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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Friends and family members of the late James Carver, who passed away in 2008, gathered for what might be one of the most talked about memorial services in the Ozarks.
CAPE FAIR, Mo. -- The film "The Boxtrolls" playing in theaters now has an Ozarks connection. Ozark local Kent Melton helped bring the movie's characters to life by sculpting them into clay.
FORSYTH Mo. - The White River Valley Historical Society, in Forysth, is asking for the public's help in its effort to preserve local stock car racing history.
HICKORY COUNTY, Mo. -- Lakes, rivers and streams are an important part of life in Missouri. State agencies are tasked with keeping our waters clean, but for 25 years, thousands of unsung heroes have been helping with that effort.
CLARKRIDGE, Ark. -- Elected leaders in six Arkansas counties are trying to figure out what do to with a million dollar mess along the Missouri-Arkansas border.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A gang with ties to the Mexican mafia is making its presence known locally.
SPRINGFIELD -- Some of them are gone without a trace, others left clues but the trail went cold. They are the Missouri Missing and there are nearly 1,000 of them.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Springfield Fire Chief David Hall's decisions impact the safety of our community.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Art is in the eye of the beholder. For a Springfield craftsman, his art is being held in the hands of cowboy gun collectors.
OLD MINES, Mo. -- Only a handful of people still speak a language once popular in eastern Missouri. It's called Paw Paw French and its one of the oldest French dialects that originated in the United States.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- As leader of Springfield police, Chief Paul Williams' decisions affect our entire community, but few people know motivates Williams.
RIDGEDALE, Mo. -- Hundreds of boats frequent Table Rock Lake in the summer. It's a scenic, 60- mile lake that connects Missouri and Arkansas, but not all lake lovers own their own water toys.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- When was the last time you ate a good, greasy cheeseburger?
WRIGHT COUNTY, Mo. -- Southwest Missouri is leading the way for the number of children in state custody. Some members of law enforcement say they believe drugs are to blame.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- On a beautiful day, you'll often find several people enjoying Lake Springfield Park. And, in the summer, you'll find most of those people on the water, either in a canoe or kayak enjoying the James River Water Trail.
CAPE FAIR, Mo. -- People travel to the Ozarks from all corners of the country for a variety of reasons; the great outdoors, music in Branson, unique eateries, and even quilting.
REEDS SPRING, Mo. -- The city of Reeds Spring releases new renderings for its plan to turn the old school building (WPA building) into a community center.
CHRISTIAN COUNTY, Mo. -- Missouri State University students are getting their hands dirty in the name of uncovering the historic and the prehistoric.
MOUNT VERNON, Mo. -- Some veterans from the Missouri Veterans home in Mount Vernon are on the move thanks to the generosity of donors after seeing a story we did last summer.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- As we honor veterans, past and present for Memorial Day, KOLR10 News would like to pay tribute to a World War II veteran here in Springfield.
BRANSON, Mo. -- The sounds of Baldknobbers will once again echo though the Ozarks. The Shepherd of the Hills has announced It's cast will take back to the stage this summer on a limited basis.
BRANSON, MO. -- When it comes to competitive clay pigeon shooting, there are three types: sporting clays, skeet shooting and trap shooting.
STONE COUNTY, Mo. -- A lot of people come to the Ozarks to enjoy its natural beauty, and a popular pastime is walking in the woods. Now, those who take in a trail near Notch, next to Branson, have a special place to seek solace for their spiritual soul.
BRANSON, Mo. - A Taney County organization is fulfilling a pressing need in the community by opening apartments for the developmentally disabled, thanks to a grant from the Department of Housing and Development.
PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. -- When you commit a crime and end up in court, your life is now subject to the laws of the land. But, some judges across the nation and right here in the Ozarks soon realized that veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder or caught up in substance abuse were suffering again under the "one size fits all" punishment of state courts.
REEDS SPRING, Mo. -A Kimberling City boy is in the running for a national contest that could change his life. May marks National Mobility Awareness Month and as part of a special program, brand new wheel chair accessible vans are being given away.
LAMPE, Mo. -- Nestled in the small town of Lampe, Missouri sits 10,000 acres of beautiful land on the Missouri-Arkansas border.
LEBANON, Mo. -- Bennett Spring State Park is a popular place to fish and on Friday, Fish Hatchery Manager Mike Mitchell gave a behind-the-scenes look at how the Spring's hatchery works.
RIDGEDALE, Mo.- - Anglers from across the nation take aim for the largest bow fishing tournament in the world. The U.S. Open Bow Fishing Championship kicks off May 3 at Bass Pro Shops Outdoor Academy in Ridgedale.
LAMPE, Mo. - Table Rock Lake could soon be home to a new multi-million-dollar development. After nearly 12 years of planning and searching, Colorado-based Young Life, broke ground a new camp in Stone County Tuesday.
Branson Mo. - The world's top anglers were fighting fish and the weather Thursday, in hopes of eventually landing a $100,000 dollar pay day.
BRANSON, Mo. – Well-known Branson performers celebrate 80 years as a group on Monday.
OAK GROVE, Ark. -- About a month ago, I was on my way to Berryville, Ark. for an Oliver's Ozarks report when my photographer and I passed another place we just had to check out.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Photography is an art and for one Springfield man it's a passion.
JEROME, Mo. -- Bluegrass has been a part of the musical landscape in the Ozarks for generations and a Phelps County man knows a thing or two about what it takes to play bluegrass and the instruments it requires.
Branson Zipline is nestled off Highway 65 just North of Branson, in the Wolfe Creek Preserve.
BUCYRUS, Mo. – A Texas County couple struck liquid gold after they turned a weekend hobby and an old barn into a booming brewery.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The 30th annual Bass Pro Shops Tournament of Champions is underway. The event draws the biggest names in high school basketball from across the country and it's not just the players that are the winners.
A team of psychologists is testing to see how trauma therapy affects the overall health and quality of life for families in Taney and Stone Counties.
The cold weather adds to the woes of seasonal workers who can't find a job between January and March.
Take a look at the majestic birds surrounding Table Rock Lake
Health officials say vaccines, hand-washing and basic hygienic practices can help prevent a serious outbreak.
Visitors to Table Rock Lake are growing more environmentally savvy. That means marinas and other businesses have a vested interest in keeping the water clean.
The city's winter plans include a new dog park, hiking trail extensions and other upgrades to recreational areas.
Demographic shifts could indicate more demand for elderly housing in the future.
The Lead Hill School District enrolled more than 20 international pupils in the high school, which only has 180 students.
BRANSON, Mo. -- A statement from the theater indicates that the theater might reopen in 2014 under new management and a different name.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Using an innovative method to help homeless women stay safe and out of the cold, a program called Safe to Sleep keeps dozens of women of the streets at night struggling to find a place to sleep.
BRANSON, Mo. -- Many theaters and ticket outlets offer holiday discounts as a way to encourage advance sales.
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- A vehicle without a driver used to be the stuff of science fiction. Now it's reality.


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Exterior renovations got underway this week on a project to turn the Margaretville Masonic Building into an eCenter business incubator.
The building was purchased last year from the Masonic Lodge by the Delaware County Industrial Devel-opment Agency. The IDA previously has established an eCenter in Delhi.
By Jay Braman Jr.
Be careful where you park in Fleischmanns.
While violators of the no parking zones in the village may have in the past gotten off with a warning, it appears those days are gone following a special meeting of the village's board of trustees Monday evening that had the board and audience members standing on Main Street and arguing over where parking zones end.
By Julia Green
The Village of Margaretville Board of Trustees opted Monday not to accept a letter of resignation submitted by Margaretville Police Officer Harold Fox on June 4. The decision was made following an executive session at the board's monthly meeting.
"Mr. Fox came before the board requesting that the board reject and not accept his letter of resignation, and the board agreed to reject and not accept his letter of resignation," said Margaretville Mayor John VanBenschoten. "Mr. Fox continues to be the police officer for the Village of Margaretville."
By Julia Green
The Middletown Town Board appointed Margaretville resident Kate VanBenschoten last Tuesday to fill a vacancy on the town's planning board.
The vacancy was initially created when longtime planning board member and New Kingston resident Pete Palen submitted a letter of resignation on Jan. 13 of this year. The opening was temporarily filled when the town board appointed Kathleen McCarthy to the post on March 10; however, she tendered her resignation on May 11 after serving for only two months. In her resignation, McCarthy said that, "due to unforeseen personal circumstances, [her] availability and ability to serve on the planning board [would] be affected."
By Julia Green
The top honors graduates have been named at local high schools.
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A 45-year-old Andes woman faces two driving while intoxicated charges stemming from a fatal accident last December, but was not indicted for vehicular manslaughter.
Christine Arnao pleaded innocent last Thursday to charges of driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI stemming from the accident in which Jon J. Church, 31, of Wells Bridge was killed.
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Delaware County Sheriff's Department officials are continuing their investigation of a Margaretville priest who is suspected of endangering the welfare of children.
The Very Rev. James McDevitt is being investigated in connection with alleged inappropriate behavior toward children after several complaints were made against him in recent weeks.
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A Margaretville priest is being investigated for possibly endangering the welfare of children.
The Delaware County Sheriff's Department executed a search warrant Monday on properties owned by the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Parish to gather potential evidence against the subject of the investigation, the Very Rev. James McDevitt, pastor of the church.
Sheriff's deputies were seen removing numerous boxes and bags from the church's rectory and adjacent garage on Monday morning.
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NBT Bank of Margaretville Vice President Caroljean Finch presented a $1,000 check to help fund the Halcottsville Grange Hall Restoration Project, an ongoing fund-raising effort to support renovations to the Wawaka Grange Hall in Halcottsville.
The hall, which has been a focal point of the Halcottsville hamlet for more than 100 years, was the first home of the Halcottsville Grange #350, established in 1875 as a local lodge of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, an educational and political action society for farmers.
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The Shandaken Town Board heard a plan last week from a group of Phoenicia parents asking for some town support to install a large piece of playground equipment in the Phoenicia Park behind the post office.
The $12,000 "Star Climber," according to the group's spokesperson, Heather Roberts, would be a great addition to what many consider an under equipped park.
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Lung Cancer Health Center
Popular Arthritis Drug KO's Lung Cancer
May 21, 2002 -- The powerful arthritis drug Celebrex, which is already approved as a treatment to prevent a type of colon cancer, is showing some signs of efficacy against cancer's No. 1 killer: lung cancer.
In a small study of 16 patients with early cancer than had not spread beyond the lungs, patients who took Celebrex along with chemotherapy benefited from the treatment, and the cancer virtually disappeared in five patients, says Nasser K. Altorki, MD, professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Cornell University's Weill Medical College. In eight other patients, tumors shrank, and four more patients had stable disease.
The expected complete clinical response rate -- meaning that tumors are no longer visible by X-ray -- with the chemotherapy alone "is just 1%, so these results were very encouraging."
Altorki presented his findings during the closing day of the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Orlando, Fla.
The American Cancer Society estimates that 170,000 Americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year, and 155,000 Americans will die of lung cancer this year. It remains the No. 1 cancer killer in the United States. Patients in this study have the most aggressive type of lung cancer, which is called non-small cell lung cancer.
The patients took 400 mg of Celebrex twice a day, which is twice the recommended dose of the drug, along with standard chemotherapy drugs for six weeks before undergoing surgery to remove part of their lungs. When pathologists examined tissue removed from the lungs, they discovered that about a third of patients had microscopic evidence of tumor death.
After surgery, patients who had tumors about the length of the thumb "only showed microscopic evidence of disease. That is something you rarely see in standard chemotherapy," says Altorki.
But he cautions against too much enthusiasm because as good as these results are, they are very preliminary. He said a larger study that compared chemotherapy plus Celebrex to chemotherapy with a dummy pill is needed to confirm the results.
Michael Gordon, MD, associate dean for research at the University of Arizona in Phoenix, agrees with the need for caution. He tells WebMD that right now many patients with early stage lung cancer don't undergo chemotherapy before surgery to remove the tumor. Adding that treatment along with Celebrex would expose the patients to "several weeks of toxic treatment," which many cancer specialists may consider unnecessary.
But other experts are enthusiastic about the role of drugs like Celebrex, which are called Cox-2 inhibitors. Cox-2 controls production of hormone-like substances called prostaglandins. These substances promote the supply of blood to cells -- including cancer cells -- and may prevent the immune system from attacking cancer cells. Most importantly, says Altorki, prostaglandins control the natural kill switch in cells. In cancer cells the switch is turned off, so "these cells think they can live forever, and they do live forever," he tells WebMD. Celebrex shuts down prostaglandin production, which cuts off the blood supply to the cancer cells and turns the cell's kill switch to the "on" position, promoting cell death.


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These Infinity swimming pools are some of the most gorgeous in the world. An infinity pool is one that produces the visual effect of water that extends to the horizon. It is an absolutely beautiful effect and is aptly named as is shown by these photos.
Golden Triangle Resort – Chiang Rai, Thailand
Murni's Villa – Ubud, Bali
Lake Manyara Serena Lodge – Tanzania, Africa
Kandalama Hotel – Dambulla, Sri Lanka
5. Tuscany, Italy
Tat Kuang Si Waterfall – Luang Prabang, Laos (natural)
Alila Ubud Hotel – Bali, Indonesia
Sheraton Waikiki – Hawaii
Hotel Villa Mahal – Turkey
Rangali Island – Maldives
Kempinski Hotel Ishtar – Dead Sea, Jordan
Divi Little Bay Beach Resort – St. Maarten
Phuket, Thailand
Los Cabos, Mexico
North Narrabeen Tidal Pool – Sydney, Australia (natural)
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Intercontinental Hotel – Fiji
Dreams Resort – Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Mes Amis Resort
Ubud Hanging Gardens – Bali, Indonesia
Infinity Falls (natural)
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[WFB] Of Skeletons, Cement and Battlescrolls
I had every intention of doing a spot of work on my Vampire Counts over the midwinter break, you know. I knew there'd be a lot of restoration work involved, what with the badly dated paint-jobs and general incompetence with which the force was constructed back in the day. What I hadn't been quite prepared for was the sheer level of embuggerance that would be involved. It seems like the plastic models are becoming more and more decrepit and less and less easy to restore as time goes by.
The kitbashed models were always a bit brittle, but the Knights were assembled as per their source kit and four of those have imploded. I'd been about to blame modern Citadel plastic glue, but that wouldn't explain why models I built ten years ago are collapsing. I've scraped and scrubbed and scored, I've tried superglue and plastic glue, and nothing seems to bally well work. The last straw came yesterday when I tried to stick a Skeleton champion's hand back on and his whole arm snapped off, pinging deep into the nether regions of the carpet.
The ball-ache of restoring the army has got me to thinking. See, it's my attachment to the old models which bound me to some rather dubious list-building choices – but if some of my old models are effectively unusable, couldn't I replace them with some stronger pieces and newer figures, and keep those original models who've retained some integrity?
My twenty-seven Grave Guard – one-piece metal Reiksgard infantry – have held up well, as have five Spirit Hosts and five Wraiths – undead Flagellants – and the Varghulf. The characters are OK too, so that's two footslogging Vampires and one on a horse, three Necromancers and three Banshees, two of whom I clearly never bothered to paint. The Fell Bats need a lick of paint and their stands fixed, but I have four or maybe five of them ready to fly, and eight Black Knights who are still pretty much intact. That's actually a decent enough chunk of Special and Rare stuff. I begin to wonder if it mightn't be worth assembling a kind of MSU-and-Hordes build; hard Grave Guard and Ghoul centre, with a couple of mid-sized Zombie bunkers for spellcasters, and then Varghulfs, Wraiths, Spirits and Bats in various multiples to run interference.
Having run off and done some mathematics I've come up with something a bit different from the usual Vampire Counts lists that I see going around. I started from Rare and worked down rather than from Core outwards like I usually do, and… well, here's what I've come up with for a squeak under 2400 points. I could build this very easily with either two boxes of Mantic Ghouls and a couple of unit fillers (Citadel Woods spring to mind) or one of those Crypt Scavengers sets GW are currently pimping; that'd give me all the unit filler terrain I could want, including long gateway/wall pieces for bulking out Hordes, plus a unit of Crypt Horrors and the option of messing about with the new Battlescroll thing. And, of course, all my models would be Official, which would be nice.
Lord Ruthven
Vampire Lord with Fencer's Blades, Armour of Destiny, Red Fury, Dark Acolyte – 375
(Lore of the Vampires; always picks Invocation; General)
Vampire with heavy armour, shield, Book of Arkhan, Dark Acolyte, Beguile – 176
(Lore of the Vampires; always picks Invocation)
Necromancer with extra magic level, Staff of Damnation – 140
(Lore of Death)
Templehof Militia
30 Zombies with standard and musician – 100
(5×6 – Clarimonde goes here)
Templehof Levy
30 Zombies with standard and musician – 100
(5×6 – Walravius goes here)
Grim Moor First of Foot
40 Ghouls – 400
(10×4 Horde)
Knights of the Black Cross
29 Grave Guard with great weapons, full command and Banner of the Barrows – 428
(10×3 Horde – Ruthven goes here)
Spirit Host – 45
Spirit Host – 45
2 Fell Bats – 32
2 Fell Bats – 32
Black Monks of St. Herod
3 Wraiths with Tomb Banshee – 175
3 Wraiths with Tomb Banshee – 175
Varney the Varghulf
Varghulf (duh) – 175
Unusually light on characters and magic; rather than muck about trying to pin down an enemy magic phase I'd be focusing my efforts on soaking the casualties, hunting down the wizards with fast stuff and Death sniping, and using the Bound spells to recoup losses, move faster, and behave more efficiently in combat.
Possible tweaks include:
- Thirty Ghouls and ten Dire Wolves (two fives with Doom Wolves) for more speed and chaff and hunting?
- Two Varghulfs and five Wraiths, without Banshees (would involve dropping Walravius' extra magic level and Staff down to a Dispel Scroll, taking Beguile off Clarimonde and trading in Ruthven's Armour for a Talisman)
- Cursed Book on someone, since I might not be using all my Power dice…
And you know, ranking them all up and taking a look at them without the depressingly broken-up Skeletons feels… strangely good. And it has been ten years since I first built the army. Maybe the cycle's turned again. Maybe 2014 will be the long-awaited Year of the Vampires?
[WFB] A Moment's Idle Fancy: Reviving Lord Ruthven?
I have a confession to make.
Despite going on record as one who holds Warhammer's eighth edition in low esteem and less regard, I maintain a half-arsed, nascent interest in the system and the antics of those who play it. There are some excellent battle reporters on The Warhammer Forum, who are still quite capable of playing Warhammer in a tournamenty sort of way and enjoying it: I believe it's fundamentally unsuited to that kind of thing, but I have to admire their moxie. There are some excellent bloggers on the House of Paincakes who are still holding each army book up to the cold light of inspection, sifting out the wheat from the chaff (chaff being very important in WFB) and, in general, discussing the contents without just witlessly rephrasing them. And, well, since I started writing for Corehammer I've been going back through the archives and reading about their Tale of Gamers and realising hey, here are some solid blokes who are working on a WFB for the working gamer, who has better things to do with their money and time than buy and build two hundred sodding Skaven before they're even allowed to play with the cool kids.
This has gotten me thinking, never a good sign when WFB is concerned. If I were to take leave of my senses and go there again, how might I do it? How might I approach the game so's to avoid the bits I don't like and snuggle up close and tight to the bits I do?
I started out by considering revitalising my Vampires, but I'm rather conflicted about that. I think they belong to an earlier stage of my life, when I was happy to shove big blocks of melee stuff across the board, take tons of casualties, and then sink some reliably-available resources into scraping a win with whatever survived. As we've established, a few things about Warhammer v.8 have rather put me off my chips in this respect:
- Random charge distances (harder to co-ordinate engagements, less reliable than shooting with known and consistent ranges)
- Random dice in the power pool (plus other armies being better at casting/dispelling than the one which depends on magic the most)
- The poor resilience of undead units if/when they do reach melee (Steadfast units don't crumble when they lose combats, Unbreakable/Unstable ones do; the living now outlast the dead!)
- Rerollable psychology tests, and the diminished impact of Fear and Terror (auto-breaking the enemy if they lost by one point was probably a bit excessive, but I'd have settled for cancelling their Steadfast and making them take their Break tests with modifiers…)
- The nagging sense that a 'fun' Vampire Counts army is a delivery system for two Terrorgheists, half a dozen Crypt Fiends/Vargheists and the standard-issue 'blender Lord', with the rest of the army standing back being wound counters for wizards and trying not to die. Another option involves two Mortis Engines and all the Necromancers I can carry, although that's still bound to #2, above.
Some of this, admittedly, is not the fault of WFB. My tastes have definitely shifted more in favour of the ranged approach, across all the games I play; I've finally come to appreciate that guns replaced swords as standard issue weaponry for a reason. I still like a punch-up in mid-field but I like having enough ranged capacity to force that engagement, and I like the thought of my bunker units contributing something to the game besides being thirty-odd ablative wounds for a wizard.
There's a small matter of theme involved, too. I have this weird hangup about taking, say, a battery of Necromancers and two Mortis Engines, or a whole bunch of big stompy monsters, or even a Ghoul King as my Lord; all these ideas seem to compromise the essence of my beloved army and move the focus away from the undead Empire thing I have going on. The Ghoul King in particular makes me gnaw the table in rage as I can't find a model that's sufficiently bestial and has the appropriately Imperial trappings. (That said, I'm beginning to feel that all these things could be justified, somehow – the cabal of Necromancers could easily assemble around equivalents to the new Empire wizard-chariot-war-engine-things, and if I could build a suitably bestial version of Ruthven, Terrorgheists don't feel that far-out…).
Also, there's just something about spending £120-180 (depending on whether I opt for Vargheist or Skin Wolf models, how much a new version of Ruthven onna horse sets me back, how I go about padding the new case…) If I'm going to replace stuff I already own I'd be sort of tempted to do so with a new army, one which more suits my current preoccupations with shooting.
I'll talk about the other options in the next post.
[WFB] Lord Ruthven's Reluctant Revival
Lord Ruthven
Vampire Lord – level 4 wizard; shield and heavy armour; Talisman of Preservation, Nightshroud; Aura of Dark Majesty, Fear Incarnate
Carmilla von Wellmitz
Vampire – level 2 wizard; shield; Battle Standard; Armour of Destiny; Dark Acolyte, Summon Creatures of the Night
Emmanuelle von Carstein
Tomb Banshee
Templehof Militia
49 Skeletons – spears, command group, Screaming Banner
Templehof Levy
40 Zombies – standard and musician
10 Dire Wolves
Order of the Black Cross
12 Black Knights – lances, barding; command group; Banner of Eternal Flame
2 Fell Bats
2 Fell Bats
2 Fell Bats
Black Monks of St. Herod
Spirit Host – 5 bases
1,999 points
I know, right?
The thing is, I am occasionally struck by this perverse desire to try and use things, and I just can't seem to hypnotise people into playing sixth edition again, so this is where we end up. I can just about scrape 2000 points with the Core that I have, if I put every single model on the table and forgo raising new Zombie units, treating the Lore of the Vampires as a way to get casualties back up instead.
Lord Ruthven is an odd duck; footslogging Vampire Lords are generally sub-optimal, just because they're expensive, slow, and generally a bit behind in the armour save department. However, I like the model far too much to replace him, and I don't think I can get away with using him as a proxy for a cheaper, more combat-oriented Ghoul King. Besides, at 2000 points I sort of feel that four magic levels are obligatory (if only to keep enemy magic off my back to an extent). He's been loaded up with stuff which a) attempts to make something out of the Psychology rules and present him as more of a support piece and b) keeps him alive in the event that combat is actually a thing which occurs.
Carmilla is backup. Another Lore of the Vampires caster, another 4+ ward, and a focus on Invoking power since she's only a level 2 and her spells are easier to shut down. Plus, if she ends up in charge, the efficient Invocation will be needed in order to recover from the death-of-the-general crumblage, agin which her Battle Standard also helps to insulate.
Emmanuelle runs around howling at things that need to be howled at, or hides in an infantry unit to wail into their close combat opponents and help whittle them down a bit. She can also, in a pinch, maybe tarpit a big scary monster that can't hit her or kill her with static combat resolution points.
Core is simply every Core model I own, dumped on the table, with whatever upgrades are necessary to hit 500 points. The Screaming Banner and Ruthven's Bloodline powers may enforce some sort of effect out of Fear tests and help the Skeletons in combat; the Zombies are pretty much on their own as tarpit central (although I don't think they're actually very good at that now that more models get to fight in a punch-up). I guess the Dire Wolves screen the Knights or go wizard-hunting like they used to…
In Special, where most of my points have customarily been spent, we find the army's blunt instrument, the traditional Black Knight brick with the as-good-as-mandatory Hydra Hurting Banner. I used to favour the Banner of the Barrows, but honestly, it might as well have been called the Banner of Missing on Twos, so I've gone for some more mileage out of the attacks which do hit home.
We also find the army's redirectors – three entirely disposable pairs of Fell Bats, doing the job that my four kajillion units of Dire Wolves used to do, i.e. being sent out to get in the way of things, marchblock things, attack vulnerable war engine things, and maybe get beefed up with a couple of Invocations and used for some desperate attempt at actually hurting things.
The big Spirit Host is something of an experiment. I'd cheerfully swap them out for a Terrorgheist if I owned one; hell, I'd be tempted to swap the Knights out for another Terrorgheist if I owned two! However, I don't own any Terrorgheists, so these go down with the order to be quite fast, have a goodly quantity of attacks, and potentially flank things that are in combat with Skeletons or Zombies. I don't even know if that's worth doing any more, what with Steadfast, but Incorporeal flank charges used to be decent ideas.
Frankly, the whole business of Vampire Counts used to be a decent idea. I dunno. It's an army list. It might work.


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Bad, bad, bad news for the Kansas City Chiefs from Nick Wright via Twitter:
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Wright's report is 99.9999% accurate. He has been correct about every Chiefs injury this year and he even knew McCluster would sit out last week after participating fully in practice all week long.
This could be trouble given Denver's skill in the passing game. I just let out a string of some of my choice swear words.
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Rated the wise and best striker of the under nineteen's,
On the playing field, left opposing defenders with headaches,
Rival coaches, trainers and fans with heartaches,
And labelled the inspiration for the teens!
As a result, my heart over-brimmed with joy,
For that career was worth and wisely chosen.
With tears oozing now, painfully lie I awaken,
For me, there is no more joy.
With leg amputation, my ability is permanently impaired,
After vehicle capsized, all dead save me.
But my dream to part of the world's best completely shattered.
``Does God always care?`` I fondly asked the lad,
``Rejoice, being saved and alive shows that He
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Archive for February 5th, 2012
CARL SEBASTIAN LINDBERG: Home and Country 9 March -1 April 2012 MUU gallery
[ March 9, 2012 12:00 pm to April 1, 2012 4:00 pm. ] Carl Sebastian Lindberg's (b. 1978) exhibition "Home and Country" examines the feelings of togetherness associated with the concepts of the home and the native country.
The exhibition takes its title from the eponymous main work in the show, a video piece about the childhood experiences of the artist's aunt, writer Ann-Mari Lindberg (b. 1935), in the [...]
Posted: February 5th, 2012 under Events, News.
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It was a big day for the Flower Mound baseball team Wednesday, when this year's 5A state champions got their rings: Today is Ring day. 7:00 at the field. pic.twitter.com/5fX2ZPULo6 — FlowerMoundBaseball (@FMJagsHardball) August 20, 2014 In June, Flower Mound … Continue reading
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Former Flower Mound, Texas star Taylor Hoagland helps U.S. win gold medal at World Cup of Softball
Former Flower Mound High School and University of Texas star Taylor Hoagland went 1 for 2 and scored a run to help the United States beat Canada 5-2 in the gold medal game of the World Cup of Softball IX … Continue reading
Flower Mound's Lauren Cox gets shout out from LeBron James after leading U.S. women to gold medal at U17 World Championship
Flower Mound's Lauren Cox had 20 points, 12 rebounds and a team-record eight blocked shots to lead the United States to a 77-75 win over Spain in the gold medal game of the FIBA under-17 women's basketball World Championship on … Continue reading
Flower Mound's Lauren Cox nearly lands double-double for USA U17 women's team
During Sunday's 88-40 routing of France, Lauren Cox, Flower Mound's star post had eight rebounds and seven points for the USA U17 women's team. Cox is the top 2016 recruit in ESPN's HoopGurlz ratings. She was among the top scorers … Continue reading
Former Flower Mound softball star Taylor Hoagland selected for U.S. national team
Former Flower Mound softball star Taylor Hoagland has been named to the 2014 U.S. Women's National Team, adding another accolade to her softball career. Hoagland was a first-team All-American at Texas and set a school record for career home runs. … Continue reading
Flower Mound beats Pearland 8-1 in 5A state baseball semifinal, will play for state title Saturday
ROUND ROCK – Flower Mound's blueprint for success all season has been pitching, defense and timely hitting. In an 8-1 victory over Pearland on Friday, the Jaguars added another element: Timely walking. Flower Mound walked 12 times, and when combined … Continue reading
Remembering Flower Mound's last trip to the state baseball tournament in 2004
The last time Flower Mound was at the state tournament in 2004, the Jaguars advanced to the 5A title game with the help of star second baseman Bubba Jones and three future Major League draft picks: shortstop Paul Kelly and … Continue reading
Flower Mound baseball, up to No. 17 in one national ranking, takes on higher-ranked Pearland
Flower Mound and Pearland play in a 5A state baseball semifinal on Friday at noon at Dell Diamond in Round Rock. I'm looking forward to a great matchup. In the MaxPreps national rankings, Pearland is ninth and Flower Mound is … Continue reading
Baseball: Flower Mound, Argyle, Sunnyvale learn opponents for state semifinals
UIL Baseball State Tournament June 4-5 UFCU Disch-Falk Field, The University of Texas at Austin June 4-7 Dell Diamond, Round Rock Wednesday, June 4 Dell Diamond, Round Rock 1A SEMIFINALS 9 a.m. Douglass (31-1) vs. Dawson (18-10) … Continue reading
Flower Mound baseball team beats Flower Mound Marcus 4-1 to sweep regional final, earn spot in 5A state semis
MCKINNEY – Flower Mound circled the bases Friday and had to squeeze out some runs Saturday, but with pitching, defense and timely hitting, the result was the same. And fittingly, the same pitcher was on the mound to finish each … Continue reading
Flower Mound pitcher Kyle Johnston throws 5-inning no hitter as Flower Mound beats Marcus 11-0
MCKINNEY – Flower Mound pitcher Kyle Johnston always has the velocity. But when the senior snapped off his first curve ball Friday night, and it dropped in for a strike, his coaches knew it was going to be a low-scoring … Continue reading
Flower Mound, Flower Mound Marcus baseball teams enter national rankings; Plano still on the outside
One of the most intriguing baseball matchups of the week is the 5A Region I final, which matches Flower Mound against Flower Mound Marcus. It's also a matchup of nationally ranked teams, at least according to MaxPreps. Marcus (23rd) and … Continue reading
Area standouts Natalie Chou, Lauren Cox and Joyner Holmes make USA Basketball's U17 roster
A trio of Dallas-area girls basketball players were named to the USA Basketball Women's U17 World Championship Team on Monday. Plano West guard/forward Natalie Chou, Flower Mound forward Lauren Cox and Cedar Hill forward Joyner Holmes were among the 12 … Continue reading
Seven Dallas-area teams take final eight spots in Texas High School Lacrosse League state tournament
The Texas High School Lacrosse League's State Championships are this weekend, and seven of the eight semifinalists (in Division I and II) are from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Included among the teams is Episcopal School of Dallas, which was the … Continue reading
Softball standouts from Flower Mound, Justin Northwest, Ennis, Trophy Club Byron Nelson commit to Division I teams
Several Dallas-area softball standouts have orally committed to Division I colleges. Here are the commitments: Flower Mound sophomore first baseman Sydney Springfield committed to LSU. LSU has commitments from two Dallas-area sophomores, with Lewisville pitcher Maribeth Gorsuch being the other. … Continue reading


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A photoset of my doggy Simon, my constant cuddlebuddy since my husband has been deployed to Afghanistan
just gonna reblog the best dog ever for no reason
Euprymna berryi is a species of bobtail squid, which are part of a group of cephalopods closely related to cuttlefish. Bobtail squid tend to have a rounder mantle than cuttlefish and have no cuttlebone. They have eight suckered arms and two tentacles and are generally quite small.
Bobtail squid have a symbiotic relationship with bioluminescent bacteria (Vibrio fischeri), which inhabit a special light organ in the squid's mantle. The bacteria are fed a sugar and amino acid solution by the squid and in return hide the squid's silhouette when viewed from below by matching the amount of light hitting the top of the mantle.
This was really fascinating. I especially am interested in hearing more about the Khasi tribe in India.
This was really fascinating. I especially am interested in hearing more about the Khasi tribe in India.
The latest in the gender pay gap in the US: "Women have to have a PhD to make as much as a man with a BA." The recent report from Georgetown called "The College Payoff: Education, Occupations, Lifetime Earnings" presents findings that
- Women earn less at all degree levels. Compared to men, women who work full-time, year-round jobs earn roughly 25% less at equivalent levels of educational attainment. If we were to calculate in women who had to leave work to raise children or as the result of a disability into this comparison, the difference is even larger. By that expanded definition, women without high school degrees earn a ridiculous 90% less than their male counterparts. Those with BAs earn about 45% less.
- Let me just repeat that women have to get a PhD to earn the same as a man with a BA.
- Persons of color earn less at all degree levels. In fact, African Americans and Latinos who hold Masters degrees still earn less than Caucasians with BAs.
- Going to college makes a huge difference in income. On average, BAs make 84% more that those with just high school diplomas over their lifetime. There is even a stark difference among levels of educational attainment within the same occupation.
- No matter what post-secondary education you receive, you're at a sizeable lifetime financial advantage.
Have I posted this already? Whatever, everyone needs to look at it as much as possible.
whoops i threw up a little
good thing all ive had today is tea
These Antitrust lawsuits always seem to take more effect in the UK first. But I always find it amusing how Apple hates competition and frequently files lawsuits against them.
I'm an unashamed Google product fanatic and I've been using Google Chrome since day one. It's always cool to read studies confirming what you already know.
Chinese Bluegrass (REDGRASS): Red Chamber 紅庭, Jaybirds (by ZaDiscs)
I love bluegrass and I love songs played on alternate instruments so this was perfect
It doesn't matter what your beliefs are, bullying a child is inexcusable. Teachers should be protecting students and educating against bigotry, not cause more of it.


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Some things about The Dark Knight Rises
Spoilers after the jump.
- Jesus Christ, nothing in this movie makes any fucking sense.
- We open in Gotham City on Harvey Dent Day, which I expect the DC universe's version of Sufjan Stevens will write a song about some day. (It will be about going to church, having confusing memories of his grandmother, and Abraham Lincoln.)
- It's also eight years after the end of The Dark Knight, and in the interim Gotham City has turned from Chicago into New York without anyone noticing.
- Joseph Gordon Levitt shows up! His original plan is to inception Bruce Wayne so that he can steal the Batmobile, but then he decides he should be Robin, without doing anything cool like actually being Robin.
- (This marks the first occasion anyone older than five has referred to being Robin as something cool.)
- Actually, at the end the film acknowledges the whole Robin thing by revealing that it is JGL's SECRET REAL NAME, like it was a big twist, even though it was obvious the whole damn time and it was just annoying that JGL wouldn't put on tights and a stupid cape.
- There's a College Humor short in which practically everyone knows that Batman is really Bruce Wayne. This movie was like that. I'm surprised Wayne even bothered to maintain the charade.
- Gary Oldman gets hospitalized early in the movie and his job for the rest of the film is to look worried. He earns his pay.
- OMG Catwoman. Catwoman was so awesome. She pretended to be a maid and steals Mommy Wayne's pearls and then when Bruce gets all pissy, she doesn't give them back, she just rides off in his Lambo. And steals his fingerprints and tells him off for being a whiny rich boy. And then she got a ride in the Batmobile and rode that Batbike thing. Which she totally deserved to do, by the way.
- But I have no idea why Catwoman would have any romantic interest in Bruce Wayne. She's a bad bitch and all he ever does when she's around is be stand-offish and lecturing.
- The dumbest Catwoman part is that even though she gets the jump on Batman the entire movie, even up to the point of saving him from the villain, Bane Not-Capital, as soon as Gotham is in trouble, Batman starts telling her what she needs to do. Like, shouldn't she be all "Hey STFU Bruce Wayne, you can't do shit, I'm going to steal your golf clubs and get out of here"?
- Also Catwoman has a sidekick who is there for no reason and then disappears about half way through the film.
- Oh, let's talk some more about Bane Not-Capital. He's a big shaved bear of a dude with a plummy accent and a face that's like a combination of Dr. Zoidberg and a robot. He starts off the movie by blowing up Tommy Carcetti's plane for some reason — perhaps he thinks Baltimore was let down — and somehow manages to amass an enormous suicidal army that is willing to kill themselves in a nuclear murder-suicide attack on their own country even though their boss kills them at a drop of a hat. Maybe because they're communists? Who knew America was hiding so many communists waiting to follow a guy with a bit of metal on his face?
- Oh yeah, it turns out that the Occupy Wall Street people are evil and bloodthirsty, and when Bane Not-Capital takes over Gotham they set up a Lord of the Flies society with show trials and execution by ice?
- That bit's pretty weird, actually. Apparently Gotham is so communisty that as soon as one supervillain takes over and tells them that stock traders are bad, a large majority of the city shrugs their shoulders, gives up on American democracy, and starts rounding up anyone wearing a banker's collar?
- Oh, god, and the way Bane Not-Capital took over Gotham was he stole a nuclear fusion bomb that Wayne Enterprises was developing. Only Wayne was building it so it could be a source of unlimited clean energy, but Batman was like "no, clean energy is too dangerous for humanity,
plus global warming isn't realsomeone could turn this futuristic energy supply into a bomb!" I mean, if Bane Not-Capital had only had a regular bomb, would the police have shrugged and said, "K, we don't care if ManhattanGotham gets nuked because it's not with a fancy sci-fi bomb, just a regular one?
- Also, lol, when Bane Not-Capital takes over a football game and blows up half the city, no one cares, but when he says he has a nuke, the police are all "get the president on the phone!"
- And that president turned out to be some old white guy! What world does Batman live in?
- The truth is that Batman is a pretty dull character and Bruce Wayne is really fucking boring. The Dark Knight was great because Heath Ledger played such a compelling villain, demonstrating that the way you make a Batman movie work is to minimize Batman's screen time and have an absorbing villain. Bane Not-Capital isn't very interesting, particularly considering he spend his time talking about some Raoul guy who wasn't even interesting in the first movie, and The Dark Knight Rises spends far too much time showing Bruce Wayne being pouty. I mean, for chrissake, at least put him on a boat full of Russian ballerinas if you're not going to have him wearing his stupid suit.
- Also that Raoul guy had a daughter and it turns out she grew up to be a woman in the movie who had no other reason to exist except to have sex with Bruce? This entire subplot was stupid and I tried to ignore it.
- When I got out of the cinema, I went into the men's room, along with a whole lot of other moviegoers, and it was a bit like being in The Dark Knight Rises. There might have been two prominent women supporting characters in the film, but other than that, pretty much everyone on screen at all times was a man (or, in the case of the innocent child orphan children, a boy) and it was so boring. It wasn't quite at Fight Club–levels of weirdness, but it was getting there.
- Doesn't matter though; Catwoman is far more interesting a character than Joss "Look At Me Being Feministy" Whedon's Black Widow.
- Oh and what was with the prison pit? Who's running that thing? And why do they give the prisoners so much food that after a few months down there Bruce Wayne is not only healed from his debilitating injuries, he has had good enough nutrition to bulk himself up to Bat-strength again?
- Is Bruce Wayne's body actually magical? Was his limp seriously cured with just a knee brace? And what about how that doctor who told him "dude, you have no cartilage in your joints and your body's fucked, I wouldn't be Batman if I were you?"
- All this might prompt you to ask Ian Mathers's question. And if you are asking that, look at my answer.
- No but freal this was a pretty terrible movie.


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Tigers 8, Pirates 4: Victor Martinez went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Nick Castellanos hit a tiebreaking homer and drove in two runs as host Detroit defeated Pittsburgh to halt a four-game losing streak.Castellanos and Torii Hunter had two hits apiece as the Tigers remained a half-game behind the Kansas City Royals in the American League Central. The Pirates fell two games behind Milwaukee in the National League Central.Blaine Hardy (2-1) pitched two hitless innings of relief for Detroit. Buck Farmer allowed four runs and six hits in five innings in his major-league debut while Pittsburgh's Vance Worley gave up five runs (three earned) and nine hits in 5 1/3 innings.Detroit took a 5-4 lead in the sixth when Castellanos deposited a drive over the wall in left-center field off Worley. Martinez smacked a two-run single to right in the seventh and Hunter drove in another with a fielder's choice. The Pirates built a 4-1 lead on Russell Martin's third-inning double and a three-run fourth that featured Jordy Mercer's triple and Travis Snider's two-run homer. Detroit knotted the score with three in the fifth on Alex Avila's homer, Miguel Cabrera's sacrifice fly and Martinez's single to center.GAME NOTEBOOK: Martin's double was the 1,000th hit of his career and extended his hitting streak to 11 games. … Detroit optioned RHP Kevin Whelan to Triple-A Toledo to open a roster spot for Farmer. … Pirates 2B Neil Walker (back) was out of the lineup for the 10th time in 11 games.
Recap: Tigers 8, Pirates 4
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Too often, teachers for the blind are faced with a problem: they need to assess their legally blind students to determine what services they need. However, the braille assessments that exist are cumbersome, biased, unreliable, or expensive. Fortunately, there is a solution that solves all of these issues.
As we previously reported, the current issue of the Journal of Blindness Innovation and Research (JBIR) features a report showcasing the rationale, development, testing, and validation of the National Reading Media Assessment. As the report says:
"One of the major impetuses for the creation of the NRMA was the concern by a number of practicing teachers that existing assessments were too lengthy, cumbersome, time consuming, and difficult to score and interpret."
To demonstrate just how easy the tool is for a teacher of blind students to use, just look at how much time is required for each section of the braille assessment.
- the Parent Observation form took 14 minutes,
- the Student Interview took 12 minutes,
- the Classroom Teacher form required 13 minutes, and
- the TVI Assessment Questionnaire required 25 minutes.
This means that the entire assessment took an average of one hour and four minutes to complete.
When you're ready to begin your next student's assessment using this tool that has proven to be easy, standardized, and reliable, request your free account at www.nfbnrma.org.
What has been your experience with other assessment tools? How long did the NRMA take you to complete?
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microblogging massive ideas26 Oct 2009
This conversation didn't actually take place but it could have.
Last week, friends and I were discussing µblogging in the pub. Well not µblogging exactly but two ladies had recently discovered Facebook and were talking about the pros and cons of this wonderful social network.
One lady said: 'Oh and another thing - I really don't like the 'Jenny is…' status update. I just don't get it.'
The other lady replied 'Yeah - that bit is stupid. I am hardly going to write down 'Marilyn is…just off to Asda for the weekend shop'.
I then interjected: 'But you don't have to put down minutiae after the 'is…' part'. You can put anything. For example, I might choose to write
'Norman is….seriously considering jacking his job in, pursuing his dream and opening a record shop'.
They looked at me as though as I was mad. My mate sighed and said 'Right - who's up for another ?'
Jenny stared at me as though I had two heads and said 'What ? You're going to open a record shop ? In these tense and difficult times. Are you serious ?'


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TUCSON - While not total, a solar eclipse will happen this afternoon over southern Arizona. Today's partial solar eclipse will obscure 31% of the sun, according to UA's Flandrau Science Center. The eclipse will start at 2:27 PM, peak by 3:42 PM and end by 4:47 PM. Meanwhile, high pressure is building into the region and high temperatures are 7-10 degrees above average. The warmest locations will reach 90+ degrees today and the heat will prevail through Saturday under mostly sunny skies. Some spots will be close to record heat both Friday and Saturday. Cooler weather will arrive late in the weekend and into early next week.
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ah Genma san…i love your 'tentacles' *giggles*
//yupee! I've got them! Yamamoto, Gokudera, Tsuna and HIBARII!!!♥
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Kokia - 本当の音
Kokia - 本当の音
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my Iruka sensei♥ lol(It's Anny)
//YES! I won't deactivate my account coz it's so stupid to do that only coz of one person. I"m gonna continue posting my "blahblah". And rping (if you want guys)
OMFG! Gai sensei! why you asking me? why not Kakashi-sensei. i don't know! lol ask him personally. now he is taking shower, then I'll cook smth and we eat it and finally go to bed, ask him next time;) what's about tomorrow or blahblah haha


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It is obvious to me that the Catholics and Christians of this world have no intention of ever being honest. They have no intention of ever being kind. They have no intention of ever turning away from guns and money even though their Lord and Savior told them not to. They have no intention of ever treating Jews with the same degree of respect that they treat themselves. Even though their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, was crucified for being one.
So since this is the best that you Catholics and Christians can do is to make the world is ugly as possible because of your hatred and all of your selfishness and how rude and cruel and mean you are. No problem.
Since you don't need to do what God tells you to do. Since you have no intention of ever doing what God tells you to do. Then you don't need me around as well. Let's just see when the next time is that I write. Because I don't really want to associate with the kind of ugliness that you Catholics and Christians have turned our world into. Like I said, I'm not going to stand near you. When Jesus or God comes back to the world. Because God and Jesus is going to make sure that all of you Catholics and Christians and everyone in view of every different religion that has ever committed violence or use the money in terms of your religion God is going to make sure that you in your children burn in hell for what you have done. And I don't want to be part of that kind of ugliness. So go ahead and be as ugly as you want lie as much as you want be as arrogant as you want. Be as crude and as mean and his stupid as you want. But now you'll have to go and find someone else to read. You have to go and find someone else to make fun of you have to go and find someone else to insult. I am done with you.
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Chapter 11
Monday – 10:17 AM
Ethan strode purposefully down a darkened hall. There was someone he needed to talk to. As he walked, he passed the shadowy forms of other people as they went about their business. None of them so much as glanced at the red-haired man, despite the stark contrast his appearance presented. Ancient iron braziers on the walls contained torches that shone with a creepy purple flame. On the walls, between the arches of the vaulted ceiling were paned glass windows, although nothing but a black void could be seen through them. The floor underneath Ethan's feet was covered in a dark rug, rendered colorless by the purple flames. Where the rug didn't reach, the floor was revealed to be a hard stone, the same as the walls.
Something very strange and wrong was happening, and something inside Ethan wouldn't let him just forget it.
At the end of the hall, he opened a dark wooden door to his left and entered a spiral staircase. The same purple torches lined the outside of the wall. Ethan took the stairs two at a time in his haste to reach his destination.
He knew that someone must have played a role in the obvious sabotage in the setup of the recent game session, and he had a fair idea of who would be a part of it.
At the top of the staircase, Ethan opened a similar wooden door and entered another hallway. This one was smaller, however, and looked very different to the long hall he had previously traversed. This hall had a lower ceiling and in place of the creepy purple torches sported florescent lights tacked onto the stone walls. The rug here looked somewhat disheveled, as if nobody really cared for how it lay on the floor, and wires ran the length of the wall. Most of the wires powered the florescent lights, but some appeared to have different purposes.
At the end of this hall, Ethan pushed through a final wooden door. The room beyond contained rows of computers running some program that Ethan didn't understand. Behind a wall of glass to Ethan's left stood rows of servers, humming quietly to themselves. He knew that these were just one of the many server rooms around the facility. The right side of the room opened out onto a balcony, which afforded a beautiful view of the pure blackness outside.
At one of the computers at the far side of the room sat a blonde woman, typing away at some sort of program. Standing beside her, leaning against the wall was a man about the same age as Ethan, but with short brown hair and a black leather jacket. As Ethan approached, the man looked up at Ethan and brought a lit cigarette up to his mouth.
"Dolores," called Ethan to the woman, as he got closer. She turned slowly in her chair, revealing black-framed glasses and a sardonic expression. Her hair was up in a bun, except for two locks that fell on either side of her face. She wore a grey jacket and dark jeans.
"What do you want?" She asked, as if she found the idea of being bothered by Ethan to be absolutely incredulous.
"I just got back from doing the session intro," Ethan began, but Dolores cut him off.
"Yeah? That's great. Why should I care?" She glanced at her nails, obviously not amused by anything Ethan had to say. She turned back to her computer, as if he wasn't even there.
Ethan wasn't about to let her blow him off. He knew that was just her way of avoiding a subject. "There's something wrong with this session, Dolores. Someone switched one of the cubes with a bomb. They tried to kill three of the players before they could enter The Game. Someone's been sending Beholders after the players and trying to prevent them from entering The Game."
Dolores gave him a blank look over her glasses. "What, and you think I had something to do with this?"
Ethan returned her stare, determined not to be intimidated. "It seems like the kind of sadistic thing you'd take pleasure in."
She took a second to respond. "Look, Ethan, I'm flattered that you think I'm up to some devious master plan to sabotage The Game, but the reality is that I just don't give a shit. Whether or not a couple of teenagers happen to make it through the petty challenges the GM sets for them really doesn't interest me. Mark my words, though, if and when they do fail, as they probably will, you can count on me to be there to reap the spoils before either of you two have the chance." Before Ethan could retort, though, she turned to the other man, who had just finished his cigarette. "Logan, whenever you find the time, you need to go brief the last player. She entered kinda late. You know how it is with different time zones."
Logan nodded, flicking his cigarette butt out of the window to his left. "Yeah, I got ya." He strolled nonchalantly past Ethan and out of the room.
Dolores clacked away at the computer for another minute before realizing that Ethan was still standing there. "Are you still here?" she said over her shoulder.
"I know you have something to do with this."
Dolores sighed and turned her chair around to face Ethan. "I really didn't, and frankly I'm not sure what you're talking about. I really haven't been paying attention to the goings-on of this session. I know you have that little sense of justice that makes you want to figure out exactly what's happening and who may or may not be behind it, but you have to ask yourself, is this really some sort of sabotage, or is this just a strange sort of permutation of The Game?"
"Have any of the other sessions started like this?"
"Well, not that I know of, but you know just as well as I do that every session is different. Maybe the GM changed the rules this time around. I sure as hell don't know. Do yourself a favor, though, and don't think too much into it. You'll only get yourself in trouble, and how will that make me look? You are my responsibility, after all. Now can you get out of here? I have something I need to work on."
Ethan left, but he was not satisfied that Dolores was telling the truth. He was certainly not convinced that she wasn't interested in how the current session turned out. Besides, it wasn't unlike her to lie. He wondered, though, what she would stand to gain from sabotaging the session before it even started. Hell, what would any of them gain from that? He couldn't dismiss the strange abundance of Beholders that hounded the players. Of all the creatures that could be sent after players, the Beholders were Dolores's favorite.
Overall, though, Ethan had too many questions and not enough answers. He decided to track down Logan and see what he knew.
Ethan left the way he came, back down the spiral staircase and into the long hall with the purple torches. At the far end of that hall, giant wooden doors opened to a courtyard surrounded by battlemented walls of stone. The courtyard looked like it had once contained grass and trees, but now the ground was turned to dusty soil, and the shriveled remains of a few trees could be seen against the walls. The sky above, if you could call it that, was pitch black. The only light came from torches of a normal flame color that burned on all of the walls. A cobblestone pathway ran from the gate of the building that Ethan had just entered to a gate of equal size set into the far walls. Rows of doors ran parallel to the pathway. The doors stood straight up in the ground, standing free from any wall or building. All in all, they seemed pretty pointless doors. Ethan could see, though, that wires ran from the building behind him, down the stairs and into each of the doors, powering each door with a pale blue glow.
Ethan walked slowly down to one of the doors on the left side of the path and turned the handle. The door opened outward, and Ethan looked through it. One would expect to see the barren courtyard continue on the other side of the empty doorframe, but instead a soft blue light filled the void. Ethan, however, was used to this and stepped into the light and disappeared.
A few seconds later, he reappeared on the rooftop of a tall building. The brightness of the sun caused Ethan to squint his eyes while they adjusted. After a couple seconds, he could see relatively well and surveyed his surroundings. He could see the tops of other buildings around him, though few were taller than the one on which he currently stood. In front of him, standing by the edge of the building was Logan, right where he had expected to find him.
Ethan walked over to Logan and looked over the lip of the roof. The northern half of Sombra Island was spread out before him. Far below him on the empty streets, Ethan could see a lone figure making its way eastward.
"Is that her?" Ethan asked, knowing that Logan was looking at the same thing as him. There really wasn't much else to look at on an empty street. "The fourth player?"
"Yeah, that's her, alright."
"What's she like?" Ethan asked. "I met the other three, but I hadn't heard anything about her."
Logan laughed. "She's got some spunk, that one."
"But do you think she has what it takes?"
"I suppose we'll see, won't we?"
"Do you know what her element is?"
Logan shrugged. "Nah, Dolores wouldn't tell me."
Ethan was suddenly more interested. "She knows?"
"Well of course she knows. It's kinda her job to know. GM appointed her Scribe for this session. I don't envy her one bit. That's quite the work-intensive job."
"What does the Scribe do?" Ethan asked. He had heard about the job, but he wasn't sure what it entailed.
"Shit, Ethan, don't you know? The Scribe keeps tabs on all the players, knows just about everything about them."
"Ah I see." So Dolores did lie to him about not knowing anything about the session. Ethan utterly failed to register surprise. "Sounds like she'd be in a pretty good position to manipulate events to her advantage."
"You're right, she could. Frankly, though, I don't peg her as the type. If someone was really gonna try to derail the game, it'd be a big-scale operation. Dolores… well she's not really the 'big-scale' type of girl. Not to say that she can't organize and carry out plans, but her plans are usually simple and to the point. She likes to mess with people and really piss them off. Not only would killing someone utterly not interest her, but if she did, she'd want them to know it was her. What I'm saying is all this cloak-and-dagger sabotage nonsense just isn't her style, you know?"
Ethan knew Logan was absolutely right. He nodded silently. "So what do you think about what's been going on?"
Logan was a few seconds answering. "Well, you know we're not supposed to interfere before The Game begins, and even afterwards, there's only certain stuff we're allowed to do. The GM keeps a close watch on just about everything we do. If someone was trying to sabotage the game, they'd have a hell of a time hiding from the GM."
Logan pulled out another cigarette from his back pocket and lit it up.
"Didn't you just have one of those?" Ethan asked, trying to waft the acrid smoke away from his face.
"Uh huh. I was trying to quit. You know, before all this." He took a drag of the cigarette before continuing. "Now, though, I figure what's the point? It's not like it can kill me." He gave a wry laugh.
Ethan was silent for a while. Below him, he could see the girl Logan had briefed surrounded by Beholders. After a few minutes, though, the other three players joined her. They made quick work of the Beholders and their commanding Faceless and ran off out of sight.
"Hey, Ethan," Logan said, snapping Ethan's attention back to the immediate surroundings. "You ever miss how things used to be?"
Ethan thought for a second, knowing where this conversation was going. "Yeah, I do sometimes."
"Well I do. All the time." There was a pause, and then Logan sighed and continued. "It's not fucking fair, you know? They get to run around down there and play their little game. They can still go back. They're still whole."
"We all had our chance. You know that."
"Yeah, but they could still win."
"Logan, nobody wins."
"Yeah, I know. I know."
They stood there for a minute more, before Logan stubbed his cigarette out on the small wall that bordered the edge of the building and turned to leave. He walked about ten feet away from Ethan and disappeared into thin air.
Ethan reviewed what he had learned. He was pretty convinced that Dolores had some sort of part in all this, but she wasn't the one in charge. Whoever was in charge could've used her to access information about the players, then gotten someone else to switch the cube with the decoy, etc. He still had way too many questions, too many unknowns. It was too early to make any definitive judgments, but he had a feeling that his assumptions wouldn't be too far off the mark. For now, though, he'd keep a close eye on the players for any more evidence of foul play.
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The train carrying Texas A&M to the Southeastern Conference may have slowed Sunday, but it remains securely on the tracks and headed toward its scheduled destination.
Done deal? Conference realignment machinations never are until the contracts are signed.
ACC member as No. 14?
For those who missed it Sunday, the SEC released the following statement from Florida president Bernie Mechan:
"The SEC Presidents and Chancellors met today and reaffirmed our satisfaction with the present 12 institutional alignment. We recognize, however, that future conditions may make it advantageous to expand the number of institutions in the league. We discussed criteria and process associated with expansion. No action was taken with respect to any institution including Texas A&M."
Translation: The SEC wants to cover any possible legal exposure for being party to A&M breaking contracts with its current Big 12 colleagues. Oh, and since 13 is an awkward number, officials need time to identify a 14th school, and, longshot here, a 15th and 16th.
A&M's Board of Regents meets late Monday afternoon, and university president R. Bowen Loftin issued his own statement Sunday:
"As we have seen over the past several days, there has been a considerable amount of misinformation regarding these discussions and any associated timelines. The chairman of our board has indicated that the regents will proceed with tomorrow's agenda item, which authorizes the president of Texas A&M to take all actions related to athletic conference alignment."
(The board granted Loftin that authority Monday.)
Loftin added that he has accepted an invitation to appear before a committee of the Texas legislature Tuesday to discuss the Aggies' conference future. That hearing has since been postponed with no new date announced.
Might sanity and the status quo prevail? We can only hope, but when money and politics – A&M and Texas don't play well together – are the driving forces, sanity rarely is a concern.
There's also this: At a political rally in Alabama on Friday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, an A&M alum, entered the room to the tune of the school's fight song.
"How many SEC fans are here?" Perry asked, according to Kevin Scarbinsky's account in the Birmingham News. "Rumor has it you may be hearing more of that Aggie fight song."
So again, where does that leave the ACC?
Various media have reported a "gentlemen's agreement" among SEC members that no school from a current state represented in the conference will be added, lest the SEC give up inherent recruiting advantages.
If true, that makes good horse sense. Florida, South Carolina and Georgia can tout SEC membership when recruiting against state rivals from the ACC such as Florida State, Miami, Clemson and Georgia Tech.
Such an arrangement would also remove South Florida, Central Florida and Louisville from consideration.
Hence, many continue to identify Virginia Tech as a possible 14th. But Friday's statement from the office of Tech president Charles Steger was adamant.
"Virginia Tech is exceedingly pleased with our membership in the ACC. It is the perfect conference for us. The university administration has no interest in any discussion concerning affiliation with any conference other than the ACC."


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"The Australian market is at a similar stage to that of the UK 18 months ago, and we are hoping to see it grow along UK growth lines," said Philip Ljubic of ABN Amro, who expects a few more transactions to complete this year. He adds that the transaction "is part of an educational process", designed to whet the appetites of investors for an Australian property derivatives market.
The transaction is subject to IPD granting a licence to trade derivatives based on the Australian indexes by the end of the swap's tenor. Ljubic expects that ABN will receive its licence within the next six months.
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