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Antiplatelet Medicines for Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
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|Bayer, Bufferin, Ecotrin
|aspirin with dipyridamole
How It Works
Antiplatelet medicines reduce blood clot formation by preventing the smallest blood cells (platelets) from sticking together and forming blood clots.
Why It Is Used
Aspirin is the most commonly used medicine to prevent stroke. But all of these medicines can be used to reduce the risk of stroke in people who have already had a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or ischemic stroke.
How Well It Works
Aspirin reduces the risk of stroke and heart attack or another transient ischemic attack (TIA).
Studies have shown that the combination of aspirin and extended-release dipyridamole reduces the risk of stroke and is a safe and effective alternative to aspirin alone.1
Clopidogrel is a safe and effective alternative to aspirin.1
It is important for each person to work with his or her doctor to find the best medicine.
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Allergic reaction
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor if you have:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
- A sudden, severe headache that is different from past headaches. (It may be a sign of bleeding in the brain.)
Call your doctor now or seek immediate medical care if you have:
- Any abnormal bleeding, such as:
- Nosebleeds.
- Vaginal bleeding that is different (heavier, more frequent, at a different time of the month) than what you are used to.
- Bloody or black stools, or rectal bleeding.
- Bloody or pink urine.
Common side effects of these medicines include:
- Diarrhea.
- Dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting.
- Nausea.
- Severe headache.
- Stomach pain or discomfort.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Aspirin is the least expensive option to prevent blood clots in people who have had a stroke or TIA.
For more information about taking daily aspirin, see the topic Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke.
If you do not take aspirin, talk to your doctor before you start taking aspirin every day.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or trying to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments. And call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
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Book Review: Securing WebLogic Server 12c
By Frank Nimphius-Oracle on Dec 27, 2012
"Security is a must in modern Enterprise architecture, and WebLogic implements a very complete, complex architecture for this." is a quote taken from the book covers of Securing WebLogic Server 12c book written by Luca Masini and Rinaldi Vincenzo, published by Packt Publishing (http://www.packtpub.com/weblogic-12c-security-handbook/book).The book then sets the reader's expectation within another quote from the book covers: "Securing WebLogic Server 12c will simplify this complex world abd let you develop abd deploy in a production system with best practices for both the development and deployment world."
When Packt Publishing asked me to review and write about this book, my expectation was to get a book of 400 pages in size that covers security from its Java EE fundamentals down to its implementation in WebLogic Server 12c. When the long awaited shipment arrived, to my surprise, the book only had 80 pages. Such small format is not uncommon for Packt Publishing and in August 2012 I reviewed the "Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: First Look" book written by Michel Schildmeijer (https://blogs.oracle.com/jdevotnharvest/entry/book_review_oracl_weblogic_server). So my expectation was to find an overview to WebLogic Server 12c features with pointers of how to use them and where to follow up reading about it.
Securing WebLogic Server 12c starts with "WebLogic Security Concepts" that introduces Java EE terms like Principals and Subjects and WebLogic server terms like authentication providers, credential mappers and identity assertion. This chapter touches on many topics without going into details. A nice addition to this chapter would have been pointers to follow up readings for readers to be able to gain a deeper understanding of a topic.
Chapter 2 is about WebLogic server security realms, the identity store and policy stripe you define for a WebLogic server domain. This chapter is interesting to read (I only have problems with statements like "A user is an entity that can be authenticated and used to protect application resources", which I think is a wrong and misleading definition) and explains the WebLogic server user, role and group architecture. It would have helped if there were screen shots to this chapter for people who are not familiar with WebLogic server to better follow. Maybe the requirement for this book, though not spelled out, is that you have WebLogic server 12c installed or experience with a previous version of it. In the following the chapter explains how to configure authentication providers in WebLogic server, by example of LDAP, which IMO is a good and very useful chapter. The troubleshooting section for the LDAP configuration is well written and really shares the author's experience.
Chapter 3 is about Java EE Security with WebLogic and explains how to use Maven to administer WebLogic server by example of creating role mappings on the fly. This chapter clearly is wrongly labeled and should have been titled: "Using Maven to administer WebLogic server" because there is nothing new you learn in regards to security and how to protect WebLogic server or your applications. Instead you learn how to use Maven for configuring role mappings upon deployment instead of editing metadata files at design time. The security bits mentioned in this chapter are Java EE 6 security annotations for servlets and EJB, so nothing that is really specific to WebLogic server. The Maven information is good and detailed, though lost me here and there in some of its folder and project descriptions. The section "A RESTful and secure EJB component" actually explains that in Java EE 6 EJB modules can be deployed with a servlet in a WAR file, which then - using annotations - you can secure in that you check the user role membership before executing a method.
Chapter 4 explains how to build a custom authentication provider using Maven and a JAAS login module. Its an interesting and useful chapter that gives you some good insight in how you build the authentication provider wrapper for a JAAS login module and how WebLogic server MBeans are used for administration. The custom authentication provider authenticates against a JSP file, which the authors use to simulate a legacy or existing SSO system. Again, Maven is used to assemble the provider and to deploy it. The use of Maven adds some complexity to the custom authentication provider explanations and also take a lot of pages from the overall 80 page budget of this book. I wished the use of Maven for deploying the custom authentication provider was explained in a separate chapter. Again, there are no pointers for readers to follow up with a topic. This is a problem with the book as a whole.
Chapter 5 is about Kerberos integration for authentication, which is a frequent customer requirement. The chapter is a step-by-step instruction to how to make the Kerberos authentication work with WebLogic server though, in my opinion, assume quite abit for the reader to know and have as to seen a beginners guide.
As usual, when doing book reviews, I am annotating book pages with questions I have and follow ups action items. The annotations I used the most in this book were Why and How. For sure pointers to follow-up reading would have been good and welcome. I also had difficulties to identify the audience for this book: As an overview it was too technical and not comprehensive in some areas. As a technical book and reference it wasn't detailed enough, leaving me guessing and wondering far too often. In some parts, like the Kerberos configuration in chapter 5, it reads like notes the authors took while setting up the environment for the company they work for.
So who is this book for? To quote the book: "If you are a WebLogic Server administrator who is looking forward to a step-by-step guide to administer and configure WebLogic security, then this guide is for you. This book is also for WebLogic developers who want to leverage the complex but powerful WevLogic security infrastrucure."
This book is well written and contains some good information you want to follow up on after reading the book's 80 pages. However, neither the administrators nor developer finds all that he / she needs to know about WebLogic and Java EE application security to protect a business. In my opinion, the book is good, but the title is wrong! A better title would have been "WebLogic 12c administration and application deployment with Maven by example of Java EE security".
"Security is a complex matter, and Java EE is not an exception to this rule. To make things even more complicated, WebLogic Server extends standard securtity [...]" - page 5 of "Securing WebLogic Server 12c". I agree with this statement, but also read from it that the authors were well aware of the need for a more in depth book.
All in all I enjoyed reading this book, though I did not learn a lot in regards to security (the Maven - WebLogic server administration and deployment bits are good though).
My final review summary you can quote me on thus is that The book is a good reference for everyone who has "Maven deployement to WebLogic Server 12c", "custom authentication provider development" and "Kerberos authentication for Windows based authentication" on his or her to-do list.
Ps.: My suggestion to reviewers: Ask more questions about what you read and don't understand. If I see explanations like the following (taken from page 18): "View User Attributes: Some user attributes" then this clearly has not been reviewed with enough care.


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Anna Marie Holmes on Le Corsaire
Posted 06 August 2005 - 10:20 AM
If you have a question for Ms. Holmes, you may post it to this thread until 20 August. She will review the questions and send us her responses, which will be posted here.
There are some simple guidelines:
1. The questions must be on the topic of the staging and version, including music.
2. No questions about casting, unless they are about whether the version the dancer(s) performed was the correct one.
3. We hope you'll understand that it may not be possible for all questions to be answered.
There was a rousing discussion on the ballet in the ABT forum, and we hope you take this opportunity to ask the questions you still have about the production.
Posted 06 August 2005 - 12:22 PM
I would like to ask whether the production was modified from the Bolshoi's version to suit ABT.
I'm sure I'll have others...is it all right to edit my post to add them or should I make separate posts?
Edit: Who choreographed the "bedroom" pas de deux between Conrad and Medora (the one Giselle05 refers to)?
Posted 06 August 2005 - 12:51 PM
Thanks for the opportunity! (I may be back with more)
Posted 06 August 2005 - 03:19 PM
It's perfectly fine to edit your post. I'm going to send all of the questions to Ms. Holmes via email on 21 August.
I'm sure I'll have others...is it all right to edit my post to add them or should I make separate posts?
Please feel free to add more over the next two weeks
Thanks for the opportunity! (I may be back with more)
Posted 06 August 2005 - 04:41 PM
Posted 06 August 2005 - 06:59 PM
(The use of the term "original" can be interpreted however you like. )
Posted 07 August 2005 - 10:19 PM
- why is the incidental music of the Boston Ballet / American Ballet Theatre version so completly different from the music of the Mariinksy staging?
- what is the history of "Le Corsaire" from its very first staging untill now? What of the history of what was interpolated, when, by whom, and for whom?
- what of the character dances from act I scene 2 (the Slave Market) of the Mariinksy staging? Why are these dances absent from western productions? Who composed these dances? They are very different musically from the rest of the music.
- why was the waltz variation by Ludwig Minkus from "Don Quixote" chosen for the solo of Medora in the scene 'Jardin Anime' in place of the traditional variation of Medora that is danced at the Mariinksy? Who composed the traditional variation of Medora's 'Jardin Anime' variation? Who composed Gulnare's variation for the same scene? (these two variations have been credited to many different composers in various sources.)
- why do the orchestrations of the 'Pas d'esclave' and the 'Trio of the Odalisques' differ so much from that of the Mariinksy staging? Who did the re-orchestrations?
-will there ever be a recording on CD of the music of this ballet? There is no recording available of the full-length "Le Corsaire" on CD (There was a recording done by Richard Bonynge, but only of fragments of Adolphe Adam's original score and the 'Flower Waltz' of Delibes for 'Jardin Anime'.)
-what role did Natalia Dudinskaya play in the staging of this ballet?
-does this staging for Boston Ballet / ABT stem from the Bolshoi or the Mariinksy? Did the Bolshoi version not come from the Mariinksy?
Thanks A Million Madame Holmes!
-- Adam AKA Solor
Posted 08 August 2005 - 08:43 AM
Posted 18 August 2005 - 07:14 AM
What aspects of the production are you responsible for when you undertake to stage something like Corsaire? What aspects of the production are you NOT resonsible for.
In what order do you address the various parts of this task?
-- What has to be done first, before actually showing up at the rehearsal hall? In other words, what do you "bring" to your first meeting with the dancers?)
-- What develops during the process of working with the dancers?
-- Do you find yourselve changing things in any significant way during the course of actually setting the ballet on dancers? If so, what kinds of things tend to have to be adjusted?
What influence do you have on casting? Is this only for the first cast, or do you set guidelines to be followed with other casts?
What kind of records must you keep about process of staging a ballet? In what form? How are they preserved and accessed by the company after you've left?
What is it like to sit in the audience and watch the first performance(s) of something you've created in this manner? Can you sit back, let it go, and enjoy it? Or do continue to work on things that should be changed?
Many thanks for offering to do this task for Ballet Talk.
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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz began the Cabinet session at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh today by expressing his gratitude to the people of Saudi Arabia and around the world who have offered their well-wishes on his return home. He briefed the Cabinet on his conversations with foreign officials, including a message he sent to Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and telephone calls received from United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states.
For its part, the Cabinet thanked King Abdullah for the issuance of several royal orders last Wednesday that increased salaries, benefits and governmental assistance to Saudi citizens. Mechanisms for the immediate implementation of the directives were reviewed.
After listening to briefings on the latest developments at the regional and international levels, the Cabinet congratulated the Kuwaiti government and people on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of their independence, the 20th anniversary of their liberation and the 5th anniversary of the assumption of the throne of Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
The Cabinet also reviewed the current state of the global oil market, specifically addressing the implications of events in Libya on crude production. The Cabinet wished Libya and its people prosperity and stability and expressed hope that that the country will resume its previous level of oil production shortly. Furthermore, the ministers reasserted the Kingdom's commitment to the promotion of a stable energy market through the provision of secure supplies and ongoing consultations between producers and consumers. They stressed that a balanced oil market, protected from harmful price swings, serves the best interest of all parties.
Turing to domestic issues, the Cabinet reviewed the scientific, cultural and economic events that took place last week in the Kingdom, particularly the extraordinary ministerial meeting of the International Energy Forum. The gathering, which marked the 20th anniversary of the initiation of formal dialogue between producing and consuming countries, witnessed the signing of the new Charter of the IEF Secretariat General by eighty-seven countries.
Addressing its weekly agenda, the Cabinet approved an amendment to the regulations of the system of individual service; approved a number of decisions pertaining to dairy products; agreed that the state shall shoulder 50% of the total cost of passports, driver's license issuance, and the transfer of ownership and renewal of house workers' Iqama for another 3 years; approved the state's shouldering of the difference between the tariff duty prescribed by the GCC Uniform Customs Tariff and the currently applicable tariff duty in the Kingdom on 180 commodities; and approved the organization of the Saudi Internal Auditors Association.
The Cabinet approved the appointments of Hani bin Amin bin Muhammad Sindi as Ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Fahd bin Ali bin Fahd Al-Minaiei as Director General of Administrative and Financial Affairs at the Civil Status Agency of the Ministry of Interior; Khalid bin Abdulhadi bin Muhammad Al-Hazli as Director General of Administrative and Financial Affairs at the Ministry of Hajj; Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Mujalli as Assistant Undersecretary for Social Welfare; and Salih bin Nasser bin Eimair Al-Eimair as Director General of Administrative and Financial Affairs at the Ministry of Social Affairs. All the appointments were made at the 14th rank.


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I have asked this on SE before, But i DO hope that you kindly give me more insight about this question since it's very important to me
Having come from engineering background, I am kinda obsessed with the meaning with things, like the physical meaning of derivatives or the meaning of the nonlinear growth of functions.
but recently i fell in love with the beauty of the mathematical patterns, and i decided to do a master degree in pure mathematics. hopefully in analysis. I recently appreciated more the value of rigour and the structure of arguments.
I had that conversation with one of my great professors that has an applied mathematics background and his opinion was that pure mathematicians don't usually understand the "meaning" of the objects they're working with and they so often work with objects that don't exist in the physical world. I didn't totally agreed with that but i wondered.
still when i study i use my old way of thinking and wonder all the time about the meaning.
Should i instead pay more attention to understand how the mathematical objects "consist of" and how they "work" instead of how they "mean"? and use mathematical objects to build up new ones? and care more about the patterns and how i can build new ones from the existing ones?
In other words, how far does the meaning of mathematical objects matter in doing research in pure mathematics? Is it more important to use mathematical objects and understand their mathematical structure and use them to develop new ideas?
I have no problem with that, i would enjoy mathematics more if i save this amount of energy spent in visualizing things and trying to understand how they physically mean. just wanted to make sure


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Developing countries are faced with finding novel and humane ways to permanently reduce and control their dog population. Agent-based models developed to describe dog populations represent a unique, platform for using computer based simulation to identify control strategies with the greatest potential for success, aid in the design of more effective control measures, and provide a means to evaluate the success of different interventions.» 続きを読む
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Many complex real-world problems which are difficult to understand can be solved by discrete or continuous simulation techniques, such as Discrete-Event-Simulation, Agent-Based-Simulation or System Dynamics. In recently published literature, various multilevel and large-scale hybrid simulation examples have been presented that combine different approaches in common environments.» 続きを読む
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Like most countries, Canada faces rising rates of diabetes and diabetic ESRD, which adversely affect cost, morbidity/mortality and quality of life. These trends raise great challenges for financial, human resource and facility planning and place a premium on understanding tradeoffs between different intervention strategies. We describe here our hybrid simulation model built to inform such efforts.» 続きを読む
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Hybrid simulation, the combination of simulation paradigms to address a problem is becoming more popular as the problems we are presented with become more complex. This is evidenced by an increase in the number of hybrid papers published in specific domains and the number of hybrid simulation frameworks being produced across domains.» 続きを読む
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Public health agencies traditionally rely heavily on epidemiological reporting for notifiable disease control, but increasingly apply simulation models for forecasting and to understand intervention tradeoffs. Unfortunately, such models traditionally lack capacity to easily incorporate information from epidemiological data feeds.» 続きを読む
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The largest public mental health facility in the United States is not a hospital; it is the Los Angeles County Jail. This paper describes an agent-based approach to explaining why prisons and jails house so many of America's most seriously mentally ill. It traces this fact to the differing ways in which various housing situations react to mental illness and to legislation passed in the 1960's, which allocated public funding away from state mental hospitals.» 続きを読む
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The desire to better understand the transmission of infectious disease in the real world has motivated the representation of epidemic diffusion in the context of quantitative simulation. In recent decades, both individual-based (such as Agent-Based) models and aggregate models (such as System Dynamics) are widely used in epidemiological modeling. This paper compares the difference between system dynamics models and agent-based models in the context of Tuberculosis (TB) transmission, considering smoking as a risk factor.» 続きを読む
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Healthcare simulation models have attracted significant offered important insights in to health policy selection. More complete accounting for the cost and health implications of upstream interventions is hindered by the need to consider impact on, and interactions between, multiple comorbidities. Within this paper, we explore several distinct approaches for representing comorbidities, some of them at the aggregate level, and some of them at the individual level. All of these representations have the virtue of being declarative, in that they allow the user to focus on what is to be characterized, rather than how it is to be implemented. Our exploration suggests that while several aggregate representations of comorbidities are possible, they suffer from a variety of shortcomings, ranging from low fidelity to combinatorial blowup. While individual-level representations impose a heavy performance load, greater difficulties in calibration and less rapid analysis, such representations do offer greater transparency, modifiability, scalability, and modularity, and ease of representing transmission and influence networks. With much to recommend each approach, further research is needed to shed additional light on the tradeoffs and identify situations where one representation is preferable to another.» 続きを読む
The GAP-DRG Model: Simulation of Outpatient Care for Comparison of Different Reimbursement Schemes Patrick Einzinger, Niki Popper, Felix Breitenecker et al., Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference
In healthcare the reimbursement of medical providers is an important topic and can influence the overall outcome. We present the agent-based healthcare model, which allows a comparison of reimbursement schemes in outpatient care. It models patients and medical providers as agents. In the simulation of healthcare system, patients develop medical problems (i.e., diseases) and a need for medical services. This leads to utilization of medical providers. The reimbursement system receives information on the patients' visits via its generic interface, which facilitates an easy replacement. We describe the assumptions of the model in detail and show how it makes extensive use of available Austrian routine care data for its parameterization. The model design is optimized for utilizing as much of these data as possible. However, many assumptions have to be simplifications. Further work and detailed comparisons with healthcare data will provide insight on which assumptions are valid descriptions of the real process.» 続きを読む


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7 Historical Figures Who Were Absurdly Hard To Kill
#3. Gabriel Garcia Moreno
Why He Had to Go
Moreno served as president of Ecuador in the mid-19th century. He was a devout Catholic and founded country's Conservative Party. He also looked like F. Murray Abraham.
One Moreno. Two Morenos. Whhaaaaaa?
Moreno established a law that made Catholicism the official religion of Ecuador, and required that anyone who ran or voted for office be Catholic. While this is awesome for Catholics, it's kind of a drag for everyone else. And so, the "everyone else" constituentcy of Ecuador decided that it was time to punch Moreno's ticket, F. Murray Abraham be damned.
How He Went Down
As he left the cathedral in Quito, Moreno was brutally attacked by a group of assassins. Armed with machetes, the group sliced through the president's neck, skull and brain, and severed his left arm and right hand.
He stayed on his feet. The man was the Black Knight from Monty Python.
Undeterred, his attackers shot him six times in the chest. He was slashed a total of fourteen times before he finally fell to the ground. Even then he was alive enough to write "God does not die" on the ground... in his own fucking blood.
After the assassins fled, the cathedral priests took Moreno back inside the church, where he lived for fifteen more minutes. When his body was examined after death, physicians observed he had balls of wrought iron [citation needed].
Moreno's left testicle, artist's conception.
#2. Ferdinand Magellan
Why He Had to Go
Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who was the first person in history to circumnavigate the globe, and was the first European to reach the Philippine Islands. Incredibly, he also discovered the Strait of Magellan. Who saw that coming?
Magellan agreed to kill a man named Lapu-Lapu, an enemy of two different Philippine kings that he was friendly with. It was originally his plan to convert Lapu-Lapu to Christianity, but in lieu of conversion, the sweet, sweet embrace of death would have to do.
"Can't say I didn't try."
How He Went Down
Magellan and his crew landed on Lapu's home island of Mactan. However, Lapu apparently knew they were coming, because he had an army waiting.
Magellan was hit with a poison dart almost immediately, but he trucked onward into the mass of native warriors, possibly shouting the Portuguese equivalent of "MOTHERFUCKERS!" as he did so.
He was stabbed in the face with a bamboo spear, to which he responded by burying his lance in the attacker. Magellan tried to draw his sword to keep fighting, but his arm was slashed and soon his leg as well, and he fell to the ground more or less mortally wounded.
Actual photograph of Magellan.
The natives then surrounded him and began stabbing and clubbing him as he lay defenseless. He kept looking up to see if his crew had made it safely back to their boats and, upon seeing that they finally had, Magellan allowed himself to die. We like to think that with his last breath, he screamed and chucked a spear that left a single cut in Lapu's cheek.
#1. Grigori Rasputin
Why He Had to Go
Grigori Rasputin, the patron saint of dying hard, was a mystic that lived with Tsar Nicholas II in the early 20th century. The tsar and his wife Alexandra believed that Rasputin had the power to heal their hemophiliac son Alexei, so they kept Rasputin around the house as sort of a turn of the century Kato Kaelin. Rasputin's influence was so heavy that anyone seeking an audience with the royal family had to consult with Rasputin first.
Rasputin, by all historical accounts, was overtly full of shit. He was a drunk and a lecher, and routinely accepted bribes from people seeking his guidance. Rasputin's dubious lifestyle arguably added to the diminishing support of the Royal family, which ultimately led to revolution (see Trotsky, above). And he was gutted by a prostitute in public in 1914, which we imagine must do wonders for your image.
How He Went Down
After Rasputin recovered from the by-all-accounts gnarly stab wound delivered by the prostitute, a group of Russian nobles decided to finish the job by poisoning him to death with tainted wine and cake. History cannot agree whether any of the poison ever entered Rasputin's system (the poison in the cakes probably evaporated during baking), but this did little to diminish the conspirators' surprise when Rasputin didn't die.
So, Rasputin continued to hang out, eating cake, until one of the nobles finally grew impatient and shot Rasputin in the back. Content that he was dead, the murderers left the palace. One member of the party forgot his coat though, and when he returned to collect it, Rasputin sprang up from the floor like Skeet Ulrich in Scream and started strangling him.
The others arrived in time to shoot Rasputin three more times in the back, dropping him to the floor. But was he dead? Fuck no. He was still struggling to stand, so the conspirators clubbed the everloving shit out of him.
They wrapped Rasputin's body in a sheet and dumped him in the freezing Neva River. When they found Rasputin's body later, riddled with poison, gunshot holes and club wounds, they determined he had died... of hypothermia.
It was evident the bastard had managed to partially claw his way out of his wrappings, and if he had done it a few minutes faster, he probably would have wound up on the assassins' doorstep, dripping wet and pissed off.
We're guessing the conspirators slept with the lights on every night for the rest of their lives.
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It used to be Taunton's dirty little secret. But opiate abuse has become so common, it is no longer in the shadows. "I've yet to come across a person who has not been affected by prescription drugs, that doesn't know a family member, a neighbor, someone in their life who has been affected by drugs," said Laura Washington, the BOLD Coalition program director for Stanley Street Treatment and Resources.
Some unscrupulous pharmaceutical companies hold tremendous influence at the federal level, which has allowed the approval of dangerous, powerful opiate-based drugs, which end up fueling opiate addiction — and that can lead to heroin use. That, combined with a lack of coordination among doctors prescribing such medication and pharmacists dispensing it, has made the opiate-based drugs widely available, only adding fuel to the fire.
The Partnership for Success II, with a grant from the state, is helping to get the message out about the dangers associated with prescription drug abuse among young adults, launching a public service announcement featuring the comedy troupe, "The Portuguese Kids," on the Internet and other media targeted at 18-to 25-year-olds.
At the state level, Gov. Deval Patrick took an extraordinary step on Thursday in declaring opiate abuse a public health emergency. In doing so, Patrick has given emergency powers to the Department of Public Health director, and has directed his administration to "treat it like the public health crisis it is."
While there are a number of paths that can lead to opiate addiction, it often begins in the medicine cabinet. Therefore, among Patrick's directives are for the DPH to mandate that physicians and pharmacies use the Massachusetts Prescription Monitoring Program, a database intended to prevent prescription drug abuse and fraud. The previously voluntary program has been in existence for more than 20 years, but has been woefully under-utilized by both doctors and pharmacists and has not been promoted and explained properly by DPH.
Patrick's directives — which also include immediately banning Zohydro, a powerful new opiate-based prescription medication; granting permission for first responders to carry the overdose anitdode Narcan; requiring a state panel to issue further action steps in 60 days, and issuing of a public health advisory informing the public about treatment options — should help ensure that proper emergency safeguards are swiftly put into place.
But the solution to the problem does not begin and end with government action. "It's not a political issue; it's a public health issue," said Michael Aguiar, the youth program coordinator at SSTAR. "We can make a difference if everyone does their part." With a lack of action on the federal level, it is up to states and local communities to take steps to address it.
Page 2 of 2 - It will take as many people as possible to become a part of the solution. One easy place to start is in the medicine cabinet — by properly disposing of prescription medications so they cannot be abused.
To learn more about the Partnership for Success efforts and to access a variety of resources on prescription drug abuse, visit stoprxaddiction.org and stopaddictionbyprescription.org.
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The database was installed and I started a restoration from a dump on another machine, but that ran into problems because I had forgotten to install the "contrib" package. I used "pg_dropcluster" to drop the old cluster so I could start from scratch, and that's when things went weird.
The first manifestation of this was that /etc/postgresql was just empty. I uninstalled the postgresql package and reinstalled, several times, to no avail.
Is there something I can do to figure out why apt is confused here? I've done this many times on many systems and never seen anything like this happen.


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6 Terrifying Things Nobody Tells You About Newborns
Despite our warnings about the horrors of pregnancy, childbirth, and babies, some of you are still destined to become parents, if you haven't done it already. Congratulations! Now prepare to be terrified, because you have no idea what you're about to face. And we're not even talking about that first diaper change.
We're betting that before now, nobody has told you that ...
#6. Newborns Are Covered in Body Hair
Aw, look at that full, luxurious head of hair on your little tyke! She looks just like her old man! And look at all the hair on her shoulders and back. Just like her ... grandpa?
There should be a law.
Yes, along with those downy newborn locks, don't be surprised if your baby is born with hair all over her upper back, shoulders, and face, especially if she's born early.
Via Lynne Uhring, MD, FAAP, Babyfaq.info
"Code yellow! Nurse, get me a comb, stat!"
Don't worry. You haven't really given birth to Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy. That hair is called lanugo, and it's normal. Lanugo is the first hair the body makes, and in utero it covers the developing child like fuzz on a peach, if that peach had spent the last five months kicking its mother when she was trying to sleep and jumping up and down on her bladder. Experts think the hair is meant to regulate the baby's temperature in the womb, like a shoddy fur coat. Fun fact: If the baby is born lanugo-free, that means she shed the hair in the uterus ... then ate it.
So those are your options, parents: You're either blessed with a smooth-skinned baby who only sports hair on her head because she ate the rest of her body hair during the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy like a disgusting little pre-birth Gollum, or you have a hairy baby. No need to storm the aisles of Babies R Us looking for a razor, though; the hair will go away on its own in a few weeks.
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And if not, there's always the black market.
#5. Babies Stare At You While They Sleep
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There's nothing more peaceful than sleeping infants, especially since it's the one time they're not screaming at you for something. But you might notice that your baby sleeps differently: He or she continues to glare at you while snoring away.
And not only are the baby's eyes not shut all the way, but those eyeballs are rolling around in their sockets like your bundle of joy is on a particularly good trip, its lips are twitching ... wait, is your baby possessed? Is it time to call a baby exorcist? Does that mean the exorcist is also a baby?
If so, maybe have him start with the clearly possessed parent who bestowed this idiotic torture.
Nope -- sleeping with half-open eyes is just a thing babies do. The truth is no one knows why they do it -- scientists are too busy working on things like sudden infant death syndrome and baby cancer to figure out zombie-eyed sleep patterns. The best guess is that it's because infants spend so much time in REM sleep: 50 percent, as opposed to an adult's 20 percent. It's the most active sleep stage, and it's called REM because, duh, rapid eye movement. Plus, remember that newborns do nothing but sleep, eat, poop, and cry, but mostly sleep. If you were knocked out 17 hours a day, you'd get caught doing some weird shit with your eyes, too.
Fortunately, your baby will outgrow creeping you out with its eyelids eventually, and in the meantime you can take comfort in the fact that YouTube is full of videos of parents desperately trying to convince themselves that their twitching voodoo child is somehow cute.
"Here, give him a kiss- wait, why are you running away?"
#4. Babies Vomit from Their Noses and Spit Up Blood
Everybody who's seen a comedy featuring a baby knows the drill. The minute your uptight boss or prospective lover walks by, a baby is going to upchuck all over him or her. It's unavoidable movie logic. What they don't tell you is that the regurgitated formula can just as easily erupt from his button nose.
If you're not horrified, you're not picturing what's happening correctly. Imagine sneezing and getting a Kleenex full of cheeseburger or pepperoni pizza. Imagine having remnants of your half-digested food linger in your nose for the rest of the day. That's what babies have to deal with, partially because God hates them, and partially because the valve between their esophagus and stomach isn't fully developed and junk creeps back up into the throat and mouth. By the time we hit the dinner table, most of us have figured out how to keep milk from shooting out of our noses after a good knock-knock joke. Babies aren't there yet, so you have to be patient, have an iron stomach, and have about 232,000 burp rags.
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Oh God, she can't see the look on his face! DROP HIM AND RUN, WOMAN!
Speaking of burp rags, don't freak out if one of them ends up with a stain that suspiciously looks like blood splatter. Among the many hellish things that will come out of your baby's mouth and nose is partially digested blood. Although alarming, blood in the baby barf can have a simple, disgusting explanation. When the kid is being squeezed out, he can swallow his mom's blood during all that nastiness and then puke it up later. Also, breastfeeding is not easy on the nipples, so if the skin cracks and bleeds (yes, that happens), the baby gets a little something extra in the milk.
Still, if your bundle of joy's spewing blood, you should really call your doctor and get that shit checked out, just to be safe.
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So the first working version of the Roguestar Animation and Graphics Library is almost ready (but not in darcs yet).
One of the chief goals of RSAGL is a modeling language and model optimizer. You can see the results in this image:
This image consists of three surfaces: two spheres and one disk with a hole. The moon in the background is modeled with visibly few polygons, being small, while the nearby planet is rendered at a high detail. The ring (which is unrealistically too close to the planet) is deformed using a sine wave.
Here's another image with the same number of total vertices but the optimizer turned off. The moon actually looks better:


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5 Illegal Drugs With Surprisingly Wholesome Medical Uses
Whether you agree with outlawing certain drugs or not, most of them are illegal for a reason, right? Especially the really hard ones -- they're like muggers, waiting for you to stumble down some dark alley so they can take all your money and leave you bloody and covered in sores. However, much like Darth Vader, some of them aren't completely evil, or even as bad as they seem. Sometimes, under bizarre circumstances, they actually help people, in ways you might not expect.
#5. Cocaine Treats Wounds on Children
Let's say you're driving your son home from a nail-biting extra innings Little League victory. Before you can stop at McDonald's for a congratulatory Happy Meal to cancel out the past three hours of physical activity, you cheerfully let him know that you have to swing by the marina and pick up two bloody duffel bags of Bolivian Marching Powder from Uncle Icepick's cigarette boat.
The errand complete, you're pulling in to the McDonald's parking lot when a hipster rear-ends you at 35 mph because he was too busy sending a self-congratulatory tweet about how he never stops at said McDonald's to notice your turn signal. The duffel bags fly into the front seat, smashing your son's head into the dashboard and opening a substantial gash on his forehead. The first man on the scene says, "I'm a doctor! Quick, rub that cocaine on your child's face!"
"Use the pure stuff, not the bag you cut with drain cleaner!"
Wait, What?
OK, that guy is probably not a medical professional, but many pediatricians do in fact recommend using cocaine on children who have wounds. You see, cocaine has a couple of important properties that make it a valuable tool for treating lacerations. First, it is an effective local anesthetic. Once applied, it numbs the relevant area very quickly, typically in less than two minutes.
Secondly, cocaine is very effective at restricting bleeding, or even stopping it completely. It's a vasoconstrictor -- a drug that narrows blood vessels. The smaller a blood vessel gets, the less you bleed. As an additional benefit, once you've scoured your son's open wound with cocaine, not only will the pain be dulled and the bleeding stop, but he won't give a shit anymore.
"I feel fine now, we should just hang out and talk. Why don't we ever just talk? We should talk."
Of course, in a doctor's office, you won't see him or her dump an eight ball of coke on your kid's face. Doctors use a solution called TAC that is commonly used to treat bad cuts on the head, face or neck of kids, and it is 11 percent cocaine (roughly equal to a vial of Tony Montana's sweat). It's used because it is less painful and invasive than injecting a topical anesthetic and it doesn't distort or misshape the wound, which can increase the chance of scarring. No other drug combines the properties of a vasoconstrictor and an anesthetic. See, now when the cops show up to the accident, you can claim that those bags of coke are simply your first-aid kit.
#4. LSD Can Cure Alcoholism
Let's say you're on your second case of Keystone Lite and you've been watching old Wrestlemanias on Netflix for the past 72 hours. You haven't gotten off of the couch in over a week to do anything but drive your scooter in a hazy serpentine path down the street to the Circle K for more beer. Upon your return, you find that your concerned friends have staged an impromptu intervention, pointing out that your drinking is killing you.
After telling you that they care about you and want to see you get better, they pull out some strips of LSD, insisting that a hit of acid will put you on the fast track toward recovery.
And then you're all like, "Wait, why'd we have to get dressed up for this again?"
Wait, What?
And they're right. Studies show that once the walls are finished melting and you're done talking to the universe, your chances of staying away from alcohol will be dramatically increased post-trip. An extensive study done in the 1960s and '70s showed that recovering alcoholics are much less apt to drink excessively, and some even stopped drinking entirely for several months.
Because all drinks now look like this to them.
And this wasn't just one test performed on a few dozen people trading one addiction for another -- six tests were done on over 500 participants, all based on administering a single dose of acid.
The LSD made the patients feel more confident, happy and satisfied with their lives, decreasing the feelings that led most of them to abuse alcohol in the first place. The effects lasted for about six months, at which point, if LSD were legal, the patients would be able to return to a treatment clinic for another dose, repeating the process until they were able to transition into (relative) sobriety.
#3. Heroin Helps Women in Labor (Oh, and Heroin Addicts)
So your friend is driving your heroin-addicted ass to the methadone clinic, when all of a sudden her water breaks all over her floor mat and she starts going into labor. Fighting through the haze of the beginning stages of heroin withdrawal, you manage to shakily steer the car to the nearest hospital and stagger into the lobby for help. The nurses rush out and say, "Hurry! Get both of these people some heroin!"
"I'm sorry, but Scott Weiland was just in here, and we had to use every last bit of heroin to make his spiders go away."
Wait, What?
Heroin, as you may know, is an opiate, a class of drugs commonly used as painkillers (heroin itself is actually much more effective than morphine, working its magic in about two or three minutes). The National Health Service (NHS) in Britain recommends giving it to people in extreme pain, people in surgery and women in labor.
"Thanks, heroin! I'll be thanking you again in a few hours."
That's right -- the NHS, which is made up of medical professionals who have each read at least one book, gives heroin to pregnant women. The women are given an injection of it to help with the contractions as they blast their progeny out with vagina propulsion. Because the child is on its way out of its mother's body, the one-time use doesn't do any damage and doesn't cause dependency, although the newborns won't stop crying until the doctors put on a Miles Davis record.
As for you, you could get some methadone, but if you really need it, the doctors will just straight up give you heroin for your trouble. You see, some addiction treatment centers give out medical heroin to addicts who don't respond to methadone, with the idea of keeping them safe and off the streets while simultaneously weaning them off of the china white dragon.


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We will be attending the Panoramic event of 2009.
This will also be a business trip for us as we attend panoramic sessions and network with others from the
IAPP (International Association of Panoramic Photographers) and IVRPA (International VR Photography Association).
This is the most photographed event in the world. And what better way to capture the hundreds of hot air balloons than with panoramic photography?
If you are planning to attend we hope you might take a moment and meet up with us. We will also bring along a few R1's and other pano heads for those wanting to capture 360's. 10% off during the event only.
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PREVIEWS: "Daredevil," "Uncanny X-Men," & More Marvel Comics On Sale August 3, 2016
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Manga | The 13th volume of Hajime Isayama's hit dystopian fantasy Attack on Titan sold 1.4 million copies in Japan during its first week of release: 1.13 million copies of the regular edition, and 270,000 of a special edition that includes the original video animation. Kodansha ordered a 2.75 million-copy initial print run, a record not only for the series but for the publisher as well. The 66th volume of One Piece holds the record in Japan for highest sales in the first week with nearly 2.3 million copies. [Crunchyroll]
Publishing | Darren Davis of Bluewater Productions, talks about the evolution of his company and the origin story of its Female Force bio-comics line: "[W]e saw a comic book done of Barack Obama and John McCain during the 2008 elections, and my partner joked and said, 'Why don't we do Hillary?' And I thought, oh my God, that's a brilliant idea.So I thought, let's do this, but let's do it differently. Let's not do it like everyone else, with a boring biography. We did it with a female empowerment angle. We released Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin at the same time, and whether you like Sarah Palin or hate Hillary Clinton, you have to respect both of them for where they came from and who they are." [The Beaverton Leader]


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The boy who would be King has gained the throne…
Prince Honorious Jorg Ancrath vowed when he was nine to avenge his slaughtered mother and brother—and punish his father for not doing so. When he was fifteen, he began to fulfill that vow. Now he is eighteen—and he must hold on by strength of arms to what he took by torture and treachery.
King Jorg is a man haunted: by the ghost of a young boy, by a mysterious copper box, by his desire for the woman who rides with his enemy. Plagued by nightmares of the atrocities he committed, and of the atrocities committed against him when he was a child, he is filled with rage. And even as his need for revenge continues to consume him, twenty thousand men march toward the gates of his castle. His enemy is far stronger than him. Jorg knows that he cannot win a fair fight.
But he has found, in a chamber hidden beneath the castle, ancient and long-lost artifacts. Some might call them magic. Jorg is not certain—all he knows is that the secrets they hold can be put to terrible use in the coming battle…
"Shockingly raw…Horribly amazing, like a deadly storm I just couldn't escape or want to tear my eyes away from."—Night Owl Reviews
"Dark and gritty."—Library Journal
"Brilliant…Action-packed throughout with a surprising spin."—Genre Go Round Reviews
Writing book 2 is some scary …stuff! It would have been much worse if I were writing it now after seeing the reception that Prince of Thorns received. Firstly I would feel all those fans of book 1 at my shoulder, wanting book 2 to blow their minds. Secondly I would have had a vociferous minority of critical voices nagging at me, scratching away at the back of my thoughts, and quite possibly cramping my style. Most likely by me going out of my way to irk them further! It is much easier to write well when you've nothing to lose. If you make a three–point basket while fooling around (and no, I never have) everyone turns round and says 'do it again!' at which point, under such scrutiny, most normal humans would be lucky to get a shot within a yard of their target. If you write a book that a bunch of people love — it's the same thing — the pressure is on and your writing muscles tighten up. People are watching, expecting, and all of a sudden you've got something to lose. You can lose their interest. It's nice to have people reading you, saying good things . . . you have to be pretty laid back not to care if that goes away. Fortunately I wrote King of Thorns before Prince of Thorns hit the shelves. I wrote it in six months and carried on to write book three in another six. Even so, the pressure was on. It's in my nature to feel a duty to those people I've made a commitment to or who have placed trust in me. My publishers had staked some small part of their reputations on me. They had read me, praised me, paid me, and bet on me. With that praise ringing in my ears, and their dollars backing it up, I sat there looking at my first blank page and thinking that for the first time in my life it mattered what I wrote. If I wrote nothing, or wrote poorly, I would be letting people down. It changes the game. My solution was to pretend none of it was happening — to push it all from my mind and write as if it were just me same as always. To a large part I succeeded in the illusion. I was helped by the fact that my deadline was nearly two years off and so if I screwed up I would have time to tear it up and start again. So I wrote as normal, letting the words take me wherever it was they wanted to and not sweating it. I had great fun and the story flowed out. One thing I noticed immediately is that my book 2 (and likely book 2's in general) are very different beasts. Your main characters are well defined. Your world is laid out. The flavour and tone of your story are scored deep. On the negative side, many of your opportunities for surprise and novelty have gone. On the positive side, you already have living breathing characters to whom your reader is attached, your explanation–to–story ratio has tipped decidedly in favour of story. I made two firm decisions when I agreed to a three–book deal. Firstly it would be a trilogy, not a series. There's a power in knowing when to stop. I've seen too many great characters/worlds/ideas carry on past their prime and sully glorious opening books with a long and drawn out death rattle where characters become caricatures and the story ends not with a bang but a whimper as it's abandoned by disenchanted readers. Secondly I would not simply turn the handle and roll out book 1 again with the furniture swapped around. Book 2 would be an evolution. And so, here we are with the release of King of Thorns hard upon us and me wondering what the hell its reception will be like. King of Thorns is a more complex, more epic, and in some ways more sophisticated book than Prince of Thorns — will the readers delivered to its doorstep by book 1 be ready for all that? Reviewers so far have been extremely positive. Let's see what the wide world makes of it! The following short passage is extracted from deep within King of Thorns and I hope gives something of the book's flavour. Extract from King of Thorns. Copyright Mark Lawrence, 2012. Reproduced with permission of the author and Ace Books. –––––––––––––––– I took myself to the courtyard where my levies, subjects, and bannermen waited, crowded rank upon rank before the gatehouse. Knights from Morrow to the left of the portcullis, armour gleaming, swords in hand. To the right more knights, plate– armoured, the noblest sons of Hodd Town, my capital down in the valleys to the north. No doubt they had come to win the king's favour and honour for their houses. Young men in the main, soft with gold and more used to lance and tourney than blood and ruin. I saw Sir Elmar of Golden among them, his armour radiant as his name implied. A warrior, that one, despite his finery. They had some strength among them. Crowded on the gallery and stairs, crossbow men from the Westfast under Lord Scoolar, hard–eyed and wind–burned. Packed before the splintering gate, men of the Hauntside, tough fighters from the hills, in leather and iron, axes honed, round wooden shields layered in goat– hide. Behind these, warriors from Far Range, their iron helms patterned with silver and tin, each man armed with hammer and hatchet. And to the rear, ranked before the keep wall, Cennat shield dancers, their warboards taller than a man. I walked among them, Makin at my shoulder, amid the stink and heave of bodies, the tension a taste in the air at once both sour and sweet. I hadn't words for them, no kingly gestures, no speech to shout above the screams from beyond the wall and the crash of the ram. When you fight alongside Brothers you bind them with word and deed. When you fight among subjects you are a figure, a form, an idea. Men will die for many things, lives hoarded with care can be spent for the strangest of reasons. What bound us here, we men of the Highlands, was defiance. All men will dig their heels in if pushed enough. All men will reach the point that they say "no" for no reason other than opposition, for no reason other than the word fits their mouth, and tastes as good as it sounds. And in the Highlands, among our mountains, the heights breed men who will give no single inch without defiance. I walked between the men of the Highlands, the old and young, some bearded, others clean– cheeked, some pale, some red, the trembling and the steady, and came to stand before the portcullis, iron–bound timbers splintered, the rush of the ram beyond, the savage cries of the hundred wrestling it toward me. My fingers found my knife hilt and I pulled it clear. Laid against my unburned cheek the metal felt like ice. The portcullis shuddered and groaned before the ram. Men of Arrow screamed and died as missiles rained upon them. The knife blade cut skin soft as a kiss. I took the blood on scarlet fingers and wiped it over the gate timbers. I turned my back on the gate, crouched before my men, and smeared a line of blood across the flagstones. As I returned to the keep I set my hand to a score of warriors, the eager ones, the ones in who I saw an echo of the same hunger that made me want that gate open every bit as much as those men on the ram. "King's blood!" Sir Elmar of Golden raised his axe, the crimson smear of my fingers left across his shining helm. "King's blood!" A hairy Hauntside warrior pressed the heel of his hand to the red imprint I set across his brow. "King's blood!" A Cennat dancer twirled the huge shield where my handprint sat scarlet across the white moon of his house. "King's blood!" The roar pulsed back and forth, following us within the keep. A king is a sigil, not a man but an idea. I thought they had the idea now.