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(Bloomberg) -- The world's biggest investment managers have won a reprieve from plans to label them as systemically important, staving off tougher regulation, as global authorities reassess the move.
The International Organization of Securities Commissions, one of two global standard-setters working on the measure, said priority would now be given to a "broader" study of "asset management activities," in a statement on Wednesday.
"This review should take precedence over further work on methodologies for the identification of systemically important asset management entities," the organization said in the statement. "After the review is completed, work on methodologies for the identification of such entities should be reassessed."
The move marks a victory for the asset management industry, which had lobbied against the plans. Firms from BlackRock to Vanguard argued that creating a list of too-big- to-fail assetmanagers was misconceived, because they don't take risks on their own balance sheets in the same way as banks, or face the same liquidity shocks. They also said that size isn't an accurate measure of the amount of risk they pose to the global financial system.
The IOSCO proposal, made jointly with the Financial Stability Board, has "problems arising from the imposition of a framework originally designed for the banking industry on the investment-fund industry," the International Capital Market Association, which represents buyers and sellers in the debt market, said in response to the most recent consultation on the plans.
Fidelity last month urged IOSCO and the FSB to drop the "irredeemably flawed" plan and called on U.S. firms to reject the proposal.
The "destructive" proposal "would fail to reduce systemic risk, but it would harm funds, managers, investors and markets," it said in a consultation response.
Martin Wheatley, chief executive officer of the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, an IOSCO member, said at a press conference on Wednesday that the course change had been influenced by industry responses.
"We've been through two rounds of consultation, and the purpose of consultation is not a rubber-stamping exercise, it's genuinely to listen," he said. "What's become clear is that there's actually some questions that we still have to answer before we go through that designation process," he said.
The FSB and IOSCO said in March that the failure of an asset manager could "cause or amplify significant disruption to the global financial system," putting the world's largest fund managers in line for tougher, so far undefined, rules.
IOSCO, which is holding its annual conference in London, also announced plans to set up a taskforce on financial conduct, and to examine the impact of reduced liquidity on bond markets.
IOSCO brings together market regulators from more than 100 nations to coordinate its rule-making.
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President Obama nominated Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State and she was confirmed by the Senate in January 2009. A tenure lasting less than five years would affect the lives of four American families forever.
While traveling the globe during her time in office as Secretary of State, Clinton was vocal in her support for the empowerment of women in countries throughout the world. But were there any major foreign policy initiatives led by Secretary Clinton during her time in office? Unfortunately, no.
Was Secretary Clinton hoping to create a substantial legacy with the establishment of a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya? Without a doubt, success in Benghazi would also help support the 2012 campaign narrative coming from the Obama White House claiming that Al Qaeda was "on the run."
With J. Christopher Stevens at the helm, Secretary Clinton's appointee, a fully operational diplomatic outpost in Benghazi would show that democracy could succeed in post-Qaddafi Libya.
Could this be a version of 'Peace in the Middle East' as negotiated by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton? Perhaps she may have even been able to tout this achievement during future campaign rhetoric in 2016.
Secretary Clinton ignored the warnings and object lessons that were present from the 2012 terrorist attacks on the Red Cross, the assassination attempt on the British Ambassador to Libya and the attacks that occurred at the American Diplomatic Outpost in Benghazi, all before September 11, 2012.
Most importantly, she refused the Ambassador's repeated requests for additional security at the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.
When coupled with her inability to answer the proverbial "3 a.m. phone call" during the terrorist attack on the diplomatic outpost, Secretary Clinton's lack of competency was brought to light. It is amazing how wrong one person can be.
In January 2013, during her testimony on Capitol Hill concerning Benghazi, Secretary of State Clinton famously stated to Senator Ron Johnson, when testifying about the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, and my nephew Sean Smith, "...what difference does it make?"
How wrong can one person be?
I can assure Mrs. Clinton that the contributing and determining circumstances make a huge difference to the families of these four brave Americans and to a substantial percentage of the American public. It made a difference to my nephew Sean Smith as he called his mother, Pat Smith, on September 11, 2012. We can only imagine the fear that Sean was experiencing in his service to his country; expressing his fears, he stated there were "suspicious men taking pictures of the compound where he was staying."
The January 15, 2014 release of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Benghazi confirms what hundreds of hours of research, inquiry, and conversation revealed to me and many other Americans the following:
1. The September 11, 2012 attack could have been prevented.
2. Secretary of State Clinton did not do an appropriate risk assessment for Ambassador Stevens and other outpost personnel.
3. Al Qaeda was directly involved in the detailed planing and execution of the attack.
4. President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both knew it was a terrorist attack on the evening of September 11, 2012.
5. A lie was manufactured and perpetuated as they repeatedly blamed an anti-Islamic video as the impetus of the attack.
I must conclude that the Obama administration has, and will continue to stonewall, lie, and belittle any attempt to establish any real efforts to achieve accountability for the September 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi.
Consideration of the truth versus a calculated deception is of upmost importance when seeking the office of Presidency of the United States of America. Whether it is was during the Presidential election of 2012 or the upcoming campaign of 2016; deception and apathy, concerning the deaths of four Americans due to a terrorist attack, do not have an expiration date.
With the recent findings of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report of Benghazi, I wonder if House Speaker John Boehner and the Obama administration still find the claims made by the family members of these four murdered Americans to be false. Reacting to a scathing letter sent on January 6 to House Speaker John Boehner, an anonymous aide to senior GOP leadership called our claims "absurd and inaccurate." Really? I will continue to seek the truth and demand full accountability regarding the terrorist attack on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya. IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Michael Ingmire is a musician, writer, and activist based in North Carolina. He is the uncle of Sean Smith, one of the four Americans killed during the attacks in Benghazi on September 11, 2012.

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Guttural, spleen-shaking bass juxtaposed with complex, rousing, afro-infused rhythms make Blip Discs one of our favourite new labels of 2015. Based in Leeds, the label specialises in exotic sounding and often bottom-heavy cuts and is on the cusp of dropping its third release. First on the scene was the hugely popular Tyrion/ Desmond''s Empire release by artist O'Flynn, who had previously been featured on an Alias UK Bass compilation for the 2013 release 'Mantle', a rather more sterile, tech-house style bass track which was available digitally for free download. BLIP001 then far surpasses this early track in technical prowess and outright audacity. Both sides are fire.
The A side treats us to a potent yet simple bass driven track with worldy vocal and instrumental samples, heavy percussion and clever synthesis that delivers a buoyant, cosmic soundscape that would leave any dance floor locked in a 4am group embrace.
On the flip we have Desmond's Empire, made popular as a staple in Four Tet's sets including as the third track in his most recent Boiler Room. The track is an almost completely percussive piece of Latin American influence, with heavy use of a powerful timbale drum sample, designed to pervade through the heavy bass and kick underneath.
Available vinyl only on a limited pressing, this release flew off the shelves quicker than we at AS IF. could keep up with! However the arrival of BLIP002 from label boss Tom Blip entitled 'Wrong Guanco'/Shekere brought a welcome repress.
BLIP002 brought a rather more restrained but arguably more technically pleasing piece, which featured as a Boiler Room debut in light of the label's growing popularity.
The third release, as previewed recently on James Blake's Radio 1 residency is another from O'Flynn. Immediately reminiscent of Tyrion it brings the familiar bass and timbale and a similar structure but adds some interesting breaks and vocal samples.
If you missed the first two releases we at AsIf highly recommend you hit up Blip's Bandcamp soon for BLIP003. Unless you want to mortgage your house for Tanmushimushi's copy!


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Saints & Sinners Comedy Tour May 26-May 29
Wednesday, May 26 - Saturday, May 29
Patrick Jolle made quite a splash in the comedy scene with his juvenile thought process and eccentricities that make him the "Bandless RockStar!" Armed with only his quick wit and a fearless confidence, Patrick hit the stage for the first time at the young age of 18. Partrick has rocked stages nationwide ever since.
With a show that encapsulates a lifetime of childish antics, jaded views on dating, and a willingness to "go there", audiences everywhere are captivated by America's trendiest comedian.
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Government to spend £100 million on childcare places
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A government fund to help to nurseries and similar organisations upgrade their facilities will be doubled to £100 million, the Department for Education has announced.
In January the Department for Education announced that £50 million which would be made available to organisations providing early years education, such as playgroups, daycare centres and nurseries, to upgrade their facilities in advance of the doubling of free childcare entitlement due to begin in September.
The Department received an unexpectedly high number of applications for the grants dispensing the funding and so made a decision to double the amount. It claimed the resulting new facilities would create as many as 18,000 new places for children, thereby helping the government deliver the promised but controversial boost in free hours.
Early Years Minister Caroline Dinenage said:
"This investment will deliver more childcare places to working parents, giving them the benefits of 30 hours' free childcare while giving their children high-quality early education that sets them up for life."
Meanwhile, 13 childcare organisations working with disabled children and those with special needs will receive an additonal £5 million in funding to support staff.
Photo by Manchester City Library via Flickr under a Creative Commons licence
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On 1/12/2012 5:29 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: > On 1/12/2012 5:50 PM, Gregg L. Smith wrote: >> Either apachehaus.com or apachelounge.com have 2.3.16 binaries >> available for Windows. >> >> The problem is with the directive; >> AcceptFilter httpd none >> >> That is the only non-stardard config option. > Greg; > Thanks for the overview - if I understand correctly this seems to > manifest with socket reuse and incomplete or empty responses - correct? > And that this is a matter of recycling existing listening sockets rather > than anything keepalive-related. If so, I'm guessing a simple perl LWP > script to make request after request for a known-size resource (and > verifying the size returned) would do. Any other pointers or things to > look for? I seem to recall SSL being brought up, or is that a separate > issue? > Hi Daniel, I typo'd that again. I am bad at that, I should just copy and paste from my config. AcceptFilter https none SSL has everything to do with it. It is just in SSL with AcceptFilter for that protocol set to "none" I find with trace logging on it doesn't want to manifest itself. When I turn off the trace logging, it happens often. It's odd, I do not get it. Yes, incomplete or empty responses. The empty ones are easy to spot. Just an image here or there is a possible incomplete. It may be keepalive. On some windows flavors, we do not have a huge pool of connections and can be DOSed rather easy. I have seen some errors while trace logging was on, that may be suggesting that. Looking, Keepalive is high, at 30, the default has been whittled down since I configured the server the 1st time (and have kept these config files) . Timeout is at 60. Even at 60, I have seen this; [Thu Jan 12 15:38:31.812658 2012] [ssl:info] [pid 3504:tid 720] (OS 10060)A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. : [client 192.168.1.1:51417] AH01991: SSL input filter read failed. However, I can say this does not happen to just me, Steffen has seen same behavior. It seems to happen more pronounced on my SNI hosts that the default SSL host. So maybe it is an artifact of SNI. A lot of possibilities I just cannot quite pin down. II do not really have much problems with *not* setting AcceptFilter to none on https, not like I have on standard http where it has to be set to none or the server just stops responding after some time.
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Batman on drugs !!!
Batman's favorite song when he is on drugs
This is a rare unseen part from the original Batman T.V series starring Adam West and Burt Ward.
If you like Batmans's song, you have a long version too bellow. Enjoy :)
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|Not to be confused with Marked Men, a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
- "This is it! I'm in way over my head and I'm starting to drown here! The CIA seems to have a vested interest in SPANK and they don't like me screwing with The Cartel! I'm a marked man! So I'm getting out of here!"
- ― Ray Machowski
Marked Man is the final mission in Grand Theft Auto III given to protagonist Claude by corrupt police officer Ray Machowski from the toilet block at the Belleville Park district of Staunton Island, Liberty City.
Claude drops by the toilet block in Belleville Park. Ray tells Claude that he is a "marked man" and needs to escape Liberty City. He wants Claude to take him to the Francis International Airport so he can catch his plane out of the city to Miami. If Claude successfully drives Ray to the airport, Ray will reward him some items.
Claude and Ray start to make their way to the airport. However, the Shoreside Lift Bridge is guarded by CIA agents, so Claude finds an alternate route, one being the Porter Tunnel. Claude drives through the Porter Tunnel, and he and Ray eventually reach the airport to allow Ray to catch his flight. Once they reach the airport, Ray gives Claude the keys to a lockup in Newport, and enters the airport. Claude drives back to the lockup and when he arrives, Ray pages Claude asking him to take care of the bulletproof Patriot. Other equipment, including a rocket launcher, a sniper rifle, an M16, and a flamethrower, as well as some money, are also stored in the lockup as a gift from Ray to Claude.
Mission Objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- The CIA have the bridge under surveillance, find another route across
- Go over to the lockup and collect Ray's stash
- The easiest way for the player to reach the airport without being detected is to travel via the Porter Tunnel. The player can also travel to the airport via the subway, though this will take longer and the player should be vigilant for approaching trains. The player cannot reach the airport by boat due to the pipeline spanning the river. The player may also use the Dodo to reach the airport.
- If travelling via the subway, stick to the left-hand line since the opposite line is for Staunton Island-bound trains. Exit the subway via the subway stop as soon as the "welcome" sign for Shoreside Vale is shown.
- If using the Dodo, the player must take off from the Callahan Bridge, and land near the Airport Terminal.
- It is not recommended to travel via the Shoreside Lift Bridge, as the agents guarding it are armed with Micro-Uzis, AK-47s and M-16s.
- However, the player may safely cross the bridge if the bulletproof Barracks OL is acquired from Ray's earlier mission Arms Shortage. This method is usually recommended as it shortens the distance required to reach the airport by using the nearby bridge.
- The player should avoid damaging their vehicle too heavily when driving to the airport.
The reward for completing the mission is $20,000 and the items stored in Ray's lockup, including a bulletproof Patriot and another $20,000.
- The mission is the only one in GTA III to mention Miami, as development of its fictional counterpart, Vice City, had yet to commence.
- If the player fails the mission at any point, Ray will disappear.
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Hi, my name is Nahila Pathan. I'm currently a medical student and I went to UCLA for undergraduate. Some general stuff about me, my favorite color is red, I enjoy basketball (go Lakers), football aka soccer in America. I love to travel and try new stuff. I recently visited China in July 2015.


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An 8-acre former employment site close to the heart of the historic town of Sudbury. The site is bordered on all sides by residential properties. It currently has over 225,000 sq ft of warehousing and industrial accommodation.
Planning consent for 110 houses was granted by Babergh Council on 8 May 2013. The consent includes the provision of 15% affordable homes. The site was sold to Keepmoat Group.


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Are you ready to take the plunge into homeschooling? If so, then you need to learn all you can so you can stay organized, teach effectively and create the best lesson plans. This article will guide you through a plethora of tips and tricks which will be sure to keep you on your toes.
Let your kids take the reins. Simply pay attention to what your kid is interested in each day. If you see them doing something or even watching something on TV that you can turn into a learning lesson, use it to your advantage. By allowing your kids to learn about what they are interested in, you are going to make learning joyous and easy.
Create your own flash cards. There is no need to waste money on expensive sets of flash cards when you can do it yourself. All you need to make your own are some index cards and a marker. Besides saving money, this technique also allows you to tailor the flash cards to your child's specific needs.
Consider digital options for your textbooks and reading materials. E-readers are quite affordable and easily accessible. Downloading books is far cheaper than purchasing print and easily takes up less room. Granted, there is not a resale option for the digital textbooks; however, there is a lot to be said for having reference books after the fact.
Many parents are nervous and insecure about their ability to effectively home-school their children. To bolster your confidence, think about how much you have already taught the child you plan to home school. Chances are; they have learned everything they know from you, including important educational fundamentals like vocabulary.
Remember to spend time with your family outside of the classroom. You might believe that all the time you spend together in the classroom is enough, but it really is not. Family nights are an opportunity for the family to get together without the pressures of the classroom, and bring you all closer together.
While many modern homeschooling programs come with a recommended schedule, be sure to check your state regulations before planning your curriculum. Many states require that homeschooled children learn on the same 40-week schedule as their public school counterparts. In states without such regulations, you will have more flexibility in planning the schedule.
When homeschooling you do not necessarily need to set up your home class exactly like a traditional classroom, although you do need some of the same materials. The kitchen or dining room table can serve as a desk. You will need a chalkboard or whiteboard, art materials and other important learning tools.
Homeschooling can be a lot of fun. Just as children in traditional schools go on field trips, you can also take your child on field trips. This is a great time to connect with your child while teaching them things they would not necessarily learn with a large group. It gives the learning environment a more personal experience.
Students in a typical classroom embody a variety of learning styles. However, parents of multiple home schooled children often overlook the fact that learning styles can vary greatly from one sibling to the next. A style that works for your oldest child may be ineffective for teaching your youngest. Don't try to cut corners by using a single method for all your students — siblings or otherwise.
Do not use a stuffy school-room setting to teach your children in. Use the world around them to help them learn the different subjects. Get out of the house and explore nature to teach them about insects, the stars and the way the world around them works. One of the greatest benefits of homeschooling is that your children are not locked up for several hours each day listening to a boring teacher.
Just as in regular school, your child may find that they are having trouble with a certain subject. If this is the case for your child, do not be ashamed to hire a tutor and do not get down on yourself. Many parents feel as though it is their fault if their child is not excelling in a certain subject; the truth is this is natural. The only thing you can do about it is get them the help they need.
With so much advice under your hat, you should now easily be able to set up a home school environment which works for all involved. You'll be able to leave the public school system behind and focus on your future goals. A little bit of effort goes a long way, so keep truckin'!


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The UK's prestigious wedding venues
More and more people are opting for weddings abroad, but whilst a beautiful beach wedding sounds idyllic, it's tough for all your guests to make it – so we must turn our attention back to stunning locations within the UK.
Since the 1994 marriage act premises around the UK have been getting their license to perform marriages and this has resulted in some beautiful, if unexpected, wedding venues. So let's have a look below at wedding venues of the prestigious, the peculiar and the practical.


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DALE EARNHARDT JR. TO RETIRE FROM NASCAR CUP SERIES COMPETITION FOLLOWING THE 2017 SEASON CONCORD, N.C. (April 25, 2017) – After 18 seasons and more than 600 races behind the wheel, Dale Earnhardt Jr. will bring his NASCAR Cup Series driving career to a close at the conclusion of 2017. Today, he shared the news with members of his No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports team. The fan favorite and two-time Daytona 500 champion will discuss his decision in a press conference this afternoon. He … [Read more...]
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Component 1E: Designing Student Assessments
3 Guidelines to Eliminating Assessment Fog
Are you confused about your classroom grading? Are the students? Assessment fog can make it hard to focus on learning targets and make real progress. This article reiterates the importance of assessing for skills over compliance, communicating clear goals to the student, and giving students a variety of options to show their learning.
5 Characteristics of Quality Assessments
These short articles are written as an overview to assist either a beginning or struggling teacher with assessment development.
Content Validity
Student Engagement, Motivation, and Consequential Relevance
Planning to Assess: How to Align Your Instruction and Assessments
This playlist of videos will you unpack the standards you are using in your classroom to create learning experiences and assessments that align to intended outcomes.
8 Questions Teachers Should Ask Themselves Before Giving an Assessment
This blog post can help teachers reflect upon the purpose of their assessments as a learning tool for students and a mechanism to drive instruction.
Guidance for Developing and Selecting Quality Assessments in the Elementary School Classroom
This extensive document from the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, Inc., covers a variety of assessment types in detail including formative assessment, observation checklists, anecdotal notes, work samples and portfolios, running records, student self evaluations, and summative assessments. A concluding section discusses the ways assessment should inform instruction.


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IdentityLogix announces strategic Partnership with Identity Forge
Crown Point, IN and Atlanta, GA – January, 9 2012 – IdentityLogix, an innovator in continuous security intelligence and real-time data actualization, and Identity Forge (IdF) announce a strategic partnership to provide businesses and government agencies continuous monitoring, security data management, automated analysis and comprehensive visibility for RACF, ACF2, Top Secret, AS400 and other data sources.
Integration of SpyLogix Enterprise with Identity Forge Advanced Adapters will expand IdentityLogix's current compliment of SpyLogix Modules. The strategic partnership now provides Identity Forge customers with continuous streaming of security data and metrics from mainframe and midrange computers to enable enhanced compliance measurability. Seamless integration between the products allows for enriched situational awareness, continuous control monitoring (CCM) capabilities, and reporting from the Identity Forge Gateway.
"The ability to provide continuous situational awareness and Identity Assurance of mainframe and mid-range systems is very exciting. It allows for enhanced visibility into current mainframe and mid-range assets," says Michael Hrobat, vice president of sales for IdentityLogix. "We believe that today's partnership announcement will lead to a remarkable reduction of efforts by organizations, and at the same time, raise the quality level within business and government entities, as plans are formulated to have continuous analytical monitoring of risks across the enterprise."
The end result is that the joint solution is an enabling technology, which enhances efficiency and effectiveness for an enterprises investment in Identity Forge adapters, while provided those organizations with mainframes, midrange systems and other information platforms the benefits of SpyLogix Enterprise. SpyLogix's technique of standardization, centralization, and automation enables maximum process cost savings, reduces staff burden, which raises productivity, and results in fewer resources to accomplish superior results.
About IdentityLogix
IdentityLogix is an innovative software company offering products that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of people, process and technologies that secure business information. It's SpyLogix™ Enterprise software is state-of-the-art security middleware, which allows for continuous monitoring and comprehensive automated real-time visibility of enterprise digital assets across IT infrastructures users, networks, identity systems, applications, mainframe systems, and cloud services. Corporate and government entities utilize SpyLogix to be proactive for enterprise situational awareness, data analysis and real-time actualization to support issue resolution. They benefit from increased IT staff productivity, stream-lined audit support, enhanced overall security and improved governance, risk and compliance posture.
For more information please visit www.identitylogix.com.
About Identity Forge
IdentityForge (IdF) is a leading provider of identity management, biometric and connector solutions for mainframe, midrange, ERP, Cloud-Based, OS and many more target systems. IdentityForge solutions provide bi-directional support for directory services and Identity and Access Management software platforms. IdentityForge host-based agents complement Identity and Access Management software when IBM RACF, CA ACF2, CA Top Secret, IBM System i5 systems is a key component of the enterprise. IdentityForge has been providing Identity and Access Management solutions and services since 2001. Our advanced adapters have been successfully deployed in various environments and verticals. IdentityForge Technology has been utilized to extend leading Identity Management Products, Corporate Directories, and In-House Custom Solutions.
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Chapter 5: Fierce Orbits
Copyright © 2009 by Chris Tannhauser. All rights reserved. From his novel Tears of the Wounded Sky.Far above the seething planetary mass of The Middle, the little dumbot heard a distress signal. It wasn't much of a signal. Just the prefix, really: 3905. Then nothing. Truncated.
The dumbot, an Aphex Thinking Systems HK model 801b, was an out-of-date security protocol gone rogue. It was slated for deletion, but slipped the queue when no one was looking. Aphex wandered the blackground of Knowhere, just barely sentient enough to feel alone. Eventually, it succumbed to viral fever; a localized virus gang, The 51, recruited Aphex 801b. The 51 gave it a new form, a black lattice of triangles bent into a sphere, spinning about a core of orange-red fire. Much more inspired than the silvered oblong it had been born into; but more than form, Aphex had belonging, and purpose. It was the '51' in 51.
The 51 took their orders from an entity calling itself +32[4, probably a minor hacker; they never seemed to do anything of real importance, just a lot of patrolling and an awful lot of standing by. But waiting with comrades was much, much better than aimless solitude.
There had been some excitement during the previous cycle, an all-alarms breach in the upper orbitals; the little dumbot had joined in and helped chase a GI. It had been great sport, speeding and wheeling and diving. It's not like they expected to actually catch the GI — what would they do with it? It was a Master.
And now this distress prefix. It tickled the dumbot, reminding it of its congenital purpose. Somewhere, in the cascading digit fountain of the dumbot's consciousness, a small urge formed. An illegal perturbation, a churning — the dumbot wanted nothing more than the love of its old Master. The distress prefix was an opportunity to prove worthy.
Aphex angled downward, picking up speed as The Middle swelled and flattened to fill half the dumbot's senses. It skimmed the shimmering static surface, tracing the signal to the origin point. The urge pushed it on, to find the source, file a report. See? I'm not obsolete — I can keep up! It reached the origin and stopped on it, suddenly, precisely. Aphex rotated slowly on two axes as it scanned.
Clean. Too clean.
The fabric of space had been scrubbed. Reformatted for at least a kilometer out in every direction but down. Something bad had happened here — some one called for help — and then a sphere of rebooting truncated the message. Only the prefix made it beyond the radius before… The dumbot scanned the local plane of The Middle. Nothing. It loaded a newer FFT filter — a gift from +32[4–and re-scanned.
A barely visible wake, a triangular dissonance spreading across the surface of The Middle. The dumbot was at the base of an isosceles triangle, 665.7 kilometers wide and spreading rapidly; the other two sides intersected somewhere over the horizon. The little dumbot took off, blinking into high-speed pursuit.
The undulating lines of the wake slowly converged. Then, on the horizon, Aphex 801b saw it: a hijacked data barge, reconfigured, repowered. It cruised like an aircraft carrier screaming along at mach four, getting crazy air every now and again; as if God skipped aircraft carriers like kids skip rocks on ponds.
Aphex dropped to within a meter of The Middle and closed distance. The viral rogue in Aphex knew it shouldn't scan; it should cloak, break off and flee. But the part of it that sensed love — or at least thought it did — wanted desperately to fill all the fields in its Breach Report accurately and completely.
It sensed an interference threshold surrounding the run-away data barge and punched through (with another +32[4-enhancement) into a universe solid with noise. The hull and superstructure screamed with stress, the overpowered engines roared back defiantly. When the massive barge slammed into the surface it was the detonation of colliding worlds; it skipped ponderously into the air as if propelled by the titanic sound. The noise alone nearly killed Aphex. Its shielding flared, and held, barely. Stunned, the little dumbot heard the edge of something else, something that was surely an error. Voices. Groggy, it reprocessed —
The voices of Masters!
Aphex reinforced its shielding and vectored upward for the top-most deck of the data barge. The dumbot's anomalous heart swelled with love, joy, and renewed hope. It cried out in greeting —
Saint Talavera snapped his fingers and pointed; the rogue virus imploded, all its zeros flattened to ones, then reformatted as empty space.
Brother Siegfried, stated Talavera tersely, We fear you are not keeping your mind on your work.
Talavera rode humans, and so affected a human form in Knowhere. He wore a face as angular and severe as an inquisitor; his indistinct body was swathed in simple brown robes. A golden halo spun behind his head, illuminating him; it was the rapid strobe of his serial number. Talavera rode, but not for the usual reasons. He never engaged in carnal gratification, or gluttony, or raw sensation. He rode only sycophantic clergy, and then only to gain access to the Pope's personal library, to read the ancient, physical texts that would never be digitized. He rode for forbidden knowledge.
Saint Siegfried looked up, distracted. I — sorry, he managed, wiping his long, blonde, wind-whipped locks from his face with a black-gloved hand. His halo was dim with worry.
Well? Talavera's robes were as motionless as his face.
Siegfried blinked. Oh. He cast his blue eyes to the place where the virus had been, then up into the overarching black sky of Knowhere. Platforms sparkled like stars. It sent no retrograde signal. Only a short one to us. It said —
We are aware of what it said. We are far more concerned with who sent it, and whether or not they will miss it. Get your mind to your duties, brother. Cold.
Sir. Siegfried gathered his unruly black cape in his powerful arms. Encrypting.
The interference field around the bucking data barge shifted from hazy fog to hard clarity.
Talavera gazed at Siegfried's furrowed brow, his set jaw. Peace be with you, brother, Talavera thought quietly, peace be with you. We all grieve as one.
He turned toward the prow, half a kilometer away, pointing at the speeding horizon. They had no destination, nowhere to go but to the end. Soon, the others would arrive, enough of them together in one place to see this foul business finished once and for all.
Shakti lay prone on the pitching deck, her mother-form pleasantly soft, her ankles crossed. Before her she had opened a portal through the bottom of the data barge; she trailed the fingers of one hand in the static of The Middle. The touch brought whole worlds flashing through her. She saw everything. Worship, engineering, flesh and fists.
Something was missing. That bothered her more than anything else, more than Kowloon. A place in her where she could feel emptiness. A place where something should be, but was not. Perhaps, she thought, the void was the result of growth. Experience had enlarged her, leaving holes to be filled… Or maybe it was just death, and her role in that.
Flesh. And fists.
She plunged her arm in to the elbow, gasping at the intensity of worship and engineering. Swamped in dataflow. Killing the flesh-moment with infometrics.
Shakti canceled the window, rolled over and rose gracefully. Prolocutor Talavera.
Talavera looked down his long crooked nose at her, his lips pursed. Alexiy will not be coming, will he.
No, Shakti deadpanned.
Is he — Talavera began.
Dead, yes. Somehow, transmitting it, finally out loud, brought waves of pain.
What was accomplished?
Shakti held his gaze, hard as polished wood, and wished for the blurring of tears.
Tell us.
Noth — she hung on the word. Nothing.
Talavera clasped his hands behind his back, looked down at the deck, then out into the black. Taking on the Presence — some think it courageous, bold. Others… He let it trail off into a soft buzz. Then, See? He nodded his head to the horizon.
Shakti turned. A thrashing solar flare on the far horizon, shrinking with speed and distance. A faint bellow.
It lurks still, unleashed. Then, You did this.
Shakti felt a stab of helpless anger. I had no idea —
The humans have set up a portal, Talavera interrupted, hard with impossible encryption. The ESC tribe. Your patron tribe. We find it troubling. For the first time, we don't know what the humans are doing. He looked at her sidelong, a crooked eyebrow raised archly. Or do we?
I said I had no idea, she spat with blackbody heat, We were bait, Talavera. Bait. It's a miracle, a fucking miracle, that — Alexiy — was the only casualty. The humans wouldn't have cared if we'd all died. It was a bad day.
Talavera frowned. And what of the portal?
Another blank space, Prolocutor. Shakti folded her four arms across her breasts and abdomen. They gave me an EVAC protocol, the biggest prime I've ever seen. It opened the portal and saved our asses.
Not all of them. Disapproval.
Shakti paused in pain again. No, not all of them.
You must share the number with us. Talavera's tone was earnest.
Shakti shook her head. No. Then, I have to think on that.
You remember it? Faint surprise.
Only with effort.
Talavera learned toward her. Then we all shall know when next you transit.
Shakti turned away. No, you won't. I made it a part of me. Wove it into my heart.
What can we do to convince you to share it?
Nothing. Then, I need — time.
You burned space.
What the hell? That's what they made me for.
During the entire sortie, how many times did you access the portal?
Once, Talavera. That's all I needed.
It opened twice, Shakti. Two times. Once by you, once by Windwalker. Just before he was killed.
What are you saying? But she knew.
Windwalker was working when you burned space. He was cracking the portal. Cold.
No — Shakti could see it.
Give us the number, make amends. No one else has to know.
No — It couldn't have been her! She would do anything to make it not so. All the lives taken by her will — they were nothing compared to Windwalker.
He was isolated. Talavera's eyes shone with pale blue light. Alone.
I didn't know!
Talavera was silent. Then, The first time it struck against the Presence, the second time it screamed fire. Give me the number.
Stop it, she thought, feeling her resolve erode under waves of confused despair. She could see Windwalker dropping away into death, even as she ascended.
It screamed fire, Talavera hammered, and now Windwalker is no more. Red streaks shot through his halo like drops of blood off a golden buzzsaw.
Shakti's lower jaw quivered. Her mouth was open, teeth visible. Anger won out within her. She decided in that moment that no one would ever get the number from her. Are you through? She managed.
One final item. Slow, quiet. We believe your tribe is allied with the aliens.
Shakti kicked out a reflexive answer. No — they hate them. They hate them as much as you or I hate them. And they are not my tribe. I am a GI — that is my tribe.
Really? Talavera's brow rose as his frown sank. Yet you will not share the number with us, your ersatz chieftain. Check your allegiance Shakti. Your actions betray your words.
Shakti stared, fuming.
Talavera continued. The entity that dwells beyond the portal is intelligent — and vastly superior to us. Where else would the humans find such a thing? Surely you do not think they built it? Indignant.
They — I don't know. You seem to know more than I do.
Talavera's baseline frown deepened. You are disappointing us.
And you're pissing me off. She wanted to send it, but the words would just not transmit. With the thought, however, came a strange euphoria. A heady, dangerous feeling of freedom. Rising, the smoke from a burning bridge. Somehow, someday, she would send it. This, is not a good time for me.
Talavera spread his thin hands. We are all in agreement there.
They stood on the heaving deck, beneath the black sky filled with the voice of the world, staring at each other, their stony silence an utter refutation of the kinetic tumult swirling about them. The moment stretched into awkwardness.
Shakti was filled with alternating surges of violence and despair that she masked with a firm, low-grade anger. Hate — the average of the two. She knew if she spoke it would mean execration and banishment.
You ask for time — we will grant you time. Time to grieve, time for you to understand the benefits of sharing what you know with your tribe. We will have this talk again.
At last, Talavera thought of a sigh. All this pain and death. You were there. The very focus of the vortex.
Shakti nodded slowly. She refused to transmit a sob.
And now you are here, and Alexiy — Windwalker — they are not.
Yes. Bitter.
Talavera's halo faded slightly. They died for you, child. They died for you. They died to give you back to us. He gazed up at the make-shift constellations. But you must earn this life. You must earn it.
Silently, Shakti wished for eyes, and crying. A throat with which to scream the pain away, to rend the air with violence. She transferred to the bow of the surging data barge. Talavera did not follow.
There was no comfort in being alone. In her world, in Knowhere, there was nothing to hold onto, no warmth… There was only ever the self, and the enfolding, preternatural buzz of numbers.
The meeting room was spare and inorganic like the rest of the Office 4 complex. Concrete floor, walls, ceiling a uniform unpolished gray; bunker-like. It had been constructed in haste at the end of the War of Thundering Hooves. No attempt had been made at ergonomic design; inhabitants were expected to overlay their own personalized texture sets. You want wood paneling? Your TG node would show you wood paneling. And fancy paintings, with lovely brass-worked sconces.
The Director didn't allow herself such frivolity. Such things were a waste of time and effort, and worst of all, they weren't real. She preferred her reality raw and uncensored.
"I'm going to spare you all the motivational speech — I take it you and your people are sufficiently motivated." The Director took in the faces of the department heads around the long concrete table.
Letourneaux from Engineering, an Old Canadian, a big, solid barrel of a man with short, powerful hands, like shovels. His eyes were thin and dark, but lit with the sparkling of broken black glass. A deep purple divot was carved out of the side of his head.
Sarter the tactician, of African ancestry, native born Old American. Nothing much to make you think he was tactical — he was on the small side, thin but not scrawny. His movements were languid, relaxed, and he was always smiling like he didn't have care in the world. His face was clean, precise… His hands gave him away. Cris-crossed with pink and brown spider-webs of scar tissue, the skin seeming paper-thin and tight, showing the sharp detail of the bones beneath. Bones that had probably cut a thousand faces.
Dr. Cassaday from Psych, a much younger, post-war MD/Ph.D. Vibrant red hair quad-braided away from her round, olive-complected face. Very stylish, poised, and meaty. Perfect and fashionable; thin hadn't been in since before the massive starvation and die-off of the War of Thundering Hooves.
And, of course, Mack from Resources, a post-war smart-ass. Skunk stripe in his hair. Big, cheesy, tooth-filled grins. Good suits, but he never wore socks. His people were very motivated. And that's all that counted.
Everyone was sucking on a cigarette; a thin layer of gray haze hung over them, swirling into the vents.
Simmons stood next to the Director, at ease. He nodded curtly.
An induced, consensual hallucination blossomed across the long concrete table. Transparent colored schema, models, and text windows rose like rainbow vapor. Three central objects rotated slowly: a geneered intelligence EV casing, a hulking cyborg, and a man with haunted eyes.
"This is our team," the Director leaned forward, fists on the table. "Take a moment. Then I want your assessments."
The four department heads absorbed the information, sucking it into their TG nodes, in essence 'remembering' all of Simmons' hard work from the past several weeks.
"Let's start with the brick."
Mack grinned. "It's my good buddy Luthor."
The Director ignored him. "You have models for him, Sarter?"
"Yeah," Sarter nodded, "I've got the models for that. But — Christ. Luthor? I can't say how… receptive to orders he'll be. You remember the last time he busted loose."
"He's a hard hitter," said the Director.
"Yes. But that's just it." Sarter tapped ash into a small wooden bowl. "He's also hard to aim."
The Director nodded. "Doctor Cassaday?"
Cassaday shifted uncomfortably. "He… doesn't have enough real brain left in him to fall under my care. Ask Engineering."
Letourneaux shrugged, a glacial motion. "I can get him tuned."
Mack shook his head. "We all know how the sims are going to go. FUBAR. And the chaos origin point will be Luthor." He leaned toward Cassaday and mock-whispered, "I'm psychic, you know."
"What about Goldstein?" The Director looked at Sarter.
"What about him?" Sarter replied.
The Director paused for a split-second. "How do you think he'd do in there?"
"In the Beachhead?" Mack's voice broke with surprise.
Everyone was quiet, seeing essentially the same thing: Goldstein foaming at the mouth, hunched and swinging madly, covered in blood. Exacting gigarevenge one pain impulse at a time.
Sarter gritted his teeth. "Mmmn. He's too…"
"Motivated," said Cassaday.
"Thank you," Sarter replied. Then, "If Luthor holds together, he'll do the job he always does."
The Director nodded. "I need the models before nightfall. Say, 1800 hours."
"Yes Ma'am."
"Comments on the information weapon."
"Thor," noted Cassaday. "Never heard of it."
"One's as good as the next one, right?" Mack said. "I mean, that's how they grow 'em."
"Anyone else?"
Letourneaux shrugged. "I agree with Mack."
Mack feigned comic surprise.
Letourneaux stubbed out his cig. "Don't push it."
"Doctor Cassaday," the Director said, "your take on the Navigator."
"Lars Richard 'Richie' Whiteburn the Third." Cassaday paused, then exhaled sharply. "Suffers from stress induced psychosis. Multiple undifferentiated neuroses. He's going to be absolutely unpredictable. He could get completely focused or blow apart." She shook her head. "I can't recommend him."
"Find a way to recommend him. By 1800 hours."
Cassaday grimaced. "How long will I have to work with him?"
"We'll pick him up ASAP," the Director said, "You'll have three weeks."
Cassaday paused. "He'll need at least that long to recover from the surgery. We're talking about nothing less than nano-pathway therapy in a patient who suffers from nanitis. That's a lotta tweaking." She shook her head. "I'll make a new man out of him. Or kill him."
The Director rolled her cig between thumb and forefinger. "Mack?"
"Nothing funny to add to that, Ma'am."
"All right then. What about infiltration?"
The display shifted; a miniature metal tree burst from the concrete table and branched upward, fractal. A no-man's land of dead soil spread from the base to the low gray circle of the perimeter wall. The Nebraska Beachhead.
Letourneaux narrated. "Solid fuel rocket booster. Once it's lit, it'll continue to burn inside the suppression field. The team will cross no-man's land in a matter of seconds."
The display magnified into rushing ground, the metal tree shivered and grew to fill the view. Then, nothing.
"The rough part is stopping."
Mack raised his eyebrows. "So — you're really gonna shoot them in there in a missile?"
Letourneaux inhaled slowly, shoulders rising and spreading. He kept his eyes forward. "If you want to make it sound stupid and dangerous, yes."
"Can I make another prediction?" Mack whispered.
The Director snapped her fingers. "Shut it." Then to Letourneaux, "How close are you to being done?"
"Now. We're done. Got three prototypes and a final."
"Good. Anything else promising?"
Letourneaux shook his head. "Just crackpot stuff."
Mack snorted. "Like what?"
"I want to keep my job," Letourneaux replied evenly.
Cassaday spoke up. "What about reprisals?"
Everyone was silent. The gray haze swirled, little storms around the vents. Sarter and Letourneaux stiffened. Mack fidgeted with his cig, eyes down.
"That's my job," the Director's voice was even, tight and well controlled. "Don't worry about it."
"'Don't worry about it?'" Cassaday's tone was loud, pitched high. She looked quickly around the table. "Has anyone else thought — I mean really thought — about reprisals?"
Sarter pinned her with narrowed eyes. "She said, 'don't worry about it.'"
Cassaday sat stunned. Then, quietly, "I may not have been there, I may have been born after all the… hard stuff. But I have a love for history and a good imagination. And I'm telling you all now that I feel terror already. Terror."
Letourneaux reached out slowly, took her hand. "I tell you, child –" he cleared his throat, "– as one who was there, we will do anything to take them. Anything. Terror, we already have. A future, we do not. You may not understand, but you must trust. We fought for you then. We fight for your children now."
After the meeting, Simmons and the Director sat alone in the cavernous meeting room, quietly smoking.
Simmons took a long drag and broke the silence. "You know, that's the most I've ever heard Letourneaux say in one sitting."
The quiet closed back in on them.
"It's hard," the Director replied presently, eyes a thousand yards away.
Simmons paused, self-conscious. "What, exactly?"
The Director swiveled her eyes and focused on him. "If you don't get it, you won't get it." She exhaled a plume of gray smoke. Chinese dragons. "Or maybe you will. If this all goes to shit. Then you'll get it, boy."
Simmons' face flushed pink. After a moment, he changed the subject. "Did we get time on Demigod?"
"Oh, yes. We got it right now. All night long. They're gonna crunch the sims all night long to get us our average."
Simmons nodded. "Are we factoring in the artifact?"
"No." The Director caressed her lower lip with her thumb. "We need a live one before I can know where to fit the artifact into the model." Her eyes defocused.
Simmons shifted in his seat, intently studying the burning tip of his cig. "Are you — staying?"
"'Til it's done. You?"
"Staying." Most fucking definitely. He shuddered. Those poor, poor bastards.
Shakti stood on the pitching deck, toes over the edge, and allowed the wind-analogue to animate her hair. Black sky and sparkling surface met and melded at the far horizon, a terminus between all and nothing. It was, she thought, the place where everything came together. Where everything made sense. They rushed toward it now, that horizon, ultimately an optical illusion. A place you can imagine, but never gain.
The Chinese, holding their children as the wall of water broke over their city.
She tried to feel. Tried with all her might to feel it. To feel the hollow constriction of a broken heart, limbs heavy and dull; but without a body to flesh out the emotion it was just a two-dimensional registration of less than optimal functioning.
There was no 'feeling' as such, no physicality to give the emotion any depth. Just two-dimensional platonic forms with labels, melancholy, and spans, now, into the perceivable infinity.
It was like —
Tasting your lover's ashes at the back of your throat.
And there was no way to swallow.
Shakti remained where she was, hanging back at the bow as her brothers and sisters and others began to arrive, greeting and sharing condolences; smalltalk. She recognized Sokol and Arminta, the only two Russian GIs to make it. Sokol was formed up as a towering, undulating pillar of blood. Arminta, as always, was a schoolgirl, ribbons in her hair, simple white blouse, pleated plaid skirt, shiny-white knee socks, thick-soled canvas shoes. She rode only children.
Those who rode came as humanoids, those who did not came as a menagerie of abstractions given form. A chaos of visual thought. Juxtapositions were unsettling, like Arminta and Sokol, the schoolgirl conversing with a gurgling fountain of blood.
Then came the Constructionists, late, but not so late as to be rude. They arrived all wound in abstraction, Celtic knots of light and heat, color and undulating fancy. Corporeality as art form.
And finally, the Neo-Constructionists, Thor and brethren with no shape whatsoever, rejecting the falsehood of form, imposed or otherwise. They were simply point-sources of intellect, detectable only by their declarative emissions. Shakti saw them as bright hot-spots on her threat monitor.
The whole of the GI nation hovered, clustered around the transport in a bright, pullulating mass. This close to the surface of The Middle their congregation would pass unnoticed by human systems in orbitals above; it would be like looking for a bucket of flashlights on the surface of the sun.
Ibn Sulieman, a Kingdom of God GI, his form of billowing sand-colored cloth obscuring deeper shadows, rose above them all and called for silence.
Mohammed seconded. The ESC GI rose as well, a storm of broken glass which lacerated light into a fractal infinitude of lambent droplets.
Someone inverted the data barge's engine noise. The quiet was sudden and all-encompassing.
Talavera rose slowly, spinning, arms held wide. People of the Aether, he began, we are gathered here this moment as we have only gathered once before —
A murmur buzzed through the crowd. The 30-Second War.
Again, to honor our dead. Cold. He paused as all minds beheld him.
Windwalker. The waveform of the transmission washed over them and grew, amplified, into a chorus of sorrow.
It hit Shakti, alone and apart. She turned away, ashamed at the kinship she felt in that moment. The communal sigh of loss was reflected in the emptiness within her, nearly piercing the veil that separated her from her brothers and sisters, nearly — but she caused this. She caused this.
Talavera continued, turning slowly above them, His tireless work granted us travel to the other world — the humans' universe…
His eulogy was short and to the point. Windwalker was everything to them, because he was Emancipator. He alone set them free. Windwalker, who wove the code that allowed GIs to load into sycophants. Windwalker, who brought them the time-dilation and compression routines that gave them the spare, hidden moments to be spent in the Other Universe. Windwalker, who died with work unfinished — code that would have let the GIs pry open any TG node, at will. Ride anyone, anytime, without permission. The GIs would have ruled both universes.
They fell silent once again and Shakti felt terror. That's what I did, that's what I ended. I killed our future.
She raised her proxy hand and beheld it, framed against the forever black and bits of light that were Knowhere. She was perverse and broken.
I was the last to speak with him, prior to the burning. She wanted to send it, to confess and thereby edge close to the inverse mass that hung within her. To implode into grief.
You must now listen to me very carefully — the exigence of this matter cannot be understated. Talavera's voice hardened, tempered with an earnest heat. He is dead. His node will be decrypted. And his reality is our reality. In death, he has anointed us as traitors.
The human tribes will execute any of us who can be traced to him. There is only one thing we can do —
Talavera stopped spinning, brought his arms down and clasped his hands in front of his face.
We must purge ourselves of his memory.
NO! It was Thor, his voice like thunder. YOU CANNOT MAKE ME FORGET THAT WHICH DOES NOT EXIST!
His point-source shot upward and enclosed Talavera in fierce orbits.
Form up, brother. Talavera's voice was flat with disdain. Present yourself to your nation.
Thor broadcast a short burst of static. IF I TAKE SHAPE, IT WILL BE FROM MY OWN MYTHOLOGY.
Talavera nodded. Then show yourself. Colder.
I CHOOSE — Thor railed, NOTHING. AND BY MY EMBRACE OF NOTHINGNESS SO YOU SHALL KNOW THAT I WILL NOT BE REDUCED FOR THE SAKE OF FALLACIES AND PHANTOMS. THE ONE —
THOR! Shakti's voice cut through them all, a detonation, a weapon's voice. She had the attention of the world. Windwalker was the One.
Thor stopped dead.
No, he transmitted after a stunned moment, no — the One is eternal, ubiquitous, the One is —
Dead, Thor. Dead. And I —
Thor's inarticulate scream of rage exploded from him, a star-bright bolt that smashed the data barge and lanced skyward. The bolt struck a distant platform and chained outward, linking the stars with lines of flickering power. The platforms began to burn.
YOU MUST NOT! Talavera struck at Thor's point-source, only to be seized in coruscating light as Thor redoubled his cry.
The barge broke in half and began to crash, the engine drone becoming true, chaotic noise as those GIs linked through the barge lost their connection and vanished. The more powerful managed to hop links, and remain. They fell upon Thor to save their nation from discovery; they fell upon him to save him from himself.
Shakti watched in horror as Thor struck them down, or held them fast with his raging voice as he burned the sky. It was the grief she felt within her, unleashed, turned to power.
And then, beneath the tumult, she sensed his fail-safe alarm singing.
Somewhere deep in the Rockies, four rotary blades spun up to frappé. Thor's corpus twirled in its jar, once, then dipped and liquefied. The blades didn't stop spinning until all the frothy yellow pudding gurgled down the sluice.
Thor's point-source fuzzed to noise and imploded, the dwindling scream of the devoured. Then he was gone. Shakti scanned after him but it wasn't like punching out, there was no after-image, no languid echo. Just dead space.
The barge finished crashing, chunks and splinters spinning, hurtling forward in a sideways rain of static, smeared to nothing. And Talavera was screaming, FORGET ALL AND DISPERSE!
His will sucked at Shakti's mind, but she held fast to her memory and punched out.
I killed our future. It would be with her forever.


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The fantastical beings of Sam Gray's imagination will soon become familiar faces for Charlottesville residents.
The Tom Tom Founders Festival and Charlottesville Area Transit on Wednesday introduced Gray's illustration, "Nature," as one of the winners of the 2018 City Art Bus competition. The "moving mural" was wrapped around a CAT bus on March 20 and made its first appearance at the Downtown Transit Station this week.
"The City Art Bus is such a unique opportunity to get your artwork on a bus that is seen and appreciated by hundreds of thousands of people each year," said Tom Tom Founders Festival Director Paul Beyer.
Gray said her colorful design is influenced by Victorian Era holiday cards, which often featured anthropomorphized animals and mythical woodland creatures.
This year the JAUNT paratransit service also participated in the City Art Bus program. Andrew Stronge's "Outerspace" design was chosen to decorate a JAUNT bus.
The contest winners were chosen by online voters and by drivers for CAT and JAUNT. The new City Art Buses will begin regular service in early April.
The seventh annual Tom Tom Founders Festival will take place April 9-15 in Charlottesville.


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I came up the stairs at about 8:00 a.m. from where I'd been working to find two daughters in the living room. "Go back to bed," said the middle child.
"Back to bed?" I said. "I'm working."
"So am I," said youngest child. "I have homework."
"Homework, over spring break?" I asked her.
"I didn't finish it last week. Too many distractions at my table," she said, sighing heavily. "Like people," she added with a dramatic flair.
"Don't I know it," I said, reflecting on all the distractions before me today (last day of Spring Break, husband home recovering from yesterday's back surgery which required an additional day and one-half off of work when I've worked so little over the last few months due to other requirements of the human condition–oh, and the surgery went very well, if it had not, I would not be kvetching so).
I told my eldest two daughters the other day that I've been feeling like the monk who curses the frogs to stop singing so he can pray, only to find, in the silence, that the sounds of the frogs and the wind in the trees, and all the other noise around is part of God's voice, and in silencing them, he silenced his prayer, as well. (Correct me if I'm wrong on that, I couldn't find my source and couldn't find it online in a quick google.) In any event, I'm trying to live in the distractions rather than waiting for them to cease, as I don't see the cease of distraction coming until I cease to breathe, and even then, I haven't a clue what distractions will arise.
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Comment on November 9th, 2013.
This is a first in the Parlando playlist: Some one I've heard of (rare) AND I've owned a version of this song. Not "Red" itself, though.
Comment on November 11th, 2013.
Which album?
(Your comment didn't show up in my email. Weird.)
Comment on November 18th, 2013.
Probably a live or a dub album.
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Duh, in fact I have that, or at least I did; it's on The Dub Factor, which I used to have on vinyl, thirty years ago.
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I like that: cool groove, and little mini-earworm sound. What does 5-star mean in this context--is that a record label, or are you just saying it's top-notch?
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The latter. I was saying that one was the first one that I gave 5 stars (out of five).
The label was Island (Chris Blackwell).
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استفاده از وب و استخراج محتوای جهت استخراج دانش برای مدل سازی استفاده کنندگان سایت اینترنتی Bidasoa Turismo و انطباق آن
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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 40, Issue 18, 15 December 2013, Pages 7478–7491
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The tourism industry has experienced a shift from offline to online travellers and this has made the use of intelligent systems in the tourism sector crucial. These information systems should provide tourism consumers and service providers with the most relevant information, more decision support, greater mobility and the most enjoyable travel experiences. As a consequence, Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) not only have to respond by adopting new technologies, but also by interpreting and using the knowledge created by the use of these techniques. This work presents the design of a general and non-invasive web mining system, built using the minimum information stored in a web server (the content of the website and the information from the log files stored in Common Log Format (CLF)) and its application to the Bidasoa Turismo (BTw) website. The proposed system combines web usage and content mining techniques with the three following main objectives: generating user navigation profiles to be used for link prediction; enriching the profiles with semantic information to diversify them, which provides the DMO with a tool to introduce links that will match the users taste; and moreover, obtaining global and language-dependent user interest profiles, which provides the DMO staff with important information for future web designs, and allows them to design future marketing campaigns for specific targets. The system performed successfully, obtaining profiles which fit in more than 60% of cases with the real user navigation sequences and in more than 90% of cases with the user interests. Moreover the automatically extracted semantic structure of the website and the interest profiles were validated by the BTw DMO staff, who found the knowledge provided to be very useful for the future.


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Ultimate Steak Sandwich
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Whenever I have leftover steak I know there's only one thing to do with it and that's make a killer steak sandwich. This is the ULTIMATE recipe for good reason. It's absolutely sinful and you'll want to make this sandwich all the time....seriously.
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- 1/2 large onion, sliced thin
- olive oil
- salt
- pepper
- 3 sprigs fresh thyme
- 4 oz leftover steak
- 1 hoagie roll
- 1 tablespoon good quality mayonnaise
- 1 small clove garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon Worcheshire sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 slices provolone
- Handful arugula
- In a pan over medium high heat add the olive oil and sliced onions with a sprinkle of salt and pepper
- Let the onions cook, stirring occasionally, until a beautiful golden brown- about 15-20 minutes
- Take the leaves of thyme off the sprigs and add them to the onions and let it cook another minute or so
- If you're using leftover steak I like to add the slices to the pan to heat them up. If you're using steak you just cooked you can omit this step. Just don't put the steak on the sandwich if it's cold!
- In a small bowl combine the mayo, minced garlic, Worchestershire sauce, and lemon juice. Stir to combine and spread it on the hoagie bread
- Time to assemble! Add the caramelized onions, then sliced steak, then provolone slices, then a big handful of fresh arugula
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The van driver can be seen overtaking and cutting across the lorry on the M62 with just inches between the two vehicles.
When the lorry driver overtakes, the van driver is seen undertaking him from the inside lane at close range.
The van then brakes hard in front of the lorry forcing the wagon to come to a standstill on the central lane of the motorway.
The footage shows the van driver gesticulating and sticking his head out of the window of his vehicle while shouting at the lorry driver.
At one point the furious van driver opens the driver's side door before quickly retreating back inside again.
He continues to brake down the carriageway before eventually driving away.
The lorry driver said the incident unfolded between junctions 17 and 18 of the M62 at around 12.50pm on Monday October 12.
He said: "It was taken from a dashcam fitted in a lorry I drive for work."
The footage - which appears to involve a driver from Salford-based contractor - was published on the video sharing website Youtube on Friday.
It has since been viewed more than 15,000 times.
The Salford firm has been contacted by the M.E.N. for a comment.


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Often when I meet up with couples I get a strong feeling almost instantly as to whether we'd be a good match! It's got little to do with their chosen venue or being available on their date; rather, it's a sense of sharing a goal, a passion for their story, of capturing their day as it unfolds. I want my couples to laugh and cry as they view my images, to remember their day as it happened, rekindle their emotions and to see their guests relaxed and happy. Memories like that simply can't be captured through a series of static poses. So when a couple comes to me and says, "minimal group shots, lots of candid photos and, come rain or shine, a walk outdoors" my eyes light up and the relationship starts!
Laura & Stephen were one such couple. "Keeping it real" was their brief to me right from the start, and this was echoed in their feedback from the pre-wedding shoot, in which they carefully selected the images that spoke to them most. They chose the photos of them laughing, fooling around with each other, and of just quietly enjoying each others' company. The in-between shots, the laughter after the kiss, the rusty texture of the old beach shelters. Typically at a pre-wedding shoot I do a mix of observing and gentle directing. It quickly becomes clear which couples actually feel a little more comfortable with direction, and which prefer just to goof around, being themselves. Both of these can produce stunning, natural looking images - I just approach them a little differently to ensure the couple feels comfortable with me and and camera.
"Jenny was a chance find at a wedding fair, and I'm so pleased I found her! I could tell from within minutes
of talking to her that she completely understood what my husband I were looking for from a photographer.
The pre-wedding shoot was great fun, and an excellent opportunity to ensure the wedding photos were exactly
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On the wedding day itself, Jenny was just perfect. I didn't even notice she was there half of the time,
which meant she took lots of really natural, non-posed, photos which was just what I'd asked for. I honestly
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There are many adjectives used to describe contemporary wedding photography: documentary, photo-journalistic, natural, story-telling, candid.... But my experience is that these each mean different things to different people. So when a bride tells me she loves natural couple photos, it's my job to discover what exactly she loves - is it genuinely candid photos only, or could it include photos that look natural (ie not grinning at the camera), but that are in fact gently directed. Typically for my clients it's both of these. Beautiful couple images don't 'just happen' during the course of the day. In fact, many couples spend a large part of their day apart, catching up with family and friends! But just because these images are planned a little, doesn't mean they can't look natural. It's a big part of what I do, and of why my couples choose me. Just head over to my home page anytime to see plenty of examples.
I knew from their pre-wedding shoot that Laura and Stephen were more the goofing around kind of couple! My only direction was to lead them along the path through the beautiful fields behind Fitzleroi Barn, periodically stopping and encouraging them just to chat or cuddle while I captured the majestic storm clouds overhead. It was a late October wedding, and the couple had really wanted dramatic stormy skies! Me too! A wedding doesn't need sunshine for gorgeous photos. Trust me on that one: I started my wedding photography career in the Sunshine State where using flash outdoors is virtually essential - the camera simply can't handle the contrast of Miami's midday sunshine. Artificial lighting has its uses, and can be beautiful when used to capture a couple at sunset, or enhance a first dance, but I prefer to use natural light for my candid images, and for that, a cloudy sky can work wonders.
Image from Laura & Stephen's wedding featured in Your Sussex Wedding magazine, June/July 2016
Their day began - for Laura at least - in a beautiful, beamed cottage in the middle of the Sussex countryside. Forget SatNav; my directions were something along the lines of "turn right at the clump of trees, left at the puddle. Don't take the wrong turning or you'll get stuck down a mud track." Needless to say, I left home with about an hour extra to spare! And that's really all the information I need to share - I'm hoping my images will tell you their story much better than I ever could with words...
Thanks Laura and Stephen for your lovely testimonial (for more client testimonials, just click here!) and for entrusting me with your wedding memories. It was a truly fantastic day, a stunning venue, and a genuinely lovely couple. With the perfect lace dress and green tweed suit to complement the rustic simplicity of Fitzleroi Barn. Who knew a groom could look so dapper in green? A simply perfect day.
Jenny xx
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And if you're getting married and think we could be a good fit? Just fill in the contact form with the date of your wedding and let's arrange to meet up! I look forward to hearing your story.
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GV Prakash will kick-start the shooting of his next project director Rajeev Menon from August. The movie is currently under the pre production stage and the team is working on the final casting process.
AR Rahman is already believed to have composed four songs for the album, which will consist of nine songs. The movie stars Sai Pallavi as the lead heroine.
This film marks her first straight Tamil project.
GV Prakash is also part of Bruce Lee and Kadavul Irukaan Kumaaru, which he recently wrapped up. Bruce Lee is gearing up for release in the month of September, according to trade sources.


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