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The airline industry is a mess with bad times here now and worse times ahead. Will even Southwest survive?
12:00 AM, Jun 10, 2003 • By IRWIN M. STELZER
IT IS EXACTLY 100 years since the Wright Brothers took off from Kitty Hawk. Over that century America's airlines have operated at a net loss, repeatedly turning to the government for bail-outs. The most recent subsidies are dressed up as reimbursement for post-September 11 security losses and costs. The first post-attack package included $5 billion in cash and $10 billion in loan guarantees. The latest added $2.3 billion of taxpayer money to cover security costs that should more properly be borne by passengers. Delta led the parade of beneficiaries ($390 million), followed by American Airlines ($361 million), United Airlines ($300 million), and US Airways ($216 million).
Europe's airlines get no such handouts. For example, in the past 16 months British Airways has incurred additional security costs of L100 million for steel cabin doors and other security measures. Compare that with the L135 million in pre-tax profits that the airline earned in the year ending March 31, 2003 and you can see why the difference in government policies places BA and other European carriers at a competitive disadvantage.
America's carriers blame their financial plight on security costs and the fall-off in travel following September 11. But they were bleeding oceans of red ink before the world ever heard of bin Laden, and long before the paucity of merger deals grounded the high-flying Wall Street bankers that filled their first- and business-class cabins.
The hard truth is that the managers of America's carriers never did learn to control costs. What the unions demanded, the unions got, the alternative being costly and disruptive strikes, and rows with the congressmen whom the unions carefully cultivated. The killing blow for America's carriers came when United inflated the industry's cost base by granting its pilots a 30 percent wage increase in 2000. The result: an industry that has $100 billion in debt, and a puny market capitalization of $4 billion. Nothing in the recent cheery reports about an upturn in traffic can counter that fact, or its huge under funded pension liability, or its historic ability to turn temporary good fortune into enduring disaster.
Add a few more ingredients and you have a prescription for economic madness. Governments refuse to allow air space and airports to be used in an efficient way, and many persist in propping up loss-making national flag carriers. In addition, U.S. bankruptcy laws permit carriers to remain in business no matter how badly managed, how trivial and uncertain the concessions offered by the unions, and how inadequate their managements' plans are for coping with the changes in the air travel market.
Thanks to deregulation, millions of people who could never contemplate air travel made visits to grandma and took exotic vacations. Business travelers, who frequently travel with little advance warning, did not have the flexibility that leisure travelers have, and so ended up paying much higher fares than their vacationing seatmates.
The major carriers fed passengers into and out of hubs. But a few point-to-point, no-frills carriers operating from secondary airports emerged--and made money--while the bigger carriers contrived to destroy shareholder value at an astonishing rate. Worse still from the point of view of the major airlines, the gap between the fares they charged business travelers and the fares offered by the no-frills carriers became so great that businessmen began to accept less leg room and a bag of peanuts in order to keep travel costs down.
So where does the industry go from here? I put the question to British Airways CEO Rod Eddington, one of the industry's most thoughtful executives. He credits the no-frills carriers with being smart enough to uncover an under-served market--witness the success of Southwest, JetBlue, and AirTran in America and RyanAir, and easyJet in the United Kingdom.
True. But I would add that load factors at Southwest are declining, easyJet ran up $76 million in losses in the most recent half year, RyanAir is in a fare war that is forcing it to cut its yields to fill seats in its expanding fleet, and Brussels-based Virgin Express chalked up a loss of almost $20 million in the first quarter of this year. Which may explain why United Airlines has abandoned plans to become a no-frills carrier when it emerges from bankruptcy.
IN SHORT, the no-frills airlines may have seen their best days, and may find profits harder to come by in their now more fully served market. Eddington, not a man to knock unsubsidized competitors, confines himself to noting that these carriers are starting to "bump against one another" as the market for their product begins to grow less slowly, making it more difficult for them to find bums for the flock of planes ordered two years ago but only now being delivered.


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After the initial technical screening, I thought the following interview would be more about the details of what I had done as a DBA and developer. I was surprised to be once again asked specific questions about ORA errors and initialization parameters. Being quite busy in my current job, I hadn't specifically reviewed such items. My answers were probably not very compelling. That being said, the interviewers seemed a bit uptight. There were few opportunities to actually connect on a human/personal level, which I think should be the most important aspect of such interviews. We are among IT professionals with each more than 10-15 years of experience. The interviewers who were IT people,ha've got to realize that a candidate would not have lasted some 15 years in IT if he/she wasn't a) good, b) dedicated c0 self-motivated. We all know that technical skills can be picked up or refreshed. I think they put a bit too much emphasis on finding out if you know what this specific parameter is for, or what value it should be set to.
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Stephen William Hawking
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Stephen William Hawking
by Yolanda Sonnabend
oil on canvas, 1985
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- Stephen William Hawking (1942-), Theoretical Physicist. Sitter in 10 portraits.
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- Yolanda Sonnabend (1935-), Theatre designer; artist. Artist of 9 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.
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In the 1980s, encouraged by Margaret Gowing (who was both a Trustee and an historian of science), the Gallery embarked on an active policy of commissioning portraits of scientists, on the grounds that science and technology make a contribution to British culture which is not always well understood by the general public. One of the first such commissions was of Stephen Hawking, who at the time was known only to specialists for his distinguished work on relativity. It was only in 1988 that Hawking became universally known as the author of A Brief History of Time.
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- Hackmann, W.D., Apples and Atoms: Portraits of Scientists from Newton to Rutherford, 1986, p. 82
- Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery: An Illustrated Guide, 2000, p. 218
- Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery, 1997, p. 218
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 289
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- Icons and Idols: Commissioning Contemporary Portraits (2 March 2006 - 18 June 2006)
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Canton Township�s Joanne Savage talks to her son Colin, 14. Savage was the first cancer patient in Michigan to undergo a chemo bath. (David Coates / The Detroit News)
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The night before Joanne Savage had surgery to remove a rare cancer, she was tucking her three sons into bed. Before she kissed her oldest boy goodnight, he wanted to know more about her operation.
"Am I going to have to grow up without a mom?" asked the boy, then 10.
Her son's fear is one reason Savage became the first patient to undergo an operation in Michigan that sounds almost like science fiction. Her abdomen was sliced open by a surgeon, who removed scores of tumors from her organs before a machine pumped heated chemotherapy through her torso for almost two hours. The surgery took 14 hours and required a two-week hospital stay at St. John Providence Health System, the only place in Michigan to offer it.
Known among patients as a chemo bath, the procedure was first used to destroy rare cancers that have spread to the abdominal lining. But its use is growing to include more common cancers, such as colon and ovarian, and that has created controversy.
Proponents say it gives alternatives and longer prognoses to patients battling certain cancers. But critics counter it is being done before enough clinical trials have shown this is the best treatment, and it is reminiscent of painful cancer treatments used in the past that studies later showed were not necessary.
For Savage, 46, the surgery was a godsend since her husband, Pat, was diagnosed with Stage 4 esophageal cancer a few days before. He died earlier this month.
"If I hadn't taken care of it, my children would have been without a mom, too," said Savage of Canton Township.
It took several doctors and many diagnoses before Savage learned in October 2007 that she had pseudomyxoma peritonei — a rare disease that originated with cancer in her appendix and then spread to her abdominal cavity.
The mucus-like cancer was growing on the exterior of her organs, so traditional chemotherapy wouldn't work, doctors told her. A University of Michigan doctor told her the cancer was incurable but that it could be managed with an operation that involved scraping the cancer off the organs.
Savage underwent that surgery in December 2007, but the cancer returned 3 1/2 years later. This time, her U-M doctor told her she needed to have a chemo bath, formally known as Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy — or HIPEC.
"I went on the Internet, saw videos, threw up," Savage said. "It was very, very scary."
Without it, doctors said Savage would have had only a few years to live.
She was referred to a hospital in Pittsburgh. But it didn't take her insurance to cover the cost of the surgery. Other hospitals outside of Michigan that offered the procedure also wouldn't take her insurance.
Offered in Detroit
Around that time she found Dr. Richard Berri, a surgical oncologist who was offering the procedure at St. John Hospital & Medical Center in Detroit.
Berri said the surgery is for patients who have primary cancer — either cancer of the appendix, colon or rectum, stomach, ovaries or primary cancer of the peritoneal cavity — that have spread to the lining of the abdomen. Once that occurs, it is considered a Stage 4 disease — and the median prognosis is between three and seven months survival, Berri said.
In the past, these patients were not offered much treatment. Sometimes, they were offered chemotherapy, but not surgery.
Recently, some surgeons have turned to the surgery that begins with removal of hundreds of tumor sites in the abdomen and, if necessary, removal of organs not required for survival. Then, a machine is used that heats and pumps chemotherapy mixed with a solution directly into the abdomen for about 90 minutes.
"The theory is the heat will increase the toxicity of the chemotherapy and will allow the chemo to penetrate all the tissues better," said Berri, who has done the procedure on three other patients. "Since the chemotherapy is directly on the surface of the organs and any residual microscopic tumors left behind, it had a lethal effect on the cancer."
Not a 'miracle procedure'
The first HIPEC treatment was done during the early 1980s, according to Dr. Paul H. Sugarbaker, a surgeon at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. It was done on a patient with the same disease Savage had, and many people have since survived 20 years, he said.
"This combined treatment of removing all the visible disease with surgery and then washing in the operating room with chemotherapy … it gives us a cure," said Sugarbaker, who is considered to be a pioneer of the treatment.
"In the past, this surgery … was used last-ditch, when nothing else was helping because the less-aggressive treatment would be chemotherapy into the vein," Sugarbaker said, adding it is now used more often when cancers are caught earlier.
Dr. Marwan Fakih, a U-M oncologist, said he doesn't think HIPEC is a "miracle procedure" because studies thus far have been predominantly in one health center — as opposed to several — and without a control group to compare results.
But he said it is an option that should be discussed for select patients.
"It's always good to have procedures that can be used wisely in a select patient population," Fakih said.
Critics such as Barron Lerner, a professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University Medical Center, said data for HIPEC success on the rarer cancers have led to "enthusiastic assumptions that results would be comparable in other much more common cancers without enough data being out there."
Additionally, he said, procedures such as this can be profitable and might be attractive to certain physicians and medical centers as a way to attract patients.
Best HIPEC debated
Lerner said the HIPEC procedure reminds him of the very aggressive surgery done during the 1950s and 1960s for breast cancer patients, who underwent surgery that sometimes removed ribcages, sternums and even limbs.
"The philosophy behind this was if we can get rid of all the cancer cells in the body, we can cure this person," Lerner said, "so we are going to be very aggressive. Despite these well-meaning attempts, they really didn't prolong survival for patients, and they may have caused a lot of suffering along the way and even led to premature death."
Proponents counter that more clinical trials are under way, and success with the surgery has improved.
When the operations were first done, 30 percent to 50 percent of patients suffered major surgical complications, and there was a 2 percent mortality rate. Now, the complication rate has shrunk to 10 percent, and the mortality rate is less than 1 percent, Sugarbaker said.
Sugarbaker acknowledged there are still some problems as the most effective HIPEC isn't known. Many different types of chemotherapy are being used, along with different amounts of heat.
Additionally, in about half of the patients, the treatment doesn't work.
"We need a more perfect HIPEC," Sugarbaker said. "The other thing we need is we need to treat the disease earlier. But we're getting there."
Despite the problems, many doctors said prognosis is dramatically better for most patients.
Compared with just a few-month prognosis without the surgery, many patients say they will take it.
"Things happen for a reason," Savage said. "I really believe God has a plan for all of us."
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Vintage: 2009Despite less than ideal climatic conditions, featuring storms which threatened an otherwise perfect year, most parts of California had an excellent year for viticulture. Chardonnays and Sauvignon Blancs were picked at optimum ripeness, and Californian white wine was just about as good as it could be. Surprises and overcoming difficulties summed up much of the United States' wine industry in 2009, and many of the results from Oregon, Washington State and all over California speak for themselves, with the flagship Cabernet Sauvignon grapes having developed healthy, thick skins and thus plenty of character and distinction. Elsewhere in the New World, South Africa had a very good year in 2009, and wineries across the cape of the African continent are proclaiming it a truly great vintage. In most of Europe, fine weather and punctual ripening periods produced some excellent wines, with many of the best coming out of France's Bordeaux and the surrounding regions. Merlot had an exceptionally good year in France, and wineries are proclaiming that the 2009 Merlot harvest was one of the best in living memory. Indeed, across most of France, ripening was relatively even, and red wine grapes such as Cabernet Franc, Syrah and others were reportedly highly characterful, with plenty of the required tannin levels with which to make high quality wines. Italy, too, had a very good 2009. Piedmont reported extremely favorable conditions throughout 2009, and their signature Nebbiolo grapes were more or less perfect when harvested, having benefited from the slight drop in temperature at the end of their ripening period. Veneto, too, had an enviable year, producing superb Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay wines in 2009.
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at McDonald's (New York, NY) in February 2013.
Really fast - applied online and within 2 weeks got called in for an interview. Asked basic questions. Also asked about customer service experience. Asked it I was able to lift heavy objects and if I was able to work in a fast paced environment. Also asked about my leadership background.
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I got a job in my degree field.
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at McDonald's in March 2011.
Met the interviewerror at a Mcdonalds. She asked about questions that were on the online test. Asked me a lot of what ifs. Asked me if I had any tatoos that would need to be covered. Talked about my level of experience and education. Simple intereview questions. Nothing to difficult. Simple how are you qualified for this postion? Etc.
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at McDonald's (New York, NY) in May 2009.
I applied for the job at the age of 15 in April, Got called for an interview in May and got the job the next day. Interview was one on one and lasted for about 15 minutes. I knew the general manager which is why I got hired so young. I was trained on the register and got the hang of it like 3 hours later that shift.
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- The most difficult question I was asked was my strengths and weaknesses because I have none so I made it up. Another question was " How long do you think you'll stay in the company." 2 Answers
My starting salary was minimum wage. Throughput the 4 years of employment I received a .25 cent raise 5 times. Salary is non-negotiable. You either take that pay or find another job. But I was 15 at that time so it seemed like a lot for me.
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I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at McDonald's.
My first contact was a walk in to submit an application for a crew position. I was dressed in khakis, a button down long sleeve shirt and a tie. I approached and indicated that I wished to obtain employment. I was asked if I was applying for management and I clarified that I was seeking a crew position. I was introduced to the GM who also assumed that I was seeking a management position. I indicated that I was looking for a crew position because I had no management experience and I did not wish to apply for a job that I was not qualified for and not get a job at all. The GM continued to steer me away from submitting a crew application, telling me that if I applied for the CSM position and did not meet the standards that I would not be disqualified from the crew position. I completed an online application for the CSM position. A couple of days later I was called and informed that we could progress with the next stage, an interview with the owner / operator (OO). I had expected this interview to be the toughest part of the process, but it turned out that I was apparently already approved for the position and that this interview was about making sure that I knew what I was getting into as well as the standard 'this company is a pretty awesome place to work' boilerplate. About ten to fifteen days after my initial contact, I began work for McDonalds # 666. Okay the store was not #666, it was actually #(some five digit number) but that is just foreshadowing.
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BERKELEY, Calif. - The Arizona State women's tennis team started off on the right foot on Day 1 of the Cal Nike Invitational, but not without a long day of hard work.
No. 5 Stanford scores two goals in last 16-plus minutes to come away with the win.
TEMPE, Ariz.�The No. 6 Arizona State volleyball team continued their blistering start to the 2015 season, defeating the visiting No. 8 Stanford Cardinal (8-4, 2-2) in four sets (25-21, 22-25, 25-19, 25-19) on Friday night at Wells Fargo Arena.
TEMPE, Ariz.�The No. 6 Arizona State volleyball team will debut its new pink adidas uniforms during Friday's 6 p.m. PT contest against the No. 8 Stanford Cardinal at Wells Fargo Arena, which will air on the Pac-12 Networks.
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Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (2005)
Kavita Bala, Philip Dutré (Editors)
A Dual Light Stage
Tim Hawkins, Per Einarsson, and Paul Debevec
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
We present a technique for capturing high-resolution 4D reflectance fields using the reciprocity property of light
transport. In our technique we place the object inside a diffuse spherical shell and scan a laser across its surface.
For each incident ray, the object scatters a pattern of light onto the inner surface of the sphere, and we photograph
the resulting radiance from the sphere's interior using a camera with a fisheye lens. Because of reciprocity, the
image of the inside of the sphere corresponds to the reflectance function of the surface point illuminated by the
laser, that is, the color that point would appear to a camera along the laser ray when the object is lit from each
direction on the surface of the sphere. The measured reflectance functions allow the object to be photorealistically
rendered from the laser's viewpoint under arbitrary directional illumination conditions. Since each captured re-
flectance function is a high-resolution image, our data reproduces sharp specular reflections and self-shadowing
more accurately than previous approaches. We demonstrate our technique by scanning objects with a wide range
of reflectance properties and show accurate renderings of the objects under novel illumination conditions.
Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Capturing Real-World
Data for Rendering
1. Introduction
Image-based relighting techniques simulate novel illumina-
tion on a subject based on images acquired in different basis
lighting conditions. Most commonly, the basis images of the
subject are taken under a discrete set of directional light-
ing conditions, and a linear combination of the basis images
formed to produce a rendering of the subject under novel
illumination. Distributing the lighting directions throughout
the sphere of incident illumination allows arbitrary distant
lighting environments to be simulated accurately.
In theory, this basic relighting process can reproduce the
full range of reflectance phenomena an object can exhibit
under distant illumination, including diffuse and specular re-
flection, self-shadowing, translucency, and caustics. In prac-
tice, however, the discretization of the incident lighting di-
rections limits the technique's ability to accurately repro-
duce high-frequency reflectance characteristics: a shiny sur-
face reflecting a diffuse lighting environment can appear to
reflect many small light sources, and shadows cast by a mov-
ing virtual light source can appear to progress in a series of
steps rather than with continuous motion.
We present a novel technique for capturing reflectance
functions that exploits the reversibility of light transport, a
property known as reciprocity. Our device, which we call a
dual light stage, measures reflectance functions by revers-
ing the traditional roles of camera and light source. Where
a camera pixel would measure radiance along an incoming
ray of light R, we instead use a laser to send light out along
the reversed ray −R. Conversely, where a light source would
normally be placed to illuminate the object, we instead sense
the light radiating from the object toward the same direction.
We sense this reflected light by placing a diffuse spherical
surface around the object, photographing the image radiated
onto this sphere with a camera. While real cameras capture
many pixels in parallel, and real lighting conditions must be
acteristics: for a virtual camera pixel corresponding to the
current laser ray, our camera captures the response of that
pixel to all illumination directions simultaneously. From the
captured images, which represent reflectance functions, we
can produce novel renderings of the object under arbitrary
distant illumination conditions. As expected, these images
appear to be acquired from the position of the laser beam,
rather than from the position of the camera sensing the ob-
ject's reflectance functions.
2. Background and Related Work
2.1. Image-Based Relighting
From the additive nature of light, a rendering of a scene
under novel illumination can be created as a linear com-
bination of renderings under basis lighting conditions
[Hae92, NSD94]. [DHT∗00] used a light stage device with
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Figure 1: (a) A traditional light stage, where an object is progressively photographed as illuminated by a number of lighting
directions. (b) A dual light stage, where a laser is scanned across the object and the scattered light forms images on the inside
of a diffuse sphere. The reflectance function images are recorded by a camera with a fisheye lens that views the entire sphere.
a single spiraling light source to capture reflectance func-
tions of faces and objects with either 2048 or 8192 direc-
tions on the sphere, and showed relightings of the objects
using HDR image-based lighting environments acquired as
in [Deb98]. [KBMK01] used a robotic arm to move a light
source to different positions around an object to acquire re-
flectance functions of approximately 150 lighting directions.
[MGW01] captured reflectance functions of the upper hemi-
sphere of relatively diffuse objects, and created realistic real-
time point-source relightings based on a parabolic fit to the
reflectance function data. In our work, we capture similar
datasets, but we reverse the direction of the illumination to
capture reflectance functions at much higher resolution than
this previous work at over 100,000 pixels, and our imaging
process allows us to record the reflectance functions with-
out aliasing as a continuous image. As a result, we are able
to better reproduce high-frequency reflectance phenomena
such as sharp specularities, self-shadowing, and caustics. In
our work, we have used a relatively low spatial image res-
olution of approximately 200×200 pixels in favor of high
reflectance resolution of the to keep the datasets below a rea-
sonable size of 8GB.
[MPDW03] captures 6-dimensional reflectance fields that
represent an object's response to spatially-varying illumina-
tion using a movable video projector, structured light pat-
terns, and a fixed camera viewpoint. However, the resolution
in each of the four lighting dimensions was necessarily rel-
atively limited. In our work, we capture only 4D reflectance
fields, but at significantly higher resolution than in previous
2.2. Environment Matting
[ZWCS99, CZH∗00] has addressed the problem of captur-
ing high-resolution reflectance function behavior for light
emanating from the background behind an object. They do
this by analyzing the reflectance of structured light patterns
projected behind the object., and fit a parametric model of
the reflectance function in this region to achieve compelling
composited results for diffuse, specular, translucent, and re-
fractive materials. Our work using reversed lighting direc-
tions in effect yields non-parametric environment mattes
from the laser light scattering directly onto the area of the
sphere behind the object; as a result, our renderings appear
to have the background composited behind them. However,
our backgrounds are effectively much lower resolution than
those achieved in [ZWCS99, CZH∗00] due to the limited
fisheye image resolution.
2.3. Hybrid Techniques
[MPN∗02] combines the image-based visual hull techniques
techniques of [MBR∗00], the reflectance field acquistion
technique of [DHT∗00], and the environment matting tech-
nique of [ZWCS99] to capture high resolution parametric
reflectance functions and 3D geometry hull using LCD mon-
itors and a sparse set of light sources. [MPZ∗02] further
extended these techniques to apply to specularly reflective
and refractive objects. Our work has not focussed on three-
dimensional acquisition, but shows a unified approach to
environment matte and reflectance function acquisition by
imaging the complete sphere of scattered light from an ob-
ject with relatively detailed resolution.
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2.4. Spatially-Varying Reflectance Measurement
[LKG∗01] uses multiple illumination conditions and view-
points and a BRDF clustering technique to recover spatially
varying diffuse and specular reflectance behavior of objects
with known geometry. In [GLL∗04] the subsurface scatter-
ing properties of translucent objects are captured by illu-
minating the object with a dense set of laser points. For
each surface position, its impulse response is registered by
measuring the outgoing light intensity at every other surface
points. Our work resembles [GLL∗04] in that we also scan
a laser across the object surface and we record its light scat-
tering characteristics. Unlike [GLL∗04] we do not relate our
reflectance function images to object geometry and do not
render from new viewpoints or spatially-varying illumina-
tion. However, for single viewpoints and distant lighting, our
process simulate a wider range of reflectance properties in-
cluding diffuse and specular reflection.
2.5. Reciprocity
Reciprocity is a fundamental property of light transport that
is widely used in computer graphics. It is most commonly
used to refer to the invariance of the BRDF with respect to
exchanging the outgoing and incoming angle: the ratio of
the scattered light will be identical if the two directions are
fr(ωi→ ωo) = fr(ωo→ ωi)
However, reciprocity can be applied more generally to the
global light transport in any static scene. This is often re-
ferred to as the Helmholtz reciprocity principle [vH25], al-
though, as observed in [Vea98] and elsewhere, he stated only
a restricted form of the principle which was extended by oth-
ers [Ray00]. This principle states that any path of a light
beam is always reversible, and that the relative power loss
is the same for propagation in both directions. Rendering by
ray tracing implicitly assumes this more general reciprocity
[Vea96, Vea98] provide analyses of the limitations and
proper interpretation of reciprocity. [Pot04] also provides a
thorough overview.
Helmholtz reciprocity has been exploited for imaging in
a number of ways, including the flying spot scanners used
in early experimental television and in telecine systems,
and more recently in scanning optical microscopy, color
and range scanning [BRG92], and in the design of compact
scanning endoscopes [SSBR01]. Reciprocity has also been
used in recent years to aid stereo correspondence for non-
Lambertian surface reconstruction [MKZB01]. [ZBK02] ex-
ploits reciprocity for surface reconstruction in an approach
that jointly estimates accurate surface normals and stereo
In a similar spirit to our work, [SCG∗] demonstrates the
fact that cameras and video projectors are dual through reci-
procity. They show that spatially varying illumination effects
can be produced from multiple lighting directions using an
array of cameras to produce views from the viewpoint of
a video projector. Our work differs in that we use a laser
rather than a video projector allowing us to efficiently cap-
ture impulse response reflectance characteristics. While we
do not capture the effects of spatially varying illumination,
we are able to record directional illumination as a continu-
ous image, which removes the possibility of aliasing in the
reflectance functions.
3. Apparatus
ameter sphere, a high-speed color video camera with a fish-
eye lens, a 3-watt white laser, and a 2-axis galvanometer.
The sphere is constructed from two acrylic domes, which
are painted with 33% reflective diffuse grey primer on the
inside. The laser enters the sphere through a 13 cm diameter
hole somewhat above the equator of the sphere. Similarly,
we made a small observation hole at the top of the sphere for
the camera to view into the sphere, and a small hole in the
bottom of the sphere for a stand to hold the object we wish
to scan.
Our laser is a mixed gas argon-krypton ion laser with
strong spectral emission lines at 488, 512, and 635 nm, and
with several weaker spectral lines. The laser output power is
variable and at maximum power the laser emits 3 watts of
visible radiation. (This Class 4 laser is not eye safe, but the
fact that it immediately enters an enclosed sphere mitigates
the safety issue.) The laser appears white to the human eye,
and in conjunction with our color video camera allows us
to capture reflectance functions in color. However, the small
amount of energy in the yellow range of the spectrum yields
poor color discrimination between yellow, orange, and red.
White lasers with better spectral distributions are available,
such as that used in [GLL∗04].
Our spatial resolution is limited by the laser dot size,
which is one millimeter. Higher resolution could be achieved
by focusing the laser using additional optics.
Although we use a high-speed video camera and a high
power laser in our setup, this is not a necessity. The high
light output allows frames to be captured with short expo-
sures ranging from 20 µsec to 2 ms. In conjunction with the
high framerate of the video camera, this speeds up the cap-
ture process significantly. For slower scanning, a more cost
effective solution could use a less powerful laser and a low
cost machine vision camera.
4. Data Capture
To capture a reflectance field of an object, the galvanometer
scans the laser dot through about 200 horizontal scanlines
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Figure 3: (a) A glass of wine illuminated by a laser spot, showing complex reflectance and scattering. (b)-(d) Three of the
captured reflectance functions for the glass of wine. These are fisheye images of the inside of the diffuse sphere, taken from
above. The object itself is visible in the center of each image. These central pixels are not valid reflectance function data, and
we mask them for subsequent processing. The large red swath in (b) corresponds to a caustic focussed through the wine.
Figure 2: (a) A dual light stage comprises a sphere, a laser,
a 2-axis galvanometer scanner, and a video camera. (b) The
top half of the sphere has been removed to show the object
inside. We can see the patterns of reflected light on the inside
of the sphere.
over the surface of the object. Approximately 200 times dur-
ing each scanline, the video camera captures an image of the
reflected irradiance on the inside of the sphere, representing
the reflectance function of a virtual pixel sampling the same
ray as the current laser ray. Examples of captured reflectance
function images for two different objects are seen in Fig-
ure 3. The typical resolution of 200 × 200 is appropriate
given the size of the scanned objects and the one millimeter
diameter of the laser beam. The resolution of the reflectance
functions themselves is determined by the resolution of the
video camera, which in our case is set to 384×384.
To cover the high dynamic range of the reflectance func-
tions we repeat each scan three times using different expo-
sure times. The three scans are processed into a single high
dynamic range dataset. This approach requires that the gal-
vanometers be very repeatable, which we found to be the
case. Each of the three scans takes approximately three min-
utes, for a total scan time of less than ten minutes. However,
because each scan represents 8 GB of data which must be
transferred to a hard drive, the actual elapsed time for a high
dynamic range scan is approximately one hour.
5. Geometric Mapping
The reflectance function images captured by the fisheye
camera record the amount of light scattered by the object
in all directions. Each pixel in the reflectance function cor-
responds to an outgoing direction from the center of the
sphere. To find this mapping we first model the fisheye lens
such that pixel (u,v) ∈ [−1,1]×[−1,1] maps to a vector
ω = (ωx,ωy,ωz) as follows:
θ = tan−1 −u
φ = 2sin−1?
ω = (sinθ cosφ, sinθ sinφ, −cosθ)
For each direction, we form a ray with origin at (0,1,0)
and direction (ωx,ωy,ωz) and intersect it with a unit sphere
to find the intersection (x,y,z) which corresponds to the re-
flected direction for pixel (u,v) relative to the center of the
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(x,y,z) = (−2ωzωx,−2ωzωy,1−2ω2
Finally, we rotate (x,y,z) to be in the laser's coordinate
system. A lighting environment transformed to this coordi-
nate system is shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: A light probe image in angular map format (left),
and our fisheye lens representation (right).
6. Inverse Rendering
Since our sphere is concave, light will reflect multiple times
inside the sphere before it goes towards the camera. In order
sphere's interior as reflectance functions, we need to subtract
the effect of these interreflections in the sphere. We remove
this indirect light from our data using an inverse rendering
technique, related to but simpler than those of [Mar98] and
We have found that the indirect light on the interior of a
sphere is actually uniform over the entire sphere, and can be
quickly computed and subtracted from each image to form
an accurate reflectance function. The irradiance from indi-
rect illumination E, at a surface point x, is the integral of
radiance L, over the whole surface area of the sphere:
E(x) =
As illustrated in Figure 5 , θiis the angle between the
incident light direction and the surface normal, θois the an-
gle between the exitant light direction and its correspond-
ing surface normal, and r is the distance between the two
points. From basic spherical geometry, we have θo= θiand
r = 2cosθ. It follows that the indirect irradiance is constant
for every point inside the sphere:
4dA = π Lavg
where Lavgis the average radiance of the sphere. To com-
pute the corrected reflectance function R for pixel (x,y), we
subtract Lavgmultiplied by the Lambertian reflectance of the
sphere from each pixel:
R(x,y) = L(x,y)−ρdLavg
An example of a reflectance function before and after this
correction can be seen in Figure 6.
We note that the principle we are using to correct for in-
direct light also explains the success of integrating spheres
in producing extremely even illumination fields. The princi-
ple implies that when a light source illuminates a point on
the inside of a sphere, the radiosity of all other points inside
the sphere is constant and independent of the position of the
light source. Though no surface is perfectly Lambertian, we
found the Lambertian assumption was sufficient to remove
most of the indirect light from our reflectance functions. We
also assume that the scanned object's contribution to indirect
lighting is negligible since our objects are relatively small
compared to the size of the sphere.
Figure 5: The geometry for inverse rendering.
(a) (b)
Figure 6: A reflectance function before (a) and after (b)
bounce light subtraction. Since the bounce light correction
is just a uniform subtraction, the features of the reflectance
function are unchanged, but it appears darker. Note that
these reflectance functions are shown at a bright exposure
to make the bounce light apparent.
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I don't even like them on kids! Guess it's a good thing I have 2 sons ;)
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Jurin's law
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Jurin's law describes the rise and fall of a liquid within a thin capillary tube. Named after its discoverer James Jurin.
This law is expressed as:
- h is the liquid height ;
- γ is the liquid surface tension ;
- θ is the contact angle of the liquid on the tube wall ;
- ρ is the liquid density ;
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- g is the gravitational acceleration.
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Un Rockstar en Ponyville Capitulo IXUn Rockstar en Ponyville Capitulo IX3 years ago in General Fiction More Like This
IMPORTANTE: ahora nos acercamos al final (este es el pre último capitulo), por peticiones en una pagina de Bronies (EBT) aquí agregare OC' s de algunos bronys, quienes serán parte del staff. Se agradece la colaboración de Wackorulz (o Wacko) en Prestar a su oc para que "toque" en el fic como telonero.
Atte. Metal Heart
Capitulo IX: "Preparándonos para el Momento…"
…"Bien, hacia tiempo que esperaba esto; primero buscar a mi banda, luego someterse al servicio Comunitario, trabajar como esclavo…pero por fin llego el día…" dice Metal Heart, Emocionado, mirando hacia el lugar donde se haría el concierto; era un terreno baldío, a las afueras de Ponyville, cruzando el arroyo del Pueblo, cerca del Puente. "aun nos falta el escenario, trabajadores e invitar a ponys famosos…" le responde Twilight, y Metal Heart le dice: "del escenario se encarga E
Go With MeGo With Me2 years ago in Romance More Like This
Go With Me
By invisabella
(The episode begins with Fionna and Cake having a picnic and watching the sunset.)
Cake: Hey Girl it's Couples Only Movie Night tonight, who are you bringin'?
Fionna: (Chuckles) I don't know. Who are you bringin'?
Cake: I'm bringing my Man, Girl.
Fionna: Oh.
(A duck walks up to them and Fionna picks it up.)
Fionna: I'll take this duck!
Jake: It's couples night! You gotta bring someone you can snuggle up with ya know?
Fionna: What?! Do I have to? I'm not in a snuggly mood.
Cake: Don't have to snuggle. You just have to bring someone you can snuggle. It's like, Code.
Fionna: Hah whatever.(Attempts to hug duck, but it flies away.)
Cake: Leave the duck alone Fi. (Pats the ground beside her.) Have a seat. I want to explain some "things" to you about couples.
(Later that day, Fionna and Cake are back at the treehouse. Fionna is looking for someone to call.)
Cake: You got it?
Fionna: Yeah, yeah.
Cake: Who you gonna call?
Fionna: I'm just gunna call someon
Hetawarts!Russia x Hetawarts!China : One-shot Although the day was quite cloudy, Yao sat below the overhanging branches of a willow, scrawling at the roll of parchment with his quill. The peaceful atmosphere Yao was so different than the usual fuss and mess that he was used to. Yao hated working in the noisy Gryffindor common room with his little sister, Mei.Hetawarts!Russia x Hetawarts!China : One-shot3 years ago in General Fiction More Like This
When Yao felt a pair of cold hands clamp on his shoulders, he froze, but continued to write. These hands belonged to Ivan Braginski, the Russia boy from the Slytherin House.
Ivan did his semi-creepy giggle as he looked over Yao's shoulders. "I see you're writing the essay for Transfiguration, da?"
Yao nodded. Ivan leaned closer to the paper, their cheeks brushing. Yao blushed madly and began to write furiously, intent on ignoring the Russian boy next to him.
"Why are you here aru?" asked Yao, still alternating his gaze between the textbook and his parchment.
The Demon and the Princess Chapt. 12 [Final Chapt]The Demon and the Princess Chapt. 12 [Final Chapt]2 years ago in Drama More Like This
I was as dizzy as the last time. I opened my eyes and saw nothing but darkness around me. Soon my eyes got used to the everlasting gloom and I saw in front of me that same desolate grey place, where I had met Ciel again. I didn't see Ciel anywhere, but a few meters from me stood his butler.
"We're in a hurry", he blurted and started to walk somewhere without waiting for me. I jumped up from the ground and run after him. Ahead the color of the horizon seemed to waver.
We arrived at the edge of a small valley, and in the middle of it stood Ciel. He turned his glance towards me when I stepped forward. I stopped frightened.
His eyes were flaming scarlet and that wavering color of the horizon, it stem from him. It was like dark waves were emanated from him, I could see them. Suddenly his face was twisted from pain, he bended and practically disappeared. I screamed and was about to run closer, but Sebastian took my arm.
"Did you find a cure?" he asked with
Canada vs CleverbotUser: H-Hi. I-I'm Canada.Canada vs Cleverbot2 years ago in Comedy More Like This
Cleverbot: You're a whole country?
User: Well yes but I have a q-question...
Cleverbot: Yes, I do.
User: Y-you do what?
Cleverbot: I do accept you marrying me.
User: W-what!!?!? I d-didn't ask you to m-marry me!
Cleverbot: Yes you did. Don't lie to me.
User: I-I-I am not l-lieing to you!
Cleverbot: Pokemon.
User: China.
Cleverbot: 9 pm?
User: W-what?
Cleverbot: I will always love you!
User: *blushing* Thanks.
Cleverbot: *smiles* you're welcome.
User: W-wait , are y-you are another f-fangirl??
Cleverbot: Yes.
User: *protecting curl* NoOoOOoooooo!
Cleverbot: *is shocked* d-did I do something?
User: No, b-because I thought that all f-fangirls what to p-pull my curl.
Cleverbot: I could not decide, for your opinion, I will let you.
User: W-what!?!???????!!!!
Cleverbot: Bohemian Rhapsody.
User: Why?
Cleverbot: How many pounds do you weigh?
User: Why do you want to know?
Cleverbot: Why not?
User: Do you know w-w-who I am?
Cleverbot: No.
User: I'm Cana...you know what
Ivan's SleepoverIvan's Sleepover3 years ago in Drama More Like This
Ivan. Was. Ecstatic. You would be too if the person you had been in love with for hundreds of years had finally accepted your invitation, right? This was going to be so much fun!
Yao knocked on the door of Ivan's house, feeling a slight sense of foreboding. He was wondering what had come over him that would cause him to do this. He supposed it was the fact that the others would be there, so it wouldn't be just the two of them. He was just beginning to think that Ivan might not be home and he could go back to his own house when the door was flung open and he was glomped by a large man.
"Aiyaa!" He cried as the weight and momentum of said man knocked them both over. The overnight bag that Yao had brought was thrown from his grip as he hit the path with a squeak. The man who had tackled him looked up, purple eyes shining with happiness.
"Jao! You came!" Ivan excla
Evicted Song - LyricsEvicted Song - Lyrics5 years ago in Songs & Lyrics More Like This
"Adventure Time with Finn & Jake's Evicted Song - Lyrics"
So Finn & Jake set out to find a new home
It's gonna be tough for a kid and a dog on their own
Here's a little house
Ah, Finn's stickin' his foot in
Well, that's a bad idea dude, cause now that bird thinks you're a jerk, Finn
And now they're chillin' on the side of a hill
And thinkin' livin' in a cloud be totally thrillin'
Unless they find something inside
Like a mean cloud man and his beautiful cloud bride
A beehive, oh no! Don't put your foot in there, guy
Y'all tried that before, and you know it didn't turn out right
Big shell, go inside, look around, it seems alright
Frog jumps out, ah! It's a tiger
Throwing down potions for food and fire
You know you should have stayed and fought that sexy vampire lady
Jake was feeling terrified, he was super scared of her vampire bite
Which is understandable, cause vampires are really powerful
They're unreasonable and burnt out on dealing with mortals
Oh Marceline, why are you so mean?
Diamante: A FFXI Tribute PoemDiamante: A FFXI Tribute Poem4 years ago in Free Verse More Like This
The horizon comes over the hills and breaks onto my eyes.
The rising sun on my armor shines.
Through my blonde bangs my blue eyes gaze.
Over the world of Vana'diel; the world in which I spent many days.
I saved the world more than once,
The stakes were high and rewards just.
To many lands I always roamed,
Bastok never was my only home.
I braved the dunes and I survived,
I unearthed the Zilart and touched the skies.
I severed the chains of a god most foul,
I explored worlds covered in shrouds.
I defeated NMs big and small,
I proved my patience and camped them all.
Many allies helped guide my way,
While many still would fade away.
I was a mercenary for an empire in need,
I stood tall with the sentinels during siege.
I explored across land and sea,
And answered each and every plea.
I stood on mountains gazing far,
I wished and hoped on every star.
Delkfutt's tower I did climb,
Gustav tunnel I did mine.
Many enemies laid in my way,
My weapons took me through the fray.
I learned
first sight. reader x eren jaeger.first sight. reader x eren jaeger.2 years ago in Romance More Like This
my first life was so boring, just forget I mentioned it.
Your initial meeting with him occurred in your first lifetime; both born into a world dictated by the giant rotting flesh known as 'Titans'. You didn't have the ability or experience to survive the first attack of the titans, however. You were a newly graduated stationary guard when Wall Maria broke down for the first time; you didn't stand a chance against the rampaging titans. That was when he saw you. The titan had already given you a fatal wound. He let out an angry yell and sent the titan to its knees in one swift movement, and retrieved your limp body. The last you recall from your faint memories of your first lifetime was gazing into his dark turquoise eyes, which burnt with determination and hatred, before dying from blood loss.
His name was Eren, from what you remembered. He graduated as top ten of your class. He gave off an intimidating aura, and the amount of fist fights and argument he i
Attention All Hetalians!It has come to my attention that many people are beginning to leave the Hetalia fandom. The reason behind this is not because the anime/manga is bad, or it had been cancelled, or anything having to do with Hetalia in general.Attention All Hetalians!2 years ago in General Fiction More Like This
No, it's because of the fans.
Nowadays, words like "hetaboo" and "hetafags" are what most people associate with the Hetalia fandom. "Why is this?" You may ask. Well, Hetalia fans (or "Hetalians") were not as decent as they once were.
Instead of being polite about their fandom, they shove it down your throat.
Instead of respecting ships they don't like, they bash on those ships, saying things like "NUUUUUU!!11! MY SHIP IS SO MUCH BETTER BECAUSE blah blah blah."
Instead of loving the show in general, they obsess over the pairings.
This, my friends, is the outright definition of "weeaboo".
If this sort of behavior continues, more and more Hetalian begin to leave the fandom. In fact, it's already begun. Hetalians have already grown tired of their weeaboo-filled fandom
You Feeling Cold, Yao? Rochu Cuddle SceneYou Feeling Cold, Yao? Rochu Cuddle Scene2 years ago in Short Stories More Like This
(For the sound effects! :3)
The time were ten past midnight, with a sense of coolness as the start of a blizzard began outdoors. The pair were sitting together on a brown couch in front of the fireplace, its flames rising and crackling softly. Coals glowed amber and ashes sputtered into the small bricked area. Ivan wore a kind expression as he looks over towards the older nation, grinning to him with a protective arm holding him close. The other were red in the cheeks, not quite used to the affection, for it were only a week ever since they've been together.
"This is my first blizzard not being alone~" he beams, his forehead touching the top of Yao's head. China blinks a little, nodding. "..it's so loud out there aru. No wonder we up so late, we could probably not sleep aru.." he replies, shyly leaning into the other. Ivan happily allows this, keeping an arm snugly wrapped around him. "You know, if you don't want to wait to go upstair
count the stars. | yamaguchi tadashicount the stars. | yamaguchi tadashi1 year ago in Romance More Like This
Nightfall gradually began to settle, lingering overhead like a thick blanket as [Name] and Tadashi walked hand in hand along the riverbank path. One by one, glittering stars flickered in the distant black ink sky, dispelling the gloom.
"Look at all the stars," [Name] said in a soft-whisper, as she pressed herself closer to Tadashi. Specks of light twinkled with a soft ethereal glow, illuminating the horizon.
"Why don't we try counting them?" Tadashi suggested as the girl nodded.
Poking his cheek, [Name] began to count the freckles that were sprinkled across his face.
"One,two, three..."
"[Name]! Not those!" Tadashi chuckled as he turned towards her.
The girl allowed a soft giggle to part from her lips. "Why don't you try counting them, then?"
Tadashi pressed his lips against hers and mumbled in a soft voice. "That's too easy. There's only one!"
"You're the only star in my l
Through His Eyes ~ Ch. 16Through His Eyes ~ Ch. 161 year ago in Romance More Like This
Cake and Marshall had been right. There, not far from where they were, was the village. Humans of all races, ages and sizes walking around. Some carried spears and dressed in old tattered clothing, other weapons and armor.
The village was a collection of tents crafted themselves, some real tents that Gumball only assumed they must have traded for. There were also huts for families; They were built from wood and rocks, roofs made from large leaves or draft wood.
This seemingly small village sat near a very large lake, one Gumball was familiar with from countless times he studied the map of the world.
"Let's go," Cake said, taking a step out of the big bush they were hiding behind, but she was soon pulled back by Gumball.
"Wait, we don't even know if they're friendly. What if they're savages and kill trespassers?" Cake's tail stiffened and she ran back behind the bushes with the others.
"Oh come on, I can take them. They're only humans. Nothing can beat the vampire king," Marshall said w
Caprice Collection [Cole x Inquisitor!Reader]Caprice Collection [Cole x Inquisitor!Reader]10 months ago in Romance More Like This
The spirit had disappeared earlier into the night, moving away from the constant thoughts of the people below. You didn't question his motives not to be in the thick of things. Cole always seemed to come when you needed him, so it wasn't much of a problem when he decided to sneak off. You would rather not have brought the spirit into such a place of social butterflies, but you had no choice. He was the only person able to move across a battlefield unseen, with his daggers. You needed someone who was good at sneaking away when searching for clues, and that was Cole, who was proving to be difficult to find even for yourself.
You walked across the upper banister of the Winter Palace, searching for clues, anything that could unlock the plot to assassinate the empress. You yet to find anything of interest, except the judgmental stares of Orlesian nobles and frantic Elven servants. Lost in your thoughts, you almost overlooked the blonde spirit. His
Innocent (Ferriswheelshipping one-shot)Innocent (Ferriswheelshipping one-shot)2 years ago in Romance More Like This
White brushed her hand across the cold stone wall beside her. The Plasma castle, a place she had visited often over the past two years. She didn't know why she felt such a strong connection to the place, but she figured it had something to do with the boy that had once resided in it.
Her steps were faster this visit however, and not because she was in a hurry, but because she was excited. She had seen something she had hoped to spot for nearly two years now, and she wanted to know if her eyes had played a cruel trick on her.
She had been walking out of the Pokémon League, after once again defeating Alder, and as she always did, she glanced up at the now crumbling tower. It would usually stir up memories, and she would feel a hint of longing, but this time something had caught her eye: a spot of green.
White had waited for the day N would return with baited breath, and now if she had seen right, surely he was back. A thought flew through her mind. What if it was only Ghetsis; the
No Thing Could be BetterNo Thing Could be Better3 years ago in Romance More Like This
After chasing Finn around for a while and later confirming that no one was anywhere near her, Marceline the Vampire Queen returned to the now open Door of the Door Lord. The Door Lord's previous occupation -before having been caught, beaten, and tied up by Marceline, Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum, Jake the Dog, and Finn the Human- was randomly stealing a person's most valuable treasure in some twised attempt at showing them that friendship was the true treasure all along. Marceline sneers at the thought.
"Now... where is it...." Marceline begins to search for what was taken from her. She silently thanks Finn for jumping to the conclusion that nothing was stolen from her and that she just wanted to hang out, so she could play along and get it later, alone, as to avoid any unneccesary embarrassment. The funny thing is, he was half right. She looks through the bag that Jake was handing everyone their things from, but her thing is not there. She looks up and around at all the drawers lining
Simons SongSimons Song3 years ago in Songs & Lyrics More Like This
(Chorus)Please forgive me for anything I say
It's not me it's the crown
It's making me crazy
I can't control what I say
Please don't let me go insane
I don't want to lose you too
This crown is keeping me alive
But it's making me crazy
Please.. Please forgive me for whatever I say
When I don't remember you
Please don't leave me
I cant control it
I fear I may lose you
Forgive me for anything I say
When I don't remember you
Please Don't let me go
I don't want to go
Promise me you'll never forget me
When I've forgotten you
(Chorus)Please forgive me for anything I say
It's not me it's the crown
It's making me crazy
I can't control what I say
Please I don't want to lose you too
Promise me you'll never forget me
Even if I go insane
I don't want to lose you too
Please forgive me
It's not me who says these things
Don't forget me when I'm no longer here
I fear I'll lose you too
(Chorus)Please forgive me for anything I say
It's not me it's the crown
It's making me crazy
I can't control what I say
Speed Date 10 and 11One would find it safe to say that Miss Hungary and Miss Philippines were friends. Rather good friends in fact. It may seem like an odd friendship, but they had many a thing in common. They both enjoyed shopping together, baking delicious treats, and the occasional butt-whooping. Although they didn't do last one as often as one would think. Knowing this, you can only imagine how excited the pair of countries were to see each other.Speed Date 10 and 114 years ago in Romance More Like This
"Eee!!" Maria squealed.
She leapt out of her seat and ran to hug Elizabeta. On Elizabeta's face was a huge smile.
"Ah! I haven't seen you in forever!" gushed Elizabeta. "How are you??"
"Oh you know, same old, same old. What about you?"
"Well, I'd love to say I'm doing great, but Roderich is being so aggravating right now! He's been ignoring me for quite some time now!"
Maria nodded sympathetically.
"And he is always playing his piano!" She continued. "Yes, it's beautiful but there is only so much a girl can take!"
"Mhm " Maria agreed
Welcome to the Host Club! KyoyaxReaderWelcome to the Host Club! KyoyaxReader2 years ago in Romance More Like This
"What is it now, Tamaki?"
You stood with your ear to the door of the well-known host club. You'd always been interested in what went on in there, but you didn't want to make the teens think you were a costumer. So, you had settled to just listening in to their conversations after they had closed for the day.
"It's those shady twins! Tell them to leave my Haruhi alone!" came the whiny voice of the host club king.
You pressed your ear harder to the wood. His Haruihi? You recognized the name to fit the brunette of the group who had been quite popular lately. You smiled mischievously, wondering if here was a dirty little secret kept by the club.
"Tamaki, I believe Haruhi would say so if something was wrong," came the cool, smooth voice of Kyoya Ootori.
"Don't bother, Senpai. Tamaki is too much of an idiot to understand," came the heated sound of Haruhi's voice.
"H-Haruhi!" came the pained cry of the king.
"Well I'll let you figure it out for yourselves,"
Del odio al amor solo hay un paso cap 1Del odio al amor solo hay un paso cap 12 years ago in General Fiction More Like This
El cambiar de vida no siempre es malo, al igual que ser transferido, e me aquí en una nueva ciudad, todo por un corazón roto, mi nombre es fionna ward y esta es mi historia:
De pequeña siempre me habia gustado salvar a la gente aun que no pudiera hacerlo por ser pequeña mi sueño era y sigue siendo salvar a la gente, mis padre, bueno a ellos en realidad nunca los conocí, Donna y Max, mis padres adoptivos dicen que ellos me abandonaron de muy pequeña, ahora tengo 16 años, pero aun que no tenga una vida muy larga eso a parecido para mi, pareciera que nací para sufrir, lo único que deseo es ser feliz y dejar este dolor de lado, primero fue lo de mis padres, luego a los 6 años cuando algo ataco la ciudad donde vivíamos y por culpa de eso tuvimos que mudarnos, cuando cumplí los 7 años y tuve la edad suficiente para ir a la escuela, recuerdo que no era muy bien aceptada que digamos, no teni
LeviXReader- Prologue: Angel from the OutsidePrologueLeviXReader- Prologue: Angel from the Outside9 months ago in Romance More Like This
Thump thump thump. The heavy sound of horse hooves on the forest floor rang up around him.
"Sir!" Someone called from behind him. Glancing back he saw Eren's face light up with worry.
"Two titans are approaching, sir, both are abnormals! It looks like a seven and a ten meter! Do we have permission to engage ODM gear!?" Jaeger called and the now distinct clashes of titan feet pounded behind them.
Levi took another glance around him at his assembled team. Eren Jaeger, Mikasa Ackerman, Jean Kirstein, and Hange were all in tow behind him. A capable team, but it was better not to risk it. They were practically at the wall, all they needed to do was escape the forest and they would be safe behind Wall Rose.
The small team had been assembled to complete a mission of finding a secret stockpile of medicines hidden in the wall Maria territory that were desperately needed, and the mission had been successful. Well,
Thug!Levi X Popstar!Reader - Two Worlds (1)Thug!Levi X Popstar!Reader - Two Worlds (1)1 year ago in Romance More Like This
Thug! Levi X Popstar! Reader – Two Worlds (1)
Your POV:
"Tch. Disgusting."
I stared up in shock, tears streaming down my dirt covered face at the steely eyed man in front of me. Three bodies lay before him, not moving, as he wiped his hands clean of their blood. No words escaped my mouth as I tried to hold my screams in. The man looked back at me, his ebony hair stuck to his forehead from the rain pouring down on us. Slowly he prowled towards me, an annoyed look crossing his face.
"Well brat, care to explain?"
The words wouldn't leave my mouth, catching in my throat. 'I can't believe this is happening. Why did I have to be so goddamn stubborn!? How did this even happen?' Trying to calm down, I replayed the events that led to this situation.
Flashback (Earlier Today) (Normal POV)
"(F/n) darling! I need you to get your hair and makeup done soon. You're on in 2 hours and I will not have the most popula
Kyojin High (SnK X Reader) Ch. 21 - Midterms Pt. 2Kyojin High (SnK X Reader) Ch. 21 – Midterms Pt. 2Kyojin High (SnK X Reader) Ch. 21 - Midterms Pt. 21 year ago in Romance More Like This
Jean, Marco, Connie, and Dake were studying together when they noticed you walking over. Dake ignored you while the other three straightened up trying to look nice.
"Hey guys!" You smiled at all the boys and playfully punched your twin.
"Hey how's it going (nickname)?"
"Good but Marco, I'm not sure how this happened but I think your mom got my number and accidentally texted me…"
Pulling your phone out you show him and the others the messages you had received.
MM: Sweetie don't forget to bring your cute little bottom home for dinner!
"Oh god she's embarrassing" Marco hid his face in his hands. Suddenly his phone buzzed with a message from none other than his mom.
MM: Oh honey! I took that pretty girl (f/n)'s number from your phone and texted her Now the next time she is able she can have dinner with us! And I'm going sho
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