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|Sorcerer Thralls
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|Soul Reaver 2 (2001)
|Pre-Blood Omen era, Post-Blood Omen era
|Dark Forge (SR2), Light Forge (SR2), Air Forge (SR2)
|'spit' fireballs, fast moving, can retreat underground
|weak enemies
|Material Realm
Sorcerer Thralls were a Thrall variant enemy featured in Soul Reaver 2. They were Undead warriors who guarded Nosgoth's ancient shrines
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Sorcerer Thralls were the weakest of the Thrall variant enemies seen in Soul Reaver 2. As with other thrall variants, Sorcerer Thralls were undead warriors, re-animated and tasked with eternally protecting the sacred places of the Ancient vampires against intrusion, rising from underground to confront Raziel as he approached[1][2].[3] Visually, Sorcerer Thralls were green-skinned, heavily decaying humanoids. They wore a golden helmet and shoulder pads with gloves and a short red kilt[SR2].
Sorcerer Thralls were the ranged attackers of the Thrall variants. In combat they would remain at a distance and 'spit' magical fireballs at Raziel from long-range to assist their allies. When approached, Sorcerer Thralls would attempt to flee or retreat back underground; but they would attack with their claws if cornered. Sorcerer Thralls were physically weak enemies; able to absorb little damage and with weak melee attacks (though repeated fireballs could cause major damage)[SR2][1][2].[3]
Because of their role, Sorcerer Thralls were only seen in the shrines and forges sacred to the Ancient vampires. They were first encountered in the Dark Forge in the Pre-Blood Omen era and were later seen in the Light Forge. Sorcerer Thralls would again be encountered in the Air Forge in the Post-Blood Omen era[SR2][2].
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- Sorcerer thralls are referred to simply as "thrall" in the files of Soul Reaver 2[SR2].
- The long range 'fireball spit' attack used by the Sorcerer thralls notably resembles the Grave Spit attack used by the Human revenants in Legacy of Kain: Defiance[SR2][DEF][4].
- Thralls are noted as "undead warriors" who are "charged to eternally guard Nosgoth's ancient shrines"[1][2] but the method of their re-animation is not elaborated. Given the places they guard, it would seem likely that the Thralls were Ancient vampire creations, though the thralls themselves, although humanoid, do not visually appear to be Ancient Vampire remains[SR2]. In Legacy of Kain: Defiance, similar Ancient Vampire locations would be protected by Feral Humans and the similarly 'animated' statues Vampire Golems and Guardian Constructs [DEF][4].
- Historically, Thralls were slaves in the Viking age of Scandinavia (and the root of the word "enthrall").
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Soul Reaver 2 manual. Crystal Dynamics. (Eidos Interactive). (October 31, 2001) Download.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Prima Games / Demian Linn and David Hodgson. Prima's Official Soul Reaver 2 Guide. (2001)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bestiary: GameFAQs. Soul Reaver 2 FAQ/Walkthrough/Soul Reaver 2|Online (by Celtic Wolf).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Prima Games / JDP and Gerald Guess. Prima's Official Legacy of Kain: Defiance Guide. (2003)


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When the sun rises Quilate and Keribrar begin the day by fixing up the shop they are currently living in. The Veridian Vault is still in need of constant repair. It doesn't help that Keribrar is almost never in the shop. They have plans to visit the buried city beneath Fountainhead. Lady Anne Mowbry comes down later after dressing herself for the day.
Thorne is in his room at the Watchers' House with Seirian waiting for her to wake. When she does he begins asking her questions – and he has many questions, but he has answers as well. She seems to have lost significant portions of her memory so Thorne fills her in on what happened. The last thing she clearly remembers is escorting Father Karl to the ruins beneath the city. He takes her to the Veridian Vault to meet with the others.
Hafwyn stretches in the morning sun. She spent the night outside the city hunting. Checking her snares in the morning yields two rabbits and an ocelot. She lets the fellow hunter go, but the rabbits are fat and look tasty. She has grown to dislike Fountainhead, but until things improve she is still drawn there. So many people packed together it is a wonder they haven't killed each other yet. So goes to the Veridian Vault to share this morning's bounty.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."Faulkner
At the Veridian Vault everyone has questions for Seirian as she has been here longer than the rest and spend much of that time in the Shadowdark. When pressed she remembers the shackles and parts of his workshop. There is a even a temple there where Duerte would commune with spirits of the Everdark.
From her time before reaching the city she remembers more, but even that seems disjointed. A god worshiped by the goblins of the Hutai Tribe called Wǎk lives in the Blackthorn Mountains. It is said that he plays three drums to keep a great darkness beneath the mountain asleep. She remembers visiting the city of Dahgweta and the Sunna that live there.
While she is talking Keribrar notices that his house begins to smoulder, starting with the wall facing the street. He rushes outside, followed by the others, and finds Warden walking past with four members of the Rover Gang. The Ash Hunter's hounds have a harness connected to a body they are dragging.
The gang has been killing trespassers, which probably accounts for the lack of customers. The other gangs have been trying to push into their territory and Gorrick has decided to end them. He struck a bargain with Warden to seal off the border between the Blackhouse and the rest of the city. The kids know the caves well enough to pass under this barrier, but few people brave the dangers under the city. Warden tells them he is building a pile of ash and then bringing some predators from his lands to live in them.
While they are talking to Warden and he is standing outside their house they notice to late the smouldering has burst into a fire. Keribrar, Quilate, and Lady Anne rush in to save as much of their belongings as possible. In the process Quilate tries to steal one of the orbs, but Keribrar catches him. With the building a complete loss and this neighborhood a complete loss soon to be sealed they decided to settle elsewhere.
Caves of Chaos
Land of Techiuan
It is decided to take Seirian to see Father Karl. The good father has remained upon the land blessed by the miracle of the reforging of the Cup Everflowing. In the mud they find people have raised tents and pavilions. Tradesmen like lumberers, charcoalers, weavers, brick-makers have set aside space for their craft. Each of them are using the water from the Cup Everflowing when possible. The followers have set the cup upon a large log of wood surrounded by empty barrels to catch the water. Even with that precaution the land is still squishy with mud and the air is thick with smoke.
Father Karl greets them along with Benevenuta. He wants to show them what they have accomplished since last night. Anne stops at the edge of the rock, afraid to go any further, while the others proceed. When the others feet touch the earth they disappear from Anne's sight, but Father Karl and Seirian act as if they are still following him. She cannot even sense them through her bond. Worried about losing them Anne steps forward. It is like crawling through mud for her, but eventually she staggers out dense underbrush and into a small clearing.
The others have been in the clearing for several minutes and have already scouted the area. The trees are massive reaching nearly four hundred feet in the air. Quilate had flown to the top and looked around spotting a small settlement under a mile away consisting of five buildings and a familiar stone temple. Hafwyn discovered the trees are cold to the touch and have moss growing along all sides of the trunk. It is possible this is the fae lands, but if so Thorne has not been here.
Aegrin's Village
Quilate guides everyone to the temple, but when they get there the scene is very different. The surrounding houses have been burned and thirty-seven grave markers have been placed at the head of a massive grave. An elf is sleeping on the stone bench in front of the temple, a shovel leaning against him. His feet and hands are caked in mud.
Just as they are going to leave the treeline a procession of humans chanting enters from the far side. A man with a black iron staff leads the procession. A dark red flame flickers just above the tip of the stave. The four humans behind him are chanting in time with the two in front holding large scrolls being read by the pair in back. A sixth man has stripped to the waist, revealing extensive tattoos, and carrying a dagger.
Thorne rushes out and tries to walk the elf, but he doesn't rouse. Instead he scoops him up and carries him inside the temple. Keribrar follows Thorne into the temple and bars the door. With the procession unawares Hafwyn climbs atop the roof and takes aim. Quilate takes a quick flap and lands near her. Anne sneaks around to the far side and tries to read the scrolls, but nothing is written on them. When Anne gets too close the fire on the iron staff turns black and the procession "wakes up" and rushes towards the temple.
Quilate staggers back as the weight of something enormous wraps itself around his chest. He feels a barbaric need to destroy the procession – or at least something in the procession. Hafwyn fires two arrows at the lead priest, but he shatters both of them with his staff. The two men holding the scrolls charge forward and begin trying to tear down the Temple of Techiuan with their fists. The two chanters merge together into a misshaped monster.
Quilate drops from the temple's room and appears to kill the shirtless man, but the form shifts into that of Duerte's Chief Steward/Vampire and he is very much alive. The amalgam creature drives both Quilate and Anne back from the Chief Steward, but cannot land a deadly blow on either of them. The vampire calls upon his dark magic, but each time Hafwyn interferes. It may look a stalemate, but the battle has already been won.
Inside the temple Thorne and Keribrar revert to their abstract shapes. They see a flame being doused by a crone. Ice drops from her fingers as she plunges them into the flame. Thorne tries to pull the woman's hands from the flames while Keribrar strengthens it. Cracks appear in the door as the two chanters outside redouble their effort to break down the door. Thorne gets hit hard and crumples to the ground, but it gives an opening to Keribrar who finally lands a solid blow and kills the witch.
The pounding on the door stops as Anne and Hafwyn finish off the last of the chanters. Quilate has chased after a fleeing vampire. Anne lashes a cage around the creature pining in enough that Quilate kills it.
They recognize that they have always been in the Caves of Chaos and that the strange creature is Aegrin. For the time being Aegrin is sane, but as more spirits return to his realm his mind is shifting. He tells them that his essence is fading and he will no longer be able to maintain X'toltn's prison. Only a fraction of his power escaped, should it all escape the land will be damned. The spell of forgetfulness is fading and so cults dedicated to the dark vampire will begin growing.
Aegrin cannot hold his spirit in this world much longer. The river has become choked and poisoned and the shattering of the Cup Everflowing has destroyed his last anchor to this world. His spirit will leave soon and with his passing X'toltn is freed forever. The reforging of the cup has strengthened the faithful, but they are far too small in number to awaken Techiuan. Quilate asks after any artifacts he may have had they could use. He tells them that he once had a silver bracer given to him by Ellowyn. It looks exactly like the burnished silver one that Hafwyn received as a gift from Mardac. He lost it when he fell in battle.
Even now more spirits are drawn to Aegrin's begin to gather in the area. The caves are being flooded in abstract shapes, each one pulling the elf's spirit in a different direction. The pure fire of his spirit is torn into dozens of different shapes and an abstract monster formed. This time their bond is strong enough to hold them mostly in shape and they leave the caves of their own will.
Words of Techiuan
As they leave the Caves of Chaos they step into the real world only a few seconds after they left. Anne is fully on the blessed land of Techiuan, while Quilate is standing over a crack in the stone of the city. There is a pile a ash around the crack and motes of light rise into the sky. Feeling himself closer to something primal within him. He feels the flow of the air and begins a series of practice strikes he has been working on to better work with his body.
The others speak with Father Karl and Seirian about their experiences. He was homeless and sleeping on the streets outside the temple when he received a vision from Techiuan to seek out his words. Father Karl remembers seeking for something deep in the caves and Seirian guided him. He cannot remember anything else except holding two scrolls and standing inside the Temple of Techiuan, which nobody had been able to get inside.
He has brought copies of some of the scrolls to his tent here for further study. It is clear to him that he was basing his first understanding on missing knowledge. Keribrar recognizes them as elven, but some unknown dialect. Hafwyn recognizes them as the original writings of the True Elves. She doubts there is anyone in this area, besides herself, that could understand the writing. The fact that Father Karl has learned anything from it is disturbing.
Body of Techiuan
Keribrar is interested in the scrolls and convinces everyone to go with him to look at them. Hafwyn notices the dark looks coming from some people as they walk through the city. There is a uneasy vibe to the city that is different from when she first arrived. When they reach the temple there is richly dressed elven woman waiting. Her name is Alavera and she is an Annointed of Ellowyn who came here to collect the bounty on Dark Elves.
After a very brief exchange of words both Hafwyn leaves before she killed the woman. Alavera warns them not to trust the a dark elf. She will turn on them as she has turned on everything else in her life. She has clutched the darkness to her breast and sups with it each morning. Anne comes to Hafwyn's defense and inadvertently gives Alavera Hafwyn's name.
Father Karl takes Keribrar into the temple and shows him the scrolls along with the copies they made and his translations. Keribrar sees that he has translated only a small portion of the scrolls. The followers have made artistic copies of some of them, but others are too fragile to touch. The scriptorium in the temple is cramped and the scrolls not ordered. The tablets have been placed inside the alter, which is serving as a reliquary.
Earth of Techiuan
At the community Thorne is following Seirian around as she speaks to the faithful. She spends several minutes speaking with Benevenuta and Thorne notices that she is becoming more human. When he steps forward to speak with the two of them Seirian immediately becomes fae again. He worries that this is what happens when one spends too much time among the mortals and if it could happen to him. The humans are interesting, but this is not something he wants to happen to her or him.
He questions her about what she remembers. Her memory is full of holes so bad that occasionally she cannot even remember what she told Thorne only moments before. The closer she gets to the faithful the more she remembers, but the more disjointed her words. She even begins to shift between languages in the middle of speaking, which makes listening to her impossible. Nobody else even seems to notice and speak with her normally.
Father Karl and Keribrar return and Seirian almost immediately becomes fae again – not a trace of mortality about her. Quilate has an idea and puts Seirian and Father Karl's hands together. Their hands immediately become hot to the touch as steam rises and blood drips from them. They both speak in the same voice and cadence, their heads turn to look at the same thing. They even begin to take on a similar appearance.
Enemies of Techiuan
When questioned they respond in Lycene, the root language of the Theodovans and ancient language of the Sorcerers Kingdom. "I am Adaomache, First among the Circle, Peer without Peer, Equal without Equal. It seeks a voice in the world. Rebuild the Circle, Reforge the Shadow Walkers." X'toltn has been his powerful ally. Adaomache thanks Keribrar for freeing X'toltn and will kill him last.
Not without their own tricks Thorne and Quilate trick Adaomache into telling them what they can do to help him. He believes they support him and tell him to rid this world of elven silver. Silver forged by human hands should be gathered up and prepared, but all elven silver must be melted in a stone crucible.
The smoke form the joined hands of Father Karl and Seirian bursts into flames. Thorne tries to douse it, but Quilate manages to do it by grabbing the Cup Everflowing and pouring its holy water over them both. The followers look aghast at what he is doing, but are too stunned to act. With the fire doused Anne pulls their hands apart.
For a brief instant her mind bridges the gulf between their missing memories. A vast space of absolute darkness, the kind that drives people mad. The bond between Quilate, Keribrar, Hafwyn, Thorne, and herself is broken. Each of them forget who the others are – even if they are friend or foe. The time is not long, but the feeling immense. They key they believe is under the city – to the ruins Father Karl and Seirian visited.
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|High-yield synthesis, optical properties and photocatalytic performance of graphitic carbon nitride
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|Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4), an emerging graphene-like two-dimensional (2D) material, has received wide attention by its fascinating photocatalytic performances as a photocatalyst in a variety of photocatalytic reactions such as photocatalytic water splitting and photocatalytic degradation. Owing to a bandgap of 2.7 eV, g-C3N4 is able to make use of the renewable and sustainable solar energy and conduct photocatalytic reaction under visible-light. Moreover, g-C3N4 is inexpensive, abundant and eco-friendly. It also has high thermal and chemical stability. Therefore, researchers believe that g-C3N4 is the most promising photocatalyst to serve in environmental protection and energy conservation. Studies on the chemical, optical and photocatalytic properties of g-C3N4 is very important and of great interests to the public. In the thesis, we report the synthesis, characterizations, and photocatalytic application of g-C3N4 products. High-yield synthesis of g-C3N4 powder via sealed heating method and half-sealed heating method are demonstrated. Based on the g-C3N4 powder, the g-C3N4 films are further produced by vacuum heating deposition and thermal evaporator. The chemical composition and crystallization of the as-prepared g-C3N4 products are demonstrated by multiple characterizations such as thermal gravimetric analysis, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, scanning transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy. On the other hand, a systematic optical study of g-C3N4 is carried out with several approaches. Using infrared and Raman spectroscopy, the chemical band vibrational modes of g-C3N4 products are revealed, and the absorption and emission property of g-C3N4 are investigated by UV-visible spectroscopy and photoluminescence spectroscopy. Moreover, the photocatalytic property of g-C3N4 is explored by the photodegradation experiment. We also build g-C3N4\hematite heterojunctions and study its photocatalytic water splitting performance.
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[Read] ➳ Laid: Young People's Experiences with Sex in an Easy-Access Culture Author Shannon T. Boodram – Dolove.info
Sinnce I am a virgin this was not a great book I was looking for reasons why I shouldn t or should have sex This book didn t really help me with that I felt I was reading a lot of confessions This was not my favorite If you like Chicken Soup for the Soul then you will like this book The first few pages were enjoyable but the rest of the story was a no go. As a virgin this book make me scared to have sex Do not recommend Read something else I love Shannon Boodrams YouTube videos she is much better there This book is terrible it made me feel really gross to read Not a sex ed book. In This Hard Hitting Anthology, Journalist Shannon T Boodram Collects The Compelling And Personal Firsthand Accounts Of Young People Dealing With Sex In Today S World Laid Covers A Range Of Important Topics, From Teens First Times To STIs, Abstinence To Unplanned Pregnancies Boodram, An Up And Coming Voice For Her Generation, Engages Teens And Twentysomethings In Honest Dialogue And Explores How They See And Experience Sex, How And Why It Shapes Their Beliefs, And What They Have Learned About Themselves And Their Sexuality Through Their Actions Laid Is A Great Conversation Starter, And Doesn T Shy Away From The Personal Topics A Great Resource For Young People, Laid Invites Teens And Young Adults To Take A Close Up Look At Sex And Sexuality Boodram S Chapters Offer Than Personal Narratives, From Both Female And Male Voices, With In Depth Analyses, Facts, And QAs To Further The Discourse Responsible And Thought Provoking, Laid Offers A Range Of Honest Perspectives On Young Adult Sexuality In Today S Easy Access Culture The world needed this book and it was fantastic Editor Shannon Boodram masterfully melded the stories from her own life as well as others to give various perspectives on sex I loved the organization of the book in general, with regards to topics I wasn t as big a fan of the questionnaires at the end that involve your self reflection after reading a chapter If you like to pause and actively reflect using a pen on paper, then this is the perfect book for you The stories themselves were beautiful, relatable, and at times horribly devastating The poetry in the book didn t speak much to me, but it showed up only a handful of times The best sections were in prose I saw that one story was told twice in the book I m not sure if this was on accident or on purpose, but either way it was annoying I think the stories could have had graphic details about sex itself, since people don t really talk about how idiosyncratic it can be The topic was breached when the editor talked about how inaccurate porn is, but I think the topic could ve been dissected a lot than it was Most of the stories where sexual intercourse itself was the primary plot point rather than, getting an STI, etc had minimal details, and could ve been fleshed out further Laid purports to be a frank conversation about sex, but it leans towards the conservative One chapter describes sex for pleasure The rest of the book is sex regret, rape, sexually transmitted diseases, and it conveniently ends with a chapter on abstinence It s almost as if Boodram is advocating that youth embrace their sexuality and yet somehow eschew sex altogether If I were 15 years younger and I read Laid, I would be so afraid of sex that I wouldn t want to try it for another 15 years There s got to be a better text that balances pleasurable and painful experiences with sex This volume certainly errs on the sex might ruin your life side However, I do give the young author props for her honesty I can t say that in my early 20s I would have published my sexual exploits for the world to read in perpetuity That took some guts I respect what she tried to do here even if I prefer books about sex that better balance pleasure and responsibility. Laid is an anthology of personal stories about young people s experiences with sex, be it first times, sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, rape, love and everything in between It has the very important element of person stories and emotions that are missing from the sexual education people receive The introduction of emotion and personal stories made it for me, so much important and meaningful than the lists and statistics you would find in health class If it could happen to this person it could happen to you It made it real.I like how the stories were grouped into themed sections, though it did get tough reading some of the serious stories all in a row Overall the stories were pretty easy to relate to and understand Though, I noticed in a few cases I didn t feel like I had enough backstory or was confused by a few things mentioned by the person I definitely preferred the narratives to the poetic selections but I liked that there was a variety of writing methods used by the different authors The perspectives are also varied from both men and women, straight and gay The editor really did her job fleshing it out with variety to the best of her ability You can tell how important this anthology is to her, sharing her own stories throughout and sharing insight that she s learned through her work as a sexual educator.And while this is a book of personal stories there are still the facts and figures you d expect, and also a QA after each chapter with all the questions you might have about what you have just read and also checkpoints to reflect on you own experiences and perspective I think this book is a really important tool for teaching and learning about sexuality for young and old alike I can t think of a soul that shouldn t read this. This book was good for what is was an educational tool The stories were alternately funny, scary, and engaging, but the introductions and follow ups did get a little preachy I think that a younger audience would have an easier time relating, but since I was at the top end of the intended age group, I had a harder time getting into it Still, good for your little cousins to read and learn what s up in a less cheesy way than sex ed. Hookups vs Healthy RelationshipsWhen people read Laid Young People s Experiences with Sex in an Easy Access Culture, author Shannon Boodram hopes they will learn rather than judge.One thing I learned was that the difference between a positive and negative hookup experience lies in the same things that make for a healthy relationship read http laidthebook.com blog 2010 02 h When I picked up Laid Young People s Experiences with Sex in an Easy Access Culture I was excited to see how editor Shannon T Boodram handled the interesting topic of teen sexuality Boodram is a dictator than an editor in this book, interjecting her own opinions and observations throughout the collection of young people s first hand accounts of their experiences The introduction sets the book up as an honest and unique form of sex education that let s teens speak for themselves I thought that sounded like a refreshing and empowering approach to frank discussion of teen sexuality, but Boodram s checkpoint sections following each chapter are distracting If I were a teenager looking for first hand accounts I think I would find these sections condescending, implying that the young voices were not adequate and need the meddling that is so often imposed upon young people by their elders An appendix at the end with further resources would be than sufficient, yet Boodram insists on pushing her own agenda in this supposedly unbiased collection.Boodram also seems to only portray the negative aspects of sex Of the five chapters in the book, three focus on negative sexual experiences, one focuses on positive experiences, and one focuses on abstaining from sex Even in the positive accounts most read as positive because the writer waited to have sex in a long term relationship It is obviously of the utmost importance to teach adolescents the negative effects sex can have on your life and to stress the importance of safety, comfort and consent However, I also feel that it is important to emphasize the pleasure that can come of sex, even with a stranger I would hope my potential future child will be having sex in a loving and established relationship during their teen years to introduce them to their sexuality in a safe and trusting environment, but I also recognize that many people find boundless pleasure in casual sex It does not always lead to STI s, pregnancy or heartbreak Boodram could have used far examples of positive sexual experiences while still keeping the stories of sex gone wrong I think that had I read this as a teen I would either find it scary and avoid sex for years out of fear, or would immediately reject it as the pedagogical ranting of puritanical adults.Despite my misgivings on the collection and its almost sex negative tone, I found a lot of the stories very interesting One does not often get to read first hand accounts from teenagers, who are often silenced by the academy in favor of people who have seen years and fewer episodes of Glee The stories brought me back to my first sexual encounters and the often confused, delusional thoughts going through my head Teenagers can easily feel alienated in their feelings, and this book serves as a tool to show young people that they are not alone in their tentative first steps into their adult sexual personas The stories truly represented young voices in their own ways Any one of them could be lifted from my high school diary I was reminded that I once wrote unbearable, painful, embarrassing poetry about the boy who took my virginity I thank God that those poems were not published, however It should be law that no one under the age of 25 should be able to publish poetry Laid is a tool that could be very helpful to some adolescents, but should also be taken with a grain of salt The book can be used to open dialogue on why these stories are important, but also on why their presentation might be problematic. Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.comEditor Shannon T Boodram is a journalist who got her start as a sexual educator on Canadian National Network at the age of nineteen Since that time, she s been busy creating podcasts, putting together LAID, and serving as an expert on different sexuality panels.The basics of LAID are this Young people ages 18 25 were asked to share a life changing sexual experience that they had went through in their teens The purpose was to present the information the good, the bad, and the ugly to teens everywhere in a non threatening, non judgmental, non preachy way In this respect, Ms Boodram has definitely succeeded You can tell from each story that the contributors had put thought into how to tell their story, so that readers would come away with a feeling of having learned something rather than being judged.The book is broken up into five separate parts Hookups that Fell Down negative sexual experiences , And Then I Saw Stars positive sexual experiences , Haven t Been Quite Right Since that Night consequences of sex , When NO Loses All Meaning date rape and sexual abuse , and Save Your CherryOr Banana abstinence and abstaining.I ll be honest Some of the stories included in LAID are hard to read Some are downright heartbreaking Others show the need to be fully informed before heading into a sexual relationship I found the Q A sections to be enlightening, with information on sex and sexuality given in a no nonsense manner that older teens are sure to relate to As sex in all its forms becomes readily available to youth of all ages television, radio, Internet , it s the perfect time to have a book such as this one.Overall, a good read for those contemplating their sexuality or questioning whether it s time for them to have sex Although there are no hard and fast answers in LAID, reading about the experiences of their peers is sure to be helpful to a lot of readers.


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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Craig Meyers Sent: Wednesday, 16 December 2009 5:48 PM To: ausnog at ausnog.net Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Carrier Independent Peering Exchange How about: Wideband Extensible Ethernet Telco Backbone Internet eXchange J -- Craig Meyers ________________________________ From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Cameron Murray Sent: Wednesday, 16 December 2009 5:24 PM To: Mark Caetano Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Carrier Independent Peering Exchange AWIX - Australian Wide Internet Exchange Your Thoughts? On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Mark Caetano <mark at akami.info> wrote: AUIX sounds fitting. On 16/12/2009, at 5:56 PM, Steve Baxter wrote: > NISP > AUIX > AusBone > SIX > BIX > VIX > > What will you call it ? > > Cheers, > > SB > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net >> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Curtis Bayne >> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:30 PM >> To: Adrian Chadd; Daragh Mc Grath >> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net >> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Carrier Independent Peering Exchange >> >> This is a concept which I have been considering in depth for >> about two years now. >> >> It's gone as far as a planning stage, but we pulled back in >> the belief that, as a commercial organization, we do not add >> any value over current commercial operations - put quite >> simply, it's a "nice to have" but as an commercial venture it >> is doomed to failure (this is a testament to the quality of >> PIPE's product). >> >> I am both willing and able to participate, whether it be >> financially or through the provision of space (co-location or >> otherwise) to make a venture such as this a reality. >> >> Anyone in Brisbane who is *serious* about making this happen >> can contact me either on or off list - I am happy to provide >> resources, strategic direction or moral support (whatever is >> most needed) and I don't doubt there are others like me >> willing to support this kind of operation. >> >> Curtis >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net on behalf of Adrian Chadd >> Sent: Wed 12/16/2009 4:11 PM >> To: Daragh Mc Grath >> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net >> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Carrier Independent Peering Exchange >> >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009, Daragh Mc Grath wrote: >>> I'm glad to see this discussion has been kicked off here, it's >>> something I've thought about on and off over the past few years. >>> >>> Having worked for a major European exchange in the past (LINX) I've >>> been disappointed by the approach to peering here in >> Australia since I >>> moved around 2 years ago. 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This book was actually very good! I was surprised because it's written entirely through email exchanges between the characters. The main character, Melissa, is a gossip columnist at a New York paper with a chronic tardy problem. Her latest late arrival at work happened because she discovers her elderly next door neighbor face down in her apartment, and the mystery of whodunit unfolds throughout the book. There's a hunky man who may not be who he seems (Spoiler! He isn't), dogs, a horrible boss, and more! I highly recommend this book. PLUS- there are two other books in the series.
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I would put Rachel Morgan from Kim Harrison's Hollows series together with Schuyler Van Alen from Melissa De La Cruz's Blue Blood series. They're both characters that have to straddle being different in an already different world, and I feel like they could really understand each other. They're also both strong female protagonists who tend to make bad choices about men, so they'd have a lot to talk about.
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How to Update CPU Microcode in Award or Phoenix BIOS – For LGA 771 & 775
In this guide, we're going to show you how to update the CPU microcode in an Award or Phoenix BIOS. If you have an AMI BIOS, check out this guide instead.
Note: Microcodes are current as of 2018-12-02 (source). They were last updated by Intel on 2015-08-02.
Note: This information has only been tested with LGA 771 and LGA 775 BIOS files, so if you have a newer motherboard (especially UEFI ones), it probably won't work.
Why would you want to do this?
Updating the microcode is helpful if:
- You did the LGA 771 to 775 MOD, and your Xeon is not working as expected (or is missing functionality, such as CompareExchange128, Speedstep, SSE 4.1, or VT-X).
- Your BIOS doesn't support a newer processor that you want to run.
- The microcode for your processor is old and may be buggy.
There's an element of risk just flashing a normal BIOS, and especially when you start modifying it, so please attempt this mod at your own risk (and only if you're experiencing some problem). We highly recommend that you don't flash the modified BIOS unless you've verified the microcode was added correctly. If you accidentally remove the microcode that your processor needs, your system may fail to boot. We are not responsible if your system is damaged while attempting this.
Things you'll need
- The latest BIOS for your motherboard
- cbrom195.exe - Updates microcode for Award and Phoenix BIOSes
- MD5 checksum for cbrom195.exe is BC46E0752BC1387C0012173DC8AC8F5C
Method 1 (recommended) - Replace all of your existing microcode with the latest microcode from Intel
This method will delete all of your old microcode and replace it with the latest microcode from Intel.
Other programs you'll need
- intelmicrocodelist.exe - Lists all of your current microcodes
Step 1 - Download the file that contains the microcode for all the processors you want your motherboard to support
The following microcode is only compatible with method 1 of this guide (it's in a combined NCPUCODE.BIN format instead of individual microcode files). This makes it easier to update all of your microcodes at once.
- Desktop LGA 771 and LGA 775 microcode (72 KB)
- Use this if you want to run LGA 771 Xeons in an LGA 775 motherboard
- Supports all Core 2 Duo and later LGA 775 desktop processors (no Pentium 4 or mobile support)
- Supports all LGA 771 Xeon processors (except older Pentium 4 based 50xx models)
- Desktop LGA 775 microcode (40 KB)
- Supports all Core 2 Duo and later desktop processors (no Pentium 4 or mobile support)
- Mobile LGA 775 microcode (44 KB)
- Supports all Core 2 Duo and later mobile/laptop processors (no Pentium 4 or desktop support)
- LGA 771 microcode (32 KB)
- Supports all the LGA 771 Xeon processors mentioned earlier (no LGA 775 or mobile support)
Alternate microcode (in case the others are too big)
- 45nm Desktop LGA 771 and LGA 775 microcode (32 KB) - Only supports 45 nm desktop processors
- 65nm Desktop LGA 771 and LGA 775 microcode (40 KB) - Only supports 65 nm desktop processors
Step 2 - Move all of the files you just downloaded to the same directory (or folder), and open that directory in a DOS command prompt window
How to open a folder in a DOS command prompt window
Step 3 - Extract the microcode zip file, rename the microcode to ncpucode.bin, and make it readonly
You can make it readonly with the following command:
attrib +R ncpucode.bin
This is necessary to stop cbrom from overwriting this file with your old microcode.
Step 4 - Delete the old microcode and replace it with the new code
The following command will delete all of the original microcode and replace it with the new microcode (which is in ncpucode.bin). It will just update YOUR_BIOS.BIN (it won't create a new file).
cbrom195.exe YOUR_BIOS.BIN /nc_cpucode NCPUCODE.BIN
- YOUR_BIOS.BIN is the name of your BIOS file (it doesn't have to end in .BIN)
- NCPUCODE.BIN is the name of the microcode file downloaded earlier
Having trouble finding the BIOS file that you need to MOD?
What to do if you get an error about not enough space
First, try one of the smaller, alternate microcode files mentioned earlier. If that doesn't help, you probably have a BIOS that doesn't support the ncpucode.bin method of updating the microcodes, and you'll need to use the 2nd method instead.
Step 5 - Verify that the microcode was added correctly
The following command will show you a list of all of the microcodes in your BIOS file:
intelmicrocodelist.exe YOUR_BIOS.BIN
You should verify that the microcode for your processor's CPUID is present. If you don't know what your CPUID is, check out the following guide: How to get the CPUID, Stepping, or sSpec for an Intel CPU.
Step 6 - Update your BIOS using the modified BIOS that you just created
You should be able to update it the same way you'd update a normal BIOS.
Step 7 - Do a FULL BIOS reset (use the 3-pin motherboard reset jumper, and then load the default BIOS settings on the first startup)
Method 2 - Only add support for a new processor that isn't currently supported (old microcode will not be updated or removed)
This method is useful if your BIOS doesn't currently support a processor, and you want to add the microcode to support it. It should also work for adding LGA 771 Xeon support to an LGA 775 BIOS. All of your existing microcode will remain untouched and won't be updated or removed.
Note: This method may not work if you're trying to update the microcode for a processor that's already supported by your BIOS (you should use method 1 instead). This is the case because this method doesn't remove the old microcode, so the old microcode may get used instead of the new microcode you're adding (we're not sure which microcode the BIOS will use).
Step 1 - Download the microcode for the type of processor you want to install
The microcode files shown below are NOT the same as the ones referenced in method 1 above (they're in a different format), so you'll need to download these instead.
- LGA 771 microcode
- If you're only trying to add LGA 771 Xeon support to an LGA 775 motherboard, this is the only file you need to download
- Contains microcode for all LGA 771 Xeon processors (except older Pentium 4 based 50xx models).
- Desktop LGA 775 microcode
- Contains microcode for all Core 2 Duo and later desktop processors (no Pentium 4 or mobile support)
- Mobile LGA 775 microcode
- Contains microcode for all Core 2 Duo and later mobile/laptop processors (no Pentium 4 or desktop support)
Step 2 - Look up the CPUID for your processor
You'll need the CPUID to update the right microcode (how to get the CPUID for an Intel CPU).
Step 3 - Set aside the microcode files for your processor's CPUID
Note: If your CPUID ends in an "h" and you don't see microcode with an "h" on the end, just ignore the "h" because it isn't actually part part of the CPUID. That just means it's a hexadecimal number.
When you unzip the microcodes, you'll see a bunch of individual microcode files that have filenames like this:
Here's what the different parts of the filename mean:
- cpu0001067a - 1067A is the CPUID that is supported by this microcode
- plat00000044 - plat is short for platform. This tells which sockets are supported by the microcode.
- LGA 771 microcodes have a 4, 40, or 44 in this section
- Desktop LGA 775 has a 1, 10, 11, B1, or 91
- And for mobile LGA 775 it's a 20, 80, or A0
- ver00000a0b - a0b is the version number
- date20100928 - 2010-09-28 is the date the microcode was last updated
Set aside the microcode files for your processor's CPUID (there may be more than one).
Step 4 - Move cbrom195, your BIOS file, and the microcode files you set aside earlier to the same directory, and open that directory in a DOS command prompt window
How to open a folder in a DOS command prompt window
Step 5 - Rename your CPU's microcode file to cpucode.bin (plus what to do if you have multiple microcode files)
If there are multiple microcode files for your CPU, you'll need to combine them into 1 file with the following command:
copy /b file1.bin + file2.bin + file3.bin cpucode.bin
The example shown above will combine file1.bin, file2.bin, and file3.bin into 1 new file called cpucode.bin.
Step 6 - Add the new microcode to your BIOS
The following command will add the new microcode to your YOUR_BIOS.BIN (it won't touch any of the existing microcode).
cbrom195.exe YOUR_BIOS.BIN /cpucode CPUCODE.BIN
- YOUR_BIOS.BIN is the name of your BIOS file (it doesn't have to end in .BIN)
- CPUCODE.BIN is the name of the microcode file
Having trouble finding the BIOS file that you need to MOD?
Step 7 - Verify that the microcode was added correctly
Run the following command to display information about what's stored in your BIOS:
cbrom195.exe YOUR_BIOS.BIN /D
You should see a new module called "CPU micro code" at the end of the numbered list, and its filename should be the same as the microcode file you added in step 6 (cpucode.bin).
Why don't I see the new microcode in the "Micro Code Information" table at the bottom of the screen?
This table is supposed to list all of the microcodes in your BIOS. However, since we added the new microcodes as a compressed module, they won't show up in this list. Additionally, since the microcodes are stored in a compressed form, you also won't see them if you run intelmicrocodelist.exe on your BIOS (this program was mentioned in method 1).
The "Micro Code Information" table may also be empty for some BIOSes
This is normal, and you'll usually see this happen when method 1 failed due to not enough free space. It just means the microcodes are stored in a non-standard way in your BIOS. However, the method we just used for updating the microcodes should still work fine.
Step 8 - Update your BIOS using the modified BIOS that you just created
You should be able to update it the same way you'd update a normal BIOS.
Step 9 - Do a FULL BIOS reset (use the 3-pin motherboard reset jumper, and then load the default BIOS settings on the first startup)
Troubleshooting Problems
I can't find the BIOS file that I need to MOD
If your BIOS is in an .EXE format
You'll need to first extract it with an unzipping program like 7-Zip. Then look for a file that ends in .BIN, .ROM, or possibly something else like a number. LGA 775 BIOSes are usually around 1024 KB in size, so look for a file about that size.
You can also try running the following command on each of the files that could be your BIOS:
cbrom195.exe YOUR_BIOS.BIN /D
If cbrom displays information about your BIOS after running that command, it should be the correct BIOS file. If it hangs or gives you an error, try another file.
How to extract the actual BIOS from a Dell .EXE file
Execute the following command from a DOS command prompt window:
DellBiosFilename.exe /writeromfile
This should extract the actual BIOS file to the same directory.
I'm not sure how to update my BIOS with the modified file I just created
The method for updating your BIOS is different for each motherboard manufacturer.
- With some, you can simply put the BIOS file on a USB key, reboot and enter the BIOS, and update it from there.
- Others may have a BIOS updating program that you can run from within Windows.
- And in some cases, you may need to put the BIOS on a bootable DOS USB key, CD, or DVD and update it from a command prompt.
If there's a Windows or DOS BIOS updating program, it will usually be included with the BIOS or mentioned when you download the BIOS. If you don't see it, check the downloads section, FAQ section, or support section.
If all else fails, try searching Google for your motherboard's model and update BIOS or something like that.
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- Kas July 12, 20143:27 pm
Does anyone know how to remove unused Intel microcodes using the CBROM195 tool? I can't find instructions anywhere. I'm trying to update Xeon microcodes, but there's only 2KB left on this Asus BIOS. It uses AWARD BIOS so I can only use CBROM195, but CBROM195 /? doesn't seem to show a command to do this. Gettign error "Not enough space for adding ROM".
- Vincent July 22, 201411:48 am
Some Award BIOS don't have ncpucode.bin file by standard.
Existing microcodes are stored another place.
That could be a problem is original BIOS has not enough space for new microdes.
So in this case it is/would be not possible to delete and replace existing microcodes with new ones by a new ncpucode.bin file with new microcodes
Mainboards which don't have an ncpucode.bin entry in Standard BIOS.
Gigabyte P35-D3
Gigabyte P35-DS4
Gigabyte EP35-DS3
Gigabyte EP35-DS4
And more probably
The command "cbrom195.exe YOUR_BIOS.BIN /nc_cpucode NCPUCODE.BIN" does not delete any existing old microcodes from original BIOS file with those models!
Eg: This mainboard has ncpucode.bin entry by standard, where deleting of microcodes works by replacing them with a newly created ncpucode.bin
(And more)
- Vincent July 28, 201410:45 am
Yes. You can add new cpu micocodes to those mainboards which don't have ncpucode.bin standardly.
I've done these instructions here, but I left out step 2) with those boards which don't have the ncpucode.bin.
How to update cpucodes in the Award BIOS: (Click to show)
Without step 2) !!
The new microcodes are stored in the new ncpucode.bin entry you create.
I've tested this. intelmicrocodeslist.exe does detect the new microcodes even though they are stored in a separate place (the new ncpucode.bin entry).
- Cory July 29, 20145:53 am
i am completely lost i got lost at add all files to the same directory. but i really need to do this can someone explain better please!!! i really want my intel core 2 quad up and running but i need the bios to be updated to 45 nm cpu's. and foxconn and gateways bios update are only for windows vista and i have 7 please help me guys!!!
- Vincent August 1, 20149:43 am
(Download Intel cpu microcode from here, if not already)
Open the Windows Explorer! (not Internet Explorer!!)
->Start ->All Programs ->Accessories ->Windows Explorer
Navigate to directory where you have stored the Intel microcode file ("microcode-20140624.tgz")!
Create a new directory called "microcode" in download folder (where u have "microcode-20140624.tgz")!
Create a new folder called "cpu_microcode"
Extract "microcode.dat" from "microcode-20140624.tgz" with your suitable decompression program like PowerArchiver / 7zip /…
(Put the extracted "microcode.dat" into "cpu_microcode" folder)
Donwload the Intel Microcode Decode Tool "microdecode.rar"
Extract the three files "microdecode.exe", "microdecode.c" and "gpl3.txt" to cpu_microcode folder where you have also the microcode.dat file.
Then open a cmd command window!
->Start ->All Programs ->Accesories ->Command Prompt
No administrative privilegies required!
In cmd window navigate to "cpu_microcode" directory
Example: It it would be here (E:\Downloads\cpu_microcode)
Then you would type this in cmd window:
cd Downloads\cpu_microcode
Now you can extract the cpu microcode files from microcode.dat in folder "cpu_microcode".
type this in cmd:
microdecode.exe microcode.dat
It's important that "microcode.dat" is in same folder as "microdecode.exe"!!
Otherwise it won't work!
Good luck
- Rob August 6, 20146:55 am
Would my Gigabyte GA-X38T-DQ6 support the X5470 if all these top cpu's are supported with the updated the latest BIOS? Would the micro codes be already updated with the F7G BIOS from 2009?
- alex August 16, 20148:49 am
It doesn't work with phoneix bios in laptop e.g. thinkpad, dell.
- Reini August 20, 20146:20 am
Hello guys I need some help!. I have a motherboard with Phoenix bios (Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo P2511). I changed my processor from Intel Pentium Dual Core E2140 1.60 gHz, to a Core 2 Dual E7500 2.93 gHz. No problem with that just the speed is limited to 1.60 gHz, so I need to update my microcode but I'm fully lost.
Please help me. Sorry for bad english.
- ym58 August 22, 201410:02 am
Am trying to follow your detailed instructions to update a Dell Vostro 410 microcode.
Looks like your zip-embedded intelmicrocodelist.exe found here :
is either corrupt or damaged …
Could you check on your side ?
- Jucelio September 6, 201412:36 am
Hi, I have a Gigabyte G1-EP43T-S3L (rev. 1.4) but, the process to add the microcode dont work for me.
The bios is Award, with 1mb (rom file, not bin) http://download.gigabyte.asia/FileList/BIOS/motherboard_bios_ga-ep43t-s3l_f7.exe
My processor is the X5482 SLANS (tdp 150W fsb 1600) (45Nn)
First question: Is necessary join the files cpu0001067a – plat00000044 – ver00000a0b ?
I rename these files for file1, file2 and file3 and join to CPUCODE.BIN (Is correct?)
After, i start the process.
C:\lga 771 microcodes\45nm>copy /b file1.bin+file2.bin+file3.bin combined_files.bin
1 file(s) copy(s).
C:\lga 771 microcodes\45nm>cbrom195.exe G1-EP43T-S3L.rom /cpucode cpucode.bin
cbrom195.exe V1.95 [12/14/07] (C)Phoenix Technologies 2001-2007
Adding cpucode.bin .. 68.9%
BUT, after the the process, the bios.rom generate have only 12kb!
The CBROM195.EXE support rom files?


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Balance of better mechanical strength and good translucency for dental restorative materials is alwaysa challenge. A translucent glass ceramic/ceramic with improved mechanical properties or a strongglass ceramic/ceramic with good translucency would therefore be interesting for dental application.Nanocrystalline glass ceramics (NCGC) attract a lot attention because of their superior optical andmechanical properties. This study aims to obtain ZrO2-SiO2 nanocrystalline glass-ceramic that possesseshigh mechanical strength as well as excellent translucency by controlling the content, size, and connectionof nanocrystalline ZrO2 in a ZrO2-SiO2 glass-ceramic material. Toward this end, well-homogenized nano-powders with three different compositions, 45%ZrO2-55%SiO2 (molar ratio, 45Zr), 55%ZrO2-45%SiO2(55Zr), and 65%ZrO2-35%SiO2 (65Zr), were synthesized, followed by a fast sintering process. Highly-translucent nanocrystalline glass ceramics composed of tetragonal ZrO2 were obtained. Samples withhigh zirconia content showed that the structure of the skeleton was predominately built by nano-sizedellipsoidal ZrO2 particles bonded by grain boundaries, with amorphous SiO2 filling the voids betweenthe ZrO2 particles. The achieved flexural strength measured by piston-on-three-ball test was as high as1014 MPa. To our knowledge, this is one of the highest flexural strength values of glass ceramics everreported, which is higher than transparent zirconia and alumina ceramics. The 3D structure of nanocrys-talline zirconia in silica matrix did enhance the flexural strength of the NCGC. The results of this studysuggest that the new ZrO2-SiO2 NCGC has great potential of using as dental restoration.
This thesis focuses on elaboration and characterization of two types of bioceramics: one is ZrO2-SiO2 nanocrystalline glass ceramic (NCGC) for dental application. The goal is to develop new ZrO2-SiO2 NCGCs with a combination of high strength and high translucency; the other is biodegradable Si3N4 ceramics for spinal fusion. This project aims to improve the osteointergration property of Si3N4 ceramics. Translucent glass ceramics typically suffer from impaired mechanical properties, compared to full-ceramics. We presented a method of obtaining ZrO2-SiO2 NCGCs, with a microstructure of monocrystalline ZrO2 nanoparticles (NPs), embedded in an amorphous SiO2 matrix. Raw powders containing different ZrO2 contents were prepared by the sol-gel method, followed by the spark plasma sintering (SPS). The NCGC with a composition of 35%ZrO2-65%SiO2 (molar ratio, 35Zr) was transparent. Tetragonal ZrO2 NPs were spherical with a diameter of 20–40 nm. The average flexural strength of 35Zr NCGC was 234 MPa. To improve the flexural strength, NCGCs with compositions of 45%ZrO2-55%SiO2 (45Zr), 55%ZrO2-45%SiO2 (55Zr), 65%ZrO2-35%SiO2 (65Zr) were also elaborated. All NCGCs showed high translucency. The flexural strength of the NCGCs significantly increased with the increase of ZrO2 content, achieving as high as 1014 MPa for 65Zr NCGC. ZrO2 NPs in 65Zr NCGC were ellipsoidal and had a core-shell structure with a thin Zr/Si interfacial layer as the shell. Some of the ZrO2 NPs were connected and formed ZrO2 nanofibers. Moreover, the ZrO2 nanofibers were orderly stacked in short-range to form the 3D nano-architecture. The high flexural strength of the 65Zr NCGC mainly originates from synergistic strengthening effects of the thin Zr/Si interfacial layer and 3D stacked nano-architecture. Regarding biodegradable Si3N4 bioceramics, we used a ternary sintering additive of SrO, MgO and SiO2. The mechanical properties of the developed Si3N4 bioceramics were comparable to those of traditional Si3N4 ceramics. Sr2+, Mg2+, and Si4+ ions released from the intergranular glass phase after immersion in solution, indicating that the developed Si3N4 bioceramics showed certain biodegradable ability. These ions enhanced the proliferation and differentiation of preosteoblasts. Meanwhile, the ionic dissolution products did not show any toxic effects to the development or physiology of zebrafish embryos.


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What if everything you ever believed in was the opposite of what you should have actually thought in the first place?
I am speaking in generalities, like your own belief system. I am a certain way and I'm okay with it, but maybe there are some things I should change about myself in order to make myself more appealing. I'm not saying I should be a different person just for the sake of appeasing others, but I have some tendencies I need to work on. Sometimes my thought pattern is skewed because I envision how things are supposed to be rather than how they actually are. However, I never wanted to be someone who constantly donned rose-colored glasses or spit simplicity into what is a complex situation.
What about you? What do you need to work on to live a more fulfilling life?


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When I tell people I've never met an atheist, they tend to pause awkwardly for the punch-line of a bad joke, or perhaps they're waiting for confession of a cloistered life. But I'm being serious when I say it (as serious as I can be, anyway) and I'm not such a recluse that I haven't met people who've claimed to be atheists. What I have not met, I maintain, is the genuine article. I say this because a little probing of my subject always reveals a different animal hiding beneath the atheist's cloak—a sheep in wolf's clothing, so to speak.
I usually find myself conversing with a sentimental progressive who sees disbelief in God as a necessary condition for his faith in Progress and its earthly realization—or to borrow an older term, its immanentization. The equality of human beings, human rights, even animal rights are all still in place with in my interlocutor's godless cosmos. Justice still abides without God it seems—indeed, it's all the healthier for His demise!
Such nominal atheists have never read Carl Becker's delightful satire, The Heavenly City of the 18th-Century Philosophers. If they had, the smart ones would recognize that their atheism substitutes Progress for God as Voltaire's had Reason—everything else remaining conveniently unchanged. Apparently, theology is the one domain where you can kick off the head of the organism and expect the body to live on.
Reading James Wood's review of The Joy of Secularism in the New Yorker reminded me of all this and further reinforced my view that the so-called "New Atheists," whatever else might be said of them, resist the real implications of their creed for themselves and for the world in which they live. From what I gather, few in the book Wood reviewed have done so either (that preternaturally cautious philosopher Charles Taylor apparently being the one partial exception).
Only Nietzsche and Plato, it seems to me, really appreciated what it means for a person to reject a transcendent order. Both philosophers realized that ennui and despair are the only psychological responses, and cultural dissolution the only social and cultural result. Indeed, even language and the shared experience and understanding embodied by it will crumble into individualized bits of dust in the wake of the departing gods. To be sure, people carry on once disenchanted and order returns as it always must, but minds can be reconstituted in strange forms and order can become a collective abomination—history and anthropology show what awaits the momentarily godless.
At any rate, my present concern is not to defend the psychological and cultural implications of God's demise, since I take Plato's and Nietzsche's understanding of the world without God as the truest one. Instead, I want to try and understand why the New Atheists have resisted what should be obvious. What follows, then, are some hypotheses that may explain why the New Atheists have been able to be atheists.
The psychology of atheism
1. Material comfort. The simplest explanation is also the oldest one: contentment breads complacency. Like Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris and Dennett, James Wood enjoys his own and his society's relative health, wealth and freedom (granted, Hitchens isn't doing so well on the health front, but he has enjoyed a healthy life with all the worldly fortune one could hope for until recently). Under such conditions, talk of God, the afterlife and rationality in the cosmos seems as superfluous as the things themselves. Who needs to wrestle with these otherworldly concerns when the sun shines so bright?
2. Nemesis. As the ancients realized, Nemesis is a wonderful thing. Fighting an enemy gives life meaning. The concentration required for achieving a goal and the thrill and the immediacy of battle keeps away the bigger and harder questions about the point of it all that invite reflection and despair. Indeed, a battle is a journey to a destination and as every writer since Homer knows, it's the most powerful and perennial narrative structure. In simpler terms, atheist militancy is fueled by the same anima that fuels sports and video games—the thrill of ersatz battle.
3. Atheism as de facto religion. This seems like the most widely accepted explanation among critics of New Atheism, since virtually every critic of Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens points out that these fellows all sound like old-fashioned Bible-thumpers—and they do, no doubt.
But as I mentioned before, my experience reading and talking to New Atheists is that beneath the surface one finds pantheism (e.g., nature as the source and cause of a self-perpetuating wonder), animism (e.g., "we all join in the cycle of life"), and, most often, old-fashioned Enlightenment Progressivism. It's not atheism that's the religion, then, but the belief in Progress that provides purpose that is bulwark against despair, filling the gap left by God and the Cosmos in the atheists' psyche. Atheism is just the tip of the mental iceberg, jutting out of the mass of beliefs that make up an individual psyche, because (presumably) it's the fashionable face of a more complex set of beliefs.
4. Serotonin. My preferred hypothesis (for the time being at least) is genetic. Much like the rest of the animal kingdom, most people are wired to be happy with their circumstances, at least when the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been met (as per 1). Most of us don't feel the need for deeper explanations—we don't suffer from existential angst—because we've been born with the optimal balance of the "happy-brain chemical," which prevents us from feeling anything but contentment once our basic material needs have been met. To borrow the more recent framework, James Wood and other atheists are "dandelions" among religiously-minded "orchids," not so much clear-minded and self-aware rationalists (unless, of course, one takes the latter as a euphemism for the former).
At any rate, your average atheist likely embodies some combination of all or several of these things. It's not easy to say for certain without cracking open skulls and reading the brains within. All I can say for certain is that it is not Reason that sustains them on her divine account, but a combination of transcendent-mimicking false belief and brain chemistry.
Resisting the cultural implications
The psychological hypotheses can explain how human beings can believe in atheism without suffering from its psychic consequences. Moreover, number two above may explain the stridency of the New Atheists. But the psychological considerations don't explain the resistance to the dire implications for us all, especially if Christianity should lose its influence entirely on the Western world. So what beliefs prevent the atheist from seeing these consequences? I tend to think that there is really only one major answer to this question: the belief in human progress.
A favorite pejorative label among conservatives is to describe left-liberals who have adopted environmentalism as a way of further their political agenda as "watermelon environmentalists" (i.e., because watermelons are green on the outside, red on the inside). As I mentioned, I've noticed time and again a similar phenomenon among atheists: it's either a conscious or unconscious front for what would otherwise be characterized as progressivism.
Which is not to say that some progressives have donned the atheist disguise as a way of forwarding their agenda (though it's entirely possible); but most seem to suffer under the illusion that Progress is possible in an indifferent universe where living things are subject to evolutionary forces. Diseases, man-made disasters, asteroids and a thousand other variables can destroy human life in its current state or extinguish it altogether. Whatever the case, it's worth noting that two kinds of ignorance underlie the belief in divine Progress, making it seem rationally possible.
1. Philosophical ignorance.
There's no better example than the pseudo-debate that goes by the title "religion versus science," which has spawned a number of unfortunate tropes or commonplaces that are either pernicious half-truths or outright falsehoods. One of the former is the idea that there is something called "religious belief," which is supposed to be qualitatively different from "secular belief." I'll get into this false dichotomy another day. Suffice to say for now that religious belief is supposedly sectarian and absolutist, while secular beliefs are neutral and inclusive. Obviously, the former lead to oppression and war, while the latter lead to universal happiness for all. This is nonsense, of course, because we all have "religious beliefs" insofar as we have fundamental values—truths we hold to absolute—like the belief that others should be treated fairly and equally regardless of their particulars. And we're all willing to use force to defend and extend these fundamental beliefs—or at least to resist the imposition of the beliefs of others. In a word, then, we are all fundamentalists of one kind or another.
For reasons I can't really explain (beyond blaming the education system) we seem to have collectively forgotten the origin of the term "religion." It comes from the Latin "religio," which means "the ties that bind us" as individuals, including our obligations to family, the state, the gods or our friends. The term "religion" was coined for the academic study of these phenomena, though its focus was human faiths, rituals, cults, institutions, the afterlife, souls, cosmologies, etc. In other words, "religion" refers to an academic discipline that artificially and roughly broke off part of the human condition for study; it is not a logical or scientific term for certain kinds of beliefs. In fact, what does and what does not fall under the purview of religion is an on-going controversy in religious studies.
In any case, the salient aspect of the false dichotomy between "religious and secular belief" is the possibility that religion can be transcended: that we are all of us moving toward a secular End Times when the evil forces of religion that have caused all human misery will wither and die, leaving only the happy, loving rationalists behind. It's this false belief above all else that provides the intellectual scaffolding for the atheist version of Progress. Kick it away (along with a few others I'll discuss another time), and the rest falls apart.
2. Historical and anthropological ignorance.
It's not often that one can make generalizations about human nature. But "religion" is one of those cases: no culture, anywhere, ever has built its collective spiritual house on the shifting sands of the immanent world. The reason would be plain as day to anyone who'd lived before modern times and many who live outside the West: the immanent world is capricious and fickle. Droughts and cold spells kill crops; locusts come from the sky without warning and devour one's harvest; pestilence strikes oneself, one's family and one's livestock. The sea is intemperate, rising up to drown those who'd make a living off of it; and mountains can burst and bury a whole civilization under molten rock. Even loved ones, friends and brothers can turn against you in this world.
Now, it's natural that we yearn to escape the tumult of our native land for tranquil shores (we wish that in this life too, after all). But there's a deeper reason than emotional solace in the invention of the transcendent. All anthropological evidence suggests that we are hardwired to order our thoughts, our lives and our societies in accordance with a permanent, unchanging order of things. This is not the old atheist saw that says "things looked designed to us, so we falsely infer that they are," as if our mental architecture was a series of careful inferences that might be judged true or false on the basis of a decisive experiment. It's that we must live life in accordance with an understanding of its meaning and purpose and the only constant source of purpose in a Cosmos—a rational order. A world that evolved and remains forever in flux cannot offer us that; only a transcendent order can.
It's this last point, I think, that explains why atheists—in spite of themselves—fall into what can only be described as ersatz religions like Progress or animism. Like the rest of us human beings, they really can't help but believe in the gods.


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It is well known that for years now the fashion world has attracted hundreds of young people, boys and girls, who aspire to show off on catwalks and wear designer clothes by the most recognized designers. How to become a model? Getting to the top, making its way through the competition, is not a simple undertaking, even where there is love towards what is a profession in all respects.
Before delineating some tips to emerge in the fashion world, it is good to specify that some basic requirements are requiredto young aspirants. Among the first, perhaps the most obvious, we find beauty. If in many other sectors the latter is not necessary, or at least not fundamental, in the universe of fashion it plays a primary role. On the catwalk you can see elegant faces, with particular features, the expression that involves and the dominant appearance. In fact, the security of a perfect face, if we can speak of perfection,
is preferred in front of an unclean face, not able to leave a mark. Alongside the charm of the features, a well-groomed physique walks under his arm, donated by mother nature and perfected over the years. Even if it is often repeated that beauty is not synonymous with thinness, it is still difficult to find models with a few extra pounds, with a belly of too much and without well-sculpted abs. The world of fashion, in fact, is based precisely on these characteristics; usually to wear designer clothes on the catwalks of high fashion, we find guys with perfect body, well trained by constant physical activity, and the correct diet followed.
They can not, then, not show tenacity those who are walking along the world of fashion shows. A determined character, in fact, endowed with a great desire to emerge and stubbornness, will allow us not to be discouraged by the difficulties encountered along the way. Among the requisites is a non-high age group, indeed it is preferable that the career starts before the age of eighteen; for this reason a fundamental role is played by parents, who are directly involved in the decisions of their children, especially in cases where the latter are still not of age.
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Advice to become a modelWho wants to become a model has another data that should not be underestimated: the geographical position. Those who live in Milan will certainly have more opportunities compared to those who live in some small suburban municipality, from the moment it is closer to the places where casting and auditions take place. This, however, does not compromise the outcome of the career, but requires only a little 'extra effort from those who will struggle with the distance from the fashion metropolis.
These are the characteristics required of the models. Now all that remains is to suggest some method to pave the way in front of him. It is essential to turn to serious and competent agencies, who know how to manage and present the profiles of their young candidates. To get in touch with experts in the field, in most cases, it is necessary to provide personal data associated with a series of digital photos. Ideally it would be to present themselves directly to the agency, rather than sending e-mails or resumes, which will surely be required later. Subsequently, followed by professionals, walking in the fashion world will surely be easier and safer.


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2016 Faith Lutheran Boys Track Capsule
Preseason information for the Faith Lutheran boys track team.
Head coach: Dan Kober, third season
Returning lettermen: 26
Top athletes: Chase Wood (Sr.), Paul Stephens (Sr.), Daniel Breen (Sr.), Bryce Neagle (Sr.), Bryce Raymond (Jr.)
Outlook: Wood is the defending Division I-A state champion in the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs and joined Stephens on the 3,200 relay team that won a state title.
Breen and Neagle were members of the state runner-up 1,600 relay team.
"Faith Lutheran returns a large number of athletes from the Division I-A state championship team last year and hopes to compete for the region and state titles again this year," Kober said. "We expect to be carried by our middle distance and distance crew.
"We will need to find consistent point production in the sprints, relays and field events to be able to compete for the state championship again this year."


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