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I don't exactly remember the first time that I met Natalie Kardos, but I remember the second. We were in the Atari Lounge at the Casbah and we got to talking, hitting it off as friends right away. She was in grad school but had an interest in photography. She quickly became one of my favorite photographers in the music scene.
When we found ourselves with photo passes for a free Flaming Lips show, I felt we'd struck gold, legitimizing bloggers and photographers as an integral part of the music scene. As we jockeyed with other photographers for position, we saw that famous inflatable ball and lined up stage left so the ball would pass directly overhead with Wayne Coyne inside, and she captured the best photos of that day that I saw.
Over the years, Natalie has shot hundreds of bands and is now a contributing photographer for Pitchfork. While I'm so happy for Natalie that she's found new happiness and will be moving to Seattle, it is also with sadness that we will say goodbye as she has been a great friend and such a massive supporter and proponent of San Diego's music scene.
You can say goodbye at the Casbah on Wednesday with a great lineup including Kalashnikov My Wife, a band featuring Natalie and Petro Halcowycz of Swim Party, among others. If you're in a local band, now is your chance to thank Natalie for her contributions. Or if you're not, it is going to be a great festive night at the Casbah anyway, so celebrate the vibrancy that exists in this city because of people like Natalie.
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Built to feature supercar and luxury car characteristics, the Magnate Birdman Edition features a long and muscular profile with suicide doors and optional bulletproofing. Can you imagine the weight of this car when it's bulletproofed? Clearly, it's going to add some meat to it that could potentially slow it down a tad.
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Before You Watch the New House of Cards, Do Yourself a Favor and See the Original
I'll watch anything Kevin Spacey is in, so I'll be among the early downloaders of the second installment of House of Cards, which will be out via Netflix touchingly on Valentine's Day.
But now I've done something I should have done earlier, and that will put Spacey-style House of Cards 2, 3, any others in a completely different light. Recently I watched the four-episode original BBC House of Cards series from 1990. It's on Netflix too, and, seriously, if you are interested in either politics or satire, this is not to be missed.
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This is the first part of a Chef Chat series. Parts 2 and 3 will run in this same space on Thursday and Friday. Up Restaurant in Highland Village boasts one of the most beautiful dining rooms in the city. Above the bar, a gigantic, glittering Swarovski chandelier immediately wows before you step d ... More >>
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Perfume: A Story of a Murder by Patrick Suskind
001. He despised technical details, because details meant difficulties and difficulties meant ruffling his composure, and he simply would not put up with that.
002. Man's misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs.
003. If ever anything in his life had kindled his enthusiasm—granted, not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame—then it was this…
004. Until now he had thought it was the world in general he wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it. You could live, so it seemed, in this world devoid of humanity.
005. … the plan unraveled in freedom, so to speak, as did all his other plans and intentions. Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings.
006. The world molded in lead, where nothing moved but the wind that fell sometimes like a shadow over the gray forests, and where nothing lived but the scent of the naked earth, was the only world he accepted, for it was much like the world of his soul.
007. He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid. He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating—and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.
008. All at once great contentment came over him. Not a drunken one, as in the days when he had celebrated his lonely orgies in the bowels of the mountain, but a very cold and sober contentment, as befits awareness of one's own power.
009. Grenouille sat at his ease on his bench in the cathedral of Saint-Pierre and smiled. His mood was not euphoric as he formed his plans to rule humankind. There was no mad flashings of the eye, no lunatic grimace passed over his face. He was not out of his mind, which was so clear and buoyant that he asked himself why he wanted to do it at all. And he said to himself that he wanted to do it because he was evil, thoroughly evil. And he smiled as he said it and was content. He looked quite innocent, like any happy person.
010. He took part in corporate life—in the regular meetings and processions of the journeymen—only just often enough as to be conspicuous neither by his absence nor by his presence. He had no friends or close acquaintances, but took careful pains not to be considered arrogant or a misfit. He left it to the other journeymen to find his society dull and unprofitable. He was a master in the art of spreading boredom and playing the clumsy fool—though never so egregiously that people might enjoy making fun of him or use him as the butt of some crude practical joke inside the guild. He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
011. For he had renounced things all his life. But never once had he possessed and lost.
012. His soul was again dominated as usual by cold night, just what he needed for a frosty and clear conscious mind to be directed to the outside world…
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01. The past was pliable. Often the past was the only thing she could control.
The Photograph by Penelope Fitzgerald
001. He knows enough of the theories of long-term memory to identify his recognition of the mill and the hill fort as the practice of semantic memory—the retention of facts, language, knowledge, without reference to the context of their acquisition. He simply knows these things, along with everything else he knows that makes him a fully operational being—a being considerably more operational than most, in his view. Whereas the vision of Kath sparked by the kestrel is due to episodic memory, which is autobiographical and essential to people's knowledge of their own identity. Without it we are untethered, we are souls in purgatory. Those glimmering episodes connect us with ourselves; they confirm our passage through life. They tell us who we are.
002. Once, Polly wanted her to be something else. She wished that Kath was her mother. This is no reflection on Elaine, it did not mean a repudiation of Elaine, it meant simply that Polly wanted to have Kath with her all of the time, in an attentive, available mother role. She remembers this longing and she remembers also an accompanying guilt; she knew she must not voice this need, least of all to Elaine.
003. This is a woman who is self-sufficient. Which does not imply egotism, or complacency, of indifference to others; just, she is one of those rare and perhaps blessed souls who are able to make their way through life without the need to be shored up by companionship, or dependents, or love.
004. In youth, Oliver was good at Latin. Occasionally a shred of Virgil or of Caesar can still float into his head. These days, he is haunted by lacrimae rerum—those plangent words. He remembers that the Latin master considered the phrase untranslatable. He would chalk it up on the board, with some suggested renderings; the pity of things, the tears of the world. "Not right, are they?" he would say. "A beautiful expression, the ultimate in poetry—and it has to be left as it is."
The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl -01- …the place was littered with books, as though a library had collapsed and disbursed itself at will -02- Codes and symmetries are for those who think too much of thinking.
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
01. "I think sex flows more sluggishly in all of us than we care to believe, especially men care to believe. The first adventures are usually nothing but a satisfying of curiosity, and after that one keeps repeating the same actions, trying to find—what?" "What?" Therese asked. "Is there a word? A friend, a companion, or maybe just a sharer. What good are words? i mean, I think people often try to find through sex, things that are much easier to find in other ways." "What other ways?" "I think that's for each person to find out."
02. Therese failed to hear all of what Abby said next, or maybe it was another of the fragmentary sentences that Carol alone understood, but it made Carol straighten up and laugh, suddenly and hard, made her whole face change, and Therese thought with sudden envy, she could not make Carol laugh like that, but Abby could.
03. And she wondered, as she had wondered before, if Richard liked her only because she was more sympathetic with his ambitions than anyone else he happened to know now… Therese got up restlessly and went to the window. She loved the room—because it stayed the same and stayed in the same place—yet today she felt an impulse to burst from it. She was a different person from the one who had stood here three weeks ago. This morning she had awakened in Carol's house. Carol was like a secret spreading through her, spreading through this house, too, like a light invisible to everyone but her.
04. An inarticulate anxiety, a desire to know , know anything, for certain, had jammed itself in her throat so for a moment she felt she could hardly breathe.
05. Therese answered as she always did, succinctly, and with the involuntary and absolute honesty that always depressed her afterward….Why did she let Mrs Robichek haunt her? And now she had spread it into Carol and could never take it back.
Purity by Douglas Clegg
001. …in many ways, we want the irrational and the tragic and the desperate, because they bring meaning and life back into our existences.
002. That's what had happened when I was twelve and dedicated my soul to the god of dark places. By the time I was seventeen, I was a dedicated servant to the one I worshipped. And the only thing I asked of this divinity was: Give me Jenna.
003. Owen Crites looked to summer for one thing, and one thing only. It would be the arrival of Jenna Montgomery, and that would mean that his misery, his feeling of loneliness would vanish. It was a singular obsession of his. She was purity.


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In politics it's just business not personal. Try telling that to the Lubbock County Commissioner candidates in precinct three, but don't stand too close when you do. A heated exchange between the two disrupted a political forum. FOX 34 is told it came close to blows.
As you would expect, Ysidro Gutierrez and Lorenzo "Bubba" Sedeno have different perspectives.
When the forum ended early the jawing moved to the outside of Saint Joseph's Catholic Church. The Democrat, Sedeno said Gutierrez, the Republican is calling him a "dead beat dad", which he considers way out of line. Sedeno said family should not be brought up in a campaign.
"I've paid a total of $99,600 for 12 years for one child," Sedeno said. "I've never been a dead beat dad. I pointed my finger to let him know that I meant what I said, leave my family out of this campaign if not we are going to have a problem. I don't see it as a threat, that's a fact."
Gutierrez said Sedeno is attacking him about his previous record as a County Commissioner. He held this post as a Democrat in the past. He adds Sedeno threatened him with physical violence shouting out verbal threats.
"I am not going to make the same mistake that Gilbert Flores made, and that was too allow Bubba to slam him," Gutierrez said. "There is nothing I would love more, but to talk to the voters of precinct three about issues and solutions, that's what I started to do last night, but he attacked me over, and over again. I knew it was not going to stop, it was going to go the whole hour. I had to end it."
Gutierrez said there are records proving that the State Attorney General filed suit against Sedeno for back-child support.
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Youtube Features - Video Browsing Page
Today on the YouTube.com Blog, they announced that they will be adding several new features over the coming months. They refer to these changes as "large changes" to existing features as well as introduction to new features.
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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." | Betrand Russell
"Beauty of Mathematics" by Yann Pineill & Nicolas Lefaucheux
That first picture just fills me with such joy and a feeling of hope.
It's the last picture that gets me. Her eyes are off reading the defense, because she's not handing off to the RB, that's a fake. She's the QB and she'd doing her goddamn job and she's doing it well. GET IT GIRL.
"Everybody says, 'What happens when she gets hit?' " Gatewood said. "This isn't a knock on Erin, but she's bigger than 10 kids on my team. I have a wide receiver that weighs 25 pounds less than her. And the pads she wears are the same as the pads he wears."
This is the only context in which football matters to me
hahaha omg i thought this to myself too
Seriously, the thing that the coach said.
The media has really fucked with our perceptions of women's bodies. Women, generally speaking, are way heavier than you think compared to men of comparable height.
i love everything about this photoset, but i especially adore the first pic, with her cheerleader friend helping her tie back her hair. just…y'know, cheerleading is so strongly linked to a particular embodiment of femininity, just as playing football is strongly linked to a particular embodiment of masculinity, and like. girls are always pitted against each other, man, and their different ways of being girls are always pitted against each other.
to me, that first pic overturns a lot of shitty narratives about girlhood and girl friendships in one cute snapshot of a fleeting moment between two friends. idk, i just really love it.
A model of the creation of sine & cosine graphs.
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An Open Letter to My Fellow White Feminists
Great read from Lauren! Thanks for writing this.
Okay, white feminists. It's time for us to have a chat.
As a white feminist, particularly one who is straight, cisgender, and able-bodied, I have a distinct set of privilege within this space. I know that my voice is heeded and respected in a way that marginalized women, especially women of color, never get to experience, simply because I am white. I know that I have been given opportunities that often elude marginalized women because of the privileged identities I hold. And I know that there are white women who understand this.
But I've also seen firsthand the myriad ways in which white feminists question the experiences of women of color. I've watched white feminists skyrocket to prominent media careers on the backs of women of color. I've witnessed white feminists co-opt the work of women of color for profit, without even bothering to credit the source.
I'm not above reproach. I have certainly profited from white privilege, and I wrestle with feelings of guilt at having my own paid writing gigs while feminists/womanists of color who I feel are far more intelligent and insightful than me theorize and organize for free on their personal blogs. I have many times failed to check my privilege. I have perpetrated racist harm.
But I am distinctly troubled by the continual lack of many white feminists to even acknowledge that this happens, let alone truly begin to restructure our movement to not just be more "inclusive," but to truly embody the social justice goals for which we claim we are fighting. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated occurrence, but in fact underwrites so many of our interactions.
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If You Could Change Your Fate, Would You?
Merida by Heather Theurer
Today I watched a highly speculative-documentary on Human Origins….and this was my reaction to the whole thing.
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If ObamaCare had been as unpopular as conservatives believed, their plan for the shutdown — that there would be a public uprising to force Democratic senators in close races in 2014 to defund it — would've worked. It didn't. Not a single senator budged.
Their tactic failed, and now what they are left with is House Speaker John Boehner basically begging the president of the United States to negotiate with him.
One thing we know for sure is that it's not an equal fight, this fight between a man who received 65 million votes nationwide and a man who received 246,000 votes in one congressional district in Ohio.
Suicide of the Right by John Podhoretz, who is no friend to Democrats. (via wilwheaton)


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Categories > Cartoons > Avatar: The Last Airbender > Dragons of the West
Chapter 70 Reviews
Set after episode, the Firebending Masters. It was dinner time after Zuko and Aang arrived back from the Sun Warriors' community. Aang, Sokka, Katara, Toph, Haru, the Duke & Teo, wait for the arr...
Summary: Set after episode, the Firebending Masters. There are many secrets that mortals in the past have long forgotten. Ever wondered how the War started? How the mortals in the Avatar world learned to bend the elements from the help of the Gods themselves? And how did the mortals then defended evil that wanted to take over the world? What happened to Aang's friends before the War, after he disappeared? How is Zuko related to Avatar Ruko and Kuzon? Is Ursa still alive or she is dead? How did Iroh became a member of the Order of the White Lotus? What really happened to Iroh's son Lu Ten? What really became the airbenders 100 years before? Ever wondered what became the other characters in the story after we never see them again?
What secrets would be discovered? And what is the cost to know them?
Chapter Seven
Zuko couldn't sleep.
After his Uncle left to go back to the Others he went back into his room to try and get some rest. He tossed and turned in his sheets while thoughts of what his uncle told him flowed into his head.
Unknown questions with no answers felt like little pricks sticking into him. Not knowing made him feel helpless.
What did his Uncle mean about the Call? What consequences would happen if you ignored it? Uncle did say it would be fatal, but how can a Call kill you?
And why did his Uncle want him to make a bow? Wasn't Firebending and swordsmanship enough?
And why didn't anyone tell him that his mother was a Yu Yan Archer? Surely he was old enough to know!
Zuko sighed as he got up, flinging the covers off himself. He grabbed his twin swords and cloak as he stepped outside his room.
The night was still dark, it could have only been a few hours since his Uncle left.
Zuko walked down the deep slop of the cliff. If he was going to make a bow, he needed some wood.
/'Hopefully I can remember how, it been a while' /he thought as he climbed down, heading towards the trees far below.
Aang yawned as he walked out of his room a few hours later, heading towards Zuko's quarters.
Aang knocked on the door.
No answer.
Confused, he knocked again.
Still no answer.
Then it hit him. "Darn, I forgot firebenders get up at sunrise!" Aang skipped down the corridors. He approached the fountain, since it somehow became a meeting place for everyone ever since they first came to the Air Temple. Zuko wasn't in sight.
Fear slowly crept into his heart. Where was Zuko? Was he hurt? Had he been captured?
Just as Aang was about to run back and tell the others that Zuko was gone, a dark figure moved in the corner of his eye. Aang turned around to see Zuko climb up the edge of the cliff.
Aang ran up to him, but stopped to tilt his head in confusion as Zuko pulled out a long straight stick and smaller ones from his backpack.
"Yeah, Zuko. Ah, what's with all this wood? I thought we had plenty back at camp."
"They're not for firewood. A little dragon told me to make a bow." Zuko replied before standing up and brushing himself off.
Aang was more confused. "A little dragon? Did you hit your head or something? The Firebending Masters are not little."
Zuko rolled his eyes, "It's a Fire Nation expression."
"Oh," Aang said, clearly not understanding what Zuko meant. "Are you sure you don't want me to get Katara to check your head?"
"No, don't get Katara," Zuko answered, still pissed at the waterbender. "Come on Aang, I need your help."
"With what?" Aang asked excitedly.
"I need you to waterbend these sticks so I bend them to make a bow," Zuko explained, as he led the Avatar back to the fountain. "It's time for you to understand other Arts from the Fire Nation. Aang, have you ever heard of the Yu Yan Archers?"
Too soon (for Zuko) everyone started to get up. Katara was the first, after Aang to come out from her room. She glared at Zuko with hatred, as usual, while making breakfast. Then Toph, Haru, Teo, the Duke and Sokka eventually woke up and met the others at the fountain.
As Katara served everyone their portion of food, Zuko sat cross legged, not knowing how he was going to tell the group what he found out from his Uncle.
He sighed. "I have an announcement to make," he said suddenly, making everyone stop and look at him. Last time he said that he 'lost' his firebending. Did he lose it again?
"What is this time? Did you 'lose your stuff'?" Katara mocked.
Zuko glared at her. "No, its more important then that. Last night my Uncle visited me."
All hell broke loose.
"A firebender was here?"
"Enough!" Aang yelled, stopping everyone from yelling. He turned to Zuko. "What did your Uncle say?" All the times Aang meet the firebender's uncle, he seemed like a good man, and he gave good advice. He might have had something important to say.
"He told me that he and the Others are planning on joining you and Calling the Holy Counsel. He also said to meet him at an island called -"
"But we can't meet him! We need to save my Dad!" Sokka yelled.
Zuko rolled his eyes. Can't they let him finish? "My Uncle also said that they plan on breaking out everyone from." Sokka glared at him.
"Zuko, what's the Holy Counsel?" Aang asked him, confused.
Zuko was shocked. "You're the Avatar. Don't you know about the Holy Counsel?"
Aang shook his head. "The monks didn't tell me anything about it. They said when I got older I would know... What is it?"
Zuko looked at everyone in the group, and saw that they clearly had no idea what the 'Holy Counsel' was. What were the other Nations teaching their children?
"The Holy Counsel is an Order that involves all the Nations. It's a Counsel that was created thousands of years ago, probably created shortly after Man learned how to bend." Zuko explained. "It's basically what the name means. It's a Counsel with members of the Holy Line from all the Nations. Meaning each role in a Nation and their descendants would be members," He glanced at Sokka. "Sokka, you're a member, so you better listen."
"What?!" Sokka asked, surprised.
"I myself must attend, and Aang too because he's an Air Nomad." Zuko shrugged.
"How can Sokka be a member?" Haru asked. "Sokka doesn't seem to be from a 'Holy Line' if you know what I mean." Sokka glared at Haru. Zuko sighed.
"His father is from the 'Holy Line'. Therefore he, his son, is also a member."
"Does this mean I'm from the 'Holy Line' too?" Katara asked him, clearly not believing any of this.
"Yes you are. But because you aren't the eldest, you aren't able to be in the Counsel, unless your father or your brother perish." Everyone looked at Zuko.
"Perish?" Sokka yelped.
"Then why is Sokka part of the Counsel?" The Duke asked his mentor.
"Because his father is not able to break out of prison himself, Sokka must take his father's place until he's out," Zuko explained to the Duke.
"Oh," was all he could say.
"I understand that Aang's involved in all this. But why you?" Teo asked.
Zuko was about to answer, but Toph interrupted. "Is it obvious? He's the Fire Nation Prince."
Zuko shook his head. "Not necessarily. My Uncle is taking the Fire Lord's place in the Counsel. I'm just a crown Prince, or was." he said after a thought. "I'm in the Counsel because of my mother. My Uncle didn't tell me why, though."
Toph knew he was lying, but knew that Zuko had his reasons for not telling any of them. She planned too confront him about it later.
"So… where is this Counsel thing anyways?" Sokka asked, breaking the silence again.
Zuko glared. "Its not called the Counsel thing. It's called the Holy Counsel"
"Yeah, yeah whatever." Sokka muttered, folding his arms on his chest.
"So where is the Holy Counsel meeting at?" Aang said him.
"The meeting place is on an island that's located at the middle of all the Nations, or so it was before the War. Anyway, its name is /Locus qua is est Pondera /(1). However, the Ancient language was forgotten many years ago, so now its just called the Island of the Peace or the Island of the Holy Counsel."
"/Locus qua is est Pondera?/" Aang muttered to himself. The name felt almost familiar to him. The name held power, such power that was foreign to him, but not at the same time.
"So when are we going to the Island of Peace?" Haru asked.
"We will go the moment we feel the Call," Zuko answered.
"And when will that be?"
"The moment the Others are ready."
Iroh leaned over the ship's railing. He sighed as the ship rocked as waves pushed against it. The sun itself was just rising from the east. He turned to see water benders, ten at each side of the ship, bending the water to make the ship go faster. At that speed they would reach the Island of Peace in less then a day or two.
His thoughts drifted towards his nephew. Iroh didn't want to leave his nephew behind, but he knew he had to.
His and his nephew's fate were not intertwined as close as they wished. Fate was cruel.
Someone coughed behind him. Iroh turned and saw Chief Haruki standing behind him, his face a green hue. Iroh smirked, knowing that this was Haruki's first time at sea.
"Iroh the boy is fine, stop worrying," Haruki told him, trying to keep his balance as he walked towards the former General.
"I can't stop thinking of him." Iroh confessed to his friend.
"He is grown man. He will do fine."
Iroh nodded.
There was silence.
"How much further is it to the Island of Peace?" Iroh asked.
Chief Haruki looked at him. "We will arrive to Locus qua is est Pondera inless then two days time if the water benders are not too tired and the weather holds, and we are not discovered."
Iroh nodded.
"There is something that is bothering the Others," Chief Haruki stated suddenly.
"What is it this time?" Iroh asked.
"The sacrifice."
"Which one?"
"The one that we will use when we Call upon the Counsel."
Iroh nodded. "We are not as cruel our ancestors were thousands of years ago. However, the Call needs a blood sacrifice, one that will take a life to the Spirit World."
Chief Haruki nodded. "The Others are… squeamish about us using blood to Call the Counsel."
"That is the only way."
"Of course. Only we, the Fire Nation, still use the ancient ways. They are mostly worrying about who will be the one sacrificed… I just came from below, I heard one say that we are going to use a virgin, and that everyone should get shagged so they won't be sacrifice."
Iroh laughed. "Virgin blood is not necessary. Everyone here that are virgins are far too young. We can not use one of our own, though, Haruki. We should use an enemy, but where are we going to get one?"
Chief Haruki smiled. "I think I have an idea…" He walked off.
Iroh stared at him.
"What is it?" Iroh asked.
Haruki laughed.
Mia gripped the reins of her horse-tiger (2), later that night.
She had been traveling nonstop since she started her journey from the Fire Palace. She had hidden in a ship sailing to the main land, stole a dark colored mare from a Fire Nation outpost where the ship stopped at, and then rode for the rest of the night.
She was hungry, thirsty and exhausted. She knew she had to stop soon, or she and the mare would die of exhaustion.
She pressed on, pushing the mare little farther before they stopped while searching for a good place to rest.
Finally, she found a good hiding place to stop; a nice cave fit for a grown woman, a large animal, and maybe a small camp fire, next to a small creek. She stopped the mare and jumped off, letting the mare drink from a nearby creek. Smiling at the eager mare, which jumped for joy at a drink. Mai patted the horse-tiger's neck.
"You're a good girl," she praised. "Drink up, we have a long way to go." She knew she was being silly, talking to an animal, but she had no one else to talk to.
After the mare had its full, Mai tied it to a nearby tree, letting it eat the green grass.
Sighing, she cupped some water in her hands and drunk her full. She drank slowly, letting her body ease the water into her stomach, not making herself sick. Afterwards, she pulled out a leather water flask and filled it.
Finished, she flung it around her shoulders for safe keeping. Looking up in the dark sky, she knew that morning would soon come. She knew that she should rest during the day, and travel at night, for she was still in Fire Nation territory and if people found her with a stolen mare and a traitor's letter they would hang her without trial.
She still had a few weeks to go until she reached the place she was heading. She hoped the rumors of the White Lotus headquarters were correct, and she would find it near the heart of the Earth Kingdom, the place marked on the Earth Kingdom map that was tied to Zuko's letter.
She walked back to the mare and let it into the cave. She set her bag onto the floor and pulled her cloak on top of her to use it as a blanket.
She fell into an uneasy sleep.
(End of Chapter)
[*](1) Locus qua is est Pondera:* translated from Latin to English, it reads 'The Place where it is Balanced'.
(2) Horse-tiger: a made up creature that I formed in my head. It's a crossbred of a horse and tiger (duh). The creature's form is of a horse, however the head and tail is the form of tiger with tiger strips on its fur. Just like any horse, its vary of different colours.
Like the Earth Kingdom with their Ostrich-horses, the Fire Nation as this creature and of course their Rhinos.
In this story: Mai stole a female horse-tiger mare, that is midnight black with reddish strips.
Author's Notes: To those who asked me. When Zuko said "A little dragon told me….", I used this expression, "A little birdie told me…" twisting it slightly.
To all those who read this fic, I'm proud to say that I finally made a story line of this story. Sadly some of the story plot, you all would hate me. But like most stories, it would end good, twisted or freakish. Hopefully in the end, you all would be pleased.
And sadly this is the LAST chapter for Kit Kat to Beta the story. So I will NOT update until I get a new one. Please either e-mail me OR say it on a Review if you wish to have the job. The first one gets the job. Please Review!


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UPS Expands In-Store 3D Printing Program to 100 U.S. Locations
UPS has announced it will be expanding its in-store 3D printing program to nearly 100 stores across the U.S.
Additive manufacturing or 3D printing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital model. 3D printing is achieved using additive processes, where an object is created by laying down successive layers of material. 3D printing is considered distinct from traditional machining techniques (subtractive processes) which mostly rely on the removal of material by drilling, cutting etc.
3D printing is usually performed by a materials printer using digital technology. Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been a large growth in the sales of these machines, and their price dropped substantially.
The technology is used in the fields of jewellery, footwear, industrial design, architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), automotive, aerospace, dental and medical industries, education, geographic information systems, civil engineering, and many others.
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UPS has announced it will be expanding its in-store 3D printing program to nearly 100 stores across the U.S.
The International Space Station may soon get its first 3D printer.
The Strati took years to design, but only 44 hours to 3D print and build.
The first 3D printer ever to fly in space will blast off this month, and NASA has high hopes for the innovative device's test runs on the International Space Station. The 3D printer, which is scheduled to launch toward the orbiting lab Sept. 19 aboard SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo capsule, could help lay the foundation for broader in-space manufacturing capabilities, NASA officials said.
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Amazon's new 3D printing shop will let you design and print your own bobblehead. It's also another sign that the market for 3D printing is expanding.
For those with ambitions of 3D-printing utensils, figurines or other objects for the home, Home Depot may be your next stop: The store now sells MakerBot 3D printers.
A UK research group has unveiled several aircraft concepts projected for 2040 which include self-healing and transforming air vehicles.
The "Gamegirl" uses a Raspberry Pi computer to run an emulator with Nintendo classics.
A new technology can now turn traditional children's books into customized 3D stories for blind and visually impaired children.
Researchers at the University of Illinois are developing what they call "bio-bots" -- machines that combine synthetic 3d-printed frameworks with biological muscle tissue.
This 3D drawing pen uses light instead of heat to let you draw three-dimensional art and objects.
The Smithsonian is digitizing a T-Rex skeleton so anyone, anywhere can 3D-print exact replicas of the bones.
3D printing tech has opened doors in a lot of areas -- including sustainability. Take a look at the efforts of some groups to 3D print a greener planet.
MakerBot starts shipping its home 3D printing solution, the Replicator Mini.
A 27-year-old Japanese man, Yoshitomo Imura, has been arrested for possessing several 3D-printed guns at his home in Kawasaki. He is believed to be the first case of a Japanese citizen arrested for owning a 3D-printed gun.
3D printing is changing the way we produce objects, from tools and toys, to clothing, and even body parts. So how does it work exactly?
It's a house in a hurry. A Chinese company harnessed 3D-printing technology to build 10 one-story houses in a day -- a cheaper, faster and safer alternative to more traditional construction. See also: One Man's Quest for the Perfect Hand: 39 Years and a 3D Printer WinSun Decoration Design Engineering built the houses in Shanghai using four giant 3D printers, which are each 10 meters (33 feet) wide and 6.6 meters (22 feet) high, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua.
National Geographic Kid's nano-printed cover is small enough to fit on a grain of salt -- 2,000 times.
Jose Delgado, Jr. has had hooks and unreliable prosthetics, but he never had an artificial hand like this, until now.
3D printing can solve a world of problems, even little ones like the settled water in a bottle of ketchup.
Walk through this year's New York international Auto Show, and it's clear that the current crop of cars are rapidly catching up with the concept vehicles of the future. But one audacious 3D-printed car on display at the event, a Ford Gran Torino, looks like it just arrived from the underworld or an alien planet -- and we doubt automakers will ever catch up to this kind of design.
Using 3D printing, researchers have made a tumor-like lump of cancer cells in the lab, and they say this lump shows a greater resemblance to natural cancer than do the two-dimensional cultured cells grown in a lab dish. This more realistic representation of a tumor could aid studies on cancer and drug treatments, the researchers said.
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Let's start with Price, who leads the nation – yes, nation – with 14 touchdown passes so far this season.
Price could be the surprise of the year when it comes to local sports. Given the knee injuries and scrutiny of following in Jake Locker's footsteps, all Price has done is continue to smile and handle his business. Rarely does a brand new starting QB thrive as well as price has – making plays under duress, avoiding critical mistakes, and looking every bit of a leader along the way.
While the defense preserved yesterday's win a memorable goal-line stand and despite a rash of injuries, "they still drive me crazy!" And they're still ranked 108th in the country out of 120 teams in yards allowed per game. But they did just enough to make us forget their shortcomings for one more week – and instead give Price the credit he's due.
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As for the current host of the price is right, Carey was in Vancouver last night to watch the Sounders win their first Cascadia Cup in the MLS era. Although it's just a regional award, the franchise continues to fill up their trophy case faster than any other professional team in our area, and do so under the toughest of conditions.
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On the over-the-top offensiveness of God Hand (the game the above clip comes from), pat of Token Minorities says: I don't think this is accidental. I think this says something about us, as the kinds of people who enjoyed and … Continue reading
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The backstory: Assassin's Creed is one of the most anticipated games of the year. When Yahoo! is talking about your game on the front-page, you know the buzz is pretty significant. The producer for this game is Jade Raymond who, like the lead-producer of every other game created in the modern age, gives a good portion of the interviews with the press. That is, if you're a producer of a game and you're noticeably articulate, you're the one talking about it, you don't tell the advertising executive or the intern to do that. As the game is being released, a comic/drawing surfaces, most infamously on the Something Awful forums depicting Jade performing fellatio on male fanboys (not to be confused with the photoshopped nude photos of Jade that are floating around). This comic is seen and shared by members of the SA forums at which point Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka of SA receives a cease and desist/threat of lawsuit letter from the legal representation of Ubisoft telling them to shut it all down and to let them know everything about where they get the image, who drew it, etc. At this point, the story becomes popular outside of SA and other blogs start picking it up, forming their own opinions (yes, just like me and just like this one). The story appears on digg and with it a rash of the most sexist comments (and some countering the sexist comments) appear. Continue reading
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former high school classmate of a man accused of plotting an al Qaeda-inspired bomb attack in New York pleaded not guilty on Saturday to charges of murder conspiracy and receiving training by a terrorist organization.
Adis Medunjanin, 25, a U.S. citizen of Bosnian origin, had been arrested after a car chase that ended in a collision on a New York City bridge.
At a Saturday arraignment at Brooklyn federal court, Medunjanin was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country, Pakistan, and one count of obtaining military-style training from al Qaeda.
Medunjanin, a building superintendent, appeared wearing a black hooded jacket and blue warm-up pants. He is being held without bond and U.S. District Judge Viktor Pohorelsky scheduled a detention hearing for January 14. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Loonam said he would seek a permanent order of detention.
Zarein Ahmedzay, a 24-year-old man of Afghani origin, also was arrested on Friday and pleaded not guilty to a charge of making false statements to the FBI -- specifically, that he lied about where he had visited in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Medunjanin and Ahmedzay attended high school in New York City with Afghan-born Najibullah Zazi, 24, who was arrested in September and accused of plotting a bomb attack in New York City on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Zazi has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Investigators allege the three men traveled to Pakistan together in 2008 and attended an al Qaeda training camp.
Speaking to reporters after the arraignment, Medunjanin's lawyer, Robert Gottlieb, declined to comment on Medunjanin's relationship with Zazi or the circumstances of his arrest.
"We entered an emphatic not guilty," Gottlieb said.
Gottlieb said Medunjanin had illegally been denied access to his attorney while in custody and said he would seek to have any statements made to investigators thrown out as inadmissible.
Medunjanin and Ahmedzay have been under surveillance since Zazi's arrest.
Authorities searched Medunjanin's home on Thursday afternoon and seized his U.S. passport. Medunjanin then got in his car and began racing through the streets of New York at speeds of up to 90 mph/, according to a law-enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"He called 911 (the emergency response line) and invoked the name of Allah. He said, 'We love death more than you love life!' and rammed the car in front of him," the law enforcement official said.
He was detained by New York police and handed over to federal authorities, providing them with information that led to the arrest of Ahmedzay, the source said.
Ahmedzay, a taxi driver, was arrested in Manhattan while on duty, his lawyer said.
Security experts had considered the case of Zazi, a former coffee vendor from New York who had moved to Colorado, among the most serious within U.S. borders since the attacks of September 11, 2001. In recent weeks, however, the case has been overshadowed by the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner.
(Reporting by Edith Honan; Editing by Bill Trott)


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Is there anything that a human being can never possibly do?
We humans are so overwhelmed with the millions of actions that we perform everyday. We call ourselves multitaskers and have todo lists and sometimes are concerned about over todo lists being overloaded.
But there should be zillions of things that human beings can never be able to do or are incapable of doing.
We might not have thought much about them. So thinking in this new perspective might create some new connections in your brain.
All the best.
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Jan 23 2013: using the word never means we are making predictions about the future ...so, humans of the 22nd century and beyond, having benefited from accelerated evolution due to genetic remodeling, may very well do things and think in ways that humans in their current form clearly can't. It seems obvious to me that accelerated understanding of nature feeding into accelerated technologies, and visa versa, in an upward spiral, will change our current human abilities and form in profound ways. If not this century, soon. Hopefully, this will lead to a better, more humane civilization and not advantage the dark side of the human animal.
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text: Topic: Destro lock stat priority Home›Forums›World of Warcraft›Warlock›Destro lock stat priority AquilaMember Mine char -> http://eu.battle.net/wow/it/character/pozzo-delleternita/Valnar/simple Hi all, I have a question concerning pve destro lock. There is a cap for haste/mastery? I can put both of them or i must choise one? Thank you for the answers July 19, 2013 at 5:57 am Zodiac85Member deff need Both of these stats. I recommend 45-50% Mastery(unbuffed) & as much Haste as u can get your hands on August 2, 2013 at 5:34 pm You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Login