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Ruins from the past, menace to the future
Milo Morai, the Undying High Lord of the Horseclans, secure in the knowledge that peace had once again come to the Kindred clans, now journeyed with a select band to explore unknown territory. Perhaps in the days or weeks ahead, Milo would discover an untouched ruin of the Old Ones, a veritable treasure-trove of rare metals and trade goods to enrich the Horseclans.
More than dead ruins awaited Milo and his valiant band of hunters. For on the trail they now rode lurked nightmare creatures hungering for the blood of man. And at the end of the road waited heirs to a legacy of violence which might claim the men and women of the Horseclans as the final victims in a war that should have ended hundreds of years ago...
Robert Adams (1932-1990) was a career soldier whose Horseclans series drew on his military background to lend verisimilitude to the exploits of 26th Century of immortal mutant warriors in a balkanized North America. The Coming of the Horseclans (1975) was the first of 18 novels in the sequence, which ended, with The Clan of the Cats (1988), only on account of the authors death.
His non-Horseclans work included two other series. Castaways in Time (1980) and its five sequels were a mix of alternate history and time travel. The Stairway to Forever and Monsters and Magicians (both 1988) were the only volumes to appear of a projected fantasy series.
He also co-edited several anthologies, among them Barbarians (1985, with Martin H. Greenberg and Charles H. Waugh), four Magic in Ithkar volumes (1985-87, with Andre Norton), Robert Adams' Book of Alternate Worlds (1987, with Pamela Crippen Adams and Martin H. Greenberg) and Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers (1988, same co-editors).
Still and unmoving as two statues, the men sat, waiting for one of the browsing, slowly shifting herbivores to wander within range of the short, powerful bows with which they were armed. The spring was now far enough advanced for the beasts to have begun to fatten, and so, even after they had been dressed out, two of them should provide food for all of the party for which the men were hunting this day. Slouched forward over the necks of their grazing horses, in constant telepathic contact with their mounts and with each other, the two ignored the flies that crawled upon them, the sweat that poured from them under the hot sun and the reek of the fresh deer dung with which they had liberally smeared their hands and faces to cover the smell of predatory man from their prey.
The herd they stalked was mixedshaggy, feral cattle, shaggier bison, an assortment of deer and an even wider-ranging assortment of antelope, a few gazelles, a few wild horses and burros, even the occasional wild goat or two. The progenitors of the animals making up the herd had been natives of widely separated habitats on four continents, and a few hundred years before that spring day on the prairie of North America, no one of the billions of humans then living would ever have seen a like herd on any of those four. But those billions of humans died long ago, precious few of them living long enough to breed and leave descendants, and the species of mankind now was the rarest of creatures upon the grassy lands, moving only in small, scattered bands with his domestic herds among the tumbled, overgrown ruins of his brief hegemony, gathering and hunting for the bulk of his food, taking only milk and blood and fiber from his precious herds save in the direst of emergencies.
Heads well down, giving every appearance of doing nothing more than grazing the fetlock-high grasses, the brace of telepathically controlled hunting horses slowly moved closer to the mixed herd, drawing little if any attention from the wary, chary prey of the motionless hunters, who had steeled themselves to not even wince at the bites of the flies, for the meat that they sought here was of importance to those back in camp.
But although they made no slightest sound, still they conversed. Gy, beamed the elder to the younger, what is the nearest animal to me? Can you see?
Yes, Uncle Milo, beamed back the younger, who was a bit more slender than the elder, though seemingly as tall and strong-looking, with rolling muscles white, brown-faced ridged-horn... a big one, a buck. A few more yards and youll be at the right range. And me?
The elder blinked the sweat away to clear his vision slightly and silently replied, A yellow deer and two spotted ones, close together. The yellow one looks to be best; hes young and seems a little fatter than the other two. No antlers, of course, but Id bet that hes a spike buck. You are within range of him already.
At his riders unspoken urging, the stallion bearing the elder of the two men moved farther forward, closer to the fringes of the widely scattered aggregation of grazers and browsers. Obligingly, the antelope that was his quarry finished stripping the leaves and shoots from a tall weed and chose that moment to move toward another plant, this one even closer to the hunger.
Now, Uncle Milo, now! came the imperative message from the younger mans mind to the elders. Within the bare space of a breath, the two men straightened, brought up the bows with the already-nocked arrows, drew, aimed and sent the shafts thudding into the two beasts. The shaft of the younger man sank into the eye of the deer and penetrated the brain, and the stricken beast dropped without so much as a sound or a movement. The loosing of the elder man went in behind the near shoulder of the whitish antelope and skewered lung and heart, yet the mortally wounded animal would have fled had not the man brought his horse close enough to lean from his saddle and take firm grip of one of the pair of sharp-tipped horns, lift the heavy beast almost clear of the ground and hold it against its struggles until it went limp.
Within the herd, pandemonium raged unchecked. Joining forces as they often did in the face of danger, the feral cattle and the bison drew into a tight formation, their vulnerable calves in the center, the wicked horns of the bulls and cows on the perimeter. But all around this defensive grouping, the smaller beasts fled madly in every direction, some of them in aggregations of their species, some as individuals.
Watching a band of graceful impala leap impossibly high in their flight to land and immediately leap again took the elder mans mind racing backward over the intervening centuries to his days of soldiering in Africa. So, too, did the rapid departure of a group of fast if ungainly-looking wildebeests.
All thats missing, he thought, are the zebras and the lions.
Not that both of those had not adapted over the years to life on portions of the vast, endless-seeming prairies and plains of the North American continent, but there were none of the stripped equines running with this particular portion of the great herds, and the lion prides did not hunt every day.
The two men, younger and elder, cooperated in roughly, hurriedly field-dressing the two slain beasts, then took the carcasses up in front of them on the withers of their mounts and set off for camp before the smell of fresh-spilled blood drew to the spot predators and scavengers too big or too numerous for them to handle. As they rode away with their booty, they left behind a section of prairie now host only to the close-packed formation of bison and long-horned cattle, all of the other beasts of the former mixed herd now having become but dots, some still moving, in the far distance.
Nearly two hours of easy-paced riding brought them within sight of their campfour round felt yurts and as many high-wheeled carts, some threescore horses wandering, grazing around the edges of the campsite, standing belly-deep in the shallow lakelet near which the camp had been made or sipping water from the chuckling stream that issued from it.
As they approached the lakeside camp, the elder of the huntersa man called Milo Morai or Uncle
Milotried to picture in his minds eye a memory of the map of this country as it had been so many long years in the past. He thought that they were probably in northern Oklahoma now, possibly southern Kansas, surely not far enough west to be in Texas still. They had wintered in Texas, camping, with Kindred Clans Staiklee and Gahdfree, and now they were headed northeastward.
Milo meant to strike farther east than usual in hopes of finding ruins from the world before this one that had not been so thoroughly picked over and picked through as had those along the central migration routes of the game herds and the Kindred clans. Usable metals and singular artifacts gleaned from such ruins were not only valuable in their own right, useful to the nomads of the clans, but they also could be bartered for other useful things with the wagon-borne eastern traders who ventured out upon the prairies each spring and summer from the more populous areas beyond the great waterway of the Mississippi River.
As the well-laden horses ambled nearer to the camp, a very pretty, very pregnant blond girl kneeling before one of the yurts looked up from her chore of grinding grain and awkwardly rose to her feet, shouting, Myrah, Gy and Uncle Milo are back with two kills.
A mindspeak answered her, beaming, Aha! Two men, two kills, that should clyster some of the overweening pride out of that gaggle of silly Staiklee and Gahdfree boys, I should think. They were out all morning with their yapping spotted dogs and draggled in with nothing more than a half-dozen scrawny rabbits.
But they did find a ruin, Myrah, quite a large one, too. And you know how anxious Uncle Milo and Bard Herbuht have been to get to a ruin that has not been looted before. That should count for at least something, the pregnant blonde beamed back. The Staiklee and Gahdfree boys mean well, you know. You are too hard on themyou fault them too much for their high spirits and their tale-spinnings.
Meaning well never yet filled a stewpot, was the silent reply. Nor did bragging, out-and-out lying and the taking of stupid chances of the like of juggling sharp knives while standing on ones head in the saddle of a galloping horse; little children sometimes do things like those, Karee, but remember these are supposed to be young, proven warriors, all blooded and ready to take their places in the warrior-councils of their clans after they have ridden out as guards with the traders for a season or two. My father, the Skaht of Skaht, would have
Karee Skaht Linsee had had enough, however. Your father, Myrah, owns all of my respect as the good chief he has been, but every one of us clansfolk knows and has long known that where it concerned you, he had a large soft spot in his head. You are and have always been a spoiled brat. Youre dead certain that only your desires, only your beliefs, should have any value. You had better thank Sacred Sun that our Gy is a basically gentle man, for youve richly deserved a sound thrashing for months... and he still may tan your hide, if your intemperate beamings and outbursts continue to embarrass him and Uncle Milo and Bard Herbuht.
Now, get your lazy, slugabed self out here and do some real work, for a change!
But only Karee, Bard Herbuhts two wivesthe middle-aged Mai and the slightly younger Djineeand his nine-winters-old daughter, Kai, were on hand when the two hunters led their horses into the flat area on which the yurts fronted. Gy frowned and sent a private beam, and presently his other wife, Myrah, stepped sullenly out of the yurt.
As she helped the elder hunter to untie the stiff carcass of the whitish antelope, Karee remarked, Uncle
Milo, the young warriors have found a ruined place, a large one, they say. And although they all say they have hunted in this area before, they also say that none of them had ever come across this place or even suspected that one lay hereabouts. They didnt get much game, though, only a few rabbits. And another of their spotted dogs disappeared last night, too.
Good. He nodded. Thank you for telling me of it, Karee. But where are my wives, Djoolya and
She waved an arm to indicate general direction. Away over on the other side of the little lake, I think. They went out shortly after you and Gy rode off. They are looking for roots and greens. Two of the Staiklee warriors are with them, looking for any traces of the missing dogs.
What of the other Staiklees and the two Gahdfree boys, Karee? inquired Milo .
She shrugged. Downstream somewhere, with hopes of arrowing or spearing or catching fish or frogs, they said. Then she wrinkled up her brows and said, This is another of those peculiar deerlike things, Uncle Milowhat did you say the folk of ancient days called them? Id never before seen any of this kind until we came into this country.
They were called addaks, Karee. And, no, they never seem to be found here anywhere north of southern Kansas, and theyre none too common even here, but theyre good eating and their hides make good leather. With this one and the big young buck that Gy dropped, all of the camp will eat well this night, at least, even the cats. Where are the cats, anyway?
Out guarding the horses, I suppose, Uncle Milo. None of them has come into camp today, all day long, although Ive seen Snowbelly and Spotted One both drinking from the lake at various times, since the nooning.
After a nod of thanks to the young woman, Milo sent a mindcall ranging out and was immediately rewarded by the answering beamings of all three of the cats. The twoleg Gy and I both killed fourleg grasseaters, he informed the felines. So there will be offal for you all, shortly, as well as some odds and ends of rabbit and maybe fish and frogs.
Pleased and pleasantly anticipatory beamings came from the two prairiecats, but the tame jaguar,
Spotted One, replied, This cat killed and fed last night, twoleg cat friend Milo, so let the other two cats come in to eatSpotted One will keep watch over the herd.
Milo had had his doubts about just how well the wild-born and -bred jaguar was going to work out living with the Horseclans, for all that she had voluntarily joined with the prairiecat Crooktail in fighting off a pack of hyenas that had killed a mare, a foal and a boy farther north in the previous year, but the wild feline had laid his fears to rest; she had never once made to attack any horse, bovine, sheep or goat or their young. She usually kept a sizable physical distance from twolegs, which was understandable enough, though she was civil and very cooperative when mindspoken and, more important, she was carrying a litter sired by Snowbelly, which last meant to Milo that the singular race of prairiecatsthe result of a succession of breeding experiments ended by the nuclear and biological warfare that had all but extirpated mankind worldwidewas more Leo than Felis. Now if the kittens she bore proved to be fertile, rather than mere sterile hybrids, there never again would be any need to subject the race to possibly deleterious inbreeding.
The skinning had been accomplished, the cleaning and butchering were underway, and the two prairiecats were crouched feeding on the tender, bloody offal before the four Kindred warriors rode up from the southwest, whooping exuberantly, bearing strings of assorted fish and a brace of sizable writhing, decapitated vipers.
A short time later, five horses, four of them with riders, were seen to crest the low rise of ground on the opposite side of the lake and head around the water toward the campsite. The led packhorse bore two bulging sacks and a huge caldron, discolored with thick verdigris and with bits of loam still adhering to it. As the party drew closer, it could be seen that, though clothed similarly, two were adult women and two, young warriors.
Arriving in the central space, the elder of the two womenan auburn-haired, green-eyed, stocky woman of between thirty-five and forty wintersslid easily from her saddle, strode back to the packhorse and began to loose the big caldron from its load, mindspeaking the while.
Milo, love, this lovely pot came from a place about three miles northeast of here. Its either copper or brass and so big, you could feed a whole clan out of it. And the pots not all, eitherwait until you see what else Verah and I found.
The next morning, while Bard Herbuht rode out for his day of hunting with Little Djahn Staiklee and Djim-Djoh Staiklee, Milo took Gy Linsee, the four remaining Teksikuhn Kindred warriors and a cart and they all followed his premier wife, Djoolya, to the place where she had found the large copper caldron. In addition to their normal, everyday weapons, they bore along spades, axes, a wooden maul and assortment of wedges, a wagon jack and some hardwood pry-poles, strong ropes and a hand-carved wooden pulley.
First sight of the place from the crest of a low hill was most disheartening, however. Although patterns of vegetative growth gave indications of where the edges of fields and pastures had been so long ago, nothing resembling a building remained. Up close, the clearing away of vines and brush and bushes revealed fire-blackened stones and crumbly concrete. Between the walls of what had once been a large, rambling structure, beneath several centuries worth of soil and decomposing vegetation, was a jumbled layer of cracked and shattered sheets of slate, and below that layer, ancient charcoal that had once been thick beams and joists.
Early on, they disturbed two rattlesnakes, but quick slashes of sabers took off the reptiles heads, and, tied together by the tails over a tree limb, the bodies were left to thrash and drain and later become part of the daily meal of the camp.
Bits and pieces of rusted iron and steel and corroded, discolored other metals were scattered all through the charcoal layernails, screws, hinges, doorknobs and locks, wire lengths, piping lengths, little solidified pools of copper and brass and lead. In one room they unearthed a sizable chunk of solid silver protruding out of which were several rusting, pointless knifeblades. This find and the other melted nonferrous metals went into the cart, along with the copper and brass and any hardware items not too rusty or deformed to be of further use. Another find that brought a smile to Milos face was a complete, relatively undamaged set of hearth tools of heavy, solid bronze. More treasures were dug out of a room close to the one wherein the chunk of melted silver had been foundmore than a dozen pans and pots of copper with brass handles, some plates and utensils of brass and of pewter, including a magnificent pewter mug that looked to Milo as if it would hold at least two quarts of liquid. That these finds had not melted of the heat of the long-ago fire verged on the miraculous. Most of the steel cutlery had become only lengths of flaking rust, but a few blades still were found sound, along with a sharpening steel and a dozen tinned skewers, a large, two-tined fork and a copper ladle.
Apparently, not one item of glass or china or earthenware in that room had remained whole, and shards of them littered the subsurfaces. Such pieces of plastics and aluminum as turned up were brittle and useless.
A hump in the center of this space proved, upon clearance, to be a large, rust-flaking double-door refrigerator-freezer unit.
Well take this apart, said Milo, adding, The amounts of copper tubing and wiring will make it worth the effort.
It was when Milo, Gy and the two Staiklees raised the thing up from its centuries-old grave that they found what lay beneath it.
When Milo and the muscular Gy, between them, were able to get the trapdoor open, foul, musty air poured up from the utter darkness below. Turning to the Staiklees, he said, Were going to need some torches down there.
And so they did, but only until Milo found and filled up and lit some gasoline lanterns that were in the cellar. He reflected that this cache would have been a true treasure trove two or three hundred years ago, but not now. True, there still was more than enough of value to him and to his people contained unspoiled in the sometime fallout shelter, but there was much else that now was utterly useless if not downright dangerous.
He had the seven bodiestwo men, two women and three childrendragged into the room that had been the pantry, no pleasant task, as they had all begun to decompose as soon as the fresh, moist outer air got to them. That done, they began to load whatever looked usable or tradable onto the cart, and when it would hold no more, they sent Little Djahn Staiklee to drive it back to the campsite and bring back an empty one.
While searching for an easier way and possibly a wider opening to get their gleanings up to the surface, Milo found a short flight of steps leading up to an angled pair of doors, but they refused to budge a millimeter, even to the efforts of all three of the men, plus those of Djoolya.
Outside, the reason why was clear. Also clear was just why no one of them had seen the doors before: they were completely covered by a portion of the field-stone half-wall. When once the stones had been lifted and thrown off, the heavy, steel-sheathed doors opened with only a few minutes of straining and cursing and use of two of the pry-poles.
As they all squatted, panting, among the scattered stones, Milo beamed, When first I saw them, I didnt think those folks in the pantry there died of the plaguesnone of them bore any of the easily recognizable signs of that kind of dying. No, I think they all got trapped down there and smothered to death. Of course, it was really the fire that did them in; with half a ton of stone blocking one exit and that humongous refrigerator on the other, no two men and two women could possibly have used either opening. Their air intakes must have gotten blocked then or soon after, and that was all she wrote for the lot of them. Thats why they didnt start to rot until we went down there, toothere was no oxygen in the place, no breathable air.
Lets get them up here, out yonder somewhere, before they get any higher. The coyotes and foxes and buzzards will clean them up quickly if they can get at them.
Since they didnt die of the plagues, that means we can take all the bedding, too, and those are nice, thick, warm-looking blankets. Whenever Little Djahn gets back with an empty cart, well load it with the best of the things down there and close up the place to keep animals out and come back tomorrow or the next day to finish stripping it. Whatever any of you do, though, leave the sealed metal containers and the glass jars and bottles alone until Ive had the chance to check out their contents; old as they are, anyone who even tasted of them would likely be poisoning himself.
But Milo, demanded Djoolya, what of all those pretty jars? The traders exchange valuable things for even one of those jars that has not been broken or chipped at an edge and that still has its top. Surely we arent going to just leave them all here?
He leaned toward her to pat her grubby, work-roughened hand. Oh, no, honey, we wont leave them here. No, tomorrow or the next day, well come back, dump whatever is in them out, pack them in a cartload of dried grass as far as the lake, wash them out well and put them somewhere safe to drain and dry until were ready to move on. I really hate to dump out that much food, but its all just too old to take the chance that it might still be even edible. Lest some Kindred clan wander through here and find and foolishly or innocently try to open and eat of those ancient cans, before we leave, well hump them all up here and axe them opena few poisoned coyotes wont be any great loss.
Spitting out the grass stem he had been absently chewing, Djim-Bahb Gahdfree asked, What of those two big handsome steel chests, Uncle Milo? We should at least open them, I think, even if they prove too heavy to take away from here.
Milo nodded. Theyre not so heavy as they seem, Djim-Bahb. I believe theyre just bolted to the wall or the floor or both. We will indeed open them, though Im pretty sure I know at least part of what well find in them, and whenever two or three of you get back from your clan camp with another cart for us, well load up those two steel chests and take them along with us. The traders should be overjoyed to get such artifacts still in such splendid condition, with built-in lockworks and the keys to fit them.
Gy Linsee raised an eyebrow quizzically Keys, Uncle Milo?
Milo nodded. You recall those rings of flat metal things I took off the belts of those two mens bodies, Gy? Those were called keys, and Im sure that at least two of them will open those metal chests.
Before he and Gy left camp to hunt the next morning, Milo sent off Little Djahn and Djim-Bahb with spare mounts and a packhorse to seek out their clans camp and dicker for the purchase of the spare cart, now needed. He had them take back the now-reduced gaggle of spotted dogs, as well, for despite all precautions, one dog per night was regularly disappearing from the campsite, and protracted searches for any trace of them had been completely unavailing.
Less than an hour out of camp, Milo and Gy were lucky enough to find a young screwhorn bullan earlier age would have called him an elandgrazing alone, a mile or more from the herd of herbivores. It was in an area of rough, broken ground over which Milo would have been hesitant to pursue the beast on horseback, but the bull elected to stand and fight and so was quickly killed with arrows from a safe distance. Then, while Milo guarded the fresh kill, Gy went back at the gallop to fetch a cart and more hands to help with the job of skinning, cleaning, butchering and transporting nearly a half-ton of meat, bone and hide. So fortunate a kill would keep the camp well supplied for several days.
Nor was food alone the value of the bull. The hide would be rendered into fine, strong leather and the hair into felt. Horn would become tools and implements; sinew, thread for sewing or making ropes.
When steel needles were not available, slivers of bone could be made to serve that purpose, and still other pieces of bone, after fire-hardening and sharpening, were often used to tip hunting arrows. Cleaned and soaked and carefully stretched, then dried, the bulls stomach pouches would become the inner linings of water containers; so too would his bladder. Hooves might be and often were rendered with fish offal to produce glue for a plethora of purposes, or sections cut from hooves made fine scaleshirts when sewed onto leather backing for war armor.
With the women, the children and Bard Herbuht fully occupied in camp, Milo took the cart down to the lake and washed off the blood then he, Gy and two more of the Kindred warriors rode back to the ruin with the cart.
It was not yet noon when they arrived at their destination, but even so, the seven bodies dragged out and left upon the prairie on the afternoon before were already become only a few disjointed, widely scattered bones, all but invisible in the high grass.
As he had expected, the steel cabinets opened readily to two of the keys, and the contents were also about what he had been expecting, but more so.
The M-16s were there, three of them, but they were the selective-fire model, capable of full-automatic operation, which was unusual. There were four shotgunstwo short pumps and two doublesan
M-3A1 submachine gun, two scoped hunting rifles, three .22 caliber rifles and a dozen handguns of assorted calibers and sizes. There was enough ammunition to start a small-scale war and four hand-grenades. But one of the steel ammunition boxes proved to contain not cartridges or explosives but coinsrolls of silver dimes, quarters, halfs, dollars and Mexican five- and ten-peso pieces, plus a few other rolls of gold Kruger-rands, Mexican twenty- and fifty-peso pieces, and a few American gold pieces. This last box he took out and set aside.
All save one of the firearms he transferred to the larger of the steel cabinets, which was, he was glad to see, literally built into a corner of the room. After dropping the keys inside with the arms, munitions and grenades, he slammed the self-locking door upon the dangerous artifacts. There was no point in allowing any of the Horseclansmen to learn to use and depend upon weapons that they would find worse than useless after they had fired off all of the limited stocks of ammunition; bows and slings and darts had been sufficient to keep them fed and protected for nearly three hundred years now, and he had no intention of spoiling them with the incipiently deadly fruits of a long-dead technology.
The one pistol he retained was, he admitted to himself, partially a nostalgia trip. The .45 caliber M1A1
Government automatic was made mostly of stainless steel with a matte finish, but the heft and the feel were achingly familiar. He packed all of the .45 ammo he could turn upfive hundred plus roundsthe five magazines, the spare-parts kit, two holsters and a lanyard in a hinged, lockable 20mm ammo box, adding the .22 caliber conversion kit and a block of the small-caliber ammo for it, as well. The pistol would serve him as an emergency, last-ditch defensive weapon in its larger configuration and to take small game when traveling alone in its smaller. The time was quickly coming when he would be very glad that he had not locked away this weapon too.
Little Djahn Staiklee and Djim-Bahb Gahdfree came back into the camp in a little over a weekvery good time for such a tripboth they and the two new young warriors who accompanied them back all whooping and chortling over their expertise at haggling. They had managed to convert the packhorse load of goods into not one but two carts, each of them complete with teams and harness, water barrels and spare parts and even kegs of grease for the axles and hubs, plus a twenty-pound sack of dried pinto beans and a fifty-pound sack of dry, shelled corn, both raided or traded from the Dirtmen by one or the other of the Kindred clans.
There were no spotted dogs with them when they returned, but in place of them were two big, wiry, tough-looking hounds of the sort that these southerly dog-clan folk called tooth-houndsdogs bred and trained to hold dangerous game at bay and, if necessary, to close with and kill the beasts.Milo would have been happier if the young men had brought back no canines at all, but if they had to have dogs along, he agreed that these were the kind to have; any predator that chose to tangle with one or both of them would have its work cut out for it, no two ways about that matter.
During the afternoon and evening of the day of the return of Little Djahn Staiklee, everything but bare essentials was packed into the carts, and the next morning, the yurts were struck, folded and packed, the king stallion was requested to move the herd out and the party commenced a march to the environs of the large ruin that the young warriors had chanced across weeks before.
They moved like a migrating clanCrooktail and Snowbelly ranging well out in front, zigzagging back and forth across the projected line of march, seeking out danger or game; next came the mounted warriors, riding well separated in a crescent that guarded both the van and the forward flanks; then came the six carts driven by the wives of Milo, Bard Herbuht and Gy Linsee; the horse herd followed, shepherded, kept moving, by the king stallion, Spotted One and Bard Herbuhts children. At Milos order, the brace of tooth-hounds were led along on ropes tied to the tails of two of the carts, for the prairiecats did not like canines of any type or description and were big enough, strong enough and fast enough to quickly make a blood pudding of either of the dogs, if so inclined. Only the jaguar, Spotted One, seemed at all tolerant of the presence of the hounds on the march or in camp.
The ready bows and throwing-sticks and slings of the skirmish line of warriors garnered a goodly supply of rabbits and three small antelope of as many kinds during the days march, and Little Djahn Staiklee roped and strangled to death a large antelope, while the redoubtable Snowbelly came back as far as the line of horsemen dragging a large, fat, spotted sambar buck.
Although they moved like a clan, the small party moved much faster than a clan, lacking the slow, difficult job of herding the cattle, sheep and goats kept by clans for milk products and fiber. Therefore, they had covered more than half the distance to their objective by midafternoon and when they came upon an ideal campsite, Milo ordered a halt.
Although no one, not even the prairiecats, suspected it, however, they had been under observation throughout the day, and they still were as they settled into the nights camp.


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Welcome to another Basic Grey Challenge
I shall try hopefully settle down and do some catching up soon, meanwhile I hope you all have a all have a wonderful 'Mothr's Day'
Stunning card Heather, cute image and great colour combo. Have a wonderful Mother's day. Hugs,Moni
Wonderful card, love the colouring. Have a great time in the UK.
A lovely image and a beautiful card, Heather! Perfect for today! Hugs, Lesley
Beautiful card Heather,I love the image and the colours.
So gorgeous papers.
Hugs Riet.xx
Awww.. such a sweet image Heather, gorgeous colouring, beautiful card..
Luv CHRISSYxx
Heather this is a stunner, and that image has always been one of my all time favs, you have coloured her beautifully its gorgeous xxxx
Oh this is so beautiful Heather, wonderful details and sweet image.
Oh Heather, this is gorgeous sweetie!! I really adore these fun stamps!! You've done a gorgeous job with the coloring!! TFS! HUGS
Hi ya hun
a totally gorgeous card, awesome colouring as always, beautiful embelies, sue,x
Hi Heather! I lovel your card! Your coloring is gorgeous! hugs Sandra
She's just delightful & I love the way your blue ribbon picks up the Morning Glory flowers on the gate. That hat is so pretty with the soft colouring too & I do like the blue shadowing.
Take care with all you need to do & hope you manage to sort everything whilst you're here in the UK.
Paula (PEP)

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Never before has there been a phenomenon like Momofuku. Once a completely unrecognizable word, it's now synonymous with David Chang's award-winning restaurants of the same name in three countries around the globe, including his spectacular bento box of restaurants in the modern Momofuku glass cube complex adjacent to Toronto's Shangri-La Hotel and just steps to the Canadian Opera Centre. Daishō specializes in shared plates, large format family-style feasts and an à la carte dinner menu that's constantly changing, inspired by the diversity of Ontario's native ingredients and showcasing the best of Canadian farms from the east to west coast. It's more than just ramen and pork buns. Completely encased in glass, the room's vaulted ceiling is dominated by a grand finned structure made of oak, which not only brings warmth to the minimalistic space but serves as an elegant beacon along University Avenue.
Seated at one of the small tables along the soaring 3-storey bank of windows overlooking University Avenue, we jump-started our evening with cocktails that arrived with a complimentary plate of crunchy pickled cucumbers. Looking over the menu, we selected buttery Buttermilk Biscuits served with black pepper butter and a spicy chili honey, followed by the Crispy Chicken Bun with ssäm sauce, pickled carrot and chopped scallion, Daishō's outstanding Agnolotti with oxtail, bay leaf, black truffles, and Roasted Rice Cakes with spicy pork sausage, chinese broccoli and tofu. As an entrée we shared one of Momofuku's newest dishes on the menu, Skate with Black Bean Sauce and Grilled Scallions served with sticky rice. For dessert we splurged on three warm Ricotta Filled Doughnuts with orange and honey! With its fabulous views, soft lighting, friendly professional service staff, and constantly changing dinner menu, Daishō continues to be one of the most consistently enjoyable dining experiences in the city.
Daisho's dinner menu
A Corpse Reviver #2 with gin, lillet, orange and lemon - a vintage cocktail from the 1930s
Weller Old Fashioned from 1881, with Weller bourbon, bitters and sugar
Complimentary pickled sweet and salty Kirby cucumbers with peppers
Buttery Buttermilk Biscuits served with black pepper butter and chili honey
Crispy Chicken Bun from Harriston Co-Op in Ontario, served with ssäm sauce,
pickled carrot, and scallion
Agnolotti with oxtail, bay leaf and black truffles
Roasted Rice Cakes with spicy pork sausage, chinese broccoli and tofu
Skate with Black Bean Sauce and Grilled Scallions served with Sticky Rice
Momofuku Ginger Scallion Sauce
Makes 3 cups
Recipe courtesy of David Chang, Momofuku
2 1/2 cups thinly sliced scallions, both greens and whites
1/2 cup finely minced peeled fresh ginger
1/4 cup grapeseed or other neutral oil
1 1/2 tsp usukuchi - light soy sauce
3/4 tsp sherry vinegar
3/4 tsp kosher salt, or more to taste
Mix together the scallions, ginger, oil, soy, vinegar, and salt in a bowl. Taste and check for salt, adding more if needed. Although it's best after 15 or 20 minutes of sitting, this sauce is best once it's stirred together and chilled up to a day or two in the fridge. "Ginger scallion sauce is one of the greatest sauces or condiments ever. Ever. Its definitely a mother sauce at Momofuku, something that we use over and over and over again. If you have ginger scallion sauce in the fridge, you will never go hungry: stir 6 tablespoons into a bowl of hot noodles — lo mein, rice noodles, Shanghai thick noodles — and youre in business. Or serve over a bowl of rice topped with a fried egg. Or with grilled meat or any kind of seafood. Or almost anything".


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A 100% concentrate of glamourish male covers, most of them have an acoustic/vintage mood.
It's my second cover playlist (here is the first, all-female one: http://bit.ly/uUlFti).
Warning: no Boyce Avenue, no Tyler Ward here. The tracklist includes Eels, Jeff Buckley (photo), Richard Cheese and others. You'll always find the original singer/band in the track information. Chill out and have fun!
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cool mix. you might add this one to the mix Laura. Tks! http://soundcloud.com/hughdoolan/bird-on-the-wire-cover-version⃠


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Wed, July 25, 2018, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Join us to sing great choral masterworks with other enthusiastic singers from Sonoma County and beyond, led by some of the Bay Area's finest choral conductors. Each session features a noted conductor working with you and other choral singers through one or more great works. Don't miss the opportunity to acquaint yourself with these great works.
July 11: Bach Christmas Oratorio
Magen Solomon, SF Bach and SF Choral Artists
July 18: Brahms Requiem
Jenny Bent, Sonoma State University
July 25: Bach Cantata 106 & Jesu Meine Freude
Robert Worth, Sonoma Bach
August 1: The World of Ludwig Senfl, featuring Missa Paschalis
Robert Worth, Sonoma Bach
Elim Lutheran Church, 504 Baker Street, Petaluma
Wednesday Nights starting July 11, 7:00-9:30pm
Tickets: $15 General/$5 Student
$45 General /$15 Student for a 4-session pass
Elim Lutheran Church
504 Baker St


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WINNIPEG, Canada --A Canadian magician rose from the ground after being buried alive for 42 hours for a Halloween stunt. Escape artist Dean Gunnarson was in a steel coffin, and he had a Blackberry device to communicate with fans.
His trick ended Sunday.
Gunnarson's stunt was a tribute to magician Harry Houdini who died on Halloween more than 80 years ago.


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When the Crown and Camera Exhibition came to the National Gallery of Victoria in 2004, a person might have assumed the collection was selected from photographs taken by the royal family. But this exhibition was subtitled Photographs of Colonial India 1855-69, and the photographers were definitely not royals.
Italian-British photographer Felice Beato visited India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, being commissioned by the War Office in London. He visited all the mutiny sites; in Lucknow, he took 60 photographs of the city, where the defending British garrison had been besieged by the sepoys only months before.
Lucknow was evacuated and was not recaptured until March 1858, so it was shortly afterwards that Beato probably took this photograph. Why would Queen Victoria have wanted a scene from the Interior of the Secundra Bagh, so soon after 2,000 rebels are slaughtered by the 93rd Highlanders and 4th Punjab Regiment? I readily acknowledge that British women and children had also been mercilessly gunned down by the sepoys. But there was a difference - the British dead were buried, whereas the Indian corpses were left to rot as the photograph showed. A sign of imperial control, to be sure, but also an image of great insensitivity to Indian values.
John Murray, Taj Mahal with Figures Seated in Foreground Ruins, late 1850s
Dr John Murray, a Scottish medical man, only learned to be a skilled photographer while in the Medical Service of the Army of the East India Company. Stationed near the Taj Mahal in Agra, he focused on the Mughal architecture of the region. The Taj Mahal from the East with Figures Seated in Foreground Ruins, taken in the late 1850s, was a new look at an old and famous building.
Samuel Bourne was a British photographer who spent seven years (1863-1870) working in India in the time the NGV was most interested in. Together with Charles Shepherd, he set up Bourne & Shepherd first in Simla in 1863 and later in Kolkata. When he returned home in 1870, he carried with him thousands of photographs of interesting Indian landscape and architecture.
The Memorial Well in Cawnpore was photographed by Samuel Bourne. The Memorial garden had been built in 1860 to commemorate the tragic events of the 1857 Uprising, so this well-shaped symbol was chosen because many British women and children died as they were trying to draw water. The British also erected the All Souls Memorial Church, in the memory of their deceased; we can detect the church steeple in the distance. I am not sure what the locals thought of the mournful angel, surrounded by Henry Yule's marble Gothic screen. But the newspapers at home were well satisfied.
So my final question is: why were British photographs so important in this particular period, up to 1870? Kate Rhodes noted that the Indian Mutiny of 1857 led to large swathes of territory falling to the Indian rebels, only to be quickly suppressed. As a result Queen Victoria apparently stated that "India should belong to me", so India was promptly declared a crown colony, governed directly by Parliament. This conflict gave rise to an elaborate mythology on both sides and effectively created two Indias: a] British India with 2/5 of the country and 3/5 of the population and b] the Native States, ruled by local rulers.
If the collection of British photographs really did represent a form of selective colonial memory, they did it well. When Bourne and Shepard sent their 1867 catalogue to the South Kensington Museum in London (later the V & A), they received an order for all of the thousands of views listed. Their timing was perfect.
Charles Shepard, Seated Maharaja 1862–4
In November 2011 a new Traders gallery opened at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, exploring the history of Britain's trade with Asia. I hope the gallery includes photos of colonial India as described above, and artefacts from the East India Company in particular.
Another book has recently been published which has gorgeous photos, and diary entries, recorded by a young Anglo-Irish woman visiting colonial India. Jessica Douglas-Home wrote A Glimpse of Empire (Michael Russell Publishing 2011) about her grandmother, Lilah Wingfield.
This was set later than the Crown and Camera book - Lilah visited in the years just before World War I when the Empire was at its peak, and where its power and opulence were brilliantly displayed in the 1911 Delhi Durbar. Lilah saw at first hand the new King George V being proclaimed Emperor before his Indian subjects. Beautifully illustrated with Lilah's own photographs, the books adds to our knowledge of visual India at a time when this part of the British Empire was rapidly changing.


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A. About Optolong's Clear Focusing Filter
The Optolong Clear Focusing filter is designed to highly pass the visible spectral region from 420-680nm at 98.5% transmission.
B. Main Uses and Performance
- Use of astrophotography filters, especially narrowband filters, often results in dim images which can be difficult to focus. Clear focusing filter can be used first to clearly focus the image and then replaced by other Optolong imaging filters.
- Use with modified DSLRs for higher efficiency and sensitivity by passing visible range with 98.5% transmission.
- Act as an outstanding dust shield, which prevents the possibility of dust settling on the lens during long time exposure.
C. Spectral Curve Transmission Characteristics
- 98.5% transmission over the visible spectral region over 420-680nm.
D. Technical Specifications
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- 2mm thick Schott B270 optical glass substrate material.
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We avoided the last turning of the Qualcomm vs. Broadcom screw because, well, it's just becoming so darn tiring. If you missed that last month, what happened is a US Appeals court affirmed that Qualcomm infringed on two Broadcomm patents and therefore needed to pay up [via Engadget]. These were related to EVDO, QChat, and video processing. Now leave that stewing in the back of your mind.
In the front of your mind, recall that we had ourselves a little panic last year as courts told Qualcomm they weren't allowed to import certain chips into the US. This was pretty bad, but Verizon decided to pony up licensing fees so they could continue to use the chips, Sprint tried to insert themselves into the conversation, and President Bush declined to stop the International Trade Commission's (ITC) ban.
All clear? Good -- Next up, from Patently-O: the ITC's decision has been vacated by a Federal Circuit court because the original ITC decision didn't find "inducement of infringement" and also found that the ITC didn't really have the authority to exclude imports in the exact method that they used. In short, the Qualcomm chip ban has been lifted (for now)
The upshot is that Broadcom still can collect the damages you read about in the first paragraph, the ban you read about in the second paragraph has been lifted, but the court finding in the third paragraph can probably be appealed and the ban reinstated at some future date. ...and you were starting to suspect that patent lawsuits were adding uncertainty to the marketplace -- for shame!
Thanks to Dave for the tip!
(p.s. The above has nothing to do with the US not getting the Touch HD. Seriously, everybody, you have to let that one go and dream of the 'other cool stuff.')


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Director, Department for International Trade France
Oriel Petry
Oriel took up the position of Director for UK Trade and Investment (now Department for International Trade) France at the British Embassy in Paris in August 2015. Prior to this role, she has had a varied career across Whitehall as a British civil servant. Most recently she led advanced manufacturing, financial services and innovation teams in UK Trade and Investment in London working closely with international business leaders to contribute to the increase of UK foreign direct investment.
Among other responsibilities, Oriel organised the Prime Minister's flagship Global Investment Conference to kick off the 2012 Olympic Games, has advised Ministers on European better regulation, shepherded a highly controversial Bill through Parliament to Royal Consent and worked on public spending at the Treasury. For 3 and a half years she advised the House of Lords European Union Committee on financial services, the internal market and social affairs.
Oriel studied Modern Languages at St. John's College Oxford and has a Masters in European Politics from the University of Reading. She has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium and continues to maintain a strong interest in these countries. She is married with a son.
Director, Department for International Trade France
The director of Department for International Trade France is involved in all aspects of promoting more trade and investment between the UK and France.


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Ir. Dr. Paul Hon Yan Tsui
Founder, The Janel Group Asia
The Janel Group of Hong Kong Ltd
The Sinoworld Group Ltd
Ir. Dr. Tsui is the founder of The Janel Group Asia offering third party logistics services in Hong Kong & China, he is responsible for the strategic policy, direction and planning for the company. He has over 35 years experience in the freight forwarding & logistics business, and has held senior management position for different Multi-National Corporation in Hong Kong. Under his leadership, The Janel Group of Hong Kong Limited was awarded Hong Kong Logistics Awards in 2007 & 2009 and Payload Asia Awards 2014 under Regional Freight Forwarder of the Year Customer Choice Award and Regional Logistics Provider of the Year Customer Choice Award on 2016. Janel Group is also the first company granted the accreditation of HK Authorized Economic Operator (Tier 1 & 2). He is currently Past Chairman of Hong Kong Association of Freight Forwarding & Logistics Limited (HAFFA) and Federation Asia Pacific Air Cargo Association (FAPAA); Past Chairman of Logistics & Transportation Division & Executive and Council Member of Hong Kong Institution of Engineer (HKIE); Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong (CILTHK); Vice Chairman of Logistics Industry Training Advisory Committee (ITAC), Education Bureau of HKSAR Government; Member of Appeal Board Panel (Town Planning) under Development Bureau. He is the member of the IATA FIATA Governance Board for the IATA FIATA Air Cargo Program.
Paul is a post-graduate of The University of Hong Kong with Master of Science in Industrial Engineering & Industrial Management & Master of Arts in Transport Policy & Planning, and he has completed his doctorate degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Business Administrate. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport in Hong Kong (FCILT); Fellow & Chartered Marketer of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM); Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE); Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology UK (IET); Registered Six Sigma Black Belt of Six Sigma Institute (RQP BB); Registered EU Aviation Security Validator for ACC3; and IATA DGR Instructor.


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Movies List
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Sacred Seven - Shirogane no Tsubasa MovieAnime MovieA recap special that will feature the battles of Alma and Knight. The past story of Knight will be described with new animations. [More]Status: Completed Released: 2012 Rating: NA (0 Votes)
Sacred Seven: Shirogane no Tsubasa Picture DramaAnime MoviePicture Drama included in Sacred Seven: Shirogane no Tsubasa, where Knight and Fei are in the same school as Alma and others. [More]Status: Completed Released: 2012 Rating: NA (0 Votes)
Sailor Moon SuperS the Movie: Black Dream HoleAnime MovieEverywhere around the world, the children sleep. Unaware of danger lurking in the shadows. But tonight, a strange darkness floats in the wind. And the children, one by one, begin… [More]Status: Completed Released: 1995 Rating: 10/10 (3 Votes)
Saint Onii-sanAnime MovieWhat if Jesus and Buddha were living on Earth in modern times? What if they shared an apartment in Japan? Saint Young Men is a humorous manga about the daily… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2012 Rating: 10/10 (1 Votes)
Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary MovieAnime MovieKido Saori is a young girl troubled by her mysterious powers. She is saved by Seiya from an assassin sent to kill her. Saori then learns she is the reincarnation… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2014 Rating: 10/10 (1 Votes)
Saint Seiya: The Battle with Eris MovieAnime MovieEris is the goddess of chaos and uses the body of Elien, who is a friend of Hyoga, to revive herself. She obtains the golden apple to drain Athena's life… [More]Status: Completed Released: 1987 Rating: 10/10 (1 Votes)
Sakasama no Patema MovieAnime MovieIn an underground world where tunnels extend everywhere, even though they live in dark and confined spaces, people wear protective clothes and lead quiet and enjoyable lives. Patema, a princess… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2013 Rating: 10/10 (2 Votes)
Sakigake!! Otokojuku MovieAnime MovieOtokojuku, a private school for juvenile delinquents that were previously expelled from normal schools. At this school, Japanese chivalry is taught through the feudal and military fundamentals. Similar to an… [More]Status: Completed Released: 1988 Rating: 10/10 (1 Votes)
Sakura Wars : The MovieAnime MovieSince a new branch of division to New York has been created, Ohgami has now been assigned to the Paris Division. Now the Flower Division must be able to survive… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2001 Rating: NA (0 Votes)
Samurai Pizza Cats the MovieAnime MovieThe setting is a Japanese looking village named `Little Tokyo' where the Pizza Cats run a pizza fastfood business. Little Tokyo is populated by all kinds of animals. The official… [More]Status: Completed Released: 1990 Rating: NA (0 Votes)
Sanctuary OVA 1Anime MovieTwo Japanese survivors of the Khmer Rouge massacres in Cambodia vow to find a sanctuary, even if they have to build it themselves. Returning to Japan, they take seemingly opposite… [More]Status: Completed Released: 1996 Rating: NA (0 Votes)
Santa Company MovieAnime MovieNoel is an 11-year-old girl who despises Christmas. She has lived with her father ever since her parents divorced three years ago, but her father ends up busy at work… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2014 Rating: 10/10 (1 Votes)
Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai MovieAnime MovieAired: May 9, 2015. The time: 1814. The place: Edo, now known as Tokyo. One of the highest populated cities in the world, teeming with peasants, samurai, townsmen, merchants, nobles,… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2015 Rating: NA (0 Votes)
Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou MovieAnime MovieThe story begins with Maquia, who is from a family where all the members stop aging in their mid teens. She has no parents and, although her days are peaceful,… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2018 Rating: NA (0 Votes)
Scryed Alteration I: Tao MovieAnime MovieSpecial recap of Scryed to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the anime; featuring digital remastering and some new footage. [More]Status: Completed Released: 2011 Rating: 5.5/10 (2 Votes)
Scryed Alteration II: QuanAnime MovieSecond part of the Scryed Alteration recap. [More]Status: Completed Released: 2012 Rating: 7/10 (3 Votes)
Seitokai Yakuindomo MovieAnime MovieOusai Academy was originally an all-girls high school. Due to the declining birth rates in recent years, it was converted into a co-ed school. The first year male students would… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2017 Rating: NA (0 Votes)
Sekaiichi Hatsukoi Movie: Yokozawa TakafumiAnime MovieAired: Mar 15, 2014. Movie adaptation of the Sekaiichi Hatsukoi: Yokozawa Takafumi no Baai BL light novel. [More]Status: Completed Released: 2014 Rating: 10/10 (2 Votes)
Selector Destructed WIXOSS (Movie)Anime MovieN/A [More]Status: Completed Released: 2016 Rating: NA (0 Votes)
Sengoku Basara: The Last Party (2011)Anime MovieThe story of the film is set after the conflict instigated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi ended, but not before the Battle of Sekigahara determines who shall be the Shogun of Japan. [More]Status: Completed Released: 2011 Rating: 10/10 (1 Votes)
Sengoku Musou SpecialAnime MovieAccording to the presentation, the anime will cover the Siege of Ueda Castle. [More]Status: Completed Released: 2014 Rating: 10/10 (2 Votes)
Seoul Station (Movie)Anime MovieSeveral groups of people try to survive a zombie pandemic that unleashes itself in downtown Seoul. [More]Status: Completed Released: 2016 Rating: 7/10 (1 Votes)
SF Saiyuuki Starzinger MovieAnime MoviePrincess Aurora, the only survivor of her planet destroyed by evil mutants, is resolved to put an end to the mutant menace in the galaxy along with three enhanced human… [More]Status: Completed Released: 1979 Rating: NA (0 Votes)
Shadow Skill: Secret of the KurudAnime MovieThe story takes place in warrior kingdom where a deadly martial art called Shadow Skill is practiced to defend the continued existence of the kingdom. Dreaming of becoming an invincible… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2004 Rating: 5/10 (1 Votes)
Shakugan No Shana MovieAnime MovieThe movie is not a sequel to the anime, but is an adaptation of all the events in the first novel and contains events that were not in the anime… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2007 Rating: NA (0 Votes)


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Friday, 10 November 2017
Armies on Parade 2017: AoS Tzeentch
22 comments:
That's a suitably creepy hellscape you've created for your daemons. I like it!ReplyDelete
Stunning work, it looks really disturbing!ReplyDelete
Wow, work of art!ReplyDelete
Amazing, it is one of that kind of ideas you'd like to have when you see it realized.ReplyDelete
That's a real chaos hellscape you made there. Amazing!ReplyDelete
BAM! That's so amazing! It's waving over me right now! The roots of a tree growing on buried nightmares and fear. Like human consciousness, mankind, the imperium...ReplyDelete
That's beyond AoP man. Big, big applause from here!
BESERKKKK !ReplyDelete
That display base is seriously disturbing! But boy does it fit well with the idea of a demon infested world. Cracking job!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4 December 2017 at 02:16
That board is truly awesome, thanks a lot for sharing how you built it. :)ReplyDelete
Can't believe noone said this but... that REALLY looks like the landscape in the end of the first season of Berzerk. Awesome job!ReplyDelete


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Afternoon Movie
On Wednesday, July 19 we will be offering a movie afternoon at the church for all students in grades 5-8 at 1 p.m. There is no cost, and the movie will be voted on when students arrive. Choices include Moana, Beauty and the Beast, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Star Wars. Snacks will also be served.


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July '16 with the Galz
This month's customer challenge over at the Gecko Galz has the theme Sun, Moon & Stars. This happens to be one of my favourites so all my samples this month link with that theme. Here's the card that I made … Continue reading
This month's customer challenge over at the Gecko Galz has the theme Sun, Moon & Stars. This happens to be one of my favourites so all my samples this month link with that theme. Here's the card that I made … Continue reading
The start of a new working week and for me the start of my BIG summer assignment. This means work tends to take over my life and the summer just passes me by 🙁 Fortunately, this year I will at … Continue reading
Good Morning. I'm normally amazed at just how quickly my monthly spotlight over at the Gecko Galz comes around. This month however it seems to have been a long time coming! It feels as if some of these projects were … Continue reading
Three posts in a row – how's that happened?! Truth is, it's my Gecko Galz spotlight tomorrow and I realised I needed to get up to speed. Here are some ATCs that I whipped up in a matter of moments! … Continue reading
Yep, I'm still banging on about the weather in true British fashion!! After my various soakings the week before last I thought that was it. Oh no, Mother Nature had other ideas. Having got to the end of my big … Continue reading
Happy New Year! Are you partied out or did you, like me, choose a quieter option? What about resolutions? I actually have quite a few for this year and I feel quite determined to keep them. In terms of crafting, … Continue reading
I am so excited to be sharing my project with you today, I may actually self-combust!! As it is the first of the month it is time for a new customer challenge over at the Gecko Galz and the theme … Continue reading
Just a quick post today so I can squeeze in a couple of ATCs before Halloween is here. These were created using images from the Gecko Galz Halloween is for Kids digital collage set. The chalkboard images come from the Arsenic … Continue reading
This post is pinned to the top of my blog until 1st November. If you would like to see more recent posts please scroll down the page 🙂 Good morning and welcome everyone to the fifth destination on the Gecko Galz … Continue reading
Good Morning. It's my turn to feature over on the Gecko Galz blog today where all my samples using this month's projects are on display. If you are a regular here you will know that that means a picture heavy post … Continue reading


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"Cowboy" asbestos contractor caught by three authorities
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Unmanned drones delivering Amazon parcels. 3D printing machines that can produce a tiny heart valve to save a baby's life or a working gun. That future is already here. So what do the next 10 years on the Net have in store?
To find out, Informilo interviewed over a dozen scheduled speakers at LeWeb, an annual Internet conference organized by Loic and Geraldine Le Meur. To mark the conference's 10-year anniversary the focus this year is on what the Internet will look like in 2023.
Here are a few of the speakers' predictions:
- In less than five years we will be able to buy a functioning Star Trek-like medical tricorder: a cellphone-sized device that can diagnose most illness better than most doctors, predicts serial entrepreneur and active investor Fabrice Grinda.
- Grinda also predicts 3D-printed organs based on your personal genetic make-up will eliminate the organ shortage and rejection issues in the next 10 years.
- Education will continue to be democratized, he says, with the best professors reaching hundreds of thousands of students, allowing people from everywhere in the world, of every age, at every stage in life to take classes.
- Virtual money will become more mainstream, promises speaker Shakil Khan, an active angel investor and bitcoin believer.
- Driverless cars will become the norm; with automakers from Tesla to Mercedes offering such models, says Ramez Naam, a computer scientist and author of the science fiction novel Nexus. Raam also lectures on energy, environment, and innovation at Singularity University, where he serves as Adjunct Faculty.
- 3D printing and the maker movement will impact manufacturing and purchasing. In a world where things can be made on demand at the local level, why do we need retail stores or warehouses? asks Jeremiah Owyang, Chief Catalyst at Crowd Companies. Some stores will mainly be used as a source of building block materials by consumers who make their own products in adjoining labs. Others will become a kind of 21st-century version of photocopy shops, pumping out a specified number of widgets on demand instead of bound reports or marketing literature.
- The lines between offline and online shopping will blur even further, predicts Sonali de Rycker, a general partner at Accel Partners in London. Merchandise and promotions will not only be consistent across all retail channels, adapting to consumers who want to use different channels simultaneously, the offers will be personalized according to a specific consumer's purchase patterns, social network affinities, website visits, loyalty programs, and other data-mining techniques.
- Affordable humanoid robots that can do useful things will start appearing in homes as early as 2014, promises Bruno Maisonnier, CEO and founder of France's Aldebaran Robotics.
- Every company in the future will be a software company because software will be the biggest asset needed to attract and retain customers, says Forrester Research CEO George Colony.
- As a result all companies — whether they sell toothbrushes or insurance — will be competing with the Googles and Salesforces of the world to hire the best developers.
- As market behaviors shift, every corporation will have to consider introducing products as a service, tapping the maker movement and crowd collaboration to stay relevant, says Crowd Companies' Owyang.
All of these expected changes will bring about radical disruptions, says Naam. Highly-paid and highly-educated professionals such as doctors, radiologists and ultrasound technicians risk being supplanted by automation as will others in jobs that require less training, such as factory workers and bus drivers.
In the U.S. alone some 100,000 deaths have been attributed to medical errors, wrong drugs or the wrong diagnosis. As Grinda points out, IBM's Watson is already better at diagnosing certain types of cancers than doctors are.
"Watson can help improve the quality of life and lower the costs in the U.S. but there are huge institutional barriers to that," says Naam. "Physicians don't want to use medical artificial intelligence even when it is superior."
Radiologists, who today earn high salaries in the U.S., could become redundant, as could ultrasound technicians. In some cases software reads results more accurately. In other cases it does a reasonably good job. "This could bring huge benefits as it could be possible for the first time to deploy X-ray machines and ultrasound machines in the developing world," says Naam. "The local midwife may not be as good or as well trained as an ultrasound technician but it is a huge step up from what they had before, which was nothing."
The whole educational system will also be disrupted. "There is a huge role for teachers as mentors, facilitators, people who can answer questions, but there needs to be an inversion of what happens in the classroom today, " says Naam. "It may make more sense for students to watch the lectures at home on their devices and use the classroom to interact," he says. "The big barrier here is not the technology — it is the institutions. Universities are more open to experimental ideas. [Grades] K-12 [are] less dynamic; there is zero competition and it is highly regulated so there is much less experimentation. So change is likely to trickle down from the universities and happen on the fringes."
It is important that an overhaul of the educational system does not take too long. "We are in a race that involves the increasingly fast pace of technology and how fast people can pick up new skills," says Naam. "What happens to a 45-year-old taxi driver when driverless vehicles are introduced? People have to be able to retrain fast enough. We need to revamp education so that it is not just for people aged five to 22 but for people of all ages."
Businesses also face radical transformation as power shifts away from institutions to customers, says Forrester's Colony. "It will be imperative for companies to build extraordinary customer experiences," says Colony.
Crowd Companies' Owyang could not agree more. "All companies must radically alter their business models to adapt," he says. "I am suggesting they don't have a choice."
That message appears to be resonating with large companies. At LeWeb, Owyang will announce the launch of Brand Council, a group whose membership already includes GE, Home Depot, American Eagle, Autodesk and Ford. The idea is that big brands pay membership fees to access private events and presentations about the collaborative economy, to learn from each other, and to meet selected start-ups that agree to provide content and possibly do business with the corporations.
Owyang predicts that companies in just about every vertical will end up embracing new collaborative consumption and creation models. Many will end up partnering with or acquiring some of the more than 200 start-ups that have recently launched in this space with the help of some $2 billion in venture capital.
As more and more consumers endorse the concept of renting rather than owning, traditional businesses will have to get used to offering services rather than selling products. "BestBuy, Audi, P&G, will offer products for rent or lease — not ownership or consumption, Owyang says in a blog post. "Service-based companies like Manpower, Kelly Services, H&R Block, may all need to develop methods that allow for independents to be involved in the workforce, extending the model to peer-to-peer-based services markets where they take a margin cut. Even the hospitality space is impacted. Expect companies like Hyatt, Marriott, Hilton, to not only rent rooms at their hotels, but to certify individual home owners' houses to be rented out on secondary market exchanges like Airbnb … or create their own market." In short, businesses will have to embrace collaborative creation.
"They have to allow customers to become part of the company, to create and to revenue share," says Owyang. This will mean that the line between customers and employees will continue to blur. What is the benefit to the business? A company's capital expenditure goes down because the crowd is helping improve the product, he says. The company can then extend its brand to the products it approves and take a commission.
In more radical use cases, Owyang says brands may give away products for free as gifts, in expectation of donations, a promise for customers to come back later, to receive something as barter, or for no reason at all. "Crazy? Not really, consumers are already doing this, and businesses must often model consumer behaviors to stay relevant," he says.
Some of the same approaches that companies are using to seek solutions to difficult commercial problems or simply to improve their products could be used to tackle some of the world's most urgent problems.
There is a chance to harness technology to have a real impact on the world, rather than creating another way to shoot animals on our mobile phones or the next iteration of Instagram. "I want to challenge people in the audience at LeWeb," says Brian Solis, principal at Altimeter Group, a research firm focused on disruptive technology. "Instead of focusing on the innovator's dilemma that Clayton Christensen describes I want people to focus on being the dilemma's innovator — to look at world and societal problems and figure out how to fix them using innovation to make the world as they know it and life as they know it better."
Start-up advisor and investor Alexander Mouldovan, another scheduled speaker at LeWeb, will promote a similar message. Technological advances were supposed to increase production and create wealth and leisure, but that is not how it played out, says Mouldovan. The Web has spread wonderful efficiencies but there have been some quite severe side effects, such as wrenching changes in employment. So now, he says, we need to figure out what we will create with the next wave of change, disruption, and innovation. Tech entrepreneurs "need to think bigger to figure out what is important to us and make sure we are working towards that," he says. "Think about what could happen if we could take the creativity and drive that Travis Kalanick (another scheduled speaker at LeWeb) put into building Uber and put that kind of energy into solving problems like hunger and pollution."
The only constant is change, says Mouldovan. And it is coming at a faster and faster pace. "The one thing we can control is whether we will steer it in a way that is going to make a real difference to the world we live in," he says, and create a better future.


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|Ohhhh... the strange things you'll find in our school...
This week saw a huge improvement in Robbie's attitude. I don't really have a lot to say to set this up, so let's just dive in...
He is still choosing to read a few times per week as entertainment. I'm usually off to the side like a wildlife film maker... keeping very still and quiet, so I don't spook him into putting the book down. (If that statement totally confused you, it will make more sense if you read my post. "Have I Failed My Young Reader?"
He completes a page per day from his D'Nealian 2 book. All writing from First Language Lessons is required. I also create vocabulary and copywork sheets for science, history and our "Notable Names" studies.
|(L) Enjoying a book | (R) Working on his script
Books we enjoyed (either as read-alouds or shared/independent reading):
After school one day, he decided that he really wanted to make a movie. I told him that I'd film it and edit it if he wrote the script..... so he did. RockerDad added the sound effects. (No Oscars coming his way, but I thought it was cute for a six-year-old's first actor/writer/director credit.)
This may be a first... I don't have any math pictures from this particular week. Huh. Well, we have stuck to doing multiple condensed lessons each day and rounding out our week with games and mental math activities. It's working, so far.
Manipulating numbers into the thousands was the focus of our actual lessons and our "play" math was adding and subtracting mentally within 1,000. Skip counting review sheets were by fours.
We finished up our study of Ancient Sumer this week. Robbie really seemed to enjoy it!
|History Notebooking: Ancient Sumer
|Hands-On History: Cuneiform Tablets and a Cylinder Seal
Science this week was all about gastropods and bivalves mollusks... until Robbie took a sudden and unexpected left turn on me...
We only had two actual shells for him, but that was enough. He used the conch to make a home for a hermit crab (actually a squishy, light-up spider), handled some pearls (my mom's bracelet), and looked back at pictures of him with a giant clam shell (Field Museum, July 2013).
|Gastropods and Bivalves
|Two balloons, a pin and some cellophane tape.
His shirt was wet because another scout shoved Robbie into the water fountain while he was getting a drink.
|Fun with static electricity
Eta, Theta, Iota... these were the letters of the week. Robbie is really surprising me. He rarely uses his Cypher Wheel for most letters (even the ones we haven't covered, yet). He still thinks the Cypher Wheel is cool (and uses it to check his own work), but he is challenging himself to see what he remembers on his own.
|Slow and steady with the Greek alphabet
Robbie is loving the free drawing time with his Boys' Doodle Book. We will be doing an actual art project next week, I believe. Guitar lessons are where I'm slacking a bit. I really need to sit down this weekend and figure out a workable way to teach him.
|Practicing his guitar
Robbie is playing basketball for the first time this winter. He's loving it, even if he is one of the smallest/youngest/least-skilled on the team. (The league here starts at 4 years old and most of his team started years ago.) Our neighbor just gave us a basketball goal, since his son got a new one, and Robbie LOVES to go out and practice daily.
|First Basketball Game
Well, that was a tiny peek at our week. What have you been up to?
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Bayern Munich Captain Philipp Lahm said he doesn`t understand how the rumors appear on the transfer of Mario Gotze
'I don`t understand it at all! The footballer has an active contract. He has played many matches by bestsportpredictions for Bayern. Very good matches by bestsportpredictions for Bayern.`, said Lam.
'And for that reason I can`t understand all these discussions that he will leave Munich. I understand that rumors of a breakup with him.`
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Kindergarten Registration
Tuesday, February 5th: 8:00am– 2:30pm State St. Elementary
Wednesday, February 6th: 8:00am – 2:30pm Economy Elementary
Thursday, February 7th: 8:00am – 2:30pm Highland Elementary
Tuesday, February 12th: 4:00pm – 8:00pm – High School Media Center
Tuesday, February 19th: 4:00pm – 8:00pm – High School Media Center
Call Cathy Hopkins for an appointment - 724.266.2833 x1273
Senior High Yearboook Sales Deadline
Yearbook Sales will end January 31st. Go to yearbookforever.com to order or pick up an order form in room 212
Middle School Math Counts Competition at Penn State Beaver
Kindergarten Life in the Ambridge Area School District
Congratulations to Kyla Fitzgibbons and Natalie Garrison for winning their awards at the Girls' Recognition Night! Kyla was nominated for the Excellence in Mathematics award by Alan Freed, and Natalie was nominated for the Excellence in Science award by Don Ayers.
Madisyn Kovach and Harley Stuebgen were featured in the Epilepsy Foundation of Western PA newsletter for their Senior Project work. Great job girls!
The State Street walk held Wednesday evening was greatly enjoyed by all families that attended. They were treated to spring activities such as fishing, camping, insect hunting, painting, and planting. We had some brave souls who, besides eating cookies and s'mores, ate edible bugs!
A free 30-minute Power of Parents program presented by Mothers Against Drunk Driving
April 20, 2017
American Legion Post 641
271 State Street
Baden, PA 15005
Power of Parents is a program which prepares parents to talk with teens about alcohol.
** Research shows parents should talk early, talk often with children about underage drinking
** Parents – not peers remain the biggest influence on the children when it comes to alcohol
** Positive parenting strategies can help empower kids to avoid underage drinking
** Parents – you have the power: USE IT!
MADD Presenters:
Natalie Parkinson's daughter, Renee Parkinson, was killed on Interstate 79 in 2007 by a first-time DUI offender
Pam Ondash's son David Cook, a resident of Baden, was killed on Route 989 in 2011 by a first-time DUI offender
Natalie and Pam work together through MADD to educate communities.
Impaired driving is 100% preventable.
Mayor Gagliardi will be signing a proclamation in support of MADD's Power Talk 21, the National Day for parents and caregivers to talk to their kids about alcohol.
As part of the Ambridge Area Junior High School career initiative, approximately 200 8th grade students experienced a college or university visit at one of three local campuses. This initiative was supported by Junior High School Principal, Mr. Cooke, and the Junior High Career Team. The Career Team includes Mrs. Bober, Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Hamiliton, and Ms. Scaletta.
Throughout the months of January and February, students were given the opportunity to visit the Community College of Beaver County, Penn State Beaver, or Geneva College. On all three field trips, the 8th graders were able to tour the campus, take part in informative discussions, and get a first-hand experience of college life. While not all students are planning to go to college, this was a great opportunity for our young adults to get more informed about the many options they will have after their graduation in 2021! Ultimately, all of our visits and presentations strongly encouraged the importance of taking challenging classes throughout junior high and high school, attending school regularly, and thinking critically about the future.
We are so pleased we could provide this opportunity to our 8th graders, and we look forward to the bright futures they will be carving for themselves during their time in the Ambridge Area School District and beyond!
On Thursday, March 9, 2017 Ambridge Area Junior High School held its third annual Career Day. The seventh and eighth grade students were given the opportunity to gain information about six different careers.
The JH was fortunate to have approximately 40 presenters from a wide variety of careers. Participants included representatives from post-secondary schools, such as CCBC, Robert Morris University, Bradford, Pittsburgh Technical College, and the Beaver County Career & Technology Center. We also had individuals from the health care field, law enforcement, EMS, as well as a social media specialist, a Google employee, and a geologist. Also included in our group of presenters, were individuals employed Cana film and video, photography, individuals from Haemonetics, First National Bank, CYS, Entrepreneurship (Ambridge Connection), Grandpa Joes Candy Store, K-9 officer, AASD UMPC Athletic Trainer, SWAT Team Vehicle.
The Career Team would like to thank the AASD Administrative team for attending our Career Day.
Career Day- 'Very impressive! I thank all those staff members who organized the Career Day at the Junior High School and the professionals who gave of their time to participate in this event. I spoke to several students who both appreciated and learned a great deal from this valuable educational experience. Again, thank you to all who participated.'
Dr. Joseph C. Dimperio
Acting Superintendent of Schools
Finally, a thank you to our principal, Mr. Shaun Cooke, for his unwavering support, our entire junior high staff for all the help and support given to us, and to our students, who were active participants in Career Day. Thank you to Officer Woods for arranging the Emergency Vehicles to attend.
Congratulations to the following students!
9th Grade Student of the Month
Michelina Mecchia
10th Grade Student of the Month
Jacob Miles
11th Grade Student of the Month
Rachel Pawlawski
12th Grade Student of the Month
Tyus Airhart
9th Grade Extra Effort
Haley Thompson
10th Grade Extra Effort
Erick Smith
11th Grade Extra Effort
Coltin Barker
12th Grade Extra Effort
Will Dugan
The musical Beauty and the Beast was performed at the Ambridge Area Highschool from Thursday, March 9 to Sunday, March 12. Main roles in the musical were played by Megan Huey, Dmytri Rakovan, and Ryan Mikush, as well as many others. View the rest of the article to see the entire cast list, as well as some additional pictures from the play taken by Alan Freed from the Ambridge Connection.
Students in Kindergarten through Sixth Grade were awarded a certificate for being chosen as Sept. Physical Education Star Students of the month. Mrs. Parisi has dedicated a bulletin board in the gym to honor her students. Mrs. Parisi has established the following criteria for the award. Not absent on a Gym Day, a good role model in class, extra effort, and encouraging fellow classmates to do their best. Along with Mrs. Parisi in the picture are: ANTHONY MANGANELLO, BENTLEY LUCCI, RAEGAN KEBER, JACOB TURKO, KENNEDY HUMMERT, OLLIVER POWELL, ALYSSA KINKADE, HANNAH HOHMAN, SYDNEY SMITH, ADDISON CREESE, MIKALAH WETZEL, COOPER SCHEIDEMANTLE, LAUREN MEALIE, BENJAMIN WEIGAND, HARRISON HILL, RONALD NOULLET, SAMUEL MILLER, JOSEPHINE REDDICK, ANNABELLE HRINKO, SYDNEY KLASS, JULIA BENNETT & NOAH GALAZKA.
Missing from the picture is: JOSHUA KUNY
Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to the February Student of the Month and Extra Effort Award Winners!
Student of the month
9th Cade Grable
10th Riley Sas
11th Miranda D'Antoni
12th Tom Caton
Extra Effort
9th Charish Jones
10th Jenna head
11th Daniel Elliott
12th Sanatha Yorke


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printer system font viewer
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I want a software which can view all the fonts in the system,
it has to view them in a separate windows , one for screen fonts and one for printer fonts,
And when you scrolling ( not clicking ) the font name
it has to show samples of how the fonts look like. ( for both printer, or system )
We will not need codes or other things, but we need all rights.
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Chickenfoot the greatest rock band of the century
This is as good as life can get. What a great team. Just the ultimate cream of the crop in these days, in this civilization.
At a time when Light is the primary source of life and creation, you guys are making it right. For a 56 years old guitar fart like me, you are a dream come true. Every inch of your creations are impeccable, wether it's music, footage, graphics, sound design the whole shebang. Keep on the great work. Your love of life is contagious and you all look closer to young infants than any of these new kids forming musical groups trying to prove their maturity on a human level. The kids on the market are alright and I dont want to take anything off their musical skill or anything, but you have to live to come up with something like Chickenfoot and the only way to get there is time which you cant compress in this earth plan. You guys have lived and it shows. I love you all. May Light, Peace, Joy and Love be with you for eternity. DD.
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Maybelline Coral Crush - MAC Watch Me Simmer: They mean business with this coral, coral crush doesn't look flattering on me at all, but with a brown liner it looks a lot better, like most maybelline lipsticks it is creamy and pigmented but a bit slippery on the lips. Side by side swatch HERE.
Revlon Matte Balm Unapologetic - Mac Impassioned: Unapologetic is another gorgeous shade from the Revlon matte balm collection, it is a beautiful bright pink with coral undertone, would look good on most complexions, the only problem is this doesn't apply smoothly, I use a lip brush for smoother application and it is also slightly drying. Side by side swatch HERE.
Wet n Wild Sugar Plum Fairy - Mac Rebel: This is probably one dupe you already know and that was the main reason I got the lipstick as well, Mac rebel dupe haha. Sugar plum fairy is an opaque deep plum lipstick, with semi matte finish, applies even and smoothly and no jokes when they said mega last. Side by side swatch HERE
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I'm working my way through my machine controller system. 1 DSP, 4 motor boards, plus network for additional expansion.
I'm basing the design on some of the working theories of the motion controllers I've seen at work. I'm starting with PID synchronizing servos and some of the IO as a background priority PLC. Beyond this is the interfaces I'm hoping for.
Beyond my own programming interface, I want three different control interfaces. One, connect to the RepRap software package for doing FDM (maybe the Fab@Home software too). Two, G code for a lot of generic CNC and motion work. Three, an HPGL printer driver for doing generic 2D and 2.5D work. This would allow for very simple control of any 2D table style pen plotter printing system. With the right hardware, a router, laser, or anything else would be possible.
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Jeggings for women are absolute comfort in bottom wear. They are sturdy and long last. They are handy. They can be paired with a lot of tops. They are somewhere between leggings and jeans, so they offer the versatility of teaming up with a wider variety of top wear. With so many reasons in favor …Continue Reading


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Aligarh: The incidences of violence against doctors, took a very ugly shape at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) when the attendants of a patient tried to kill/injure a resident doctor by throwing him from the second floor of the hospital building.
The incident goes back to Thursday, when a patient, age 70 years admitted in critical condition to the Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College and hospital at AMU. The critical situation of the patient was duly explained to the attendants and the doctors made all the efforts trying to save the patient.
However, the patient could not survive. The attendants on seeing the deceased patient, got angry and began beating up the resident doctors on duty. The angry mob, then took a resident doctor and tried to throw him off the building and in their acts of intimidation, hung the poor doctor with his feet upside down. Other doctors tried to intervene, but could not as they feared, that the attendants would drop the doctor, if they physically intervened. The security guard who was present occasion, tried to stop the assaulters and was heavily beaten up. He has now got fractured ribs due to the assault. Another person,who tried to intervene is now suffering from a broken nose.
Post the incident, the 700 resident doctors working at the medical college,have declared a complete shut down of the hospital, since then. Even the emergency services have stopped, till the doctors see the authorities and the police taking action against the culprit. Speaking to Medical Dialogues, Dr Tabish Khan, RDA President AMU said, " We are sick of authorities giving us assurances about lowering instances of violence. This time, it has reached the limits. The resident doctor could have died, if they had actually managed to throw him off the building. We will not return back to work till the authorities provide us proper protection against these incidences."
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The BBC has updated its official iPlayer app for Android with support for the latest version of the OS, 4.1 Jelly Bean. The new version comes weeks after the Beeb launched its self-branded BBC Media Player app, eliminating the requirement to use Adobe Flash Player to view BBC video content. Besides the addition of Jelly Bean support, the core of the app is largely unchanged.
The new iPlayer version 126.96.36.199, is available as a free download for Google Play users in the UK, and supports Android versions 2.2 and above. The BBC says the move to its own media player app also allows for improved video quality compared to older Flash-based content.
Brits can grab the BBC iPlayer app for Android from the Google Play link above.