, whose leukemia is now in remission, said he believes it was caused by 16 years of battling burning, smoke-filled structures.
'I can't prove it, but somewhere down the line I was exposed to something,' he said.
Because he couldn't prove it, Slezak didn't qualify for workers' compensation. That's because Michigan is among about 20 states without a cancer presumption for workers' compensation benefits for firefighters.
Now some Michigan lawmakers are reintroducing a long-standing effort to change that.
Under a bipartisan bill recently approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, skin, brain and kidney cancers would be among the cancers presumed caused by carcinogens firefighters are exposed to in smoke and debris. Firefighters wouldn't qualify for workers' compensation if they were a smoker within 10 years of their diagnosis.
Firefighters now must prove cancer is work-related in order to qualify, which they say is nearly impossible because the illnesses develop over time.
The measure is likely to face a tough battle in the Legislature. Opponents say it will cause insurance premiums to skyrocket, adding crushing costs for communities.
The debate dates back to 1998, when then-Gov. John Engler vetoed similar legislation and asked the Michigan Environmental Science Board to investigate the link between firefighting and cancer. The results of the investigation were mixed, but advocates say plenty of research now supports their argument.
A 2008 study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health showed a moderately elevated risk among firefighters for colon and brain cancer, but found weaker evidence pointing to higher incidences of other cancers. The group is completing another study, which examines a larger population of firefighters over a longer time period, but those results won't be made public until next year.
The measure, which now heads to the Senate floor, has been reintroduced several times over the last 15 years and has consistently received blowback from opponents that say it's a money issue.
'The difficult thing about this issue is it brings communities against firefighters and that's really not the case,' Samantha Harkins, the director of state affairs for the Michigan Municipal League, told the judiciary committee.
Michael Forster, the league's director of Risk Management Services, oversees the workers' compensation program, which covers 2,500 to 3,000 firefighters in the state. He told the committee the bill could more than double workers compensation assessments for local fire departments or raise their costs by an average of about $27,000.
Harkins said the legislation would only further burden cash-strapped communities that have been forced to lay off public safety officers due to plummeting property tax values.
'In the last few years, our members have been told to be more cost-effective, to save money and to be more efficient and now, at the same time, we have legislation that would raise our costs and pass that cost onto taxpayers,' she said.
Mark Docherty, president of the Michigan Professional Fire Fighters Union, which is spearheading the effort, acknowledged that the measure would raise costs. But most of the 33 states that have implemented cancer presumption laws have not seen more than a 1 percent increase in insurance premiums, he said.
'Why do they think Michigan is going to be any different?' he asked.
It's impossible to know how many firefighters would seek coverage. Republican Sen. Tory Rocca of Sterling Heights, who is sponsoring the legislation, said that when the issue was raised last session, it was estimated that it would only apply to about five firefighters every year.
But the cost 'really shouldn't be an issue, given the fact that this is an issue of fairness,' he told the committee.
The Michigan Municipal League suggested that a better solution would be to ask the state to pay for the increased costs or raising the benefit levels in existing disability policies.
While his cancer is in remission, Slezak's treatment resulted in end-stage kidney failure and he now receives dialysis every night. He's no longer working but receives 60 percent of his base pay for non-duty disability. The firefighters in his union are helping cover the cost of his $2,100 monthly insurance premium, he said.
'This is bigger than a money issue,' Slezak said. 'People who go into this profession...they do it with a passion and they do it to help people. It's not about getting rich. This is about taking care of someone who went out and put their life on the line to protect people and now they need assistance,' he said.

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Jean-Michel Cousteau takes an open and intimate look at the life he shared with his father, and the legend he has taken it upon himself to carry. In so doing, he hopes to shed new and meaningful light on the life and work of a man who inspired millions to reconsider our relationship with the sea and its creatures-and, in the process, to understand a little more about himself and his family as well.
"Captain Cousteau was a complicated man," the younger Cousteau writes. "He was a man of many different personalities, many different moods. But this is how it is with all great men, yes? We know the public mask, but it is the private face that reveals a man's true character. It is the man we know when the cameras are not filming."
The book is shot-through with new material and fresh insights into the life and mind of a man who helped to jump-start a global conservation effort that continues to flourish. Jean-Michel Cousteau and his collaborator, New York Times best-selling author Daniel Paisner, offer an intimate reappraisal of the many touchstone moments Jean-Michel shared with his father, as well as the seminal moments from his father's life that have become part of the Cousteau family lore and legend.
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Community Journalism
Each Wednesday at noon, 13 journalism students from UMass Amherst board a bus at the Haigis Mall and set off for The High School of Commerce in Springfield, Mass., an urban school with a 91 percent minority enrollment. They spend the afternoon teaching and mentoring high school students in journalism, the writing process, and the unlimited possibilities that stem from both.
Community Journalism, offered by the UMass Journalism Department and supervised by journalism professor and Commerce alumnus Nicholas McBride, is an initiative to increase college opportunities for students at Commerce. The focus is the integration of UMass and Commerce students, and exposure to reporting and writing. At the end of each year, the class publishes a magazine showcasing Commerce student work.
"This is not a save-the-natives initiative with us posing as saviors," says McBride, "This is a save-ourselves initiative through the sharing of resources and knowledge, a reciprocal exchange of ideas that benefit all concerned."
In the fall of 2008, McBride took his first UMass Amherst community journalism class to Commerce. After coordinating with Brian Duffy, a former student of McBride's and then- assistant principal of Commerce, they launched the project to inspire students to reach beyond the walls of high school.
"We knew we had a mess. There was not enough money, no strong management at the school, and a spike in gangs and violence," recalls McBride.
Ten semesters later, the course has proved to be a valuable experience, for both high school and college students.
Every week, the class arrives at Commerce during the school's "advisory block," a guided free period dedicated to assisting students with particular subjects. Commerce and UMass students mix in small groups to write articles, practice photojournalism, and prepare material for the magazine. Smiles, high fives, and words of encouragement make their way around the room as students put the finishing touches on their work.
"It's a mutual teaching moment for both me and the student, so that's just exciting in itself," says Stephanie Ramírez, a sophomore journalism major at UMass. "You think you're going to help a kid and they really help you in return. It's awesome. This is just fantastic to me."
Jahkeel Jean, known as Shaq, is a senior at Commerce and in his third year with the community journalism class.
"I find it a lot easier to write now. I used to complain about having to write five paragraph essays, but now I run through pages. I think the biggest change is how much I write," he says.
Since the start, McBride has seen the benefits of the class, some unintentional, grow for both Commerce and UMass students.
"There are side benefits for undergrads that I never anticipated," says McBride, "Some have gotten jobs because of this."
As for Commerce students, some have decided to stay with the class throughout all four years of their time in high school.
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This button mold, which makes a single button. belonged to Deacon Phineas Field of Charlemont, Massachusetts. The button mold has a metal half that has the design for the top of the button incised into it. Metal plates incised "P F" are attached to blocks of wood to form the other half of the mold which forms the button's shank. To make a button the mold would be attached together and molten pewter would be poured through the hole. The upside-down button second from the left is how the button looks directly from the mold. The button on the left has had the excess pewter removed from the shank and shows the backwards "P F" mark from the mold. The other buttons show the decorated face.
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By Major General Perry Smith
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This week America, much of Europe, and members of the commonwealth of nations will quietly celebrate the 65th anniversary of VE Day. That was the day -- May 5, 1945 -- when the war in Europe was over. The war in Europe had lasted almost six years, and not even counting the war with Japan, this war had cost more than 50 million lives. As far as the disruption of humanity throughout all of world history, only the Black Death of the 14th century comes close.
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CRKT has been pumping out the Brian Tighe designs hard and fast recently, and for good reason. Each and every model he comes up with is refreshingly different and once you get one in the hand, is hard to put down. The two newest to arrives through the KnifeCenter doors are the Tighe Coon and Tighe Dye folders. They both have flipper mechanisms, gray aluminum handles, button locks, and reasonably deep carry pocket clips. However, apart from these material similarities, they really are quite different designs. The Dye model is a single edged version of an Italian Stiletto, but the handle provides a much more stout feeling for more demanding cutting tasks. The Tighe Coon knife is ultra smooth opening with a slightly recurved drop point blade for better slicing performance. Both knives feature mirror polished AUS-8 blades and are built like tanks. Check out these Tighet new knives at www.knifecenter.com.
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Salem, MA—The Vikings of Salem State University took two from the Beacons of UMass Boston Thursday night in a double header at Alumni Field. Salem State jumps to 16-19-1 with the two wins while the Beacons slip to 12-21.
Francesca Perreault picked up her sixth win (6-5) of the season, throwing a complete game in game one as the Vikings defeated the Beacons 3-2. Kristin McKenzie drove in two while going 3-for-4 in the night game as Salem State cruised to a 7-1 victory.
Gia Raczkowski (Stoneham, Mass.) led the Beacons with four hits in six at-bats and a run batted in. While Jillian Shepherd (Norwood, Mass.) recorded her first career hit and added a run.
Game One: Salem State 3, UMass Boston 2
Salem State led for all but one inning in a 3-2 victory that snapped the Beacons' two-game winning streak.
Jess Raymond drove in the games' first run for Salem State with a triple in the bottom of the first, that brought Jenn Toussaint across the plate.
The Beacons wasted no time in answering Salem State's run as Shepherd tripled, allowing Toni Scola (Worcester, Mass.) to plate her with a groundball to the opposite side of the infield to start the second. Shepherd's triple marked the first hit of her career in 11 career at-bats.
In the third, Rebecca Krigman put the Vikings atop 2-1 with a single that drove in Michelle Flower who singled at the beginning of the inning. Salem State added to their lead in the sixth inning, when Perrault helped herself out with an RBI double that scored Megan Haley.
However, the Beacons cut the deficit to one in the seventh inning after Kaitlyn Morse (Arlington, Mass.) scored on a Gia Raczkowski (Stoneham, Mass.) two-out single. Despite the Beacons late efforts, Perrault closed out the Beacons in the final inning to secure the 3-2 win in game one.
Michelle Zullo (Everett, Mass.) went six innings for UMass as she allowed three runs on 10 hits in her loss. Perrault finished allowing only two runs on four hits including four strikeouts.
Game Two: Salem State 7, UMass Boston 1
McKenzie got the start behind the plate in game two, as she called the game for Lauren DeCredico. It was a McKenzie single that gave Salem State an early 2-0 lead in the first after she knocked in Cara Crowley and Krigman. Flower tacked onto the Vikings' lead with an RBI double that brought in Jerika Santiago in the bottom of the second to make it 3-0.
The in the fourth, the Beacons got one back after Kristina Bove (Medford, Mass.) doubled, scoring Scola to put the score at 3-1.
Crowley added to the Vikings' hit parade with another RBI double that scored DiCredico, putting Salem State ahead 4-1 after the fourth.
DiCredico retired the side in the top of the fifth as the Vikings batters went on to add more padding to their lead, busting open three runs on three hits.
During that stretch, Santiago drove in one run on a single while DiCredico plated one with a triple and then pushed Salem States' lead to 7-1 after coming home on a wild pitch. DiCredico wrapped up the game as she allowed only two more hits during the rest of the way, going on to earn her sixth win (6-8).
Shepherd drew the loss as she went 6.0 innings and allowed seven runs off nine hits. Raczkowski went 2-for-3 for UMass but it was not enough as the Beacons ended up getting swept on the day.
DiCredico also finished going 2-for-3 and drove in two runs as well as picking up the win on the mound.
The Beacons travel to Western Connecticut State Friday to take on the Colonials in a Little East Conference doubleheader beginning at 4:30 p.m.
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TORONTO — In 1923, the Hebrew Maternity and Convalescent Hospital, later renamed Mount Sinai Hospital, opened its doors on Yorkville Avenue with 33 beds.
Coming full circle, the hospital, now a 472-bed academic health science centre on University Avenue, recently opened the new David and Stacey Cynamon Mother and Baby Unit, an expansion of the Frances Bloomberg Centre for Women's and Infants' Health. The expansion is part of the six newly built floors on the Murray Street side of the hospital.
Within two years, as part of the development project, the program will be expanded to include an enhanced neonatal intensive care unit, five new operating rooms, and labour and delivery rooms that are bigger and better equipped to deliver babies of high-risk mothers.
Joseph Mapa, president and CEO of Mount Sinai, said in a telephone interview that he "can't help but note the irony that the hospital began as a maternity hospital, and is now starting to rebuild with a women's health centre."
The design of the new unit includes decentralized care stations, which allow clinicians to be closer to their patients at all times; medicine cabinets in each room, which make it easier for nurses to tend to patients in a more timely manner; more private rooms, which help to reduce cross-contamination, and comfortable chairs for breastfeeding, which also double as recliners for overnight support partners.
"For Mount Sinai [this expansion] is monumental. [The hospital] is entering a historic new era," Mapa said.
"We are re-imaging the footprint of the entire hospital to further strengthen our commitment to delivering excellence in patient and family-centred care and clinical outcomes."


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Ten Best Dollar Store Deals
A TRUE dollar store sells everything for a dollar. In our area (TN) the Dollar Tree sells everything for a dollar where as the Dollar General has regular prices. For example: reading glasses or sunglasses are $1 at Dollar Tree and $8 to $12 at Dollar General.
I don't suggest you buy scissors at a dollar store but you should be shopping there for 50% saving on many basics (pens, paper, paper towels, gift wrap, cleaning supplies, baby items, shampoo, etc).
Dollar stores get some inventory from product lines created just for discount stores. The other inventory are remnants from wholesalers, keeping prices super low.
- Snacks – We always stop at the dollar store on the way to the movies. Chips, crackers, and candy are generally about 50 percent less than grocery stores. About 300% less than the movie theater.
- Containers -The exact same 3 drawer plastic shelves I got for homeschool workboxes were $7 at the dollar store and $9 at Walmart. You can save up to 70% on plastic bins, fabric-lined baskets, food storage and glass jars and bottles.
- Children's Books -Many Dollar stores have Bible story books and coloring books. I know someone who buys books at the dollar store to resell on Ebay for several dollars each.
- School Supplies – Save on paper, pencils, binders, pocket folders, textbook covers and organizers. Lapbook? You can get 12 folders for $1.
- Cleaning Products -Most dollar stores carry brand-name and off-brand cleaning products 60 – 70 % less than the grocery store.
- Gift Wrap – Gift bags, wrap, ribbons, bows and packaging are a at a fraction of the cost and the same quality as Walmart.
- Scrapbooking Supplies– Save 50% or more on scrapbooking packages, binders, stickers and paper over crafts stores. And on storage containers.
- Kitchen Tools – I wouldn't buy a paring knife at the dollar store but I got my potato masher and wooden spoons there. Big spoons, everyday serving utensils, spatulas, timers, measuring cups and spoons, are usually $1 each. Disposable items like plastic zipper and storage bags, paper towels, paper plates are also very reasonable.
- Baby Items -Dollar stores have every thing you need to put together an affordable baby shower basket. Rattles, bottles, bibs, receiving blankets, tiny barrettes, baby Tshirts, etc.
- Beauty Needs. – Don't pay drugstore prices (or horror of horrors department store prices) for shampoo, conditioner, soap, toothpaste, deodorant, and shampoo. and body lotion. Consumer reports show shampoo and moisturizes work at $1 or $10.
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Olive Oil Muffins
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons orange zest
- 2 teaspoons lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 2 tablespoons whole milk
- 3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 2/3 cup sliced almonds, toasted
- Powdered sugar, for sifting
Servings 12
Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 35mins
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Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place paper liners in a 12-cup muffin tin.
Blend together the flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl to blend. Using an electric mixer beat the sugar, eggs, and zests in a large bowl until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in the vinegar and milk. Gradually beat in the oil. Add the flour mixture and stir just until blended. Crush the almonds with your hands as you add them to the batter and stir until mixed. Fill the muffin tin almost to the top of the paper liners. Bake until golden on top and a tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and cool for 10 minutes. Remove the muffins onto a platter and let cool for 5 more minutes. Sift powdered sugar over the muffins and serve.
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First of all...I finished both hearts. The red heart got framed and is already with its new owner. I stitched it for my dear Father in Law who was very happy with it. He plans to hang it up next to his bed.
The heart is displayed in the window of my local needlework shop until it's ready to be shipped to the Donna to be part of the "Stitching for a Cure" Cancer project. I will send it to her soon as I have finished an angel tree topper for the very same project. Miss Millie (the owner of our local shop) was most happy to be able to display it until then. :)
Both hearts are stitched in honor of my Father in law, who is not only one of the most lovely persons one can think of, but who suffers from Cancer. Dad fell in love with this design when he saw me stitching the ornament and chose the color for his heart himself.
Stitched over one on 25ct white Lugana
with Threadworx "Shortcake"
Stitched over one on 25ct white Lugana
with Threadworx "Bleeding Heart"
The most difficult thing is to award others for an award. OR an award has had already such a travel that it's hard to find persons who hadn't had it....OR...there are SO many blogs to choose from. It's not an easy task. But never the less ...I nominated the following twp people for having "lovely blogs" which I love to read.
And then there are 2 "sorta" finishes. I call them finishes because for these bigger projects finishing a page is for me a mile stone.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande toured Thomas Jefferson's plantation estate on Monday in a show of solidarity for Franco-American ties that have endured for more than two centuries despite the occasional tempest.
The visit to Monticello, home to America's third president, served to showcase a relationship that stretches back to the founding of the United States in the late 18th century, an alliance still strong despite spats over U.S. eavesdropping and trade talks with the European Union.
Hollande, 59, who split from his partner, Valerie Trierweiler, last month after an affair with an actress, arrived solo for the first state visit hosted by Obama since he won a second term in 2012.
The two leaders will get down to business on Tuesday with White House talks, covering topics such as Iran, Syria, restive North Africa and trade, followed by a joint news conference. A Tuesday evening state dinner features aged rib-eye beef and American wine and a musical performance by Mary J. Blige.
Monday was all about symbolism. Obama met Hollande at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington shortly after the French leader arrived from Paris, and together they flew aboard Air Force One to Charlottesville.
At Monticello, they toured the unique home designed by Jefferson, including its distinctive crowning portico and the Cabinet room Jefferson used for writing, architectural drafting and scientific observation. They saw the basement kitchen equipped with utensils he brought back from Paris after serving as U.S. ambassador to France.
"Thomas Jefferson represents what's best in America, but as we see as we travel through his home, what he also represents is the incredible bond and the incredible gifts that France gave to the United States, because he was a Francophile through and through," Obama told reporters.
He said the house also represents the complicated history of the United States since "slaves helped to build this magnificent structure.
"It's a reminder for both of us that we are in a continuous fight on behalf of the rights of all peoples," Obama said.
Hollande noted the significant role played by a French general, the Marquis de Lafayette, in helping George Washington defeat the British colonial power.
"We were allies in the time of Jefferson and Lafayette. We are still allies today. We were friends at the time of Jefferson and Lafayette and will remain friends forever," he said.
Today's collaboration is a far cry from the strains of a decade ago, when France refused to join the Iraq war. But France also has made known its unhappiness over National Security Agency spying practices. Hollande told Time magazine that the agency's tactics "should never have existed" and had caused "a difficult moment, not just between France and the United States but also between Europe and the United States."
Washington's relations with the European Union have also been ruffled by a U.S. diplomat's secretly recorded expletive to disparage the EU's handling of the political crisis in Ukraine.
The United States and France have cooperated in diplomacy on Syria and Iran, but do not always agree on economic issues, such as a U.S.-EU trade deal on which negotiations began in July.
France set several preconditions before allowing the talks to start, insisting that the audio-visual sector, including cinema and books, be excluded from discussions.
French tax authorities have also put U.S. Internet giant Google under audit about accounting procedures that channel sales through Ireland. Google rejects suggestions that this is an attempt at tax-dodging.
Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton; Writing by Steve Holland; Editing by Dan Grebler


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CAIRO — Anger is spreading in Egypt over the latest example of police brutality and torture in one of the strongest US allies in the Middle East.
Egyptian businessman Khalid Said died during what witnesses say was a brutal public beating by police officers on June 6 in Alexandria. His death has ignited protests in Cairo and Alexandria and demands for justice have spread like wildfire on blogs and social networking sites.
But the furor over Mr. Said's death is not an indication that his case is unique. Rights groups say that while awareness has grown in recent years, police brutality and torture continues to be widespread in Egypt, where an emergency law that grants wide powers to security forces has been in place for nearly three decades. Except for a handful of cases, police have rarely been held accountable.
The US has said it would like Egypt to improve its human rights record, but so far, the Obama Administration has not indicated that failure to make significant progress would affect US military and economic aid.
Aida Seif El Dawla, head of the El Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence, says Said's case is "flagrant," but not unusual. Dr. Dawla says that the number of torture and brutality cases documented by the Nadim Center has risen in the past few years.
"People are getting angrier, and this is the only thing that maintains the stability of the regime," she says. "Stories like this are meant to terrorize the victims and the people around the victims. And this is how the regime is ruling – by terror."
Said was reportedly targeted because he intended to make public a video that allegedly shows police officers dividing the spoils of a drug bust. Graphic pictures of the injuries that killed Said, coupled with the public nature of his beating death and the fact that he was an affable, middle-class man, have propelled his tragic case to prominence, largely through posts on social-networking sites and blogs.
Egypt is investigating the death, and the prosecutor general Tuesday ordered a new autopsy of Said, supervised by independent forensic experts, in response to the local and international uproar over the killing. The government's first official autopsy report claimed that Said died from asphyxiation after swallowing a plastic bag of narcotics when he was approached by police. Said's family and witnesses at the Internet cafe where police apprehended him tell a different story, saying police began the abuse in the cafe, then dragged him outside, where they beat him to death.
A battered young man
Gruesome photos of Said, reportedly taken in the morgue and circulated on websites and blogs, support their story. They show his face broken and battered, and bruises on his body.
New media has played an increasing role in recent years in publicizing cases of torture and police brutality, as in the torture and sexual abuse of Emad El Kabeer by police officers in 2006, which was revealed when blogger Wael Abbas posted a video of the abuse online. Mr. Kabeer, a minibus driver, was sexually assaulted and whipped for hours at a police station. He was later sentenced to three months in jail for resisting arrest.
"Thanks to the Internet and bloggers, these kinds of cases become public very quickly," says Moatez El Fegiery, executive director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. That increased awareness has led more people to speak out in the issue, says blogger and activist Hossam El Hamalawy. He says the presence of visual evidence – such as the video of Mr. Kabeer or the graphic photos of Said – are the catalysts that draw attention to certain cases while myriad others pass without note.
"In the past few years, this issue of police torture has been highlighted in a way that was not highlighted before," he says. "When people now get tortured, they speak about it. The public perception of what's to be done about police torture is changing."
What is not changing, according to rights groups, is the rate of torture, or the culture of impunity that surrounds the violence. Dawla says she can count on her fingers the number of cases in which police were brought to justice for committing torture in the past five years. Meanwhile, hundreds of victims continue to pour into Al Nadim for treatment while the police officers who abused them are still on duty – and those are only "the tip of the iceberg," she says.
Some blame the long-standing emergency law for creating the environment in which torture and brutality thrives, and protesters have called Said the "martyr of the emergency law." Under the law, which was implemented after the assassination of former President Anwar Sadat in 1981, police can detain people indefinitely without charge.
The "emergency law facilitates this impunity," says Mr. Fegiery. He says police use torture variously to extract confessions or to exact revenge. "But the main reason of the impunity is lack of judicial independence." The prosecutor general, through whom all cases must be brought, "is not eager to investigate" police officers, he says.
It is usually only the cases that hit the Internet that result in prosecution. Two police officers were convicted in the Kabeer case, but one has since returned to duty after serving only part of a three-year sentence. Last year a police officer was sentenced to five years in prison for torturing a mentally handicapped man in Alexandria in a case that received much publicity.
In addition to inciting demonstrations in Egypt, where security forces detained and beat protesters, Said's case has attracted international attention. Amnesty International on Tuesday urged Egypt to protect the witnesses of Said's death and his family, and to suspend the officers involved until an investigation is completed. The officers are still on duty.
A US embassy official Wednesday said the US has urged Egyptian authorities to conduct a transparent investigation "in a manner consistent with the serious allegations that have been made," and hold accountable those responsible for Said's death.
"The Government of Egypt last week supported a UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review recommendation that it investigate police abuse allegations effectively and independently to prosecute offenders," said the official in a statement. "We believe this case is an opportunity to immediately demonstrate this commitment."
Many human rights activists were hopeful Wednesday that the publicity around Said's case would lead to a prosecution, but said it was unlikely to make a difference in the larger problem of ongoing police brutality.


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Google has changed its logo for the past few days to display a series of images, each linked together to form a heartwarming Christmas story:
I think its really cool that Google would spend time to do a simple change like this to reflect the festive season.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!


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The 2013 KSP World Championship will kick off this week at Ho'okipa Beach Park on Maui. The Cabrinha Kite Surf Pro will see the world's top male and female kitesurfers compete for the prestigious world championship title from November 22 to December 1, 2013.
"Ho'okipa is just the perfect location for this KSP event – we are looking forward to having the best of the best compete in this famous venue", says KSP Tour Manager Nicholas Thiede.
The Cabrinha Kite Surf Pro 2013 will start off with a qualification round, leading up to the highlight of the event – the Kite Surf World Championships. During the contest, side events will create additional action: the legends heat, featuring long term Maui kite heroes, an Xensr measured Big Air contest and the local 'Kama'aina Throw Down' competition.
The following riders are pre-registered:
Main Event Pre-Qualfied Riders
Jalou Langeree
Ines Correia
Milla Ferreira
Kristin Boese
Kalia Agueira
Moona Whyte
Suzanne Kuiper
Isa Cohen
Erika Lindberg
Keahi DeAboitiz
Mitu Monteiro
Airton Cozzolino
Patri McLaughlin
Sebastian Ribeiro
Filippe Ferreira
Etienne Lhote
Pedro Henrique
Matchu Lopes Almeida
Jose Silva
Ralph Boellen
Paulino Pereira
Sergey Mysovskiy
Sky Solbach
Johnny Berger
Matthew Elsasser
Enrico Giordano
Carol Bolstad
Raquel Lima
Skylar Lickle
Bastien Bollard
Chris Armitage
Collin François
Cruser Putnam
Damien Girardin
Devin Moody
Evan Netsch
Fabricio Negri
Francesco Maffei
Franciso Porcella
Jérémy Lentz
Jesse Richman
Jon McCabe
Kai Lenny
Leonardo Loro
Niccolo Porchela
Olivier Sautet
Patrick Rebstock
Shawn Richman
Teddy Lyons
Tiago Candelot
Titi Hamada
Top Hat
Wes Anderson
Yuri D'Ottavi
Kama'aina Throw Down
Kara Parker
Michelle Crompton
Raquel Lima
Samantha Campbell
Tatiana Howard
Brett Lickle
Brian Hankins
Charles Edwards
Dan Elkayam
Ed Elsasser
Eric Stroeve
Hiro Nakajima
Jon McCabe
Kevin Collins
Klaus Simmer
Rafal, Maleszyk
Steve Sadler
Todd Davis
Tomas Aguirre
Ulli Walger
Wes Anderson
William King
Xensr Big Air Invitational
Jalou Langeree
Natasha Gronski
Raquel Lima
Skylar Lickle
Charles Edwards,
Cruser Putnam
Derek Quale
Flash Austin
Jesse Richman
Max Bo
Niccolo Porchella
Patri McLaughlin
Ryan Toaspern
Shawn Richman
Sky Solbach
Steve Sadler
Legends Heat: kiteboardings original heroes
The Opening and Registration Party will take place at Second Wind Maui TONIGHT at 6pm.
The Cabrinha Kite Surf Pro is supported by the County Of Maui, ION, Xensr, HEVN, MSP, Hotel Wailea, Bluesmiths Clothing, Tramontana Grafixx, FinallyPainFree.com, Adventure Sports Maui, Courtyard Marriott, Second Wind Maui, Maui Beach Hotel, Wholefoods Maui, MKC, Bob's Dogs of Maui, Boardriding Maui, Mana Foods and Kitefinder.
Tune in to www.kspworldtour.com/live for the KSP World Championship Tour Finals at Ho'okipa Beach in Maui, HI, starting TOMORROW (November 22 – December 1, 2013).


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Azure provides global scale cloud computing running in Microsoft Datacenters in over 40 regions. Azure Stack extends the value of Azure to a wider range of customers and scenarios by making a core set of services available to run on integrated systems running in customer's or service provider datacenters. Many companies and service providers are evaluating Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK) to learn more. Many of these companies are going beyond evaluation and thinking through strategy, design, and implementation of a hybrid cloud for modern apps and on-premises cloud services. Business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) planning is an important part of a comprehensive strategy.
Have you downloaded and installed ASDK? Download it now.
Business continuity and disaster recovery planning are closely related processes that a company uses to prepare for unforeseen risks. In this post, we'll go through the protection objectives for different application types and recovery objectives so you can think about solutions that meet your business needs. These objectives will have a direct impact on the BC/DR strategy that you choose.
Azure Stack BC/DR Areas
There are four main areas to consider for a BC/DR strategy:
- Protect the underlying infrastructure that hosts IaaS virtual machines, PaaS services, and tenant applications and data.
- Protect IaaS-based applications and data.
- Protect PaaS-based applications and data.
- Archive PaaS data for long-term retention.
This blog focuses on the second point: protecting IaaS virtual machine-based applications and data using Microsoft and partner products for backup and restore, and replication and failover. The Azure Stack team is engaged with multiple partners to ensure that their third-party solutions work on Azure Stack. Expect additional blog posts covering the other three areas in the near future.
Backup and restore IaaS virtual machine-based applications
Azure Stack supports Windows- and Linux-based applications deployed on virtual machines that are provisioned as IaaS Azure Resource Manager virtual machines. Backup products with access to the guest operating system (OS) can easily protect file, folder, OS state, and application data using similar policies you use today for near-line and long-term retention. You have the flexibility to use Microsoft products like Azure Backup and System Center Data Center Protection Manager, and third-party products to back up data on-premises, to a service provider, or directly to Azure. This approach gives you the flexibility of choice for protecting your applications and data using products you are familiar with and trust.
Replication and failover for IaaS virtual machine-based applications
Applications that require minimal downtime and minimal data loss need additional protection. Backup and restore is ideal for customers that can tolerate application downtime for an extended period. However, to achieve minimal downtime, you need to replicate data to a secondary location and orchestrate failover of the application in the event of a disaster. With Azure Stack, you have the flexibility to use Azure Site Recovery to replicate data directly to Azure and failover your application to run in Azure, this feature is currently available in technical preview. Applications deployed on Azure Stack that support native replication, like Microsoft SQL, can replicate data to another location where the application is running. You can also use third-party replication and orchestration products to failover applications to another location. Like backup and restore, this approach gives you the flexibility and choice for protecting your applications and data.
Azure Stack partners and deployment scenarios
Additional information from our partners
|Actifio Sky
|Press Release
|Actifio Rings in 2018 with Accelerated Partner Program Momentum
Actifio Accelerates Hybrid Cloud with Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack
|General information
|Actifio Sky for Azure Stack
|Additional resources
|Actifio in Azure Marketplace
|Press releases
|Commvault data protection for Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack
|General information
|New features in Azure driving the digital transformation to the cloud
Microsoft Azure Data Management
|Overview - Virtual Server Agent for Microsoft Azure Stack
|Additional resources
|Commvault in Azure Marketplace
|NetBackup v7.7.x – v8.1.1
|Press release
|How Veritas Protects Microsoft Azure Stack, the Modern Enterprise Way
|General information
|Microsoft Azure Cloud Management
Veritas NetBackup and Cloud Integration
NetBackup in Azure Marketplace
|Reference architecture
|Modernizing Data Center backup with Veritas and Azure
HPE Reference Architecture for HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack data protection with Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Cloud Bank Storage
|Technical documentation
Veritas provides support for NetBackup 7.7.x and 8.x within a virtual environment
|Additional resources
Visit NetBackup SORT page for links to software, checklists and documentation
Important considerations for general availability
- In-guest protection—Azure Stack only supports protection technologies at the guest level of an IaaS virtual machine. Azure Stack does not support installing agents on underlying infrastructure servers and does not rely on hypervisor-based technologies.
- Azure Site Recovery—Upon general availability of Azure Stack, the Azure Site Recovery technical preview will support failover to Azure, and test failover in Azure. To failback from Azure to Azure Stack, you will need to shut down the IaaS virtual machines, manually copy the data to your Azure Stack instance, and then recreate the IaaS virtual machine. At that point, you can enable protection for the IaaS virtual machine as a new instance.
- Site to site protection—Protecting IaaS VM resources across two Azure Stack clouds is supported using the Azure Backup Server or a third-party product from one of our partners.
Recovering from a catastrophic data loss
Your BC/DR planning must prepare your company to recover from a disaster that permanently takes your entire Azure Stack cloud offline and results in complete and unrecoverable data loss. Deploying your Azure Stack cloud will require you to engage your hardware vendor. If you have a secondary site, consider deploying an Azure Stack instance there, which will allow you to recover tenant applications and data without having to wait for a new cloud to be deployed.
Next steps
Download and install ASDK today and get familiar with hosting your applications in a hybrid cloud. As you gain insight into the applications that you plan to deploy into Azure Stack, think through the recovery objectives for your applications. Identify the different protection schemes that make sense, and consider the technologies and products that will help you achieve these objectives.
Reach out to your vendor to discuss how they will support BC/DR scenarios on Azure Stack. Start testing application and data protection on ASDK. As we get closer to general availability, you will see updated documentation about Azure Stack. If you want to talk to the Azure Stack product group about BC/DR, fill out this surveyso we can reach out to you.
More information
Attending Microsoft Ignite this year in Orlando? Check out these two sessions for information about Azure Stack BC/DR:
- Microsoft Azure Stack business continuity and disaster recovery
- Recovering Azure Stack infrastructure from a catastrophic data loss
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CJ Hatt
Playing this Friday 28th December: CJ HATT
Join our #FridayNightLive music sessions every Friday from 10pm right here at The Water's Edge in Newark! Enjoy free live music from some of the best bands and artists in the East Midlands playing music you love from the 60s to today.
Don't forget, we also offer 2 for £10 on selected cocktails throughout the evening, so there's no excuse not to join the party


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Favorite Five dec 17
- The accommodations were in the right order, too, the first being 5 star (omg), then we were eased into more rustic lodgings, but all wonderful in their right.
- What will I remember? The beautiful temples and palaces, and the so gracious and welcoming people.
- This was a trip of a life time. I was so overwhelmed at times that I actually cried. Yes, tears of joy and the beauty around me. The guides were incredible.
- Please accept our upmost appreciation for the attention to detail in planning our African safari to celebrate our wedding anniversary. It was flawless.


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A guy and a girl are lying in a dorm-room bed after just having sex. The guy lies on his side of the bed and rests. The girl rolls to her side of the bed and says to herself, "I finally did it! I'm no longer a virgin."
The guy overhears her talking to herself and asks, "Are you saying you lost your virginity to me?"
"Well," the girl explains, "I always wanted to wait until I was with the man I love to lose my virginity."
Astounded, the guy replies, "So you really love me?"
"Oh God no!" the girl says. "I just got sick of waiting."


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Daktronics All-Southeast Region Team was recently announced and senior Dani Gallucci (Orlando, Fla.) of the Georgia College softball team (37-17) was named to the second team.
It marks the first all-region honor for Gallucci, who was also named first team All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC). She finished in the top-15 in the PBC in appearances, complete games, wins, earned runs and strikeouts.
Gallucci pitched in in 29 games for the Bobcats, starting 24. She threw 167 2/3 innings while maintaining a 1.96 ERA and striking out 113. She went the distance 19 times and only walked 32 batters.
She also led the team with five home runs and was tied for second with 27 RBI, while appearing in all but four of the 54 games.
Gallucci helped the Bobcats to the PBC championship game and their first NCAA Regional Tournament appearance since 2009; they finished the year one game short of the championship round.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Arts & Culture
Immoderation: On Sharing an IdolBy Lesley M.M. Blume
Last year, I was given the birthday gift of a lifetime: I got to spend the occasion with Diana Vreeland. A friend, who has long been close with the Vreeland family, took me on a weeklong pilgrimage to the Marrakech home of one of Vreeland's sons. Our hosts, aware of my longstanding obsession with Diana, settled me into what is alternately known as the "D.V. Room" and the "T.V. Room," for it boasted a rather ancient television set that looked like it might electrocute anyone who dared near it. Above it hung the splendid William Acton portrait of Vreeland that graced the first edition of her memoir, D.V. (edited, incidentally, with gusto by Paris Review cofounder George Plimpton). The painting lovingly depicted her trademark red talons, lacquer-black hair, and the leather thong sandals she claimed to have had recreated from those donned by a slave perfectly preserved (in coitus, no less) by the ashes of Vesuvius. For Vreeland, inspiration came from the most unlikely of sources.
The local souk held countless wonders for the other houseguests, but the sprawling, glamorously disheveled Vreeland house engrossed me far more. The D.V. imprint was everywhere. First of all, nothing quite made sense—at least to the orderly, pedestrian mind. You had to resign yourself to wandering the labyrinth and surrendering to the various unexpected delights along the way, such as a turret room festooned entirely with leopard print, or a dark hidden library, filled with hundreds of Vreeland's books, many (if not most) of which had been inscribed to her by their authors. In yet another room stood one of her famed Louis Vuitton traveling trunks, her initials D.D.V. emblazoned in imperial red ink on one side. One evening, after too many bottles of Moroccan wine, our party took a vote and elected to open it up. The candles in the room blew out as we lifted the lid. Vreeland was clearly present—and making it known that she could only tolerate so much reverential curiosity.


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reporter gene
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Legal, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Related to reporter gene: Marker gene
reporter gene, reporter
A gene whose products are easily detected or measured. In biochemical research it is linked to a gene of interest and used to signal to researchers that the gene has been successfully inserted into a cell or chromosome.
reporter genea test GENE with a coding region whose PHENOTYPE can be easily detected. Ideally it should be possible to assay the phenotype quantitatively. The reporter gene may be fused immediately DOWNSTREAM of a regulatory region so that its expression (see GENE EXPRESSION is under the influence of that region. The extent and pattern of expression of the reporter gene construct, determined by assay of phenotype, can be used to analyse gene regulation.
the unit of heredity most simply defined as a specific segment of DNA, usually in the order of 1000 nucleotides, that specifies a single polypeptide. Many phenotypic characteristics are determined by a single gene, while others are multigenic. Genes are specifically located in linear order along the single DNA molecule that makes up each chromosome. All eukaryotic cells contain a diploid (2n) set of chromosomes so that two copies of each gene, one derived from each parent, are present in each cell; the two copies often specify a different phenotype, i.e. the polypeptide will have a somewhat different amino acid composition. These alternative forms of gene, both within and between individuals, are called alleles. Genes determine the physical (structural genes), the biochemical (enzymes), physiological and behavioral characteristics of an animal.
The formation of gametes (sperm, ova) involves a process of meiosis, which allows crossing over between four pairs of chromosomes, two derived from each parent, which means that new forms of a particular chromosome are created. Gamete formation also results in cells (gametes) with a haploid (n) set of chromosomes that in fertilization creates a new individual, which is a recombinant of 2n chromosomes, half derived by way of the ovum from the mother and half via the spermatozoa from the father.
Changes in the nucleotide sequence of a gene, either by substitution of a different nucleotide or by deletion or insertion of other nucleotides, constitute mutations which add to the diversity of animal species by creating different alleles and can be used as a basis for genetic selection of different phenotypes. Some mutations, be they a single base change in a single gene or a major deletion, are lethal.
gene action
the way in which genes exert their effects on tissues or processes, e.g. by being dominant or recessive, or partially so, being absent, being sex-linked, being involved in chromosomal aberrations.
allelic g's
different forms of a particular gene usually situated at the same position (locus) in a pair of chromosomes.
gene amplification
see gene duplication (below).
gene bank
the collection of DNA sequences in a given genome. Called also gene library.
barring gene
responsible for the barred pattern on the feathers of Barred Plymouth Rock birds.
gene box
see box (4).
gene clone
see clone.
gene cluster
a group of related genes derived from a common ancestral gene, located closely together on the same chromosome. Called also multigene family.
complementary g's
two independent pairs of nonallelic genes, neither of which is functional without the other.
gene conversion
a non-reciprocal exchange of DNA elements during meiosis which results in a functional rearrangement of chromosomal DNA.
dhfr gene
dihydrofolate reductase gene; an enzyme required to maintain cellular concentrations of H2 folate for nucleotide biosynthesis, and which has been used as a 'selective marker'; cells lacking the enzyme only survive in media containing thymidine, glycine and purines; mutant cells (dhfr) transfected with DNA that is dhfr′ can be selectively grown in medium lacking these elements.
diversity (D) gene
genes located in diversity (D) segment; contribute to the hypervariable region of immunoglobulins.
dominant gene
one that produces an effect (the phenotype) in the organism regardless of the state of the corresponding allele. Examples of traits determined by dominant genes are short hair in cats and black coat color in dogs.
gene duplication
as a result of non-homologous recombination, a chromosome carries two or more copies of a gene.
gene expression
see expression (3).
gene frequency
the proportion of the substances or animals in the group which carry a particular gene.
holandric g's
genes located on the Y chromosome and appearing only in male offspring.
immune response (Ir) g's
genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) that govern the immune response to individual immunogens.
jumping gene
see mobile dna.
gene knockout
replacement of a normal gene with a mutant allele, as in gene knockout mice.
lethal gene
one whose presence brings about the death of the organism or permits survival only under certain conditions.
gene library
see gene bank (above).
gene locus
see locus.
mutant gene
one that has undergone a detectable mutation.
non-protein encoding gene
the final products of some genes are RNA molecules rather than proteins.
overlapping g's
when more than one mRNA is transcribed from the same DNA sequence; the mRNAs may be in the same reading frame but of different size or they may be in different reading frames.
gene pool
total of all genes possessed by all members of the population which are capable of reproducing during their lifetime.
gene probe
see probe (2).
recessive gene
one that produces an effect in the organism only when it is transmitted by both parents, i.e. only when the individual is homozygous.
regulator gene, repressor gene
one that synthesizes repressor, a substance which, through interaction with the operator gene, switches off the activity of the structural genes associated with it in the operon.
reporter gene
one that produces products which can be measured and therefore used as an indicator of whether a DNA construct has successfully been transferred.
sex-linked gene
one that is carried on a sex chromosome, especially an X chromosome.
gene splicing
see splicing.
structural gene
nucleotide sequences coding for proteins.
gene therapy
the insertion of functional genes into cells of the host in order to alter its phenotype, usually used to treat an inherited defect.
gene transcription
see transcription.
gene transfer
see recombination.
tumor suppressor g's
a class of genes that encode proteins that normally suppress cell division that when mutated allow cells to continue unrestricted cell division and may result in a tumor.


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BitLocker Disk Encryption
BitLocker Disk Encryption (BDE) is Full Volume Encryption solution by Microsoft first included with the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista. It is also present in Windows 7 along with a system for encrypting removable storage media devices, like USB, which is called BitLocker To Go. Unlike previous versions of BitLocker, BitLocker To Go allows the user to protect volumes with a password or smart card.
Volumes encrypted with BitLocker will have a different signature than the standard NTFS header. Instead, they have in their volume header (first sector): 2D 46 56 45 2D 46 53 2D or, in ASCII, -FVE-FS-.
These volumes can be identified by the BitLocker GUID/UUID: 4967d63b-2e29-4ad8-8399-f6a339e3d00.
The actual data on the encrypted volume is protected with either 128-bit or 256-bit AES and optionally diffused using an algorithm called Elephant. The key used to do the encryption, the Full Volume Encryption Key (FVEK) and/or TWEAK key, is stored in the BitLocker metadata on the protected volume. The FVEK and/or TWEAK keys are encrypted using another key, namely the Volume Master Key (VMK). Several copies of the VMK are also stored in the metadata. Each copy of the VMK is encrypted using another key, also know as key-protector key. Some of the key-protectors are:
- TPM (Trusted Platform Module)
- Smart card
- recovery password
- start-up key
- clear key; this key-protector provides no protection
- user password
BitLocker has support for partial encrypted volumes.
BitLocker To Go
Volumes encrypted with BitLocker To Go will have a hybrid encrypted volume, meaning that part of the volume is unencrypted and contains applications to unlock the volume and the other part of the volume is encrypted. The "discovery drive" volume contains BitLocker To Go Reader to read from encrypted volumes on versions of Microsoft Windows without BitLocker support.
To view the BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) status on a running Windows system:
manage-bde.exe -status
To obtain the recovery password for volume C:
manage-bde.exe -protectors -get C: -Type recoverypassword
Or just obtain the all "protectors" for volume C:
manage-bde.exe -protectors -get C:
See Also
External Links
- NVbit : Accessing Bitlocker volumes from linux, 2008
- Jesse D. Kornblum, Implementing BitLocker for Forensic Analysis, Digital Investigation, 2009
- Wikipedia entry on BitLocker
- Microsoft's Step by Step Guide
- Microsoft Technical Overview
- An Introduction to Security in Windows 7
- Microsoft FAQ
- Microsoft Description of the Encryption Algorithm
- Cold Boot Attacks, Full Disk Encryption, and BitLocker
- Project to read BitLocker encrypted volumes
- What's New in BitLocker in Windows 8


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YARMOUTH, Maine—The concept of access control is simple — to allow or restrict people, animals or things from gaining access to a particular space.
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Convergint Technologies recently announced the acquisition of New Jersey-based Access Control Technologies (ACT), adding approximately 1,000 customers and bringing greater expertise and depth to the Eastern region of the U.S.
Security-Net, a group of independent integrators that work together as a "global provider of integration services", formally announced that Joe Liguori will take over the role of president of Security-Net's board of directors in January.
Ligouri , who is also EVP of Access Control Technologies, in Clinton, N.J., will serve a two-year term and takes over for outgoing president Tom Asp. Asp is also president and CEO of VTI Security in Burnsville, Minn.
I spoke to Joe Ligouri just before ISC West last March.
During that interview, he told me about how Security-Net's companies had been working on a plan to take on national accounts, and about their efforts to coordinate from a sales, technical and fulfillment perspective.
The group, which acts as a single national integrator, has obtained national account status with some major vendors.
It has also created internal working groups called "Tech-Net" and "Sales-Net" that align technical and sales know-how.
Tech-Net is made up of head engineers and integration specialists from each company, and "regularly shares design solutions, troubleshooting tips, and technology updates," Liguori told me during that interview. Sales-Net includes senior security consultants and integration specialists from each company, who are aligned to develop national sales.
Security-Net has been in existence since 1992, but Ligouri told me the initial impetus behind the national sales effort was a request, a couple years ago, from a customer to do a multi-million dollar project. Ligouri and five other Security-Net companies were working on that project as of last March.
It sounds like a smart organization to me—I'll be interested to see what kinds of traction they'll get on national accounts as this effort matures.
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The Band Perry spent the past year and a-half recording their second album, Pioneer. The result is an edgier album that features the sibling trio pushing musical boundaries without sacrificing their signature sound.
"For us, Pioneer is about venturing into the unknown, knowing you're going to get where you're headed but not necessarily knowing the path that you'll take," says Reid Perry.
Kimberly Perry, the band's lead singer, adds, "I remember when there were some moments when we walked out of the studio and we were like high-fiving. And we were like, 'We just went there.' This is probably the boldest musical moment we made yet."
In an interview with CMT Hot 20 Countdown , the band stated that their new music reflects a rock 'n' roll attitude that was honed from their live performances. That influence can be heard in "Better Dig Two," the project's first single. The band's artistic new music video, "Done," premiered this week.
"When we made our first album, we were playing theaters and small venues," Neil Perry notes. "But when we were making this one, we were opening for some of the biggest acts in country music, so we were playing in arenas and amphitheaters. We had to make songs that accommodated that as well."
"Fat Bottom Girls" by the classic rock group Queen was a staple of The Band Perry's set list last year. They say the music of Queen was also a huge influence while recording Pioneer.
"We listened to them more making this album than ever before," Kimberly says. "Freddie Mercury remains my favorite frontman of all time. He had something so fluid about his motions onstage, but he commanded these thousands and thousands of people who were right in the palm of his hand."
She adds, "I think country music is the last rock 'n' roll frontier. It's such a wonderful genre because it accommodates so many different American sounds."
Following up their breakthrough, platinum debut album did come with some pressure, but they say their past success didn't overshadow what they wanted to accomplish with Pioneer.
"This is the story of us going from point 'A' on our first album, knowing that we had to deliver again," she says. "We did not want to be a one-hit wonder. And not only that, we wanted to grow and give the fans a glimpse where we wanted to go musically and who we are as people."