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I am using Moss 2007,now I try to install Contoso.TrainingManagement solution. I did the below steps by Develper Guide:
1. Unzip the SharePoint Guidance self-extracting zip file.
2. In Visual Studio 2008, open <<Extracted folder>>\Source\TM\Contoso.TrainingManagement.RI
3. Right-click the Contoso.TrainingManagement project, and then click Properties. Click Debug.
4. Specify the URL of the site collection on which the project will be deployed. The default location is
5. Right-click the Contoso.TrainingManagement.RI solution, and then click Build Solution.
6. Right-click the Contoso.TrainingManagement project, and then click Deploy. Make sure that the
Contoso.TrainingManagement/pkg folder and the Contoso.TrainingManagement /bin/Debug folder are not
These steps are ok, but when I do the below steps ,There are some troubles: I can't find the solution --Contoso.TrainingManagemetn in creating website page.
Hi godsendliu,
TrainingManagement deployment will not create any Website. please follow the mentioned steps after deploy
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee413804.aspx . if you dont find template while creating new website then Template ID may be alerady used. Training Management is using 9999, change
to 9998 and try to deploy.
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What do u guys think of my mehndi design?
What Guys Said 14
DooMguy doesn't like it, I'll give you - 100. I just don't like tattoos henna, body mods anything like that. The more I think about it the more it just. . . Well makes me want to throw up (body mods especially)
^ That's me right now at 0:36
DooMguy: fuck you 😛 lol
Thanks and did u know it was my first time doing it ma very first try.. not bad huh... for my first try da is lol
O_o why don't u like it? This doesn't last da long the longest it can last is a week or 2 lol plus when u wash off the black stuff it comes out really pretty then :)
^ DooMguy is innocent
I don't really know what good mehndi is. . . So I can't really say if it's bad or not. It does look neat I suppose
Because I can't even look at it. It makes me think of lepracy or some other kind of skin condition/wasting disease
You got the right idea, wash it off and then your hand will be pretty then. Nothing beats natural
Ehh, not a fan of those things.
Looks well done, though.11|00|0
Thanks haha it looks great now da I washed off the black stuff =p
@Hawaiikai what you think? im not sure im like it very much.. dont get me wrong i appreciate the style just i think its not very well done11|00|0
I agreee!!
Of course it's not well done!!! cuz -.- it was my first time doing it, my very first try lol
@Hawaiikai Girl was my first time doing loll.. it wasn't da bad for my first try was it?
No just looks rather odd.
I'm typically a fan of such designs. =/11|00|0
Waaaa 😢😢😢 it was my very first try thats why it came out da bad but still I'm happy with it for my first time I think it's very beautiful =p
Not bad for a first try. Fuck me that is rather good haha.
Is it meant to reflect light like that?
*whispers in ur ear thanks 🙈* and yes! ^.^
Looks okay. You should've let me do it.11|00|0
I agree I should have let you do it for em haha
*cries* look what I have done to my hand.. but you know.. it was my first time doing it.. I thought It was good for my first try da is untill i saw everyone's opinions :/ lol
lol, good try, though!
Thank you ^.^ hehe..
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I dont like those.00|00|0
But it looks very very very pretty once it's done!! Now da I have washed off the black stuff it's looks so pretty the color is darkish orange :)
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😱 U don't like traditional stuff? *gets a heart attack* lol jk but seriously I haven't met anyone da doesn't like traditional stuff until now xD...
I do traditional things only at theatre or some kinda activities. Normally i get tattoos 😂
What Girls Said 13
I like this style more
Haha I like those 2 ... as for mine it was my first time doing it, I know it came out horrible but -.- it's good for my first try xD
Ohh haha yea its good for the first time
Don't you mean henna? It looks too thick, it'll look confusing and messy when you wash it off. Did you do it yourself? That's pretty good for solo 😀 How'd you do your other hand?11|00|0
The original name of it is mehndi :) and yeah it's messy because not only have I done it myself but it was my very first time doing it.. xD not bad for my first try right?
And yeah it looks a lot better now da I washed off.. the color is great too it's like darkish orange :)
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@LaVilaine Wow! 😆 U know so much 😊 do you know what Pathans are? Yusufzia Pathans? Lol
A good friend of mine is Pakistani. From where exactly, I am not sure.
Look cool.11|00|0
Thank you ^.^
It's nice but you could've done something like this
Thanks, it was my first time doing it my very first try lol
*looks at the picture* 😱 omg da looks so hard! Just looking at it makes me feel dizzy haha
I'm not in da level and I don't ill ever be :/ lol
same! Even I am bad at it haha.. My mom or cousin do such complex designs for me lol
It's alright 👍11|00|0
Thanks girl!! ^.^
Looks cool, how did you do that?11|00|0
Thanks it was my very first time doing I know I didn't do a very good job but It was alright for my first time lol I did it by a mehndi pen :)
Cute! Is that for Eid?11|00|0
Thanks 😆 and yes it's for eid 😊
It's cute!11|00|0
Thank you 😊😘
It's nice, could be better11|00|0
Thanks and it was my first time doing it.. my very first try.. hopefully the second time comes out better then this lol
It looks nice! :D
I love the butterflies on the sides.11|00|0
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A Customer Service Supervisor handles responsibilities such as conducting meetings, coaching's, prepares reports and information dissemination to customer service managers working for the company. He collates statistics and metrics from manager and is responsible in the assessment of these records as to the performance of the representatives. They are also responsible for giving out appraisals and memos to managers for their work in the company. Customer Service Supervisors act as the leaders and the main source of advice and information to handle customer concerns.
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Brix White
1142 Evansville Rd, Lakeland
Wyoming, 64251
Phone: (677) 485-1222
Experienced and talented customer service supervisor seeking employment opportunity for a reputable company
Summary of Qualification
- Outstanding managerial skills in handling employees for development
- Highly motivational and dependable supervisor for managers to meet the objectives and goals of the company
- Conducts regular meeting and coaching's to update managers of the development and standings of their teams for the company
- Handles Focus Group discussions with agents, managers, clients and human resources for inquiries and concerns with the work environment
- Prepares reports, data management, development, absenteeism and metrics of managers to be used for reference and coaching
- Receives supervisor calls from agents either for commendations or concerns
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2008 – present: Customer Service Supervisor, 24/7 Contact Company
- Handles 10 managers for a team in the company
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- Handles hiring of personnel for the company and also for development or promotions within the company
- Trains and develops new managers for the company in handling agents in their field
- Conducts conference calls with clients in and around the state for progress reports of the company and other inquiries
2006-2008: Customer Service Representative; 24/7 Contact Company
- Handles inbound phone calls for inquiries and concerns for the company
- Helps and resolves customer concerns using tools and service centers provided by the company
- Transfers calls to specific department that handle their concerns and inquiries
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FluxMaps in a Mirror
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books
FLUX (Chapter 1)
"YOU WILL MAKE no speeches," said the prosecutor.
"I didn't expect they'd let me," Jerry Crove answered, affecting a confidence he didn't feel. The prosecutor was not hostile; he seemed more like a high school drama coach than a man who was seeking Jerry's death.
"They not only won't let you," the prosecutor said, "but if you try anything, it will go much worse for you. We have you cold, you know. We don't need anywhere near as much proof as we have."
"You haven't proved anything."
"We've proved you knew about it," the prosecutor insisted mildly. "No point arguing now. Knowing about treason and not reporting it is exactly equal to committing treason."
Jerry shrugged and looked away.
The cell was bare concrete. The door was solid steel. The bed was a hammock hung from hooks on the wall. The toilet was a can with a removable plastic seat. There was no conceivable way to escape. Indeed, there was nothing that could conceivably occupy an intelligent person's mind for more than five minutes. In the three weeks he had been here, he had memorized every crack in the concrete, every bolt in the door. He had nothing to look at, except the prosecutor. Jerry reluctantly met the man's gaze.
"What do you say when the judge asks you how you plead to the charges?"
"Nolo contendere."
"Very good. It would be much nicer if you'd consent to say 'guilty'," the prosecutor said.
"I don't like the word."
"Just remember. Three cameras will be pointing at you. The trial will be broadcast live. To America, you represent all Americans. You must comport yourself with dignity, quietly accepting the fact that your complicity in the assassination of Peter Anderson--"
"Anderson has brought you to the point of death, where all depends on the mercy of the court. And now I'll go have lunch. Tonight we'll see each other again. And remember. No speeches. Nothing embarrassing."
Jerry nodded. This was not the time to argue. He spent the afternoon practicing conjugations of Portuguese irregular verbs, wishing that somehow he could go back and undo the moment when he agreed to speak to the old man who had unfolded all the plans to assassinate Andreyevitch. "Now I must trust you," said the old man. "Temos que confiar no senhor americano. You love liberty, né?"
Love liberty? Who knew anymore? What was liberty? Being free to make a buck? The Russians had been smart enough to know that if they let Americans make money, they really didn't give a damn which language the government was speaking. And, in fact, the government spoke English anyway.
The propaganda that they had been feeding him wasn't funny. It was too true. The United States had never been so peaceful. It was more prosperous than it had been since the Vietnam War boom thirty years before. And the lazy, complacent American people were going about business as usual, as if pictures of Lenin on buildings and billboards were just what they had always wanted.
I was no different, he reminded himself. I sent in my work application, complete with oath of allegiance. I accepted it meekly when they opted me out for a tutorial with a high Party official. I even taught his damnable little children for three years in Rio.
When I should have been writing plays.
But what do I write about? Why not a comedy--The Yankee and the Commissar, a load of laughs about a woman commissar who marries an American blue blood who manufactures typewriters. There are no women commissars, of course, but one must maintain the illusion of a free and equal society.
"Bruce, my dear," says the commissar in a thick but sexy Russian accent, "your typewriter company is suspiciously close to making a profit."
"And if it were running at a loss, you'd turn me in, yes, my little noodle?" (Riotous laughs from the Russians in the audience; the Americans are not amused, but then, they speak English fluently and don't need broad humor. Besides, the reviews are all approved by the Party, so we don't have to worry about the critics. Keep the Russians happy, and screw the American audience.) Dialogue continues:
"All for the sake of Mother Russia."
"Screw Mother Russia."
"Please do," says Natasha. "Regard me as her personal incarnation."
Oh, but the Russians do love onstage sex. Forbidden in Russia, of course, but Americans are supposed to be decadent.
I might as well have been a ride designer for Disneyland, Jerry thought. Might as well have written shtick for vaudeville. Might as well go stick my head in an oven. But with my luck, it would be electric.
He may have slept. He wasn't sure. But the door opened, and he opened his eyes with no memory of having heard footsteps approach. The calm before the storm: and now, the storm.
The soldiers were young, but un Slavic. Slavish, but definitely American. Slaves to the Slavs. Put that in a protest poem sometime, he decided, if only there were someone who wanted to read a protest poem.
The young American soldiers (But the uniforms were wrong. I'm not old enough to remember the old ones, but these are not made for American bodies.) escorted him down corridors, up stairs, through doors, until they were outside and they put him into a heavily armored van. What did they think, he was part of a conspiracy and his fellows would come to save him? Didn't they know that a man in his position would have no friends by now?
Jerry had seen it at Yale. Dr. Swick had been very popular. Best damn professor in the department. He could take the worst drivel and turn it into a play, take terrible actors and make them look good, take apathetic audiences and make them, of all things, enthusiastic and hopeful. And then one day the police had broken into his home and found Swick with four actors putting on a play for a group of maybe a score of friends. What was it--Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Jerry remembered. A sad script. A despairing script. But a sharp one, nonetheless, one that showed despair as being an ugly, destructive thing, one that showed lies as suicide, one that, in short, made the audience feel that, by God, something was wrong with their lives, that the peace was illusion, that the prosperity was a fraud, that America's ambitions had been cut off and that so much that was good and proud was still undone--
And Jerry realized that he was weeping. The soldiers sitting across from him in the armored van were looking away. Jerry dried his eyes.
As soon as news got out that Swick was arrested, he was suddenly unknown. Everyone who had letters or memos or even class papers that bore his name destroyed them. His name disappeared from address books. His classes were empty as no one showed up. No one even hoping for a substitute, for the university suddenly had no record that there had ever been such a class, ever been such a professor. His house had gone up for sale, his wife had moved, and no one said good-bye. And then, more than a year later, the CBS news (which always showed official trials then) had shown ten minutes of Swick weeping and saying, "Nothing has ever been better for America than Communism. It was just a foolish, immature desire to prove myself by thumbing my nose at authority. It meant nothing. I was wrong. The government's been kinder to me than I deserve." And so on. The words were silly. But as Jerry had sat, watching, he had been utterly convinced. However meaningless the words were, Swick's face was meaningful: he was utterly sincere.
The van stopped, and the doors in the back opened just as Jerry remembered that he had burned his copy of Swick's manual on playwriting. Burned it, but not until he had copied down all the major ideas. Whether Swick knew it or not, he had left something behind. But what will I leave behind? Jerry wondered. Two Russian children who now speak fluent English and whose father was blown up in their front yard right in front of them, his blood spattering their faces, because Jerry had neglected to warn him? What a legacy.
For a moment he was ashamed. A life is a life, no matter whose or how lived.
Then he remembered the night when Peter Andreyevitch (no--Anderson. Pretending to be American is fashionable nowadays, so long as everyone can tell at a glance that you're really Russian) had drunkenly sent for Jerry and demanded, as Jerry's employer (i.e., owner), that Jerry recite his poems to the guests at the party. Jerry had tried to laugh it off, but Peter was not that drunk: he insisted, and Jerry went upstairs and got his poems and came down and read them to a group of men who could not understand the poems, to a group of women who understood them and were merely amused. Little Andre said afterward, "The poems were good, Jerry," but Jerry felt like a virgin who had been raped and then given a two-dollar tip by the rapist.
In fact, Peter had given him a bonus. And Jerry had spent it.
Charlie Ridge, Jerry's defense attorney, met him just inside the doors of the courthouse. "Jerry, old boy, looks like you're taking all this pretty well. Haven't even lost any weight."
"On a diet of pure starch, I've had to run around my cell all day just to stay thin." Laughter. Ha ho, what a fun time we're having. What jovial people we are.
"Listen, Jerry, you've got to do this right, you know. They have audience response measurements. They can judge how sincere you seem. You've got to really mean it."
"Wasn't there once a time when defense attorneys tried to get their clients off?" Jerry asked.
"Jerry, that kind of attitude isn't going to get you anywhere. These aren't the good old days when you could get off on a technicality and a lawyer could delay trial for five years. You're guilty as hell, and so if you cooperate, they won't do anything to you. They'll just deport you."
"What a pal," Jerry said. "With you on my side, I haven't a worry in the world."
"Exactly right," said Charlie. "And don't you forget it."
The courtroom was crowded with cameras. (Jerry had heard that in the old days of freedom of the press, cameras had often been barred from courtrooms. But then, in those days the defendant didn't usually testify and in those days the lawyers didn't both work from the same script. Still, there was the press, looking for all the world as if they thought they were free.)
Jerry had nothing to do for nearly half an hour. The audience (Are they paid? Jerry wondered. In America, they must be.) filed in, and the show began at exactly eight o'clock. The judge came in looking impressive in his robes, and his voice was resonant and strong, like a father on television remonstrating his rebellious son. Everyone who spoke faced the camera with the red light on the top. And Jerry felt very tired.
He did not waver in his determination to try to turn this trial to his own advantage, but he seriously wondered what good it would do. And was it to his own advantage? They would certainly punish him more severely. Certainly they would be angry, would cut him off. But he had written his speech as if it were an impassioned climactic scene in a play (Crove Against the Communists or perhaps Liberty's Last Cry), and he the hero who would willingly give his life for the chance to instill a little bit of patriotism (a little bit of intelligence, who gives a damn about patriotism!) in the hearts and minds of the millions of Americans who would be watching.
"Gerald Nathan Crove, you have heard the charges against you. Please step forward and state your plea."
Jerry stood up and walked with, he hoped, dignity to the taped X on the floor where the prosecutor had insisted that he stand. He looked for the camera with the red light on. He stared into it intently, sincerely, and wondered if, after all, it wouldn't be better just to say nolo contendere or even guilty and have an easier time of it.
"Mr. Crove," intoned the judge, "America is watching. How do you plead?"
America was watching indeed. And Jerry opened his mouth and said not the Latin but the English he had rehearsed so often in his mind:
"There is a time for courage and a time for cowardice, a time when a man can give in to those who offer him leniency and a time when he must, instead, resist them for the sake of a higher goal. America was once a free nation. But as long as they pay our salaries, we seem content to be slaves! I plead not guilty, because any act that serves to weaken Russian domination of any nation in the world is a blow for all the things that make life worth living and against those to whom power is the only god worth worshiping!"
Ah. Eloquence. But in his rehearsals he had never dreamed he would get even this far, and yet they still showed no sign of stopping him. He looked away from the camera. He looked at the prosecutor, who was taking notes on a yellow pad. He looked at Charlie, and Charlie was resignedly shaking his head and putting his papers back in his briefcase. No one seemed to be particularly worried that Jerry was saying these things over live television. And the broadcasts were live--they had stressed that, that he must be careful to do everything correctly the first time because it was all live--
They were lying, of course. And Jerry stopped his speech and jammed his hands into his pockets, only to discover that the suit they had provided for him had no pockets (Save money by avoiding nonessentials, said the slogan), and his hands slid uselessly down his hips.
The prosecutor looked up in surprise when the judge cleared his throat. "Oh, I beg your pardon," he said. "The speeches usually go on much longer. I congratulate you, Mr. Crove, on your brevity."
Jerry nodded in mock acknowledgment, but he felt no mockery.
"We always have a dry run," said the prosecutor, "just to catch you last-chancers."
"Everyone knew that?"
"Well, everyone but you, of course, Mr. Crove. All right, everybody, you can go home now."
The audience arose and quietly shuffled out.
The prosecutor and Charlie got up and walked to the bench. The judge was resting his chin on his hands, looking not at all fatherly now, just a little bored. "How much do you want?" the judge asked.
"Unlimited," said the prosecutor.
"Is he really that important?" Jerry might as well have not been there. "After all, they're doing the actual bombers in Brazil."
"Mr. Crove is an American," said the prosecutor, "who chose to let a Russian ambassador be assassinated."
"All right, all right," said the judge, and Jerry marveled that the man hadn't the slightest trace of a Russian accent.
"Gerald Nathan Crove, the court finds you guilty of murder and treason against the United States of America and its ally, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Do you have anything to say before sentence is pronounced?"
"I just wondered," said Jerry, "why you all speak English."
"Because," said the prosecutor icily, "we are in America."
"Why do you even bother with trials?"
"To stop other imbeciles from trying what you did. He just wants to argue, Your Honor."
The judge slammed down his gavel. "The court sentences Gerald Nathan Crove to be put to death by every available method until such time as he convincingly apologizes for his action to the American people. Court stands adjourned. Lord in heaven, do I have a headache."
They wasted no time. At five o'clock in the morning, Jerry had barely fallen asleep. Perhaps they monitored this, because they promptly woke him up with a brutal electric shock across the metal floor where Jerry was lying. Two guards--this time Russians--came in and stripped him and then dragged him to the execution chamber even though, had they let him, he would have walked.
The prosecutor was waiting. "I have been assigned your case," he said, "because you promise to be a challenge. Your psychological profile is interesting, Mr. Crove. You long to be a hero."
"I wasn't aware of that."
"You displayed it in the courtroom, Mr. Crove. You are no doubt aware--your middle name implies it--of the last words of the American Revolutionary War espionage agent named Nathan Hale. 'I regret that I have but one life to give for my country,' he said. You shall discover that he was mistaken. He should be very glad he had but one life.
"Since you were arrested several weeks ago in Rio de Janeiro, we have been growing a series of clones for you. Development is quite accelerated, but they have been kept in zero-sensation environments until the present. Their minds are blank.
"You are surely aware of somec, yes, Mr. Crove?"
Jerry nodded. The starship sleep drug.
"We don't need it in this case, of course. But the mind-taping technique we use on interstellar flights--that is quite useful. When we execute you, Mr. Crove, we shall be continuously taping your brain. All your memories will be rather indecorously dumped into the head of the first clone, who will immediately become you. However, he will clearly remember all your life up to and including the moment of death.
"It was so easy to be a hero in the old days, Mr. Crove. Then you never knew for sure what death was like. It was compared to sleep, to great emotional pain, to quick departure of the soul from the body. None of these, of course, is particularly accurate."
Jerry was frightened. He had heard of multiple death before, of course--it was rumored to exist because of its deterrent value. "They resurrect you and kill you again and again," said the horror story, and now he knew that it was true. Or they wanted him to believe it was true.
What frightened Jerry was the way they planned to kill him. A noose hung from a hook in the ceiling. It could be raised and lowered, but there didn't seem to be the slightest provision for a quick, sharp drop to break his neck. Jerry had once almost choked to death on a salmon bone. The sensation of not being able to breathe terrified him.
"How can I get out of this?" Jerry asked, his palms sweating.
"The first one, not at all," said the prosecutor. "So you might as well be brave and use up your heroism this time around. Afterward we'll give you a screen test and see how convincing your repentance is. We're fair, you know. We try to avoid putting anyone through this unnecessarily. Please sit."
Jerry sat. A man in a lab coat put a metal helmet on his head. A few needles pricked into Jerry's scalp.
"Already," said the prosecutor, "your first clone is becoming aware. He already has all your memories. He is right now living through your panic--or shall we say your attempts at courage. Make sure you concentrate carefully on what is about to happen to you, Jerry. You want to make sure you remember every detail."
"Please," Jerry said.
"Buck up, my man," said the prosecutor with a grin. "You were wonderful in the courtroom. Let's have some of that noble resistance now."
Then the guards led him to the noose and put it around his neck, being careful not to dislodge the helmet. They pulled it tight and then tied his hands behind his back. The rope was rough on his neck. He waited, his neck tingling, for the sensation of being lifted in the air. He flexed his neck muscles, trying to keep them rigid, though he knew the effort would be useless. His knees grew weak, waiting for them to raise the rope.
The room was plain. There was nothing to see, and the prosecutor had left the room. There was, however, a mirror on a wall beside him. He could barely see into it without turning his entire body. He was sure it was an observation window. They would watch, of course.
Jerry needed to go to the bathroom.
Remember, he told himself, I won't really die. I'll be awake in the other room in just a moment.
But his body was not convinced. It didn't matter a bit that a new Jerry Crove would be ready to get up and walk away when this was over. This Jerry Crove would die.
"What are you waiting for?" he demanded, and as if that had been their cue the guards pulled the rope and lifted him into the air.
From the beginning it was worse than he had thought. The rope had an agonizingly tight grip on his neck; there was no question of resisting at all. The suffocation was nothing, at first. Like being under water holding your breath. But the rope itself was painful, and his neck hurt, and he wanted to cry out with the pain; but nothing could escape his throat.
Not at first.
There was some fumbling with the rope, and it jumped up and down as the guards tied it to the hook on the wall. Once Jerry's feet even touched the floor.
By the time the rope held still, however, the effects of the strangling were taking over and the pain was forgotten. The blood was pounding inside Jerry's head. His tongue felt thick. He could not shut his eyes. And now he wanted to breathe. He had to breathe. His body demanded a breath.
His body was not under control. Intellectually, he knew that he could not possibly reach the floor, knew that this death would be temporary, but right now his mind was not having much influence over his body. His legs kicked and struggled to reach the ground. His hands strained at the rope behind him. And all the exertion only made his eyes bulge more with the pressure of the blood that could not get past the rope; only made him need air more desperately.
There was no help for him, but now he tried to scream for help. The sound now escaped his throat--but at the cost of air. He felt as if his tongue were being pushed up into his nose. His kicking grew more violent, though every kick was agony. He spun on the rope; he caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror. His face was turning purple.
How long will it be? Surely not much longer!
But it was much longer.
If he had been underwater, holding his breath, he would now have given up and drowned.
If he had a gun and a free hand, he would kill himself now to end this agony and the sheer physical terror of being unable to breathe. But he had no gun, and there was no question of inhaling, and the blood throbbed in his head and made his eyes see everything in shades of red, and finally he saw nothing at all.
Saw nothing, except what was going through his mind, and that was a jumble, as if his consciousness were madly trying to make some arrangement that would eliminate the strangulation. He kept seeing himself in the creek behind his house, where he had fallen in when he was a child, and someone was throwing him a rope, but he couldn't and he couldn't and he couldn't catch it, and then suddenly it was around his neck and dragging him under.
Spots of black stabbed at his eyes. His body felt bloated, and then it erupted, his bowel and bladder and stomach ejecting all that they contained, except that his vomit was stopped at his throat, where it burned.
The shaking of his body turned into convulsive jerks and spasms, and for a moment Jerry felt himself reaching the welcome state of unconsciousness. Then, suddenly, he discovered that death is not so kind.
There is no such thing as slipping off quietly in your sleep. No such thing as being "killed immediately" or having death mercifully end the pain.
Death woke him from his unconsciousness, for perhaps a tenth of a second. But that tenth of a second was infinite, and in it he experienced the infinite agony of impending nonexistence. His life did not flash before his eyes. The lack of life instead exploded, and in his mind he experienced far greater pain and fear than anything he had felt from the mere hanging.
And then he died.
For an instant he hung in limbo, feeling and seeing nothing. Then a light stabbed at his eyes and soft foam peeled away from his skin and the prosecutor stood there, watching as he gasped and retched and clutched at his throat. It seemed incredible that he could now breathe, and if he had experienced only the strangling, he might now sigh with relief and say, "I've been through it once, and now I'm not afraid of death." But the strangling was nothing. The strangling was a prelude. And he was afraid of death.
They forced him to come into the room where he had died. He saw his body hanging, black-faced, from the ceiling, the helmet still on the head, the tongue protruding.
"Cut it down," the prosecutor said, and for a moment Jerry waited for the guards to obey. Instead, a guard handed Jerry a knife.
With death still heavy in his mind, Jerry swung around and lunged at the prosecutor. But a guard caught his hand in an irresistible grip, and the other guard held a pistol pointed at Jerry's head.
"Do you want to die again so soon?" asked the prosecutor, and Jerry whimpered and took the knife and reached up to cut himself down from the noose. In order to reach above the knot, he had to stand close enough to the corpse to touch it. The stench was incredible. And the fact of death was unavoidable. Jerry trembled so badly he could hardly control the knife, but eventually the rope parted and the corpse slumped to the ground, knocking Jerry down as it fell. An arm lay across Jerry's legs. The face looked at Jerry eye-to-eye.
Jerry screamed.
"You see the camera?"
Jerry nodded, numbly.
"You will look at the camera and you will apologize for having done anything against the government that has brought peace to the earth."
Jerry nodded again, and the prosecutor said, "Roll it."
"Fellow Americans," Jerry said, "I'm sorry. I made a terrible mistake. I was wrong. There's nothing wrong with the Russians. I let an innocent man be killed. Forgive me. The government has been kinder to me than I deserve." And so on. For an hour Jerry babbled, insisting that he was craven, that he was guilty, that he was worthless, that the government was vying with God for respectability.
And when he was through, the prosecutor came back in, shaking his head.
"Mr. Crove, you can do better than that.
"Nobody in the audience believed you for one minute. Nobody in the test sample, not one person, believed that you were the least bit sincere. You still think the government ought to be deposed. And so we have to try the treatment again."
"Let me try to confess again."
"A screen test is a screen test, Mr. Crove. We have to give you a little more experience with death before we can permit you to have any involvement with life."
This time Jerry screamed right from the beginning. He made no attempt at all to bear it well. They hung him by the armpits over a long cylinder filled with boiling oil. They slowly lowered him. Death came when the oil was up to his chest--by then his legs had been completely cooked and the meat was falling off the bones in large chunks.
They made him come in and, when the oil had cooled enough to touch, fish out the pieces of his own corpse.
He wept all through his confession this time, but the test audience was completely unconvinced. "The man's a phony," they said. "He doesn't believe a word of what he's saying."
"We have a problem," said the prosecutor. "You seem so willing to cooperate after your death. But you have reservations. You aren't speaking from the heart. We'll have to help you again."
Jerry screamed and struck out at the prosecutor. When the guards had pulled him away (and the prosecutor was nursing an injured nose), Jerry shouted, "Of course I'm lying! No matter how often you kill me it won't change the fact that this is a government of fools by vicious, lying bastards!"
"On the contrary," said the prosecutor, trying to maintain his good manners and cheerful demeanor despite the blood pouring out of his nose, "if we kill you enough, you'll completely change your mind."
"You can't change the truth!"
"We've changed it for everyone else who's gone through this. And you are far from being the first who had to go to a third clone. But this time, Mr. Crove, do try to forget about being a hero."
They skinned him alive, arms and legs first, and then, finally, they castrated him and ripped the skin off his belly and chest. He died silently when they cut his larynx out--no, not silently. Just voiceless. He found that without a voice he could still whisper a scream that rang in his ears when he awoke and was forced to go in and carry his bloody corpse to the disposal room. He confessed again, and the audience was not convinced.
They slowly crushed him to death, and he had to scrub the blood out of the crusher when he awoke, but the audience only commented. "Who does the jerk think he's fooling?"
They disemboweled him and burned his guts in front of him. They infected him with rabies and let his death linger for two weeks. They crucified him and let exposure and thirst kill him. They dropped him a dozen times from the roof of a one-story building until he died.
Yet the audience knew that Jerry Crove had not repented.
"My God, Crove, how long do you think I can keep doing this?" asked the prosecutor. He did not seem cheerful. In fact, Jerry thought he looked almost desperate.
"Getting a little tough on you?" Jerry asked, grateful for the conversation because it meant there would be a few minutes between deaths.
"What kind of man do you think I am? We'll bring him back to life in a minute anyway, I tell myself, but I didn't get into this business in order to find new, hideous ways of killing people."
"You don't like it? And yet you have such a natural talent for it."
The prosecutor looked sharply at Crove. "Irony? Now you can joke? Doesn't death mean anything to you?"
Jerry did not answer, only tried to blink back the tears that these days came unbidden every few minutes.
"Crove, this is not cheap. Do you think it's cheap? We've spent literally billions of rubles on you. And even with inflation, that's a hell of a lot of money."
"In a classless society there's no need for money."
"What is this, dammit! Now you're getting rebellious? Now you're trying to be a hero?"
"No wonder we've had to kill you eight times! You keep thinking up clever arguments against us!"
"I'm sorry. Heaven knows I'm sorry."
"I've asked to be released from this assignment. I obviously can't crack you."
"Crack me! As if I didn't long to be cracked."
"You're costing too much. There's a definite benefit in having criminals convincingly recant on television. But you're getting too expensive. The cost-benefit ratio is ridiculous now. There's a limit to how much we can spend on you."
"I have a way for you to save money."
"So do I. Convince the damned audience!"
"Next time you kill me, don't put a helmet on my head."
The prosecutor looked absolutely shocked. "That would be final. That would be capital punishment. We're a humane government. We never kill anybody permanently."
They shot him in the gut and let him bleed to death. They threw him from a cliff into the sea. They let a shark eat him alive. They hung him upside down so that just his head was under water, and when he finally got too tired to hold his head out of the water he drowned.
But through all this, Jerry had become more inured to the pain. His mind had finally learned that none of these deaths was permanent after all. And now when the moment of death came, though it was still terrible, he endured it better. He screamed less. He approached death with greater calm. He even hastened the process, deliberately inhaling great draughts of water, deliberately wriggling to attract the shark. When they had the guards kick him to death he kept yelling, "Harder," until he couldn't yell anymore.
And finally when they set up a screen test, he fervently told the audience that the Russian government was the most terrifying empire the world had ever known, because this time they were efficient at keeping their power, because this time there was no outside for barbarians to come from, and because they had seduced the freest people in history into loving slavery. His speech was from the heart--he loathed the Russians and loved the memory that once there had been freedom and law and a measure of justice in America.
And the prosecutor came into the room ashen-faced.
"You bastard," he said.
"Oh. You mean the audience was live this time?"
"A hundred loyal citizens. And you corrupted all but three of them."
"Convinced them."
Silence for a moment, and then the prosecutor sat down and buried his head in his hands.
"Going to lose your job?" Jerry asked.
"Of course."
"I'm sorry. You're good at it."
The prosecutor looked at him with loathing. "No one ever failed at this before. And I had never had to take anyone beyond a second death. You've died a dozen times, Crove, and you've got used to it."
"I didn't mean to."
"How did you do it?"
"I don't know."
"What kind of animal are you, Crove? Can't you make up a lie and believe it?"
Crove chuckled. (In the old days, at this level of amusement he would have laughed uproariously. But inured to death or not, he had scars. And he would never laugh loudly again.) "It was my business. As a playwright. The willing suspension of disbelief."
The door opened and a very important looking man in a military uniform covered with medals came in, followed by four Russian soldiers. The prosecutor sighed and stood up. "Good-bye, Crove."
"Good-bye," Jerry said.
"You're a very strong man."
"So," said Jerry, "are you." And the prosecutor left.
The soldiers took Jerry out of the prison to a different place entirely. A large complex of buildings in Florida. Cape Canaveral. They were exiling him, Jerry realized.
"What's it like?" he asked the technician who was preparing him for the flight.
"Who knows?" the technician asked. "No one's ever come back. Hell, no one's ever arrived yet."
"After I sleep on somec, will I have any trouble waking up?"
"In the labs, here on earth, no. Out there, who knows?"
"But you think we'll live?"
"We send you to planets that look like they might be habitable. If they aren't, so sorry. You take your chances. The worst that can happen is you die."
"Is that all?" Jerry murmured.
"Now lie down and let me tape your brain."
Jerry lay down and the helmet, once again, recorded his thoughts. It was irresistible, of course: when you are conscious that your thoughts are being taped, Jerry realized, it is impossible not to try to think something important. As if you were performing. Only the audience would consist of just one person. Yourself when you woke up.
But he thought this: That this starship and the others that would be and had been sent out to colonize in prison worlds were not really what the Russians thought they were. True, the prisoners sent in the Gulag ships would be away from earth for centuries before they landed, and many or most of them would not survive. But some would survive.
I will survive, Jerry thought as the helmet picked up his brain pattern and transferred it to tape.
Out there the Russians are creating their own barbarians. I will be Attila the Hun. My child will be Mohammed. My grandchild will be Genghis Khan.
One of us, someday, will sack Rome.
Then the somec was injected, and it swept through him, taking consciousness with it, and Jerry realized with a shock of recognition that this, too, was death: but a welcome death, and he didn't mind. Because this time when he woke up he would be free.
He hummed cheerfully until he couldn't remember how to hum, and then they put his body with hundreds of others on a starship and pushed them all out into space, where they fell upward endlessly into the stars. Going home.
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NachlamSie (815) Denver, Colorado | June 3, 2014
This is a massive liquor store with a walk in cooler for bombers and a wall of coolers for six packs. The selection is really bizzare. There are very strange beers that I have never seen anywhere else in the Denver area including many very undesirable looking imports, yet many common beers that I would like to drink are absent. Some of these bottles are seriously old, so I would absolutely purchase things that are date stamped and fresh. Prices are in line with the area. No one should have a problem finding something good to buy here, but it's not really a hidden gem for beer hunters. Serviceable.
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A clean warehouse type store located in one of those town center developments. They have most of their beer in the coolers. They offer mostly six packs but their beer cave does have some othr bombers. Outstde the large Colorado section that every liquor store in this state has they had a couple of other gems like a Mikkeller 19 and a St. Bernardus Tokyo. I swear no one in this state understands the concept of the pick six and this place is no exception including such gems as bud light Chelada and Heineken. Still the people were friendly and though no beer destination it's still a decent local six lack shop.
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A very large and open liquor store located in a massive shopping area. The selection is fair and prices good, but i found nothing out of the ordinary craft beers, primarily CO brewers.
cubs (420) Fort Collins, Colorado | December 2, 2010| Updated December 12, 2013
Pretty decent place to find beers in the SE Denver Metro area. Nice walk in cooler with probably around 100 beers there with at least 50, maybe 100 more in the adjacent coolers. UPDATE: I recently picked some German beers here and they were expired and totally skunky and sour. Kind of ridiculous that they don't check to see if their German beers are dated. These aren't the kind of beers that are better with age.
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Great to see the city and the history of the Knights Templer.
The name of the tour changed from that advertised on the website, but the itinerary was the same. Interesting, but be prepared for plenty of walking.
Our guide met us on the coach he was Israeli and his English was excellent. There were Germans on the trip too so he had to say everything twice, which wasn't a problem. The tour was as described on the Costa website and was very interesting. A good way to see Israel without the hours and hours of travelling to Jerusalem. etc
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Kim Man Li Joins BAML
Bank of America Corp. (BAC) has hired Kim Man Li, former head of Asian electronic trading sales at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), as a director and head of product development for Asia Pacific equity execution services in Hong Kong.
Li will join the bank's Merrill Lynch unit, reporting to Ryan Holsheimer, head of Asia Pacific equity execution services in Hong Kong, and Roger Anerella, global head of electronic trading in New York, according to an internal memo. Li will take up his new role Oct. 3, said Mark Tsang, a Bank of America spokesman in Hong Kong.
"Kim has been a pioneering figure in the electronic trading space in Asia serving on numerous industry boards," Holsheimer said in the memo.
Li spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs, according to the memo. He left the company in April as head of pan-Asian electronic trading sales in Hong Kong. Connie Ling, the spokeswoman for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, declined to comment. Li could not be reached for comment.


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Hi, I have the same card, and I just set it up again 2-3 days ago. If you're using Debian 2.0 hamm you won't need to download isapnptools as it is part of the base system and already installed (it may even be for 1.3 for all I know). All the documentation I needed I found by reading the manpages for isapnp.conf, isapnp, pnpdump, and by reading what was in /usr/doc/isapnptools/ I have a pnp bios, and I believe that is supposed to make things easier some how, but I know you can still get the card to work without a pnp bios. The procedure is: $ pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf (edit the isapnp.conf) $ isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf You can then see if anything works at all by just catenating any file to /dev/audio or running a sound player if you already have one installed. After this procedure you may need to edit your startup scripts to so that sound will always work after rebooting. I won't be able to help you here since it worked for me automatically without further editing. Now editing the isapnp.conf is the tricky part. When I compiled my kernel I left all the settings unchanged, since they appear to be the settings Windows for me used. Here are mine: (220) I/O base for SB check from manual of the card (7) Sound Blaster IRQ check from manual of the card (1) Sound Blaster DMA 0, 1 or 3 (5) Sound Blaster 16 bit DMA (0) MPU401 I/O base of SB16.... (-1) SB MPU401 IRQ .... Use -1 with SB16. Now when you run pnpdump it's going to find four devices: The sound playing part, the ide cdrom connector, the stereo enhance part, and the game port. I have a scsi CDROM and no joysticks so I only set up 2 of those. If you want to set up the IDE port I there's a special file for it in /usr/doc/isapnptools/. I attached my isapnp.conf file. Before you edit this file it is huuuuugggeeee. I cut out most of the comments so that all that is there is what I need. With all this information combined you should be able to at least get sound working, getting it to work every time after rebooting might be another matter though from what I've heard. Good luck, Chris Ivan wrote: > > Hi EveryOne ! > > I'm trying to enable sound support on my Debian system which, according to > the reading I've done, requires recompilation of the kernel. > > Using config (the how-to or readme suggested that xconfig is not the best > to use ?) I have configured everything that I want except SOUND!!! > > The readme file says that PnP is not supported - is this still the case ? > If PnP is not directly supported can anyone advise how to work around to > enable this card to work ? ( I'm sure I'm not the only Debian user with a > PnP sound card !!! ) > > I can't remember exactly the boot remarks but is similar to > sound configuration started > sound configuration stopped > The readme or how-to indicates that I should expect information regarding > the type of support being initiated between the starting and the stopping. > The lack of information apparently indicates that the support has been > compiled but that the card is not detected. > > I therefore assume that the device settings that I am using are wrong. > > FYI, the Win95 settings are : > > IRQ 05 > DMA 01 > DMA 03 > I/O RANGE 0220 - 022F > I/O RANGE 0330 - 0331 > I/I RANGE 0388 - 038B > > I used : > > IRQ 05 > DMA 01 > DMA 03 > I/O BASE 220 (first time) > I/O BASE 330 (second time) > > <<<< is Linux reading these numbers as decmial or hex ? >>>> > > The next time I recompiled I used > > IRQ 05 > DMA 01 > DMA 05 (after noting that 3 is not on the "allowed" list !) > I/O BASE 330 > I/O BASE 388 > > Still no sound ! > > Any help very much appreciated. > > Ivan. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe email@example.com < /dev/null
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- 1 teaspoon mustard
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon cloves
- ⅛ teaspoon cayenne
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Leeds Rhinos' head coach Brian McDermott says his side will get tested tonight for the first time since their season opener.
They visit a Huddersfield Giants team who have won the last five meetings between the West Yorkshire neighbours but are still hurting after a surprising 22-20 loss at Widnes a week ago, having earlier drawn with Hull KR.
Leeds, by contrast, have won all three of their games so far, following up a victory at Hull KR with successes over Warrington Wolves and then Catalan Dragons in Perpignan last Friday.
McDermott said: "We are gradually getting better.
"It was a tough game against Hull KR, we played an out-of-form Warrington and then had a very tough 30 minutes against Catalan.
"After that they pretty much fell away, so while we scored some very good tries and strung together a bit of ball play, we are not getting carried away.
"We know Catalan will get a lot better. The danger is we look at a false dawn and start seeing some signs in us that aren't really there.
"We haven't really been tested since Hull KR. I mean that with the greatest respect to Warrington and Catalan, but I know they have got a lot more in them.
"We will certainly get tested in this game. Huddersfield will be good, I can guarantee that."
McDermott concedes his side have been outplayed by Huddersfield in each of those five defeats, their last win against the Giants coming in a 2011 elimination play-off.
"We've been on the wrong end of some results against them over recent seasons, but all of them have been warranted," he said.
"We tip our hat to them and respect them as a team.
"We know they are going to be very good this week. I don't think we have any scores to settle with Huddersfield.
"They have beaten us fair and square on all the occasions last year and in recent seasons. They are a good, solid defensive team and a very good attacking team.
"We've no gripes with them at all. It will be a decent contest on the strength of the fact it will be two good teams having a crack at each other.
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and then of those interfaces, which ones need to actually be something other than a stub?
for example, wakelocks could probably be a stub, but an inter-process communications would have to actually work (I seem to remember reading that Android had a kernel assisted IPC protocol)
KS2011: Patch review
Posted Oct 25, 2011 8:08 UTC (Tue) by swetland (guest, #63414) [Link]
Some of the notable ones off the top of my head:
- wakelocks
- binder (IPC subsystem) -- /dev/binder -- self-contained, in theory one could replace it with an entirely userspace implementation, in practice probably a lot of work
- logger driver -- /dev/logs/* -- multiple ring buffers for logging state without a lot of context switch overhead -- back when running on virtually tagged ARM9s this was very useful
- ION -- /dev/ion -- a unified approach to buffer management and sharing between display, GPU, camera, codecs, etc, new in Ice Cream Sandwich
Where possible we try to use standard interfaces -- for example, the power supply framework for battery charging and status, a lot of assorted interfaces via /sys, etc.
KS2011: Patch review
Posted Oct 25, 2011 8:17 UTC (Tue) by dlang (subscriber, #313) [Link]
as for ION, since there is no code available yet, it's hard to talk about it.
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We're still getting back online after the kernel.org downtime, so I don't have a handy URL for browseable source. Before kernel.org went down the ION kernel side sources were being developed in the open in the kernel repositories at android.git.kernel.org.
Hopefully it'll all be sorted out in the near future alongside the ICS userspace source release.
KS2011: Patch review
Posted Oct 25, 2011 18:01 UTC (Tue) by dlang (subscriber, #313) [Link]
I am thinking that the interfaces needed to just make things 'run' on a kernel.org kernel is much smaller than what people have been trying to get submitted. And then once this smaller set is in place, things can be worked on much more easily.
while I have your attention, did you see Neil Brown's proposal for a userspace wakelock-type daemon? how hard would it be to modify the Android userspace to work with his proposal? As I understand it, there's only one daemon that actually talks to the kernel, everything else in the Android userspace talks to that daemon.
KS2011: Patch review
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[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/462524/
KS2011: Patch review
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dmabuf just deals with buffer sharing.
I imagine CMA + dmabuf would displace ION.
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Half Lost by Sally Green
Green's gritty trilogy, which began in 2014 with Half Bad, wraps up this spring as the battle between Black and White witches comes to a head in her magic-laden version of England. Readers who have been following protagonist Nathan's heartbreaking losses and struggles through the previous two books should be relieved and satisfied as the young witch's journey comes to an end. Available in March.
Last Midnight by Cassandra Clare
Fans of Clare's paranormal Mortal Instruments series already have plenty to be excited about this season with the recent TV premiere of Shadowhunters, based on her bestselling novels. But readers who have devoured the previous books set in the world of her Shadowhunter Chronicles may be even more excited for this first book in the Dark Artifices series, about a family of Shadowhunters living in Los Angeles. Available in March.
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The series that began in 2012 with The Raven Boys comes to a close this spring, answering questions that have dogged readers over the previous books. Will Gansey finally find the Welsh king Glendower? Will he die if he kisses Blue? Will anyone survive the dark forces gathering around Henrietta, Virginia? Come April, we'll find out. Available in April.
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Much as she did in her breakout debut novel, Between Shades of Gray, Sepetys illuminates another tragic chapter of wartime history in her third book for teens. Here, she examines a horrific naval disaster, the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, from the perspectives of multiple characters, including refugees, soldiers, and a nurse, in 1945 East Prussia. Available Now.
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"In 1945, World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia, and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, almost all of them with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the "Wilhelm Gustloff." Forced by circumstance to unite, the three find their strength, courage, and trust in each other tested with each step closer toward safety.
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