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BRITNEY SPEARS put her boyfriend DAVID LUCADO on a leash during her latest Las Vegas concert.
Britney Spears likes having a concert tradition where she does something to a man of her choosing while she performs on stage. Last time, it was a sexy lap dance… and now it's walking a man on a leash!
Her first victim was Lance Bass, but during her latest show, she chose to bring her own boyfriend David Lucado on stage!
BRITNEY SPEARS walked LANCE BASS on a leash during her Las Vegas show earlier this week.
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Britney Spears' much-anticipated Vegas residency in Planet Hollywood is getting wilder and wilder!
On the first two days, Miley Cyrus stole the show by grinding with dancers and Britney herself even had a wardrobe malfunction in the middle of her performance.
In recent entertainment news, BRITNEY SPEARS suffered a wardrobe malfunction on stage at her Las Vegas show last weekend.
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The "Perfume" singer experienced another wardrobe malfunction last weekend! To be fair, it wasn't as bad as her last, when she had an upskirt moment at her son's soccer game.
The latest Hollywood gossip tells us BRITNEY SPEARS admitted that her ex-boyfriend JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is one of her music inspirations.
The former "X factor" judge, who thinks that she's "not really made for this industry," has been very busy with the start of her Las Vegas show this week. She has come a long way from her first album and now, to "Britney Jean", her latest album.
BRITNEY SPEARS confessed to star news that she thinks she"s "not really made for this industry," in her "I Am Britney Jean" documentary.
What is she talking about?!
You'd recall that the mother and singer extraordinaire has released a new album called "Britney Jean," which is also the title of the former "X-factor" judge's documentary accompanying the new record.
And in the behind-the-scenes clips of her Las Vegas residency, as well as in between auditioning dancers, changing costumes, and many more, Britney shared some intimate details about her career and personal life.
BRITNEY SPEARS admitted that she really enjoyed having sex with ex-hubby KEVIN FEDERLINE while pregnant with their kids, in the new January 2014 issue of Instyle magazine.
It's been ages since the "Alien" singer, who is now so in love with boyfriend David Lucado, was with her dancer ex-husband, Kevin Federline. You'd even remember that she had two adorable boys with him before she dropped him after two years of marriage.


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This morning on 'Meet the Press,' Republican National Committee chair, Reince Priebus called for his party's 2016 national convention to be held earlier in the summer.
I'm calling for a convention in June or July. We're going to set up a commission that's going to make that decision. I'm going to be a part of that. I'm going to chair that commission, but no more August conventions.
While interesting from a number of political perspectives, it also raises the prospect, if it happens, of having to have the Texas Legislature make changes to the Texas Election Code to enable that to happen.
That's because, unlike a number of states, Texas election law currently tightly specifies the dates on which business of Texas political parties must take place. For example, section 174.063 of the Texas Election Code requires that both the Democratic and Republican parties have their county or senate district conventions on the third Saturday after the primary - unless that Saturday happens to be during Easter weekend of Passover.
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Minnesota law, by contrast, only requires that party rules provide for holding of a convention in election years, though it contains a number of provisions about notice, access, and so forth.
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Under Morrison's fairly sweeping bill, political parties would be given broad discretion in setting the dates and rules for their conventions. The bill would even allow precinct conventions in smaller counties to be held the same day as county conventions.
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Fertility experts warn egg donors to use official IVF clinics after woman offers eggs for sale on Gumtree
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Tragic ConsolationsAnd why Severus Snape's death-scene lacks all of them.For a lot of the people who read The Deathly Hallows, Snape's death was the least of their worries.At the time, we didn't even know he was on the side of good. As we open up The Prince's Tale, we're still reeling from the deaths of Lupin, Tonks and Fred Weasley. And then, by the end of the chapter, we find out that the hero of all seven books has to sacrifice his life in order to ensure Voldemort's downfall. Does that leave room for Severus Snape?Somehow, yes.With The Prince's Tale, we're given a strange, wistful, childhood love story a bizarre eddy in the flow of the narrative. It starts in the muggle world. It centres around characters we've never been encouraged to sympathize with in fact, it justifies the actions of two of the story's (many) villains: Severus Snape and Petunia Dursley. The action slows down, and becomes poignant achingly sad, as opposed to just unremittingly horrific. And t
Days of Dunder"You look tired, Severus."Snape raised his eyebrows. "You made me do this. It seems hypocritical to be concerned for my welfare now, don't you think?"Dumbledore's eyes twinkled with amusement, but he didn't smile. "Yes, I suppose it is."They stood on the landing overlooking the Entrance Hall, watching the milling crowds of students down below. A lot of them were new, and had books clutched protectively to their chests. The older ones were shoving, yawning, or tripping each other up. Professor Flitwick was trying to land two Ravenclaw boys who were hanging, upside-down, beside the chandelier.Snape's head was fizzing with fatigue, but he had found that insomnia, like hunger, sharpened his senses. And he took a bitter satisfaction in the fact that Levicorpus was just as popular with the moronic hordes as it had always been. He had known the little animals wouldn't disappoint him.He turned to Dumbledore. "Heart-warming little things, aren't they?"Dumbledore coughed, as though
Always Winter, Never ChristmasIt was winter in Spinners End - there were icy puddles in the pavement, with cigarette stubs frozen into them, and beaded spider-webs stretched over the grubby window-panes.Snape walked through the streets, with his hands plunged deeply in the pockets of his patched, greying, oversized coat, seeing none of it. He was dimly aware of the cold - he knew his extremities were numb - but this might have been simply due to anger. After the burning, and the blurry panic, came a spreading numbness - he was so familiar with it, it almost seemed like the natural state of things. He could hardly remember what it was like not to feel angry. He had come to rest at a street on a hill that overlooked the hated red-grey city, with its smoking industrial chimneys, its cars, television aerials, and traffic lights - all the sickening paraphernalia of the muggle world. It never changed. Even when he was at Hogwarts, in the Slytherin common-room, poring over a two hundred year-old
PotionsIt was a hot, cloudy afternoon in Spinner's end, and the streets were stewing in the unseasonable warmth. Severus and his mother were sitting in the back garden a thin strip of yellowing grass between two red-brick walls, with a splintered wooden fence leading onto an alleyway at the back.There was a washing-line suspended between the two brick-walls, and Eileen Snape was pegging sheets, shirts and socks over it. She had draped a shawl across her bony shoulders, but it was trailing loose at one end. It always did. She didnt notice the world outside her head very much anymore.Her forehead was furrowed with resentment, and she was gnawing on her lips. It was the expression she always wore when she was dredging up all her most painful memories and sometimes, she found it difficult to see her son through the resulting mud.The past would never stay buried, not with Eileen Snape. It got up out of its grave and lurched around her, groaning and stinking, and clamoring fo
Memos from PurgatoryLife didn't go on, that was the first thing we learned. Grudges went on; nightmares went on; paranoia went on and on and on, but life got snagged on the jagged edges of our memories, and unravelled as we walked away. There were ghostly holes in our everyday routines. You found yourself writing birthday cards to dead people, simply because you couldn't get out of the habit of thinking they were alive. When you invited friends round to dinner, you had to remember not to seat them next to the relatives of the people who had killed their relatives. Molly Weasley and Andromeda Tonks got into a bit of a fight that way.And none of us were really sure what we'd been spared for.There was the tidying-up, of course. We were kept alive by a desire to ensure this sort of thing would never happen again. We built monuments to the departed. I wrote a biography of Regulus Black, to ensure that his contribution to the victory over Voldemort would never be forgotten. It was top of the Dai
The FallThe chimney was full of echoes and bats. It led from the fireplace in the fourth-floor corridor all the way up to the roof, and at night they disappeared in the day, for some reason there were metal rungs fixed into the brickwork so that, if you were reasonably thin, you could climb.Severus liked bats. He liked the way they careered and flapped, like mad scraps of silk in a storm. And they only ever made their homes in deserted places. Bats were a good guarantee that you wouldnt have to encounter any people.He was half-way up the rungs that led to the roof. It was a long way to fall, and his hands were slippery with sweat. They wouldnt have been, if he was alone, but his companion had a tendency to make him feel hot and uncomfortable. She was climbing the rungs beneath him, looking white-faced but determined. He knew that look. It meant: Dont even think about asking me if I want to go back. And that, in turn, meant: I really
Severus Snape and J.K. Rowling's WordsHas the world of fantasy ever produced a character more provocatively mysterious more dramatic in appearance more morally ambiguous more downright compulsive than Severus Snape? Well, maybe, but it's easy to forget every other character when you're basking in the full glare of his sarcastic sense of humour, his dark, dramatic appearance, and his hard-line approach to classroom discipline.That's how we came to launch the Spinners--End group. We'd had so much fun reading about this complex, contradictory character that we wanted to share all the images that J.K. Rowlings well-chosen words had created in our minds. We wanted to help fill in all the blanks shed left about his background and his motivation. And we knew from experience because we were die-hard lovers of fan-art and fan-fiction already that these arts (and, yes, we do think of them as "arts") could create a lively dialogue with the universe of J.K. Rowling
ScarsThis story is set during the events of The Order of the Phoenix, but in a universe where Lily Potter managed to survive Voldemorts attack on her family. Severus Snape, Lily Potter, Dolores Umbridge, Voldemort, and my eternal gratitude, belong to J. K. RowlingLily was crying when she heard the knock at her office door. It was Snapes knock. She knew, because it was as curt and impatient as his sentences. It was one knock away from barging in.There was an urgency to everything he did these days. But it wasnt an urgency that made him nervous. He just gave off a feeling of rigidly controlled, focused energy. Those curt, clipped sentences; those measured footsteps; the way he swept round corners in his billowing black robes; even the way he curled his lip with contempt and told the students not to slouch everything had a point to it, suddenly. And the point was no longer to make everybody else suffer.She sniffed and tried to tidy herself up a bit, be
Comfort and JoyLily spotted Severus on the other side of the café, brooding over a mug of black coffee, and glaring suspiciously out through the steam. He had both hands wrapped around the sides of the mug, and it looked as though it was only the heat from his grip that was making the coffee steam. Perhaps it was. Perhaps he was passing a warming charm through the porcelain. She wouldn't have blamed him. They served the coffee so cold in this place, and Severus didn't often have a chance to let off steam. She sat beside him without saying a word, and blew on her own coffee. It hardly made a dent in the froth. She positioned the mug in front of her lips and breathed it in, letting her eyes drift closed. The room was so warm. It was like being in a Turkish bath. The café smelt of coffee, hot milk and spices fried fat, too, of course, but there was no avoiding that in a northern greasy spoon. And the whole place resonated with a feeling of barely suppressed excit
Care and Feeding of SeverusCare and Feeding of your Severus SnapeCongratulations on the acquisition of your new Severus Snape! To achieve the best results, may we suggest you adhere to the following guidelines:1. Do not taunt or otherwise provoke your Snape. He is equipped with the very finest in built-in sarcasm (also known as "the snark") and a sizable library of hexes, and we assume no liability for the sort of treatment you will receive in return.If, however, you are a masochist, then Godspeed, and may you find the humiliation gratifying; but please be sure to write a lengthy report and distribute it afterwards. A list of suitable publishers, including liaisons to the Muggle "internet", may be obtained by owl despatch to the letterhead address on this brochure.2. Provide your Snape with a cool, dark living space, plenty of black clothing, and daily mental exercise. He particularly enjoys reading, researching new potions, and a good argument, but even a game of chess would not go amiss. This
Falling FallingYou can do it, you dunderhead, you just dont know it!Um-mm
Severus shook his head, eyes screwed tight shut.A sigh, deep and slightly frustrated, followed. Trustlet go of your expectations, your inhibitions. You expect to fall and so you do. Forget about flying, and just walk out to me!Cant
Yes, you can! Lily had that tone in her voice, and Severus knew that had she not been floating a good twenty feet off the ground, parallel to the branch of the giant oak he was clinging to for dear
Ch. 1 "The Girl Next Door"Forever and AlwaysSeverus and lily fanfic by lilynoelle 2008Harry Potter characters belong to the brilliant J.K.Rowling. You are the grave where buried love doth lie. ~ William ShakespeareChapter One ~ The Girl Next DoorNine-year-old Petunia Evans was quite suspicious of the family that lived down the road. Awake at all hours, they were with their dark old house, the garden of oddly-scented herbs, and the leaning chimney with its curling grey smoke. Very out of place, Petunia thought of the Snapes. Spinners End had never known such a dysfunctional family. The woman, Eileen, seemed touched in the head; not only did she talk to her plants, but she always carried with her a long, smooth stick that she waved about at odd moments. Her husband, a drinker, had such a temper Petunia often heard his bellowing tirades from her room. Strange things always seemed to
Severus Snape - Tragic HeroHarry Potter's Tragic Hero:Severus Snapeby Lilli BlackmoreProfessor Severus Snape is one of the most complex characters in the Harry Potter series. He has been called a villain, a hero, an anti-hero, and "a very bad man," all with good reason. Each of these titles, however, depends upon one's definitions of a villain and a hero. In this essay, I offer another, slightly more objective definition, as well as a defense for it: the tragic hero.Tragedy, the literary and dramatic genre frequently associated with theatre, is one of the world's oldest storytelling forms. The classical tragic hero is typically the protagonist of the drama, and includes figures like Oedipus, MacBeth, and Prince Hamlet. They generally possess a recurring set of qualities, including a fall from grace that is brought about, in part, by their own actions.I've examined Snape as the tragic hero repeatedly, in different lights, and with several different interpretations of his chara
In the Palm of Your Hand In the Palm of Your HandCome with me, Lily beckoned, her green eyes crinkling up with her smile, the copper waves of her hair tossing in the sea breeze coming off the water.Where?Youll see
she offered mysteriously. Some place nice. I promise.Severus followed her without further question. Quite frankly, he was rather pleased to still be here at the seaside on holiday with the Evanses and not on trial at the Ministry. Much to his surprise, the underage magic he had used the week prior to protect himself and Lily from the fast-developing storm that had caught them unawares on the cliffs had been excused. He had received a letter f
A Second Chance A Second ChanceI love you.Three words that changed everything.Lily stood there, mouth agape, and Severus could feel himself flushing furiously. He hadnt meant to say it, but she had been leaving. He could feel her pulling away even as she had dared him seconds ago to tell her why; why when he kept friends like Mulciber and Avery, friends who hated everyone of her blood, should she believe a word he said? She had tried to interrupt him, to walk away, but then he had blurted out those three words in a fit of desperation, and now she stood before him looking as though she had just been slapped. Her cheeks were as flush as his.What!?&
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A Night with Gerald by Ben Bellizzi
It was Thursday night and once again Gerald was packing them into the Old Town Pub. They came through the door in twos, the men stepping uncomfortably in slacks that had been purchased for them, the women attempting to appear grand in their pearls and summer dresses while they held their men close and claimed them. The couples at the tables settled in and agreed, 'This is nice, we're glad we did this," while those who'd arrived late were forced to either balance on stools or lean against the walls. No one wanted to arrive too early, for the food went right through you, but there were certain sacrifices to be made for a big night out. It was Thursday and Gerald was playing, there was nowhere else to be.
A handful of youngsters braved the stage to get things started. Bill Watson's boy played some tunes on his fiddle, the brothers McAllister plucked their banjos in an agreeable manner, and then the tall girl whose name nobody knew sang with a piano accompaniment, causing the men to explain their attention with comments such as "She's so tall, she must have to wear men's pants…are those men's pants?" These opening acts were enjoyable and the musicians were talented, but when they finished, most of the crowd was engaged in conversation and forgot to applaud. They wiped the smudge marks from their drink glasses and kept an eye on the hunched figure stooped to his drink at the end of the bar. They left him to himself. Whatever his mood, he was not to be disturbed.
At a few minutes to ten they cleared the stage and dimmed the houselights. People angled their chairs to face the front. The bartender raced to fill glasses. The spotlight wandered blindly around the wooden stage before coming to a rest on the stool and microphone in the center. Conversations fell. The manager, heavyset and perpetually sweaty, scurried up before the crowd, raised a hand to shade his eyes, and said, "Okay Gerald, we're ready whenever you are."
The pub roared. Men whooped, women whistled, and his name rang out every few seconds. Fists rumbled against the unsteady tables and boots stomped against the floorboards. At the far end of the bar, Gerald stared into his drink. His reluctance was part of the performance, too. He suffered the encouragement as it pelted his back. Slowly he straightened, displaying more years than were his own. He emptied his glass and sulked toward the stage. Women inched closer to their men. Hopeful bachelors straightened their collars. Single girls plumped their breasts. Gerald assumed his perch on the stool and there was silence.
Guitar on lap, shoulders scrunched over guitar, head bent to one side, Gerald addressed the microphone. His voice was scratchy, and as always, difficult to understand.
"This is a song I just wrote," he mumbled.
Yesssssssssssss, went the crowd. These were the best, these new ones. Nothing could top Gerald singing songs recently written by Gerald. God bless this man.
He swiped his fingers across the strings and stopped immediately. He didn't like one note, it had to be tuned. Everything had to be a certain way. He took great care to fix the errant string, much to the delight of the crowd. He showed a doctor's concentration, a good doctor's concentration, not like Doc Peterson in the second row who was known to pull and prod at body parts like levers in a rusty transmission. Gerald took his time with his guitar, the guitar that was old and battered and said to have once been used to knock a man unconscious. No one was allowed to touch the guitar but Gerald himself, and though it couldn't be counted on to hold a tune, and its tone was questionable at best, people only scoffed when someone suggested he find a replacement.
"But that's Gerald's guitar," they would say, "He could never use another. It simply adds to the whole…" and they would drift off holding an imaginary something in their gesturing hands. If someone required an explanation, they simply wouldn't understand.
Gerald finished with the string. He apologized and began again. He strummed with every finger, raising his hand dramatically high above the strings and dropping it far below, imploring the sound out into the creaky pub. The notes varied as a few of the frets were too worn to be true, and of course he stumbled between the chords, perhaps not landing on the correct formation until the third or fourth strum, and then also there was the F chord in which his mangled pointer-finger could never bend in the proper position and sounded more like a C chord, and he knew it was wrong, and had been told it was wrong, and he knew he didn't have the ability to play it correctly, but he played it all the same, in fact rarely chose a song without an F chord. Gerald played the introduction as a maestro might have played the finale, lingering on that F chord for longer than the beat required, perhaps thinking that with just a little more effort this might be the night of all nights when he would finally conquer it, which he didn't. And his timing was off, as usual. But the people inched to the edge of their seats, some licking their lips in anticipation. His guitar was quieted and he was inhaling, about to sing.
As poorly as he played guitar, Gerald's singing was far worse. His range barely encompassed one scale, his voice cracked painfully in all the wrong places, and he often ventured too close to the microphone and caused it to screech in pleas for mercy. Hands throughout the audience clutched at tables, standing individuals cinched up their anuses, and the bartender gulped at the dark liquid in his plastic cup. This new song, even more than the others, was hardly endurable, yet when Gerald finished to more fist pounding and boot stomping, people leaned into the ears beside them and said things like,
"Amazing! He didn't forget a single word!" and "What inventiveness! I can't imagine where he gets his inspiration!"
The crowd clamored for more. Gerald, completely drained from the one song and looking like he might collapse right there on stage, did what he could to pull himself together. He brought his mouth to the microphone, thanked the crowd, and started in on a second. Another song, what a treat!
He played for an hour and a half like this, he seeming to fall off his stool at the conclusion of each song, the crowd begging him for more, and he rising to their demands. He put everything he had into his frightful songs, belted them out like a prizefighter swinging blindly as he stumbles backwards, and a gambler might have wagered on whether he or his guitar would give out first. Gerald always made it, though, and his guitar too. He inspired his audience with his passion, had them rooting for him even as they cringed at the sounds he spat at them. The town's music teacher, who gently encouraged his students not to attend Gerald's performances, sat alone at the first table. His eyes were aflame.
The women talked about him throughout the week. Here was a man who was certainly aware of his incompetence. He couldn't play a lick and his voice sent birds to the skies, yet he got up there Thursday after Thursday with his songs of loss and abandonment and performed them as if his life depended on them. Nothing was more important. Single women fantasized of throwing themselves at him; if he was so devoted to something so wrong, there was no telling the lengths to which he might commit to a woman. He would never leave her. He would forever go down with the ship, and even if she left him, he would treasure her memory, immortalize her and sing songs about the heartache she caused him. To be loved…ah, there's nothing like it.
As for unavailable women, they saw his unwavering commitment flood out from the stage and into the very men beside them. No one left Gerald's shows early, no one looked at their watches or cast longing looks at the door. The men beside these women accompanied them each week not only without complaint but with a certain amount of enthusiasm. They enjoyed themselves while there. A man who would endure such pain for his woman was a man to hold on to. He was a man who would put himself second, who would stay until the end and do so with a smile on his face, a man, perhaps, as reliable and dedicated as the one suffering before them.
Now the men knew all this. They felt the gratitude the women displayed for their demonstrations of commitment and support, and they looked forward to Thursday nights as much as their partners. No matter what holes they'd stepped in previously that week, all would be forgiven with a night out at the Old Town Pub. Single men recognized an opportunity to establish themselves with a new beau and show that, like the man on stage, they were willing to stick it out regardless of any woeful forebodings. We are men, they were saying, we might not be great men and we will certainly make our mistakes, but we will do our damndest to see it through. We will plug away, just like that poor son of a bitch.
In their attendance, these men, single or otherwise, formed a bond with Gerald. He was a fighter, unafraid of the devil himself. They stood in awe of the obvious punishment his own music inflicted upon him, one he not only accepted but seemed to invite, and he made them look good. What would we do without Gerald? they'd say, Don't let that man pay for a single drink.
At the night's conclusion, Gerald returned to his seat at the end of the bar, a full glass awaiting him. He asked to pay but was never charged. He sat alone as the couples disappeared arm in arm out the door, spewing laughter into the warm summer air. Some flirtatious ones remained at the bar, pairing off and pawing at each other, noticing nothing around them, playing out their own song that might lead to the most glorious of finales. Energy was everywhere, all thanks to the man too inspiring to approach. Leave him be, people said, if you listen to his songs, if you understand them, you'd know it's what he wants.
Gerald remained there all night. When the last couple trotted out the door, the bartender poured him one more, full to the brim, and then attended to his cleaning. He didn't mind Gerald, it was but one glass. He enjoyed the company.
Gerald took his time with that final drink. New songs for the following week began to write themselves. It was true, music poured out of him like water from a pail. It was all he knew. It didn't matter that his hand cramped and throbbed within a minute of his playing and didn't subside until sometime late the next day. It didn't matter that his throat ached and made it easier to spit than to swallow. It didn't matter that his name was actually Dave, had always been Dave, but that so much time had passed since the bartender had listened too carelessly to the story of his former sweetheart's cat, named Gerald, that he'd taken to introducing himself as such. He hadn't imagined himself drinking in a closed bar, playing music for people he didn't know, or returning to an apartment with that thin, single bed, but it was the path he was on and the one he would walk.
At night's end he tipped back the last of his drink, put on his coat, and collected his guitar. The bartender looked up from his cleaning and smiled.
"See you next week, Gerald?"
He looked up, nodded his head, and said, "Sure, I'll be here."


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Apple sensibly stipulate minimum requirements to preserve an adequate user experience.
If you take a cynical viewpoint of that, you could say that perhaps Apple were overly lazy developing Aperture when they stick such high req's on it. If that's true, then it wasn't very sensible ;-) But if that's the case or not we will never know. Either way from what I've seen of Aperture I can understand why it likes a lot of horsepower, but I also think it could run on less than what Apple says. And I think it's perfectly fair to compare minimum requirements.
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Vengeful Aatxe (Zaishen quest)
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|Vengeful Aatxe
|Zaishen Bounty Quests
|Given by
| Zaishen Bounty
in Great Temple of Balthazar
|Secondary quest
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Kill a Vengeful Aatxe.
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[edit] Objectives
- Kill a Vengeful Aatxe in the Underworld.
- *BONUS* Kill a Vengeful Aatxe in Hard Mode.
- See Zehnchu [Zaishen Challenge] for your reward.
[edit] Reward
- 10,000 Experience
- 1,500 Gold
- Complete the Base Objective for 40 Zaishen Copper Coins.
- Complete the *BONUS* Objective for an additional 100 Zaishen Copper Coins.
[edit] Walkthrough
Vengeful Aatxe are impervious to virtually all forms of damage and cannot be targeted by skills or attacks, but are killed automatically upon the death of their Keeper of Souls. As such, for practical purposes, the quest calls for the killing of a Keeper of Souls.
See Unwanted Guests for a walkthrough of the quest.
It is possible, but tedious and difficult, to kill one through a combination of life stealing. See Invulnerability for more information.
[edit] Dialogues
[edit] Initial dialogue
- Zaishen Bounty
- "Kill a Vengeful Aatxe in the Underworld."
[edit] Reward dialogue
- Zehnchu
- "Excellent work! The Zaishen admire your dedication."
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- This quest was first offered on 11th May 2009


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Studying the Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth in Greater and Traditional Middle East Countries
AbstractThis article tries to study whether foreign investment in the Greater and Traditional Middle East leads to economic growth. We have selected 21 countries of this zone for the time period 1980-2008. Due to lack of endogenous relationship between variables, the two equations have been estimated separately. FDI affects economic growth directly and indirectly. Indirect effect means interaction term. Infrastructures and economic stability have a special significance in foreign investment attraction. Furthermore, oil extraction has a positive effect on foreign investment attraction and economic growth while technology gap has a negative effect on FDI and GDP variables.
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Below is the most sought after white label in dubstep I have seen to date:
3 hours. That's all it took to sell out* (not in the Skrillex sense).
And since I haven't posted anything on this blog for quite a while, I think this an opportune moment.
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Mala's mastery is a credit to the dubstep scene. Every time he has a release, it's a celebration (as is every DMZ release, come to mention it). His sound is deep, intense without ugly, vacuous wobbles (I'm trying to avoid using the term 'intelligent'); a great source of inspiration through and through. I can only describe his tunes as a journey through sound, a message, a story sometimes? He takes urban dance music, bass music, whatever the hell you want to call it music, to a new level. Way, way beyond just beats and sub.
It's also great to see Tempa maintaining that early halfstep moodiness, namely the above (SP:MC Ft. Lx-One 'Hunted', which comes with a though-provoking intro supposedly sampling either Kiefer Sutherland or Vin Diesel, to match the minimal, mesmerising riddim), and the below (J:Kenzo 'Ruffhouse', which contains similar pots and pans percussive offbeats to the SP:MC, and 'Therapy' which is far less dark, but listen to it from start to finish and you'll realise how cleverly the tune progresses). Youngsta-favoured heavyweight ('Ammunition Productions', E1; says it all), dubstep purist biznis. Really like the artwork (selected by Tempa management and designer Steven Dawson) - minimal but poignant. This really makes me want to go through the label's back catalogue from the past few years (the old stuff is all gold-dust, goes without saying).
Cast your memory back to this one. DUttttty!!!! Basic, but lethal:
* However, you can buy it on Discogs for an overpriced amount, currently starting at £44.50; as meaningless as printing money?
Incidentally, it's nice to hear Terror Danjah on a pre-Xmas funkytastic remix of Roska's 'Without It'. Tough, x-amounts of disgusting bass slumps, hi-q'd snares to slap your worst enemy around the face with, and plenty of wining syncopated patterns. Out on 'RKS Allstars Vol. 2'. RAAAA!!! Just in time for my first gig in Taipei! No snow here though…
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b4 is good because it can be used in my sentences. c4 is very dangerous too. I think g4 is when someone is mad or irritated, they always say, g 4 wat?!
e4, d4, and nf3 are useless.
Comparing us to Carlsen is a bit pointless. He'd probably win against most of us if he started without a queen. Openings do matter more with equal players than chess.com members vs super GM's. Have Carlsen play the world's second best and 1. Na3 might not be such a wise decision for him.
really? starting without a queen i highly doubt that he would still win if he did not start with a queen probably a better statement is if he started without a pawn he would still win easily
There are styles of play, in my opinion e4 deserves much more theoretical preparation that d4, but d4 deserves a more strategic and structural that e4.So, against a player of black e4 weaker but more prepared theoretically can match the black, but against a player of black d4 weaker but more prepared theoretically not accomplish this equality in the opening so easy.
That's a great answer..
Notice he said MOST, as 90% of chess players are below class c from what i remember.
true but i still think an extra queen is a huge material advantage one that most players would not blow i know there are many class c players that could blunder and lose but its still very unlikely
If I manage to blow a whole queen in a position otherwise equal (for example the starting position), I would kill the witnesses and leave the country to avoid the shame that would follow. Yes, even against Carlsen or Rybka.
Playing Carlsen with a queen down would be advantage Carlsen, because the only reliable attack I know would be useless (Fool's mate).
Off topic question (and I honestly intend no disrespect): why do so many Americans capitalize the file when giving notation? For example, 1.E4 instead of 1.e4? The capitals here have always looked peculiar to me.
Plus, it leads to odd looking things like 3.BB5 instead of 3.Bb5 and so forth.
Is it a throwback to the old English notation where everything was capitalized? 1.N-KB3 for example?
Horrible isn't it? (E4 replacing e4)
Bobby Fischer always played 1.e4. He called it "Best by test."
Bobby Fischer never said 1. e4 is best by test.
I think he wrote it.
Yep. Of course, that was a nice catchline, but the real meaning is "from what I played I think I prefer the positions that occur after 1.e4".
BTW, during his WC games he used 1.c4 many times and ended up playing positions from transpositions of 1.d4...
Fischer only played 1.c4 7 times, and 6 of those tries were against Spassky. He was still primarily 1.e4 during his WC match with Spassky
Yes, but it is almost 50/50.
21 games in the Spassky-Fischer WC match, out of which Fischer was White 10 times, out of which he didn't show up in one (game 2).
Out of these nine games, he used 1.e4 five times (4, 10, 16, 18, 20) and 1.c4 four times (6, 8, 12, 14).
That's not overwhelmingly 1.e4 as he was in the rest of his career.
Sorry for the thread hijack.
Another thing I've noticed that's somewhat related (in that it's something you'll never see published in anything, anywhere) is when people create their own rules regarding punctuation marks.
Like the people that don't put a space after commas and full stops.Like this.Drives me nuts,but there's not much I can do about it.
Or when they do the opposite ,and put the space before the punctuation but not after it .Like this .How do people learn to do this stuff ?Have they never actually opened a book and read anything and wondered ,"hmm ,everyone else on the planet follows a different convention than me .Maybe I should follow suit ..."
Anyway, that's the sort of stuff I think of when I see 1.E4 NF6. I've spotted enough of it in these forums to last a lifetime, too. And I'd really like to know what's going on in America that seems to create the majority of this stuff.
/thread hijack
With technology nowadays there exists ''voice-activated'' text-producing programs for computers.
Not sure how well those function with regard to punctuation etc.?
For impatient posters, who are more concerned with filling up forum-pages with ''their-opinion'' as rapidly as possible, they could actually improve on the incoherent language that their brains + typing-skills currently output??
why is she dumb? I don't think so, since she's 2000rating.
Without saying anything about the OP's mental qualities, that sentence shows you haven't gone to many chess clubs. There are plenty of good chess players that are maybe not 'dumb' but at least, well, I guess 'autist' is the term.
Hm, sorry for my late reply but I've just realized this blog wasn't going to anywhere and thus decided myself I wasn't going to write anything else anymore; since it was senseless. Either way I believe our mood is just fine enough now for at least discussing a little bit or clearing up our doubts and disagreements once and for all.
So, not intending to procrastinate any further and taking into consideration your exceptional reply, the point I want to deal with is, with all due respect: if a person has autism, this doesn't mean/affect necessarily (in) anything when we're refering to chess abilities, autism works in a different area of brain and not necessarily with cognitive processes, ie autism affects social issues and not cognitive ones, as such memorizing, focusing or concentrating - hence, actually it's quite the opposite most part of times, you'll find a large number of autist persons extremely intelligent and capable of solving problems; and not rarely they solve it way better than common people.
Ah, concerning chess clubs, I have already visited 3 and I haven't seen any indication of people having autism in those places. It's common seeing eccentric players instead and as far as I know about Vanessa, she would be considered an eccentric one, respectfully. Perhaps your measure is disproportional on how many chess players there are or then you simply interchanged the terms refered.
Hmmm well they are very Equal but I think e4. then d4 :)
Yeah, from what I've heard: e4 leads us to unclosed positions and d4 to closed positions, not sure if it is a fact though.
Finally I see that d4 is better for me; after studying theories, seeing chessmasters games and practicing a lot of chess on the weekends in my club. It's practically an immutable opening in my current games now. E4 is doubtless a rarity in my games - maybe one or other, but only spanish and italian openings. Also I must confess that If I had encountered this sort of opening before I certainly would have had a better performance in my rating and play, even though my rating seems stagnated (no matter which player I do play it only comes around 15 points each game). Therefore in case someone is finding problems or difficulties to improve I would suggest trying to take risk of d4.
Either way, Capablanca and other classical chess players do live up in a d4 and makes it seem much simpler if there's anyone here still in doubt about using or not d4.
Ultimately, it will depend on the player's profile and your peculiarities, being e4 or d4, it does not matter substantially providing the fact you play rightly and decently well.
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Based in the centre of Oxford this large and diverse Organisation require an Communications and PR Officer to manage the delivery of a specific communications project. As the Communications and PR Officer you will take responsibility to ensure that...
Freelance or Contract | £30000 to £40000 per annum | Oxford
Consultant: Rosemary James | Date added: 12/09/2014
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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win" ~ Sun Tzu
An ancient Chinese Military General, Sun Tzu is credited with writing the Art of War. A famous, influential book, it is still viewed as a masterpiece
on strategy, tactics and how to succeed.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The Art of War
Posted by Jennifer Dubowsky L.A.c. at 6:13 PM
Labels: Books, Famous Quotes, Sun Tzu
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