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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
•Sean Haire, who for some reason went by "Sean O'Haire" while wrestling in WCW, was booked for allegedly hitting and choking his girlfriend. Because he's dating a non-Tila Tequila woman, this is not OK.
•Tim Lincecum misses a start with muscle spasms. The Giants had better hope it's not serious, or they run the risk of getting walloped by the Cardinals in three games instead of four.
•With a court ruling still pending, the NFL says the Vikings' Williamses can play in week one regardless. Keep in mind they tested positive for a banned substance more than nine months ago. And the league claims to have the toughest steroid policy in sports?
•We're reaching serious WTF territory here. Ben Roethlisberger's accuser says she'll drop the lawsuit if Big Ben admits he raped her. I'm no legal expert, but copping to a crime can't help his chances in any future criminal proceedings. Also, she's nuts and has no case.
•Michael Jordan picks David Thompson to introduce him at the Hall of Fame ceremony. Between Jordan, fellow inductee David Robinson, and presenters Isiah Thomas and Larry Brown, apparently it's ruin-the-Knicks'-shit day in Springfield.
•Well, it finally happened. Brad Lidge got yanked after loading the bases in the ninth, perhaps ending his tenure as closer in Philadelphia. Would it be hyping up Albert Pujols legend too much to blame his 2005 home run for Lidge's collapse? Well I'm doing it anyway.
•Nashville Predators part-owner William "Boots" Del Biaggio was sentenced to eight years in prison for bilking investors out of hundreds of millions. The lesson, as always, is don't accept a check from someone nicknamed "Boots."
•Emeritus is trying something a little radical over at New York Magazine. Will Leitch...writing a blog...about sports. Hmmm. Sounds crazy, but what do I know?
•Finally, Ron Artest reaches out to Stephon Marbury, through the magic of Celine:


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I think Chandler is suffering from Middle-child syndrome. I don't think it's terminal, but it may seem like it to him. I know what causes it, and probably suffered from it a bit growing up myself because I was in the middle too, but I don't seem to remember, so it must not have been too traumatizing.
But Austin being older, has bigger responsibilities and he is going through everything FIRST, so it would seem he gets more attention. And usually, the boys do sports TOGETHER at the same time, different leagues, but since Austin has started football….it has consumed our lives. We eat, breathe, sleep football right now and not because I particularly WANT to, it just seems to be the season for it in our lives. We made the decision to make sure our kids are active and make sure they have opportunities, and now it's coming back to bite me in the butt. So in this season of football, Austin is the one that is getting the attention.
And I know it hurts Chandler. He doesn't ever say a thing, but I see that look on his face sometimes and my heart breaks. So Mike and I have been making a conscious effort to do things with JUST him, to make him feel special.
So tonight I took Austin to practice, Chandler asks to sit in the front next to me and we head out. On the radio comes the song that Mike says reminds him of Chandler and without saying anything, I reach over to him and grab his hand.
Just that little simple gesture. We both never took our eyes off the road, but just sat holding hands, just the 2 of us. No words were exchanged; they didn't have to be. I was reassured of his love, and he was reassured of mine. The song ended and I thought he would let go, but he intentionally squeezed just a little harder, afraid I'd let go of his.
And so we sat.
Sometimes I wish God was a physical person I could sit down with. I could chat with over a nice salad at lunch. I could focus my physical eyes on and read the expressions on His face. I could hear His audible voice.
I could reach across the seat and hold His hand. I could squeeze His hand to make sure He doesn't let go of me. Sometimes I need and want that physical reassurance. Life is hard with decisions that are not easy. Life goes too fast sometimes and I feel lost in the shuffle. I am afraid. I'm afraid of doing the wrong thing with GOOD intentions. I'm afraid of being lost in the mix of people and jobs and STUFF.
And so I have faith. I have faith that He IS there. Sometimes I even picture His physical body. Times when I'm in my living room alone with a fervent prayer, one of those prayers that shakes your body, brings tears to your eyes, I picture His face. Not one of those expressionless Jesus' you see in Sunday schools, but one with LIFE and character. The other night when I was alone in the bed and praying outloud, I pictured Him lying on the other side of Brooklyn where Mike normally would be.
So I know I'm not alone. I won't get lost because He is with me. I may not be able to reach across the seat and squeeze His hand, but I know He's there. I FEEL Him….
Funny how reassurance for Chandler, turned out to reassure me….I love that son of mine….

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Just got back from a TRU trip and found Pons Limbac, he rang up at $7.49 so they ended the sale earlier than advertised out here as well.
... Still 3 1st day of issue Yarna's I laugh about all the time too. Love seeing those around.
Quote from: Jesse James on June 8, 2010, 11:52 PM... Still 3 1st day of issue Yarna's I laugh about all the time too. Love seeing those around.Did they also have C5 contest stickers on them? It would be sad if one of those had an actual winning ticket in them.
Can confirm my local TRU ended the sale too. Local Wal-Marts are still $4.50 though I've heard rumors that other Targets and WM are upping the prices back to thr $6 range.
Some jackhole on another forum was trying to give me crap for buying figures online at TRU at "inflated prices" and I had to explain that the figures actually cost $7.49 on the pegs now at any TRU, not just online.
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The Sun's editorial regarding President Barack Obama's possible choice of Susan Rice for secretary of state is on the mark ("Obama's conundrum," Nov. 30). Why should one statement destroy the reputation and credibility of a hardworking government official?
This may be the time to recall that famous appearance of Colin Powell at the United Nations when he confirmed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. His information was supplied by a Bush administration that conjured up the lie so that such weapons would offer them an excuse to pursue the horrible war that drained our armed forces and national wealth.
Did that destroy everything the man did during his service to this country? Republicans take note!
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Director Allison de Fren's indie documentary The Mechanical Bride smartly dissects male desire and sexy fembots of the past, present and future.
Japanese sexbots wait patiently for assembly in The Mechanical Bride, which hits the festival screening circuit Sunday at the Hot Docs festival.
McLuhan's The Mechanical Bride critiqued advertising, sex and tech with a scalpel. "Did you notice the Model-T bodies of the women in that revived 1930 movie last night?" he snarked in an analysis of this ad.
Fritz Lang's immortal Metropolis arguably created cinema's first gynoid Maria, deviously built by mad scientist Rotwang to inflame the masses, and their labor.
Before she immortalized Catwoman on Batman, The Mechanical Bride's narrator Julie Newmar nailed the fembot archetype in her short-lived TV series My Living Doll, whose lost episodes are currently rebooting for a forthcoming DVD release.
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine exploited everything from beach party and Bond films to Edgar Allen Poe in 1965, way before Mike Meyers rebooted its fembots for Austin Powers.
The 'basic pleasure model' Pris, played by Daryl Hannah, existentially ponders dolls and souls in Ridley Scott's epochal Blade Runner.
Using Melanie Griffith as a sexbot anchor, the 1987 cult film Cherry 2000 still manages to somewhat undress the era's greed-is-good mantra.
Tricia Helfer's Number Six, like Star Trek: Voyager's Seven of Nine sexborg before her, is the gynoid ideal of Battlestar Galactica's supermodels-in-space soap opera.
New documentary The Mechanical Bride is a moving, weirdly human exploration of artificial companionship. It's also an academic dissection of the male gaze and pop culture's sexbots, from Metropolis and Battlestar Galactica to actual robotic love objects.
The title of the documentary is borrowed from Marshall McLuhan's 1951 book The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, which studied "the cultural interfusion of sex and technology in the advertising strategies of his day," director Allison de Fren told Wired in an e-mail interview. "What would he say about our nostalgic fixation with Mad Men? McLuhan would have a field day with the mechanical brides of our time."
The Mechanical Bride, which screens Sunday at Canada's international documentary festival Hot Docs, takes a long look at artificial creations like the RealDoll, a posable sex doll with silicone skin, as well as the technosexuals who love them. (Check out Wired's array of artificial companions in the gallery above and see exclusive clips from The Mechanical Bride below.)
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"Advertising's ideal woman is a fragmented body of replaceable parts, whose origin is the assembly-line logic of consumer capitalism," said de Fren, a professor of media culture at Occidental College who honed her robotics chops in Paul Allen's future-tech think-tanks Interval Research and Starwave. "The RealDoll is the culmination of that kind of logic. It's ordered in the exact same way as a car, with detailed customization including head and body type, hair and eye color, breast size and lips."
More sexualized creations are explored through their owners' personal histories, which are de Fren's sharpest focus. Her nonjudgmental lens lets The Mechanical Bride's engrossing subjects provide their own electricity during their self-aware analysis of their silicone-and-circuit humanoids.
For instance, American goth Davecat, who can be seen in The Mechanical Bride clip above, talks about his artificial companion Sidore. She bows to Japan's gynoid culture, sleekly represented by the iconic cyborg fembots of artist Hajime Sorayama, who also appears in the documentary.
There's Slade, a RealDoll repair guru who began mending artificial companions after a skydive nearly shattered his body, and German mad scientist Michael, who's upgraded Europe's storied obsession with sex dolls — from pirate pleasure models like dames de voyage to mechanical love object Olympia from The Tales of Hoffmann — by creating grinding, moaning fembots like those from SuperBabe's Mark Maki visible in the clip below.
And then there are the anonymous geeks of alt.sex.fetish.robot, who are evidently looking for much more than love in wired places.
"They're a fascinating group, and definitely need to be differentiated from doll owners," said de Fren. "ASFRians are robot fetishists, less interested in the perfectly realistic robot per se than in the tension and transformation between the human and the robotic, those moments when what looks like a human is revealed to be a robot shutting down or malfunctioning, its faceplate opening to reveal wiring and circuitry. Many love the original The Stepford Wives for scenes where the wives break down, which throws their artificiality into relief. These are often very smart but socially awkward men who find navigating the inconsistent rules of human interaction confusing. It's an attempt, however circuitous, at connecting."
Of Sex Dolls, Mechanical Souls and Vibrators With Issues
The Mechanical Bride, which would make for a deeply technopathic double-feature if paired with Adam Curtis' recent documentary All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, manages to connect to these myriad geeks and gynoids with a scientific detachment that still manages to be warm. That uncanny human dimension attracted The Mechanical Bride narrator Julie Newmar, who herself played a fembot in obscure '60s sci-fi program My Living Doll, which is currently rebooting for a new century.
"It's a fascinating story, done by de Fren with loving care and delicacy," said Newmar, who played Catwoman in '60s TV series Batman. "I will work with anyone who looks at life with love, and a desire to understand its complexities."
That desire is ironically driven by logic, given de Fren's aspirational analogue.
"I have an endless, Spock-like curiosity about the subjects in my documentary," de Fren said. "That's not to say that there weren't some people I interviewed who put me off, but I am one of those people who like to shine lights in dark corners and see what's squirming around."
"Love and Sex With Robots predicts that within only a half-century, sexual intimacy between humans and their robot companions will be so commonplace that society will need to address the issues around robot prostitution."
Even Spock would agree it's logical that the sexbot market will spread into the mainstream as our capacity for technological innovation and sexual stimulation increases. Hell, by the time your grandkids are old enough to read this, fascination with fembots might be passé.
"David Levy's book Love and Sex With Robots predicts that within only a half-century, sexual intimacy between humans and their robot companions will be so commonplace that society will need to address the issues around robot prostitution and human/robot marriage," de Fren said. "Anime and fantasy sex dolls, which have been popular in Japan for a while, are starting to become more popular in the United States, where women and dolls are starting to resemble one another."
But will, to beat a marketing term senseless, these fembots ever be real enough? RealDoll tinkerer Slade laughs at the idea that a sex doll, no matter how technologically advanced, comes close to a living, breathing woman. And even de Fren, who says she's fascinated by robots, admits that most women are about as interested in sex dolls as they are in vibrators with issues.
"Whether robots will ever achieve consciousness that speaks to female sexual response is anyone's guess, but I think that most women find it very hard to imagine," she said.
The soul, that most complicated speculative invention, remains the sticking point, according to Newmar, who said sci-fi fantasies like My Living Doll have communicated "not a damn thing" about female sexuality and male desire.
"It's totally make-believe, although I would like to hear what people say in 50 years about it," she told Wired by e-mail. "Being a larger-than-life person, I was an excellent choice to play the Living Doll, which was the most difficult role of my life. As an actor, I usually work from the inside out to get an understanding of the character. This was the reverse, like building a paper doll into a child."Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Location: Mt Pleasant St Plaza, Washington, DC
Dates: Year Round – Winter Market: January 4 – March 28, 2020, 10a-1p. Regular Season: April 4 – December 26, 2020, 9a-1p.
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The Mount Pleasant Farmers' Market is producer-only. That means two things. First, everything you see was raised, grown, produced, made, or baked by the persons selling it. Second, the food is local and regional. Our region includes the five states whose farmland and waterways serve the Washington, DC metro region. We opened in 2003. Click here for a Google Map showing where all the producers are in relation to you!
Held under the trees on our plaza and bandstand, the Mount Pleasant Farmers' Market is a friendly and intimate neighborhood market serving the diverse Mount Pleasant community with fresh, local food, including beef, pork, poultry, eggs, cheese, Atwater breads, and lots of seasonal fruits and vegetables. See pictures! We gladly accept SNAP/EBT, WIC and MtP Farmers' Market tokens.
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- Mount Pleasant is a little village in the midst of Washington, and the farmers' market helps foster that feeling. Strolling through the market, running into neighbors, and then shopping at the local stores on Mt Pleasant St makes for a perfect Saturday morning. And the great selection really helps keep me thinking of new and healthy dishes to cook.
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- Mt. Pleasant's Farmers Market always has a great music band going on. It is really quiet and reasonably priced.
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Why one cop carries 145 rounds of ammo on the job
Before the call that changed Sergeant Timothy Gramins' life forever, he typically carried 47 rounds of handgun ammunition on his person while on duty
Before the call that changed Sergeant Timothy Gramins' life forever, he typically carried 47 rounds of handgun ammunition on his person while on duty.
Today, he carries 145, "every day, without fail."
He detailed the gunfight that caused the difference in a gripping presentation at the annual conference of the Assn. of SWAT Personnel-Wisconsin.
At the core of his desperate firefight was a murderous attacker who simply would not go down, even though he was shot 14 times with .45-cal. ammunition — six of those hits in supposedly fatal locations.
The most threatening encounter in Gramins' nearly two-decade career with the Skokie (Ill.) PD north of Chicago came on a lazy August afternoon prior to his promotion to sergeant, on his first day back from a family vacation. He was about to take a quick break from his patrol circuit to buy a Star Wars game at a shopping center for his son's eighth birthday.
An alert flashed out that a male black driving a two-door white car had robbed a bank at gunpoint in another suburb 11 miles north and had fled in an unknown direction. Gramins was only six blocks from a major expressway that was the most logical escape route into the city.
Unknown at the time, the suspect, a 37-year-old alleged Gangster Disciple, had vowed that he would kill a police officer if he got stopped.
"I've got a horseshoe up my ass when it comes to catching suspects," Gramins laughs. He radioed that he was joining other officers on the busy expressway lanes to scout traffic.
He was scarcely up to highway speed when he spotted a lone male black driver in a white Pontiac Bonneville and pulled alongside him. "He gave me 'the Look,' that oh-crap-there's-the-police look, and I knew he was the guy," Gramins said.
Gramins dropped behind him. Then in a sudden, last-minute move the suspect accelerated sharply and swerved across three lanes of traffic to roar up an exit ramp. "I've got one running!" Gramins radioed.
The next thing he knew, bullets were flying. "That was four years ago," Gramins said. "Yet it could be ten seconds ago."
With Gramins following close behind, siren blaring and lights flashing, the Bonneville zigzagged through traffic and around corners into a quite pocket of single-family homes a few blocks from the exit. Then a few yards from where a 10-year-old boy was skateboarding on a driveway, the suspect abruptly squealed to a stop.
"He bailed out and ran headlong at me with a 9 mm Smith in his hand while I was still in my car," Gramins said.
The gunman sank four rounds into the Crown Vic's hood while Gramins was drawing his .45-cal. Glock 21.
"I didn't have time to think of backing up or even ramming him," Gramins said. "I see the gun and I engage."
Gramins fired back through his windshield, sending a total of 13 rounds tearing through just three holes.
A master firearms instructor and a sniper on his department's Tactical Intervention Unit, "I was confident at least some of them were hitting him, but he wasn't even close to slowing down," Gramins said.
The gunman shot his pistol dry trying to hit Gramins with rounds through his driver-side window, but except for spraying the officer's face with glass, he narrowly missed and headed back to his car.
Gramins, also empty, escaped his squad — "a coffin," he calls it — and reloaded on his run to cover behind the passenger-side rear of the Bonneville.
Now the robber, a lanky six-footer, was back in the fight with a .380 Bersa pistol he'd grabbed off his front seat. Rounds flew between the two as the gunman dashed toward the squad car.
Again, Gamins shot dry and reloaded.
"I thought I was hitting him, but with shots going through his clothing it was hard to tell for sure. This much was certain: he kept moving and kept shooting, trying his damnedest to kill me."
In this free-for-all, the assailant had, in fact, been struck 14 times. Any one of six of these wounds — in the heart, right lung, left lung, liver, diaphragm, and right kidney — could have produced fatal consequences…"in time," Gramins emphasizes.
But time for Gramins, like the stack of bullets in his third magazine, was fast running out.
In his trunk was an AR-15; in an overhead rack inside the squad, a Remington 870.
But reaching either was impractical. Gramins did manage to get himself to a grassy spot near a tree on the curb side of his vehicle where he could prone out for a solid shooting platform.
The suspect was in the street on the other side of the car. "I could see him by looking under the chassis," Gramins recalls. "I tried a couple of ricochet rounds that didn't connect. Then I told myself, 'Hey, I need to slow down and aim better.' "
When the suspect bent down to peer under the car, Gramins carefully established a sight picture, and squeezed off three controlled bursts in rapid succession.
Each round slammed into the suspect's head — one through each side of his mouth and one through the top of his skull into his brain. At long last the would-be cop killer crumpled to the pavement.
The whole shootout had lasted 56 seconds, Gramins said. The assailant had fired 21 rounds from his two handguns. Inexplicably — but fortunately — he had not attempted to employ an SKS semi-automatic rifle that was lying on his front seat ready to go.
Gramins had discharged 33 rounds. Four remained in his magazine.
Two houses and a parked Mercedes in the vicinity had been struck by bullets, but with no casualties. The young skateboarder had run inside yelling at his dad to call 911 as soon as the battle started and also escaped injury. Despite the fusillade of lead sent his way, Gramins' only damage besides glass cuts was a wound to his left shin. His dominant emotion throughout his brush with death, he recalls, was "feeling very alone, with no one to help me but myself."
Remarkably, the gunman was still showing vital signs when EMS arrived. Sheer determination, it seemed, kept him going, for no evidence of drugs or alcohol was found in his system.
He was transported to a trauma center where Gramins also was taken. They shared an ER bay with only a curtain between them as medical personnel fought unsuccessfully to save the robber's life.
At one point Gramins heard a doctor exclaim, "We may as well stop. Every bag of blood we give him ends up on the floor. This guy's like Swiss cheese. Why'd that cop have to shoot him so many times!"
Gramins thought, "He just tried to kill me! Where's that part of it?"
When Gramins was released from the hospital, "I walked out of there a different person," he said.
"Being in a shooting changes you. Killing someone changes you even more." As a devout Catholic, some of his changes involved a deepening spirituality and philosophical reflections, he said without elaborating.
At least one alteration was emphatically practical.
Before the shooting, Gramins routinely carried 47 rounds of handgun ammo on his person, including two extra magazines for his Glock 21 and 10 rounds loaded in a backup gun attached to his vest, a 9 mm Glock 26.
Now unfailingly he goes to work carrying 145 handgun rounds, all 9 mm. These include three extra 17-round magazines for his primary sidearm (currently a Glock 17), plus two 33-round mags tucked in his vest, as well as the backup gun. Besides all that, he's got 90 rounds for the AR-15 that now rides in a rack up front.
Gramins shook his head and said "Preparation."


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From the beginning things had gone very smoothly for me, I had a wonderful pregnancy in which not only did I grow physically but also emotionally and spiritually. I felt a strong connection with my baby, and permanently had my hands on my belly- so much that all my tops started getting worn in the mid section!
During my pregnancy I had many different emotions arising, and as they arose I felt that I did my best to deal with them and overcome them. I used a lot of bush flower essences and Bach flower essences and felt that they helped me immensely to acknowledge what was going on and to deal with things in a positive way.
We had always wanted a homebirth so decided to find a midwife early. Living in Hervey bay I knew that there may be difficulties, but upon making some phone calls I got in touch with Claire. From our first phone call I knew that she was 'the one'. We spoke easily and I really liked her views on birthing in general. And so it was that the homebirth process had begun. Having Claire as my midwife meant that throughout the pregnancy I felt really supported and special, it was wonderful knowing that she knew me and her wonderful positivity about the birthing process gave me so much faith in my own abilities- something I had always doubted in myself. I had never thought that I could be so calm about birth, but the more I began to understand the process the more I realised that there was nothing to fear.
And so the day of my labour arrived. It was the day before my due date and Claire had come for a visit. She gave me a lovely massage- the only one I got during my whole pregnancy-(which is the problem when you have an easy pregnancy!) She left in the afternoon, and although we had started to prepare the birthing room, we realised that we still needed a few things for the birthing pool so headed off to Bunning's for hose attachments etc. Whilst in Bunning's I started to develop a sore back. Claire had warned me that I may start to feel Braxton hicks –something I hadn't felt yet, so I put the sore back down to Braxton hicks and the massage. We got home that evening and finished setting up the hose for the pool. I felt that my sore back was still there, however I was feeling good and even contemplated heading off to my yoga class… however due to a sleepless night the night before I decided to stay home and have an early night.
As we settled in for the evening in front of the telly my sore back started to get stronger… I didn't mention this to Liam as I didn't want to alarm him, but quietly set about looking at the clock each time the pains came back… funnily enough I noticed a little pattern developing every 5 minutes so I spoke up. We decided to time them properly and sure enough there was definitely a pattern there. We looked up in Claire's book and the pain I described seemed to fit quite accurately as a labour pain, but still we thought maybe this was just a false alarm. We both didn't want to get too excited but without really saying much to each other we went down into the birthing room and started adding some extra things 'just incase'… Liam dragged some nice plants inside, and I set about collecting extra items I thought we may need. We decided to give Claire a call and let her know what was happening. She suggested having a hot shower and going to bed, in order to see if the pains were Braxton hicks or not as I still wasn't sure. I lay in bed for a while with the clock in hand in order to time the contractions, it definitely appeared that they were getting stronger, so when they were two minutes apart we got up, called Claire and headed down to the birthing room to prepare some more. It was now 11.30pm and Claire said she was on her way. We decided to half fill the pool with cold water, and switched on all the heaters. We had another mattress in the birthing room so I lit some candles and we lay down to get some rest before Claire arrived. An hour and a half later Claire arrived (right on time, as she was coming from Gympie)… the contractions had slowed from lying down, she checked me and the baby and we decided to try and get some rest. As the night wore on the contractions became stronger, I went from lying down and breathing though them, to having to get up and rocking on the Swiss ball… Liam was asleep and it felt nice to have peace and just be alone within myself. By 3.30 I started to feel that things were really getting stronger so I woke Liam and suggested we start adding some hot water to the pool. At about 4.30am I was eyeing up that pool with great desire! Claire came to see how I was going and she suggested that I get in… you didn't have to ask me twice… entering that water was bliss, the warmth was incredible relief!
From then on the contractions started getting much stronger, I tried a few different positions and found that kneeling and leaning against the side was the most comfortable, and ended up staying in this position for the rest of my labour. Liam sat opposite me outside the pool and held my hands, gave me water and lots of rescue remedy. I focused on breathing in through my nose for a count of four and out my mouth for a count of five during each contraction, which I really felt helped me a lot. In between contractions I rested with my head down on the side of the pool… the peace was bliss. I had always wondered if I would have the strength and determination to get through the labour in a positive way… I wouldn't class myself as a very strong person but somehow this labour opened up a well of strength that I never knew I had. I feel that as each contraction came I dealt with it in the most constructive way, between contractions Liam would ask me to relax which really helped as I was able to release a lot of tension which I didn't realise I was holding. I rarely opened my eyes, instead I just focused on relaxing as much I could, reminding myself that each contraction was getting me closer to my baby.
As my baby started coming through the pelvic region I felt an amazing sense of relief, finally I could feel that all this hard work was paying off, and my baby was nearly there. Through those strong contractions I felt an amazing sense of wonderment and euphoria, this pressure I was feeling in my pelvis was MY BABY! Together we were working hard and it was all paying off! Feeling these sensations gave me so much courage and determination to get the job done; I couldn't help but grin from ear to ear. As each contraction came over me I focused on breathing down and opening up, all the time talking to my baby and asking him to come on out. As the final few contractions came over me and my baby started crowning I tapped into all the energy I had left… in between contractions I would feel him slip back but this would only help me become more determined that the next contraction he would make it out.
After 3 hours in the birth pool, my baby was born…Liam was there to catch him which was wonderful, funnily enough as I was bearing down so hard to birth his body I wasn't allowing enough room under me for him to be born so his head was hitting the inflated bottom of the pool… Liam had to coax me to lift up so that our baby could come out. I don't think I could ever describe the joy and elation that we all felt when he gently slipped out into the warmth of the pool. I finally opened my eyes to find sunlight streaming into the room and a beautiful baby to hold. I was so happy to finally be holding him that I almost forgot to find out whether he was a boy or a girl, but I was reminded when I felt a little package under his bum… we had a boy! The next little while is a blur to me, although when I think back all I can really remember is laughing and crying at the same time. Liam jumped into the pool with me, and we laughed and cried some more.After some close family bonding time I was helped out of the pool and onto the mattress. We allowed the cord to stop pulsating before we cut it, something that took an hour and half! Not that it felt like a long time… I was just so amazed by this beautiful baby on my belly. For the next six hours we just lay together on the mattress and stared in wonderment at this beautiful gift. I was on such a huge high, no amount of sky diving could match the feelings I had.
This positive birth experience has taught me so much about myself and life. It helped me to realise that we CAN have what we really want, even if we have doubts about ourselves and our strengths, by thinking positively and believing in what we want, the universe can provide us with that positive experience.
A million thanks to Claire Hall also, without her positivity, knowledge and faith, this experience could not have been as wonderful or fulfilling!
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This story is awesome and encouraging!! My hubby and I are expecting our first child in 5 weeks and are having a home birth!!!!
I am 27 weeks pregnant with my first child and I dream of having a birth experience like this. Thank you for sharing your wonderful story :)
WOW! thats a incredible story. i really want to have a water birth but cannot get into a hospital that does water births as im out of their area so now i have looked into home birth. where can i get in touch with midwives that do home water births?
Hi Natalie - This is such a great birth story. If you are interested on invesitaging a home water birth further you can use our Find a Practitioner search to look for privately practicing midwives closest to you. Most of these midwives will do waterbirths.
what a beautiful and inspiring birth story! I am lucky enough to be a midwife, so i get to share these beautiful moments with women and their families. I am expecting my first baby in October :) and love reading stories like this, thanks for inspiring me and reminding me of the true strength of women!
I'm a homebirth mum looking to move to Hervey Bay, would be great to be in contact with a like minded mum. If you are still that way please email me on firstname.lastname@example.com Great birth story! Thanks, Kellie
Lovely story! We've just moved to Hervey Bay and after having our second child as a home born baby we'l go to the ends of the earth to do that again, but having no luck finding a midwife :( Would sincerely appreciate her details or pass ours on to her pretty please :) email@example.com


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This article attempts to describe the calling conventions of syscalls on Linux/MIPS. Generally it's a less than great idea to directly access the system call interface. Libraries such as glibc, ucLibc and others are doing a great job and will hide all the possible optimizations and version dependencies from the application programmer. You have been warned.
Calling conventions
The syscall calling conventions are similar to subroutine calls. That is the set of caller saved and callee saved registers are pretty much the same. However, arguments are passed in $a0 ...$a3 for O32 rsp. $a0 ... $a7 for N32 and N64. The result value is returned in $v0 and $a3 will be set to 0 or 1 to indicate success. The s-registers should be assumed to be saved while the contents of the $t registers should be assumed to have been lost.
A few syscalls deviate from this calling conventions, for example sigreturn which modifies the entire register file or pipe(2) which returns the first file descriptor in $v0 and the second in $v1.
|use on input
|use on output
|(caller saved)
|syscall number
|return value
|2nd fd only for pipe(2)
|$a0 ... $a2
|syscall arguments
|returned unmodified
|$a0 ... $a2, $a4 ... $a7
|syscall arguments
|returned unmodified
|N32 and 64
|4th syscall argument
|$a3 set to 0/1 for success/error
|$t0 ... $t9
|(caller saved)
|$s0 ... $s8
|(callee saved)
|$hi, $lo
|(caller saved)
And of course a syscall is invoked through a SYSCALL instruction. The kernel assumes the syscall instruction not to be in a branch delay slot, that is, it will not check for branch delay slots and do branch emulation. Even iff it was, performance considerations would make it preferable to leave the SYSCALL instruction outside the branch delay slot. On return from a syscall the program counter will be set to the instruction following the SYSCALL instruction.
Up to 2.6.35 the kernel was assuming that the instruction immediately preceeding the SYSCALL instruction was reloading the syscall number and was using this for syscall restarting. This meant, to keep a syscall invokation restartable it was impossible to place a SYSCALL instruction in a branch delay slot anyway.
Syscall restarting
Syscall restarting is a special case where $v0, $v1 and $a3 will stay unmodified. Even the program counter will stay unmodified so the same syscall will be executed again. This is something that does not matter to application programmers but may become visible in debuggers. Syscall restarting is something that is used internally by the kernel, for example when during a large read(2) syscall the kernel receives a signal.
Compatibility ABIs
For compatibility ABIs Linux/MIPS obviously follows whatever the native OS is doing. This happens to be similar to what Linux/MIPS is doing or from a historical perspective, Linux/MIPS is following what other, earlier MIPS UNIX implementations were doing.
Syscall number ranges
|OS flavor
|System V Release 4 flavored syscalls
|System V syscalls. All flavors of IRIX use this number range as well.
|BSD 4.3 syscalls
|POSIX syscalls
|Linux O32 syscalls
|Linux N64 syscalls
|Linux N32 syscalls
For the exact syscall numbers for the three Linux ABI, please see <uapi/asm/unistd.h> of your kernel.
This is a slightly polished version of the first application that ever ran successfully on Linux/MIPS in 1995:
/* * hello-1.1/Makefile * * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public * License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive * for more details. * * Copyright (C) 1995 by Ralf Baechle */ #include <asm/unistd.h> #include <asm/asm.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> #define O_RDWR 02 .set noreorder LEAF(main) # fd = open("/dev/tty1", O_RDWR, 0); la a0,tty li a1,O_RDWR li a2,0 li v0,SYS_open syscall bnez a3,quit move s0,v0 # delay slot # write(fd, "hello, world.\n", 14); move a0,s0 la a1,hello li a2,14 li v0,SYS_write syscall # close(fd); move a0,s0 li v0,SYS_close syscall quit: li a0,0 li v0,SYS_exit syscall j quit nop END(main) .data tty: .asciz "/dev/tty1" hello: .ascii "Hello, world.\n"
Example 2
Here is more recent version of same program which will compile with modern toolchain and headers.
#include <regdef.h> #include <sys/asm.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> EXPORT(__start) .set noreorder LEAF(main) li a0,1 la a1,hello li a2,12 li v0,__NR_write syscall quit: li a0,0 li v0,__NR_exit syscall j quit nop END(main) .data hello: .ascii "Hello world!\n"
And here is makefile for hello.s
# # hello-1.2/Makefile # # This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public # License. See the file COPYING in the main directory of this archive for more # details. tool-prefix = mips-linux-gnu- CC = $(tool-prefix)gcc LD = $(tool-prefix)ld STRIP = $(tool-prefix)strip CFLAGS = -G0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic LDFLAGS = -N -s all: hello hello: hello.o $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o hello hello.o hello.o: hello.S $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c hello.s clean: rm -f core a.out *.o *.s distclean: clean rm -f hello


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All Is Well
>> Friday, August 19, 2011
A few weeks ago, I really had this pain in my lower abdomen. I thought it was just gas and just ignored it. But it was persistent and when it didn't go away in the next couple of days, I went to my doctor for a check-up. It not your ordinary lower abdomenal pain and she recommended that I go to see a gastroenterologist and a gynecologist so that everything will be covered. It could be my appendix, my large intestines, my kidney or my reproductive system.
Luckiy, I got an appointment for an ultrasound scan at the gastroenterologist clinic. Everything looked good and normal, the specialist said except for my right ovary. It was a bit enlarged, he said, so that I really need to see a gynecologist. Just hearing the word "enlarged" got me worrying to the nth level, and so did the husband. The also checked my urine and the results were normal. They also took some blood for further tests. On our way home with my daughter, I had the sudden fear of the unknown. I was already having thoughts of all the what if's that I had to stop myself. I had to stop thinking about all the nonsense because I know that God will always be with us and He won't forsake us.
So I got an appointment for my gynecologist last Monday. By then, the pain has thankfully subsided and nothing can be seen when another ultrasound scan was performed. My left and right ovaries all looked normal in the scan. The doctor could not explain why I had pains because he cannot see anything. He mentioned that I could be pregnant but that it was still too small to be visible in the ultrasound scan or I could be not.
At least my mind was already put at ease, knowing that everything inside of me is functioning well. Right now, I am entertaining the idea that I could indeed be pregnant but that still remains a question. I am still too reluctant to do a home pregnancy test because I don't feel any symptoms yet. But yes, all is well. God has always been and is always with us.
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Sperrin Mountains
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Place count in area: 64,
OSI/LPS Maps: 12, 13, 6, 7, 8
Highest place:
Sawel, 678m
Maximum height for area: 678 metres,
Maximum prominence for area: 657 metres,
Places in area Sperrin Mountains:
Balix Hill 403m
Barnes Top 456m
Benbradagh 465m
Bessy Bell 420m
Bohilbreaga 478m
Boviel Top 454m
Carn Hill 448m
Carnanelly 562m
Carnanelly West Top 505m
Carntogher 464m
Clogherny Top 408m
Clondermot Hill 220m
Coolnasillagh Mountain 423m
Corick Mountain 430m
Craigagh Hill 460m
Craignamaddy 385m
Cregganconroe 300m
Crockalougha 407m
Crockbrack 526m
Crockdooish 321m
Crocknamoghil 335m
Curradrolan Hill 270m
Curraghchosaly Mountain 416m
Dart Mountain 619m
Dart Mountain North-West Top 525m
Eglish 277m
Fir Mountain 362m
Gortmonly Hill 218m
Knockanbane Mountain 441m
Knockavoe 296m
Learmount Mountain 489m
Learmount Mtn S Top 492m
Letterlogher 249m
Meenard Mountain 620m
Meenard Mtn W Top 480m
Moneyoran Hill 414m
Mullaghaneany 627m
Mullaghash 480m
Mullaghasturrakeen 581m
Mullaghbane 467m
Mullaghbolig 442m
Mullaghcarbatagh 517m
Mullaghcarn 542m
Mullaghcarn South Top 525m
Mullaghclogha 635m
Mullaghclogher 572m
Mullaghcroy 242m
Mullaghdoo 568m
Mullaghmeash Hill 244m
Mullaghmore 550m
Mullaghsallagh 485m
Mullaghturk 416m
Oughtmore 382m
Oughtmore 569m
Owenreagh Hill 400m
Sawel 678m
Slieve Gallion 528m
Slieve Gallion NE Top 496m
Slieveboy 259m
Slievekirk 370m
Spaltindoagh 420m
Spelhoagh 568m
Straid Hill 303m
White Mountain 537m
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Dart Mountain
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(Ir. An Dairt [OSM], 'the lump')
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Longitude: -7.063641, Latitude: 54.810951
, Easting: 260254, Northing: 396308
Prominence: 89m
, Isolation: 1.1km
, GPS IDs, 6 char: DrtMnt, 10 char: DrtMntn
Bedrock type: Psammite & semipellite, (Dart Formation)
Cloudberries are found on the western slopes. This rare alpine plant resembles the strawberry plant, to which it is related. The fruit are like orange pearls. The OS Memoirs derive the name from Ir. dart, 'a lump', explaining that When viewed at a distance, it looks like a a lump on Sawel. However, Daigart is the name of a district mentioned by Tírechán in the Tripartite Life. O'Ceallaigh reviewed this information, along with MacNeill's assessment of it, and concluded that Daighart was probably the mountain country of Gleann Fhoichle (Glenelly), in the parish of Both Domhnaigh (Bodoney) and at the bottom of Samhail (Sawel) (Gleanings from Ulster History, Séamus Ó Ceallaigh, p. 23). Dart Mountain is the 255th highest place in Ireland.
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Picture from group : Dart from Learmount S Top
Dart from Learmount S Top
Easy summit in the shadow of Sawel.
Short Summary created by simon3 13 Sep 2010
The obvious way to climb Dart is from the road at
, where there is a limited amount of parking. This point is at around 438m on the crest of a road that goes across the Sperrins. The walk to Dart is around 1.4k over rough heather and coarse grass.
Another way to reach Dart is from Sawel which is nearly 2k to the east.
The northern side of Dart has some crags. Views from the summit are substantial though Sawel is in the way to the east.
Dart has a cairn on the summit
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Picture from Colin Murphy : Dart Cairn with Sawel in the distance
Dart Cairn with Sawel in the distance
Colin Murphy on Dart Mountain, 2008
Colin Murphy
20 Oct 2008
If you can arrange two cars, traversing Dart-Sawel can be a pleasant afternoon's walk. There is room to park a couple of cars directly to the west of Dart at grid ref
and also to the East of Sawel at
. The approach to Dart from the west is about the most interesting and easiest terrain you will find in the Eastern Sperrins - rocky with short grass mostly, with the Dart summit having the honour of being one of the only mountains in the range to be marked by a cairn (see pic). While many of the Sperrins have a Wicklow-ish roundness to them, Dart Mt has something approaching a defined summit. Enjoyable walk, from west to east, car to car taking about 3 hours , and that was at a leisurely pace.
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Picture from gerrym : looking to Dart across col from slopes of Sawel
looking to Dart across col from slopes of Sawel
27 Feb 2014
Dart is invariably tied at the hip with its bigger sibling (Sawel) and the join between the two is a defining feature in views of the Sperrins. Sawel has the kudos of highest and two county tops - somewhat greedy perhaps in taking the attention from those who may venture this way. All I can say is that they are at their best when experienced together.
Start at Sperrin Heritage Centre carpark (
), turn right and follow road along Genelly Valley for 10 minutes until come to a lane on the right (
) with a dead end sign. Climb up this lane and views quickly open out over the southern side of the valley.
As it levels out at around 300m the mountains of the northern side come into view, with the parallel road to Dart Pass below ,across Oughtboy Burn. Cross gate and strike off right onto open hillside for the shoulder of Dart. The climb is by way of a couple of steps between level areas before the short climb over rockier ground to the summit cairn, reached in 1h 20 mins.
There is a great view in all directions but especially west to Mullaghclogha and its steep slopes. Head north east with a short drop down into a broad col - with 1 km before the climb up the large bulk of Sawel, following the fence for short while but continuing straight when it veers off right.
The climb up Sawel is straight forward and on reaching the trig point the view west to the remainder of the range comes into sight. There is a long but gentle drop down from the summit to the road at Sawel Pass. The going all along was firm due to the recent dry spell but it would be a different story under normal conditions.
Turn right and follow the road down into the hamlet of Sperrin and then it is around 3 km back along the main road to the carpark. In all took around 4.5 hours and did i meet anyone else ? NO but i did see some bootprints! Can also climb from the direction of Sawel - see for a different approach.
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Picture from csd : The western flank of Dart Mountain.
The western flank of Dart Mountain.
csd on Dart Mountain, 2009
21 Feb 2009
Having had a rather late start (avoid going through Cookstown on a Saturday, the traffic is a nightmare), I chose the easy option: park the car at the pass on the road to Park at
, and follow the fence east to the summit of Dart Mountain. There's room for three or four cars here by the cattle grid, and you'll be up at the summit in half an hour if you don't dally. Unfortunately the clouds came down as I started my ascent, so I only got a taster of the views.
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Picture from dr_banuska : A backwards glance at Dart on the way down via the forest track
A backwards glance at Dart on the way down via the forest track
dr_banuska on Dart Mountain, 2009
15 Jun 2009
Like many other people, I combined Dart with its slightly higher neighbour, Sawel, the two tops being on my wish list ever since an abortive attempt last year. After reaching the latter's summit from the usual approach from the east (see entry on that page), I crossed over the fence close to the trig point and headed down towards the broad ridge joining the two mountains. As I said before I had naively imagined a small drop and narrow col when in fact it's quite a steep drop and a wide col. This made the thought of climbing Dart a bit more daunting but I decided to go for it anyway (I originally thought it would be a simple case of dropping down, taking a leisurely stroll along the narrow ridge, up a little bit to Dart, down again the same way, up a little bit to Sawel then all the way down the other side to where I started... all in 40 mins or so!).
I ran a good bit of the way down, which probably wasn't a good idea as I ended up on my back facing the wrong direction, with my dog running over to see was I ok! The view on the descent and rise is an interesting one, different from ascending Sawel: for one thing Dart has a more distinctive, craggier peak. Like Sawel it's rather boggy in parts and called for a few jumps. Towards the top I followed the line of the same fence, which I realized I probably could've followed the whole way, but I had fancied a straight drop and rise, peak to peak. There is a small cairn at the summit with views somewhat similar to Sawel e.g. Binevenagh, Lough Foyle and Inishowen to the north, although here there were better views west towards Mullaghclogha. I was able to pick out the minor road running north from the tiny village of Cranagh towards Park (Co. Derry), and slightly to the east, the forest track that others have mentioned. Once again, I crossed the fence and headed towards the track. The were some dramatic views on the way down this west side of the mountain, and a nice view down towards Cranagh with its pretty yellowish chapel. It started to rain and I hurried across sometimes awkward terrain before finally meeting up with the track (again I had to cross the fence, and again realized I could've followed it down). From here it was a gentle walk down towards the B47 Glenelly Rd, just east of Cranagh. I would recommend taking two cars if possible, as others have said, and parking them east of Sawel and west of Dart. Alll in all this circular route, while certainly an enjoyable day's hiking, is very long and requires a lot of road walking; the B47 is pretty busy.
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Sawel & Dart from the west
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A montage of the view from west of Dart, looking eastwards to the highest Sperrin, Sawel.
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The House of the Undying or House of the Undying Ones is the headquarters for the Undying Ones, the topmost amongst the warlocks of Qarth. It is also known colloquially as the Palace of Dust.[1] Many enter, but few come back out.[2]
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A Clash of Kings
Following the suggestion of Pyat Pree, Daenerys Targaryen seeks the Undying Ones' counsel at their residence, the House of the Undying. The Undying Ones show her a number of visions of past and future events, but they turn on her and attempt to drain her life, only to be slain by her dragon, Drogon.
A Dance with Dragons
According to Xaro Xhoan Daxos the Undying are all dead.[3]
The House of the Undying is a grey and ancient ruin. It is long and low, without towers or windows and is coiled like a stone serpent through a grove of black-barked trees with inky blue leaves which are used to make the drink that the Qartheen call "shade of the evening". No other buildings stand near. Black tiles cover the palace roof, many of them fallen or broken. The mortar between the stones is dry and crumbling.[2]
Upon her arrival Daenerys Targaryen finds the sight of the House of the Undying an unexpected one - in a city of splendors such as Qarth she expected the House of the Undying to be the most splendid of all. She now understands why it is called the Palace of Dust. Even Drogon is disquieted by the sight of it; he hisses and smoke seeps out between his sharp teeth. Daenerys takes Pyat Pree's arm and he leads her. Under the black trees it is darker than she would have thought and the way is longer. Though the path seems to run straight from the street to the door of the palace, Pyat Pree soon turns aside - as the front way leads in but never out again.
They reach a door that is a tall oval mouth set in a wall fashioned in the likeness of a human face. It is here that Daenerys enters after drinking shade of the evening from a slender crystal glass. [2]
He who seeks audience with the Undying Ones must follow the rules. Before entering, a person seeking audience with the Undying must drink shade of the evening, so that they may "hear and see the truths" that will be laid before them. It does not turn lips blue with just one dose; many must be taken.[2]
He who enters must enter alone or not at all. The front way leads in, but not out again. When one enters, there will be four doors; the door one just came through and three others. To reach the Undying, one must always take the first door on the right and always takes stairs up.
The rooms of the House of the Undying are sometimes open to sight, and are filled with strange visions of many sorts; days that were, days that will be, days that never shall be, and visions of surpassing beauty or horror. One must not enter any room until reaching the audience chamber. To leave the audience chamber, a person must follow the "same" path as before; always the first door to the right and always up the stairs.[2]
The chamber of the Undying is gloomy. A long stone table fills the room, above which floats a heart swollen and blue with corruption. It beats with a deep throbbing sound and each pulse sends out indigo light. A small dwarf no more than knee high with a snoutish face, garbed in purple and blue livery, is a servant.[2]
Visions in the House of the Undying
The warlock Pyat Pree persuades Daenerys Targaryen to seek answers in the House of the Undying. Inside, she passes through many rooms containing visions before she reaches the chamber of the Undying.[2]
- A beautiful, naked woman being ravished by four little men who resemble the dwarf servitor.
- A feast of slaughtered corpses holding cups, spoons, and food, with a dead man with a wolf's head sitting on a throne wearing an iron crown, apparently foreshadowing the Red Wedding.
- Daenerys' childhood home with the red door in Braavos.
- A throne room with dragon skulls on the walls where a king resembling Aerys II Targaryen sits on a barbed throne and appears to give the order to burn the Red Keep during the Sack of King's Landing.
- A room where a silver-haired man (presumably Rhaegar Targaryen) names his son Aegon, says the child is "the prince that was promised", then plays a harp.
- A "splendor of wizards" who falsely claim to be the Undying of Qarth and offer to teach Daenerys the secret speech of dragonkind.
Upon reaching the chamber of the Undying, Daenerys is spoken to in a barely perceptible whisper. The Undying call her "mother of dragons" and "child of three" and tell her some prophesies, saying "three fires must you light... one for life and one for death and one to love... three mounts must you ride... one to bed and one to dread and one to love... three treasons will you know... once for blood and once for gold and once for love..."
The Undying show Daenerys many more visions before attacking her and being slain by Drogon[2]:
- Viserys Targaryen's gruesome death.
- A tall lord with copper-skin and silver-gold hair beneath a banner of a fiery stallion, with a burning city in the background (this may be a glimpse at what Rhaego's future would have been).
- A dying prince (likely Rhaegar Targaryen) mutters a woman's name with his last breath, rubies flying from his chest.
- A blue-eyed king who casts no shadow (possibly Stannis Baratheon) raises a red sword in his hand.
- A cloth dragon sways on poles amidst a cheering crowd.
- A great stone beast takes wing from a smoking tower, breathing shadows.
- Daenerys's silver trots through grass to a darkling stream under a sea of stars.
- A corpse standing at the prow of a ship with bright eyes and grey smiling lips.
- A blue flower growing from a chink in a wall of ice, filling the air with sweetness. (This could indicate Jon Snow's true parentage and potential kinship to Daenerys)
After the attack by the Undying Ones is foiled by Drogon, Daenerys runs out of the chamber, which is ablaze by the time she reaches the door. She runs down a long dim passageway stretched serpentine before her but cannot find a door. She keeps running, even though the floor seems to be moving under her feet, and suddenly there is a door ahead of her, a door shaped like an open mouth. She runs through the door and out into the sun. Pyat Pree is gibbering in some unknown tongue and hopping from one foot to the other. He howls curses and draws a knife and tries to attack Dany but Jhogo and Rakharo restrain him.[2]
When Daenerys looks back at the House of the Undying, there are thin tendrils of smoke forcing their way through cracks in the ancient stone walls and rising from between the black tiles of the roof.[2]
Whether the palace is still standing is unknown but, according to Xaro Xhoan Daxos, the Undying are all dead.[3]
Jhiqui follows Dothraki custom and fastens a bell in Daenerys's hair to mark her victory over the Undying. Daenerys tries to tell her that she has won no victories but Jhiqui disagrees, telling Dany that she burned the maegi in their house of dust and sent their souls to hell. Daenerys decides to hold her tongue thinking that the Dothraki will esteem her all the more for a few bells in her hair.
Xaro Xhoan Daxos learns that Pyat Pree is gathering the surviving warlocks together to work ill on Daenerys.
Later, having fled Qarth, upon entering Astapor at the head of her khalasar, on the way to purchase Unsullied, Daenerys's hair is braided - attached is a tiny silver bell whose chime sings of the Undying Ones of Qarth, burned in their Palace of Dust.
Heed my words, my queen. The House of the Undying Ones was not made for mortal men. If you value your soul, take care and do just as I tell you.[2]—Pyat Pree, to Daenerys Targaryen prior to her entering the House of the Undying
Blood of my Blood … this is an evil place, a haunt of ghosts and maegi. See how it drinks the morning sun? Let us go before it drinks us as well.[2]—Jhogo, to Daenerys Targaryen
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 27, Daenerys II.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 48, Daenerys IV.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 16, Daenerys III.


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cold fjord writes "The People's Republic of China continues its long march toward liberalization with two steps forward (And one+ step back?). The BBC reports, 'A senior Chinese official has said the country will phase out the practice of taking organs from executed prisoners from November. Huang Jiefu said China would now rely on using organs from voluntary donors under a new national donation system. Prisoners used to account for two-thirds of transplant organs, based on previous estimates from state media. For years, China denied that it used organs from executed prisoners, but admitted it a few years ago… Human rights groups estimate that China executes thousands of prisoners a year, but correspondents say that the official figures remain a state secret.'"
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