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O'Neill was seriously fazed.
So far as his research had indicated, this world had only ever sent men as far as the moon - and had given up going even that far some thirty years ago. Sure they'd been puttering around sending people into orbit around the planet. They'd sent unmanned probes to the edge of the solar system too, letting them wander off unheaded into the void thereafter. But that was it as far as space exploration went.
So how the Hell had they gotten their hands on this elegant little gadget from over sixteen thousand light years away?!
From Major Bimbo's reactions, he was expected to know about this. Clearly, he'd gotten himself into something extremely classified indeed. But what?
How had they managed to make such an immense technological leap in the last thirty years? Presumably that was why they gave up on the Apollo project. And how had they managed to keep quiet about it for so long in this supposedly open society? Everything else seemed to be in the public domain. Intriguing.
"So how does it work. Sir?" Major Carter was asking with just a hint of impertinence. He was going to have to do something about that...
"I'm not entirely familiar with this form of display, Major," he temporized, "but I'm sure I can give you a demonstration shortly."
"Perhaps you'd better let Major Carter have a look at it, Colonel," General Hammond said sternly.
O'Neill sighed and passed it to the major. She gave its inner workings a casual inspection, clipped the cover back on then started tinkering with the buttons. O'Neill watched her in some trepidation. Trial and error wouldn't have been his first method of approach with unfamiliar technology.
"Be careful where you..."
A brilliant ray of light shot from the stubby projection. It struck the paper cup of water which the big guy was holding, narrowly missing him.
"...point that thing!"
The General asked if he was all right.
"I am unharmed, General Hammond, just a little wet," he enunciated crisply, his name apparently being Tilk. An unusual name perhaps but probably as common as Smith wherever he came from.
"What happened exactly?" Hammond went on.
"I am unsure, General Hammond. The cup seemed to disappear..."
"An annihilation beam, maybe," Major Carter put in - a little smugly O'Neill thought.
"I don't think so, Major," he responded curtly. No female was going to put one over on him.
He ducked under the conference table and ran his hand over the carpet tiles until he found what he was looking for.
"There," he said, laying his treasure trove on the table.
The transparent miniature copy of the paper cup threw out multicoloured glints where the light hit it.
"Wow, that's beautiful!" the major gasped, picking it up and holding to the light.
"A pretty trinket for a pretty lady," O'Neill replied condescendingly, and received a frosty look from her.
"Are you sure you're all right, Colonel?" frowned the General. "The loss of Dr. Jackson has hit us all very hard and there's no shame in admitting it. You especially, as you knew him longest. If you feel you need to take a little more time out, that won't be a problem, but please don't take it out on your colleagues. Remember they're grieving too - we all are."
"Uh, sorry General, Major. Won't happen again," he apologized.
Well, that explained the long face when he'd first greeted the major. He supposed he'd better find out what he could about this Dr. Jackson before he really put his foot in it. Major Carter looked a little mollified at least.
"So what is this, Colonel?" she asked curiously.
"What do you think it is, Major?" He inclined his head and allowed a slight smile to curve his mouth in a manner designed to convey interest in what she might say.
"It looks like diamond, but that's not possible, unless"
"Unless it really is a matter transmutation device?"
"Yes. Have you seen one before, sir... Or Daniel maybe?"
~ Actually, I made one as a final year project at university ~
No, he couldn't really say that here, could he?
"Ah, well, I've heard of them, of course," he temporized.
"I think you have been reading too much Science Fiction, O'Neill," Tilk said with the smallest flicker of a smile.
"Er, yes. Guess I have," O'Neill agreed. Better keep quiet for a while and find out more about this world and Colonel O'Neill's place in it before the piece of cake crumbled...
Chapter 5: Up, Down and Strange...
General Hammond brought the meeting to a close, instructing Major Carter to investigate the matter transmutation device. O'Neill decided to tag along with her. Hammond seemed to regard her as the team's scientist, though God alone knew why.
Which brought him to the next question: if Major Bimbo was the scientist, what was Colonel O'Neill's role in all of this? Team leader maybe? Tilk was presumably the muscle of the outfit. He was certainly well equipped for it.
By now, they had reached a lab. Carter's? Not O'Neill's? He followed her in, then leaned against the bench, watching - waiting for her to solicit his expertise. Which she did.
"Colonel, could you pass me the multi meter? It's the... Oh. Thank you sir!"
She gave him a surprised smile. Great! She was impressed because he knew a multi meter when he saw one? What sort of a backwoods outfit was this? And yet they had an alien gizmo... He was getting a whole load of conflicting messages here. Oh well, better go with the flow.
He hung around watching the bimbo at work, and found his self-imposed exile to the sidelines very frustrating. After a while, she left for a natural break. He pounced.
By the time she came back, he'd managed to convert a glass beaker into a small pile of sand, a couple of paper clips into blobs of mercury and the contents of a bottle of methyl alcohol into a tolerable malt whisky. The sand and the mercury puzzled her a little; the whisky was hidden at the back of the poisons cupboard for consumption later.
To give her credit, she did seem to know a thing or two and was reasonably well organized. Also, come lunchtime, she'd just about got the whole matter transmutation thing figured out. It hadn't been entirely plain sailing however, and she was much inclined to lament the iron geranium.
He accompanied her to the commissary, and was duly revolted by her selection of a dish of bright blue jello for dessert. He was also revolted to find that the macaroni cheese tasted like chicken. Tilk came to join them bringing a young man whom Major Carter greeted as Nyan.
The talk turned to the next mission. Nyan was both excited at being included in the mission and desperately sorry about the reason for his inclusion. O'Neill's three companions fell silent then, looking very sad. This must have something to do with the late Dr. Jackson he presumed and so held his peace.
After lunch, O'Neill followed Tilk and Nyan to get geared up for the mission. All he knew for certain was that it was a short recon. mission with a possible overnight stop-over. The weaponry was interesting to say the least. The M9s and P90s he recognized from his research, but the long pole-like weapon Tilk carried was something else again, as were the - what was that? - zat guns? He felt like a walking arsenal what with the grenades and C4 and all.
Next, they headed for the lift again and met up with Major Carter, also well supplied with weapons. Wait a minute. Surely they should be going up - not down! The rest of the team seemed untroubled though. Maybe they had something else to fetch.
He followed them along grey corridors and through a heavy blast door. The first thing he saw was General Hammond waiting for them.
The second thing made his mind boggle. Good grief! What the hell was that?! The big grey ring must have been over twenty feet high with a ramp sloping upwards to a platform across the inside of the ring. The inner part, which had strange signs all round it, began to rotate. It stopped. A grey wedge clanged into place and a red light came on. Bizarre...!
"Chevron one encoded," came a voice over the tannoy.
The process was repeated several more times, until the voice announced,
Chevron seven, locked."
What happened next shocked O'Neill rigid. And he'd seen a lot of very strange things in his time... An immense watery blast shot outwards above the ramp for some ten or twelve feet with a mighty 'kawoosh!' sound. Then it settled back into a gently rippling surface like a vertical fish pond. The hairs on the back of his neck stood to attention. It took all his self-control not to cry out.
General Hammond gently took his arm, making him jump.
"I'm sure I don't need to ask, Colonel, but as it's his first mission, please keep an eye on young Nyan," he said, "and good luck, S.G.-1!"
Tilk and the major were already half way up the ramp. There was nothing else for him to do but follow them with Nyan. The leading pair stepped through the shimmering surface and disappeared. Was this a variation on what had brought him here? Surely not. There was no indication that the technology here was that far advanced.
On the other hand, he and his team were expected to return which had to be a plus. It must be a two-way thing then. With Nyan at his side, he followed his companions through the ring.
Chapter 6: Anywhere But Here!
Slightly to his surprise, O'Neill managed to keep his feet on the other side of the ring. He was standing on a marble platform at the far end of a large colonnaded hall. Behind him, the watery surface within the ring broke up and disappeared.
In front of him, in the centre of the hall, was a twenty foot high statue, exquisitely carved in white marble, depicting a female clad in a classical Greek-style tunic, with a breast-plate and plumed helmet. The plinth was decorated with galloping horses in high relief.
"Oh shit, no!" he exclaimed.
Now he knew what the ring did. Suddenly it all made perfect sense.
These damn' Americans, limited as their technology otherwise was, had somehow managed to harness wormhole technology. How, for Chrissakes, when it was something that had defeated all the best brains back home? Including his own.
And why - now that he'd found himself a suitable place to stay at last - did this O'Neill have to go wandering off to other planets? What the hell was wrong with the one he had?
And of all the planets in the multiverse, why did he have to get sent to this one, for crying out loud?! He'd barely escaped with his life last time. On the plus side - if there was a plus side - they probably wouldn't recognize him. Unless...
His three colleagues, gazing round in awe, were casually walking down the steps into the hall like it was some kind of sightseeing trip.
"Come on, team, let's go back," he called, waving them back to the wormhole ring.
"But we only just got here, sir."
It was the bimbo again. Not only not much of a scientist, not much good at following orders either! Not that she would be in much danger here...
"It's not safe," he insisted, "now get us home. Er, that's an order!"
He hoped she - or one of the team - knew how to activate the wormhole. If it was down to him, then they were screwed. Well and truly. She was looking round.
"I don't see a D.H.D., sir," she said.
Ack! A D.H.D.? What in Hell's name was that?
"Well... Just keep looking, Major," was all he could manage.
It had all seemed so simple at first. He'd tracked down Jack O'Neill without too much difficulty. He'd managed to find out a great deal about him. Sure, there was a lot of stuff that was classified, so classified that even he hadn't been able to hack into.
Even so, with his abilities, it should have been a breeze. If he'd had even the merest smidgen of a clue about what O'Neill actually did in Cheyenne Mountain, he could have been better prepared. As it was, he was flying blind. And the bits he could see right now, he didn't like one bit - especially the squad of guards coming through the entrance.
They were wearing shiny blue-black armoured clothing like the exoskeleton of a beetle, with helmets like motor-cycle couriers, and were carrying automatic weapons.
"Afenor khator sas oplos!" barked the leader.
"Better do as she says," O'Neill said, laying his P90 on the platform beside him, followed by the rest of his weapons, and raised his hands.
His three team members looked back at him in some surprise, but followed his lead. They were out-numbered by about three to one, so it wasn't too irrational a decision, he thought.
Two of the guards subjected them each to a casual body search which, to O'Neill's relief, revealed nothing. At least he would be able to escape if the worst came to the worst, but he'd put a lot of time and effort into his new role. If he could avoid going back to the drawing board yet again, he would.
He also felt a slight obligation to rescue his team mates too - if he could. That was a sensation he hadn't felt for a long time. Maybe he was rediscovering his humanity at last. Maybe, if they got out of this alive...


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A cooperatively-owned grocery store wants to open a brick-and-mortar location on property in downtown Lombard that's been vacant for more than a decade.
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Lombard has released a request for proposals that invites developers to submit plans to purchase and redevelop the former DuPage Theatre site along South Main Street, immediately south of Parkside Avenue.
This week, Prairie Food Co-op announced it will submit a proposal for the property in partnership with a local development firm. It hopes to be the anchor retail store of a multilevel, mixed-use development.
"We love this location for its unique history, accessibility, proximity to the downtown corridor, and its ability to deliver on our mission to create a local, sustainable and connected food community," the Lombard-based food co-op wrote in an email.
Jerry Nash, a co-founder of Prairie Food Co-op, said professional market studies confirm the site would be ideal for the full-service grocery store that would feature locally produced food. He said the northern part of the village hasn't had a grocery store for years.
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Who Does the Work of Worrying in Your Family?
This Sunday's New York Times featured, "Mom: The Designated Worrier," by Judith Shulevitz, who argues that managing a family's schedule and activities, also called "worry work," requires "large reserves of emotional energy to stay on top of it all." Oh, and the parent who handles the worry work? Well, she's called the "designated worrier."
Guess who is almost always the "designated worrier," even in families where all other chores are shared equally? Moms.
But you knew that, right?
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At first, I argued with Shulevitz, thinking that my marriage has escaped the paradigm she describes: "Whether a woman loves or hates worry work, it can scatter her focus on what she does for pay and knock her partway or clean off a career path. This distracting grind of apprehension and organization may be one of the least movable obstacles to women's equality in the workplace."
Oh Shulevitz, don't be so dramatic.
Then, I reflected on my own worry work.
Exhibit A: Two weeks ago, I had a nightmare that my kids, who do not know how to swim, fell into a pool. I woke up sweating and vowed we would start swim lessons ASAP.
During my next two lunch hours, I researched the swim schools in our area—I made calls, put the information in a spreadsheet, and came up with a tentative schedule of lessons for both our kids. After I had already put 90 minutes of work into Project Swim, I filled my husband in, and we agreed on a swim plan.
While I spent those 1.5 hours working on swim research (fueled by my terrifying nightmare), my husband was free to focus exclusively on his work.
Exhibit B: One week ago, we realized it was time to find a new after-school babysitter. Without any discussion between me and my husband, I set up an online profile for our search, screened candidates by phone and scheduled in-person interviews. I spent approximately 10 hours dealing with the sitter search.
Those were 10 hours my husband was able to devote to his career.
Exhibit C: Today, here are the things on my to-do list for our household:
- Do initial research on finding a company to run a background check on our new sitter.
- Order birthday presents for three upcoming birthday parties.
- Email the swim coach to see if he will hold lessons over Memorial Day weekend.
- Text the babysitter with information about the kids' schedule for the afternoon.
- Order my daughter shorts online.
- Role-play firing my current sitter with a friend who has fired many a sitter.
My husband is an extremely capable man and one of the most hands-on fathers I could possibly imagine. He never said, "Handle all this, Toots, while I advance in my career. Don't hurt your head on that glass ceiling. " I have zero doubt that if I asked him to take over any of these tasks he would. He'd likely do them more efficiently and quicker than I would.
But I haven't. The question is: Why not?
Is ordering pastel chino shorts from Old Navy such a specialized task that I couldn't possibly cede control of it to my husband?
The answer is simple. I've taken it for granted that I should take care of the after-school activities. I get the schedule. I talk to the kids about what they want to do. Then, I undertake the Herculean task of coordinating with other mothers so our kids can be together. I've never questioned my assumption that those tasks should fall on me. It's just my thing.
But the same feels true of buying birthday presents, ordering the kids clothes and getting our childcare squared away.
I have to ask myself: Is ordering pastel chino shorts from Old Navy such a specialized task that I couldn't possibly cede control of it to my husband? Of course not.
There's nothing simple about the notion that it's my job to handle all of this. After all, both my husband and I have full-time jobs. By now we are both well aware that parenting is much more than sitting down to dinner together and reading bedtime stories with our kids snuggled under our arms.
Parenting is paperwork. It's phone calls, spreadsheets, and schedules. It's texts—oh my God, so many texts—to other mothers, the nanny, the babysitter and the teachers. I have hoarded these tasks for myself and never stopped to consider the toll it takes on my ability to concentrate, perform and advance in my career.
The genesis of my kids' swim lessons confirms Shulevitz's theory. She writes, "So we worry. When we worry, we coordinate. When we coordinate, we multitask." That sums up the days following my swimming nightmare perfectly. Meanwhile, my husband, who has a healthy respect for water and knows that our children cannot swim, never felt compelled to research the options and get them enrolled in lessons. He figured they'd learn sooner or later. He wasn't worried.
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I can't stop worrying, and I'm not ready to completely turn over the kids' schedule to my husband. But Shulevitz's article puts me on alert, so now I am willing to pay attention to the tasks I unquestioningly assume. I can feel my grip loosening slightly—at least until I have another nightmare.
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Arlan B. Niebeling
Arlan B. Niebeling
Oct. 18, 1937 - Sept. 6, 2018
CANNON FALLS, Minn. - Arlan B. Niebeling, 80, Cannon Falls, died Thursday, Sept. 6, in The Gardens at Cannon Falls.
Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m., followed by a memorial service at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 11, at First English Lutheran Church in Cannon Falls.
Memorials are preferred to First English Lutheran Church.
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Juliet Reeves London: 5 Things To Know About Jeremy London's Hot Wife
When Jeremy London appeared on 'Celebrity Wife Swap,' we were admittedly very excited to see the heartthrob back on our televisions. However, we were totally caught off guard by his hot wife! Who is Juliet Reeves London, and where have you been hiding her, Jeremy?
On the June 3 episode of Celebrity Wife Swap, former teen sensation and Party of Five star Jeremy London, 42, returned to the small screen to temporarily trade in his wife, Juliet Reeves London, 37. While it was definitely a hoot to see billionaire Jackie Siegel try to give life a go with Jeremy on his Oklahoma farm, what really caught our eye was Jeremy's gorgeous wife. So, who is Jeremy's better half and what do we need to know about her? Check out five essential facts about Mrs. London!
5. Believe it or not, Juliet and her family formed a traveling circus while she was a child. It's how she got her start in show biz.
4. Juliet is also an actress. She's been in several horror films, including Automaton Transfusion, Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! and Texas Chainsaw 3D.
3. Juliet has served as a photo double for some of the most major names in the industry including Kate Beckinsale and Jennifer Aniston.
2. She got married and gave birth– in the same week! On June 3, 2014, Juliet and Jeremy got married (just days after he had finalized his divorce from his previous wife, Melissa Cunningham). Two days after the ceremony, the couple welcomed their son, Wyatt.
1. Juliet is known in the film industry as a "Scream Queen." The actress, who studied her craft at Art Sake Studio in Winter Park Florida, The Dee Wallace Stone Studio in Los Angeles and The Working Actors Studio in Tampa Florida, has starred in more than a dozen feature length indie films and several short films. Looks like someone wants to keep up with their hubby!
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Being a Superior Scribbler is not all that simple - feel the pressure to scribble! ;)
Here is my latest creation - Vanilla Ice-cream. I have been running around with this idea for a very long time.
Firstly, my husband bought me several great agate slices in his last trip to USA. They are quite specific stones due to their shape, and I was not realy sure what was the best way to deal with them. I was convinced that it was going to be a freeform piece. Then I saw a very interesting freeform necklace by Nataliya Pechenkina from biser.info. It gave me some good ideas, but I really did my best not to repeat anything and to create a really unique design.
Secondly, I really wanted to incorporate Swarovski beads in a freeform design based on pre-mixed seed beads. Auntiesbeads.com has kindly helped me in realisation of this idea, they carry a good selection of various seed beads, including a broad range of mixes.
Sometimes I enjoy mixing beads by myself, but sometimes it is great to have a pre-mixed "starter" to make your creativity spin. In this necklace, Au Natural, Good Earth, Moonstone and Golden Grain mixes were combined with several other Miyuki and Toho seed beads. I find multi-shape mixes perfect for making freeform.
And, finally, I just wanted to bead a white necklace for a very long time. That's the complete story of the Vanilla Ice-cream.
Disclosure: I have recieved the Swarovski chrystalls and some of the seed beads free of charge, in return for writing a honest review about the supplied products. Auntiesbeads.com has not compensated me in any way for writing this review.
Welcome to my blog! Here I'd like to share my passion for making beaded jewelry with anyone who might be interested.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Vanilla Ice-cream
Posted by Foxan at 1:48 PM
6 comments:
- Marsha Wiest-Hines said...
Oh My GOSH! Even more beautiful than the last. You have a fantastic theory of beauty, Olga.
- December 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM
- Dawn N said...
Wow! I love it.
- December 13, 2009 at 4:37 PM
- Enchanted said...
Another beauty!
- December 13, 2009 at 6:03 PM
- Rose Works Jewelry said...
Very pretty :) I'm always impressed by free forms - I have a hard time doing them!
- December 13, 2009 at 6:51 PM
- Marlaine said...
What a beautiful necklace! I love freeform! What I want to know is how you bezelled the slice as I have several that I haven't tackled yet!
- December 25, 2009 at 6:41 PM
- Foxan said...
Thank you so much, dear All!
Marlaine, the bezel is embroidered: Lacy's + UltraSuede.
- January 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM
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DPA collects SQL Server plans and displays them in graphical format, similar to the way SQL Server Management Studio does. Sometimes, however, DPA does not display the plan and instead shows this message:
This article explains why DPA displays the message above.
DPA, all versions
The SQL Server plan is actually an XML file, and DPA gives you the ability to download the plan XML file to your computer with a .sqlplan extension. If you open up the plan XML file, you will see that it contains a <statements> node, and beneath it you will see one of the following nodes:
DPA supports only StmtSimple. DPA displays the message above for all other statement types. To see the plan, download the plan file and open it in SQL Server Management Studio.


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Once you've returned from your honeymoon and unwrapped the wedding gifts, it's time to start settling into the routine of married life. To avoid falling onto financial hard times, one of your first orders of business as a married couple should be to create a household budget. Although you might have easily lived within your means when you were single, your new hubby may have different spending habits and priorities than you, and without a plan, you could be inviting problems.
Assess Your Income and Expenses
List all sources of income you and your spouse receive, and be transparent about it. This includes your paychecks and any other additional income, such as investments, rental revenue or trust fund distributions. Create a joint account to serve as "ground zero" for all your finances.
Set a Budget
Tackle nonnegotiable expenses first, by budgeting for recurring bills such as rent or mortgage payments, car payments, cellphone bills and insurance premiums. Because these payments remain steady and predictable, they're the easiest to budget around, so address them first.
Nondiscretionary Spending
Next, budget for flexible nondiscretionary spending. Your utilities and grocery bills might vary a little each month, so look back at credit card statements and old bills to come up with realistic projections for each subcategory. It's always a little safer to shoot slightly higher in your expense projections and have wiggle room in your budget than to discover you have overspent your utilities budget. You can adjust this amount from one month to the next as you get a more realistic picture of your finances.
Discretionary Spending
Set spending levels for discretionary spending, such as cable and internet bills, dining out, gym memberships and other nonessential expenses you share in your household. This category of bills includes anything that, if push came to shove, you could comfortably live without. Also provide discretionary spending budgets to both members of your household. Although you'll need to set clear guidelines that define discretionary spending and nondiscretionary spending, providing each spouse with a fixed amount of "me money" can alleviate the hassles of micromanaging each others budgets. Place individual discretionary spending in separate checking accounts to ensure it's insulated from household funds.
Launch a Savings Plan
Once you've done all of that, you'll want to address your savings. Set aside a portion of each month's budget for a rainy-day fund. Separate this money from your household checking account, such as a savings account. This fund can be a useful buffer in case you under budget in the future, or to help soften the budgetary blows of a major expense, such as a huge mechanic's bill. Contribute to savings and retirement accounts with amounts necessary to meet your retirement goals. You might need to consult a financial planner to develop a long-term retirement strategy.
Follow Up Monthly
Budgeting is an ongoing process, so set aside a night each month to go over your expenses and compare them to your budget. If necessary, modify your plan to fit more realistic spending habits.
- Budgeting is an ongoing process, so set aside a night each month to go over your expenses and compare them to your budget. If necessary, modify your plan to fit more realistic spending habits.
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Review: Age of Ultron #5
Artist: Bryan Hitch
Publisher: Marvel Comics
We reach the halfway point of Marvel's 2013 summer event and the story that's been quietly simmering for four issues finally boils over, bringing us to the crux of the series - time travel. After last issue's big Vision-shaped discovery by Luke Cage, namely that big bad Ultron isn't even in the same time-frame as our heroes, the survivors weigh up their options from the comfort of Nick Fury's super-secret Savage Land hideaway.
Once arriving, the question isn't so much how the heroes will strike back against Ultron, but when. As it turns out, Fury has been stashing one of Doctor Doom's old time platforms for a rainy day and it doesn't get more rainy than a shower of shiny golden robots systematically destroying the world. If memory serves correct, said time platform doesn't affect the current timeline, merely create a new alternate one. I vaguely recall a Fantastic Four annual hinging on a future Johnny Storm coming back to avert a tragedy, but rather than save his own family, he merely created a world where they continued to live. But that might just be my fanboy mind picking holes in Bendis' chosen plot device.
With the method of the remaining heroes' kamikaze mission decided, they then have to choose the perfect moment to strike at Ultron and the survivors are of two minds on the matter. While the linear side of things is covered nicely by Nick Fury's strike team, heading off into the far-flung future to attack the Ultron directly responsible for this assault, the far more interesting approach comes in the final pages, as Wolverine declares his intention to travel back and kill Hank Pym (aka Ant-Man aka Ultron's creator), before he can birth this monstrous AI upon the world. The small hairy canuck aims to misbehave and there's no telling what affect he'll have on Marvel Universe continuity as a result.
As explored in the opening pages, to much wordier effect, Pym himself had even considered travelling back to a time before Ultron and warn his past self of the horrors his creation will inflict. But as correctly pointed out by his fellow scientists, Tony Stark and Reed Richards, where does one draw the line when "correcting" past mistakes? Do they leave it at Ultron or do they travel back even further and stop Hitler from kickstarting World War II or do they go back even further and knock that insidious apple out of Eve's hand. The message Bendis is trying to relay is that altering time is a slippery slope and there's no clear end in sight. As much as the ability may aid the heroes in this time of need, it's just as likely to be abused by the wrong people. Hell, in this case, the heroes ARE the wrong people. They want to murder a founding Avenger!
Age of Ultron #5 marks a profound turning point in the course of this series, not only with the changing stakes of the situation, but behind the scenes as well. The first half of this ten part story was written nearly three years ago at this point, making for numerous visual and character inconsistencies in the opening salvo. Wrong costumes for the most part, but wrong characterisation entirely in Spider-Man's case, who fails to reflect his new "Superior" attitude. Like most characters in the book, their current status quo's weren't even an inkling in their creator's eye while Bendis was writing and Hitch was illustrating way back in 2010. As such, issue five brings to a close Bryan Hitch's work on the series, gracefully departing with some fine work, before the story kicks into another gear entirely. I'll miss the consistency of his artwork on the book going forward, but I'll be grateful for an up-to-date artist who isn't trying to jam old ideas into present day continuity. It's Marvel NOW, not Marvel THEN.
The story itself continues to tick over, giving us enough to keep our interest, but not really engaging at the same time. There's an inherent flaw in time travel stories, whereby at the back of your mind, you know everything will snap back to "how it should be". Marvel have so many plates spinning at the moment, I can't believe they'd let a three year old pet project dictate their entire line's future. This is basically Bendis wrapping up a few loose ends from his legendary run on the Avengers franchise. It's more of an encore, than a beginning. Play the hits one last time, then respectfully leave the stage. After all, Jonathan Hickman's Avengers series has shot off in another direction entirely. So much so, Age of Ultron is squarely in the rear view mirror, even as it continues.
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Allergen Management and VITAL 2.0
The major cause of recalls in Australia is undeclared allergens. This Allergen Bureau designed course provides attendees with an understanding of allergens, the risks associated with mismanagement and how to implement an allergen management program.
The practical component of this training is designed to provide attendees with the knowledge and skills to use the VITAL online system back in their workplace. It provides consistent methodology for the food industry to assess the impact of allergen cross-contact and to provide appropriate precautionary allergen labelling on their products.
Students will need to provide their own laptop computer with WiFi accessibility for this course.
Allergen Awareness
The major cause of recalls in Australia are for undeclared allergens. This course is designed for food safety/quality staff, supervisors and management to give them an understanding of allergens and their role in managing allergens within production.
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Families work in partnership with schools, preschools, kindergartens and day care services by exchanging information and working together cooperatively.
Partnerships help families and education and childcare staff understand children's emotions, behaviour and needs, and find the best ways to support them in their development and good mental health.
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There are 362 guestrooms at Mandarin Oriental Pudong. Guestrooms offer complimentary free local calls (restrictions may apply). A turndown service is available nightly, housekeeping is offered daily, and guests may request wake-up calls.


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means we go to
sleep at night knowing that
our talents and abilities
used in a way that
served others.
Marianne Williamson
I often wonder if anything that I do really matters,
if my contribution to the world is even the slightest bit
important. After all, I don't have money to give to
help others through hard times, and I don't have close
friends who feel that they can talk to me when they need
someone to talk to. Am I successful or not? I
could make arguments for both possible answers.
I really do like Marianne's definition of success, though,
for it helps me to keep in mind the fact that success
doesn't have to be something that other people see,
something that we can quantify, something that goes on our
scorecard of life. I do have certain talents and
abilities that are stronger than others, and it seems like
a very good measure to think that using them to serve
others is the most important element of success.
After all, my influence in this world is extremely
limited, so it would be very unrealistic of me to think
that I should measure my success by any terms other than
this measure of service.
I know plenty of people who don't feel that their talents
are worth sharing, but they always can serve
someone. I know people who feel that they're not
able to do anything that can really make a difference, but
some of the abilities that they have most certainly are
needed by someone who doesn't have that same
ability. Some people are good at figuring out taxes,
while others aren't. Some are good at cooking, while
others could use some help in that area. Some are
really good at fundraising, and there are plenty of
organizations that could use some help with some
fundraising. I've helped several organizations
develop websites for free--they haven't been award-winning
sites, but they've served their purposes very well, and I
had a strong sense of satisfaction for having served in a
way that I could.
Find a way--or ways--to serve. It doesn't have to be
big, and it doesn't have to involve a million
people. When you do find ways to serve others with
your talents and abilities, you'll find that you see your
life through different eyes at the end of each day.
For further
It is
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one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts.
These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
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James Taylor — Forbes — February 27, 2014
A newly published paper by the American Wind Energy Association illustrates that electricity prices are rising more than four times the national average in nine of the 11 states with the most wind power consumption. In Texas, the only one of the 11 states with significantly declining electricity prices, deregulation rather than wind power is causing the decline in electricity prices. The findings are a huge blow to advocates of renewable power mandates and wind power subsidies.
Playing Defense on Rising Prices
Susan Williams Sloan, director of state relations for the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), wrote and circulated an articlein response to a series of articles I wrote on electricity prices in states with renewable power mandates. Last year, legislators in Colorado, Kansas, and Ohio asked me to testify in legislative hearings about the cost impacts of renewable power mandates in their states. Legislators in another state, North Carolina, asked me to prepare a similar analysis for potential legislative hearings.
My research uncovered that electricity prices in all four states rose much more rapidly than the national average after the states enacted their renewable power mandates. My articles documented the rapid price increases in each state, which come as no surprise considering wind power and other forms of renewable power generation are much more costly than conventional power. Indeed, that is why Big Renewables fight tooth and nail for renewable power mandates – because they cannot compete with conventional power sources on a level playing field. Continue reading here….


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I will try not give too much away here, but fans will not be disappointed in Bane's appearance as the main villain, and he does live up to the expectations. Bale also did a great job portraying Nolan's wise, brooding Bruce Wayne/Batman, although in my opinion he was many times more awesome in The Dark Knight.
Unfortunately, The Dark Knight Rises got a bit of bad press after the theater shoot-up that occurred after a college student from California opened fire on an entire theater screening the new Dark Knight Rises film. It made some people afraid to see the movie, and there were even copycat attempts!
However, the fever has died down, and hopefully so have the copycats.
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A Novel Biosensor Using Nanolithographically-Produced Submicron Optical Sources for the Study of Cell Adhesion and Chemotaxis
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Cell adhesion and chemotaxis are two key factors determining cell behaviour and differentiation which are currently analysed by microscopic examination of the cell or membrane-associated fluorescence labels. These analyses are often slow, labour intensive and of limited informational content. This thesis describes the physical theory and experimental aspects of an optical method suitable for monitoring cell contact, adhesion to a surface and chemotaxis beyond the conventional limit of optical microscopy by means of a device that utilises both a plain bare surface and arrays of apertures nanolithographically-produced in the surface of a Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensor structure. Any minute vertical movement of the cell, within the near-field of the SPR active surface or actual cell/surface contact, creates intensity fluctuations, detectable in the far-field. This was demonstrated during experiments with non-apertured devices. (A video demonstrating the biological features of the device accompanies this thesis and may be obtained by contacting University of Plymouth's LRC.) The light scattered by each nanolithographically-produced aperture also fluctuates as a consequence of the cell approaching to within a few hundred nanometres of the aperture bearing surface and demonstrated detection of minute vertical movement on the surface of the apertured device. The combination of apertured and non-apertured detection results in a highly spatially-sensitive 3-dimensional sensor. Digitising the output from a CCD camera allows patterns of intensity fluctuation to be correlated with the contact and adhesion of individual cells on the active surface over a short period of time (2-3 minutes). Initial trials of an apertured device (diameter (^) « wavelength of incident light ( X ) ) carried out by our collaborating partners Drs R. Carr and S. Al-shukri at the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Porton Down demonstrated that the use of apertures etched in a SPR metal surface produced a highly sensitive dielectric monitor, i.e. sensitive to very small changes in the refractive index of the micro-environment adjacent to the aperture. This was proposed as being of potentially great value in the development of extremely sensitive probes of dielectric particulates of sub-micron dimensions, i.e. biological macromolecules and supramolecular structures. Characterisation of the associated radiative and non-radiative evanescent fields on the surface of the device was conducted in order to gain a greater knowledge of the mechanisms by which the interactions between the cells adjacent to and in direct contact with the apertures and evanescent fields produced such significant intensity fluctuations in the results at CAMR. A combinational Scanning Probe Microscope was developed and used in Scanning Nearfield Optical Microscope and Photon Scanning Tunnelling Microscope modes of operation to detect the evanescent and radiative fields respectively. Detailed mapping of the radiative pattern in the near-field of the large apertures {<p » X) demonstrated a diffraction of approximately 25% of the Surface Plasmon Wave (SPW) either side of the centre of the aperture with the remainder being contained within the metal layer. Scattering at the second aperture interface, i.e. air/metal, was shown to be of a lower magnitude as a result of non-surface plasmon enhancement within the non-resonant aperture. Characterisation of the intensity profile of small apertures (^ < A) was beyond the scope of this project due to its limited time and finance and was not undertaken. A section in the conclusions is dedicated to giving a possible cause of the intensity profiles IV detected during the initial studies at CAMR with possible procedures required to verify and expand such work. In order to investigate the potential of the device in the biological environment, biological trials were carried out with collaborating establishments at Salisbury and Exeter and demonstrated that this dual sensing microscopic technique had great potential in the 3-dimensional monitoring of cell movement together with the capability of extending our knowledge of cell behaviour with the view to a system of rapid screening for tumour cells. This technique has produced real-time images of cell behaviour, which to our knowledge has not been previously seen before by any other microscopy technique. The finding of these trials are documented in this thesis with possible theories as to what the biological effects responsible for these results may possibly be. Future work into the verification of these effects and more biological trials and procedures are described in the hope that afler further work the device may be developed into a commercial and readily available scientific unit for use in the laboratory.
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Studies in a Random Noise Model of Decoherence - Condensed Matter > Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
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Abstract: We study the effects of noise and decoherence for a double-potential wellsystem, suitable for the fabrication of qubits and quantum logic elements. Arandom noise term is added to the hamiltonian, the resulting wavefunction foundnumerically and the density matrix obtained by averaging over noise signals.Analytic solutions using the two-state model are obtained and found to begenerally in agreement.In particular, a simple formula for the decoherence rate in terms of thenoise parameters in the two-state model is reviewed and verified for the fullsimulation with the multi-level system. The formalism is extended to describemultiple sources of noise or different -dephasing- axes at the same time.Furthermore, the old formula for the -Turing-Watched Pot- effect is generalizedto the case where the environmental interactions do not conserve the -quality-in question.Various forms for the noise signal are investigated. An interesting result isthe importance of the noise power at low frequency. If it vanishes there is, inleading order, no decoherence. This is verified in a numerical simulation wheretwo apparently similar noise signals, but differing in the power at zerofrequency, give strikingly different decoherence effects. A short discussion ofsituations dominated by low frequency noise is given.
Autor: P. Korcyl, J. Wosiek, L. Stodolsky
Fuente: https://arxiv.org/


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Hi - first post here, but I have been looking around for bit.
I have a few questions - some have been covered, but I was looking for specific answers.
1 - I am preparing for an interview right now as a first year analyst. What are good things to focus on for the interview - Questions to ask, questions to be prepared for, etc.
2 - There seems to be a chance I would start mid-year if an offer is given. I read how it is bad idea unless your bonus is prorated. What do you think is the best way to approach this - say summer is the best time for me to start? And if so, what do you think is the best way to present my reasoning for this without saying "Uhh, I'd like my bonus thanks!"
3 - What groups are a healthy balance of hours and pay? Are you asked were your interest is at or are you placed by management?
4 - Any other advice?
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Bump - interview is coming up soon! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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I'll handle the start date/comp questions. Let someone who interviewed for banking more recently answer the others.
Be honest and ask for details. Odds are they'll be specified in the letter but if not, ask the following questions (don't lead with comp - ask other things first). These questions are all once you have the offer by the way. Don't ask before that!
1) What would the start date be?
2) Would I wait until the summer to go through training?
3) Would I be a 2nd year analyst in June when the new analysts come in?
4) How would compensation be handled? When I would I be bonus-eligible and salary increases?
5) Is the offer contingent upon the early start date or is a summer start also possible?
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they'll ask you the usual, i.e. why the career path, why the firm, etc. and if there was a piece of significant news regarding the firm in any way, shape, or form that was recent, you bet your butt you better know it.
They will want you to be very specific with behavioral questions they ask you, i.e. give an example of a time when you took on a leadership role regarding a group/team project you worked on.
Describe a moment of stress. How did you handle it, and would you change anything.
The behavioral questions are centered more towards your personality in relation to groups/team/project oriented situations. They also want to see how you would react to being battered with questions that all seem to sound the same. It's also a test of how well you communicate. Be eloquent, but don't be all Green-speak about it. Avoid these words/expressions at all costs- "like" "you know" "umm" "cause." It's also a test of your social skills. Some of the questions they ask ARE supposed to make a turn towards conversational, and don't be afraid to get comfortable, but not too comfortable.
If you have a colorful resume, they will ask you to go into specifics, like what you did when you interned at firm A. What did you like, what did you not like. What group did you work with.
If you put proficiencies in excel they will ask you to what extent you used it, i.e. did you write your own macros? did you go beyond v-lookup, types of if..then.. logic/solver questions, what you ran a regression for, built a key-rate duration calculator, whatever it is you did, be able to explain it in detail and in a language that even your grandmother, who has no finance background, can understand.
Unfortunately, every interview is different even if it is for the same firm, and I speak only of my experience and by no means anyone else's. I had four interviews, 2 BB, one of which I had a summer internship with, and 2 international banks. My interviews with the banks, I felt, were much tougher than the BB's for some reason. I got offers from all four.
As for placement, I was actually very specific in what I wanted to do, and the BB I interned at was extremely accommodating. I had a great rapport with the whole office, and yes, a good family friend was a top insider, so getting placed where I wanted (city and group) was easy, but staying in is another story.
I have heard though that it depends on where bodies are needed in terms of placement, but also that it depends on your strengths. Some people will go through a rotation with 2-3 groups in the division hired into, and depending on both need, performance, and dynamic, then you get placed, but it could also depend on the firm, the situation, etc. Again, it is a different experience for different people.
This is all great information. I appreciate the time you guys have spent on the responses. If I am not bonus eligible or at least compensated for an early start what do you think the best way to approach HR with starting in summer with the other analysts?
I am not from a top school, but I worked full time at a major insurance company as an underwriting assistant and attended school full time concurrently and receieved a low level honors. My biggest strengths are self-motivation and work diligence so I need to highlight that as much as possible.
I am going to try to be prepared for as many mind game and logic problems they could throw at me as well as have a solid platform of my interest in the company and job as well as my background.
Although, I have Excel experience and can handle entry-level to intermediate functions, I have no experience with macros or if/then functions. However, I don't see myself having trouble learning it. This should not be a deal killer I wouldn't imagine- helpful yes, but not a deal killer - am I right do you think?
What do you think are good questions to ask at the end? Obviously, firm specific questions are great, but from those in the industry, are there any questions you wished you would have asked before or questions in which you feel would be beneficial?
Thanks for reading all of this - I tend to over-research a bit :)
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You sound like a great candidate. I am sure that the strengths you highlighted above are reflected in your resume as well as the effort you are putting into this. Your responses will also reflect that; as I said above, some questions will be from what is on your resume, and the fact that you worked, interned, and was also in school full time is probably part of why your resume made it to the yes pile. Just be confident in your responses, especially the ones regarding your credentials. Let them know that what you know, you know very well, and what you don't know, you can learn.
Be straightforward with HR and let them know that you are interested, willing, and available to start in June. I don't see any harm in expressing the interest.
I would ask a question specific to the division or department. I work in structured finance, and I asked one of the interviewers what their thoughts were on the implementation of basel II and its possible effects on existing client relationships regarding derivatives trading, sales, origination, and securitization fees. That got their attention as no one had asked that before, and it was totally unexpected but significant.
Feel free to use the question above, but it's more of a capital markets question. My goodness, Boise State just did the statue of liberty play and totally fooled OU. Great game.
Thanks again for the info. I think my interest is in M&A and LBO, but I am open to anything as long as I knee deep in it. (Sicko perhaps?)
I know every scenario is different so playing by ear will be key. I don't want to ask to too involved of question so that if it turns more conversational I will still have good knowledge of similar topics.
As usual thanks for the time - I know questions like these have been asked a million times.
Sorry to double post...
Although I come from an econ background, I am not a finance guru, just a bright, hard worker that picks up very quickly and has an interview coming up for an analyst position. I hope I am not asked some of these questions because I would not fair well. In the event I have no clue, what is the best response do you think? The logic ones I would rather get since I can think on the fly and show thought process.
So how should I handle a finance questions? And if you don't know what do you say?
Be honest. Don't try to bluff your knowledge - your interviewers will pick up on it if you don't know what you are talking about. All the big banks have training programs that will teach you everything you need to know. I just finished interviews in the fall, and I was only asked finance-specific questions at one interview (out of about 12-15 banks) - although I'm not an econ major, so it's possible that my interviewers took this into account. I'd suggest picking up the vault guide and being familiar with the stuff in there, but I would suggest being open with your interviewers about your level of knowledge with finance-specific topics.
Well a little update with some unknown status news.
I have HR and some of the guys in the group talking to me about coming in and interviewing etc, long story short I am finally told today that the class is full and that my only option of getting in will be in corporate banking. Now I have a good idea of what corporate does, but its not what I wanted really. I was told I can wait until fall of 07 to get in, but I am not sure if I should wait, take the corp banking route or something else.
Can someone give me a bit more insight to corporate banking day to day, hours, compensation, etc. My mind has been geared in at IB the whole time. Craziness - not sure what to do yet.
Thanks as usual!
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