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Show Teaser
The show begins in a dark night as the light of the moon shines down on a frozen lake, giving it a vague illumination. The camera pulls back until you see what appears to be a Grey Ford Focus at the edge of the lake. Standing near it are four figures dressed in winter coats, wearing ski masks and winter caps as appropriate for a cold night in March. By their clothing it appears to be a pair of men and a pair of women. Its hard to tell their ages under their disguises but none of them are particularly tall or well built.
One of the men speaks, "It has been arranged. We merely have to send this vehicle below the ice and the authorities will see it as an accident. We will be free to complete the plan without outside intervention."
The woman next to him says, "But what about the Effigy? We cannot delay too much longer to banish it to a place beyond the reach of others. If the Effigy gets free, it will kill and if it is undone..."
The man raises his hand to silence her and says, "The Wards we placed will hold the Effigy for now. We must wait until the stars are right before we can guarantee that it can be sent where it can never return from but also will not be destroyed by any outside forces. Then we shall be free of that which chained us forever. Now let us complete this plan and return quickly to our homes to set up our proper alibis."
There is a nod between them as they in-cant together a spell that causes the car to roll out onto the ice. Eventually after getting far enough, the man who spoke waves his hand and in-cants arcane words that cause the ice to collapse sending the car sinking into the depths of the lake.
The camera then pulls back quickly as it flies away from the scene and then jump cuts to a forest. There is a picture of what might be a bear cave. Some red arcane symbols are carved into the rocks as well as on a stone in the ground.
The camera pans to a person dressed head to toe in blood red robes highlighted with wreathes of blackened thorns, their face obscured in the darkness of the robe. Its impossible to tell if it is a man, woman or something else. The robed figure points its gloved hand and utters a spell in a dark inhuman voice. Suddenly the wards flare and then burn into the stone turning black instead of maintaining their reddish colour. The camera them pans to the dark cave as the camera goes black and there is a terrible roar of a monster that is heard.
The Title Screen flashes!
Monster of the Week: Nexus Nixes!
Our adventure begins on a sunny Saturday morning in March as the weather has warmed somewhat considerably from the night before. The City is fairly quiet on the surface as school is out and most people have a break from work except those in the service industry of course.
Big news in the paper today that a vehicle was pulled from York Lake this morning. Inside the car was the body of Andrew Campbell, promant football player for the Yorkton Raiders, model student and the son of the wealthy Leland Campbell, prominent lawyer in the City of Yorkton. An investigation is ongoing but as of yet, there is few signs of foul play and the victim appears to have died by drowning.
In other news the body of a hiker Dan Harbuz was found. The cause of death is under investigation but the police have yet to put out a statement but will do so once the investigation is complete.
Anyway lets get the players involved in the case.
Eugene 'Tin Man' Caldwell, your pick up on tweets and social media reports on both cases. Being a conspiracy nut, your instincts tune into these unfolding cases. You can use your "Connect the Dots" to potentially get some holds to use during the mystery although you don't have any crime scene photos yet as those haven't been released to the public. You do get info that Dan Holbez was a man who did odd off the grid jobs to earn a few bucks and sought to save money by living off the land rather than in a home. Thus even in the winter he was known to sleep in tents and hike around the area. He was skilled at living in the wilderness and also a very physically fit individual. Friendly enough to others, always willing to lend a hand to lost tourists and campers.
Joe Arden as for your character, you're working in your shop on Saturday where you had a rather restless night. You felt upon the wind that a powerful amount of magic has been tapped from the ley lines and some potent magical effect has been unleashed. Something feels off with the magical flow today. Not enough to be any form of world-threatening phenomenon but enough to sense that the lines of power have been weakened slightly, although will likely recover quickly.
Edgard Falk, you've just left the electronics store after buying some electrical supplies. As you're walking back to your car you suddenly start to lose your bearings and find yourself standing in a shadowy wooded area surrounded by strange gnarled trees, toadstools and thorny bushes. You then hear a voice from behind you in a Mischievous voice, "Why hello there Falky boy. Taking a little trip I see for your dodads and thingiemabombs.". Falk cringes and turns around seeing Finch the Teg perched on a branch of a gnarled tree, his yellow eyes like a cat piercing the shadows and he gives a predatory amused grin with his sharpened teeth. "You won't have time to play with your little toys right now Falky boy. There is a game afoot, something very entertaining to us. Something foul and corrupt with the taint of suffering and the strength of torment. Now it would please the Erlking to see its rampage upon the world but he's seen that kind of entertainment before. What is more entertaining is to see you little mortals run around doing your goodie too shoe things to save their fellow men. Every villian needs a foil after all. Win or lose, it will be an entertain show to say the least. And you know how we like to be entertained by you mortal kind, tee he he. So how about it Falky? You up to play the game?"
Kyle White hears through word of mouth about the death of Andrew Campbell. Some say he got drunk and drove into the lake. Others say it was suicide although there is a large debate going on for Andrew was the football star of the Yorktown Raiders, and a model student although you also hear rumors that he also was somewhat of a bully on the less fortunate. In a city like this, a well known student ending up dead like this seems to hint at something else more sinister at work.
Maxwell Silver, you get a call from your agency on your Smartphone. Your handler, Mrs. Melnik is on the line. She says to him "Maxwell Silver, We have an unusual case for you to look into, regarding a strange death of a man by the name of Dan Harbuz. Picture is forthcoming on your phone." An image appears of a desiccated corpse. The man appears to have had the muscles of his arms and legs ripped out of his body. A mask of horror is across his face, as though he saw something absolutely terrifying. She then continues, "The Bulwark is interested in the kind of creature that was responsible for this action. Gather intelligence on the creature and if possible photographic evidence for our database. Afterwards, see to it the creature is neutralized by any means at your disposal. Can we trust that you can handle this case swiftly and discreetly?"
|Edgard Falk
Finch chuckles at the question, swings on a branch and lands acrobatically in front of Edward Falk, giving a sinister grin with his wide teeth, "Oh you always have a choice Falky boy! What's free will without the will to use it? Tee he he. So if you don't want to play the game, there is no hard feelings. You can go and play with your little gizmos and whatsits, while the baddie rampages across the this land causing all kinds of trouble. If you can accept the guilt and shame that you could have done something and live with the consequences, then all the best for you Falky!"
Ok lets start the first roll of the game. I'm going to have Edward Falk Read a Bad situation roll. Its a 2d6 + Sharp roll. If 10+ you hold 3, on a 7-9 you hold 1 and 6 or less I get a hard move against you.
|Edgard Falk
|Kyle White
"Aw man. That's terrible. Isn't there also a game tomorrow." Kyle was out with friends and had stopped to get some frozen maple syrup, it was pretty good actually, when one of the group popped the bad news after looking at his phone. Immediately he starts asking for details. Then he sees Edgard walking on the other side of the street. He bids the others farewell and walks over. He notices that his friend seems to have zoned out completely in the middle of the sidewalk. He waves his hand in front of Edgard's face. "Hey man. You there?"
Maybe not right now but want to use Oops! to stumble upon something important.
Indeed if Edgard is seen, he looks like he's zoning out. One of his dark sides is Hallucinations so basically he's in his own little world.
As for the Oops, Kyle White appears to bump into something when he moves in front of Edgard. He bumps into an invisible Finch, forcing him to sidestep to make way for Kyle. Finch loses concentration of his invisibility for a moment causing an hazy outline of a humanoid figure to appear (Sort in the veins of a predator-vision) for a moment before Finch is able to hide himself again and vanishes completely. He gives a dirty look at Kyle but restrains an urge to claw him, not wanting to give away his position.
|Joe Arden
Dotting for now. Post to come later.
|Eugene 'The Tin Man' Caldwell
Connect the Dots: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (6, 4) + 2 = 12
This mean I get 3 holds, So how do holds work? Is a hold a pause in the game where I can interject one of the questions from my character sheet or do all the questions need to be asked at the on set?
The way the holds work is it provides you with a pool you can draw on in order to get answers during the mystery. You have to use them though at points that it is appropriate to the mystery, which means you have to actually gather some facts about the case before you can "Connect the Dots" so to speak.
|Kyle White
Kyle felt something bump against his leg and reflexively apologies. He turns in the direction he thought the bystander would be but sees no one. Well that wasn't completely true. Out of the corner of his eye he saw something. Something his mind didn't immediately register. He does a couple double takes, looking around the spot he thought he saw it, but it did not enter his vision again. "Okay."
|Eugene 'The Tin Man' Caldwell
Eugene scours the internet for unofficial pictures of what happened around Yorkton the previous night.
Maybe I can follow Andrew's movement's via social media pictures, or the random dumb pictures people are always taking of themselves. Who wants that many images of themselves and then to put it up where everyone you know and don't know can see it. Also, Dan may have like the solitude of the woods but I wonder if whoever found him may have snapped and unofficial picture of him before they called the man out to pick him up.
|Joe Arden
This was the first thing that Joe thought when he woke up in the morning. The floor is cold.
He staggered to the kitchen and got a soda from the fridge, which he immediately drank down. The old man never let me have soda He chuckled at the thought, which turned into a loud belch.
I have to get to work. Something wierd was happening last night, and I garuantee that someone is going to knock on my door this morning with an odd tale.
Joe grabbed another soda and took it into the bathroom, where he showered, shaved, and got dressed.
Finally sure that he was ready to face the day, he locked his apartment door and walked across the square to his small office. He unlocked the door, straightened the brochures with titles like The Interconnected Consciousness and You! and Are you a Psychic? Here are ten steps to discover your Inner Walker that were fanned out on a table near the door, and made his way inside. He set up his table and began burning the incense that was as much part of the act as everything else.
He then got changed: Black slacks, a white button down shirt with the sleeves rolled above the elbow, and a black vest over the shirt. For the piece-de-resistance, he added a silver pocketwatch that he got from a pawn shop two floors over.
When everything was ready, he turned the sign to OPEN and then sat at the table to wait...
|Edgard Falk
Well the question you ask have to make sense. What is the best way into what exactly? What are you trying to get into? Otherwise chose something that makes sense for the situation.
"What's my best way in?" - What's the best way to handle it? If not, then "Are there any dangers I haven't noticed?"
|Agent Silver
"Can we trust that you can handle this case swiftly and discreetly?"
"Affirmative, ma'am," answered Maxwell in a steady tone as he stared at the image on his phone. It was a horrific mess, but horrors didn't faze him much anymore. "I'd like access to any relevant data we have on the victim, especially a postmortem analysis of the body if one's been conducted yet. Estimated time of death and any information circulating within the police department might also be useful."
Would you like me to roll Sharp for that ("when you deal with the Agency")? I'll let you roll for me if you'd like to save time; Sharp is -1.
Maxwell sets the phone down as he dresses himself for a hike through the woods. The phone is on speaker, but the walls of his bedroom are soundproof, and there are no windows in it: a necessary precaution given his occupation. As he tugs on his shirt, Maxwell adds, "The news report didn't mention where the body was found. I'd like to start there if you can tell me."
Pausing, Maxwell looked at the wall where he'd hung a small memento: a series of feathers and beads of purportedly magical significance that was supposed to bring good luck to the owner. He didn't believe a lick of it, but buying a trinket of Arden's had been a good way to thank him for the help before...
"And am I correct to assume this will be a solo operation?"
2d6 - 1 ⇒ (6, 1) - 1 = 6 Deal with the agency for Agent Silver.
Ok Silver did fail the roll and get an experience point Agent Silver. Still as you really didn't ask for anything unreasonable you won't burn and bridges with your agency. However they'll basically leave the investigation to Silver and if he wants support he'll have to make another Deal with the Agency roll to get it. Here is the response Silver gets.
"Agent Silver, the body has only recently been found and a postmortem has not been done yet. As for the body it was found in the Ravine Ecological Preserve. I will ping your cell phone on the location on where the body was found. The higher ups wish to gauge your investigation skills thus you will be solo on this mission. The Board wishes for you to handle most of the investigation details on your own to gauge your efficiency in field work. As usual keep the true details of the case to yourself and the Bulwark. The Board wants to asses your skills in the field thus has requested we provide minimum support on this. I trust you have the skills to deal with any eventuality correct?"
As for Edgard Falk, the more appropriate question is "Are there any dangers I haven't noticed?". And the answer to that is a definite yes! Finch is giving you the illusion of choice in this matter. You certainly can refuse to do the job but if you do so you risk the ire of the Unseelie Court and upsetting the font that grants you power is a dangerous game. They probably won't kill you but well you might be more Tormented by hallucinations and nightmares and your Magical Rolls might fail or backfire at an inopportune times. That's why I made you roll a Read a Bad Situation, as it was a check to see if you realized the Bad Situation you're in.
Eugene, using computers, social media and connections online to get information on a case is a Net Friends roll to see if you can find the right connections to give you the information gain access to non-public case data.
|Edgard Falk
|Eugene 'The Tin Man' Caldwell
Ok, Eugene you're able to get someone personal info as Dan did have a facebook account. While he lived off the land, he did occasionally make use of public Wi-Fi to put some pictures up of himself. He appears to be a tough looking mountain man, built like truck, he's definitely a guy worked out for a living. He also get a crime scene photo of the body, where he sees that the muscles of his arms and legs have been ripped out and a mask of terror is on his face. As for Andrew, all you get is his facebook page, where he put some photos up of his activities, including one of him standing next to his car, holding up a set of keys in one and giving a thumbs up in the other. However as Eugine only got a 7-9, that's the limit you'll get at the moment and you're going to have take more time in order to get further information. You're going to have to do some field work to get further details on the situation more quickly.
|Agent Silver
Alright, I suppose I'll mark XP for a failed roll.
Maxwell is quiet for a moment before he answers, "I'll let my results determine the answer to that question. Agent Silver out." The old man ended the call and rubbed his forehead. Business as usual.
He didn't rush out of his apartment door, first stopping in the kitchen to have a quick breakfast of milk, eggs, and fruit before gathering his equipment: a flashlight, a knife, his pistol, a protein bar, a bottle of water... Pausing, Maxwell stared at the picture on his phone yet again, at the body.
With no post-mortem analysis, Maxwell had to come to his own conclusions. The muscles on the victim seemed to have just been ripped out, inside-out even, and Maxwell wondered whether that was a deed of pure strength or of magic. He hadn't been eaten, so the monster didn't act out of hunger. Was it intelligent...?
Frankly, this was exactly the situation that would normally call for a whole team. As it was, Maxwell felt his life was being treated as a little too expendable for the purpose of testing him. One wrong move and he'd be dead. He needed help.
His decision made, Maxwell grabbed the last two thing he needed: his camera. It had no online connection, unlike his phone, so it wouldn't send the photos he took to the internet and would have to be delivered to one of the Bulwark's offices, but it involved less risk of someone with the right tools getting the information. As he neared the door, Maxwell thought about the body one last time, frowning.
Just in case, he decided, and opened the wall safe in which he kept his most dangerous equipment. He removed from it his C7A2 assault rifle, and he broke it down so it fit neatly inside his old guitar case.
Just in case.
I'm going to assume Silver doesn't have a vehicle of his own, since that's something I'd need to pick during character creation.
The bus ride to Arden's shop didn't take very long. Mr. Silver, as everyone who knew him called him, smiled and spoke with a few other passengers about the weather, then the locale happenings, and then the deaths of those two young folks last night. Yes, very tragic. No, he didn't know Campbell personally. He wished their families comfort and God's blessings.
As he stepped off the bus, Silver thought about what the Agency might think if they knew what he was about to do. Chances were that his phone had a tracking device and they'd know where he was at the very least. Nevertheless, if he had to choose between being chewed out by the Agency and being chewed up by a monster, Maxwell knew what he preferred.
And so, as he stepped in through the door and the little bell overhead rang to alert the proprietor to his presence, Silver smiled across at the casually but neatly dressed Mr. Arden.
"Good morning, Joe," he said with a smile. "How's business been so far today? And do you mind if I set this down?" Silver held his guitar case up.
Assume that you can own a vehicle if you've got a source of income. If you want something flashy which has additional features and game effects you'll need to take Mobility from the Professional move list which gives you a souped up vehicle that has additional features. Its unreasonable to think in these days most people don't own some kind of transportation.
|Eugene 'The Tin Man' Caldwell
After seeing the gruesome end to Dan Eugene's stomach turned a little bit and he had to hold down the coffee he was sipping with a little more force than normal.
I don't think I'll ever get used to dismemberment. How does a man that big get that scared. I guess the next stop is the morgue. Eugene thought
Eugene finished his coffee packed his laptop in his standard going out mailbag a left this apartment. Got into his sedan and drove over to the morgue.
I'm assuming the morgue is a place Eugene would know how to get to. How difficult it is to see a body on the other hand, I assume the keeper will enlighten me.
|Joe Arden
Joe perked up when he heard the doorbell ring.
"Good morning Silver."
When asked about the case, Joe will point to an area between two bookshelves and say "You can set it there, it's out of the way."
Joe will then offer Silver some coffee from a plug-in pot in the back, then move to the front door and flip the little Open sign to Reading in Progress. Please wait outside, then return to his seat and say "So, what can I help you with?"
|Eugene 'The Tin Man' Caldwell
Eugene collects his mailbag and pulls out his trusty clip board and paper. He approaches the building reading the signage looking for the fastest route to the morgue.
Nothing like a clip board to make me seem official.
Eugene would prefer to find an entrance to the morgue from the street directly but otherwise will go through the police main entrance if needed.
|Agent Silver
Good to know, Zaith. I'll assume Max just chose to take the bus because... reasons, this time, but later on he'll use a car or something.
"Business," Silver says as he accepts the cup of coffee with a grateful nod. He sits on down in front of Joe, his expression rather serious. "You and I have been around the magic block together a couple times before. I'd like you to help me out again, and I'm willing to pay you for your time.
"Tell me, do you watch the news? A hiker by the name of Dan Harbuz was found dead this morn, muscles pulled out of his body - very unnatural, and certainly not the work of an animal or thug." The old man takes a sip from his coffee, sets the cup back down, and folds his hands together. "I plan on finding and killing the monster responsible for this, and I'd like you to help me."
|Kyle White
|Edgard Falk
|Joe Arden
"Well, that's certainly straightforward." Joe pauses thoughtfully for a moment and then adds "Of course, I'll be happy to help. I had some rather....visceral dreams last night, and there's something off with the dragon lines here. Are you familiar with the concept of dragon lines?"
|Agent Silver
|Joe Arden
"The term dragon line is Chinese; They've also been called ley lines. The best way to think of them is like magical energy superhighways. They allow anyone who has supernatural power to, well, be more powerful. They crisscross the planet, and places where they meet tend to lead to interesting supernatural legends, because monsters are incredibly attracted to them, the same as people who work magic or have psychic powers. Such intersections are called nexuses, in the parlance of those who work magic. Yorkton, for your point of reference, has several nearby nexuses, making it a frighteningly potent area."
Joe gets up, goes and gets a refill, then sits back down and continues.
"The reason all of this is relevant is that someone drew alot of power from one of the local nexuses last night. Enough so that I bet anyone with even a little bit of psychic sensitivity had wierd dreams or nightmares. Something bad is either here or will be soon. The trick is to figure out what and where."
Joe smirks and says "That's part of the reason I run this shop. When people experience something supernatural, assuming it doesn't kill them, their subconscious tends to blank out the memory, or they remember it as someone else; a large, hairy man with knives, instead of a werewolf. Eventually, however, they come see me and tell me about this weird dream they had, or something they saw. I tell them something vaguely psychic sounding to calm them down and then I go to work."
"So, what we need to do is to take a look at the body. I should be able to tell you if something magical was the cause of death. Ideally, however, I would need to get several hours alone with it to pinpoint the style of magic, but it shouldn't take me long to tell if magic was used in his death. Do you know anyone in the coroner's office?"
Finch says to Edgard, "Oh you know that we're not too much of a stickler for rules Falky. But a few ground quips I suppose are in order. The game is to find the beast and bring it to an end. I won't spoil what it is, after all the chase is all a part of the entertainment. But what can be told is that you will be able to win by might alone. The more victims it claims, the stronger it becomes, so confronting it early will be an easier fight but without the means to unmake the creature it will not die. Oh yes, and follow the trail of victims, that's a good way to track down the beast. Make a good show of it Finchy, for we'll be keeping an eye on things as they happen. Good luck to you Finchy Boy, tee he he!"
With that he leaps off into branches and disappears. A moment later the dark forest fades out of view and finch finds himself in an alleyway with his friend Kyle White talking to him and trying to get his attention.
|Edgard Falk
Indeed there is an alternate entrance to the Morgue, although the buildings are also interconnected. Eugine walks in disguised as a man with a clipboard. You enter the lobby of the morgue and see that there is a front desk area with an attendant there. The attendant appears to be a mid 30's man dressed in a lab coat with an ID badge giving the name Victor Marko. He looks fit but not like a serious body builder and is currently typing away on his desk computer but still occasionally looking up to see what's going on.
So Eugine, you have two choices. You can Act Under Pressure to see if you can sneak past the desk clerk unnoticed. Or you can Manipulate an NPC and attempt to bluff the Desk Clerk with a good story so he'll let you past without checking your ID. What do you do?
|Eugene 'The Tin Man' Caldwell
It puts you in the morgue section of the building. The Morgue staff have their own entrance to the building. It is attached to the police station though so you can go down a hallway and enter the police station proper. As for the Morgue itself, that's in the basement of the building but first Eugine will have to sneak by or bluff his way past the Desk Clerk in order to get down into the morgue area. Being a small city, the Morgue and the Main Police station are attached to one another.
|Eugene 'The Tin Man' Caldwell
Thanks Zaitherin, I was thinking that might be the case I just wanted to make sure my assumptions were actually how things were laid out.
Eugene moves with authority past the clerk toward the room with the bodies paying no mind to the clerk content to only stop if confronted.
Ok that will be an Act Under Pressure roll to try and clipboard past the desk clerk without him noticing you. That's a 2d6+Cool roll. Act under pressure is the general "Do something that could be risky, consequential or threatening" roll. It is generally if no move applies but the Keeper feels there is some kind of risk by doing an action, in this case trying to sneak into a Morgue which legally is "Trespassing".
|Eugene 'The Tin Man' Caldwell
|Kyle White
"Dude. You've been standing there with blank look on your face for," he looks at his watch, "three minutes. You okay?" Then he lowers his voice and leans in. "Are you on something?" He leans back and holds up his hands in defense. "Not judging. Just, you know, concerned. You've been, uh, distant recently, ever since that seance. Was that a cover for something else? Is there a drug called Seance now? Cause that's just silly."
Ok so a 7-9 is a partial success. You are able to sneak past the Desk Clerk and reach the stairwell or elevator that leads to the basement. The Desk Clerk seems pretty absorbed in his work at the moment and Eugene is able to walk past while his attention is away.
However as for the bad effect, I am giving you a worse outcome. As you walk down the stairs and confidently towards the morgue room, a burly looking police officer walks out from a corner hallway and. He gives Eugine a suspicious look walks up and says, "Hey you! I don't recognize you as an employee of this morgue or department. If you're an visitor, you should have a card and an escort. Who are you and what you you doing here?"
So there is your worse outcome, if you got caught upstairs you would just be stopped by the Desk Clerk. Now you're legitly trespassing. How are you going to handle this situation?
[ooc]Also made a mistake. Finch would have said Falky not Finchy[/b]
|Eugene 'The Tin Man' Caldwell
Eugene looks at the Police officer and confidently states.
I'm a police consultant from the university. My office was contacted earlier in connection to the Harbuz case. I'm down hear to examine the remains to identify the animal the mauled him.
See, It All Fits Together: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (1, 4) + 2 = 7
Ok well a 7-9 on a Manipulate Roll. The officer looks at Eugene and says, "Ah so you're here for the Harbuz case. He just came in just a short time ago. Still as this is a serious case of death if I'm going to let you in, I'll need to see some ID to show you're from the university plus I'll need ask the coroner Haines if its alright for see the body. He's still in the process of doing some forensic testing."
|Agent Silver
Again, sorry about my two day absence. It shouldn't happen again.
"I don't know anyone in the coroner's office," answers Maxwell, "and I don't believe my... associates are going to be helping us on this one." Maxwell frowns and leans on back in his seat, enjoying a good, long sip from his coffee. He thinks before he speaks again.
"However, there is something I can do. There's a sergeant working on the force, old guy, that might be able to get us a look at the body. However, he never does favors like that for free, and he doesn't always say 'yes.' He might be our best ticket in.
"Otherwise, I have a fake CSIS badge I confiscated on a previous case. If we dress smart and act sharp, we could get in that way - but I don't care for the consequences associated with impersonating a member of the Service.
"What's your opinion, Joe?"
Are those kinds of assumptions fine, Zaith? If not, I can fix that.
|Joe Arden
"Why don't you reach out to your friend on the force and see if he'll help us. It's probably going to take a while for me to gather everything I will likely need to perform the ritual anyway. I figure worst comes to worst we can try bribing the morgue attendant, but let's see where the carrot can get us first."
|Eugene 'The Tin Man' Caldwell
Eugene reaches into his bag and pulls out his school ID from his studies in the Anthropology department and shows it to the office.
I never thought being an on again off again grad student would have this kind of perk.
|Agent Silver
"I'll give him a call. There's not much we can say over the phone, but he'll make clear whether he can help or not."
With that, Maxwell removes a phone from his pocket and steps over toward another side of the store. He makes the call.
Rolling Manipulate Someone. Maxwell is going to keep the message in a simple, coded phrase that he and the cop on the force both know. I'm assuming they've got a little rapport, but that their relationship isn't friendly - but full of bribes of some kind.
Manipulate: 2d6 - 1 ⇒ (2, 5) - 1 = 6
|Edgard Falk
"Dude. You've been standing there with blank look on your face for," he looks at his watch, "three minutes. You okay?" Then he lowers his voice and leans in. "Are you on something?" He leans back and holds up his hands in defense. "Not judging. Just, you know, concerned. You've been, uh, distant recently, ever since that seance. Was that a cover for something else? Is there a drug called Seance now? Cause that's just silly."
"What? That's crazy, dude!" Edgard denies indignantly. "I've never used. Just lost in thoughts, I guess. Some personal stuff, you know."
"Look, I promised a friend I'd check his PC and some other stuff," he makes an excuse. "Can we talk some time later? But definitely today. Probably late, but today."
Ok I would expect a Flake would probably have some fake id's for this situation. This meets the requirement of the 7-9, as you had to provide proof when he demanded it. The police officer looks at the ID and nods, "Anthropology department huh. Didn't know your department would be interested in a murder case. I'll escort you to see the Coroner Haines and see if he's willing to allow you to take a look at the body."
He leads you through the basement into a room with a number of body cabinets, your typical coroner storage area. The police officer goes to a room labelled examination and knocks on the door and says, "Coroner Haines, its officer James Durant. We've got someone here from the University who says he's here as a consultant for the Harbuz case."
You hear a voice back, "Consultant? I didn't call for any consultation. I'm still in the process of performing an investigation of the body. Just wait there, I'll meet with you in a moment."
Officer Durant stands blocking the way in and eventually the door opens. A middle-aged looking gentleman, wearing doctor's scrubs and a plastic aprin and rubber gloves opens the door. He looks maybe in his late 40's but has a look of experience on his face.
Officer Durant gestures to Eugene and says, "I found this one walking around the basement without an Visitor ID or an escort. His Student ID checks out."
The Coroner looks at Eugene suspiciously and says, "So you are from the University are you? I can respect a man with educational needs but I do not recall approving any consultation. The forensics on the Harbuz case is still ongoing. Who exactly in our department called you in?"
Ok this will involve a Manipulate an NPC roll again to convince the Coroner that you're supposed to be there.
As for Agent Silver, you get an experience point. You call your police contact, Officer Raymond and give the code phrase. Unfortunately you burned bridges with him on the last case and he refuses to be of assistance. He gets a string of angry words followed by, "Ya better keep yourself far from the department after the crap you pulled Silver." and hangs up.


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Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," " You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: ' Love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. Romans 13:8-10
Lord, let love rule my heart and actions, and let Your perfect will be done in my life.
There is nothing more I can say about this scripture, as it says it all.
Let us try to love our neighbor as ourselves. It is the greatest command.

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Time: 9:45 pm
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Date: Sunday, September 3
Time: 9:00 pm
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Date: Sunday, September 3
Time: Dusk
Place: Tan-Tar-A Resort or 26 MM
Tropic Island Cruises Fireworks Cruise
Date: Sunday, September 3
Time: Boarding 7:00 pm, Departure 7:30 pm
Place: Tropic Island Cruises at Tan-Tar-A Resort
The Lodge of Four Seasons Labor Day Fireworks
Date: Sunday, September 3
Time: 8:30 - 9:30 pm
Place: Lodge of Four Seasons or 13 MM
Celebration Cruises Grand Glaize Fireworks Cruise
Date: Sunday, September 3
Time: Boarding 7:30 pm, Departure 8:00 pm
Place: Celebration Grand Glaize on Jeffries Road
Other Labor Day Weekend Activities
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Time: 5:00 - 9:00 pm
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Details: There will be live music, games, face painting, fireworks and more for the entire family to enjoy. Bring blankets and watch the fireworks at dusk from the golf course. An All-American meal will also be available for a small fee.
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Hill's Ideal Balance Mature Adult Cat Food
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Hill's Ideal Balance Mature Adult Cat Food is a complete dry food specially formulated to meet the needs of mature adult cats, improving overall health, immunity, skin & coat and digestion.
This Hill's recipe made with natural ingredients was designed to support nutritional needs of cats aged 7+ years old. Rich in fresh chicken and brown rice, the kibble provide optimum level of nutrients maintaining healthy digestion. Skin and coat can benefit from Omega 3 and 6 together with linseeds. Cranberries are good source of antioxidants support overall health and vitamin C helps to strengthen the immune system and protect the cells.
Hill's Ideal Balance Mature Adult Cat Food is grain-free and has no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives which helps to avoid any intolerances or allergies issues.
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- Balanced nutrition for cats over 7 years
- Made with finest natural ingredients
- With fresh chicken and brown rice
- No maize, wheat or soy
- No added artificial colours, flavours or preservatives
Brown rice (15%), yellow pea flour, brewers' rice, pea protein concentrate, fresh chicken (12%), animal fat, dried chicken, dried whole eggs, minerals, flaxseed, fish oil, digest, DL-methionine, taurine, pea powder, apple powder, cranberry powder, carrot powder, broccoli powder, vitamins and trace elements. With a natural antioxidant (mixed tocopherols).
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My Ragdoll Cat Loves ItThis is the only mature cat food brand that my Ragdoll cat will eat with gusto and he is a fussy eater. Recommended.
This is terrible. Brown rice is the first and biggest ingredient (15%). Ingredients have to be listed in order of quantity, therefore this food contains brown rice, yellow pea flour, brewers' rice and pea protein concentrate in bigger quantities than the amount of chicken. Cats are obligate carnivores and meat should always be the first ingredient in their food. Since when were these ingredients "natural" for a cat to eat?


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The spring breeze flushes, the lone bright night, foreign rejected. Relies on the window and the empty street, Keith, night got dark, nocturnal creature gradually far. Since a long flute gradually lanes and far-reaching, who in blow, blow up lonely and thoughts. ¬
Silent moonlight shining, on a land gentleness; The breeze gently broken, raise soft long hair floats. I'm perplexed became apparent, I lift eye, look at the night sky, expect can with profound flute floating away. ¬
Floating away thousands of miles away, floating to hometown, far see, far cannot forget. Think feeling like qingyuan's flute, moonlight and sounded, the moonlight, countless nights swelled around the, light on. ¬
The awaken of spring gradually less, month like mirror, star like; Think feeling is very thick, cool wind in long night on. Remember also, as the moon, like hometown circle, the stars shone, where the stars. The night was warm, the street hometown never provoking winds blue. ¬
Hometown ah, hometown of the most warm spring, summer the most cool; Hometown scenery beautiful landscapes, the most beautiful, Hometown people the most tender feeling, the most really! GuXiangRen of memory, often sat playing CARDS, and playing chess lane that has interesting thing.but; Often chase in lane, chase, between mocked triumph; Often toiling in more lanes, industrious, sun samsara. ¬
¬ consciousness, I stomping ground, walk in the street, look at those familiar with people, they smile, comity, they beat it, they shouted, peace and easy to meet. I turned away from home to see, the eldest brother ye old, moved XiaoMuDeng, static smoking a HanYan, listen play section, look carefree; Hometown's aunt, middle-aged orgotten sweater, craft doorstep flexible, wrinkled, open smile on her face shining. How they are easy, really! ¬
Autumn wind bleak autumn wind swept through the earth, and autumn leaves. No consciousness, returned to foreign land, reward desolate night clothes guojin, but, on a cold. Here is my hometown, absolute not. There is no I expected, and not familiar with, no enrichment; Hidden in the edge of town here for a long time, finally I seek to stay; Here but not carrying my think feeling, and countless, countless sleepless night think feeling. ¬
¬ homesickness is a song qingyuan flute, throughout the night, all night, all night, think feeling in the dream, maintained, rooting from spreading. Knowable, I how to hometown nostalgia! Hometown ah, you will my soul to lock, my life and you closely linked. In countless days and nights, to dance with you, QuDi sound, dance dance a mind sorrow, a DuanNingJing memory, dance dance a splendid eternal, that a interaction, this lifetime sleepless. ¬
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Friends, family, and the recovery community mourn the sudden loss of Jesse Hawkins, a young man who was truly dedicated to helping others. His hard work in assisting others to achieve sobriety will be remembered with fondness and admiration. After struggling with addiction himself, Hawkins went on to dedicate his time and his efforts to the recovery community and everyone in it who was still struggling to get sober.
About the Tragedy
He was just turning his life around for the better when his life was cut tragically short in a fatal car accident last week. Hawkins, 22, died after he crashed his moped and was struck by a passing car. The driver of the car did not stop.
Hawkins' mother, Loretta, and family and friends held a vigil at the crash site, chanting "Justice for Jesse."
"How could someone hit my son and just keep going, like he was a dog? How could someone be so cruel?" asked Loretta Hawkins.
The police believe Hawkins crashed while riding his moped, and then, while still on the road, he was run over. Paramedics declared Hawkins dead at the scene.
Hawkins' Hard Work
Hawkins recently wrote about his new drug-free life on a website for North Carolina Restoration Church. Hawkins had been living at the Winston-Salem Christian ministry, which focuses on helping drug addicts, for about two years.
"I am so thankful that I don't have to wake up and stick a needle in my arm just to get by," Hawkins wrote on the ministry website.
"This guy touched so many people's lives while he was here," said Joel McFadden, the administrator who first checked Hawkins into the church's recovery program. "[There are] people here getting their lives correct because of him."
"He had a real heart for helping others. And he didn't want to see kids get that far down the road like he did," McFadden said.
Hawkins had been to rehab before in an attempt to beat his heroin addiction. He finally succeeded in staying clean in a Christian environment. There, Hawkins read the Bible voraciously every day and began studying to become a minister.


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Finance - Opening Times
The finance office is open for students during the following times:
Before School
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Morning Break
10.20 am 10.40 am (Monday), 11.05 am - 11.25am (Tuesday - Friday)
12.40 pm to 1.15 pm (Monday), 1.25 pm - 2.00 pm (Tuesday - Friday)
End of School Day
2.15 pm - 2.30 pm (Monday), 3.00 pm to 3.15 pm (Tuesday - Friday)
Finance Price List
- Erasers - 25p
- Pencils - 25p
- Pens - 25p
- Sharpeners - 25p
- Rulers (15cm) - 30p
- Rulers (30cm) - 40p
- Drinks Bottles - £2.00
- Student Planners - £1.00
- Gum Shields - £2.00
*Please note, we are no longer stocking padlocks in school, however, they are available to purchase from many local goods stores, remembering the shank should be no more than 8mm thick. It is also recommended students bring a spare key into school in a named envelope to be given to their form tutors in the event that they lose their key. They will then have a spare one in the school, and this will prevent the padlock from being cut off.
Parents can now top up cashless catering balances using a credit or debit card online.
Please note, log in details will be sent home to all parents / carers. Anyone wishing to start using the system sooner may contact the finance department via email at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Would you be mine, could you be mine… Well you get the point. So, last call woes have passed and now it's time to move on. The rainbow flag was raised on Monday to kick of Toronto's pride week which is North America's second biggest pride. The biggest pride is celebrated in San Fansisco – the gay capitol of the NA – the largest in the world is in Sydney, Australia.
Toronto's gay pride week is important because it celebrates the freedom of same sex couples in Canada and is a tribute to how far society has come in the acceptance of homosexuality. The tremendous support and celebration of gay pride should prove to Stephen Harper that Canadians are open to same sex marriage and hey – what happens behind closed doors or in the case of pride, on Church street, ain't no body's buinsess but their own. We'll see what the rest of the caucus has to say in the open vote…But for now, let's paint the town rainbow and join in the festivities.
I have already begun to enjoy the parties and events but more is still to come before Sunday's march down Yonge street.
What's on:
Tuesday June 20, 2006 – Underwear show, Cafe California hosted by Candy Bar
Wednesday June 21, 2006- Summer Solstice, Distillery District (raises money for small theatre projects) http://livewithculture.ca/content/view/full/9751/
– Orbit room – great live band Wednesday's all summer long
Friday June 22, 2006 – underwear show at 12:00 noon at the Hudson's Bay company hosted by Candy Bar
– pride week parties all over the village, check out O'Gradey's, hot bartender Steve will surely be working http://gaylife.about.com/od/gaypride/a/gaypride2006.htm
Saturday June 23, 2006 – pride & Laurie Brehma's 30th birthday at Social
Sunday June 24, 2006 – Pride parade – Yonge and Bloor – look for me, I'll be a in tie die tube dress marching for Casey House http://www.caseyhouse.com/


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The problem asks for us to: Construct a sequence {$\displaystyle s_n$} for which the subsequential limits are {-$\displaystyle \infty$, -2, 1}.
I found some help already:
...the sequence {-n} has the subsequential limit of {-$\displaystyle \infty$},
...the sequence is {-2 - 1/n} has the subsequential limit of {-2}, and
... the sequence {1 - 1/n} has the subsequential limit of {1}.
How do I combine the three sequences to make the one sequence I need for the problem.
Any help, suggestions, corrections, and tips of any kind are greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time!


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Due to a birthday party on Saturday and a babysitter coming over this week, we were asking the boys to help clean up the house more than normal. Benjamin is usually very good with this and gets right to work. Matthew drags his feet, tries talking his way out of it and will take his time. So, this last time, I was getting stern with him and threatening that he would have to clean up everything.
Once we were done, I found Matthew sitting by himself "crying" (I think other parents know what I mean). When I asked him what was wrong, he replied, "I got thumbs down for cleaning!"
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We are contributing also to the awareness event at St Albans Abbey all this week until Monday 5th December, manned by staff and volunteers, so come along to find out how you can help beat the stigma, and defeat HIV now!!
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Stop by the Warrenton central library where a display showcases some of these titles. For even more reading suggestions, visit our Adult Services page or stop by any reference desk and speak with a librarian.
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu.
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu.
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
The Blazing World, a Novel by Siri Hustvedt
Boy, Snow, Bird a Novel by Helen Oyeyemi
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henrizquez
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
China Dolls by Lisa See
Close your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian
Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo owuor
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
In the Night of Time by Antonio Munoz Molina
Lovers at the Chamelon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
Love and Treasure by Ayelet Walman
Nora Webster: a Novel by Colm Toibin
Panic in a Suitcase by Yelene Akhtiorskaya
Redeployment by Phil Kay
Revival by Stephen King
Some Luck by Jane Smiley
The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry
Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken
To rise again at a decent hour by Joshua Ferris
Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan
The Vacationers by Emma Straub
We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
We Are Not Ourselves: a Novel by Matthew Thomas
Here's to a New Year full of reading!
To learn more about the Fauquier County Public Library's collection, events or programs, visit us on Facebook, Twitter or online.
Here's to a New Year full of reading!
Jody @ Warrenton Reference
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text: Purpose Papillon-Lefvre syndrome (PLS) is usually a rare autosomal recessive disorder that involves palmoplantar keratosis (PK) and severe aggressive periodontitis. including lungs, kidney, placenta, dermal epithelia, gingiva, immune inflammatory cells, and their precursors. Among the fully differentiated immune cells, the polymorphonuclear cells and the alveolar macrophages showed the strongest hybridization signal.9,13 While mutations have been identified from families around the world, relatively few have been reported in South America. The purpose of this study was to report a mutation analysis of the cathepsin C gene in a Brazilian family with a member diagnosed with Papillon-Lefevre syndrome. METHODS CLINICAL AND RADIOGRAPHIC EVALUATIONS Ten members of a consanguineous Brazilian family were recruited for the study. The clinical diagnosis of PLS was made on the presence of AP and clinical appearance of PH. Family members received medical and dental examinations, including clinical and radiographic evaluations. The family history was recorded, and the pedigree was constructed. PATIENT SAMPLES, DNA ISOLATION, AND MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS Samples were available from your proband, and both parents. 915019-65-7 All studies were conducted with approval from your institutional IRB. All subjects provided consent for the study. Genomic DNA samples were isolated from peripheral blood samples obtained by standard venepuncture using the QIAamp Blood Kit (Qiagen, Inc., Valencia, CA) in order to obtain permit mutational analysis. The coding exon/intron and region boundaries of the gene had been amplified and sequenced, as described previously.14 Outcomes The proband was a 4-year-old guy described the Teeth Anomalies Clinic from the School Medical center of Brasilia, Brazil, for teeth evaluation 915019-65-7 because of premature teeth reduction. His parents reported that he started loosing his tooth before 4-years-old. The genealogy uncovered the fact that parents had been initial cousins from the city of Paracat, a region of the condition of Minas Gerais, Brazil (Amount 1pedigree). Neither mother or father showed hyperkeratotic lesions of their hands, foot, or any various other location. A brief history was had by Neither mother or father of significant periodontitis. The parents reported dermatological complications within a paternal grandmother and in the probands oldest sibling who passed away of unidentified causes at age 15 months. The health background from the presence was indicated with the proband of PK since he was 4-months-old. The condition was reported to be more severe during cold weather. The proband was regularly hospitalized during infancy due to gastrointestinal symptoms, recurrent pneumonia, chronic malnutrition, and anemia. Physical exam revealed retardation of the somatic development, hyperkeratosis of the palms of the hands and soles of your toes with fissures of the soles making locomotion hard. Dermal lesions within the KRAS2 knees and elbows were obvious in the proband (Number 2). Dermal biopsy from your hand shown hyperkeratosis, hypergranulosis, acanthosis, and irregular epidermal ridges. In addition, psoriasiform dermatitis and perivascular lymphocitic infiltrate was observed histologically. Number 1 Pedigree diagram of the Brazilian family with Papillon-Lefevre syndrome. Number 2 (A) Hyperkeratosis of transgressions within the knees. (B) Hyperkeratosis and fissures within the soles. (CCD) Hyperkeratosis of the palm. Dental care eruption in the proband began at 9-months-old and was uneventful. By 4 years, 10-months-old, however, all main teeth showed flexibility and gingival irritation that was accompanied by intensifying teeth loss. The patient experienced great distress while eating and carrying out oral hygiene. An intraoral exam exposed an edentulous mandible and 3 maxillary teeth: the right canine and two second maxillary molars (Number 3). Recession, obvious around all 3 maxillary teeth, was particularly severe round the canine. The interproximal gingiva between the right canine and the right second molar was reddish and enlargedconsistent with significant swelling. Suppuration was present around all 3 teeth. Number 3 Clinical and radiographs findings of the Papillon-Lefevre syndrome patient. (A) Dental gingiva, showing aggressive periodontitis, missing teeth, and severe downturn in the 1st dentition (4 years old). (B) Periapical radiograph-extensive loss of alveolar … Even though mandible was edentulous medically, radiographs revealed the current presence of long lasting teeth which were consistent with a standard developmental chronology. Radiographic study of the maxillary arch revealed serious 915019-65-7 alveolar bone reduction, and main resorption from the higher dog. Clinical treatment comprised the removal of the rest of the deciduous teeth because of serious periodontitis, flexibility, and main resorption. Total maxillary and mandibular dentures were constructed. Physical and dental examinations of the various other family (III6; III7; III19; IV10; IV11; IV30; IV33 C Amount 1-pedigree) didn't show any very similar dental or cutaneous pathology. The mutation evaluation demonstrated.


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Almost every sensor is missing
But having after sale support offcourse during the warranty period after then they charged a lot
Gifted To My Sister . And She Loved It . Its A good phone from samsung and its been one year i didnt faced any problem. It has got 2gb ram and 16 gb internal storage which is enough . Also i gotRead More
Everything is fine, except no music player & screen is dust & fingerprint catchy.
Good battery backup & no handing issues.
Camera good only for daylight.
I don't know why Samsung
I have 3 on5 mobiles. First phone bought in Dec2015 so my experience for this phone awesome. So i bought anather 2 on5 pro phones for my family members.
This phones full fill all my
Super laggy phone. It takes 5 seconds to respond to my touch. Samsung should stop selling these low end non functional phones. I regret selling my old galaxy S4 for this piece of shit.Read More


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It's April Fool's Day today, so be sure to short-sheet your kids' beds or put food coloring in their milk or something else fun today. They'll love you for it.
But April 1st is special for another reason. It's my mother's birthday. And she's the greatest around -- that's no April Fool's joke. ;)
So, for her birthday, I thought I'd post this pic of the first rose of the season at our house. After all, it was my mom who helped me pick out these Knockout roses years ago and put them in the ground with me.
By the looks of the rose bushes this year, this rose won't be alone long. The shrubs are covered with buds. But for now, this one is stealing the show.
So, Mom, though you aren't here to smell it, this rose is for you. I hope you have a wonderful day. I love you.


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Review of the week: 24 – 30 August 2015
Just as the first humans poured out of Africa to populate the world, it seemed that the flow of medallists from Kenya kept on coming at the World Athletics Championships.
Peking Man was a long way behind, as was everybody else, with the sprightly exception of Jamaica, which equalled the Kenyan tally of 7 golds. Kenya's usual dominance of the distance events was supplemented by victories in the men's 400m hurdles and javelin.
Just as prolific are the theories used to explain it, many of which are reducible to one or two words: genetics, running camps, a "Kenyan style" of running or training, or doping.
The final explanation received some weak support this week as two Kenyan sprinters were suspended, having failed tests at their team hotel, before the competition began.
But more than two words are required. Running camps, for example, are typically run by American or European agents as profit-making businesses. They often receive no state support and are funded by a cut of the prize money won by athletes in city marathons.
There is almost no prize money in the 800m or 400m hurdles and Kenya's track stars are part of a different system altogether. They have nothing to do with the famous Kenyan running camps, and so most of them are employed by the government in some capacity.
For example, David Rudisha, the 800m world champion (above), is a police officer, who represents the police team in domestic meets. However, it would be fair to say that he does not spend very much time fighting crime. It is a mechanism for paying him a salary.
There is little centralised training. Just as British athletes are given lottery funding but are free to choose their own coaches, Kenyan runners have a similar level of autonomy. Rudisha continues to be trained by his mentor, the Irish priest, Brother Colm O'Connell.
The independence of these training groups means that no generalisations can be drawn between them. As with athletes in the United States or Europe, there is no good reason to assume that a method which is being used in one group will be replicated elsewhere.
The secret of Kenyan athletics is that it has lots of secrets. A simple explanation cannot account for them all. Anybody who says that it can doesn't understand Kenyan athletics.
The other headlines were an 11th gold medal for Usain Bolt, and a 9th for Allyson Felix in the 400m. Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands took the 200m in a European record.
Two countries won their first medals, both of them finishing behind Kenyans. Amel Tuka of Bosnia-Herzegovina came third to Rudisha, and Ihab El-Sayed of Egypt claimed silver in the javelin event won by Julius Yego. El-Sayed and Yego have the same Finnish coach.
Teddy Riner of France (above) won an eighth title at the World Judo Championships, a record, and Japan had its most dominant performance since 2010, winning 8 of the 16 events. It won only one gold at London 2012 but it may have peaked just right for Rio.
The Netherlands continued its equestrian successes from last week into EuroHockey, where it won the men's tournament, but its women suffered a shock defeat to the hosts, England, in the final. Ireland reached the semi-finals of the men's event for the first time.
There was more surprises in the Blind Football European Championships, where Turkey defeated the favourites Spain on the way to the title, and in AfroBasket, where Nigeria beat perennial winners Angola in the final. Not even Kenyan running will reign forever.
Next week: Rowing, women's volleyball, Asian boxing and basketball, and mountain bike


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Approval of design costs for new bridge expected
LOCKPORT -- The Niagara County Legislature is expected to appropriate $455,000 next week to pay for the design costs of the new Wilson-Burt Road bridge over Eighteen Mile Creek in Newfane.
Public Works Commissioner Kevin P. O'Brien said Monday that the county should end up paying only 5 percent of that cost, with 80 percent reimbursement expected from the federal government and 15 percent from the state.
Abate Associates of Buffalo is the design firm on the job, with its revised $360,000 contract also expected to be approved next week. However, construction may be two or three years away, O'Brien said.
Also next week, the Legislature is expected to vote a revised $179,000 design contract to Fisher Associates of Buffalo for the Lockport Road bridge over Bergholtz Creek in Wheatfield. It is to be reconstructed next year, O'Brien said.
Application deadline near for Rotary Club scholarships
LOCKPORT -- The deadline is next Monday to apply for one of five college scholarships being offered this year by the Lockport Rotary Club.
High school seniors who live in the Lockport, Starpoint or Newfane districts, including private or parochial schools, are eligible.
Three $2,000 scholarships and two for $1,000 are available; all are for one year. One is specifically set aside for a student entering a vocational program; the others are for two- or four-year academic degree programs.
Information is available at www.lockportrotary.com or from high school guidance counselors.
A personal interview with the Rotary Club Scholarship Committee is required and will be held May 10.
Sales tax revenue share slightly less than budgeted
Growth in Erie County's share of local sales tax revenue was slightly lower than budgeted during the first two months of the year.
Erie County Comptroller David J. Shenk reported that the county's share of sales tax revenue collected during January and February increased 2.1 percent to about $65 million compared with the same period last year, when the county's share of sales tax revenue was $63.7 million.
The 2012 county budget forecasts the county's share of sales tax revenue to be $411 million this year, an increase of 2.5 percent over the county's actual sales tax revenue of $401 million last year.
Two defibrillator units donated by Univera
Univera Healthcare has donated two automated external defibrillator units to the Kids Escaping Drugs Renaissance Campus in West Seneca.
The AED units, which sell for about $2,500 each, are fully automated and provide voice commands for those who use them, including coaching on proper CPR technique. Univera has donated more than 140 of the units to agencies across upstate New York.


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Okay, so the title of this post is a lie. (Catchy, though?) "Partum" doesn't mean pregnant – it means childbirth. And I am not depressed. But "still-pregnant OMFGitis" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Picture this: you're preparing to go away on a long trip. You've arranged someone to keep an eye on the animals, the mail, and the plants. The fridge has no perishables, which also means there's little to eat so you're basically in camping mode. The laundry is done, your favourite clothes and toiletries are packed, and the house is clean and orderly. Your obligations have been taken care of and your ouf-of-office is on. Your to-do list is pretty much bare. Mentally, you've already left, and you have a hard time thinking about anything other than your vacation. You're ready.
Do you know this feeling? We all do, right?
Then you sit down to wait for the cab to take you to the airport.
And you keep waiting for, oh, TWO WEEKS AND TWO DAYS NOW.
And counting.
And the cab might not be here for another three weeks. Or it might be here in one second! Better be ready, just in case!
Of course, our house is in labour/newborn mode, not vacation mode. But the feeling is the same: I've checked out of the here and now, but the next thing just. isn't. happening.
I saw my midwife today. She said, and I quote, "I can't believe you're still pregnant!" The baby's head is basically falling out of my vagina, I'm having practice contractions all the time, and everything from his position to his heart rate to his size is apparently "perfect." On the plus side, this is supposed to be a precursor for a good labour.
… which is going to happen aaaaaany day now. But for sure eventually. Right?


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Karen will be back with her Lochie Witches towards the end of the month but you'll want to read this "The Potion Mistress" and "The SUmmoning" I'll reblog it.
So…Halloween is fast approaching. This flash fiction story was originally written for a Creative Writing course assessment, last year. As one of the characters will be popping up again in a new tale on Mari Wells's blog later this month, I thought I'd remind you about our precocious Lochie Witch… 😉
The shop bell rang, jangling her aching bones as well as her ears. Abigail narrowed her eyes, assessing the girl as she entered. Her customer was pretty, but unlike many, had taken no particular care with her appearance. Fair hair scraped up into a messy bun, no make-up, no jewellery, yet she carried herself with immense confidence. This young lady was good at something, and knew it. Abigail wondered what it was.
The girl approached, pulling a piece of paper from her bag. She regarded Abigail the way they all did: not seeing her, just a…
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I started Harper Asprey in March 2015. I was so excited to get an opportunity to work with wildlife and help look after them when they need a helping hand. Harper Asprey has a
great team of people and it's so nice to meet people who share my love for animals.
I excel at - making a decent cuppa.
I don't excel at - dealing with spiders.Tags: asprey, harper, hand, meet, work, team, wildlife, started, opportunity, excited, helping, 2015, march, bracken, vanessa


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Let $\displaystyle A$ be a polycyclic-by-finite group.
$\displaystyle \langle a \rangle, \langle b \rangle \in center(A)$.
Also, $\displaystyle \langle a \rangle / (N \cap \langle a \rangle)$ is finite.
how to show that $\displaystyle A/(N\cap \langle a \rangle)$ is residually finite???
Is polycyclic-by-finite group finitely generated? If yes, then the proof just walks out.
Can I claim that $\displaystyle \langle a \rangle$ is polycyclic and imply 3rd isomorpism theorem?
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We posted and albums of frames from the shoot we did in various locations at the Black Sea. We stopped for a very short while in Costinesti that used to be a youth resort during the Communist times that was taken over by erratic development like no other.
We continued to 2 Mai a fishermen-village-turned-artist-community that still preserves its charm of traditional blue houses covered by vine leaves and grapes….
…and in Vama Veche, a backwater of 20 houses turned hipster resort that still preserves a sense of tranquility and freedom where bonfires are lit on the beach in the night.


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Remember, our skin is the largest organ of our body! So it would be wise to switch to skin care products made of plant names you recognize, can pronounce, and could even eat (if you had to).
Organic Aloe Vera Juice
Did you know that Aloe Vera juice is one of the most nutrition-packed and biologically-alive liquids on the entire planet? Hardly any natural plant can beat its many benefits to your body.
Aloe contains more than seventy-five nutrients that act synergistically and create an awesome force for your health.
It is truly a wondrous 'gold mine' of phyto-nutrients.
Aloe Vera is a desert plant that has been treasured for centuries for its ability to enhance health. Records show that Cleopatra used it to protect her skin from the sun and stay young-looking, too.
Now you can do the same, and receive all these benefits:
- Soothing. Aloe Vera enhances fibroblast function. Fibroblasts are remarkable little cells responsible for collagen formation. They also assist in the soothing of minor burns, cuts, scrapes and skin irritations.
- Immune support and function. Aloe Vera provides natural support for the immune system. Since our skin is the first exterior line of defense and our immune system works around the clock protecting us, Aloe Vera's natural immune enhancers give us an arsenal from which to draw.
- Helps produce collagen and elastin. Our skin replenishes itself every 21 to 28 days. Aloe Vera adds a rich supply of building materials to produce and maintain healthy skin to support a youthful appearance! A daily dose of Aloe Vera could be just what our skin is thirsting for.
- Minerals. Minerals found in Aloe Vera include calcium, sodium, iron, potassium, chromium, magnesium, manganese, copper, and zinc. What a powerful storehouse! Since our skin absorbs anything we apply to it, using products with naturally occurring vitamins and minerals can contribute to our overall health.
- Vitamins. Aloe Vera includes vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, B12, C and E, folic acid and niacin. Our body simply cannot store some of these vitamins. Using Aloe Vera contributes to building our defense system against oxidative stress!
- Amino acid body-building blocks. Amino acids are your body's own building blocks. Eight are essential and cannot be produced by your body, but are found in the aloe plant. Aloe Vera comes closer than any other known plant to the duplication of essential amino acids.
Organic Virgin Coconut Oil
Virgin coconut oil is an ideal way to rejuvenate our skin. It helps us fight the signs of aging.
It protects against formation of damaging free radicals, and is also used to protect skin from blemishes, signs of aging or overexposure to sunlight. Coconut oil also keeps the skin's connective tissues strong and supple.
Coconut oil offers a youthful appearance to your skin by removing the outer layer of dead skin cells, making the skin smoother.
It can even penetrate into the deeper layers of the skin and strengthen the underlying tissues. It can be a factor in healing and repairing age-damaged skin — unlike most lotions.
Naturally, we want to choose a high-quality organic coconut oil free of chemicals, and without bleach or hydrogenation (which can irritate your skin), to experience its maximum benefits.
Organic Jojoba Oil
Jojoba oil is one of nature's most useful products. Claimed by many as 'nature's wrinkle fighter' – and as 'the cosmetic oil of the century'.
Jojoba oil technically isn't oil, but is a pure and luxurious liquid wax ester from cold-pressed seeds of the Simmondsia chinensis and S. californica desert shrubs native to theSonoraDesert in the southwestern U.S. Native Americans applied ground seeds of jojoba to scratches to speed healing and minimize scarring.
Jojoba oil is a long-chain wax ester, not a triglyceride – making it very similar to the sebum your skin produces (via the sebaceous oil gland).
Sebum's job is to retain moisture and keep skin smooth and elastic.
Unfortunately, from about the age of twenty, your skin's production of sebum decreases significantly. Remarkably, jojoba's naturally silky, odorless, non-allergic liquid mixes completely and rapidly with your natural sebum and follows its pathways deep into your skin.
The liquid wax esters in jojoba assist the sebum by maintaining skin moisture and elasticity. Jojoba oil forms a thin non-greasy lipid layer that holds water in your skin – contrary to common 'oil in water' formulations, which evaporate once they're on your skin's surface.
Meanwhile, it penetrates and stabilizes our intercellular skin structure, leaving our skin soft and supple. On oily skin, it penetrates deep and fast to merge with skin sebum, tricking the skin to regulate the production of sebum.
Since it penetrates so deeply, it helps protect, while allowing your skin's natural maintenance and healing system to do its job — without having to battle dryness.
Further, jojoba contains nutrients that get absorbed into the body, such as vitamin E, B-complex, and the minerals silicon, chromium, copper, and zinc. It also contains a lot of iodine. Its antioxidant properties prevent rancidity and give it a very long shelf life.
For these reasons, jojoba oil is becoming recognized as the 'cosmetic oil of the century', and 'nature's wrinkle fighter'.
Fatty acids from coconut's medium-chain saturated fat are called lauric acid – which is converted into highly beneficial monolaurin in our body. (The only other truly abundant source of lauric acid is in human breast milk.)
Monolaurin is considered by many experts to provide antimicrobial properties that support your healthy immune system. Other studies suggest that monolaurin can stop messages sent between problem-posing cells, disrupting their ability to function.
Organic Shea Butter
Shea butter is an all-natural vitamin A cream from the tropics ofAfrica. It is a superior active moisturizer, also creating moisture similar to that produced by the sebaceous glands in the skin. For centuries, it has been highly regarded for its tonic effects on the skin.
Unrefined and organic shea butter contains an abundance of health-promoting ingredients, including vitamins, minerals, proteins and a unique fatty acid profile.
Unlike petroleum-based moisturizers, shea butter actually restores our skin's own natural elasticity. It enables our skin to absorb moisture from the air, and therefore becomes softer and stays moisturized for longer.
Shea butter is high in unsaponifiables (a type of fat), containing 7-12%. By comparison, avocado oil, a well-known skin conditioner, contains only 2-6%. This high level of unsaponifiables is a property that makes shea butter extremely valuable as a skin conditioner.
Because of its many amazing properties, shea butter has been so highly regarded that its tree of origin acquired the name 'karite tree' – or 'Tree of Life'.
Organic Mango Butter
Organic mango butter — an ideal moisturizer for all skin types.
Mango butter is extracted from the seed kernels of the lush and juicy tropical mango fruit, which is believed to have been cultivated for at least 4,000 years.
It is a soft solid resembling cocoa butter in color and texture and has a slight, sweet scent. One of its most common uses is as a base ingredient for skin care products and soaps – effectively replacing paraffin-based (petroleum based) emollients.
Mango butter's high unsaponifiable contents provide emollient properties, high oxidative ability, and regenerative activity. It also lends protection against the sun's UV rays.
Mango butter has been shown to soften, sooth, moisturize and protect our skin, and to maintain flexibility and control age-related damage to skin cells. It is considered by many to be an ideal moisturizer for all skin types.
Natural Palm Oil
Join the thousands who regard natural palm oil to be nature's gift to the world.
Consumed for more than 5,000 years, its nutritional value, health benefits and value as a natural resource continue to be discovered even today.
Palm oil is nutrient-dense and contains many potent antioxidants, including beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, and tocotrienols, an extremely potent form of vitamin E.
Vitamin E is the major lipid soluble antioxidant in your skin. The potent antioxidant tocotrienols have even more beneficial actions on your skin – our first line of defense against free radicals generated by our environment.
Minimally processed palm oil, like that used in Natural Moisturizers, contains other phyto-nutrients, including phytosterols, squalene, CoQ10, and mixed carotenoids, offering a host of natural and wholesome phyto-nutrients. Palm oil boasts the most significant amounts of tocotrienols available.
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CAPTCHAHave you ever seen a screen like this on the internet? Believe it or not, they have a name. They are called "CAPTCHA" screens. It's pronounced just like it looks ;)
CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". The basic idea is that a web site wants to make sure that the person communicating with it is an actual person and not a program. There are lots of variations on this theme but they all revolve around asking you to do something that a person can do rather easily but which a computer only does with great difficulty.
It's called a "Turing" test in honor of Alan Turing. Turing could be considered the father of software development. In 1950, he wrote a paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," which opens with the words: "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'" Since "thinking" is difficult to define, Turing choose to replace the question by another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambiguous words. Turing's new question was: "Are there computers which would do well in the imitation game?"
To demonstrate this approach Turing proposes a test inspired by a party game, known as the "Imitation Game", in which a man and a woman go into separate rooms and guests try to tell them apart by writing a series of questions and reading the typewritten answers sent back. In this game both the man and the woman aim to convince the guests that they are the other.
Turing then asked, "What will happen when a machine takes the part in this game?" Would the person asking the questions know the difference between real person and a computer?A CAPTCHA screen turns the tables a bit because now a computer is trying to decide whether the entity on the other end of the connection is a person or not.
The most commonly used CAPTCHA implementation is known as reCAPTCHA. It is a CAPTCHA program but it is even more than that. The computers are actually putting YOU to work!!! In the screen below, you are asked to enter two words. You can probably see that the two words are "morning" and "upon". However, reCAPTCHA only actually knows the word "upon". The word "morning" comes from a document that was scanned. The computer is not sure if the word is "morning" or not. So, it asks you to tell it what the word is. If you correctly enter "upon", then the reCAPTCHA program assumes that the other word must also be whatever you say it is... in this case, "morning". reCAPTCHA has verified you are a human AND it has gotten you to help spell check a document that was scanned in. Now, you tell me, who is actually running the world? Us or the computers?


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Got this idea of random thoughts from my facebook account when friends tagged me in their notes.
Rule is… Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose at least 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you.
I decided to give it a try though I want to write several more randoms that could perhaps match my age. 🙂
Here are some samples of randoms from my roaming mind.
- I'm a cry baby… but that was when I was younger, so much younger than today.Don't you ever touch me for that would cause tears to go trekking down my face.
- I attended Grade 1 for two years… hahaha! Ask me how or why. 🙂
- One could easily touch my heart by the strength or weakness of one's character. A child-like innocence could spark a smile on my face.
- You may be the one person that could hurt me the most but I will still love you even if others will not…. simply because I love you.
- I prefer matured guys not necessarily married ones… 🙂 … as male friends…. but the irony of life is that my life is quite entangled with the much, much younger ones. And stranger still, I'm enjoying moments with the younger ones... well, makes me feel a lot younger too. 🙂
- I'm not a Bicolano but I never get tired of watching the awesome beauty of Mayon everytime I travel by land to Albay.Wow! Such a sight can take some wrinkles off my forehead. 🙂
- I love watching sunrises and sunsets in different locations.
- I'm a domesticated loner.
- Life could be more colorful even if you have reached your golden years.Just take a look at me now.
- Perhaps only 1 out of 100 could truly guess my right age.Hmmm… 1%? Not bad.
- I am single but I have several non-biological families… :).
- If I had to live my life all over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes. I'd take more time to relax and would be more ridiculous than I have been during my younger years.I would take fewer things seriously and I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers (even if I don't know how to swim J). Perhaps, I would even give love a chance and have a family of my own 🙂
- I could cry a bucketful of tears just watching a drama anthology, more so by reading a melodramatic novel. And I could laugh out loud even if I'm alone watching some hilarious gag show.
- I am a Lola's girl… and I miss her so much.
- I've tried smoking every brand of cigarette that we have in our store when I was still in my grade school but I didn't like the taste of a single stick.
- I've drank different wines and liquors during my college years that I could tell the brand of one if ever I tasted it… but of course, now, no more.
- My first ambition is to be a nun… but as time passed by, other things came to mind.I also dreamed of becoming a medic and a stage actress.
- I'm not much into food, but I truly enjoyed what I've tasted and savoured in Davao..
- I believe I was a prostitute in my past life…:)…Or perhaps a dog… for I could be one of your most loyal friend :).
- I could be addicted to the person I fancy the most. Be careful that I won't fancy you. 🙂
- I'm scared of speaking before an audience but I could sing a hundred different songs in front of a crowd.
- I got sick, really sick the first time I lied to my father.
- I've experienced death several times in my life that I decided to make my Last Will And Testament.
- I believe that total surrender leads to the road to freedom.
- I am a golden wanderlust.My ultimate trip is to Heaven, my penultimate trip… Trip to Jerusalem, not the game but the Holy Land.
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