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Message: The following issue has been closed. Resolver: Alex Karasulu Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:45 AM The was added then was removed because it did work for passing the Application to the binding when the list() operations were used. A factory is needed so we made the binding depend on an Application factory. The binding is also passed into the JeRoleDAO as a constructor argument. --------------------------------------------------------------------- View the issue: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRRMS-20 Here is an overview of the issue: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: DIRRMS-20 Summary: Add a ThreadLocal to carry the current transaction Type: Task Status: Closed Priority: Major Resolution: FIXED Project: Directory RMS Components: Berkeley JE Assignee: Alex Karasulu Reporter: Alex Karasulu Created: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:41 PM Updated: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:45 AM Description: We want JE to operate using transactions but we want to make sure this is done without chewing up our interfaces making them more specific to the JE implementation. The best way to go about doing this is to setup the transaction for every high level RMS-JE operation and add it to a ThreadLocal before starting the opertation. This way the transaction is propagated down to all operations. So we need to make sure these operations pick up the transaction from the ThreadLocal rather than using null. --------------------------------------------------------------------- JIRA INFORMATION: This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa If you want more information on JIRA, or have a bug to report see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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i've had a few e-mails from people asking how to get hold of these moheda toffeln clogs. as they aren't the most conventional or widespread of clogs i thought i'd give a little run down on how to find them. i ordered mine from the manufacturers original site to avoid paying any marked up fees. start by going to the moheda toffeln website. you can chose from a range of styles or just go straight to my pair. pick how many pairs you want (antal), your size (storlek), and add them to your basket (Lagg till krogen). when you are ready to purchase click onto till kassan. the only part that might get confusing is at the checkout where you can select 'Privatperson samt Foretag, Leverans till Ultamingingsstalle.' this just means that you are going to have it shipped the cheapest way possible. this is what i selected and once my order was processed i received it after just a few days and we didn't even have to pay any shipping fees. if you've got any questions just let me know or use google translate. i seriously love these little clogs. they are super comfy and were really easy to walk in even when wearing them with tights. they don't slip or rub and i haven't even fallen - despite the cobblestone roads over here. plus, if you aren't sure about spending a lot of money to buy into the clog trend and want something that is quite traditional i would definitely recommend this pair.
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Has anyone used this? Is it a different brand, repackaged? If so, what brand? Do you like it? Taste?
I have used Ice n Easy. I like the taste of it much better than other pre-packaged fondants. It is soft, so we do not use it for modeling. I did use it for a book cake and it turned out great. I'll have to post a picture. It is also very reasonable in price. I have a friend who has great luck using it with her sheeter. She is the one who gave me a sample from an ICES convention.
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I'm not sure if this is going to be a DNS issue or not. Ok I just installed Windows Foundation Server 2010 R2. This is the first server and its a new domain. Everything is working great except when the user attempt to log into their firespring account, this is their webhostings company. When they login it just flashes and takes them back to their login. This issue only occurs with IE Firefox logs them in just fine. Well I messed around with one of the PC's and added the servers DNS as primary and the routers DNS as the secondary and low and behold it works. At this point I was like alright woohoo I just got it after almost two hours. I then went and did the same thing no another pc and it still will not work. I'm not sure if this is a DNS issue, or maybe when the domain went up some freaky virus unleashed itself unto the network. They are running Vipre antivirus, any ideas anyone???????
Oct 29, 2010 at 5:08 UTC
BCS TechSource is an IT service provider.
Doesn't sound like a DNS error. Though, I still think your in house server should be your primary DNS server - just have it forward requests that are beyond it to the ISP's dns addresses - or use openDNS for free web filtering...
I would double check that all the browsers are up to date. It really sounds like a browser issue. Double check your settings and make sure IE trusts the site.
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Oct 29, 2010 at 4:48 UTC
I don't think that it would be a DNS problem. Somebody else may correct me later, but to the best of my knowledge Firefox uses the same DNS settings on the computer that IE does. So, if it was an issue with DNS I would think it would be present in both IE and Firefox not just IE.
It has however been my expierence that IE can be told to use a proxy in the connection settings of IE, and the proxy settings do not apply to Firefox. I see that when malware puts a proxy in IE that makes IE not work and Firefox still will.
I would not think it would be a proxy setting, but it could be so you could check that.
If Firefox is working and IE is not, I would probably start by look at IE's settings.
You might try adding the web hosting companie's website to IE's Trusted Sites. Hopefully they can trust their web hosting company not to run malicious code or give them viruses.
Another thing you could try is resetting IE to its default settings.
You also might try a computer outside of the network. If it has problems too maybe the site is just having some wierd problem that only affects IE.
Those are just some stabs in the dark.
If that does not work additional information that might be usefull is:
What OS are the end user machines running?
What version of IE are the computers running 8 or 7?
Have you tried running it on both 8 and 7? (Browser compatibility is getting kind of wierd these days)
Are these trouble computers joined to the new domain?
Are there any group policies that just went into effect on the machines?
Oct 29, 2010 at 4:50 UTC
If Firefox lets user to login and IE does not, it seems there is no issues your DNS or some kinda virus.
With earlier versions of Windows IE comes with a lot of security. Give a try to following and it might work
1) lower down the security of IE
2) turn on pop-up blocker
3) put the site in trusted zone
4) check if any additional plug-ins are required for accessing that particular site
Oct 29, 2010 at 5:08 UTC
BCS TechSource is an IT service provider.
Doesn't sound like a DNS error. Though, I still think your in house server should be your primary DNS server - just have it forward requests that are beyond it to the ISP's dns addresses - or use openDNS for free web filtering...
I would double check that all the browsers are up to date. It really sounds like a browser issue. Double check your settings and make sure IE trusts the site.
Oct 29, 2010 at 5:46 UTC
I agree with Andrew. If those computers are members of an active directory domain and the domain controller is not the primary DNS server you will probably run into other issues like unnecessarily long login times.
Nov 1, 2010 at 9:55 UTC
+1 for the IE settings fail, try dustins or sundrifts ideas
Nov 1, 2010 at 12:54 UTC
The IE settings is the best place to start, this does not sound like a DNS issue. It is odd though that changing DNS settings would cause it to work.
Nov 2, 2010 at 10:20 UTC
I would check for browser add-ons. Even some of the legit ones can cause problems. I had a similar problem a while back and traced it to the Google toolbar. So, try running IE with all add-ons disabled and see if that makes a difference.
Nov 5, 2010 at 10:52 UTC
Sorry for the long delay all, been migrating another server all week. I will be checking the IE Setting, Malware, & possibly some weird DNS stuff. I will be sure to post back with my results.
Nov 8, 2010 at 2:40 UTC
Ok I have scanned for malware nothing found, I have messed and tweeked every internet setting available. Any ideas?
Nov 9, 2010 at 7:12 UTC
Ok I've got it. There is some setting that is messed up and forcing the website to an HTTPS when its not. Well I logged into the website with Firefox and made a link directly to their webman panel. Which allows them access via IE. Thanks everyone for your help.
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Have You Ever Tried This Chocolate Cake?
Decorating By Wildgirl Updated 27 Aug 2011 , 6:35am by scp1127
It was on the pioneer woman's site - http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/06/the_best_chocol/
She says it's the best ever..... I hope so. I have the second half-sheet in the oven for another anniversary cake for Sunday. It better be good - I'm trying to figure out how I can get a good mouthful.... I don't normally do this without a taste test so I'm a little nervous.
Excellent cake - extremely popular - used widely ... Also known as a "Texas sheet cake" or "Chocolate Buttermilk cake"....
Lots of tweaks out there ...
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Who does this chick think she is kidding? Just look at the expression on her face, deep down she knows last night before the rally she took that shit like a champ from behind. Stupid people protest about stupid shit. It's America.
This poor bitch must have witnessed jgimages banging rareranking in the local park again.....
She didn't seem to mind when I was tearing that ass up, and then gave her a dirty sanchez
You know she really wants it
Yeah right....what woman doesn't like doggie??? She totally is thinking about it..look at that concentration in her eyes!!
I just noticed that they're saying no fag sex.... look at the sign close and you can see a little pecker on the receiver.......NO FAGS......LOL
After further inspection of picture the placard behind her head shows two men having doggie style sex so she mostly likely loves the cock from behind, just not a couple of homos having sex
Good call.... re-peat
That's right format197, it is a protest against gay sex, not doggy style. Yo guys at CrazyShit should look at what you are posting a little more carefully...
"What in The Mother Fucking' Blue Fuck" why?????
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the truckingman.
Definitely a gay sex protest.
Looks like she is looking for a place to spit out a mouthful of cum to me....Just saying...
nice catch, i didnt even see that shit on the sign, i knew her face wasn't that of an anti doggy style female. Protest on ladies, gay sex is WRONG!
its for a gay parade thing
Holy shit; that man on man sex profile is still around? My computer programing nerd friends cranked those out on an Apple 2e back in the 80's. Let it go people.
Tim S. I doubt you would see it if you were at the fucking Protest.....Somebodys ball sack would be in your eyes...you wouldn't see shit....
Its anti- gay sex rally, the person leaned over has a penis
Ok, MF" SHIT!!!! I Fucked Up right there. Please continue you MF' Protest!!!
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the truckingman.
I'd hit her.
thank god for these people who knows why
anybody notice the fag to the right covering his face and blushing? i think this might be what happens when fags get caught in church
it's Adam & Eve not Adam & Steve!!!
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I really wanna punch'em.I really wanna punch'em and then I wanna slap'em.
Lol @ the guy's facepalm in the back.
I'll wager $1000 that this bitch loves it in the ass hard as fuck.
One big black dick she will do anything on her knees after that
they r against fags look at the penis on the other board at the back, its the 1 fucking and the 1 gettin fucked!!!!
She is saying.."MMM i only fuck white guys...cause i have self respect!!!"
I think it's against gay people. Look at the sign, both the people have jeans on. They usually symbolize stick women with a triangle dress...


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Dating Mr. DarcyA Smart Girl's Guide to Sensible Romance
By Sarah Arthur
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.Copyright © 2005 Sarah Arthur
All right reserved.
Chapter OnePressure and Promiscuity
Our ball was rather more amusing than I expected.... The melancholy part was, to see so many dozen young women standing by without partners, and each of them with two ugly naked shoulders!
Jane Austen in a letter to her sister, Cassandra, December 9, 1808
The next time you're really bored on a Friday night, flip through the cable channels or the pages of a recent girl mag and count the belly buttons, bare legs, and cleavage. Seriously. Keep track on a piece of scrap paper: fifteen innies, twelve outies, thirty-six bare legs, eighteen thighs, twenty-four bosoms, etc. Any bare backs, bikini tops, or naked torsos with certain areas coyly covered? Add those too. Then divide the total by four and treat yourself to the same number of large scoops of caramel-latte-macadamia-nut-chunk ice cream. Go ahead: make yourself sick.
Despite the retro-preppie fashion movement, a quick survey of today's magazines, TV episodes, movies, and Super Bowl halftime shows proves that girls are exposing more skin than ever. What's that about? If we are supposedly so "liberated" compared to, say, when Jane Austen published Pride and Prejudice in 1813, why are we still tempted to offer our physical bodies as our greatest and only attribute?
Welcome to the Relationship Market, otherwise known by the more humane title of the Dating Game (though "game" still implies winners and losers). It's the public auction where single girls and guys advertise their (mostly physical) attributes in order to get the attention of the opposite sex.
Okay, so that's putting it rather bluntly. But you know exactly what's going on. And so did Jane Austen, our beloved authoress.
In fact, the pursuit of romantic attachments in the twenty-first century is eerily similar to what young people went through in Jane Austen's time. Singles in the dating "market" often have only brief, contrived opportunities to get to know each other and decide whether or not a person's character or personality fits theirs. Much like the young people of Regency England, we often congregate at "watering places" where other singles are likely to be and parade our best attributes in order to gain the attention of a potential partner.
And, as in Jane Austen's time, those of us who are respectable still dance the intricate dance of healthy relationships while the silly and selfish pursue paths that lead to pain for themselves and others. We girls may feel like we have more power than ever to choose for ourselves which guy to date or marry (or not), but to a large extent culture still dictates how to look, what to wear, what to say, and how to "advertise" ourselves to the opposite sex.
Yes, as much as it disturbs us, the metaphor of the "market" in reference to relationships is, unhappily, still current. This doesn't mean we like it. That any of us would put ourselves up for sale in any century is degrading to our sense of human dignity. To our disgust and annoyance, guys still respond to the female form, and girls still respond to guys' responses to the female form. And round and round it goes.
Perhaps that's why we girls are intuitively drawn to Jane Austen. The world's most famous writer of romantic comedy wrestled firsthand with the realities of the relationship market, though the stakes were arguably much higher back then (i.e., we're not likely to end up destitute in spinsterhood, dependent on the financial assistance of our older brothers).
While she was a young woman in her early twenties, Jane Austen met and flirted with a cute young Irishman by the name of Tom Lefroy, who, historians suspect, might have married her if she'd had any money (creep). Later Jane accepted a marriage proposal from a family friend, but then turned him down the next morning. Some biographers suggest that she refused yet another offer later on. By that time she was a novelist. We get the sense from her letters that her identity now rested in her ability, not her marketability. How many of us would have the self-awareness to do the same?
In the same way that we're intrigued by Jane Austen, we're also drawn to the character of Elizabeth Bennet. Like Lizzy, we don't want to play the "market" in any of its forms. We don't want to put our "wares" on display for the admiration of the Mr. Collinses or Mr. Wickhams in order to feel secure about our own body image, if not our future. We don't want to gear all our words and actions toward pleasing, intriguing, or enchanting every eligible bachelor who comes our way. Not only is the prospect exhausting, but it grates on our sense of dignity and self-respect. If guys can't deal with us as we are, then it can't be worth bothering about them, right?
Yeah! So there!
The problem is, we're wired by God to be in loving relationships with the opposite sex, which hopefully isn't a problem after we find those relationships. In the meantime, we long to be special in someone's eyes: to capture his attentions, win his affections, and make him feel lonely when we're not around. When an attractive single male enters the room, we pick up a signal somewhere in our relational radar that activates our marketing instincts, try as we might to override them. A sudden urge to smooth our hair, pick the lint off our skirt, and rub the lip gloss off our teeth takes us by force, and we find ourselves prisoner to our deepest insecurities. We know we shouldn't care that this Bingley or Darcy or whoever he is has just entered our field of vision. But we really wish we'd worn a different skirt.
Lizzy herself is only too human in this regard. While in agony as to whether or not Darcy still cared for her, "she followed him with her eyes, envied every one to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough to help anybody to coffee; and then was enraged against herself for being so silly!"
Phew. So we're not the only ones.
But Lizzy needn't worry. What Darcy has grown to appreciate most are her inner qualities, not the color of the dress she's wearing, though his initial reaction to her outward appearance at the Meryton Assembly is one of bored indifference. Silly boy! It takes Lizzy's lengthy visit to Netherfield during Jane's illness for him to begin to admit that not only is Elizabeth Bennet attractive in her own right, but she holds an unexpected fascination for him, largely because she isn't conscious of her looks and refuses to play games. (Of course, when compared to the sly tactics of Miss Bingley or the wild flirtations of Lydia, any girl looks modest.)
This doesn't mean Lizzy is meek and unassuming, however. Once she gets past her initial intimidation, she engages Darcy in verbal sparring that has the unintentional consequence of making him fall head over heels in love with her. "Now be sincere," she teases him after they get engaged; "did you admire me for my impertinence?" And he replies, "For the liveliness of your mind, I did." Mmm. A guy who falls for us because of our wit and intelligence? Yum.
Yet when this unconscious bewitchment first begins, Darcy is alarmed. He quickly reverts back to assessing Elizabeth Bennet's outward traits in order to keep himself "safe" from her intriguing inner qualities. As Austen writes, "Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger." In other words, he thinks to himself, Okay, so she's smart. And pretty. But what about her obnoxious family and friends? Dude, don't go there.
At first this strikes us as extremely snobby, and of course it is. But part of what's going on is Darcy's acknowledgment that our family and friends play a large role in who we really are. In fact, our connections form a major part of our identity and eventually influence our romantic attachments, whether we like it or not. Our connections become his connections too, even when we're just dating. Darcy understands this principle to some extent, though he makes the mistake of seeing Lizzy's family and friends themselves as points against her rather than looking at her character in light of those relations. Had he inspected further, he would have seen a girl doing her best to be a wise and patient daughter, a caring sister, a faithful friend, and a respected young woman in the community.
He also would have seen a girl of faith and moral conviction, someone who acknowledges there is a higher rule or law that guides our speech and actions in all of our relationships. This moral law says we are responsible for the pain others experience as a result of our selfish words and actions. We will deal with the consequences someday, if not in this lifetime then certainly when we stand face-to-face with God. We are accountable to God for the way our romantic relationships might hurt those who love us best-something Lydia, for example, fails to grasp and Wickham chooses to ignore.
But Darcy at first decides not to probe too deeply into Lizzy's character as a daughter, sister, friend, and person of faith. He prefers to keep his distance. And Lizzy treats him with the same dismissive attitude. Judging a guy's character without taking into account his family background, the quality of his friendships, and the strength of his moral convictions is a dangerous business.
Very dangerous. When it comes to guys like Wickham, a girl's got to have her Creep Detection System fully functioning. Unfortunately, Lizzy is just as blinded at first by Wickham's outward appearance of goodness as she is by Darcy's outward appearance of smug arrogance. Because Wickham is cute and friendly, she easily falls for his half-truths and outright lies about Mr. Darcy. Even when Lizzy's sister Jane questions how Darcy could get away with such awful behavior, Lizzy insists that Wickham couldn't have made up the story. "Besides," she says, "there was truth in his looks."
Eek! Lizzy is the last person we'd expect to win the prize for Most Gullible. If she falls for the resident hunk, what does that mean for the rest of us?
We're toast, that's what it means. All of us will get burned at some point or another. That's because we're created to find certain facial features, mannerisms, and body types attractive, and we often find ourselves attracted to a guy on the basis of those characteristics before our brain has time to kick in. This isn't necessarily a bad thing every time. As you've no doubt been told a million times, physical attraction is a God-given gift that all healthy couples enjoy. You don't want to make a commitment to someone you have no attraction for, or your disinterest could quickly turn to repulsion (think Charlotte Lucas). But you also don't want to make an emotional attachment to a guy on the basis of his stunning profile alone. Or the way he looks in that button-down Oxford. Or the cute little dimple in his chin. Or the ...
Right. Get ahold of yourself. This is where the sensible side of you is supposed to kick in.
As Lizzy discovers after reading Darcy's letter of explanation, it's far too easy to let your emotions lead you off track in your assessment of someone. "Pleased with the preference of one," she chastises herself, "and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned." She reviews the attributes of Wickham's character and realizes she's been deceived, while Darcy has in fact been the best sort of guy all along: an esteemed friend, an affectionate brother, and someone with strong moral values. Eventually she comes to realize that he's exactly the sort of guy with whom she could make a serious commitment for life.
"Whoa," you're saying right about now. "Who said anything about serious commitment? I just want to have fun here. Give me Wickham any day rather than a boring weekend at home babysitting my little brother." Point well taken. Marriage may be a long way off, and there's plenty of time to play the Dating Game for a while before getting really serious.... And yet, like Lydia Bennet, perhaps we should take everything a bit more seriously after all. Not because we're going to be married by the time senior prom or even grad school rolls around, but because all the habits we form in our dating relationships become the (often shaky) foundation on which our marriages are built down the road. Yep, it's never too soon to consider whether those habits are good or bad, healthy or unhealthy, just as we need to pay attention to the food we eat and the grades we get in school. Everything we do now has consequences later, and that's true in romance too.
So let's say Mr. Darcy has entered the ballroom of your life, whether as a date or a prospect. As Lizzy can tell you, beware the "Love Nest Syndrome," where no one except your Number One Crush is invited to be part of your life anymore. That's exactly what Darcy himself wants to create with Lizzy in his first marriage proposal. He tells her, in so many words, "I want you so badly, I'm determined to ignore my family, my friends, and my moral principles in order to have you."
Now, for a fleeting moment that sounds horribly romantic: "He's going to throw all that away for me? Because he loves me?" But Elizabeth is sensible enough to see the audacity of his words. She recognizes instantly that it's impossible to ignore those other factors when it comes to romance. We simply can't pretend our family, friends, and faith don't exist. They are at the core of who we are.
It's far too easy to think of dating Mr. Darcy as this bubble that protects and secludes you from all other relationships. Sure, your family and friends are important, but sometimes you'd like to change your name and zip code and start over. The truth is, as Jane Austen so eloquently expressed, those relationships-as well as your faith commitments-are ground zero for your romantic attachments. This is the arena in which your character is tested, tried, perfected, and strengthened.
So the question of gauging a guy's DP is bigger than simply figuring out his favorite Slurpee flavor or ideal movie. It's more than merely assessing what you think you know about his virtues and vices. What reality TV fails to show is that a guy's character is primarily shaped by his other relationships, and if you're clueless about who this guy is in the context of his family, friends, and faith, you're clueless about who he is, period.
Not only that, but you need to consider how well you know yourself in all of those areas too.
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Anyway, my version of "Arabia" is slightly old-fashioned, as I think that would be more interesting than the modernized version of Arabic culture. The line between Arabic and Indian tradition is thin, and hopefully I'll be able to walk along that line without stepping over it.
As usual, the storylines and season events are a little messed up, but it shouldn't be enough to get anyone too confused.
Anyway, the pairings are going to be quite interesting, but I'm not revealing them just yet. You'll just have to read and see, people.
And as always, reviews are very welcome but not demanded. I'll write more of this whether anyone else approves or not – at least until my inspiration runs out. But I really do love opinions, so fire at will.
Of Capture and Holidays
Sahara Desert,
Eastern Arabia: Midnight
The sand dunes rolled alongside and behind and beyond each other, rippling on in endless waves of sand rarely stirred by wind or movement. They looked glassy through the heat haze that pervaded the desert even during the night, their golden monotonousness broken only by the occasional shriveled bush or dead twig.
Spike hated the sand. He hated the heat as well, but he hated the sand even more. Such a bloody endless dullness, he though vindictively, glaring at the sand dunes as if he were waiting for them to burst into flames. This was probably what Hell was like, he had reflected on more than one occasion. Insufferable, choking heat, coarse sand everywhere and not a single living being in sight: heck, all it needed was a few small red demons with pointy tails, and he'd have the real thing.
Spike had to struggle to keep himself going through the sand. He had been wandering for days now, taking shelter from the sun where he could, getting hold of whatever little animal he could find and draining it so that he could survive. The animals' blood was usually sour and weak, but Spike didn't have much of a choice – and even if he had been able to find a living human to feed off, he would never have been able to drain it in peace.
Spike didn't know very much about souls. He had lost his own a long, long time ago, and hadn't exactly missed it - especially when being a soulless, vicious demon was oh so much more fun.
But he knew now that something very strange, very alien and very unwelcome had found its way into his being. It made him feel guilty every time he even thought of drinking from a human, and somehow it tried to block out all his memories of his time as a vampire with Angelus, Darla and Drusilla.
Spike knew that somehow, he had acquired a conscience.
And with it, a soul.
He had been furious about it the first few days, but finally the weariness had settled in and he had grown too tired and hungry to care. Soul or no soul, I'd drain anything I could get my bloomin' hands on right now. But the thought wasn't a very optimistic one: nor did Spike have any real hope that he'd be able to get hold of anything to drink from. He had wandered too far into the desert, and he was convinced he wasn't getting back out. There wasn't even anything in sight for him to hide under, which meant he would have no protection from the sun when it rose. In other words, I'll be fried in a few hours.
But for the moment, the sky was still a velvety ink blue, smatter faintly with stars and crowned with a silver crescent moon, glowing against the deep darkness of the sky. Spike was still relatively safe from the threat of sunlight, but far too weary to drag his boots through the sand any longer. Soon, even his undead body grew too tired to move and he sank to the sand, giving in to the powerful feeling of hopelessness that suddenly washed over him.
I'm never getting out of this damned desert… He thought bitterly. Never getting out… Never…
Spike was asleep before he knew it, stretched out on the sand that had been warmed by the sun.
He slept so deeply, indeed, that he failed to see the trail of mounted camels making their way towards him: and in doing so, he failed to notice himself being borne away by the riders of the camels.
Spike never noticed himself being kidnapped.
~ ¤ ~
Shajrah Abdul Muntaz stared at the captive lying immobile on the carpet-covered marble floor, and a pleasant smile lifted the corners of her mouth. "An undead. How fitting."
The nearest guard salaamed with an incline of his dark turbaned head. "We found him in the desert, sahiba," he rasped. "He would have wasted in the sun had we come an hour or two later."
Shajrah gestured at them graciously. "Yes, well, that will be all." The guards salaamed and shuffled out of the room, and Shajrah was left alone with four young girls: formerly her nieces, and now her handmaidens and apprentices in the magickal arts. They all wore the same silk robes and veils, one in dark violet, one in golden yellow, one in deep crimson and one in forest-green.
Shajrah gestured at the violet-clad female: "Miriam, take the captive to be bathed. I have prepared the ceremonial robes he is to wear, and I leave it to the four of you to have him decently clad by noon tomorrow." She reached into her own richly brocaded robes and brought out a small phial of clear, glittering liquid. "Give him this. It will render him unconscious while the preparations are being made."
The one she had called Miriam gracefully clasped her hands in respect to her mistress before taking the phial from Shajrah in her delicate fingers and calling on the guards to carry their charge into the bathing chambers.
The bathing chambers were built of spotless, luxurious white marble, with deep, large pools carved into platforms, serving as bathtubs. Surrounding the bathing pools were several bottles of richly fragranced perfumed oils and creams: only Shajrah and her chosen ever used the extravagant bathing chambers, as all others were banned from them.
But, despite this, the handmaidens did not envy those who Shajrah allowed to use the bathing chambers. For they were, as all knew, only sacrifices for the next great ritual – and in this case, an undead was going to be sacrificed, indicating a more important ritual than usual.
The handmaidens worked carefully, soaping and brushing and rubbing in cream gently with their fingertips – as the closest servants to Shajrah, they often prepared the captives, and now did it automatically, not even stopping to survey the one they bathed so meticulously.
When their task was completed, the ceremonial robes were brought forth and draped on the unsuspecting - and unconscious – sacrifice, and he was taken to what was called the Chamber of Awakening. It was here the sacrifices awoke after their initial slumber, and it was here they spent their last three days of life before the day of the ritual they were to take part in.
And, ultimately, the ritual they were to die in.
~ ¤ ~
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"No," Angel said, flatly and without a moment's hesitation.
"But the evidence is right here, Angel." Wesley tapped the large, faded tome on the table, and little wisps of dust rose from the cover.
"How many times, Wesley? How many times have we stumbled on some prophecy or other and found it to be a complete hoax?" Angel asked, getting irritated. "I'm tired of being tricked by fake stories and legends."
Wesley knew he was referring to the prophecy about Connor, and he was glad the boy wasn't in the room to hear the conversation. "But it isn't a fake."
"And how do you know that?"
Wesley drew out a couple of loose sheets from inside the tome, and, unlike the yellowed pages of the old book, the sheets he drew out where crisp white A4 printing papers. He held them out to Angel, who took them reluctantly. On the papers were printed photographs of an elaborately carved scepter. The photographs were dim, but Angel could just make out a round sphere-like structure – a gem or stone of some kind – worked into the carvings of the scepter. He looked up to find Wesley watching him expectantly, but he all he could do was shrug. "So?"
Now it was Wesley's turn to get irritated. "That," he said, pointing at the papers, "is the Scepter of Osiris." Obviously he expected some kind of reaction, but Angel continued to watch him blankly. "Yes, and…?"
Wesley gave an irritated sigh. "The Scepter of Osiris grants a wish to anybody who holds it," he explained patiently. "It can bend the very fabric of reality to do its master's bidding, making the holder of the Scepter almost all-powerful. It is only activated once every -" Wesley glanced at the papers "- six hundred and seventy six years, and -"
"Let me guess. It's about to be activated this year, very soon – say, in a week - by some lucky chance of fate?" Angel's voice was loaded with sarcasm. "And of course, we just found this out today, which is yet another lucky coincidence…"
"Actually, no," Wesley said, sounding faintly amused. "I've been keeping track of the Scepter for about seven years now."
Angel didn't really have anything to say to that. "Oh. So, if it's so all-powerful, why don't you just use the scepter for yourself?" He made it sound like a casual suggestion, not an accusation.
Wesley shook his head. "First of all, it doesn't accept mortal masters, and second of all, quite frankly, I think you need it more than I do. We've been trying to anchor your soul for a long time now, and this could be the solution to the curse."
Angel nodded pensively. "And it only gives one wish? No wishing for more wishes?"
Wesley cracked a smile. "No, one wish and one wish only, as far as I know." He paused. "Although…"
"Yes?" Angel waited. With Wesley, information just couldn't be hurried. "Well, there are no limitations on how long that wish can be, as far as the legend goes. If you could mesh several wishes into one sentence, maybe it could pass for a whole wish."
"And this scepter – where do we find it?"
"Egypt," Wesley answered promptly. "Or, more specifically, Alexandria."
"I was in Alexandria, once. Summer of eighteen forty-two. Not a pretty picture."
Wesley shrugged. "Times have changed. Now I hear Alexandria is considered a splendid holiday destination."
"I haven't taken a holiday in a long time," Angel commented, for no reason in particular.
"Yes, well, you're not about to, either. The scepter will be extremely hard to locate, and you won't be the only one looking for it."
"So, I'm thinking backup," Angel said. Wesley nodded in agreement. "Exactly what I had in mind. Fred and Gunn will need to be here to look after Connor, and Cordelia…"
But Angel held up a hand. "I know. Still recovering from her return." Cordelia had only recently been brought back to Earth by the Powers That Be, and was still weakened from crossing the lines of time and space. "So, that leaves just you and me."
Wesley cleared his throat, looking slightly embarrassed. "Actually, I'm not… Not very fond of traveling, truth be told." When Angel arched an eyebrow, he explained, "I have rather an extreme fear of heights. Alexandria would not do my health very good."
Angel looked thoughtful. "Didn't you say Buffy was in town?" His tone was as offhand as he could make it, but Wesley wasn't fooled easily.
"Yes – visiting her father, I've heard. Why?" Wesley was feigning ignorance, hiding the amused look on his face by pretending to read the papers.
"No reason," Angel hesitated. "I just thought that maybe…" He trailed off half-wistfully.
"She could accompany you?" Wesley filled in crisply. "That would probably be a good idea – Slayer strength would come in handy on a mission like this."
Angel half-nodded and turned abruptly to the phone. Fishing out a piece of paper from a pocket in his duster, he located "Buffy, LA" from a list of phone numbers and punched in the digits.
"You have the number?" Wesley asked, surprised. "After all this time?"
"I like keeping things like that. They come in handy," Angel replied, listening to the phone ringing against his ear: once, twice –
~ ¤ ~
"Hello?" Dawn reached the phone a second before Buffy did and yanked it up, sticking out her tongue triumphantly at her sister.
"Yes, hello?" Angel didn't recognize the voice on the other end. "Is this Hank Summers' place?"
"Yeah, that's my dad," Dawn informed him. Then she listened more carefully, suddenly recognizing the voice. "Angel! Is that you?"
"Dawn?" Angel sounded relieved. "Can I please speak to Buffy? It's important."
"Bu-ffy," Dawn chimed, "someone wants to speak to you. He says it's important."
"He?" Buffy mouthed, "he who?" But Dawn just shrugged, a secretive glitter in her eyes, and skipped off into the kitchen. Buffy tucked back her honey-blond hair, thoroughly mystified. "Yeah, hello?"
"Buffy. Hi. It's Angel." For a moment or two, all Angel received was silence. Buffy actually caught her breath at the sound of his voice.
"Angel," she muttered finally, in half-disbelief, "hi." She paused. "What's up?"
Explanations were long and tedious, but Angel cut his as short as possible. Buffy listened patiently, taking down notes on a nearby pad. They discussed on and off between them, deciding on a traveling date and making lists of necessary requirements and safety measures – including ensuring that all traveling would be done by night, for the sake of Angel's safety.
When they had formed a solid plan – after a time span of nearly an hour – they were both equally reluctant to hang up, although they didn't let it on to each other.
After Buffy had put down the phone, Dawn sauntered into the room, holding an iced Popsicle. "I got the last one," she told her sister, showing off the deep red raspberry color. She knew raspberry was Buffy's favorite flavor, and she deliberately sucked off a large piece, chewing it loudly.
But, to her surprise, all her older sister did was grin. "Okay, so we're even. You get the last Popsicle, and I get a trip to Egypt."
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-- which often lead to their collapse.
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from marrying a second time. According to media reports, the commission may
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The 35-year-old Dellucci hit .275 with one RBI in 14 RBIs this year for the Cleveland Indians, who released him June 1. Toronto signed him to a minor league contract nine days later. He batted .317 in 16 games at Las Vegas with three homers and nine RBIs.
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Last Month at the Federal Circuit - October 2001
Judges: Michel (author), Mayer, and Newman (concurring)
In Loral Fairchild Corp. v. Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., No. 00-1487 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 21, 2001), the Federal Circuit reversed a SJ of invalidity of claim 1 of U.S. Patent No. 3,931,674 ("the '674 patent") and remanded for further proceedings.
The '674 patent concerns a process for manufacturing a charge-coupled device ("CCD"). This case continues what has been more than a decade of litigation between Loral Fairchild Corporation ("Loral") and numerous Japanese electronics manufacturers and their U.S. subsidiaries, in which Circuit Judge Rader has been sitting by designation since 1995. In another decision, the Federal Circuit has recited the procedural history and affirmed a JMOL that Sony Corporation and its U.S. subsidiary did not infringe the '674 patent. Loral Fairchild Corp. v. Victor Co. of Japan, 181 F.3d 1313 (Fed. Cir. 1999). Loral then maintained its action against the only remaining manufacturing Defendants that it believed were literally infringing the '674 patent, Toshiba and NEC.
The district court, after a two-day hearing concerning motions for SJ of invalidity, found claim 1 of the '674 patent invalid based on a prior publication ("the Erb reference"). Although the Erb reference had been used at the Sony trial, it did not form a basis for the holdings in that case, and in this case, the district court had allowed the parties to both submit new evidence and rely upon the evidence submitted during the Sony trial.
Loral submitted evidence that the inventor of the '674 patent, Dr. Gilbert Amelio, had conceived the invention and actually reduced it to practice prior to the publication of the Erb reference. Dr. Amelio's prior conception is not disputed. However, the critical question is whether Loral's evidence was sufficient to raise a genuine issue as to whether Dr. Amelio had actually reduced the invention to practice prior to the publication of the Erb reference on December 3, 1973.
In the present case, Dr. Amelio submitted an affidavit executed in April 2000 in which he states that the invention was reduced to practice shortly after September 14, 1973, but no later than mid-October 1973—when Loral had initial production quality devices. The district court had concluded that Dr. Amelio's affidavit asserted only that he was working on a reduction to practice in June 1973 through mid- March 1974.
The Federal Circuit reversed, highlighting Dr. Amelio's specific statement that by September 14, 1973, Fairchild had produced working devices and established that the '674 patent process would work for its intended purpose. The Court ruled that a district court may not assess the credibility of testimony when granting SJ. Thus, because the Amelio affidavit asserts a reduction to practice prior to publication of the Erb reference, the only issue becomes whether Loral submitted independent evidence sufficient to collaborate this assertion.
Loral pointed to evidence from the Sony trial to collaborate Dr. Amelio's testimony. Specifically, Dr. David Wen had testified that Loral received masks necessary to practice the invention on or about September 14, 1973, the date stamped on the masks. Loral also pointed to a proposal to the U.S. Air Force as evidence showing that the claimed process was already showing reliable performance and high yield in November 1973.
The Federal Circuit ruled that the district court's insistence upon documentary evidence to corroborate test results of the alleged reduction to practice was erroneous as a matter of law. Under the "rule of reason," the Court explained, the inventor's testimony must be sufficiently corroborated by independent evidence, but not necessarily documentary evidence. Having found the grant of SJ improper, the Federal Circuit declined to rule on the correctness of the district court's conclusion concerning obviousness based on the Erb reference and remanded for further proceedings.
Judge Newman concurred, but wrote separately to explain why the majority's opinion was not new law with respect to the requirements for antedating a publication. Judge Newman explained that the evidentiary standard for antedating a reference is not the same as the PTO requirement for establishing priority in an interference contest.


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The Washington Post's descent into the depths of neoconservative propaganda –willfully misleading its readers on matters of grave importance– apparently knows no bounds as was demonstrated with two deceptive articles regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin and why his government is cracking down on "foreign agents".
If you read the Post's editorial (1) on Wednesday and a companion op-ed (2) by National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman, you would have been led to believe that Putin is delusional, paranoid and "power mad" in his concern that outside money funneled into non-governmental organizations represents a threat to Russian sovereignty.
The Post and Gershman were especially outraged that the Russians have enacted laws requiring NGOs financed from abroad and seeking to influence Russian policies to register as "foreign agents" –and that one of the first funding operations to fall prey to these tightened rules was Gershman's NED.
The Post's editors wrote that Putin's "latest move, announced Tuesday, is to declare the NED an "undesirable" organization under the terms of a law that Mr. Putin signed in May. The law bans groups from abroad who are deemed a "threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation, its defense capabilities and its national security".
The charge against the NED is patently ridiculous. The NED's grantees in Russia last year (3) ran the gamut of civil society. They advocated transparency in public affairs, fought corruption and promoted human rights, freedom of information and freedom of association, among other things. All these activities make for a healthy democracy but are seen as threatening from the Kremlin's ramparts. …
The new law on "undesirables" comes in addition to one signed in 2012 (4) that gave authorities the power to declare organizations "foreign agents" (5) if they engaged in any kind of politics and receive money from abroad. The designation, from the Stalin era, implies espionage".
But there are several salient facts that the Post's editors surely know but don't want you to know. The first is that NED is a U.S. government-funded organization created in 1983 to do what the Central Intelligence Agency previously had done in financing organizations inside target countries to advance U.S. policy interests and, if needed, help in "regime change".
The secret hand behind NED's creation was CIA Director William J. Casey who worked with senior CIA covert operation specialist Walter Raymond Jr. to establish NED in 1983. Casey –from the CIA– and Raymond –from his assignment inside President Ronald Reagan's National Security Council– focused on creating a funding mechanism to support groups inside foreign countries that would engage in propaganda and political action that the CIA had historically organized and paid for covertly. To partially replace that CIA role, the idea emerged for a congressionally funded entity that would serve as a conduit for this money.
But Casey recognized the need to hide the strings being pulled by the CIA. "Obviously we here [at CIA] should not get out front in the development of such an organization, nor should we appear to be a sponsor or advocate", Casey said in one undated letter (6) to then-White House counselor Edwin Meese III –as Casey urged creation of a "National Endowment".
The National Endowment for Democracy took shape in late 1983 as Congress decided to also set aside pots of money —within NED— for the Republican and Democratic parties and for organized labor, creating enough bipartisan largesse that passage was assured. But some in Congress thought it was important to wall the NED off from any association with the CIA, so a provision was included to bar the participation of any current or former CIA official, according to one congressional aide who helped write the legislation.
This aide told me that one night late in the 1983 session, as the bill was about to go to the House floor, the CIA's congressional liaison came pounding at the door to the office of Rep. Dante Fascell, a senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a chief sponsor of the bill. The frantic CIA official conveyed a single message from CIA Director Casey : the language barring the participation of CIA personnel must be struck from the bill, the aide recalled, noting that Fascell consented, not fully recognizing the significance of the demand.
The aide said Fascell also consented to the Reagan administration's choice of Carl Gershman to head the National Endowment for Democracy, again not recognizing how this decision would affect the future of the new entity and American foreign policy. Gershman, who had followed the classic neoconservative path from youthful socialism to fierce anticommunism, became NED's first (and, to this day, only) president.
Though NED is technically independent of U.S. foreign policy, Gershman in the early years coordinated decisions on grants with Raymond at the NSC. For instance, on Jan. 2, 1985, Raymond wrote (7) to two NSC Asian experts that "Carl Gershman has called concerning a possible grant to the Chinese Alliance for Democracy (CAD). I am concerned about the political dimension to this request. We should not find ourselves in a position where we have to respond to pressure, but this request poses a real problem to Carl".
Currently, Gershman's NED dispenses more than $100 million a year in U.S. government funds to various NGOs, media outlets and activists around the world. The NED also has found itself in the middle of political destabilization campaigns against governments that have gotten on the wrong side of U.S. foreign policy. For instance, prior to the February 2014 coup in Ukraine, overthrowing elected President Viktor Yanukovych and installing an anti-Russian regime in Kiev, NED was funding scores of projects.
A second point left out of the Post's editorial was the fact that Gershman took a personal hand in the Ukraine crisis and recognized it as an interim step toward regime change in Moscow. On Sept. 26, 2013, Gershman published an op-ed in the Washington Post that called (8) Ukraine "the biggest prize" and explained how pulling it into the Western camp could contribute to the ultimate defeat of Russian President Putin.
"Ukraine's choice to join Europe will accelerate the demise of the ideology of Russian imperialism that Putin represents", Gershman wrote. "Russians, too, face a choice, and Putin may find himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself". In other words, NED is a U.S. government-financed entity that has set its sights on ousting Russia's current government.
A third point that the Post ignored is that the Russian law requiring outside-funded political organizations to register as "foreign agents" was modeled on a U.S. law, the Foreign Agent Registration Act. In other words, the U.S. government also requires individuals and entities working for foreign interests and seeking to influence U.S. policies to disclose those relationships with the U.S. Justice Department or face prison.
If the Post's editors had included any or all of these three relevant factors, you would have come away with a more balanced understanding of why Russia is acting as it is. You might still object but at least you would be aware of the full story. By concealing all three points, the Post's editors were tricking you and other readers into accepting a propagandistic viewpoint –that the Russian actions were crazy and that Putin was, according to the Post's headline, "power mad".
But you might think that Gershman would at least acknowledge some of these points in his Post op-ed, surely admitting that NED is financed by the U.S. government. But Gershman didn't. He simply portrayed Russia's actions as despicable and desperate.
"Russia's newest anti-NGO law, under which the National Endowment for Democracy on Tuesday was declared an "undesirable organization" (9) prohibited from operating in Russia, is the latest evidence that the regime of President Vladimir Putin faces a worsening crisis of political legitimacy", Gershman wrote, adding : "This is the context in which Russia has passed the law prohibiting Russian democrats from getting any international assistance to promote freedom of expression, the rule of law and a democratic political system. Significantly, democrats have not backed down. They have not been deterred by the criminal penalties contained in the "foreign agents" law and other repressive laws. They know that these laws contradict international law, which allows for such aid, and that the laws are meant to block a better future for Russia".
The reference to how a "foreign agents" registration law conflicts with international law might have been a good place for Gershman to explain why what is good for the goose in the United States isn't good for the gander in Russia. But hypocrisy is a hard thing to rationalize and would have undermined the propagandistic impact of the op-ed.
So would an acknowledgement of where NED's money comes from. How many governments would allow a hostile foreign power to sponsor politicians and civic organizations whose mission is to undermine and overthrow the existing government and put in someone who would be compliant to that foreign power ?
Not surprisingly, Gershman couldn't find the space to include any balance in his op-ed –and the Post's editors didn't insist on any.
Robert PARRY
Notes :
(1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/vladimir-putin-is-suffocating-his-own-nation/2015/07/28/3b27ae8e-3562-11e5-adf6-7227f3b7b338_story.html
(2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/putins-fear-of-civil-society/2015/07/28/3d873d0a-3569-11e5-8e66-07b4603ec92a_story.html
(3) http://www.ned.org/region/eurasia/russia-2014/
(4) http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/21/us-russia-putin-ngos-idUSBRE86K05M20120721
(5) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mr-putin-tightens-the-screws/2012/07/07/gJQA5VZbUW_story.html
(6) https://consortiumnews.com/webdocs/casey-meese.pdf?55ac53&55ac53
(7) https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/gershman-china.pdf?55ac53&55ac53
(8) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/former-soviet-states-stand-up-to-russia-will-the-us/2013/09/26/b5ad2be4-246a-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html
(9) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/28/national-endowment-for-democracy-banned-russia


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