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PathPix Review
- Publisher: Kris Pixton
- Genre: Board
- Released: 6 May, 2009
- Size: 4.1 MB
- Price: $1.99
- Multiple levels can be continued if you exit the application.
- Players have the option to use their iPod during gameplay.
- There are around 169 different and increasingly difficult levels to play through.
- There are no highscore options, so the game is a more casual puzzle game.
- No original game sounds or music.
PathPix is highly recommended if you enjoy simple, yet challenging puzzle games with plenty of levels and a ton of replay value.
- Full Review
- App Store Info
PathPix is a puzzle game where players must draw lines between matching coloured numbers to make an image. The lengths of the lines are restricted by the numbers at the two ends. For example, if you want to join up two boxes of five, the path between them must be five spaces long.
Players drag out a path once they have found a matching pair of numbers in close proximity to each other. Players can also drag the drawn line back to its starting box in order to undo it or adjust it. The numbers are coloured coded to not only help with the puzzles, but also make a fun picture to reward players at the end of each puzzle.
There is no game sound at all but players are free to use their iPod during gameplay. The game features only one main game mode and there are no highscore options at all, so this is a simpler completion based game, rather than a score oriented one.
PathPix is a highly addictive game and one that puzzle game fans should definitely pick up. The game is simple to play but very hard to finish. And with the vast 169 levels available and continue options for multiple levels, this isn't something you can clock in half an hour or so.
New version with 25 MORE puzzles!
Added: Advanced Levels section with 25 challenging puzzles, bringing the total puzzle count up to 169.
What people are saying about PathPix
"Discover a Hidden Gem - PathPix for iPhone ... is a harmonious blend of drawing, connect the dots, and find the hidden picture. With dead simple rules and fluid controls, PathPix will keep you entertained for hours ... Touch controls are very intuitive and work well. PathPix offers a wonderfully addictive gaming experience." - by AppSmileTeam
"PathPix ... is a superb implementation of the numbers-linking puzzle for iPhone and iPod Touch users." - by JohnB, JayIsGames
"There are a lot of awesome games in the store, but this is definitely the one I enjoy the most. ...Great pick for any puzzle fan. The price is a steal for this much gameplay. Solid controls, polished graphics, lots of content, challenging." - by Debbie, In Touch Reviews Hall Of Fame
Simple rules - complex puzzles - hidden pictures!
Draw paths with your finger, connecting pairs of colored numbers. The length of each path must match the numbers on the two endpoints. Draw backwards or double tap to correct mistakes. There's only one way to do it, and all squares will contain a piece of a path when the puzzle is solved.
Two ways to navigate while solving:
---Tap the zoom button for an overview, then touch the screen where you want to play next.
---Pan to show another area of the board. Put your finger down any place WITHOUT A NUMBER and move it around. Simple, intuitive, fast.
PathPix includes 169 beautiful puzzles. When completed, all the colored paths in each puzzle form a miniature picture. Each puzzle includes an appropriate quote, ranging from wry to witty to profound, as a reward for success.
PathPix is based on the PC game "PathPix" by KpixGames.
Game play is similar to Conceptis "Link-a-Pix" and Nintendo DS Pic Pic "Drawing".


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Danielle Arbid
Danielle Arbid (born Lebanon, 1970) studied literature in Paris, after which she followed her intuition and started making films. Her films have screened at several festivals including Locarno and Cannes. Her film credits include "In the Battlefields" (2004) and "A Lost Man" (2007).
- BEIRUT HOTEL (Director - 2011)
- BEIRUT HOTEL (Scriptwriter - 2011)
- APACHES (Cast - 2013)

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As of Saturday, February 11, 2012
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PINEHURST — Keith Jones called his Terrell Academy girls basketball team "the quietest 20-3 team in the state" on Friday night after the Lady Eagles won their eighth region title in nine years.
And the fact TAE isn't getting a lot of recognition is just fine by Jones.
"All year long, all we've heard is that Gatewood and Christian Heritage are the teams to beat (in Class AA)," Jones said. "Well, we beat both those teams last year on our way to the state title, so if people keep wanting to overlook us, that's OK. We're just fine not being the favorite."
Even if they should be.
The Lady Eagles, who won back-to-back Class A titles in 2008-09 and 2009-10, moved up in 2010-11 to win it all in AA. And Friday, they claimed their second straight GISA Region 3-AA title with a 65-43 wallopping of Fullington behind four double-figure scorers: Lauren Barfield (18 points), Marilauren Farr (16), Maura Milliron (15) and Alex Barfield (14).
TAE led, 42-17, at the half and never looked back, and now they will be the No. 1 seed in the first round of next week's state tournament, which they host. The Lady Eagles will open against Curtis Baptist on Wednesday.
GISA REGION 3-AA TITLE GAME — FULLINGTON BOYS 57, SGA 50: After stomping Fullington by 30 just two weeks ago in Damascus, the Warriors' hot hands went ice cold Friday as they fell one win short of the region title for the second straight season.
"The shots that fell at our place simply didn't fall at theirs," SGA coach David Byrne said. "We couldn't find the bucket (Friday)."
McKinley Chambless led SGA with 17 points, followed by Kameron Whitaker (13) and Nate Lingo (12). The loss now means that SGA will have to settle for the No. 2 seed when the Class AA state tournament starts next week in Dawson.
But that's not the only bad news for the kids from Damascus, who had one of the best seasons in school history this year at 19-4 overall.
The Warriors will have to open up against defending state champ Frederica on Thursday, after Frederica lost a coin flip for the No. 1 seed, then fell in overtime of its region tournament semifinals to drop all the way to the No. 4 seed.
DWS boys, girls win semis matchups; Gruhl one away from 1,000
TIFTON — One more.
That's all Deerfield boys basketball coach Gordy Gruhl and his team need to not only secure the GISA Region 3-AAA title, but give Gruhl career-win No. 1,000.
The Knights handed Gruhl No. 999 on a silver platter Friday with a 60-44 rout of rival Westfield to set up a showdown for all the marbles tonight against another rival, Sherwood, at ABAC. DWS has already beaten Sherwood twice this season, but Gruhl said he's taking nothing for granted.
"It's never easy," he said.
Weston King led the way with 12 points in Friday's win for Deerfield, which also got 10 from junior star Ramello Carter, who scored his 1,000th career point in the win. Sam Shellhaas also added 10 points.
Tonight's title game is 6:30 p.m.
DEERFIELD GIRLS 36, TIFTAREA 25: The Lady Knights also advanced to the region championship game, which will be played at 5 p.m. today at ABAC.
Nyla Perry led the way with 12 points, followed by 10 from Courtney Kelson, while Heather Lash added seven rebounds.
The win sets up a rematch with rival Westfield tonight in the finals. The two teams split during the regular season with DWS winning most recently in Albany to secure the No. 1 seed.
More like this story
- All eyes on a championhip ( February 14, 2012 )
- TUESDAY PREP HOOPS ROUNDUP: DWS boys coach Gruhl on verge of career win No. 1,000 ( February 8, 2012 )
- PREP ROUNDUP: DWS boys, girls win region ( February 4, 2012 )
- Area GISA basketball tournaments begin today ( February 7, 2011 )
- GISA REGION TOURNAMENT ROUNDUP: TAE girls win 14th straight, cruise into 3-AA title game ( February 10, 2012 )


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- Jan 14:
- Target's latest design collaboration: Peter Pilotto
- Apr 29:
- Target, Wired magazine join to offer endorsed tech products
- Feb 13:
- Target's high-fashion partnerships will continue, retailer says
- Feb 2:
- Target teams with Prabal Gurung for latest design collaboration
- Dec 19:
- No frenzy for Neiman Marcus items at Target
- Nov 29:
- Neiman's, Target hope for a hit, not a Missoni
- Jul 10:
- Target and Neiman Marcus team up for holiday designer extravaganza
Target's latest limited-edition designer partnership certainly went better than the one before it.
The Minneapolis-based discounter teamed with designer Prabal Gurung, offering a line of floral dresses and women's fashion accessories that proved to be a hit with shoppers.
Two days after the items went for sale at 8 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, many items in the collection were already sold out. Online availability was also scarce, especially in popular sizes.
"Across the country, we saw guests lined up excited to shop, and we've seen a really strong turnout," said Target spokesman Joshua Thomas. While he was unable to provide sales figures, Thomas said, "a number of items are selling out, but the collection is available in stores and online."
That's a pattern Target has seen before, in fashion collaborations with Missoni and Jason Wu. But two months ago, one Target collaboration was a bit of a dud.
A designer pairing with high-end retailer Neiman Marcus drew mostly yawns, as critics found those offerings random, overpriced and uninteresting. After weeks of sitting unsold on store shelves, Target finally marked down the items in a clearance sale.
The 90 items in the Prabal Gurung collection won't suffer that fate. The collection of tops, dresses, shoes, handbags and jewelry are already showing up on eBay, at much higher prices than the $12.99 to $199.99 offered at Target stores.
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LUBBOCK, (KCBD) - An era of politics in West Texas is over. Some describe the District 83 race as a Cinderella story. Charles Perry, a Tea Party conservative who was outspent by his opponents throughout the entire race, points to his campaign's grassroots efforts.
Perry will now represent the man who represented him for 30 years, Delwin Jones.
Nearly 100 people gathered at Perry's watch party and loud cheers rang through the room as the first early numbers were posted. Perry clinched the run-off win by a large margin receiving 58 percent of the votes from the five county district.
"It's just part of the process. I respect Mr. Jones and his 30 years of experience. He has done a lot of good things," says Perry who will take Jones seat.
Perry says he wants his voters to hold him accountable and says his accounting skills will help him with the budget in Austin.
Gov. Rick Perry, no relation to newly elected state representative, called Charles Perry to congratulate him on his new job. Perry says he plans on spending the summer working to build relationships before the session starts in January.
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State comes through with off-ramp cash
"We're coming here to remodel the house in Blaine and we know that comes with disruptions," said Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) assistant regional administrator Todd Harrison, who is overseeing the state's reconstruction of the truck route.
Harrison told Blaine city council at their April 10 meeting that the project's schedule and predicted traffic flow changes would be available at a May 4 open house, the first of several designed to lessen the impact of the $35 million project on the community.
The project is scheduled to start at the end of the month and some preliminary work was already in progress, Harrison said. The project will span two construction seasons and in this first season Harrison said, "what will happen is a lot of retaining wall construction," along the existing roadway as the grade is lowered. The road itself is not anticipated to close completely at any time during the project, but D Street will be closed next year at the truck route as the new D Street overpass is built.
Harrison said an email notice list will be available at the upcoming meeting for members of the public to sign up for. He added the WSDOT website would be regularly updated with notices of road or lane closures.
Council members were also interested in news that a combination of federal funding and a match of $15 million recently approved by the state legislature would pay for reconstruction of the downtown Blaine on and off-ramps.
"We are fully funded to build that," Harrison said, and they were working with General Services Administration planners to ensure that they are ready with a design to match the alternative chosen by GSA for a new Peace Arch port of entry.
Council member Jason Overstreet said one of his main concerns as changes are made to how travelers access Blaine is that changes are also made to signage. "I'm not advocating sign pollution and I know the border's there but there's also our city," he said.
City manager Gary Tomsic agreed that this would be an appropriate time to implement an earlier study, which advocated three changes in freeway signage. "It's surprising but many people don't even know Blaine is on the water," he said.
Blaine public works director Steve Banham said the improvements to the truck route would incorporate better signage to direct travelers on that route into downtown and back to the highway. "The path will be much better labeled," he said.


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Bella's happily ever after lasted two days. This is Bella's own account of what happened after Breaking Dawn, her growing understanding of her powers, her battle to remain with the man she loves, finding her place in her new family, and the ever-present threat of the Volturi.
New posting Chapter 55 - Postscript
Cold Gray Light
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From the moment I walked through the door I could feel his eyes on me. Boring into me, owning me, watching even the minutest move I made.
I thought that I'd lose this intuition when I became a vampire. But in reality it had just got stronger along with everything else.
I thought for a moment about the one big change that my transformation had made, my thirst. Although I was still young, and the thirst for blood should be overwhelming, I had been able to handle it from the first moment I awoke in my new life. No one knew why that was. I could cope with human scents even up close, when I should have wanted to drink them dry. The scent caused me physical pain, an intense burning from my nostrils all down my throat, and feeling my throat squeezing tight with the dryness. But it was bearable. This was unusual for a new born. My kind usual manage this much control after a few years. But even with my self control the thirst was still there, the longing for something to put out the dryness.
My mind churned again. My mind could think of so many things at once. The dryness was always one of my thoughts, sometimes near the surface, then moving back into the background. I could keep all the thoughts in my mind -- juggling two, five, ten thoughts in parallel -- but never mixing them. Like watching ten TV channels at once. Another vampire trait.
Maybe I was just being paranoid. Maybe there was no one looking at me. I still hated attention just as I'd done as a human, I still shied away from it. I was just letting my imagination run away with me again. No one was looking at me. But I could hear his heartbeat six feet to my left, slightly behind where I was standing. He was sitting on a chair next to the loveseat. He was close enough to feel the warmth of his skin in the cool of the morning air. I could smell the strong scent of the skin pouch he wore round his neck. A smell that forced out every lesser smell from that part of the room, like a car headlamp blinding out a flashlight. It was not just the animal fur with its heavy notes that I could smell, but what was inside it. The herbs and berries that it contained, each type giving a new harmony to the smell. Some sharp, some sweet. Some I knew -- citrus, juniper, cinnamon -- some I had no words for.
Maybe he was just looking at Nessie like everyone else in the room. My four month old daughter was reciting a poem for her audience in her beautiful childish voice, complete with dramatic pauses and carefully characterized accents for the speeches. She was a very advanced four month old. She looked more like a small four year old, but she would have been counted as a genius in any preschool. This was because she was half vampire and half human, and of course could never be allowed in preschool. Her brown hair, with a tinge of bronze that came from Edward, fell down her back in beautiful curls. Her eyes were a warm milk chocolate color that had been mine when I was human, and were now excited by the attention she was receiving. Her complexion was pale with a healthy pink glow of excitement. We knew now that her rate of growth and progress would slow and she would be fully mature in another 6 and half years, and then live forever. We'd learned this from Nahuel only two days before. My dark worries of losing Nessie had vanished. We'd thought we would have to watch our daughter grow old and die in fifteen short years, and we would mourn her for ever.
I didn't look to check if I was right about Nahuel and his staring. I had caught his eye only once that morning, when we came in and gave the usual greeting to our family and their two remaining guests.
I still didn't understand why these guest were still here. Yes, I was grateful to them, especially him. So grateful it hurt. He had saved us all: my daughter, my husband, my vampire family, my wolf friends, and me. And he put himself and his father and his sisters in danger. How could I not be grateful to him. We all were.
I'd asked Edward twice why they had not left with the other guests after the standoff with the Volturi. The first time was after the celebrations when all the other guests had left and we had taken Nessie back to our cottage to sleep in her own bed. This was the first day that we'd met them, the first day of the stares. Edward had given his answer, saying Nahuel was so glad to know that a family like ours could exist. A family with a half vampire child, the only one Nahuel knew of that was not related to him, and a surviving mother. Nahuel's mother died in child birth and so did the mothers of his half sisters.
It is rare to find a vampire who would want a physical relationship with a human woman, even rarer to find a women who survived such an encounter. Her life could end at any moment if he did not concentrate fully on keeping her alive. And what about the outcome of such an encounter? Mortals are not compatible with half vampire babies, the babies are so much stronger than the women. I had only survived thanks to the care given to me by my vampire family and because Edward changed me into a vampire as soon as the baby was out. The memories of this violent birth were now dimming for me. The vampire venom had mended the terrible damage and left me whole, strong, and beautiful.
According to Edward, Nahuel had spent his long life, over 150 years, thinking he must be evil to the core to have killed his mother. But seeing me set him free from his guilt. He now blamed his father for not caring for his mother as Edward had for me, and for not changing her when Nahuel ripped his way out of her.
The second time I'd asked Edward why Nahuel and his aunt (a full vampire) were still with us, Edward said that they wanted to learn more about our vegetarian lifestyle. This was how we liked to describe our abnormal hunting habits in the Cullen family. Unlike other vampires we only hunted animals, not humans. This gave us distinctive golden eyes which intrigued the normal red-eyed vampires. When I asked this second time, it was not what Edward had said that set me thinking but the way he said it. If I wasn't his wife and didn't know him so well I would not have noticed the slight tightening of his straight shoulders under his tan colored jumper, and that he was holding his perfect jaw a eighth of an inch higher than normal. He was lying to me.
Edward lied a lot. He had to. When you can read the minds of everyone in a mile radius then you have to lie to appear normal. You have to learn to ignore the thoughts most of the time. You have to answer only the questions people say out loud and not all the far-reaching ones they think in their heads but don't dare ask. Edward also felt he must not betray confidences of those around him. It was not as though he could stop hearing thoughts if he wanted to, and not as if people could stop thinking when he was around, so he just didn't pass these thoughts on. I was a shield which meant that he could not read my mind, not even when I was only human. Now that I was a vampire I had learned to remove my shield if I wanted, but I could only do so for a few moments at a time and even then it was exhausting work.
But why would he lie to me about why Nahuel and Huilen were still here? We had just made it through the worst danger imaginable: the whole of the Volturi forces lined up against us, the judges, jury and executioners of the vampire world. We had survived that, so what now? What was he covering up? Surely we had to have a break from peril sometime.
Maybe bad luck was something that I'd brought with me into this life. Since I met Edward as a human I had always had bad luck. My life before Edward, before my return to Forks to live with my Dad, Charlie, was a quiet life in the big city of Phoenix with my Mom, Renée. The memory of this former life was becoming hazy, almost a pre life to my human life, as if I was now in my third life, not my second. I'd had too much on my mind to sit down and think about it, though that was the only way my family said that I would remember it for the future. As I remembered it now, it was a happy but lonely time of looking after my hair-brained mother and being the adult in the relationship even though I was the child. She didn't need to be looked after in a physical way but in an emotional one, helping her to organize and control her life. I was the one who made sure we went to the store when we needed groceries and that we went to the bank when the bills needed to be paid. In many ways you could say I was her keeper rather than her daughter. This role was taken by Phil, her husband of nearly three years.
I argued with myself that I had already brought my shield through to my vampire life along with my strange ability for self control. I was sure that I could not have brought anything else. I had left my clumsiness behind, which was a truly good thing. I now moved so fast and was so strong that if I was clumsy lots of things would get broken. Not just inanimate objects, but living things. Even people.
I looked over at Edward, to keep my eye from straying to Nahuel. His beauty never failed to amaze me. He was stunning. His eyes were a warm amber color. But this morning more like stone than liquid. Something was bugging him. No doubt he was hearing things he didn't like. His face muscles twitched slightly and his teeth locked together noiselessly. His smile remained, a facade to keep the others away from his upset within. I had no idea what he had heard or who it was that was having these thoughts, but my mind turned to Nahuel again, though I didn't let my eyes follow. Edward would tell me when it was right and certainly not in the middle of this gathering.
Edward applauded when Nessie came to the end of her poem, pride now on his face. I felt a jolt of joy at his pride. I was proud of her, naturally, and applauded loudly too. But to have him so in awe of her gave me such a feeling of belonging. I had, in the end, been able to give him something so worthwhile. A daughter, our miracle. It made up for the lack of balance in our relationship. He had given me everything: his love, his life, my new life, money, possessions, a home, a car, a family. But the one thing that that he had never imagined, that none of our vampire family had thought possible, came from me. She was a delight to them all, and especially Edward.
It was only as I turned away from Nessie's performance that I noticed Alice was staring into thin air, her eyes out of focus, completely still. I knew she was seeing something. My sister's ability to see into the future was enviable. It had made her top of the Volturi's list for acquisitions. It was this ability that had saved the family and herself many times over. The future she saw was only one of the possible outcomes. If decisions that had been made were changed then what she saw would change.
"Demetri is coming," she said simply in a clear chiming voice, not altering her stance at all. "Aro has decided. He will follow Carlisle to us."
Carlisle was at her side in an instant. "But why?" he whispered. "Why now?".
The image of the the Volturi tracker was instantly in my mind. It was not possible for anyone normal to run from Demetri. He had a gift for finding them. But this gift needed access to someone's mind, and it was something I could block with my shield. As well as being a tracker, Demetri was a warrior, with centuries of experience working with the Volturi.
"But why, Alice?" he asked again.
Alice had gone back into her trance. This time it took her over a minute to come round. "He comes only to observe," she said with a little relief in her voice. "Aro will order him to stay with us and just observe. He is to watch Nessie grow for Aro and to find out more about the wolves for Caius. He is to cause us no trouble. He will be ordered to hunt like us. Aro wants to see how this will change his character. He is report back regularly by letter. This order will be made at full council the day after tomorrow. He will arrive three days after that."
She looked around the stunned room.
"Please look for more," Carlisle urged her.
"Demetri will bring a note with him from Aro but they know that I can see what it says so you will be forewarned. Aro is staring at it so that I can read it...
My Dearest Friend Carlisle,
I am sending my dear one Demetri to visit you as an emissary. I feel that our last meeting left a rift between us which I want to close. I have asked Demetri to learn about your life style and your beloved granddaughter so that we may better understand each other in future.
I ask you to take Demetri into your hearts and your home, and to this end I will ask him to make himself useful to you and cause you no trouble. Please use him as a son.
Yours in friendship,
Carlisle looked aghast. "Is there more?" he said, shaking his head.
Her face returned to the distant mask, but seconds later disgust was clear on it. She came back to the present again shaking her head. "Uh, that is so gross".
"I saw part of the inner council meeting that was only the family, no guard. It is so gross." she said, hardly able to speak for revulsion. "Aro says he wishes to watch a half vampire child develop first hand. He says that he will order Demetri to try to father a child when he has returned from his visit. He laughs and says that he may have learned some restraint from us. The mother is to be the only human they trust, their administrator Gina. They will promise her immortality if she successfully gives birth, but she has no choice. If she says no, she's lunch. He says it will be a great honor for Demetri to father a child to be brought up and studied in Volterra. Caius is against the idea, the decision will be put off until a later date... I can't see further than that, I'm not attuned to them, I can't see so far ahead into their futures, I can't see if she will become pregnant or if they will kill her, it is many months away, it may change."
There was stunned silence.
All the joy after the last successful encounter with the Volturi was gone.
Then the speculation started. Alice could see the event but not the motivation behind it. It boiled down to three simple questions: why this? why now? and why Demetri? A dozen answers to each question came from the gathered family. The most likely answer was that they wanted to catch us doing something against the rules as soon as possible, and Demetri can stand up for himself.
The others gave little thought to the planned baby. It was beyond the immediate worry and didn't affect us personally. But my mind was on Gina and how I could help her. I had only just survived my own pregnancy and I had had good medical care and love from all my family. I felt cold, cold to the heart.
Had I started some new vampire fashion? Would lots of vampire males want to father children? And what of the vampire females, would they want to become stepmothers? I thought of the loss of human life. I thought of Gina.
I found myself a spot on the floor and sat there still, shocked, horrified.
The discussion went on for nearly an hour, until Carlisle looked at the clock and said that he had to go for his shift at the hospital.
He turned to our guests, "Nahuel, Huilen. It may be best if you were not here when Demetri comes to call. I do not wish to ask you to leave but for your own safety I must ask you to think about what you want to do. You know you have our thanks for what you have done for us, and I owe you for the safety of all my family. You are welcome here at any normal time."
It was Huilen who spoke this time. She spoke simply in her heavy accent. "We will leave before he arrives."
Carlisle smiled warmly at her. "That is for the best. We can visit you before long, and maybe meet Nahuel's sisters if that is possible."
The others continued to speculate after Carlisle had gone, Emmett debating with Jasper the possibility of beating Demetri in a fight. Jasper thought that if there were several of us it may be possible, but it would only bring the rest of the guard down on us, a battle which we would not win this time.
Alice touched me lightly on the arm, tutting at my pants and jumper combination. My favorite sister was never happy with my lack of fashion sense. But she could see the future, and would have known the day before about this particular lapse of mine. I thought to myself that I would suggest to her that she warns me in advance next time, so that I don't disappoint her again.
"You know, I thought you would have learned a little by now Bella," she chided quietly. "I will just have to take you back to your cottage and show you how to match up those pants myself. I didn't spend weeks putting together your wardrobe for you to use it like this."
That morning I must have really gotten under her skin. How could she care so much about fashion when she'd just given us the news about Demetri? Really. It made no sense.
I looked down at my outfit. It didn't look that bad to me. I'd made sure that some of the threads in the jumper were exactly the same tone as the pants, but if it made her happy we could be home and back in a very short time. A few minutes out of the house would do me some good.
"Edward," she chimed. "I'm taking Bella back to your cottage, can you look after Nessie by yourself?" The look on her face one of great effort.
He smiled warmly at her. "By myself? I don't think that I will ever be allowed to look after Nessie by myself. She has too many fans for that." He looked quizzically at her while he made his answer, as if they were having another inaudible conversation but failing to understand each other.
It was true. Most of the room were watching Nessie again, just waiting to see what she would do next, fascinated by her. Her Aunt Rose and Grandma Esme sat on the floor with her.
"We'll see you soon," Alice chimed again, wincing with effort, like a small child trying to remember a really difficult times table sum.
As soon as she said this I looked around the gathering to smile a normal goodbye. Then I saw him, Nahuel. He was staring at me. Staring at me with total adoration in his eyes as if I were the only thing he could see in the world. The only thing he had ever seen. Like a blind man seeing the sun for the first time.
Oh no... no please no, I screamed inside my head. My face turned from a smile to sheer dread, his calm face turning from adoration to puzzlement at my expression.
Edward stiffened beside me, but said nothing.
Alice tugged my sleeve and we were off through the patio doors at the rear of the house, running back to my cottage hand in hand. I was only too glad to go, and Alice's excuse was perfect.
As soon as we were over the river she said in a very hushed voice, "Shield me, stop him reading my mind."
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I can't comment on your theory 'niether to confirm or deny' as they say.I'm really please that you are coming up with theories though.
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The dream was no mistake but part of the plot.
As I say I can't confirm or deny any theory - it would ruin things.
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Oh where oh where could the next chapter be...Oh where oh where could it be??? You're a die hard editing junkie aren't you, lol? I wish I had enough time to edit every chapter to every story. Okay, so it's somewhat my fault for posting so many stories at once, I know, but I swear I was threatened if I didn't do it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it, lol.
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Enough of my garbage, lol. Where is that next chapter???
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Now who was it that phone Edward????
I knew it was Carlisle's ring tone. Edward greeted him and asked after Tania's clan.
"Well, I've checked them all over and physically. They are all fine, although Eleazar was a little weak because of the vomiting and because he could not hunt. But they have been well all day, with no return of nausea. The only other symptom is some sight disturbance. Before they felt nauseous they have noticed the room shimmers slightly. But as I said, they have been well all day and Eleazar has managed to quench his thirst, so they are all feeling a lot more like their old selves."
"Not so much of the old!" I heard a voice tinkle from the background.
"When did they first notice the symptoms?" Edward asked, interested now.
"As soon as they got home. They went into the the sitting room and Eleazar was violently sick, and all the others felt nauseous and had to go outside for air.
"And it's not just some off animals they hunted?"
"No, they have all had different things at different times and places."
"Was there anything else unusual when they got home?"
"Yes, that is really the much more concerning thing. There has been a stranger here. None of them knew the scent and I don't know it either although it is old now so I may be mistaken."
"Well it's a possibility. I'm not sure why they would have come, or why they would have stayed so long. It's possible that they wanted our friends here to witness on the Volturi side. But why would the emissary have stayed here until they returned home rather than joining his masters? It's all a bit confusing."
"He stayed?"
"Yes, very confusing, his scent was fresh when they came home."
"And they were ill straight away, as soon as they walked through the door? And they were sure he'd left?"
"Yes, he'd definitely gone. He was nowhere to be seen. Now that's an assumption, it could be a female of course."
"Do you think the intruder could have left something to make them ill, a noxious gas in the house or something?"
"It's possible. But why would they have left something that just makes people sick? I can't make sense of it. If they were here to punish the coven they would have been much more effective, surely? Some of the guard could have been waiting for them, Alex or Jane. That's not a fight they could have won alone."
"True enough." A shudder passed thorough Edward as he said it.
Carlisle continued, "We know there's been an intruder, but leaving a noxious gas in the house to make them ill? It does sound a bit farfetched."
"Have they been ill any other time?"
"Twice more. Once it was only Kate and Garrett. They were sitting on the veranda and saw a shimmering in the trees and were hit by nausea. Garrett says it's the first time he has been nauseous in two hundred years. He's blaming the vegetarian diet, but I have tried to convince him that it's really not the cause. Eleazar felt it then as well, but he was at the back of the house and just felt a little nauseous. The next time was when ... "
My cell phone rang shrilly, Alice's ring tone. I stopped listening to Carlisle and answered my phone. "Hi Alice."
"Carlisle is just about to be sick. I can see someone with him in about forty-five seconds." Alice raced out.
"What's that? He is just on the phone to Edward at the moment. He's fine."
"He is not fine! Tell him to get the hell out of there right now. I can't talk to him myself, he's on the phone to Edward," Alice insisted.
I jumped across the room and pulled the phone out of Edward's hand and started shrieking down it, "Carlisle get out of the house now! Alice says you have to move right now!"
Edward stared at me and I thrust my phone at him, "Alice."
Carlisle was now shouting at the others, "We have to move right now, out of the house."
I heard the air whistle past on the phone. He was moving. I relaxed.
Then he came back to me. "We are all out. Eleazar is looking queasy from just talking about the problem, but the rest of us are fine at the moment. If you don't mind I'll talk directly with Alice, so goodbye for now." He hung up.
Edward had been having a rapid fire conversation with Alice but let her go with a "Talk to Carlisle, tell him."
I spoke quietly to Edward, "What did Alice say to you?"
He looked down at his phone as if he were wishing it would ring again. "She said she saw someone there at Tania's place." Stress was making his velvet voice sharper. "She's been watching out for Carlisle and saw that someone would come into the house and stand by him and then he would be sick, very sick. She doesn't know whether or not Carlisle could see him because he doesn't greet him or move as if he was there. She's having trouble keeping it together with all the sickness she can see, she has a weak stomach for these things."
I thought over what she had seen. "This person, are they human or vampire?"
"He looks like a vampire, but a stranger. No one we have met before. Not anyone who was in the clearing last week."
Edward's face was suddenly resolute. "I'm needed. I daresay I'll be able to hear him even if we can't see him." He was rushing towards the door, car keys in hand.
"Edward, not yet, wait for them to phone. Let Alice see what's best. She can work through the possible outcomes before we go jumping into anything."
Anger swept over his face. I saw the muscles in his cheeks twitch.
"You're asking me to abandon Carlisle," he spat through his teeth.
I knew it was only frustration that caused his outburst, but it still hurt. I replied as evenly as I could. "No, I'm asking you to wait for Alice, that's all."
He was contrite. "Yes, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have snapped. I feel so useless sitting here."
"I know," I replied. "It won't be long before they call."
We waited. We both sat completely still listening to Nessie's even breathing.
Five minutes later, though it seemed more like five hours, Carlisle phoned.
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Hm it has to be someone with the Volturi. Nothing else makes sense. A shimmering? Hm, I have to think on that one. So this...Thing can be invisible, but Edward could possibly read it's mind. Oh you really have me thinking now. Even though I'm sick, I'm trying really hard to figure this out. Then you leave us on a cliffy...? I'm reading this over again. I know I can figure this out. I'm so happily frustrated.
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There is established, as a unit of the National Park System in the State of Ohio, the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the "park").
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The park shall consist of the following sites, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park", numbered 362–80,010 and dated September 1, 2000:
(1) A core parcel in Dayton, Ohio, which shall consist of the Wright Cycle Company building, Hoover Block, and lands between.
(2) The Setzer building property (also known as the Aviation Trail building property), Dayton, Ohio.
(3) The residential properties at 26 South Williams Street and at 30 South Williams Street, Dayton, Ohio.
(5) The Wright 1905 Flyer III and Wright Hall, including constructed additions and attached structures, known collectively as the John W. Berry, Sr. Wright Brothers Aviation Center, Dayton, Ohio.
(c) Additional sites
In addition to the sites described in subsection (b), the park shall consist of the following sites, as generally depicted on a map titled "Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park", numbered 362/80,013 and dated May 2008:
Source(Pub. L. 102–419, title I, § 101,Oct. 16, 1992, 106 Stat. 2141; Pub. L. 106–356, § 2(a),Oct. 24, 2000, 114 Stat. 1391; Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7117(a),Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1204.)
2009—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 111–11added subsec. (c).
2000—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106–356amended heading and text of subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: "The park shall consist of the following sites, as generally depicted on a map entitled 'Proposed Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park', numbered NHP–DAH 80,000, and dated February 1992:
"(1) A core parcel in Dayton, Ohio, which shall consist of the Wright Cycle Company Building, Hoover Block, and lands between.
"(2) Huffman Prairie Flying Field, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
"(3) The Wright 1905 Flyer and Wright Hall, Dayton, Ohio.
"(4) The Paul Laurence Dunbar home, Dayton, Ohio."
Short Title of 2000 Amendment
Pub. L. 106–356, § 1,Oct. 24, 2000, 114 Stat. 1391, provided that: "This Act [amending this section and sections 410ww–6 and 410ww–8 of this title] may be cited as the 'Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Amendments Act of 2000'."
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Pub. L. 102–419, § 1,Oct. 16, 1992, 106 Stat. 2141, provided that: "This Act [enacting this subchapter] may be cited as the 'Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992'."
Pub. L. 102–419, § 2,Oct. 16, 1992, 106 Stat. 2141, provided that: "The purposes of this Act [this subchapter] are—
"(1) to establish a unit of the National Park System in Dayton, Ohio, consisting of certain lands and structures associated with Wilbur and Orville Wright and the early development of aviation; and
"(2) to create partnerships among Federal, State, and local governments and the private sector to preserve, enhance, and interpret for present and future generations the historic and cultural structures, districts, and artifacts in Dayton and the Miami Valley in the State of Ohio, which are associated with the Wright brothers, the invention and development of aviation, or the life and works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, and which, as a whole, represent a nationally significant resource."
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has long been grappling with the notion that its crude oil assets will not last forever. Domestically, when one thinks about renewable energy images of giant, white windmills come to mind. Yet, in any number of 100 square mile swaths in the American Southwest, enough solar energy falls to provide for current power needs in all of America. Saudi Arabia is even a step above that, as enough solar energy falls on the Kingdom to meet four times the electrical demand for the entire globe.
There are two aspects to keep in mind when looking at solar energy in the United States. The first is how the product is manufactured and the rewards involved in developing, producing, and selling solar cells and panels. Second is the general policy of our country in making solar more affordable than it otherwise might be, and the wisdom of maintaining popular support after failures at taxpayer supported Solyndra and, more recently, Abound Solar. Of course, there are those in Washington and elsewhere who want very much to end all taxpayer support for solar energy. These happen to be the same folks, incidentally, most loudly supporting coal, oil, and gas subsidies, which have been around, unabated, since 1916. Imagine if after a few dry wells all oil subsidies had been cut. That is exactly what we are looking at when budget talks begin.
The reason why these solar energy companies have failed is that their cutting-edge products were also being made in China with far more government support than has ever been contemplated in the American industry. Just in 2010, the Chinese government subsidized its domestic solar companies to the tune of over $30 billion. As these subsidized products were dumped on America, the average solar panel price has fallen 61% since the beginning of 2011, and some 80% over the last five years.
The Obama administration recently upheld steeply increased tariffs on Chinese solar energy products. The tariffs will go into effect once the US and the International Trade Commission accepts that Chinese subsidies have harmed American manufacturers. The ruling from the ITC is scheduled for Nov 7, the day after this country's Presidential elections. Obviously, the ruling will be too late to help some companies. And the tariffs will only apply to those products manufactured in whole in China. A Chinese manufacturer that wants to get around the increased tariffs clearly can.
The Western country with the most developed solar energy program is Germany. After the Japanese nuclear energy disaster, Germany committed to close its nuclear facilities and ramp up its solar power industry. This is a country that receives long snowy winters, and whose year round weather resembles the Great Lakes area of the United States. Right now its solar industry supplies about 25% of the country's energy portfolio. It does this with a combination of small, home roof systems and larger, ground-based systems. It bears noting that while solar panels cost about the same in both the United States and Germany, a home roof system costs about half as much in Germany due to its far lighter regulatory burden.
The United States has recently taken a decidedly positive step toward large scale solar installations, designating large swaths of public land in the American Southwest for solar arrays. This sort of federal support was sorely needed, and I would hate for a new administration to reactively repeal this step and instead support drilling in lieu of clean energy on public lands.
The largest publicly traded solar energy stock based in the United States is First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR). Its thin film design had already given it some cost advantages over its peers. Rising tariffs on imported competitors will certainly be of help. During the halcyon days a few years ago, before subsidized Chinese built products were dumped on the market and before the European economy went into the tank, First Solar was an analyst darling and its stock peaked at over $300 per share. A lot of people were burned as the stock fell from that point, but there are clear signs of recovery.
First Solar's stock has bounced over 40% this year. It has done this, and turned around earnings to boot, by refocusing the company to be less reliant on individual end user purchases, and instead focus on utility-scale systems worldwide. One such project was just completed in sunny Western Australia, and others are well underway in the American Southwest.
Earnings wise, First Solar benefited in the second quarter from being able to count the revenue expected from projects currently still under construction. This is a company I want to succeed. I will write about it from other perspectives after third quarter earnings are released in late October. Suffice it to say, with its current 5 year PEG at 0.20, this is a fine investment opportunity.
California-based Sunpower (NASDAQ: SPWR) has had its own troubles, but still stands out as a technical leader. It reminds me how far the industry has come. Twenty years ago, companies where hoping someday to come up with solar panels with at least 10% efficiency. Sunpower has products up to 24% efficient, costing far less than products did ten years ago. Sunpower's financial woes are attributable to Chinese dumping as well.
Sunpower is majority owned by French energy giant Total. Sunpower recently acquired a large minority interest in privately-held Australian Diamond Energy in an effort to diversify somewhat from the solar panel business. Diamond owns some bio gas assets, as well as wind assets. Sunpower's intent is to become a more diverse clean energy company that just a solar supplier. But Sunpower is not profitable now, and is years behind First Solar in turning around its business. I certainly favor First Solar to Sunpower at this time.
China's Suntech (NYSE: STP) is the world's largest silicon panel solar energy manufacturer. But it too has to deal with prices far below what it had expected just a couple years ago, and it therefore is not profitable. Its stock is selling for less than $1 per share, and there really is no end in sight. I can see no reason to invest now in this one time high flier.
One thing about any the energy business is that advancements do occur. No one realized how hydraulic fracking would change the natural gas business ten years ago. There are also impressive start ups in the solar business. One that has caught my attention is privately held SHEC Energy. This Canadian company has the potential to revolutionize the weakness of traditional solar energy: storage of energy for when the sun is not shining.
The sun is the most efficient energy source available to mankind. I am obviously a fan of the solar energy industry and want it, particularly the American part of it, to succeed. I am highly confident that as time moves ahead and technology advances, more efficient panels and lower prices will make solar affordable to almost anyone. I look forward to that day, and hope there is an American manufacturer or two to take advantage of that future world.
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I have no doubt that the two movies will be similar, yet different. But I still think that Godzilla has an uphill battle to face having seen the pure spectacle that was Pacific Rim. They didn't really show Godzilla cleanly in the footage at comicon, but they did show his foot stomping down. The one thing that encouraged me is that, despite the cgi nature of today's fx the foot had a distinct man-in-suit look to it. Judging from a lot of reading between the lines it sounds like Edwards is leaning more towards the tone of the Raymond Burr film than Destroy all Monsters(despite the presence of rumored multiple creatures and a footage appearance from what seemed to be Mothra).Quote:
At a press conference for Godzilla on Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con, Edwards was asked what he thought of Pacific Rim, and he was genuinely enthusiastic when he offered that he loved it.
I think its great! I love Guillermo, and he was very supportive of this movie, because obviously throughout the process we did a lot of 'What are you doing?' What are you doing? He had nothing but crazy support for us, but [Godzilla] is a very different movie. Ours is obviously set in modern, contemporary times. Its very much a character-driven movie, which I think is a fair thing to say. Its got an epic spectacle to it, yet and I have to be careful which words I use - but its got somber moments as well. Its quite haunting and quite moving. We tried to make a blockbuster that harks back to the pace and style of the early '80s and late '70s action movies.
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Two years ago, Wrong Turn 2 director Joe Lynch got to show off his horror comedy Knights of Badassdom in Hall H at Comic-Con. The film follows a group of LARPers (Live-Action Role Players) who head out into the woods, end up doing a real spell, and accidentally summon a blood-thirsty demon. As the demon starts picking off LARPers, three friends (played by Ryan Kwanten, Steve Zahn, and Peter Dinklage) have to find a way to defeat the demon. The film also starred Summer Glau and Danny Pudi. The trailer looked hilarious, but then all news on the movie went quiet. It turns out, shady dealings from behind the scenes had taken the film away from Lynch, and that Wade Bradley, the owner of the production company IndieVest, had made his own 70 minute cut. Lynch set up a website explaining the whole ordeal, but that site has now been taken down. Entertainment One (eOne) has now picked up the feature for theatrical and VOD distribution, but when reached for comment on Twitter about the deal, Lynch only responded Till I get a call #NMC. Im assuming NMC means Not My Cut. Im still interested in seeing the finished version, but its a depressing end for what looked like a promising feature.