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This time last year we were wondering if we were going to see an NBA season (the anti- LeBron crowd probably wishes that we didn't.) The reason behind last season's lockout was that NBA owners were going broke as contracts continued to spiral out of of control. They wanted to make it harder for super teams to be formed, and easier for teams to keep their stars. How much difference a year can make.
Even though they will deny it, the Toronto Raptors took advantage of a flaw in the restricted free agency rules to give Landry Fields an absurd contract to keep the Knicks from getting Steve Nash. The Houston Rockets used that same flaw to back the Knicks into a corner of either letting Jeremy Lin go or pay him over $14 million in the third year of his deal. Coupled with their other contracts on the books the Knicks would end up with a heavy luxury tax bill in 2015 and will likely let Lin walk. Omer Asik also got an absurd three year $25 million deal from Houston, this for a guy who averages 2.9 ppg and 4.4 rebounds.
We almost lost a season because of the owners were sick of ridiculous contracts, but less then 365 days later they are back at it.
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The following crimes are from the week of Sept. 13 to Sept. 19, 2009.
Sept. 13. 7900 block Winston Road. Between 12 p.m. on Sept. 12 and 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 13, an unknown person pried open the rear window to the dining room and stole the following items: two Sony HD television sets, a collection of silver coins, yellow earrings and a quilt.
Sept. 15. 7800 block Roanoke Street. Between 4:45 p.m. on Sept. 14 and 7 a.m. on Sept. 15, an unknown person broke into four vehicles: one 2003 Chrysler Cruiser from which one pair of sunglasses was taken but recovered; one 2009 Toyota Corolla; one 2006 Honda Accord and a 1999 Honda Civic.
Sept. 16. 7900 block Winston Road. Complainant states that he left his vehicle unlocked on the night of Sept. 15 and the following morning he noticed that things were moved around inside of the car but nothing was taken.
Sept. 16. 8700 block Germantown Ave. Complainant, who is a SEPTA bus driver, was assaulted inside of his bus. Complainant and offender were on highway when police arrived. The left side of complainant's face was bloody and offender had blood on his clothing. Complainant was taken to Chestnut Hill Hospital and offender was taken to Northwest Detectives.
Sept. 17. Unit block E. Abington Ave. Between 7 p.m. on Sept. 16 and 8 a.m. on Sept. 17, an unknown person entered an unlocked 2000 Mercury and stole a global positioning system.
Sept. 17. 8200 block Ardleigh Street. Complainant states that an unknown person entered a 2003 VW Passat and stole change. It was not known how entry was made.
Sept. 17. 8000 block Roanoke Street. Complainant states that an unknown person ransacked a 2006 Honda and stole change. Car door was left unlocked.
Sept. 17. Unit block Woodale Ave. Complainant states that an unknown person entered his unlocked blue Audi. Nothing was taken.
Sept. 17. Unit block W. Abington Ave. Complainant states she heard alarm of her 2000 Volkswagen go off, and when she went out to check, she noticed her passenger side door open. Nothing was taken.
Sept. 17. Unit block W. Willow Grove Ave. Complainant states that an unknown person entered her unlocked Volkswagen and stole change.
Sept. 18. Unit block Newton St. Police responded to radio call of burglary alarm and found front door glass broken and door open. Complainant arrived and stated that a silver bracelet with turquoise stones was missing from bureau in the master bedroom.
Sept. 18. 8700 block Prospect Ave. Complainant states that an unknown person gained entry to home by prying rear screen door open. Costume jewelry was stolen.
Summary — Twelve crimes for week: three burglaries, one aggravated assault and eight thefts from vehicles. Keep in mind that locking the doors to your vehicles will help keep your valuables safe. Keep windows locked and doors secure. It's nice to get fresh air in but it may also help the burglars.
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- Status
- Acquired by Esri on October 16, 2012
- Funding Received
- $350 Thousand in 2 Rounds from 4 Investors
- Headquarters:
- Portland, OR
- Description:
- Geoloqi is a platform that facilitates the development of location-aware apps with geotriggers and real-time location capabilities.
- Founders:
- Aaron Parecki, Amber Case
- Categories:
- Developer APIs, Open Source, File Sharing, Location Based Services, Enterprise Software
- Website:
- http://geoloqi.com
Company DetailsUpdate
The Geoloqi platform offers a complete, cross-platform, language, device and carrier agnostic platform for enterprise applications and IP-connected devices. A contextually aware solution, it enables persistent background location tracking, intelligent battery management, and transitions smoothly between location sources such as carrier signals, GPS and Wifi for true real-time tracking. Additionally, Geoloqi provides rich location and dwell-time analytics, giving customers the ability to analyze and take action on location data for the first time. The platform also provides sophisticated security settings with easy opt-in and opt-out features to ensure safety and privacy practices are automatically updated at any time. Enterprises and developers can now easily create solutions for the mobile workforce and consumers with improved productivity, functionality, and logistics for any wireless climate.
Geoloqi's API allows developers to build location-aware services and applications without having to write code from scratch. Developers can use Geoloqi to easily add automatic check-ins, user sign-ups, location-based messaging, event triggers, and real-time GPS maps to their existing applications.
Current Team (6)Update
Patrick Arlt
Application Engineer
Jun 6, 2011
Amber Case
Co-founder, CEO
Robin Jones
Sep, 2011
Kenichi Nakamura
Platform Engineer
May 18, 2012
Aaron Parecki
Co-founder, CTO
Josh Yaganeh
Platform Engineer
Sep 10, 2012
Past Team (4)Update
Bernie Albers
VP Sales
Feb, 2012
Kyle Drake
Platform Engineer
Apr 2, 2011 - Mar 1, 2013
Brian Ledger
Android Developer
Jun 6, 2011 - Sep 22, 2011
Tristan Waddington
Android Developer
Feb 27, 2012 - Aug 3, 2012
Funding Rounds (2) - $350kUpdate
undisclosed amount / Series A
Feb 21, 2012Investors:Portland Seed Fund / $16.7k
$350k / Seed
Jul 14, 2011
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Portland Seed Fund
The Portland Seed Fund finds and surrounds the most promising seed-stage companies with capital.
Raj Kulkarni
COO @ GemStone
Eric Doebele
Founder & CEO @ HandymanOnline.com
Offices/Locations (1)Update
920 SW 3rd Ave Suite 400
Portland, OR 97214
News (9)Update
Geoloqi Aims to Unlock the Magic of Mobile Locationreadwriteweb.com
Name To Know: Geoloqi, Foursquare's Biggest Threat?blogs.forbes.com
Futuristic Location Platform Geoloqi Will Live, Lands Fundingreadwriteweb.com
Geoloqi raises 350000 in seed roundreadwriteweb.com
Esri Acquires Location Platform Geoloqi, Plans To Launch Alternative iOS Mapping Library Soon10/15/12 -techcrunch.com
Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers05/22/12 -techcrunch.com


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Richard Meryman, the son of a painter, worked for twenty-three years as a reporter, correspondent, editor, and staff writer for the original Life magazine. A freelance writer since 1972, he is the author of several books, including Hope: A Loss Survived; Broken Promises, Mended Dreams; and Andrew Wyeth (1968), a major book of the artist's paintings. He first met Wyeth when he wrote an article about him for Life in 1964, and has kept in touch with him ever since.
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(Suiton: Mizu Kuri No Yaiba) - Water Style: Sword of Draining
Rank: D
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 10
Damage Points: 20
Description: A technique that utilizes water to create a sword. The sword can be wielded in the normal fashion, allowing the ninja to cut and stab like with a normal blade.
Note: Doesn't require a water source.
( Suiton: Junsai no Jutsu ) - Water Release: Water Shield Technique
Rank: D
Type: Supplementary, Defence
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 10
Damage points: N/A
Description: The user will manipulate their water chakra and releasing it from their arm which is held outwards infront of them and they then create a shield of water that can aide in defence against projectile weapons and close combat techniques.
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Wheeling down to 20/22 NQ!
On tuesday, we moved to 20/22NQ. It was a fun experience although it was such a dramatic scene as the whole of radical utility (Unit X) consists of 22 groups. We definately caught the attention of public but somehow we got mistaken to be invovled in a protest? Apart from that, we have definately gained a lot of 'followers', as many people are interested in what we would produce to present Manchester.


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"The architectonic purity of her world was constantly threatened by such hints of anarchy: gaps and excrescences and skew lines, and a shifting or tilting of planes to which she had continually to readjust lest the whole structure shiver into a disarray of discrete and meaningless signals. Callisto had described the process once as a kind of "feedback": she crawled into dreams each night with a sense of exhaustion, and a desperate resolve never to relax that vigilance. Even in the brief periods when Callisto made love to her, soaring above the bowing of taut nerves in haphazard doublestops would be the one singing string of her determination."
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Pulau Brani
Pulau Brani, island, south of the Bukit Merah area, is located south of the Central Region. In Malay, Pulau Brani means "Isle of the Brave". The island was once the home of the Orang Laut. For a while Brani island had a Brick Kiln, a coal depot, a tin smelting plant, and a ship-repairing dock. It was also for many years a colonial, and later a naval facility for the Republic of Singapore Navy until it shifted operations to Tuas.
Originally called Pulau Ayer Brani or Island of Ayer Brannie or Pulo Brani in many early Singapore Maps. The island derived its name from a well at the top of the hill, the water of which was supposed to have had potent qualities. There was also a kolam or "tank" formed out of the natural rock on the Tanjong Pagar side of the island which received the overflow from the well, and in which people used to bathe. The remains of this tank can still be seen. The island once was the location of two coastal villages of Orang Laut also known as Singapore's sea gypsies.
Early developments
In late 1838, Mr. C. R. Princep wanted to build a 'patent slip' and buildings but no lease could be issued until the area had been surveyed. In January, 1846, former ship's captain Jacob Clunis, designed and proposed the erection of a 300 ft long, 68 ft wide, 15 ft deep 'dry dock', in place of the 'patent slip' never built by Mr. Princep. Clunis' idea also never materialised, due to insufficient funds, so he erected a brickworks, and a yard for repairing small boats, but these did not last as the government repossessed the island for defence purposes. Then Pulau Brani became a small repair dock for British naval vessels. In March 1862, French Giant, Messagerie Maritime Impales erected a Coaling Depot. In 1865, the Naval Coal Depot was completed, with two coal sheds, a small house for the Superintendent, a quay wall and a short wooden pier. On the west side of the island, shipwrights J. C. Buyers & Daniel Robbs, owned a small ship-repairing dock, 300 ft long, and 75 ft wide, which opened in August 1866.
The eastern part of the island was for a long time known for its shallow waters and stretch of reefs, and the probable reason the S.S. Himalaya ran aground on Pulau Brani, in 1868. The Straits Trading Company in 1890, set up a modern western-style tin smelting plant with a 3-ton reverberatory furnace, for smelting Tin ore shipped from the Malay States, Siam and Australia. In 1904, the Bon Accord Dock & Yard also had ship-repair facilities on the island.
World War II
The British destroyed rubber stocks and the tin-smelting plant just before the fall of Singapore, during World War II. Activities on the island resumed after the war. A 1966 map shows the Straits Trading Company Ltd. still existed on the island. Pulau Brani, until the early 1990s, was home to the Republic of Singapore Navy.
Now more than half the island accommodates a Container terminal and other port facilities. A causeway now links Pulau Brani with the mainland as a convenience to harbour operations.
Variant Names
Early name : In the survey charts of Captain Franklin, completed in 1822 and used by Mr Crawfurd, the island was known as Pulau Ayer Brani. Also in 1846, Captain Sir Edward Belcher, Royal Navy, called it Gage island
Chinese Names: In Cantonese (1) San chu-shek tui-min means "Opposite the new tin smelting"
(2) Chha-tin ma-thau tui-min means "Opposite Jardine's jetty"
Malay Name: In Malay Pulau Brani also spelt Pulau Berani, means "Isle of the brave"
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Bogaars, G. (1956). Tanjong Pagar Dock Company 1864-1905 (p. 92, 105, 270) [Microfilm: NL 10999]. Singapore: G.P.O.
(Call no.: RCLOS 959.51BOG)
Buckley, C. B. (1984). An anecdotal history of old times in Singapore: 1819-1867 (pp. 494, 704). Singapore: Oxford University Press.
(Call no.: RSING 959.57 BUC)
Tregonning, K. G. (1967). Home port Singapore: A history of Straits Steamship Company Limited, 1890-1965 (p.16). Singapore: Oxford University Press.
(Call no.: RSING 387.5095957 TRE)
Singapore chronicles (p. 184). (1995). Hong Kong: Illustrated Magazine Pub.
(Call no.: RSING 959.57 SIN)
Firmstone, H. W. (1905, January). Chinese names of streets and places in Singapore and the Malay Peninsula . Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society, 4, 158.
(Call no.: RCLOS 959.5 JMBRAS)
The information in this article is valid as at 2001 and correct as far as we are able to ascertain from our sources. It is not intended to be an exhaustive or complete history of the subject. Please contact the Library for further reading materials on the topic.
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Meet the 'Uber rich'
These early investors in the black-car startup -- now valued at about $17 billion -- own stakes worth up to 2,000 times their initial investments. Want to know what else they're backing?
By Erin Briffith, Fortune
The valuation of Uber is poised to hit an eye-popping $17 billion in its latest round of funding. That makes the four-year-old black-car startup one of the most valuable private technology companies in the world.
As a result, the startup's early investors, whose shares are now worth as much as 2,000 times their initial investment, are looking pretty smart.
Similar to the way early bets on Facebook FB 0.75% (FB) solidified the status of top-tier investors like Jim Breyer, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and David Sze, Uber is the game-changing home run for dozens of angel investors.
Set aside whether Uber's reported $17 billion valuation is too frothy. After all, this latest round of funding will be led by mutual funds, which have a different return profile than seed-stage investors.
As Fortune noted in February, Uber's first angel round of investment -- a $1.5 million deal led by First Round Capital -- came with a $4 million valuation. Investors in that round, assuming reasonable dilution, saw their investments grow to between 400 and 600 times in the later round that valued Uber at $3.5 billion. At $17 billion, they're worth around 2,000 times, according to people familiar with the deal.
That means even a tiny little $20,000 angel investment is now worth around $40 million. Even investors from the $3.5 billion round have now almost quintupled their money in less than a year.
There's one company that is conspicuously not on this list: Universal Music Group, which owned the domain name "Uber.com" prior to 2010. That year, Uber bought the domain from Universal using Uber stock, which Universal Media Group later sold back to the company for a small profit. According to a person familiar with the transaction, if Universal had held onto its stock, it would now be worth more than $100 million.
For some early investors, the bet on Uber means the opportunity to run their own fund: David Cohen, an early seed investor in Uber, is now raising $150 million for a fund called Bullet Time Ventures 2014. Founder Collective was also an early investor; the firm doubled the size of its last fund with its most recent one.
Early investor First Round Capital will have no problems raising a large new fund later this year. Shervin Peshivar, who led Menlo Ventures' Series B investment in the company, has branched out to raise his own fund under the name Sherpa Ventures.
For others, it simply means bragging rights, and a massive potential payoff. Notably, a number of Uber's investors are connected by common portfolio companies: Path, Yammer, StyleSeat, Zappos, Eventbrite and Warby Parker show up several times. Oh, and Britney Spears.
Here are the angel investors that are, on paper at least, "Uber rich."
- Mitch Kapor: Kapor, already a famous angel investor, founded Lotus Development Corporation and co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Chris Sacca: Sacca invested in Uber through his fund, Lowercase Capital. He was also an early investor in Twitter (TWTR), Path and Instagram.
- Naval Ravikant: Ravikant founded AngelList, the crowdfunding social network for angel investors. He's also an investor in Yammer, Twitter and Wanelo.
- Babak Nivi: Nivi co-founded AngelList with Ravikant.
- Alfred Lin: Lin, an investor at Sequoia Capital, served as chairman, COO and CFO of Zappos before it sold to Amazon.com (AMZN).
- Cyan and Scott Banister: The married couple are active angel investors. Scott Banister is known for sitting on the board of PayPal. Together they've backed almost 100 companies, including Zappos.
- Shawn Fanning: Fanning was the co-founder of Napster. He's a co-founder of Path.
- Jason Calacanis: Calacanis recently launched Inside.com, a news app. He's led several syndicates of angel deals on AngelList, and in addition to Uber, backed Chartbeat and Whisper.
- Mike Walsh: Walsh founded an enterprise software company called Leverage, which sold in 2011 to Telligent Systems. He's also invested in SurfAir and Salesforce.
- Oren Michels: Michels co-founded Mashery, which sold to Intel (INTC) in 2013.
- Josh Spear: Spear runs a digital consulting firm called Undercurrent. As an angel investor, he has backed Path, Percolate, Little Bits, Warby Parker, Behance, StumbleUpon, Quirky and Circa. He recently joined venture firm OATV as a special partner.
- Scott Belsky: Belsky founded Behance, which sold to Adobe (ADBE) in 2012. He invested in a follow-on to Uber's seed round, and is now an advisor to Founder Collective (which also was an early investor in Uber).
- Matt Ocko: A managing partner at venture firm Data Collective, Ocko invested in Uber's 2011 Series B. He was also an early investor in Facebook.
- Zachary Bogue: Bogue co-manages Data Collective with Ocko. He's also invested in AngelList and Square, and is married to Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer.
- David Sacks: Sacks founded Yammer, which sold to Microsoft (MSFT) for $1.8 billion. (Microsoft owns and publishes MSN Money.) He's also invested in Palantir Technologies, SpaceX and Houzz.
- Jeremy Stoppelman: Stoppelman is the co-founder and CEO of Yelp (YELP). Other notable deals include Eventbrite, Palantir Technologies, Pinterest and Airbnb.
- Chris Hollod: Hollod manages A-Grade Investments, the startup investment vehicle of Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary and Ron Burkle. The fund has backed Foursquare, Soundcloud, Warby Parker and Fab.com.
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- Bobby Yazdani: Yazdani founded a software company called Saba Software. His investments include Dropbox and Bonobos.
- Troy Carter: Known as Lady Gaga's former manager, Carter has made a name for himself as a venture investor through his fund, AF Square, which has backed Fab, Warby Parker and Dropbox.
- Kevin Hartz: Hartz co-founded Eventbrite. He's also backed Yammer, Pinterest and Airbnb.
- Dror Berman: Berman co-founded Innovation Endeavors alongside Eric Schmidt.
- Adam Leber: Leber, who has worked as a producer for Britney Spears, has also backed Path and Everlane.
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- Khaled Helioui: Helioui is managing director of Bigpoint, a European game developer. He previously worked with technology companies at TA Associates.
- Nihal Mehta: Mehta co-founded Eniac Ventures, a New York-based venture firm focused on mobile startups.
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Talk-show Tango Oct. 29: Poet Billy Collins, plus Tim Conway AND Chromeo? Smelling salts please!
LATE NIGHT TUESDAY Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m. ET on CBS) Tuesday: Rob Lowe; 2013 Indy Car champion; musical guest Alan Jackson (n) The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (12:35 a.m. ET on CBS) Tuesday: Alyssa … Continue reading
Fall TV 2013 debut Oct. 10: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
It's magic! Well, no, it's "wondrous" according to the ABC website. And it's new. Behold the new series. And if you missed the start (as I apparently have), check it out on the City app. You've got the app, … Continue reading
Fall TV 2013 debuts Oct. 9: Tomorrow People and return of Arrow
So, more new TV. You up for it? The rest of my list of debuts follows. Just so you know. Arrow returns. and Tomorrow People debuts. Says CTV (insert scary scifi music here): "Stephen Jameson starts hearing voices and teleporting … Continue reading
Talk-show Tango Oct. 10
LATE NIGHT WEDNESDAY Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m. ET on CBS) Wednesday: Lucy Liu (Elementary), Mark Jacobson, The Weeknd The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (12:35 a.m. ET on CBS) Wednesday: Sean Hayes (Sean Saves the … Continue reading
Fall TV 2013 debut Oct. 5: Austin City Limits
Yeah it's Saturday night, it's HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA and you've had just about enough new TV, thank you very much. But tonight's fall season debut isn't TV you have to think about. It's Austin City Limits, kicking off tonight … Continue reading
Fall TV 2013 debuts Oct. 2: Sean Saves the World, Super Fun Night, Ironside
Wednesday, Oct. 2 New 9 p.m. – Sean Saves the World (Global) New 9:30 p.m. – Super Fun Night (City, ABC) New 10 p.m. – Ironside (Global, NBC) Thursday, Oct. 3 New 8 p.m. – Sean Saves the World (NBC) … Continue reading
Fall TV 2013 debut Sept. 30: Package Deal
Yeah, more new TV. Well, thank goodness it's just one new show. But seriously, are you as exhausted as I am? Wait, you're not organizing your life around this avalanche of new TV? What? What? Oh right, you have a … Continue reading
Fall TV 2013 debuts for Sept. 29: Meet the Family, Masters of Sex, LEGAL Homeland.
Homeland lovers unite! OK, yeah I know you discerning TV watchers are all obsessed about the season finale of Breaking Bad and sure, I'm right there with you, but for the first time, regular TV watchers who don't like illegally … Continue reading
Fall TV 2013 debuts: Sept. 26: Grey's something or other, Crazy Ones, Glee, Elementary, Two and a Half Men
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Fall TV 2013 debuts: Sept. 25: Michael J. Fox Show, Modern Family, etc.
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Corvette C1-C7 in Review…The Most Successful Car in Detroit History?
Illustrated Corvette Series No. 200 1953 – 2014 Corvette
"DETROIT'S ULTIMATE SUCCESS STORY?" by K Scott Teeters as originally published in Vette magazine
In the February 2014 issue of VETTE Magazine, I celebrated my 200th installment of The Illustrated Corvette Series with a look back at the entire history of the Corvette. The title of the column is, "DETROIT'S ULTIMATE SUCCESS STORY?" The Corvette has come a very long way from being a car that many inside GM wanted to kill off to becoming General Motors' flagship halo car.
While the article in VETTE only shows one Corvette from all seven generations of Corvettes, I wanted to do something extra special. So, I created the 1' x 3', "Seven Generations of Corvettes 1953-2014 Corvettes" art print, available through our Fine Art America store, HERE.
The print is available in a variety of sizes and can be custom framed right from the site.
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2013 may be remembered as the most extraordinary year in Corvette history. Not only was 2013 the last year of the sixth generation Corvette, it was also the 60th anniversary of the first Corvette. The only way it could have been better was if the C7 have been released as a '13 model. Arguably, the C7 was the most anticipated Corvette ever seen. Continue reading
Illustrated Corvette Series No. 193 – 2014 C7 Corvette Arrives!
Dateline: 5.1.13
The 2014 C7 Corvette Arrives… FINALLY!
After what was without a doubt the longest, most tortuous buildup for a new generation Corvette ever, Chevrolet finally unleashed the 2014 C7 Corvette at the Detroit Auto Show on January 13, 2013. It was exhausting and I thought that Tadge Juechter, Tom Peters, and Ed Welburn would never stop talking. Finally, in a "TA-DA!" style, the red C7 came up and over a ramp, making it look like the car leapt on stage. It turned out that the spy photos and computer generated illustrations were close… but not quite on the mark. No, what we saw was better. But, I expected this, as the same thing happened before the C6 arrived – only we weren't all on the torture rack for months on end.
This was the fifth new generation Corvette arrival I have seen, and it's never easy. The '68 C3 wasn't "Mako Shark" enough for many. The '84 C4 seemed too straight-lined and slab-like. The '97 C5 was called "too round" by some. The '05 C6 seemed like a crisped up C5 and was deemed a "C5.5" by a few. When it comes to Corvettes, you just can't make everyone happy. However, each new generation, except for the C3, dished up stacks of impressive mechanical improvements, each taking the new generation to a new and higher level of performance. Continue reading
Lance Miller & Scott Teeters Talk About the NEW C7 Corvette
The C7 2014 Corvette is FINALLY here and guess what? It's a STINGRAY!
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Our guest on FarOutRadio.com is Lance Miller of Carlisle Events, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, one of the premier car event companies in America. From April to September Carlisle Events hosts 13, three-day car show events with the August "Corvettes at Carlisle" show arguably drawing the largest crowd. For Corvette fans, Corvettes at Carlisle is THE Corvette event of the year.
Like legions of fans, Lance and I watched the all-new, next generation 2014 Corvette Stingray debut via the internet live streaming. Since the mechanical details of the all new flagship sports car have been known for a few months, we talk about the aesthetics of the new car, as well as the overall package. Aside from finally getting to see the real car, the second most exciting thing about the debut was the announcement that for the first time since 1976, the C-7 Corvette wears the name, "Stingray."
The new Corvette is more powerful and lighter with extensive use of aluminum, magnesium, and carbon fiber. And what we saw last night is the BASIC 2014 Corvette. What's not known is will there be a next level up Grand Sport model, or a near track-ready Z06 version, and a new monster version of the ZR1.
C7 Update: The Return of the LT!!!!
Dateline: 10.24.12
How does 450-horsepower for the base C7 sound to you?
I have been taking a blogging break so I could get some new art print layouts completed in time for the holidays.
Unless you've been under your car the last week of so, you could NOT have noticed LOTS of breaking news about the C7.
THIS JUST OUT!!! The C7 will be powered by a 450-horsepower LT1 engine.
This will be the third iteration of the LT1. MIGHTY SHWEET! Here are the details… Continue reading
C7 Update: Is This the Upcoming C7 or a Camaro Fastback?
Dateline: 9.28.12
If this is the C7 Corvette, is it revving you up, or stalling you out?
Be sure to take our informal survey at the end of this post.
We're now about 3-1/2 months from FINALLY knowing what the next generation C7 Corvette will look like and what kinds of mechanical improvements Chevrolet has in store. I have no doubt that the new C7 will run like a bear, but don't expect anything revolutionary, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, as the C6 platform is already pretty stout. I'm hoping that the base C7 uses the all-aluminum chassis design of the C6 Z06.
What's got a lot of Corvette fans holding their breath is the car's styling. In November '11 Jalopnik.com set the Corvette world on fire with their computer generated illustrations that were NOT well received by the Corvette community. GM cried "FOUL! That's NOT the Corvette!" and Jalopnik said, "Yes, it is, STUFF IT!" Even before the Jalopnik flap there was a lot of jib-jab from GM people that the the next Vette would be a "world car" and designed for a "younger generation." We also heard that the new Corvette would not be "your grandfather's Vette." (OUCH!)
What it comes down to is this. GM will do what it wants to do and we can love it or leave it. It's no secret that Corvette sales have been dismal the last few years, but it's not because the car is dismal! Quite the contrary. The Corvette product planners have done a spectacular job of availing to customers a truly "boutique" Corvette. Continue reading
Y'all In A Heap Of TROUBLE, Boy!
Dateline: 7.11.12
Subtitle: Omega Tool Corp Does Damage Control, ON US!
I was about to tell you all about a really awesome piece of Corvette racing history that's going on the auction block, when I received an interesting email from the law firm of Schafer and Warner, PLL demanding that we remove the wrongfully and illegally posted image of a screen shot from a bootlegged video that was posted online that sure looks like the nose of the C7 Corvette. I discovered the images from my Google Alerts, which is setup to inform me of Corvette related stories in the news. The only image in the post showed the front bumper cover of what was speculated to be the nose of the C7 Corvette. The image was linked back to the source of the story, as per my Google Alert, and we included a text link to the source.
In followup emails from Google Alerts on Monday, Tuesday, and early Wednesday, it was obvious that the Corvette hungry community was all over this story like flies on stink. So I'm sure the legal eagles have been working hard to scour the net, racking up copious hours of billing time.
Well, I got on it right away, YES, SIR! Least we be the cause of any damages the the Omega Tool Corp might suffer as a result of their own problem. No, the only "suffering" they'll incur is the butt chewing they probably already received from their big boss, plus the bill they'll be getting from their attorneys for fix their screw up. It's funny, because when I first read the story, I said out loud, "D'OGH! Someone's in a HEAP OF TROUBLE!" The picture that came to my mind's eye was that of sheriff Buford T. Justice, the cartoony character wonderfully played by Jackie Gleason in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies. (next I'll get a letter about the Gleason image) If you were able to see the illegal images in question, you might have wondered, "Is this REALLY the nose of the C7?" Now you know for sure, IT IS THE C7! Otherwise there wouldn't be this Continue reading
Vette Polls: C7 Corvette Update: Is this IT???
Dateline: 3.4.12
Car and Driver Splashes the C7 Corvette – A PERFECT swan dive or a belly flop?
Cast your vote at the end of this post.
Don't you just love a nice surprise in your mailbox? You know, a nice fat IRS tax refund, a Publishers Clearance Warehouse winner notification, or a letter from an old flame. (okay, maybe not that last one) The April 2012 issue of Car and Driver arrived in my mailbox today and I was greeted with what appears to be the real car that the November 2011 Jalopnik illustrations were based upon. It's SO hard to tell computer rendered cars these days. "Usually" computer images are a little too flashy and that's the telltale sign. A year, or less, from now, we'll know for sure how spot on Jalopnik and Car and Driver are.
But for now, it's deal with what's in front of us. Sometimes, cars look better in person. But the C7 is looking more like a C6.75. I know that Corvettes tend to be evolutionary in their design, but honestly, there'd better be some stunning things going on under all the pretty fiberglass and carbon fiber.
The front view of the car is interesting, but two design elements bother me. The front grille opening looks awfully close to that of the 1993 – 2002 Camaro with its Billy Bass mouth. Going by the Jalopnik renderings, the hood vents and vents on the tops of the rear fenders indicate that this is the 2015 ZR1 configuration. But the vents on the hood look like those on the new ZL1 Camaro. Since when does the Corvette FOLLOW the Camaro? (when Camaros outsell Corvettes 6-to-1?) I suppose we'll get used to it. But we're not supposed to "get used to it," we're supposed to LUST for it!
And now to the back end. (sigh) PLEASE!!! Don't let this be the real back end of the C7 Corvette, PLEASE. If so, we'll never hear the end of the "Cormaro" of the "Camvette." Continue reading
Jalopnik Says This is the C7 2014 Corvette
Dateline: 11.14.11
Love it or hate it? Cast your vote at the bottom of this post!
With less than two years to go, Jalopnik.com says this is the C7 Corvette. Believe it… or NOT!
Oh course, we won't know for sure until Chevrolet wants us to know for sure. But Jalopnik.com is claiming that THIS is the the new C7 Corvette, as photographed by someone that isn't supposed to be photographing things inside the design center. If this isn't a carefully contrived leak created to stoke the Corvette loyal and faithful, then someone will either NEVER be allowed inside again or someone will be fired!
At the earliest, we're looking at a "possible" Spring release of the '14 C7 Corvette, which puts that 18 months or so out ahead of us now. Will Chevrolet just show us the C7 in Spring '13 as the '14 C7 Corvette, or will they be taking orders for the '14 C7 Corvette? We don't know. Will the C7 be shown at the Summer press preview so that as the magazines can splash the C7 Corvette at the news stands in early September, along with the rest of the new '14 cars? We don't know.
(Love it or hate it? Cast your vote at the bottom of this post!)
What is certain is this. Because of the Internet and the blogosphere, if the C7 is released in the Spring or shown to the press as part of the Summer "14 preview, as soon as the car is "officially" shown, it will be all over the net in a matter of nanoseconds! Continue reading
Vette Videos – Vette Polls: C6 ZR1 Corvette vs All-Wheel-Drive Lamborghini LP670-4 SV
Dateline: 10.6.11
Another look at AWD, does it really matter?
(Cast your vote at the bottom of this post.)
The other day I was sharing with you the November 2011 Road & track cover story about the 2-second club – three world-class sports cars capable of 0-to-60 in LESS than 3-seconds. Club members include the Nissan GT-R Premium, the Porsche 911 Turbo S, and the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport. All three cars had AWD and except for the nuts-o 1,183-HP Bugatti, the other two members have LESS horsepower that the ZR1. Plus, the ZR1 Corvette weighs 225-pounds LESS than the Porsche. So, the Corvette with a 106-horsepower advantage isn't in the club, what's up with that? "All-wheel-drive" boys and girls.
Well don't despair Corvette fans, not all AWD supercars are in the 2-second club. The Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV could only to the 0-to-60 scoot in 3.0-seconds, so no club membership card for the Lambo either. The June '09 Car & Driver Lambo test car was packing 661-HP, 487 LB/FT of torque, weighed 3,850-pounds, and has a top speed of 209 to 213-mph. All that for only $457,500 – enough to buy three ZR1s and a Z06! But we won't beat them up over a few hundred grand.
Autocar Magazine created the below video comparison between the top gun Corvette and Lamborghini cars. The Lambo has the horsepower edge plus AWD and the ZR1 has the weight advantage. So who wins on a road course? (The video is on the next page –>>) Continue reading
FINALLY! Some C7 News – C7 Corvette to Get a 7-Speed Gearbox!
Dateline: 9.24.11
After a LONG dry spell, some C7 news that's really "news."
We haven't had much to say about the C7 Corvette because there hasn't been much to say about the new C7 Corvette. Oh, there have been a few burps of "news" but it was more like a rehash or rehashed material, spiced up with lots of wild speculation. Eventually, we'll all know everything there is to know about the C7. But thanks to the immediacy of the internet, there's been a feeding frenzy over the C7 question for at least the last two years! But finally, there's something tangible to talk about.
This isn't a huge piece of juicy red meat, but it's better than nothing. According to InsideLine.com the 2014 C7 Corvette will receive a 7-speed transmission! Calm down, calm down, this has not been "officially" confirmed by Chevrolet, yet.
While a 7-speed tranny won't do much for "performance" (in the terms WE like to think of) the additional top gear would allow Continue reading
Say, what's the easiest way to keep up with what's happening at CorvetteReport.com?
Dateline: 8.31.11
We've made it "easy as pie" for ya!
Ever since we dropped a ZR1 LS9 engine into our blog site, we've been posting at least once a day, sometimes more. At first, I thought, "How in the world am I going to find interesting Corvette material to post every day?" HA! Silly me! With nearly 60 years of Corvettes to talk about, I've concluded that I could do this for another 100 years and not run out of material to cover! The topic is so broad and deep, there's ALWAYS something fun and interesting to talk and write about in the world of Corvettes!
So, to make it fall-off-a-log easy for you to keep up with us, we've created the above handy-dandy, sign up form. It's not a "newsletter," just a brief email announcement letting you know that there's a new post at CorvetteReport.com. The email you will receive will look like this… Continue reading
A Turbocharged Blast From the Past – the 1979 Experimental "Turbo Corvette"
Dateline: 8.22.11
Before the Callaway Twin Turbo arrived, Corvette engineers were taking a shot at turbocharging a 1979 Corvette
The C7 Corvette rumor mill has been quiet the last month of so. Oh, a few weeks ago there was a burp about a possible C7 chassis mule hidden under a late model Corvette Coupe. (not much in that report) Then towards the end of May '11 CorvetteBlogger.com posted a report from TheDetroitBureau.com that the C7 would be powered by a turbocharged 3.0-liter V8. Of course, no one really knows except for the Chevrolet and Corvette engineers that are working on the project. But my take is that the little turbo engine report is pure speculation. There have always been those that have wanted the Corvette to be a small European-like sports car. I say, if that's what you want, buy a Lotus.
Will Chevrolet back down from the 638-horsepower high-water-mark of the current LS9 engine? Let's hope not. The computer emission controls on the latest LS engines seem to be more than capable of adjusting for horsepower, as we've seen from the work of Howard Tanner, the new "Mr. Motion" that's building the official authorized, 800-horsepower Baldwin Motion Phase III Camaros. (Yes, I have it on excellent authority that a Phase III C6 Corvette is in the works.) What might pull the plug on a mega-horsepower C7 Corvette power plant is the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency) standards. But since Corvettes are a tiny percentage of the average of all GM cars, they might be able to slip in a horsepower beast into the C7 to function as their latest, greatest halo car. It's ALL up in the air and delicious fodder for bench racing.
But the turbocharged issue is interesting and got me to remembering an earlier turbo Corvette that Chevrolet was tinkering with. Back in 1979 the above show car Corvette was powered by a 195-HP L48 engine with an AIResearch tubrocharger that bumped the power up to around 280 – 290-HP. Why they didn't use the more stout L-82 engine, only the Corvette engineers know. Ask Dave McLellan if you get the chance. But the extra 90-to-100-horsepower didn't WOW anyone in the already husky '79 Corvette. But the car sure looked cool! The silver Coupe wore production front and rear spoliers, Continue reading


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At one point in the novel, the author indicates the names the creatures have on Malacandra are descriptive—the giant sorns have grand sounding names, for instance. What do the names of the human characters in the novel, Ransom, Weston and Devine, suggest about these characters and their roles in the story?
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The way our government seems to think about gun control, you would suppose that no one has ever killed anybody with a knife, a ball bat, car, train, club, drowning or perhaps an overdose of drugs.
Years ago, we had a way of stopping murderers for good. The hot seat. It was a sure bet that the criminal did not do it again. Now we reward them by giving them a life of ease in prison.
It costs the citizens $65 a day to furnish them with a life of ease, four square meals, television, library, health care, etc. Just one year costs the taxpayers $23,725. Is it any wonder why we are going broke?
I remember hearing many years ago some well known person saying, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." I wish our government would have thought about that before they started putting fluoride in our water supply.
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--Netflix says it will improve streaming subscriber numbers
--Doesn't plan further international growth while not profitable
--Company reiterates decision to stop reporting some churn data
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By Ian Sherr and Stu Woo Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Netflix Inc.'s (NFLX) fourth-quarter earnings fell 14% as the online video and DVD-rental company expanded into new geographies, but the company said it added subscribers and expects to return to rapid growth.
Netflix said it added 610,000 U.S. customers during the holidays, marking a return to growth after it lost nearly a million customers in its third quarter following dramatic changes to its service. Netflix said it also expects to end the current first quarter with a net 1.7 million additional streaming customers.
"Netflix is back in the game," said Barton Crockett, an analyst with Lazard Capital Markets. "This is really a return to the go-go days of growth."
Investors cheered the news, pushing shares up 13.6% to $108 in after-hours trading. The stock hit its highest point in July but had since plunged 69% through today's close.
The Los Gatos, Calif. company's rapid rise, meteoric fall and return yet again has been characterized by its uncharacteristic missteps with customers that began with price increases for combined DVD rental and Internet video streaming subscriptions. The move, which Netflix said later admitted it had poorly explained, enraged many subscribers who were even more unsettled by the company's later announcement it was splitting its DVD and streaming websites. Netflix later backtracked, saying it won't change the website.
Netflix has also faced pressure about the content it provides on its service. Starz, one of its content partners that is owned by Liberty Media Corp., ended negotiations with the streaming company late last year, leaving Netflix without access to Walt Disney Co. (DIS) movies starting in February.
Netflix said it will continue spending heavily on content as it attempts to increase its library to attract new customers.
"We always want to get more content," Reed Hastings, Netflix's chief executive, said in a conference call following the earnings release. He also noted Netflix does not intend to enter pay-per-view markets, nor will it offer videogames, though it is looking at adding 3-D videos. "We'll continue to invest in improving the service by adding more content for a very long time."
But analysts said Netflix hasn't been clear about how it will maintain the quality of its offerings. "They're overplaying how they're going to replace compelling Sony and Disney content," said Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Securities.
The company has also been spending deeply recently to expand internationally, including a high-profile push into the U.K. and Ireland, and to develop its library of streaming content. It warned in the third quarter that it would lose money for a few quarters as a result.
In the latest period, subscriber-acquisition costs, a closely watched metric by Netflix investors, jumped 44% in the latest period. Total operating expenses were up 81%.
The company said because of increased investment in international operations it expected moderate quarterly losses to come, as well as a loss for the calendar year. That led it to say it will cool international expansion until the company is profitable again.
For the first quarter, Netflix predicted a loss of 16 cents to 49 cents a share on revenue of $842 million to $917 million. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters were expecting a 30-cents-a-share loss on revenue of $848 million.
In the latest period, churn rate in the U.S.--a measure of customer cancellations and free subscribers--rose to 5.3% from 3.7% a year earlier but improved from the third quarter's 6.3%.
Netflix ended the quarter with 21.7 million U.S. streaming subscribers, better than it predicted, and 11.2 million U.S. DVD subscribers. It had 1.9 million subscriptions in its nascent international business.
The company repeated that it will stop reporting certain churn, or turnover, as well as gross subscriber additions and subscriber acquisition costs. Last year, Netflix disclosed that the Securities and Exchange Commission had requested it reconsider its plans to stop reporting those figures. Some analysts had hoped to keep getting the metrics as well, saying they shed light on Netflix's success in attracting and retaining customers. The company, however, has argued churn isn't relevant because consumers can easily exit and rejoin its service on a month-to-month basis, which can make turnover look worse than it is.
Overall, Netflix posted a profit of $40.7 million, or 73 cents a share, down from $47.1 million, or 87 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue increased 47% to $875.6 million.
In October, Netflix projected earnings of 36 cents to 70 cents a share on revenue from domestic streaming, DVD rental and international operations of $841 million to $875 million. Both were weaker than analysts expected at the time.
Gross margin eased to 34.3% from 34.4%.
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I have been working on this wall hanging for just about a month. Paper piecing is not my thing.
I finished today and had my son take the following pictures. This hanging is my entry into the Michael Miller challenge that my local modern quilt guild is doing. I call it "He loves me, he loves me not"
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Friday, 18 July 2014
Friday, 20 June 2014
My guilt guild did a mystery quilt. Here is how my turned out - needs to be quilted.
I love the blue!
I love the blue!
The challenge for May at my local modern quilt guild was to do something modern. After a sleepless night I came up with this.
Sunday, 1 June 2014
Made this project bag at sew day yesterday. Not sure I like the colours but it was the first one so will use different colours next time. The bag is 12 x 12 and has a clear vinyl window so you can see your project or finished blocks. It has a small crystal zipper pull.
Sunday, 18 May 2014
I've had the kit for these cushion covers for a couple of years and decided their time had come. They worked up quickly and I like the way they turned out. Fresh and clean looking.
Sunday, 4 May 2014
David's Quilt
Here is a quilt I made for my son, David, to used on cool summer nights. It needs to be quilted but not sure how I want to quilt it.
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Fic: If You Ever Lost a Light (6/?)
Title: If You Ever Lost a Light
Pairing: Prince!Kurt/Badboy!Blaine
Summary: Based on this photoset. Kurt is a prince who is forced to leave his home after a rebellion. He finds himself in Lima, Ohio, where he finds out blending in and avoiding troubles might be harder than he thought, especially when he meets the school's badboy, Blaine Anderson.
FF.net: link here. (although it's far less advanced)
PART 5 | PART 6 | PART 7a / PART 7b
In a 20/20 hindsight, maybe dressing up the next day wasn't the best of decisions. But sadly, as you wake up (still slightly overwhelmed by the hour, because, well, it's only the second day you're doing this), and you walk towards your closet, vowing that today you will look fabulous - which you always do - but also dress as you usually do, you don't have a 20/20 hindsight.
Which is how Kurt ended up climbing down the stairs in an H&M gray pants striped white, gray Altru Apparel shirt with mustaches prints, and his most-beloved black Dr. Martens lace-up boots.
Rachel was already waiting for him downstairs – he tried not to stare too long at her outfit, since she went back to sweaters with animal prints and he wasn't feeling like throwing up this early in the morning – and after a brief breakfast they drove together to school, this time in Rachel's car.
He didn't know what he was expecting when he was standing by his brand new locker, staring inside it and trying to ponder his decor options; maybe he waited for either Mercedes or Tina, who shared his first class – Home ec – to show up. Perhaps he thought Santana might show up again, with her cutting comments and witty, sharp tongue. But he certainly could not predict the strong shove that sent him flying onto his locker, thankfully only hitting his head against the metal and not against any sharp corner.
He turned his head as quickly as he could, mouth agape and vision swimming for a second, to see two retreating tall, big figures clad in red letterman jackets high-fiving each other as one of them called out, "See ya later, new kid!"
Kurt was neither stupid nor uneducated in the ways of high-school, despite never attending one. He knew exactly who those were, and he knew all the reasons why he did not want to make them his enemies.
He really did watch every high-school movie existing; from old-fashioned classics like the Breakfast Club to modern comedies like Mean Girls, he had seen it all, and he knew he had three things that made him an easy target: he was new, he was weak in their eyes, and he was gay.
He could have fooled himself and pretended they did not know that, but he never once in his life made a move towards the closet; Narnia was long gone from his vacation-sites list. His fashion-sense, looks and hobbies matched the stereotype so well no one ever doubted it: he was as queer as a three dollar bill, and he was proud.
Sadly, feeble-minded teenagers translated that fact in their slow brain into a frailty.
Kurt sighed, an action of mixed weariness and despair, turned and pressed his back against the lockers, letting his head fall back on the metal with a thump. His head was still pounding and his shoulder was sore, but he ignored the pain and shut the locker close, slinging his bag over his shoulder. He was in Lima solely for the fact that even if he was pushed into lockers every single day, he was still safer here, in a homophobic closed-minded Midwest hole, than home in his accepting, open kingdom. The mere thought made him sick to his stomach.
At least they got what they wanted, he told himself as he made his way to homeroom. And now he can return to being invisible. They won't seek out for him again, and he definitely was not about to go after them – he was attempting to avoid troubles, not the opposite.
Sadly, Kurt naively understated high-school bullies' devotion.
By the time Kurt headed to his fifth period, US History, he was pushed into lockers three times, shoulder-checked at least five, and had his books 'accidentally' knocked out of his hands twice. Every time the jacket-wearing boys approached him he took a deep breath and forced himself to stay quiet instead of reacting – both because he thought maybe the lack of reaction will make them stop, (it worked on wild animals, and these boys weren't much more advanced than that anyway), and because he was fighting all of his instincts to refrain from making a scene. Kurt wasn't someone whose spirit was crushed easily: he was a fighter, and he was proud of that, but neither Ohio nor public high-school was the right place to showcase that quality. Particularly when he was supposed to go as surreptitious as he could.
He had lunch with Santana, Brittany, Quinn and Mercedes, along with the three new New Direction boys he got to know that day – Sam Evans, Artie Abrams, and Noah Puckerman, who had narrowed his eyes and threatened to drown his clothes in acid if he ever called him Noah instead of Puck. After that he turned out to actually be quite friendly, but Kurt decided to not test him. Rachel and Tina were held back by their biology teacher, but they promised to catch up with him before Glee practice began, so that was how he ended up sitting in a table full of McKinley's former 'cool kids'.
They all asked him how his first and second day was going, and he instinctually decided to keep the violence he was the target of to himself. They didn't seem to notice anything unusual with his behavior – granted, they didn't know him very well, but he let himself believe it was because of his flawless acting skills – and so lunch passed by, and before he noticed, he was already making his way to the US History classroom.
Mr. Thompson didn't spare a second longer than necessary to help Kurt adjust; he handed him the paperwork with a strict, "This is the martial – learn it," and turned back around swiftly to find the papers he seemed to be looking for on his desk.
"Um, excuse me?" Kurt said awkwardly, hitching his messenger-bag higher on his shoulder. "Where should I sit?"
The teacher again didn't bother looking up at his new student, he simply said with his eyes still of his desk, "There is only one seat not taken, find it."
Kurt nodded slowly, making a note in his head to never turn to this specific teacher at time of need, and turned to the class again, where students were slowly taking seats while chatting to each other. The first thing he noticed was that in contrary of the rest of the classrooms he attended so far, this one had desks for two instead of one – must be because this particular classroom was in the older wing of the building. Mr. Thompson was correct – there was only one empty seat, in the left back corner of the room. He could see someone was sitting in the chair on the left, but he couldn't see his face because of the tall blonde boy sitting in the desk in front of it. Kurt sighed and started making his way to his new seat, navigating between the masses of teenagers standing in the aisle. It was only when he was moving past the giggly short girl who was leaning into the tall blonde's space he could see his new spot fully, gulping the when the boy he was going to share the desk with came into view. God, when did his life turned into a Twilight movie? He half expected Taylor Lautner to burst inside shirtless. (Not that he would've minded, of course).
The boy was annoyingly familiar – though Kurt would never admit that to anyone, especially not to himself - with dark unruly curly hair, tight gray V-shirt stretched over his muscled chest and broad shoulders (don't think about it, Kurt, don't go there), dark ripped jeans drawn to the length of his legs who were propped on the wooden desk, crossed at the ankle. He was wearing black worn-out All Star shoes and his – trademark? Kurt guessed it was – leather jacket thrown over the back of his chair.
"I don't keep the secret formula of Coca-Cola in my shoes," a sharp, dark voice made Kurt jump up, eyes widening as he looked up to see the boy's eyes opening, one hand reaching up to pull out an earbud from his right ear. "I might keep it in my pants, though – you're welcome to check," he smirked.
Bright scarlet blush spread high over Kurt's cheekbones, and then lower, to his ears and neck; he hoped the boy didn't notice it and clutched the strap of his bag tighter unconsciously. "I- um, I was just…"
"Whatever," the other boy huffed, sticking the bud back in his ear and closing his eyes shut again, his chair titling back dangerously. Kurt noticed his feet moving slightly to the beat of the music he could faintly hear, even through the earphones.
"Settle down, settle down!" The teacher's voice called, and Kurt hurried to put his bag down on the desk and take his seat. The boy next to him opened one eye to see the students rushing to their places, sighed, and took the earphones out. He didn't take his feet off the desk, though.
Kurt reached into the bag and drew out a red notebook and a black pen; the boy next to him huffed, and when Kurt turned to look at him with a frown, he found the eyes on him. Eyes who were big, and hazel – hints of honey, and chocolate, and green. His eyelashes were so long and thick as well, like a wall protecting the gems that were his eyes.
It took Kurt a few seconds, but eventually he realized Hazel Eyes was speaking, his lips forming words that were aimed at Kurt. Oh god, don't focus on his lips now, too. "-inest pens, Celeste. Mr. Thompson is all shitty attitude and nothing interesting."
The prince blinked a few time, the writing tool twitching between his fingers. "I – um… my name's Kurt."
Hazel Eyes smirked, leaning forward until he was inches away from Kurt, making Kurt's eyes widen slightly and his lips part with unspoken words. He moved as far back in his chair as he could, but that only made the other boy smirk wider. "Let me tell you a little something 'bout myself, Celeste. I don't care about people. I don't hang out with people, and I do not learn people's names, okay?" Kurt automatically nodded slightly, a tiny jerk of his chin, and the other boy's dark eyes seemed to be smirking just as wolfishly as his mouth. "Good. Glad we made it clear." He then pulled away, titling his chair back yet again, his eyes closing; obviously, he wasn't planning on listening to the teacher anytime soon.
"You should come next time," Brittany grinned, her right hand fingers unwittingly coiling and uncoiling around the hem of her red Cheerio skirt. Kurt fleetingly wondered if she had ADHD, but none of the three other girls around him seemed to notice, so he let it go. The blonde pressed up against the metal of his neighboring locker as he opened his own and shoved his French book in. "Our sleepovers are so much fun. Usually they're at Rachel's place 'cause her parents are, like, FBI spies and they're never home on weekends, but sometimes they're at Quinn's or Tina's," she averted her eyes from Kurt's face to what looked like aimless staring at the air. "We had it at my place once but my hamster tries to kill us in the middle of the night. He's totally that serial killer from the news."
Kurt looked away from his now closed locker and blinked at the blonde, then turned his head to Mercedes on his other side with a clear as crystal expression of, 'What?'
The black girl shook her head, the curly edges of her hair bouncing on her shoulders. "Anyway," she said, drawing out the word. "Brittany's right – you should totally join out next sleepover. It'd be fun!"
The prince smiled, bowing his head in slight embarrassment. "It's nice to know you'd like me to come."
Tina rolled her eyes fondly from Mercedes' left side, crossing her arms over her ModCloth's Golden Merry Mary checkered yellow dress. "Kurt, you literally live at Rachel's house – it's not like we wouldn't have invited you even if we didn't like you. Which we do. So please join, next time?"
Brittany nodded enthusiastically, Mercedes smirked and raised an eyebrow – obviously setting him up for a challenge, and Rachel just smiled and bat her eyelashes at him; she already told him how much fun it would be if they had a male point of view on the subjects they frequently discussed. He smiled back at all three of them, hitching his messenger-bag higher up on his shoulder, and opened his mouth to reply – but then his (brand new) iPhone beeped in his pocket.
"Hold on a second," he mumbled, fishing it out of his tight pants – which was a bit more difficult than it might look. He had yet to give anyone but Rachel, Quinn, Mercedes and Tina his new phone-number, and it couldn't be one of them, since three of them stood there with him and the last will attend Glee club with him, in about fifteen minutes. That indicated to only one conclusion: one of his friends back home sent him a message.
He almost dropped the phone in his hurry to slide open the screen and then the text.
He couldn't be bothered to look up to Mercedes' face as she spoke, but she sounded vaguely amused as she said, "Geez, boy, calm down! One would think someone just told you you won tickets to Madonna's concert, backstage!"
From: Sugar
(14:27 pm)
i knO U R worEd. we're K. i'L caL U n 10 mins.
The prince took a deep breath. They were okay – all of them, he hoped, since Sugar didn't specify who 'we' was; and she was going to call him – which was quite the privilege, since he wasn't able to truly communicate with any of his friends or family members so far. He checked the internet daily to keep up with the news America obviously wasn't broadcasting on the television, but there was nothing specific – only the vague details of the attempted rebellion that turned into a full-out war. The reporters mentioned the death-count, that thankfully wasn't high, but that was it; nothing about casualties or the royal family.
"Are you okay?" Tina's voice asked, making Kurt exhale and look up at the worried faces of all three girls. "No Madonna tickets, huh?"
"Have your lawn caught on fire?" Brittany asked, twirling a blonde strand on her finger. "That happened to me once. It sucks."
"Kurt?" Rachel frowned, biting her lower lip worriedly. "Should we – should we leave?" She was trying to ask him what was going on with her eyes, he knew she was, but it's not like he could answer her – that was the point of his cover.
"Um, yeah, no, it's okay," he said quickly, waving his hand dismissively. "You guys go ahead to Glee club; I'll catch up with you later."
"Are you sure?" Mercedes raised an eyebrow, placing her hand on her hip and cocking it to the side. "You should tell us if something's wrong, you know. Maybe we can help."
I doubt it, a voice in his head said quietly. "Uh, no, everything is fine. Really, you can go. Sam showed me where the choir room is earlier – I'll find it."
Tina nodded slowly, as did Mercedes, and they both turned on their heels and walked down the hallway, dragging Brittany, who didn't seem to notice anything was off at all, behind them. Rachel gave him one last questioning look before reaching out and patting his shoulder with a half-sympathetic half-worried glance, and then she left as well to catch up with the other girls, hair flipping dramatically over her shoulder.
The moment they disappeared around the corner Kurt let out another huge breath and slumped back against the lockers, clutching the cell-phone close to his body. Sugar didn't said anything bad in her text, but he knew her – she wouldn't said anything important when he couldn't hear her voice, and she definitely wouldn't tell him anything bad through a text-message. For all he knew the kingdom was subjugated, people he cared for were hurt, and someone could even be de-
"Hey, lady-boy!"
Kurt blanched, pressing closer to the cool metal of his locker, fighting the urge to groan in despair. He wasn't having one of his finest moments – not even remotely close to that, actually - and he didn't need the two jocks who had been his biggest bullies through the day to harass him again. He did everything right – kept quiet, didn't show reaction, let them laugh over it; why couldn't they just leave him alone?
"Oh, look, the queer is all alone!" The black one smirked, punching the locker next to Kurt just forcibly enough to create a loud noise that made the boy jump up in surprise.
"Leave me al-" Kurt started to mumble as he tried to walk off, but the boy's hand grasped his shoulder with great strength, making him unwillingly stay rooted to his spot.
The taller one of the two laughed, not batting an eyelash at his friend's use of force. "Totally is. You know, he looks kind of pale to me, don't you think?"
"Definitely pale," the first sneered. The second boy smirked in agreement, taking one step towards Kurt. He had an evil glint in his eyes that only made Kurt try to back away from him further; he was out to get troubles – and worse, he was out to get Kurt.
"I didn't do anything to you, can't you just walk away?" Kurt said determinedly, gripping the strap of his bag so hard his knuckles turned white.
"I think he should drink something," the second boy said in mock-seriousness, completely ignoring Kurt's words, cocking his head to the side. "Do you agree, Azimo?"
"Hell yeah," the black one – Azimo, apparently – said maliciously, punching the metal with lesser force this time. "Give it to him, man. I've been dying to do this all day. New kid and a fag? You had this coming for you, gay-face."
Kurt swallowed, closed his eyes to calm himself, and opened his mouth to say something, but his words refused to leave his mouth when a sudden freezing shock went through his entire upper body; his face, neck, shoulders and chest were all covered in a sticky, gooey red mixture of ice and sugar. The two boys' gloating laughter accompanied their departure, the sound weakening as their footsteps disappeared from earshot, probably heading out of the building as the day ended ten minutes earlier.
The prince was left to stand there against his locker, covered in the sugary smoothie the McKinley students called 'slushie' - if what Mercedes told him was correct - gaping and blinking quickly to prevent the liquid from dripping into his eyes. He quickly reached up to wipe the slushie away from his face; in a fleeting second his eye caught the bathroom sign, and he hurried down the hallway to push the door open and throw his now sugar-covered bag on the floor beneath one of the sinks.
He took a deep breath, bracing his hands on the sink and leaning forward, his face inches away from the mirror. His hair was half dyed in red, his cheek and forehead were sticky, and his neck and shoulders felt numb from the cold. It only took him one point eight seconds to reach out, turn on the water, and duck his head under the stream with as little gasps for air as he could. About a minute later, when the water started to flow down his back, soaking his shirt, he pulled away and turned the stream off again, shaking his head like an unhappy dog with a frown on his face. His outfit was undoubtedly ruined, as was his relatively okay day.
The sound of his phone repeatedly beeping inside his bag was weak but hearable – as there was no noise in the bathroom aside of Kurt's heavy breaths – and he crouched down to pull the iPhone out, sighing with relief when Sugar's name popped over the screen. He paid almost no mind to the surely filthy floor as he sat down, back pressed against the wall between two sinks. His clothes were destroyed beyond fixing anyway – no point in keeping it clean now.
"Sugar," he breathed out, not bothering to even wait for her 'hello' when he pressed the 'accept call' button.
"Hey, K," her slightly muffled, tired voice answered him. He could guess she was somewhere with bad reception – probably the palace's basement, where it's safest; the mere thought made his heart clench. "How'ya doing' there?"
He exhaled loudly, curling his knees up and hugging them close to his body with the arm that wasn't holding the cell-phone. He received specific instructions from his father and their General about his communication with the ones back home, so he knew that neither he nor Sugar could say anything about where he was or what was going on with the rebellion. "It's pretty okay, I guess. Could've been worse."
He knew she won't believe him, though – Rory and Sugar both knew him since they were four-years-old and Kurt was five, and after almost thirteen years of friendship it was near impossible to hide anything from them. "I don't believe you, Sweetiepie," her high, breathless voice answered him. "Now tell me what's really wrong."
There was silence for a few moments before he sighed and bowed his head, gaze fixed on the red spots on his brand-new Dr. Martens boots. Hopefully he'd be able to get it out. "It's – I mean, it's mostly fine, because my hosts are really nice and I met all of her friends and they seem fairly nice as well, but – It's just…"
"Not somewhere you fit in?"
"Yes," he agreed. "Yes. Not somewhere I fit in. And, I mean, I know I'm an undercover prince and all –" he quickly looked around; just to make sure no one entered the bathroom when he didn't notice and heard him. "And I'm an heir to a kingdom and all, but I'm not spoiled, am I? I just, there is the football-team here, and they're…"
"Bullies, like those movies you like?"
"I don't know what to tell you, Kurtsie," she said, and she sounded sincere. "I mean, be strong and all? You know that if I was there –"
"You'd throw your purse on them and hope to poke one or two of their eyes out?" He suggested, a hint of a smile on his lips.
"Oh, no, that's barbaric, Kurt!"
He laughed, letting her familiar voice and slightly absurd ideas to fill him in. He wished he could be there with them, if only to be certain nobody he loved was seriously hurt or injured, and to defend his country and his people – but he couldn't, and so those short moments of normality with her were a blessing he was eternally grateful for.
Outside the bathroom, leaning on the wall next to the closed door with her ear pressed against the wood to hear everything better, a Latina girl with a tight black ponytail shook off her internal shock and smirked; she bended over and picked up her bag from the floor, pulling out her Blackberry and pressing the Google link.
A prince, huh?
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(Kurt's outfit is this)
(Blaine's outfit is this)
(Tina's outfit is this)
By the way, do the pics I always add annoy you? It will be more than just outfits soon – real places, houses, locations, etc. I just love to add a bit of reality next to the fic. Is it okay?


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