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NEW CUMBERLAND — Former Weirton Mayor Mark Harris has been indicted on embezzlement charges in connection with the alleged theft of city money while he was still in office....
Lets see if his uncle Ronnie Jones can get him out of this one. Sounds a bit more serious than when he got caught bypassing water meters in his rental properties and Ronnie covered it up. Guaranteed Harris never sees the inside of the Hncock County courthouse.
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The state auditors should look further at other areas in the city and county--who knows what else they will discover
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Corruption & Family Ties! Ron Jones " The Gambler " and Mark Harris " The Manipulator "
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Before you post negative comments, you should have the proof to back up your ridiculous accusations about Ron. Mark deserves to be locked up...
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Ok - so I've started to get into the genre of Jonathan Boakes' games. These are pretty spooky point-and-click 2D adventure games. (http://www.thelostcrown.co.uk/)
Some of the questions below are a bit technical and the others a bit simple. Please forgive my ignorance - I'm still learning.
I've read his own websites + interviews but he's cagey on how he produces the games. The last one, "The Lost Crown" was really the thing that did it - http://www.thelostcrown.co.uk/makingof
1. Ok - so I know he's using Strata Foto and Strata 3D, plus Photoshop, but how does he put together the composite slides for each location? Are these hand drawn?
2. For the puzzles - how are these put together? I know that he's using Wintermute as the engine here and was using Director in the past (on DarkFall). Is there a good web resource that can help me to build my own puzzles?
3. For the 3D characters, how could these avatars have been created? + how is Wintermute 'triggered' so that certain ones appear in different places depending on how far into the game you are? (Is this Cinema 4D?)
I'd be grateful if any other Games Producers or Designers can tell me how its done - I'm based in Worcester and very keen to develop my own game around the remarkable locations right on my doorstep.
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All of these questions should be directed to the author directly rather then people who have never work on his/her project. I do recommend emailing the author with these questions.
1. They could be rendered models, hand-draw, drawn in an art package, photographs, potentially anything and then put together with an art package.
2. They are designed and then the logic is put together in script or code. As for web resources, no not really as the question is too vague. Puzzles are just game logic and game design.
3. In a 3D art package like Maya, 3DS max, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Blender, Milkshape etc. They are 'triggered' again by game logic code or script.
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I'm too lazy to check it out, but JP has been pretty good this year in his picks.Hide replies
He's a homer and they could open a pen of chickens with "W's" painted to their breast and jeffrey would pick them by a field goal. Just absurd.
Inaccurate as usual, troll.
Funny...and accurate. Homer indeed, intelligent he is not!
For the record her's JP's pick from the Big Ten championship game. He may shortchanged the Badgers 6 touchdowns or so but the thought was there....
The truth on Saturday will be UW, which is a better team than the one that lost by three points at Nebraska in September, will prevail by three points this time.
The score: 27-24.
JP picked Nebraska over Wisconsin in the first game 27-21, and he picked Ohio State over Wisconsin 27-20.
All other games he picked UW (oddly, I wasn't able to find a pick for the Indiana game; so no way to say for that one.)
Perhaps it went without saying.
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"so if they get behind they lose" Is that right? One thing for sure is if the game is over and they are still behind, then they will lose.
I'm looking forward to a competitive game and to enjoying the icing on what is one of the strangest seasons in a long, long time. The stage is set for a potential great battle. These kids still may have something special to show. Stanford is a very goood football team. So that makes two on the field today in Pasadena.
On Wisconsin!Hide replies
stanford is just beginning to build up the football program after being down since elway left.
Just curious: Will Stanford wear those black uniforms and WI the white? or?Hide replies
They will be dark red & white.
Wisconsin will wear white shirts, red pants. Don't know what Stanford will be wearing.Hide replies
Shoot, this was meant as a reply to 'itsmuddyinhere' below.
Stanford wears red & white also.
The Badgers may THINK they're out to prove that they deserve to be in the Rose Bowl, but that's impossible. No team that goes 4-4 in the conference deserves a conference championship and a Rose Bowl berth.
The best the Badgers can do is show that they were GOOD ENOUGH to have earned a Rose Bowl berth if they had played up to their ability in the regular season and not lost every close conference game they got into.
No matter how you slice it, the Badgers got an unprecedented competitive advantage in the B10 this year and they are taking advantage of it. That's different than being a truly deserving team. Some of the other eligible conference teams with better conference records would have loved to get the free pass into the B10 title game that the Badgers got and were more deserving of that shot than the Badgers were.
The Badgers should be thanking their lucky stars that they aren't playing Oregon again because the Ducks would be better suited to take advantage of UW's biggest weakness. Stanford and the Badgers seem pretty evenly matched so it should be a close contest.Hide replies
Well, actually, they do deserve to be in the Rose Bowl because they played by the rules set for 2012 and then pounded Nebraska. Not that hard to understand even if it does burn your shorts.
Sorry if the truth hurts. A team that qualifies only because the rules are tilted heavily in their favor is undeserving.
The B10 could have made the season fair by eliminating the divisions, but they chose not to do it. The teams in the other division had to win their games to get into the B10 title game, and the Badgers didn't.
@KC - you are right. People forget they had to win the Big 10 championship game, too.
Please explain why Wisconsin was more "deserving" of a second shot at Nebraska, than Michigan, Northwestern, or Michigan State?
If you don't see that Wisconsin got a huge, unprecedented, and yes, unfair advantage in the B10 this season, you are a bigger homer than Potrykus.
When you get a huge break through no doing of your own, just accept it humbly, don't act like you deserved it. You sound like Seahawks fans who think their team deserved a win over the Packers.
I don't have to explain anything. They're there, they got there by winning the games needed to get there. It's only unfair or lucky if you don't like the Badgers. Tough. You sound like a frustrated fan of some losing program or one that doesn't have a football team.
@wisblue, If you can't accept it, simply don't watch the game. It would then make sense that you have no further reason to post here. Happy New Year!
Some people would like to punish the Badgers because they followed the rules. The Badgers got a second chance at Nebraska because they won their division. Michigan State went 3-5. Michigan and Northwestern both had chances to beat Nebraska in DIVISION games and lost.
Unprecedented? Yes. Unfair? no. They went by the rules that were established before the season began. That means they deserve the chance to play in the Rose Bowl game today.
kcbadger, I am an alumnus and fan of a school with a very successful football program that has won a lot of championships over the years by WINNING GAMES, not by having the rules tilted in their favor.
All of the responses here, like the ones about teams losing to Nebraska in division games, simply highlight how big an advantage the Badgers got this year. It just amazes me that Badger fans don't see why the rest of the country thinks they are undeserving of a championship, and that one win in a conference championship game doesn't change that.
Sounds like sour grapes to me. Here's to a MI win over GA.
Yes, blue, but your high school team doesn't count.
Sorry Blue, but you're wrong. Had the Big Ten disbanded the divisions for one season to make life more fair because of the misdeeds of OSU and PSU it would have been foolish and stupid. Though it would have fit in well with today's society, which views rules and guidelines as things to be trampled when it makes life easier for them. NU's Fitzgerald suggested a plan similar to what you're talking about and the commish rightly shot it down before it took off. Looking for someone to blame for the mess? Look no further than Gene Smith at OSU. Smith thought OSU would get off with no penalty and did not self-impose a one-year ban last season, when he should have. That hubris resulted in an unbeaten OSU team sitting home for the holidays. Wisconsin deserved a second meeting with Nebraska because it won its division under the rules/conditions of the 2012 season. All parties knew those rules going in. Did UW catch a break? Of course. But UW didn't violate NCAA rules or harbor a criminal. And every team in the Legends Division had the same chance to reach the title game.
Well put, Jeff, on THEosu/Gene Smith aspect.....They did it to themselves.
Sorry JP, but the teams in the Legends Division did not have the same chance as Wisconsin to get to the B10 title game. They couldn't afford to lose 4 conference games. They only had as good a chance as EACH OTHER.
And, Homer Jay, no sour grapes about Michigan because, unlike Wisconsin fans, I recognize that UM has a mediocre team this year. But, once they lost ONE conference game, their shot at the B10 title game was gone.
And, Eddie Mathews, Stanford won their conference fair and square and deserves to be in the Rose Bowl. I just think Oregon would be a tougher matchup for Wisconsin.
blue's really got his shorts twisted for nothing....since nothing he says is going to change the rules set forth month's ago....would you rather have purdue or iu in the rose bowl?
A little research leads me to believe wisblue is a member of the maize and blue fan club. Michigan had a chance to beat Nebraska in a big division game and lost by 2 touchdowns. Sour grapes.
Good guess, Homer Jay, would explain blue's angst. Michigan hasn't been in Pasadena in 6 years (lost their last 2 times as well) while, of course, Bucky is going for the 3rd time in a row. Don't see a RB in Michigan's near future either.
Oregon was better than Stanford, so Stanford doesn't belong in this game.
.....make that MI over SC. And best to NE over GA.
Who cares about those two teams?
In the laast 2 Rose Bowls, UW was simply out speeded, but this is a match of similar teams. It's good on good with UW's run game and Stanford's run defense. That is the battle Bucky needs to win.Hide replies
Most of the games always come down to the team with the best defense.
Bucky BELONGS in the Rose Bowl! Bucky 17-14. A big win for Coach Alvarez and Coach Andersen!
Happy New year to everybody including ex-coach Bielema! I hope Bret enjoys taking his Hogs to the Poulan Weedeater Bowl every year in beautiful Shreveport, LA! GO BUCKY!Hide replies
I hope Bielema slips and falls on the ice and hits his head.
Way to go TGP!
Another chance, I guess, for Wisconsin to be the "second worst" team ever in the Rose Bowl.
Go Michigan - beat SC! (21 seconds left there)Hide replies
My score: Badgers 35 Cardinal 24.
it looks to me you dont rate either of their defenses real high, eh?
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What are opioids?
The following information is from "Opioid use disorder: Epidemiology, pharmacology, screening, assessment, and diagnosis," an article on UpToDate.
Opioids by the numbers
The following information is from UpToDate's "Opioid use disorder: Epidemiology, pharmacology, screening, assessment, and diagnosis" and "Opioid Abuse," an article on Medscape Reference.
Opioid dependence affects nearly 5 million Americans and leads to about 17,000 deaths annually.
Some 2.4 million people in the U.S. have used heroin at some point in their lives.
About 4.5 percent of a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults have reported non-medical use of prescription opioids—12.9 percent of them abused opioids.
Heroin use in the United States has remained at high levels since the mid 1990s, with more than 100,000 new users annually.
About two thirds of people who use heroin also use prescription opioids, which are most commonly obtained from relatives, friends, or dealers.
Heroin has a duration in the body of four to five hours.
What are the warning signs?
According to Dedham Police detectives, the following are common signs that people might be abusing drugs.
•Change in friendships;
•Lack of physical hygiene;
•Behavioral and emotional changes;
•Changes in sleeping and eating patterns;
•Missing school and work, or losing a job;
•Withdrawal from family members;
•Items missing from the house;
Changes in people's level of consciousness and emotional ability, lack of self-care, financial problems, and poor functioning at work and at home, according to Dr. Dennis Teehan, Jr.
If you believe you or someone you know has a problem, call detectives Bob Walsh or Kevin Mahoney at 781-326-1212 or 781-751-9301.
Dedham Police also have an anonymous tip line—781-326-7666—people can call.
Where can someone get help?
Here is a list of a few of the multiple programs that aim at helping people struggling with addiction and/or their families.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA): A free support group for people struggling with addiction. Attendees typically share their experiences and hope to recover from alcoholism. For locations and times, visit www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA): A community-based organization that offers a 12-step recovery program for drug addicts. For more information, visit www.na.org.
Teen Challenge USA: A 12-month Christian program that encourages participants to cope with everyday life issues, by reading the Bible, participating in recreational activities and working on projects. For more information, visit teenchallengeusa.com.
Al-Anon: A support group for friends and family members of alcoholics and drug addicts. For information on meeting times and locations, visit al-anon.alateen.org.
Nar-Anon: A 12-step program for friends and family members of drug addicts. For meeting locations, visit www.nar-anon.org/naranon.
Learn to Cope: A free peer-led support network for parents and family members who have a loved one struggling with addiction. For more information, visit learn2cope.org.
Massachusetts National Alliance on Mental Illness: A website that provides extensive information for people and families facing mental illnesses, including substance abuse. For a complete list of substance abuse treatment centers, recovery community organizations, and information on addiction, visit www.namimass.org/resources/substance-abuse.
Editor's note: This story runs in conjunction with a separate piece about the town's reaction.
Ron Brock knew he had a problem. The first sign of trouble were the polymorphic overdoses. Then he started stealing from drug dealers and bunking in an abandoned house in Dorchester.
But it wasn't until Aug. 10, 2004, that the 41-year-old Dedham native sought help.
"I robbed a drug dealer that night, and at that point I knew that my end was very close. I could hear a word in my head going over and over: The axe is at your root," Brock recalled while sitting in a high-top table at a coffee shop. "And so I knew that my time was very limited. I had many drug overdoses. I was going to kill someone and go to prison for life, or someone was going to kill me."
Brock got in a car late that night and he drove from his dealer's house in Brockton to his father's in Dedham to tell him: "I can't live this life anymore. I need help."
At the time, Brock was using anything he could get his hands on including: Oxycodone; cocaine; heroin; alcohol; and various forms of methamphetamine, he said.
With the help of his father and sister, Brock enrolled in Teen Challenge, a 12-month program for people struggling with addiction. He stayed in the residential program for 21 months.
Brock, now 50, hasn't used drugs in almost 10 years. He works fulltime at RHC General Contracting and he is determined to combat the increase in drug use and overdoses in Dedham and nationwide.
A public health problem
In 2011, when the Dedham Police Department started differentiating overdoses from other medical calls, dispatch received at least 30 calls for overdoses, 38 in 2012, and 41 last year, including five that were fatal, according to Detective Kevin Mahoney.
Since January, police have responded to 15 overdoses, including seven in March, Chief Michael d'Entremont said. Of those, at least five were treated with Narcan, an intranasal drug commonly known by its generic name naloxone that is used to reverse the effects of opiate overdoses, he said.
"In 2013, three of the deaths, the information that we got is that they had just recently been out of rehab, a hospital, and then overdosed and deceased," d'Entremont said. "My understanding is that's a common time when someone can overdose and pass away because their resistance has dropped and they go back to taking the same amounts as before. It's a vulnerable time."
According to Detective Bob Walsh, addiction often leads to drug-fueled crimes, such as larceny, shoplifting, and housebreakings. He said at least half of the shoplifting incidents in Dedham are drug related.
Page 2 of 4 - "They need money everyday," Walsh said. "A lot of times they'll start off stealing at home, taking little things here and there that maybe won't be missed."
The most common substances in Dedham, Mahoney said, include marijuana; heroin; opiates such as Oxycodone and Percocet; alcohol; and stimulants such as Adderall and Ritalin.
"I think the type of drugs that are abused change with the ages," Mahoney said. "Alcohol, anti-anxiety and depression (medications) are amongst adults. Certainly, the people we deal with the most are younger people because they are not (as) controlled."
Police have also come across other substances including cocaine, anti-anxiety drugs, and even Suboxone, a drug designed to help with opiate dependence, Mahoney said.
"By far the biggest issue that's affected our community is the opiates: The Oxycodones and the heroin," Mahoney said. "The Oxycodones can be obtained legally or illegally through doctors, patients, pharmacies."
According to Dr. Dennis Teehan, Jr., medical director of urgent care and occupational medicine for Tristan Medical, the United States is facing an "epidemic" of opiate abuse.
Opioids—natural and synthetic substances with morphine-like activity—are commonly used to treat patients suffering from cancer and chronic pain, but opioid prescriptions for managing other pain have increased in the last 10 to 20 years, according to "Overview of the treatment of chronic pain" on UpToDate, a medical database.
Addicts, Teehan said, often start with prescription painkillers, then move to cheaper, more potent heroin.
Percocet 30, for example, costs about $30 on the street per pill whereas heroin can be as cheap as $4 a bag, or $40 for half a gram (10 bags), according to Norfolk County District Attorney spokesman David Traub.
"Heroin is very fast acting when it's shot directly intravenously, so it gives a true high as opposed to a pill," Teehan explained. "An oxycodone, that's designed for slow release."
However, prescription opiate abuse outnumbered illegal drug use about 12 years ago, Teehan said.
"More people were dying and more people were addicted to prescription opiates than actual heroin," said Teehan, who is also a selectman in town. "It's an epidemic. It's literally killing tens of thousands of people a year, legally. I mean forget abuse of opiates. Even using opiates as prescribed is killing significant amounts of people.
"These are dangerous medicines with significant side effects, with significant risk of abuse, significant effects on the brain and central and peripheral nervous system. They are not to be taken lightly. These are serious, serious strong, powerful medicines."
The experimentation phase
Brock started experimenting with drugs at 12. Like many kids, he felt peer pressure to fit in, which meant smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol.
Page 3 of 4 - As his circle of new friends widened, so did his drug selection.
"That's how my drug addictions all started because marijuana is just marijuana," he said, recalling his self-destructive path that lasted nearly three decades. "The next thing: It's just a little coke. Oh, you've done coke; it's just like coke—it's crystal. You're too hyper; you need to come down. Here's some heroin. Here's a Valium. And that's today's society, believe it or not. I see it in today's kids all the time."
According to Brock, most addicts know they have a problem, but they think they can overcome it on their own. Others, he said, don't know where to seek help.
"I knew I had a problem. I just didn't want to accept it," said Brock. "My pride got in my way, and that's with all of us addicts. We all know we have a problem. The problem is we don't think it's severe enough to go into a rehab or get treatment. What we believe is that we can do it on our own, and that's when we say I'm going to quit this week. You quit for two weeks and the next thing you know you're right back to doing it again."
When Brock left the rehabilitation center about seven years ago, he spent days at home afraid of going out and relapsing, he said. Brock felt lost after years of addiction, and he didn't know where to seek guidance on how to adapt to his new lifestyle.
"I knew that I couldn't get back out there, but I didn't know what to do," he said. "(Addicts) are not educated on where to go, on how to stay away from drugs. We all know we have a problem. We don't know where to look for help. I know where to look to get drugs, but I don't know where to look to get help, where they're not going to shun me or arrest me—that's what most addicts are thinking."
Like Brock, Dedham resident Amy Thomas knows what addiction can do to people and their families.
For the Thomas' family, the addiction spread like the flu. First it infected her eldest daughter, and then her other child.
"Everything changed," Thomas, 52, said. "She lost interest in school, her friends changed. She wasn't coming home. She was being defiant. She stopped going to school."
Both of Thomas' children were teenagers when they started smoking marijuana. They are now adults battling an opiate addiction, she said.
Page 4 of 4 - By senior year of high school, her daughter was doing cocaine and was placed in an 18-month rehabilitation and schooling program.
"She was out of control. The more we tried to control her, the worse it got," Thomas, a nurse at MetroWest Medical Center, said adding her daughter would disappear for three or four days at a time. "We took away the phone, took away the car, so the more we tried to control her, the worse her behavior got."
Drug addiction, Teehan said, usually starts with untreated mental health issues and a lack of social and community support. He said it takes time to get people off of opiates.
"If you have someone that is on a very high amount of opiate drugs and they abruptly stop, they're going to get very sick," Teehan said. "They're going to have tremendous pain in the withdrawal process. There are ways to get people off of opiates, but it takes time, it takes effort, and it takes resources, which aren't always readily available."
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Hope everyone is well. I need to clean and oil my chain as its getting a little clunky when I'm changing gears. I have no idea what I should be cleaning it with and then what I should oil with. Any help would be great. It's a road bike that is used every day no matter the weather.
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For the casual rider the simplest approach is to go to a bike shop and get a bottle of "chain oil". Apply the chain oil fairly liberally (drizzle it on while cranking the chain backwards, if the bike has a freewheel), then wipe the chain with a rag (while cranking backwards). If the chain is REALLY dirty, repeat.
For slightly more aggressive cleaning (on a derailleur bike), get a "chain washer" and the associated solvent. Fill the washer and clamp it on, crank backwards for 30-60 seconds. Wipe with a rag. Apply chain oil. Wipe. If you're riding daily this is probably what you should use, every week or two.
There are the obsessive types who still remove their chains and boil them in kerosene or whatnot to clean then, but that's kind of silly (and dangerous), since chain washers have become available.
Note that chain oil comes in "wet" and "dry" varieties. "Wet" is for wet weather, and helps prevent corrosion in the wet, while "dry" is for dry weather and doesn't pick up dust nearly as fast as "wet" (and hence keeps the chain cleaner). And there are "do-all" and "in-between" varieties. Just pick what seems to fit your riding conditions best.
Do note that, even if properly lubricated, chains wear out. You should get a "chain stretch gauge" to measure the wear of your chain, and replace it when worn to about 0.8. Running a worn chain damages the sprockets.
After some tinkering with dedicated bike products, my cleaning/lubing routine settled with very straightforward and cheap strategy:
Now for the oil, I use something that is very similar to Finish-Line "Wet" oil: gearbox oil, which you buy by the liter and also last forever. It is recommended for chain lubing of motorcycles, and the end result when compared with dedicated bike oil is, in my experience, indistinguishable. I apply it "half" drop per link, since I don't let the drop fall, but rather touch the chain roller while the drop is still forming in the oil bottle nozzle. I found out I don't have excess to wipe out if I use this "half drop" measure.
I stress the fact that "I do it like this" instead of "this is the right way to do it" because this is a somewhat religious issue amongst riders. What I can assure you is that I have tried other methods, and kept this one because it is cheap, easy, makes sense, and works (lubrication lasts a lot, chain lasts a lot).
Hope this helps!
I use Simple Green. Any degreaser will work. I would use Dawn if I could squirt it out of a spray bottle.
I come from an industry where cleaning dirty greasy parts is part of our daily routine. The best degreasers were Dawn and Simple Green. I think a lot of people in similar industries will tell you the same. For one thing, people who buy the little drip bottles of degreaser treat it like it is liquid gold and use it so sparingly it is ineffective.
I squirt the hell out of my chain and cassette. I have a chain cleaner that straps over the chain and allows me to run the chain through a series of brushes. Those cleaners are popular enough. When I upgrade I am going to get the one that connects to the deraileur and holds steady. I also save my old toothbrushes and finish the job right. I rinse and repeat until my drive train is oil-free. I also work the links to feel for any grit in there. BTW, perfect time to inspect everything.
I use a simple lube, Tri-Flo. All the wet and dry stuff is part of the cycling fad and gimmicks.
I clean my drive train at least weekly if not after each ride. The whole process takes me about :15 and I have to schlep the gear up and down steps. Our bikes are expensive and important to us. I don't want to just go out and buy new stuff for my bike because they were neglected. Nor do I want to get stranded on the trail over a chain that I didn't take care of.
A clean chain ( and drivetrain) is the difference between someone who loves riding and someone who says they love riding.


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I will go to Canada for the first time from the United States. I will use credit card as much as possible but I guess I need cash for small shops and cafes anyway. To avoid exchange money back and forth and ATM fees, I plan to cash some money in USD and carry it with me. As of today, 1 CAD = 1.0086 USD so it should be easy to convert currency. Do small retail stores in Toronto accept USD in cash? If so, how are their exchange rates?
In most border towns you can, further away not. Sometimes they might also give you small change back in CAD, or charge you a small fee for using USD.
If you exchange the money in a bank you will get a much better rate. Try to pay with your Credit card whenever possible.
No. I've lived in Montreal and Toronto and the occasional place will take US dollars, but most places will just laugh at you, perhaps in French. If they do take it, they might give you 80 cents on the dollar or so.
Just use credit for everything. There's really no reason not to.
Usually, yes. But now that the US dollar isn't more valuable (and is fluctuating wildly from week to week) I've noticed more places not taking it or taking it at a steep discount. You won't get the value you used to out of it.
It's always a good idea to have some local currency on hand no matter where you're going. A credit card will also work, though there can be fees and poor exchange rates on that too depending on the card. Also if you intend to use it, call up the credit card company and tell them where you're going so you don't trigger an anti-fraud security check.
Anecdotal answer: I've been in Vancouver a week now, and noticed I keep being given American coins as change. Certainly the pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters seem interchangeable; the locals never even blink at accepting them.


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Strengths: Some of the most state-of-the-art moisturizers and serums around; excellent sunscreens; some good cleansers, toners, and makeup removers; several categories of makeup excel, including some extraordinary foundations (that include shades for darker skin tones), concealers, powders, blush, and eyeshadows; a mostly good selection of eye, brow, and lip pencils; their long-wearing lip color and some of the lipsticks are supremely good.
Weaknesses: Several items are highly fragranced; incomplete and/or problematic products for anyone battling blemishes; many of the Re-Nutriv products are priced too high given similar, less-expensive options from Lauder; some of the sunscreens and foundations with sunscreen lack sufficient UVA protection; the brushes aren't on par with those from other Lauder-owned lines, such as Bobbi Brown or M.A.C.; jar packaging.
From its humble but attention-getting beginning in 1946, Estee Lauder has grown to become a multibillion-dollar company whose products are sold all over the world and advertised in just about every fashion and women's lifestyle magazine you can think of. Their product assortment is mind-boggling and would be much more frustrating to wade through if their tester units weren't so well-organized and their salespeople so well-trained. (Although most of what they talk about is claim-driven and not worth paying much attention to, they do know their way around the huge assembly of products.)
We suppose the biggest compliment we can pay to the venerable Estee Lauder line is that their state-of-the-art moisturizers and serums have had a hand in redefining how we evaluate products. They (and some Lauder-owned companies, notably Clinique) are so far ahead of their department-store competition in these two areas that they alone have been consistently raising the bar as new research comes to light. In fact, we are confident telling anyone who asks us where to find the best moisturizers in the department store to sail right past Lancome, Chanel, Clarins, Shiseido, and Elizabeth Arden (among others) and park themselves in front of the Lauder counter (or a Lauder-owned line specializing in skin care such as Clinique—definitely not Origins, but you have to read about Origins to see why). We don't agree with most of the claims Lauder makes for their products and the fragrance is often intrusive, but when it comes to formulary excellence culminating in products that give skin what it needs to function optimally, they are tough to beat.
Despite Lauder's formulary innovations, they're not immune to problem products. Some of their cleansers contain irritating ingredients, jar packaging is prevalent, and their sole product for acne isn't going to help anyone's blemishes improve (actually, Estee Lauder is not the line to shop if managing acne is your concern). The company has also taken a somewhat "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach, much like the many skin-care companies with cosmetic products targeted at women considering cosmetic corrective procedures. Some of the claims (and statistics) about what their skin-care alternatives (to these procedures) can accomplish still stretch the boundaries of what's possible, but most of them have impressive ingredients that benefit skin. They just can't change skin in the same effective way a cosmetic corrective procedure can.
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The most frustrating element by far is the number of foundations with sunscreen that either lack essential UVA-protecting ingredients or carry an SPF rating that is below standard. In contrast, the sunscreens in Lauder's skin-care lineup are almost all top-notch. Even more perplexing is that Lauder's sister company, Clinique, really has its act together when it comes to foundations with UVA-protecting ingredients, and they feature a lower price point for superior products.
Despite the shortcomings, many women will continue to shop for makeup at their local Lauder counter, and there is still reason to do that—just not with the same blanket sense of confidence you may have had in the past. This is an exhaustive makeup line, with seemingly endless choices. We like that Lauder's makeup tester units are much more user-friendly, particularly for foundations, powders, and concealers. Their sales staff is more enthusiastic and present (often to the point of hovering) than the staff of many competing lines, but also quite helpful and up-to-date on product comings and goings. We feel strongly that you won't be disappointed with any of the Lauder makeup rated "best" below. Without question, those products are shining examples that prove Lauder has the capability to elevate the current state-of-the-art, raising the bar for their competitors. If only such innovation were evident in the entire line, there would be few reasons to shop elsewhere, save for the prices. As is, and more than ever, it pays to be a savvy consumer when you're about to navigate the cosmetics department.
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Why Children Push Your Buttons
Twelve-year-old Sean asks his mother, Cindy, if he can have a few friends over to watch TV. Cindy says no. She explains that she has a lot of work to do tonight: "Perhaps you can have them over some other night. Maybe next weekend." Sean does not accept her answer. He begins to tease and whine: "I never get to have friends over. You're not fair." Cindy argues her point. Sean argues in return. The argument intensifies. Sean starts having a tantrum. Cindy gets angry. She yells at Sean to go to his room and stay there for the remainder of the day. Going to his room is a punishment, so arguing should be weakened; but in reality, Sean is arguing more every day. Even though Cindy consistently sends Sean to his room every time, Sean continues to argue. Sean argues to push Cindy's buttons. Cindy had two reactions to Sean's misbehavior: she became angry with Sean, and she punished Sean. What if making Cindy angry was part of Sean's plan? What if Cindy's anger was a payoff for Sean? Then Cindy's anger was a reward. When Cindy punishes Sean for arguing, she concurrently rewards him for arguing. Sean trades going to his room for making Cindy upset. This gives Sean control and power. That is why Sean continues to argue each day even though Cindy punishes him consistently. The reward of control is stronger than the punishment. Cindy must change her behavior. She must learn to control her anger when she punishes Sean. She must stay calm and not argue. By controlling herself, Cindy removes Sean's reward for arguing; therefore, the punishment will have more of an effect. When some parents learn this, they respond by wanting to use stronger punishments, but large punishments combined with anger could be disastrous. Even if you use a punishment that is stronger than the reward of pushing your buttons, your anger greatly neutralizes the effects of the punishment. It will take much longer for the punishment to weaken the misbehavior.
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Let $\cal X$ be a DM stack of finite type over a field (if necessary, I will assume that $k=\mathbb{C}$ and $\cal X$ is a scheme, or even a variety) and $G$ be a finite group. Then we have a quotient stack $[\mathcal{X}/G]$ and in fact we have a natural morphism $\phi:\mathcal{X}\to [\mathcal{X}/G]$.
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In the case of detecting that a system is infected with a root-kit, what if any thing can be done to trace route the origins of the remote out going packets to attempt to find out where the attacker was logging in from? I ask this question as more of a curiosity and as a wonder how in the professional world a hacker would be caught. I see a lot of articles stating that the attacker has been caught, but what is the procedure?
how to detect the origin of a hacker attempting to breach or who has sucesfully breached a network or system
As a rule, this is a fruitless endeavor.
It is very uncommon for a hacker to log in from his home IP or from any server directly traceable back to him. It's far more common for hackers to use previously-hacked targets as jump-off points for future attacks. Often attackers will also use other relays (such as IRC bouncers or public IRC networks) to relay commands to infected servers.
You can often trace the attack back to the server from which the attack was launched, but that almost certainly will not belong to the perpetrator. Theoretically you can get the logs from that server and attempt to trace the attack hop-by-hop. But in practice, this never happens. Often the attacks cross political borders making this sort of cooperation effectively impossible. Furthermore, even if you can trace his original IP, it will many times belong to a location not directly traceable to him, such as a coffee shop or an internet cafe.
But if you have the logs, it can be helpful to get the IP address of the last hop primarily because you can then analyze all traffic logs relating to that IP to see how and when the attack happened, and to help you identify additional attack components that you may have missed.
As for how these hackers get caught
Generally this is not possible without the help of ISP. IP traceback is a name given to any method for reliably determining the origin of a packet on the Internet. Since the source IP address of a packet is not authenticated or most probably proxied. The problem of finding the source of a packet is called the IP traceback problem. IP Traceback is a critical ability for identifying sources of attacks and instituting protection measures for the Internet. There are number of techniques proposed most popular are
IP tracing, as others have stated, will not be helpful. What can be helpful is all the other data you can collect, like the code of uploaded files and other actions performed by the attacker.
For instance, I ran a honeypot that captured all downloaded files and keystrokes. From the code in the botnet he installed, the download location of the code, and the passwords he used, I was able to trace the person directly. I had enough information to correlate that I discovered his name, work email and phone number, and his favorite coffee shop in his hometown in Romania (thank you, Facebook).
As smart as he was, he used his full name as a password when he created a new user on my system, used a download location that he set up himself, and he used a pseudonym that he also used on a social networking site that he deleted, but Google had cached.
That's the kind of information law enforcement needs to catch an attacker.


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If I see someone else wearing a woot shirt, what's the correct social etiquette?
is it acceptable to yell, "my woot shirt bretheren!!" and then hug them? or should i just make eye contact and nod?
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You know what you must do. There can be only one!!!!!
Exchange bacon recipes.
I liked: Boss shirt, Boss
High five!
I generally say something to the effect of: "Way to go, Woot shirt!"
i was wearing the Imposter shirt (http://shirt.woot.com/friends.aspx?k=7811) and a cashier at safeway asked me about. he said it was the third time he'd seen the shirt that day. i thought, "3 Imposter shirts? in kent, wa? on the same day?" so now i'm constantly on the look out.
Bro nod, always.
I'm not sure if I want to be recognized heehee, but I was once at a pet shop getting some food. The cashier and I had a quick chat, and he was jealous that I snagged a BOC the day before. I'm almost always out in a woot shirt. I love love LOVE my Too much Catnip shirt way too much, I got 2 so I can wear it twice in a row if I want!
can we get a woot shirt about the debt ceiling fiasco? i'd love to see what people come up with.
No one around here other than my friends wear woot shirts. I think if I found someone with a Woot shirt I'd probably burst into tears and bear hug them until they taser me.
@holymythos: you could raise brand awareness by gathering your friends and holding signs at the mall that say "I shirt.woot. Do you?"
Heading to GenCon Indy in a week - and just like last year I will high-five every fellow Woot shirt bearer in the most absurd fashion possible.
Scream "HE/SHE'S A WOOTER!" and point at them.
I say - "You poser - I had the Woot shirt first".
@carl669: in the spirit of money saving i say you submit your 'debt ceiling' shirt ideas to this thread done in ASCII art only. The best ones will be printed out by me and framed on my desk.
@wootfast: evil tempter/temptress! now i have to think up something and get even less work done.
I have yet to see one in the wild...elusive beasts they are. I do have a couple and am building up my collection, I'm sure it's just a matter of time though.
I see it from time to time.. of course when I see it I am always wearing one of my woot shirts..
So it's a casual nod followed by a 180degree slick spin and the 21 gun hand salute..
and then my wife looks at me like I'm nuts...
So belly bumping would be out of order?
There is a secret handshake, so secret I do not know what it is.
Wearing a woot.shirt and worrying about etiquette? I'm not sure the two go together. Just in case, here is the official video on proper protocol:
Oh man, I missed wooting all day, was stuffing my face at the Gilroy Garlic Fest all day.
For most shirt.woot shirts, it's appropriate to just point and yell "woot shirt!" followed by a smile and/or a thumbs up.
However, for the deals.woot crab shirt...my friends, the battle of wits has begun and there can be only one.
this is what you do:
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Is there a way to set up a version of this using modern technology, without having to hack up some kind of modem-emulator? Preferably as a multiplayer version, but worst case just to putz with for nostalgia's sake. Or, barring that, where is there a good modem-emulator for OSX (and how do you get it to interface with the game)? :-)
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The Sullivan County Sheriff's Office is investigating a stabbing.
Officers were called to a home on Derby Drive Tuesday where they say they found Sam Ireson, Jr. with three stab wounds.
Ireson told officers he had been stabbed by Jeremiah Byington. According to investigators, Ireson said Byington's wife went to his house after getting into an argument with Byington.
Officers say Byington stabbed Ireson in the hip after Byington was told to leave and police say Byington said he was going to kill him.
Ireson was stabbed two more times during a struggle over the knife, according to deputies. That's when Byington drove away and was later located by Washington County, Tennessee Sheriff's Deputies.
He's now charged with attempted second degree murder.
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In a no limit cash game, if I'm sitting on the button pre-flop with pocket aces and no one has bet ahead of me, I usually don't want to limp because I don't want to offer free opportunities to draw to a bad beat for me. However, I would like to get some action. How do I size my bet to avoid scaring everyone off when I'm at a full table? Is there a general rule of thumb for this?
The general rule of thumb from me would be to stick with the same raise you would make in the same situation with T9s. You want to balance your range so that you get a good mix of action with your great hands and folds with your steals.
What that raise should be will depend a lot on your history with the blinds and on their stack sizes. Whether we are talking about a cash game or a tournament can be a big factor here as well.
What @Jeffrey Blake said, is totally correct, however there are situations when you don't need to balance you range in this situation at all, for example against players who doesn't care and calling anyway, you should make as big bets as you can to make more profit. Also, against players who are not observant at all, you might make bigger bets, because they wont notice the difference.
These are extreme examples, but in a poker game you should be aware of everything all the time, so you need to consider this.
I would rather raise and take the pot than have someone stick around and get lucky for free.
Rockets are the best hand pre-flop but once the flop hits there is a decent chance you will lose at least some of that advantage and the more players there the greater that risk. As such I prefer to bet high hoping that who ever comes along will have high cards(probably an ace) thinking they have a chance to win. If my opponent has an ace then I am in a much better position.
Once to the flop I generally slow down some unless I improve. If I have improved I keep the pressure up. I would much rather force a marginal hand out than lose to a draw. I have folded pocket aces on the turn because I was fairly certain my opponent out drew me.
These are all great answers.
I use one of two strategies in this situation. I will always raise, it's just a matter of how much. The only time I don't raise pre-flop with AA is when I'm early in position and I know there is a wild canon to my left and I can come over the top.
So I'm guessing the situation is that only the SB and BB remain to your left.
If the SB and BB players are not wild, I'll put out a standard raise - it allows me to win the "pot" - if you can call it that - with little risk and it also gives the opportunity for one of the blinds to get frisky by responding to a perceived button-bully move by re-raising - yummy - if so, then insta-push. If we see a flop, then play accordingly with top pair.
If one of the blinds are wild, then I'll just insta-push and see what happens. If you get a call, then you're easily getting the best of it for the maximum amount pre-flop - best possible situation. You might loose that hand, but over time you'll make money. It's a mathematical certainty.
The main thing to remember is to not get cute with AA.
I use this strategy regardless of Cash or Tournament play.
Personally, I'm limping 9 times out of 10 in this specific situation, depending on my table image and my history with those players. Such a wasted opportunity to push them out most of the time.
Give them 4 chances to bluff or catch a decent but worse hand, and if they don't and you min-bet the river and turn over Aces, everybody will be wondering why you flat called and why you checked most of the way, giving much more power to your future checks and actions.
I think the maths would agree with me that you're going to be winning enough of a majority of these situations post flop vs. any 2 that a limp is the best option in most cases.
To put it another way, if you're in the best position with the best preflop hand, you're only priority should be making sure at least one person goes to the flop with you or puts more chips in before you take it down; and with only two left, most times a limp is the only option to achieve this.
I min raise (or whatever my standard bet has been) when I know they're going to call because of their previous actions.
Don't be afraid to keep the pot small with aces, it often pays off bigger in many ways - and it's much easier to fold them in a sticky situation.
It depends on many factors though, namely your own playing style, so this is not one-size-fits-all, it just fits my style nicely.
I broadly agree with all the comments so far but I would add:
For the decent mid-stakes pros I play with, they would be raising the button more than any other position at the table. This is the ideal situation for them as the table loses respect for their button raise and assumes a relatively wide range
The exact amount you should bet is dependent on table history and your own playing style. If it was me I would raise somewhere between 2.2 and 3 BBs. With a deep stack (more than 20 BBs), I would very rarely open-raise more than 3 BBs. The most standard deep-stack play would be min-raise (2 BBs) followed by 2.2 BBs, then 2.5 BBs, then 3 BBs, then shove to steal, then any other raise.
It's different if the table has set the standard raise at 4 BBs or 5 BBs. Your objective is to make AA indistinguishable from other hands so make the standard raise.
If you raise the button small and very often, the blinds will re-raise you with a much wider range than normal. Then you can call and let the aggro player lead into your Aces on the flop. Good times, hope this helps!
If not here is some help from ProPokerTools on AA against ranges:
If it says 10% that means top 10% hand (i.e. good). If it says 90% that means bottom 10% hand (i.e. terrible)
And AA vs the most average middle of the road hands:
If you are going to open on the button with a raise, the size of the raise should not depend on the cards, just the big blind. Less than 2.5x the big blind makes it mathematically correct for almost anyone to call. More than 5 times the big blind places too much mathematical pressure on you to win. 3-3.5x is a good start if it can get you heads up most of the time. On a tight table you can lower that closer to 2.5. If everyone calls 3-3.5 try 4-5. This makes your cards unreadable as a function of your bet size.


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Raising a baby is a tough gig. "Experts" declare at every turn that the wrong decisions on nutrition, napping or enrichment will render your child emotionally barren, homeless, sexually deviant and, worst of all, short. It's no wonder child rearing products are such a huge industry. Here are 20 products perfect for developing little tykes ... into adults who want to murder their parents.
#20. Zaky Infant Pillow
The Zaky Infant Pillow will simulate your touch to soothe your child into rest, provided the baby is accustomed to being palmed by disembodied sausage-fingers.
They are weighted to remain firmly positioned, which is useful to parents who don't want to baby's first memory to be "The time mommy's massive foreman hands mercilessly pinned me down"
#19. Baby Keeper
This is a dangerous idea. Not because it looks unstable or poorly constructed, but because its utility is too seductive.
Once the parent realizes how freeing this is, it will never stop with bathroom breaks. Want to vacuum? Slap that squirming bundle of modern art up on a closet door for a few minutes! Not enough room for the groceries and the child safety seat in the car? Use those hooks on the bumper and make an impromptu side car!
#18. Swimming Neck Ring
This product, previously named My First Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation Trainer , appears to be primarily designed to protect the baby's head in the event of shark attack.
#17. Pee-Pee Teepee
It's not just a mechanism to block rogue urine sprays , it's a festive party hat for your baby's junk!
We noticed they are sized so adults can wear them too, but you might consider not breaking it out at the next office shindig. You don't want your last name being synonymous with HR's "Penis Hat" precedent for inappropriate conduct.
#16. Baby Perfume
This product is a bit befuddling, since "new baby smell" is cherished by adults nearly as much as "new car smell". Strangely enough, the secret to both is liberal application of Armor-All.
Even stranger, the perfumes come in a series of food-flavored scents such as marshmallow, pear, almond, citrus and raspberry, meaning these perfumes may end up serving the dual function of a marinade if you enter dingo country.
#15. O'Pair Baby Leash
This is a great way to teach your children "I trust you exactly none." Think of it as a renewed umbilical cord designed to transfer shame instead of nutrients.
Note: this product is NOT recommended for joggers. That's a mistake you'll only make once.
#14. "Thudguard" Helmet
Helmet jokes are too easy and, frankly, a little unfair. Babies learn to walk with a drunken stagger that invariably gravitates towards peril in all directions. A little protection is sensible enough while they are too young to be scarred by it (babies don't develop the shame gland until 18 months).
However, this emblem from the site goes too far:
First head gear? If your plan for parenting involves scaling their walkabout helmet yearly you might as well send them to school pre-wedgied.
#13. 3rd Arm
If you're concerned that your toddler doesn't have enough dipping sauces for their zwieback crackers, this is ideal. In fact, we kind of want one of these for our car and easy chair both. It looks convenient as hell.
#12. Daddle
Sure, you could provide "horsie rides" without it, but then you wouldn't have a baby toy that doubles as an accoutrement for submissive sex play.
Not many kids toys come with the advisory "Don't leave children unattended with this toy. Also never forget your safeword."
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1. This RP is rated M; this means that it's only for age 16 and over, due to its theme.
2. Obey the main forum rules.
3. No Mary Sues or Gary Stus. Or I will hit you.
4. Absolutely NO TWILIGHT VAMPIRES. I mean it; anyone who tries to sign up with a Meyerpire will be kicked from the RP. The vampires in this RP resemble Night World Vampires; for more information click here: Night World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Everything in the basic description fits; however, these vampires if made can change humans; and if born, they don't age past twenty. Any questions, just PM me.
5. Please don't all sign up as vampires; there needs to be human characters too. If you like, you can sign up one vampire and one human. If there are too many of one group, you may be told to revise your character. Regarding werewolves; please PM me if you wish to sign up as a werewolf as there are only a few of them and I do not want loads of werewolf characters.
Up on a hilltop in the midst of a lonely town, is an old mansion that has stood for as long as the townspeople can remember. No-one knows when it was built, or even who built it; it is just something that has always been there, now and forever. Most of the people in the town ignore the mansion and its occupants save when they emerge and come down to the town; they are mostly ignorant of the evil in their midst. However, there are a core few who know of the secret that lies within the mansion, of the family of vampires that live there and who prey not only on the townspeople, but also among the neighbouring districts. Not all are related by blood; some are only part of the family cuz they have lived there for centuries so were accepted into the clan. They are careful tho; they only kill when necessary and the attacks remain a mystery among most humans. The few who know the secret of the vampire clan know different tho; they want nothing more than the destruction finally of the vampire clan.
However, it will not be easy to destroy them. As well as those who are members of the same family, who reside within the mansion walls, there are a few hangers on who live alongside them. Some are fledgelings; vampires made by the clan as friends or lovers. Others simply latched on to the mansion as a reaction to constant wandering. The clan is growing decade by decade and now believes itself unstoppable. Not least cuz there are still many preconceptions that exist about vampires, even in the modern world. For example, that the sun can destroy them, or that they can be killed by garlic. Neither are true; however, wood is poison to vampires; the legend about the stake thru the heart is the only one that still rings true. The few humans who know of the vampire clan need to discover this knowledge before it's too late, and what they are hunting turns on them.
Among the clan too, there is danger. Some of the vampire family resent the newcomers; the made vampires who reside alongside them. Others will protect their fledgelings, even against their own family members. Some have guilty secrets which must be protected against; the love for a human, for example, or even for a werewolf. For there was at one point a werewolf pack living alongside the vampire clan; however, nearly all of the 'wolves were exterminated. Of that original pack, none survive; however, there are a few descendants still living in and around the town. Perhaps they yearn for revenge; after all, grudges can survive centuries. The werewolves plot to build up their pack once more, either the normal way, or from biting humans and compelling them to join. There has been an ageold war between the vampires and werewolves for centuries, with no end in sight.
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Name: Perdita
Age: Actual age, 400. Appears 19
Appearence: Long blonde hair, silvery blue eyes, average height
Short Bio: Perdita is neither the eldest or youngest daughter in the clan. She tries to prey on humans who are wicked; ie, rapists, murderers, pickpockets. She falls in love with Flynn for who he is, however at all times there hangs over her the fear for when the clan finds out, which they surely must do eventually. No secrets can be kept in the clan. Perdita has a tendency to be impulsive; she can also be alarmingly selfish, persuing her own agenda. She is also vain as well too fond of luxury. She would never entertain the idea of leaving her home to be with Flynn as she loves living in rich surroundings.
Name: Flynn
Age: 16
Appearence: Dark blonde hair, blue eyes. Average height and build
Short Bio: Flynn grew up in a children's home. He ran away from it at the age of twelve cuz the new superintendant was a pedophile. He now survives mostly on the streets of the town, stealing to stay alive. He ran into Perdita while she was hunting; somehow, they ended up as lovers rather than as predator and prey. Flynn was brave enough to put aside the danger and remain with Perdita against the odds. However, he never considers the future and can be immature at times.
At the dead of night, a figure stole out from the old mansion at the top of the hill. The figure was wrapped in a cloak, with a scarf obscuring her face. Any watcher from the mansion would have been completely in ignorance of who this was.
Perdita crept quietly on light feet thru the gardens at the front of the mansion. She carried no light, but that didn't matter; her vampire eyes could see in darkness that a human would have found impossible without a torch. She looked behind her fearfully, altho there was no pursuit. Maybe it just was cuz of the enormity of what she was doing; going to meet her lover was one thing, but it was who her lover was that her clan would never forgive if they ever found out about him.
Perdita left the mansion grounds and melted into the moonless night.
A boy waited in the town centre, leaning against an old statue that, as long as he could remember, had always been there. The writing on the statue's plinth that stated who this man was was worn away with time, and now no-one knew. No-one human, that is; but Flynn was sure the vampires on the hill knew. Not that he'd ever get the chance to ask them; the only one he cared about was Perdita, and on the times they met up, talking was the last thing on their mind.
Flynn was torn in two over Perdita; on one hand, he loved her a lot; on the other hand, there was always the danger of the clan finding out and killing him. Flynn loved the thrill; he didn't even consider the danger. He looked up as she walked towards him, removing her scarf as she did so. And then there were no words, and no more thinking as they met in a strong embrace, kissing with passion and not caring if anyone witnessed it.
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