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This blog post is in response to Natalie's 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge Day 10
10 days of blogging daily. An admirable goal, and a challenging one since I had three days of travel within that 10 day period.
Here, one day late, is my final post to Natalie's blog challenge. I am so glad I participated. So glad it got me into a habit of writing a bit every day, even if it is a short post. I find myself often bogged down, on a time limit, and having SO much to say about a particular site or place, that I would wait until the perfect time to get that post up and published.
Going forward, my goal is not to undercut each experience, but to focus more on consistency of sharing, rather than making sure each post is fully rounded. Perhaps I'll do more than one post on each spot we visit. Perhaps one post will be about our experience, and one about the ins and outs of visiting. I'm not sure exactly where this new theory will lead, but I"m excited about it.
In a mere 6 days we change countries for the first time in NINE MONTHS. There will be new challenges, a new currency, a new way of thinking. All exciting and, yes, a little intimidating. Viva la Mexico… watch out Guatemala.. here I come!


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Dragons - The Red Dragon 2oz Silver Coin
The fierce and triumphant Red Dragon features on the first release in the exciting new Dragons coin collection struck in 2oz pure silver. Well known for its defeat of the White Dragon in old English mythology, the Red Dragon is a symbol of the Britons' victory over the Saxons.
This silver coin artistically illustrates the magnificently coloured Red Dragon in battle against the White Dragon. They are pictured amongst engraved images of King Vortigern, his advisers and a young Merlin.
The coin is delivered in book-style packaging in keeping with the Red Dragon theme. The Certificate of Authenticity is printed alongside the coin.
The obverse features the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and is legal tender in Niue.
With a worldwide limit of 2,000 coins, the Red Dragon 2oz Silver Coin would make an excellent keepsake for history buffs and mythology enthusiasts.
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Mintage: 2,000
Effigy: Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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And so it went on, day after day, until Vortigern was forced to seek the help of sorcerers and magicians. They advised that the castle walls should be sprinkled with the blood of a child without a natural father, in order to appease whatever dark power was hindering the construction of the fortress.
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Q: What about the later music you put out?
A: A lot of critics also st all over Whatzupwitu, which I recorded [in 1993] withMichael Jackson. But 20 years later, Michael Jackson is gone, and not a lot of people have footage of them dancing around in the clouds with him [as in the video for Whatzupwitu]. Thats part of my history, now.
Q: How did you get him to be on that song?
A: I asked, and he did it! I knew Michael since he was 19. The whole Jackson family was really warm to me. I was just hanging out with Jermaine a couple of months ago.
Michael wasnt ***** ***** when he was with me. He was a real person with his family and kids, but he could turn on the persona of Michael Jackson instantly.
I remember being three feet away from him on the video for Remember the Time [which starred Murphy]. When someone yelled action and he started dancing and doing all that st, it was like he plugged into a wall.
That video is a trip. And it does make me smile .
i really like whatzupwitu especially the line "let the children sing"
Oh god. i love this song. Especially when he just goofs around.
I wish this was on iTunes in Australia. Is it even on iTunes in America?
Whatzupwitu is only embarrassing in the fact that Michael completely steals the show.
Other than that, pretty fun song.
Nice words from Eddie Murphy. I don't think he's talked about Michael since he passed has he? Love Whatzupwitu. Michael's so adorable in it
"Girls want to see some cake."
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Cringey cheesy song, but it's still fun and fantastic ha!
No force of nature can break your will to self motivate.
Eddie I got told off by my parents for ringing up The Box music channel to play/support it 300 times plus.. back in the day. This vid was SOo original and made my creativity FLOW. I got Michael's nick name from here...this input of this video, you are both silly and I love you both so much in it <3 I love this video eddie :huggy:
I love this video too yes Michael did steal the show as always i like the part at the end too when Eddie cover Michael mouth that was so cute as if to say stop sing Michael. Eddie and Michael both had fun doing this video and that was nice to see. Eddie was a true friend to Michael he never that i know of say anything negative about Michael.
Another Part Of Me Michael You Will Always Be In My Heart.
I sometimes forget about this song.
Forget Lost Children and Little Susie.
Whatzupwithu is definitely the worst Michael Jackson song ever. Fortunately, it's not really HIS song, though.
Eddie never topped his classic "Party All The Time"
But if you guys like it, great!
Whatzupwitu has a good beat and Eddie's singing is actually pretty good. The video I always thought was neat too.
Also, just me personally, when I first saw the video it seemed like Murphy was kinda flirting with Jackson. Maybe I'm reading into it a bit much but he was touching up on the guy quite a bit! I guess anybody would be excited to be in a Michael Jackson video.


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This is the rather striking title of an article which appeared in the Harvard Business Review in July/August 1990 – nearly 25 years ago. What makes it so interesting is that we at Global Integration have also reached many of the same conclusions – independently it seems.
This article speaks on a topic that has re-surfaced again much more recently, and with increased urgency – exactly what is a matrix and how do you make it work?
Kevan Hall deals with the latter question in his book "Making the Matrix Work", and it has been the subject of various blogs on this topic.
He returned to the first question "What is a Matrix?" in a recent article for the People and Strategy Journal (which you can find here ).
This article also makes an important contribution to this question. Written by Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal it opens with the provocative statement:
Top level managers in many of today's leading corporations are losing control of their companies.….. The problem is that their companies are organizationally incapable of carrying out the sophisticated strategies they have developed.
The authors point out that because the world is complex, so the organizational answer must also of necessity be complex, and that the organizational answer was, and is, the matrix. They also point out that the matrix cannot be lead or managed in the traditional way. Many organizations found out the hard way that the standard models and techniques for managing and leading simply don't work in this new, matrixed world.
We would also agree with their point of view that the key organizational task is not to design the structure, but to harness the capabilities within the company so that the whole organization is motivated to work collectively as it responds to the complicated and dynamic external environment.
I really like the way they capture the essence of what structure is by using an analogy from medicine. So they maintain that:
"The formal structure describes only the organization's basic anatomy. Companies must also concern themselves with the organizational physiology – the systems and relationships that allow the lifeblood of information to flow through the organization".
I covered some additional thoughts on structure in a blog post recently here (When Structure Doesn't Help, and When it Does, John Bland, Global-integration.com, Feb 18, 2013.)
The problem that Bartlett and Ghoshal identify, and that we have seen lived out in so many of the companies that we have worked with, is that structural change is a very blunt tool to drive the behavioural change into the organization that you want to see. Time and again we see organizations making this same mistake – one which was clearly identified at least as early as 1990!
In our experience, we would go further and say that, on the timescales needed by business in the 2010s, one does not lead to that other at all.
Our 4S model provides an approach to ensure that companies BOTH create the relevant structure AND also to put in place a skills programme to drive in the behavioural changes the structure requires.
So the key to making the matrix a success is:
- Be clear on and communicate your Strategy
- Define the Structure to deliver that strategy
- Put in place the Systems to support the strategy and structure
- Develop your people's Skills so that the adopt the strategy, structure and use the systems
If you would like to know more about this please contact me, or any of the Global Integration consultants.
Source: "Matrix Management: not a structure, a frame of mind", by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal, Harvard Business Review, July 1990
This post forms part of a series of of 'Matrix Monday' posts reviewing and building upon available literature on the topic.


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Workers puncture gas line downtown; 37th gas leak of the summer
COLUMBIA - Construction workers at Locust and Ninth streets punctured a gas line on Thursday morning, the latest in a string of gas leak incidents since June 1.
A Jeff Schnieder's Construction Company worker said the team hit the natural gas pipe at about 9 a.m. An Ameren UE worker said it happened during excavation. The leak forced the closure of Ninth Street from Elm Street to Cherry Street.
The general manager of nearby business Shakespeare's downtown, Tobi Epstein, said Ameren was at the scene when the gas leak occurred, and was able to respond quickly.
This is the second gas leak this summer to happen at the intersection of Elm and Ninth streets. The first occurred June 17 and led to the evacuation of the nearby Missourian building.
The assistant Fire Chief of the Columbia Fire Department, Brad Fraizer, said there has been an increase in gas leaks over last summer.
"From June 1st of 2015 to July 21st of 2015, we responded to 21 gas calls, gas leaks or gas odors. During the same time period this year we've responded to 37," Fraizer said.
Fire Department records show the number of emergency calls for outside gas leaks in particular had increased from 4 to 19 during that time frame. Fraizer said the fire department sees increases in certain calls during different times of the year.
"There's more construction activity in the warmer months, and a lot of times they're usually because a contractor has hit a gas leak line," he said. "They do their best to identify those gas lines but sometimes even those best efforts do not accurately identify where they're at."
Ameren spokeswoman Trina Muniz said an increase in gas leaks could be the result when there is economic growth in congested areas.
Fraizer said, as the population grows, calls to the fire department for service are trending up as well.
"There's no formula for that, there just tends to be an increase with regard to population increase," he said.
Fraizer said, when responding to gas leaks, the department first determines wind speed and direction.
"We have combustible gas monitors in all of our trucks and well use those once we arrive on the scene to determine if there is a leak, if there's concentrations in the air that are higher than normal," Fraizer said. "Ameren UE would be the the ones to mitigate the leak, and we work to keep the scene safe until they do so."


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Janacek - Fifteen Moravian Folk Songs for Euphonium and PianoCherry Classics
Janacek, Leos – Fifteen Moravian Folk Songs for Euphonium and Piano.
These are fifteen short, but intense works by Leos Janácek. This music is indeed a great gift to the Euphonium solo literature by Mr. Sauer.
These pieces can be performed by intermediate to advanced performers and are about 9 minutes total in length.Below are a few notes from the arrangement by Ralph Sauer.
Originally for solo piano, the Fifteen Moravian Folksongs are remarkable for their musicality as well as their brevity - the only notated, repeated passage in the entire work is in Number 5. Because Janácek included the text in his piano score (with no indication that it should be sung), and the fact that there are, in many cases, indications that the text is only a first verse, I have included some additional repeats.
The mp3 sound sample is from a recital at the 2012 Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Performance by Ralph Sauer, trombone and Natasha Kislenko, piano.
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General News of Thursday, 6 September 2018
Source: dailyguideafrica.com
The Finance Committee of Parliament yesterday grilled officials of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), led by the Governor, Dr Ernest Addison, over the recent collapse of five indigenous banks, which have now been amalgamated into an entity known as Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited.
The collapse of the banks – Unibank, Biege Bank, Royal Bank, Construction Bank and Sovereign Bank – has resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs in the banking sector.
The committee, chaired by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for New Juaben South, Dr Mark Assibey-Yeboah, expressed concern about the development and sanctioned a parliamentary probe into what went wrong after similar fate had befallen two other banks, UT Bank and First Capital Bank, within a year in order to help prevent future occurrences.
At the meeting yesterday, an outspoken member of the committee and National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo, suddenly stormed out of the meeting, protesting angrily that the information provided by officials of the Bank of Ghana would not help members of the committee to ask probing questions.
According to him, the information provided was an executive summary, which did not include asset quality review on Unibank, contract document by KPMG and Boulders Report.
He, therefore, told journalists that he would not be part of such 'rubber stamp' parliamentary probe.
Interestingly, the NDC MP for Ho Central, Benjamin Kpodo, who is also a member of the Finance Committee, said all the necessary documents had been provided to members by the chairman of the committee.
He revealed that the MP for Bolgatanga Central has the right to recuse himself from the meeting based on his personal beliefs but the committee members had been provided with necessary documents to carry out the probe.
He intimated that apart from all the hard copy information on the executive summary, a 300-paged soft copy document on the subject matter had also been sent to members of the committee through its Whatsapp platform.
The MP for Ketu South, Fifi Kwetey, mentioned that the Bolgatanga Central recused himself on his own accord without the backing of the Minority on the committee.
The first deputy majority chief whip and NPP MP for Kpandai, Matthew Nyindam, who is also a member of the Finance Committee, added that he was not surprised about the premeditated action of the Bolgatanga Central MP because he (Adongo) knew that he was going to be humiliated if he sat through the meeting since he had already taken a stance against the BoG on the matter.
According to the first deputy majority chief whip, Adongo unjustifiably criticized the Bank of Ghana over the collapse of the five banks and that recusing himself due to inadequacy of information provided by the BoG is not only disingenuous but dishonourable on the part of the MP.
Mr. Nyindam disclosed that all the necessary documents had been provided to committee members as attested to by his own Minority colleague Hon Kpodo both in hard and soft copies on the committee's platform long ago.
He said he (Adongo) decided to storm out of the meeting with that flimsy excuse after realizing that all the information would expose him.
The legislator explained that the MP for Bolgatanga Central has the right as a member of the committee to ask for any information if he is not satisfied with those provided.
"Adongo decided to run away because he knew he was going to be exposed badly as a result of his partisan stance against the Bank of Ghana," Mr Nyindam added.
The chairman of the committee, Dr Assibey-Yeboah, disclosed that for now the committee would sit in camera for three days which would end tomorrow, stressing that after all the facts have been put together, the committee would make a decision as to whether there should be full public inquiry into the case or not.
He revealed that the committee, after the three-day probe, would present its report and recommendation to the Speaker of Parliament for further advice and action to be taken.
The committee yesterday met officials of the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance.
It would meet officials of KPMG today, as well as officials of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and National Insurance Commission (NIC) tomorrow before it would prepare its report for the Speaker.


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Your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. OPI has already given us neon polishes before. But these, darlings…these are FULL-SIZE neon shades that will live in their permanent line. So while I think you should rush off and get these, you don't have to.
I got these samples on my hands (haha, literally) just last week and couldn't wait to share them with you.
Juice Bar Hopping is a tangerine orange that is definitely BRIGHT. I adore this. I love orange polishes anyway but this orange, I think, will be an ideal pedicure color this summer. It isn't traffic cone orange but it is certainly just a small notch down.
Aside from Down to the Core-al, Life Gave Me Lemons, Hotter Than You Pink and Juice Bar Hopping, the rest of these aren't true neons. They are definitely bright and stunning shades but true neons? Nope. Lovely nonetheless and I'll be wearing them nonstop this summer. You can also get Put a Coat On!, OPI's white color-boosting base alongside this collection. I used Put a Coat On! underneath each of these polishes but I also swatched them on a nail wheel and you'll be happen to know that they apply just as nice without the white base coat.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Grab your calculators because March 14 marks Pi Day.
Pi is represented by the Greek letter "π" and is the symbol used in math to represent a constant, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, which is approximately 3.14159.
In honor of the the infinite digits, there are several celebrations, freebies and discounts around the city.
Happy Pie Day at Round Rock Library - The Mathnasium is partnering with the Round Rock Library and hosting several pi-themed activities.
Pi Day show at The Liberty presented by AFHC & FXFY - No Cover but must be 21 to enter. No wristband required.
Pi² Day - The Austin Public Library is celebrating all things pi and pie. Come take part in a pie tasting and discussions about the mysteries of pi.
Pi Day Pizza Party - Little Woodrow's on Burnet is hosting a pizza eating contest and deals on pizza all day.
Pi Day Movie at Yarborough Branch - Austin Public Library Yarborough branch is hosting a screening of the Phantom Tollbooth. Free pie will also be available.
Pi Day Dash & Pizza Party - Run or walk to empower young women during Gixo's Pi Day Dash. For every mile completed, Gixo will donate $10 to Girls Who Code.
Boston Market – Use this printable coupon to get this deal: Buy one Pot Pie and a drink, and get one Pot Pie free. March 14 only.
Cici's Pizza – Buy 1 Regular Price Buffet, Get a Second Buffet for $3.14. At participating locations on March 14.
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Urban Bricks Pizza — Urban Bricks is offering all pizzas for $3.14 on Pi Day. The offer is good for dine-in orders only.
Whole Foods – Get large bakery pies for a $3.14 discount on March 14, while supplies last. See more details.


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Author: Pittacus Lore
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date: Aug 3, 2010
Rating: 2/5
Cover Impressions: I got the movie tie-in edition on sale. The cover is decent. It will definitely appeal to boys and the cute guy on the cover will grab the girl's attention. I like the sparks and embers but would have like a little more indication of flame and a clearer image of the symbol in the background.
The Gist: 9 children escaped the doomed planet of Lorien in the middle of an attack by the Mogdorians. (Unsure of the spelling here - don't care enough to go back and check). They have been placed under a "protection" spell that requires them to be killed in order (wonder how they chose who would be number one?). Three have died already and we meet John Smith, number four.
Review: I was pretty exited to read this book. Not because of the movie (didn't know about that) or the plot, but because it was the first book chosen by my new Junior High Book Club. The kids made suggestions and I chose the final pick (mostly based on availability). A lot of my students claimed to have loved this book, so I couldn't wait to see what interested them so much.
By the end, I had begun to doubt their taste. First, the good things. This book has quite a bit of action (mostly at the end). It has a love interest and a main character with super special powers. The plot was interesting enough at the beginning but began to fall apart by the end. Perhaps the problem is that I question while I am reading and many students have not yet learned to do that or do not have a varied repitoire from which to compare writing. Either way, I did have some issues here.
First of all, I liked the premise behind the book but found some plot-holes frustrating. It was never explained WHY the Mogdorians are spending so much time chasing these kids around Earth. They have already gotten what they wanted from Lorien - slaughtering (hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands?) full grown Loriens with developed powers, so why would they be worried about a handful of kids rather than using their resources for a full scale invasion of Earth? I understand that in a series like this, these type of secrets are often saved for further books but it seemed like no-one but me even questioned why John was being hunted. I was also frustrated at the lack of revelations by the end of the novel. I do not need to know EVERYTHING at the end of the first book, but it would have been nice to learn SOMETHING - John could have opened the letter at the very least! The plot itself was fairly predictable and the big shocking moments were things that I had assumed would happen after only the first couple chapters.
The characters were mostly bland and annoying. John refuses to face his situation, seems cocky for no reason and makes selfish decisions that puts everyone else in danger. He has an amazing ability to ignore what is going on around him and seems to be more interested in making out with his girlfriend than training to save his world. Sarah was boring beyond belief - so boring in fact that I just had to go look up her name because I couldn't remember it. She does not appear to have a single flaw and is beloved by everyone, despite her having recently turned her back on her boyfriend and the cheerleading squad - one would think those people might be bitter but, no, they still love her. The side characters mostly blend together, particularly the football players, or are mildly interesting, like Sam, but don't get any real development.
The action scenes in this novel seemed to be missing something. At the end, they were prolonged with attack after attack but still didn't have a real sense of urgency. The
I can understand why my students would have liked this book (many of them liked Twilight after all) but I did not have any desire to read the teaser for the next book, let alone actually continue the series.
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Claudia Hortensia (クラウディア・オルテンシア, Kuraudia Orutenshia?) is the deceased wife of Kirei Kotomine and mother of Caren Hortensia.
Claudia was a terminally ill woman with only a few years left to live. Kirei Kotomine met her while trying to overcome his innate evil nature, believing that being with a woman would be his last attempt to find normalcy. He wished for the ordinary happiness of love and a family despite having no interest in it, ultimately picking a woman with no future. She came to love him, eventually bearing a child, Caren Hortensia. Kirei tried to love her, but felt happiness at her and Caren's suffering and despair. Claudia, knowing of his mentality, tried to save him, but that only made him want to see her grieve all the more. He understood that she truly meant to save him, and despaired that not even she could fill the void within him.
Their relationship lasted two years, Claudia ending up as a disheveled mess of skin and bones in the hospital. Kirei, having given up hope, planned to end his life after saying goodbye to her. He felt it was his duty as the one who "made her his wife as an experiment." He bluntly told her, "I could not love you", to which she responded, "No, you love me" with a smile while taking her own life. As she died, she looked up at him, smiling while saying that Kirei crying was proof of his love. Despite hoping to use her death to prove that he was capable of love and that he deserved to live, he was not actually crying. He only felt sad at the idea that he was not able to kill her himself. He silently left the room after her death, breaking away from the teachings of God.
Claudia was an albino and immune deficient, making it so that she could die from even a tiny wound. Her body always appeared tattered as a result. Caren inherited the aspect of "prone to be plagued by illnesses."[1]
Kirei thinks of Claudia as a saint, understanding his anger and remaining faithful in trying to save him. He believes nobody will ever understand him to such a degree as her.
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Claudia is mentioned in the Heaven's Feel route in Kirei's flashback. He recalls their brief time together, thinking that he cannot even remember her face or voice. He occasionally reminisces that "I wanted to kill her", but he cannot tell if it is pleasure or the grief of having wanted to kill her. He tries not to thinking about it, concluding that her death was meaningless but not wanting it to have been worthless.
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Q: Kirei's wife Ortensia is covered with wounds in the design draft, is it because she has a body similar to Caren's? Also, Command Spells appeared on Kirei due to the fact that he somehow possesses Magic Circuits despite being born in a non-magus lineage. Does this mean Caren also has Magic Circuits?
Q: Kirei's wife Ortensia is covered with wounds in the design draft, is it because she has a body similar to Caren's? Also, Command Spells appeared on Kirei due to the fact that he somehow possesses Magic Circuits despite being born in a non-magus lineage. Does this mean Caren also has Magic Circuits?
A: Kirei's wife is an albino, and is immunodeficient. As a result, she can die from even a tiny wound, thus her body appears tattered. What Caren inherited is the aspect of "prone to be plagued by illnesses". This is truly an ordeal given by God.
About the Magic Circuits, a normal person rarely acquires Magic Circuits. You can consider such cases sudden mutations. However, Kirei is not of this type. Kirei's Circuits were a gift from the divine sacrament, rewarding his father Risei's years of pious worship. Kirei was born with "the right to recreate the miracles in the divine sacrament". This "right", in other words, was the Magic Circuits. Caren did not inherit the Circuits.
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Weighted voting games provide a popular model of decision making in multiagent systems. Such games are described by a set of players, a list of players' weights, and a quota; a coalition of the players is said to be winning if the total weight of its members meets or exceeds the quota. The power of a player in such games is traditionally identified with her Shapley--Shubik index or her Banzhaf index, two classical power measures that reflect the player's marginal contributions under different coalition formation scenarios. In this paper, we investigate by how much the central authority can change a player's power, as measured by these indices, by modifying the quota. We provide tight upper and lower bounds on the changes in the individual player's power that can result from a change in quota. We also study how the choice of quota can affect the relative power of the players. From the algorithmic perspective, we provide an efficient algorithm for determining whether there is a value of the quota that makes a given player a {\em dummy}, i.e., reduces his power (as measured by both indices) to 0. On the other hand, we show that checking which of the two values of the quota makes this player more powerful is computationally hard, namely, complete for the complexity class PP, which is believed to be significantly more powerful than NP.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post7354359253578260901..comments2019-10-10T22:14:00.612-04:00Comments on CommentaramaFilms: Guest Review: Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)AndrewPricehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-36753009006806660722017-01-21T11:17:44.702-05:002017-01-21T11:17:44.702-05:00I am glad this guy didn't do other sequels lik...I am glad this guy didn't do other sequels like Godzilla and a sequel to The Day After Tommorrow.Ben L. Kemerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-8484132305737946292016-10-30T14:15:51.014-04:002016-10-30T14:15:51.014-04:00Whatever filmmaking talent Roland Emmerich still p...Whatever filmmaking talent Roland Emmerich still possesses ought to go to other kinds of films...

Perhaps not. He actually had another movie come out in the last year: Stonewall. Not only did it make about 8 bucks at the box-office, it was also reviled by critics and the LGBT community hated it, too!

As for this movie, I'll admit the trailers made me smile - I'm still a fan of the first one after 20 years - but there was still an air of "Really?!" hanging over the whole thing, and Will Smith's absence didn't help, though many critics later said he made the right choice!

I also hated that they wrote out Margaret Colin's character... and I especially HATED that they didn't bring back Mae Whitman to play the President's daughter. Not hot enough, I guess.ScottDShttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-13958044980969722162016-10-29T11:49:01.096-04:002016-10-29T11:49:01.096-04:00Jason, The Day After Tommorrow had the same proble...Jason, The Day After Tommorrow had the same problem. It was meant to be a stab at the US and conservatives on environmental issues and it came across as so over-the-top stupid that even leftist environmentalists worried that it would turn people off of environmentalism.

Seriously, an ice storm that respects national borders? LOL!AndrewPricehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-5669587677581468592016-10-29T11:44:36.287-04:002016-10-29T11:44:36.287-04:00Thanks, Andrew. Actually, even Twentieth Century F...Thanks, Andrew. Actually, even Twentieth Century Fox kind of knew this was a stinker. They didn't even hold press screenings or give it much pre-release hype.

Speaking of Emmerich's politics, the female president was clearly modeled on Hillary with the pantsuits, plus the actress took inspiration from Hillary, and yet the character commits a really stupid act that makes Earth's situation even worse and she ends up getting killed midway in the movie. She doesn't get to do any of the rallying the nation, leading the war stuff Bill Pullman's President Whitmore did in the first film.

If this was supposed to make the idea of a Hillary presidency look good, they failed horribly!
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As for Emmerich, he's such a leftist ass that I honestly am happy when he fails.AndrewPricehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059293386881623259.post-44123608828478025252016-10-29T07:28:35.665-04:002016-10-29T07:28:35.665-04:00Thanks for the review, Jason! It confirms exactly ...Thanks for the review, Jason! It confirms exactly what I expected: that it was going to be a rehash with all of the trappings but none of the soul of the original. Well, I was expecting some of Emmerich's obnoxious politics as well, though it doesn't sound like he put in enough to be jarring. Either way it doesn't sound like I'm missing anything!

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We are living in an era that doesn't allow for big movie moments any longer. No grand gestures of showing up in the rain, grabbing a hold of someone's face and kissing them as though they are the last person on this earth. While I have had my experiences of movie moments I fear that they are long gone now. People no longer have the attention span to love someone so unconditionally that they are willing to work on their faults or flaws and to show the other person that they matter. It's a sad state of affairs.
This is just the thing that has caught the attention of my mind at this very moment. My mind has actually been reeling since last night. My friend from the northeast was on one of his long drives which is when he likes to catch up. His first question is always, "So how's life?". I tend to actually tell him the truth so my response was, "I'm having an allergic reaction to life right now."
After a bit of discussion about what's been going on we then moved on to family, friends and strangely zodiac signs after a small dabble with politics and the economic temperature. That might be why he and I get along so well. We're both Aquariuses. We share a lot of the same thoughts and sentiments about the same things. It's nice to debate at times but it's also nice to be on the same page as someone who not only shares your thoughts but agrees with stances.
I suppose it was a conversation that I needed to have with someone. We're extremely honest with each other but there is one thing that we don't agree on. At this time in our lives we share one singular commonality with opposing beliefs. So, we had a long conversation about this one commonality and I realized that I was still fighting for someone else.
It's not and has never been my responsibility to explain someone else's faults and I don't know why I still feel the need to. The worst part of it is that (and you all knew this was coming) THE friend has no idea how much I am on his side. At this point, if things haven't changed with us, they are never going to and I understand that. However, I just wished he knew that he might never find another human who has been someone so understand that I feel it my "job" at times to never betray him. Loyalty, you'll find, is a true rare trait that is so underrated.
I don't assume that there will be any life altering event that will happen to him when I am no longer in his life that will make him understand just who I've been to him and I've gotten to the part in the story that I'm starting to no longer care. Yes, I care enough to write about it but no longer to discuss it.
The basic fact is I'm tired of the lies. I'm tired of the excuses. I'm tired of defending someone that doesn't even have the smallest decency to fulfill the smallest of promises. I wish things had stayed the way they were in the beginning. We were carefree. We had fun. I didn't know all these little stories that people divulge without me asking.
I wish I never fell for the boy who both hates himself too much and takes his poor choices out on others. I don't really know at what point this whole thing turned but I used to blame it on falling in love. That's never been the reason though. It was the reason I stayed and it was the reason why he might have thought he could abuse this relationship but that's not what turned things from fun to whatever this had become. I'm not sure where this blame lies…
That is only part of the hail storm of shit that's being dropped in my life right now but for some reason that's what I focus on. Most of the other things I've chosen to adjust my feelings about. For instance, one bad thing happens and after the initial shock of it all I start to think of what was good about that. It's a bit like when they say, "If you ask God for patience does He give you patience or does He give you situations where your patience is tested?".
That's true. I do believe that God gives us lessons and it's up to us to decipher to code. I'm getting better at that and I'm learning to understand the moral of each story. However, this story, without much of a chance for any sort of happy ending, is the hardest one to decode. Yes, there's lessons within this relationship that's taught me things but nothings come to fruition. Yes, it's taught me patience, understanding and kindness but what has it taught him? What's the point of this relationship for him except to practice the ways NOT to do things with others.
I don't give up on things very easily but I am sure that this hasn't been easy at all. At what point is it over? At what point have I learned enough lessons to stop being hurt, lied to and used by the same person? It's not as though I'm not aware of EVERYTHING at this point. There's nothing that shocks me anymore and sadly it's usually the bad stuff.
I'm sure at one point I asked God to bring me someone to love, to care for and to be kind too. It's too bad that THE friend didn't ask for the same things and if he did I'm sure she's the happy one right now, not me.
As I said, things are not going extremely well right now and he's not all to blame, however, he is not someone who should be making things worse. People are supposed to be in your life to make it better. I'm beginning to understand that the reason he could never articulate what I meant to him was that it was never that important to him, or I wasn't. It's hard to articulate, "Well, I'm happy that you let me do these things and that we don't actually have to talk when we're together and that you're a secret." None of those things could be said about me, from any other persons mouth, in my life.
It's a sad state of affairs that even after all those thoughts about him I still have fight in me to prove he's a good and kind person to everyone else or maybe I fight so hard because I'm trying to convince myself.
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It's a cliché but people are an agency's only real asset.
Rachel Bell, CEO and Founder at Shine endorsed this view at Hanson Search's breakfast briefing 'Attracting and retaining talent… The secret to a growing business' this morning.
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1. Anatomy A muscle that stretches or tightens a body part.
2. Mathematics A set of quantities that obey certain transformation laws relating the bases in one generalized coordinate system to those of another and involving partial derivative sums. Vectors are simple tensors.
[New Latin tēnsor, from Latin tēnsus, past participle of tendere, to stretch; see tense1.]
ten·so′ri·al (-sôr′ē-əl) adj.
tensor(ˈtɛnsə; -sɔː)
1. (Anatomy) anatomy any muscle that can cause a part to become firm or tense
2. (Mathematics) maths a set of components, functions of the coordinates of any point in space, that transform linearly between coordinate systems. For three-dimensional space there are 3r components, where r is the rank. A tensor of zero rank is a scalar, of rank one, a vector
[C18: from New Latin, literally: a stretcher]
tensorial adj
ten•sor(ˈtɛn sər, -sɔr)
1. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
2. a mathematical entity with components that change in a particular way in a transformation from one coordinate system to another.
ten•so′ri•al (-ˈsɔr i əl, -ˈsoʊr-) adj.
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New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski was cleared by doctors to play, but he said after training camp Friday that he is not quite at that point just yet.
Gronkowski has participated in individual drills for the past two days and watched from the sidelines during team drills. He also worked with quarterback Tom Brady individually after practice.
Gronkowski said he does not have a timetable on when he will take part in team drills.
"If it was 100 percent, I'd be doing every single little thing," he said. "So, no, I'm not 100 percent, I'm working every single day to get to that."
Gronkowski is working his way back from a torn right ACL he sustained on Dec. 8 against the Cleveland Browns. He also missed part of the season coming back from forearm and back injuries.
The Patriots will have their first practice in pads Saturday, and Gronkowski plans to participate by running routes and working on cutting and planting.
"For the last six months I worked my butt off to be here," Gronkowski said. "Cutting on it, making it stronger, I'm here and I'm ready.
"Running routes, being in the huddle, catching balls from Tom Brady, it's a dream come true again. Feels like it got taken away and I feel like I got it back."
Gronkowski, who is 6-foot-6 and 265 pounds, does not plan to alter how he plays.
"I'm going to go full speed and I'm going to keep smashing and bashing everything I do," he said.
Gronkowski played 16 games in each of his first two NFL seasons in 2010 and '11, but a broken forearm limited him to 11 games in 2012 and he played seven games last year.
"I'm preparing myself to my max ability right now and listening to my trainers so I'm ready to go when it comes down to it," he said.
Last season, Gronkowski had 39 catches for 592 yards with four touchdowns. In four NFL seasons, he has 226 receptions with 3,255 yards with 42 touchdowns. He had 17 TDs in 2011.


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2553 was the first year that saw relative peace for humanity as the Covenant ceased to exist following its collapse during the Great Schism and its defeat at the end of the Human-Covenant War.[1] The end of the war was formalized with a ceremony in March 2553 with a prior treaty agreed upon between the Unified Earth Government and the Swords of Sanghelios in February 2553. Despite the end of large-scale hostilities and the absence of humanity being threatened with extinction, new factions sprung up in the power vacuum left behind by the ancient empire and new battles followed. 2553 was a year that saw the United Nations Space Command make major advances in terms of its technological prowess and military capability, despite a lesser reach over the galaxy incurred by the loss of so many colonies and assets during the decades of war. Ex-Covenant societies were faced with the challenge of redefining their purpose in a galaxy that no longer provided them with the rigid structure the hegemony had. Some sought revenge on humans and some on others from the Covenant. Some sought to be left alone and others made grabs for power. And some, such as Thel 'Vadam's Swords of Sanghelios, made in-roads with their former enemies for the mutual benefit of all parties.
- January 1: After days of no indications that they were soon to be rescued following the destruction of Glyke and the UNSC Vacuna, Gray Team enters cryostasis.[2]
- At some point before January 7, Jun-A266 visits Sarah Palmer aboard Lockhart medical station to recruit her into the nascent SPARTAN-IV program.[3]
- January 7: The first class of the SPARTAN-IV program, consisting of 145 volunteers, begin their augmentation procedures.[4]
- January 8: The Unified Earth Government formally regains its power back from the United Nations Space Command.[5] The newly-elected president, Dr. Ruth Charet gives her inaugural address.[6][7]
- January 15: An ONI agent known as Oberon 5 interrogates the San'Shyuum Alo Sebukah, former Vice Minister of Abnegation for the Covenant, at the Midnight Facility.[8]
- January 26: The Office of Naval Intelligence black operations cell, Kilo-Five, is formed by CINCONI Admiral Margaret Parangosky.
- January 27: Kilo-Five departs Earth aboard the UNSC Port Stanley.[9]
- January 27–31: The UNSC Security Council takes actions to address the state of human colonies. Lord Terrence Hood plans to journey on a diplomatic mission to surviving worlds in order to discuss plans for reconstruction. Kilo-Five supplies arms to the Servants of the Abiding Truth on New Llanelli in the Brunel system. The unit also retrieves an Office of Naval Intelligence spy, Mike Spenser, from a UNSC listening post on Reynes. Commander Musa Ghanem holds a meeting with several admirals at HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6 to discuss the recent creation of the SPARTAN-IV program and the independent branch of the UNSC Armed Forces, Spartan Operations.[10]
- January 31: Dr. William Arthur Iqbal sends a message to his colleagues concerning the ongoing study of Forerunner artifacts and the Excession in particular.[11]
- February 1: Jul 'Mdama joins Avu Med 'Telcam and the Servants of the Abiding Truth in their opposition to the Arbiter, Thel 'Vadam.[12]
- February 1–15: Terrence Hood arrives at Sanghelios to meet with Thel 'Vadam and to formalize a treaty of peace between the Unified Earth Government and the Swords of Sanghelios. Hood also invites Thel to attend a memorial ceremony on Earth dedicated to those who died during the war. Lucy-B091 discovers a population of Huragok within Shield World 006 and the human survivors within the shield world are able to establish communications with the ONI ships prowling the debris field of Onyx. The Huragok bring the shield world into normal space from the slipspace bubble it was residing in, allowing ONI to retrieve Dr. Catherine Halsey, SCPO Franklin Mendez, and the Spartan-IIs and SPARTAN-IIIs of Blue Team. Dr. Halsey is arrested by Captain Serin Osman. ONI dispatches science teams to recover Forerunner technologies from the shield world, designating the sphere as ONI Research Facility Trevelyan at Dr. Halsey's request. Jul 'Mdama is captured by Kilo-Five and is transported to ONIRF Trevelyan.
- February 15: Jun-A266 meets with Edward Buck on Sundown, where the latter had travelled with Veronica Dare for a vacation while on shore leave. Jun offers Buck the opportunity to join the SPARTAN-IV program. To Jun's surprise, Buck declines the offer, feeling that accepting would mean abandoning his team and Dare.[13][14]
- February 19: 000 Tragic Solitude begins to research and catalog the myriad Flood forms and reflects on the uncomfortable truth the parasite exemplifies.[15]
- February 28: The Shadow of Intent is stationed at Earth.[16]
- Andrew Del Rio is chosen as the commanding officer of the UNSC Infinity.[17]
- March 3: In a ceremony presided over by Lord Hood, a monument is erected in the Kenyan savannah near Mount Kilimanjaro to officially mark the end of the Human-Covenant War and to remember those who gave their lives in it. After the ceremony, the Shadow of Intent departs for Sanghelios.[18] Admiral I. Zhou submits a full report of the URNA Southwest Campaign, labeled Sequence Log 03-0997.[19]
- Dr. Catherine Halsey is interrogated by Admiral Margaret Parangosky on Ivanoff Station.
- Dr. Halsey's personal journal is locked up after being analyzed by ONI.
- March 16: Evan Phillips is assigned to an intelligence-gathering mission on Sanghelios.[20]
- Kilo-Five travels to Venezia and meets with Mike Spenser once again.
- An insurgent attack by Jiralhanae servants results in the death of dozens of Sangheili in Ontom on Sanghelios.[17] During the attack, Evan Phillips and a fragment of Black-Box make their way into the Temple of the Abiding Truth. Eventually, Phillips activates a translocation portal within the structure and is transported to Acroli.
- Kilo-Five arrives at Sanghelios to retrieve Phillips. Upon failing to find Phillips in Ontom, it tracks him to Nes'alun Keep, under attack by forces from the nearby Lacalu Keep. Phillips is rescued but the Sangheili in the keep are killed by the invaders.
- March 22: The UNSC Infinity is launched after receiving its final upgrades with Forerunner technology.
- Forces loyal to the Servants of the Abiding Truth launch an assault on Vadam, starting the Blooding Years.[21] This attack is eventually repelled by the arrival of the UNSC Infinity. During the battle, Jul 'Mdama's wife, Raia, is killed.
- Admiral Parangosky approves the deployment of an automated probe delivery craft to Installation 00 using advanced slipspace technology.[22]
- April 1: Jul 'Mdama escapes captivity on Trevelyan via a slipspace portal. He is transported to Hesduros, where he is welcomed by the local Sangheili as a messenger of the gods. Jul uses the locals' religious devotion to his own advantage and the result is the start of a new faction devoted to Covenant ideals.[23]
- April 5: Kilo-Five returns to Venezia in order to track down the Kig-Yar pirate, Sav Fel, and the insurrectionist, Staffan Sentzke. Serin Osman is promoted to Rear Admiral and a small party is held aboard Port Stanley in her honor by Kilo-Five.
- April 14: Sav Fel sells the CCS-class battlecruiser Pious Inquisitor to Staffan Sentzke, who intends to use the ship to force UEG authorities to provide answers about the disappearance of his daughter many years earlier. Fel demonstrates the ship's capabilities by using its energy projector to glass Forerunner ruins on Shaps III.[24] This causes Line Installation 444-447 to send an automated distress signal to Covert Support Base 4276, located on planet Gao in the nearby Cordoba system. The distress call awakens the support base's archeon-class ancilla, Intrepid Eye, from stasis. After her requests for a status report, Intrepid Eye attempts to launch a reconnaissance drone, triggering a cave-in which cripples Support Base 4276 almost entirely.[25]
- Vasily Beloi and Malcolm Geffen infiltrate the Venezian militia in order to gather information about Sentzke and Pious Inquisitor. Following a series of suspicious incidents, Sentzke begins to doubt their cover story and has them detained and tortured. Naomi-010 and Lian Devereaux eventually arrive and successfully extract Mal and Vaz. During the rescue, Sentzke is also taken captive aboard Port Stanley.
- A Kig-Yar crew led by Shipmistress Chol Von tracks down and boards Pious Inquisitor with the intent of seizing the ship for itself. Kilo-Five boards Pious Inquisitor and a skirmish occurs between it and the Kig-Yar. Chol Von eventually has her crew destroy the ship. Staffan Sentzke is presumed dead in the ensuing explosion, but he actually had managed to escape.
- Several tourists exploring Gao's Montero Cave System find themselves miraculously cured of various illnesses and the caves quickly see an influx of sick people hoping for similar miracle cures.[26] The cures are actually the work of the Lifeworker Huragok Roams Alone, attached to Gao's Support Base 4276.[25]
- Commander Murtag Nelson, a field analyst at an ONI listening post, takes note of strange transmissions emanating from the Montero Cave System on Gao. Nelson correctly hypothesizes that a Forerunner ancilla is responding to the bombardment on Shaps III. Admiral Parangosky subsequently gives Nelson command of the 717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion and tasks them with retrieving the Forerunner AI.[24]
- ONI's Materials Group forms the Damascus Ordnance Commission, headed by major defense companies and sponsored by ONI.[27] The commission places several conditions on the use of MJOLNIR GEN2 variants.[28]
- May 6: ONI learns the Banished had raided an air base formerly belonging to the Covenant, and that its leader, Atriox, had been captured and taken aboard the assault carrier Enduring Conviction. Twelve hours later, the Enduring Conviction broke formation and contact with the rest of its fleet. The Conviction was hailed, warned, and then fired upon when it ignored orders. The ship performed evasive maneuvers, returned fire and escaped. Shortly after this, the ship and its crew, led by Let 'Volir, swore fealty to the Banished.[29]
- May 7: The research and development vessel Argent Moon is commissioned by ONI.[30]
- May 14 (approximately): A UNSC task force enters the Cordoba system and requests permission to conduct research in Gao's Montero Cave System. While Gao's planetary government initially denies the requests, President Aponte eventually allows a small research team to land. The UNSC subsequently deploys the 717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion, along with the attached Blue Team, to the Montero region and declares the caverns off-limits to anyone else.[26]
- After the UNSC battalion's arrival, several people are found brutally murdered in the Montero Cave System. The murders are the work of the Forerunner ancilla Intrepid Eye, who seeks to generate conflict among the humans in order to force the UNSC to cease its efforts to capture her.[25]
- A man named W. B. Eton becomes the handler of Catherine Halsey's personal journal and later sends it to someone who was involved in Operation: WHITE GLOVE.
- July 2: The Gao Ministry of Protection's Special Inspector Veta Lopis and her team investigates the recent murders in the Montero Cave System.[31] The Huragok, Roams Alone, is spotted and attacked by the UNSC marine, Private Hayes. Intrepid Eye kills he and Major Ira Halal and discovers a fragment of Wendell, an AI created specifically for Operation: JOVIAN WHISTLE. Veta Lopis learns that the UNSC's investigation on the planet concerns a Forerunner ancilla. Gao Minister of Protection Arlo Casille meets with the dokab Castor of the Keepers of the One Freedom and Reza Linberk of the Venezian militia to plan a coup against President Tejo Aponte.
- July 3: Members of Blue Team accompany Lopis and her partner, Cirilo in a search for the missing Halal and Hayes. They arrive at their location and discover their corpses. Fred recovers the fragment of Wendell from Halal's damaged TACPAD and places him in his helmet's data chip. While investigating the scene, Cirilo finds a trail of blood from Roams Alone and the team resolves to follow it.
- July 4: Intrepid Eye directs Aggressor Sentinels to attack the humans and though they destroy the Sentinels, Cirilo is killed and Olivia-G291's legs are badly wounded. Veta Lopis learns of Gamma Company's unique augmentations and places them, Mark-G313 in particular, at the top of her list of suspects for the murders. The humans are met by Roams Alone, who they agree to take with them back to the surface. The Keepers launch an attack on Wendosa, believing that Intrepid Eye is in the town. The group also dispatches forces into the caverns which come into conflict with Veta and the Spartans.
- July 5: Fred-104 captures Intrepid Eye with a scramble grenade. The ancilla escapes and is pursued by the UNSC and Keepers alike and is eventually recaptured by he, Olivia, and Ash. Fred boards a UH-144 Falcon with the ancilla but is shot down. Veta Lopis attacks Castor and wounds him before the Jiralhanae can harm Fred. The 717th Xeno-Materials Exploitation Battalion's Alpha Company arrives at their location to fend off the Keepers.
- July 6: Blue Team destroys Covert Support Base 4276 with a HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon, having successfully captured the Forerunner ancilla Intrepid Eye. With the UNSC forces withdrawing and the majority of the Keepers of the One Freedom task force killed, the situation on Gao is stabilized; however, the colony is left under a staunchly anti-UEG administration headed by President Arlo Casille.[32] Spartans Ash-G099, Olivia-G291, and Mark-G313 are reassigned to an ONI Ferret unit led by Veta Lopis, Admiral Parangosky having deemed public knowledge of Gamma Company's brain mutations too dangerous.[33]
- Spartans Lucy-B091 and Tom-B292 are assigned to Spartan Operations.[34]
- The official status of Ash-G099, Olivia-G291, and Mark-G313 is changed to killed in action during Operation: JOVIAN WHISTLE[33] as part of the ONI cover-up of Gamma Company.[34]
- The San'Shyuum prelate, Tem'Bhetek, and the Minister of Preparation, Boru'a'Neem, seek revenge against the Sangheili for the losses they incurred during the Great Schism. They hatch a plot to use a prototype Halo installation to commit genocide on Sanghelios. Blaming Rtas 'Vadum personally for the loss of his wife, the prelate attempts to draw him in so he can capture his ship by attacking two Sangheili colonies, Rahnelo and Duraan. The efforts of the San'shyuum are thwarted by 'Vadum and the crew of the Shadow of Intent and Tem realizes that he has been lied to and used by the Minister of Preparation. He ultimately gives his life to destroy the Halo ring.[35]
- October 14: Veta Lopis and her Ferret Team are stationed at UNSC Recreational Facility 6055-NA-A on Neos Atlantis to participate in a training exercise that turns into a fight for their lives as they fall under attack by Dark Moon Enterprises. However, with Spencer Hume and Ota Gallo dead, ONI is able to avert a crippling public relations crisis.[36]
- November 23: Around 1419 hours, Damon, a fifth generation "dumb" Class-L military artificial intelligence, is created.[37]
- November 28: Luther Mann, while exploring Trevelyan, discovers the location of Installation 07.[38]
- A pioneer group arrives at Reach to prepare for the planet's eventual reterraforming.[39]
- The ONI probe delivery drone dispatched in March arrives at Installation 00 and deploys its probes. After initial transmissions confirm the Ark's survival, all of the probes go offline.[22]
- December 6: Vice Admiral Graselyn Tuwa is discovered killed aboard the UNSC Donoma, with her family having been abducted.
- December 8: The Office of Naval Intelligence sends Veta Lopis' Ferret Team to find her killer and rescue her family.
- December 12: Office of Naval Intelligence operative Veta Lopis and her team of Spartan-III Ferrets are present at Trattoria Georgi in New Tyne, Venezia, as part of a mission.[40]
- December 21: Two ONI agents, 'D' and 'S', speculate which are Atriox's motivations after the demise of the Covenant empire.[41]
- The UNSC commissions the UNSC Rubicon, a ship equipped with state-of-the-art Forerunner slipspace drive technology, remote contact teams and survey drones, for a manned mission to the Ark.[22]
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- Gabriel Thorne's grandfather dies.[42]
- Big M Studio, a company that deals with collectible items and replicas, is established.[43]
- Holly Tanaka and two other survivors from Minab's glassing are rescued by the UNSC.[44]
- The UNSC Navy takes inventory of its remaining fleet assets; all surviving warships are recalled to the Sol system. The UNSC Navy has been reduced to a fleet of several hundred vessels as plans for reconstruction are immediately enacted.[45]
- Before May 2553, a iteration of the ENFORCER-class Mjolnir passed tests per the Ankara Field Stricture BL58-0.[46]
- At some point before the ship's official launch, a New Colonial Alliance strike force led by Ilsa Zane infiltrates the UNSC Infinity and briefly commandeers the flagship, but is defeated by the five Spartan-IVs aboard the vessel at the time.[10]
- The Smart AI Leonidas is created around this year.[47]
- The M510 Mammoth,[48] the AV-49 Wasp,[49] and the STINGER-class Mjolnir[50] are introduced.
- Gudam Keschun is born.
- ^ Halo Wars 2 GAMEPLAY - E3 2016 Interview (Interview with Kevin Grace) - "The Covenant are dead"
- ^ Halo: Envoy, Chapter 12
- ^ Halo: Initiation, Issue #1
- ^ Halo Waypoint - Spartans
- ^ Halo Waypoint: Catalog Interaction (Query Answer: Human records indicate transition to noncombatant administrative control [ref: UEG] [January 8, 2553]. No notable adjustment in military [bureaucratic tactical] behavior and scope of authority.)
- ^ Halo Waypoint - Halo: Glasslands excerpt, Chapter 2
- ^ Jessica Shea Twitter Today in Halo - 1/8/2553
- ^ Halo Legendary Crate, Data Drop #8
- ^ Halo: Glasslands, page 79
- ^ a b Halo: Initiation, Issue #3
- ^ Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, From the Office of Dr. William Arthur Iqbal
- ^ Jessica Shea Twitter Today in Halo - 2/1/2553
- ^ Halo: New Blood, pages 49-55 (Google Play edition)
- ^ Twitter: Today in Halo 2/15/2553
- ^ Halo Wars 2, Phoenix Logs — An Uncomfortable Truth Part 1
- ^ Halo Waypoint: Catalog Interaction - Page 14
- ^ a b Halo: The Thursday War
- ^ Halo 3, campaign level Halo
- ^ Halo Legendary Crate, Data Drop #2
- ^ Jessica Shea's Twitter - Today in Halo: 3/16/2553
- ^ Halo: The Thursday War, page 28
- ^ a b c Halo: Hunters in the Dark, Chapter 2
- ^ Twitter: Today in Halo 4/1/2553
- ^ a b Halo: Last Light, pages 22-23 (Google Play edition)
- ^ a b c Halo: Last Light, pages 36-39 (Google Play edition)
- ^ a b Halo: Last Light, pages 8-10 (Google Play edition)
- ^ Halo Mythos, page 128
- ^ Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide
- ^ Halo Wars 2, Phoenix Logs — Rise of Atriox III
- ^ Halo Waypoint: Argent Moon
- ^ Halo: Last Light, pages 5-6 (Google Play edition)
- ^ Halo: Last Light, Chapter 28
- ^ a b Halo: Last Light, Chapter 28, pages 330-331 (Google Play edition)
- ^ a b Halo Waypoint: Catalog Interaction - Page 38
- ^ Halo: Shadow of Intent, pages 79-80 (Google Play edition)
- ^ Halo: Fractures, "A Necessary Truth"
- ^ Halo: Retribution, chapter 4
- ^ https://twitter.com/bsangel/status/670658429149540352, Today in Halo
- ^ Halo Waypoint - Catalog Interaction (Page 43)
- ^ Halo: Retribution Chapter 1
- ^ Halo Wars 2 - Phoenix Logs: Rise of Atriox IV
- ^ Halo: Escalation - Issue #7
- ^ Halo: Reach Legendary Edition - Noble team Statue Instructions
- ^ Halo: Escalation - Issue #17
- ^ Halo Mythos, p. 132
- ^ Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide - Page 152
- ^ Halo: Bad Blood
- ^ Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual, page 202
- ^ Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual, page 204
- ^ Halo Waypoint: Canon Fodder - Tales & Stingers