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Chapter 1 : The Stirring of Evil
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Book 1
Based on the ideas and places of JK Rowling.
Author's Note: This is my fanfiction of Albus's adventures. Please review and tell me your thoughts, including compliments or criticisms. There will be seven books, and I should finish them all. I have planned Books 1-5 in detail, and I have a very good idea of what happens in Books 6 and 7. I posted this a few months ago, but forgot to update it here, so I'm reposting it. The first and second book are both completed on a different site. As long as I remember to update it on this site, there will be updates every weekend.
Here's a little summary, a bit more in-depth than the one you clicked on:
Albus Severus Potter, second son and middle child of Harry Potter, wishes for nothing more than to prove himself worthy of his name. He has always been the outcast of his family, the one who is forgotten, ignored, and looked over. Still, Albus desperately wants to show the world that he is a hero, not a loser. But this is made difficult when his Sorting goes terribly wrong, and all the bullies in the school make him a victim. Even as he tries his hardest to prove himself as someone who is not the 'bad egg' or 'black sheep' of his family, he is thrown back in his efforts, doomed to always be the disgrace and disappointment.
But now, danger is rapidly approaching, and darkness is returning to the long-peaceful wizarding world. An ancient evil that has been biding its time for one thousand years is stirring, preparing to drag the wizarding world back into an abyss of terror. This enemy, one that has slumbered for uncountable centuries, is now waking up, and vengeance is on its mind. Its goal is to destroy the world... and rule the new one that rises from the ashes. Meanwhile, Albus is learning that his destiny rivals that of his father, and that it is up to him to save the world from this terrible evil—an evil greater than anything seen before it.
In his first year, Albus has to deal with prejudiced professors, a cruel brother, vicious bullies, his feelings for a girl that is way out of his league, his uncontrollable magical powers, and a school that wants to kick him out because of the name of his House. In the midst of all this, Albus learns of an object hidden at Hogwarts—a very dangerous object that can grant the wish of the one who possesses it.
But someone's trying to steal it—and their wish is terrible enough to plunge the world into irreversible darkness.
There are plenty of 'parallels' between this fanfiction and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone, and those similarities are done PURPOSEFULLY. Meaning, I tried to make it similar, and tried to make an obvious parallel between Albus's and Harry's adventures. The first book might seem overwhelmingly like SS/PS, but the MAIN story of the entire series is different. Please don't be put off by how similar it is and give it a chance. The story breaks away from the parallel eventually.
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
-Chapter One-
The Stirring of Evil
One could not see anything very odd about the calm country road, except for the fact that a man had just appeared there out of nowhere. With a look left and right, the man walked down the lane, his blood-red cloak billowing around him. But why would anyone wear such a stifling cloak on such a warm summer's day? Strangely enough, this did not seem to be a matter of concern for the heavily dressed man, as he simply ignored the uncomfortable warmth and continued on his way. However uncaring he seemed about the stifling heat, the same could not be said for the street. He kept looking around, his keen eyes scanning the immediate area for intruders every few seconds. After several minutes of dead silence, he had apparently arrived where he wanted to be, and stopped in his tracks.
The red-cloaked man gazed at his destination quietly for a moment, which seemed to be an ordinary cottage. A few wilted flowers on the window ledge shook with a weak gust of wind. But, despite its normal appearance, this was not an average cottage at all. The red-cloaked man walked towards the hut, his robes flowing around him in an impressive manner. He waved his hand over the lock imperiously, causing it to click open.
The man with the blood-red cloak stepped in, finally taking off his hood. His face was utterly horrifying. The man's expression was devoid of human emotion, and his skin gave off an eerie, bluish glow. Though the rest of his face was nightmare-provoking, his eyes were the worst feature. They were ice-cold, hateful, and resembled the darkness of a moonless and starless night.
The establishment he had entered was far grander on the inside than it was on the outside. The floors were polished, and the marbled hall stretched on endlessly. Thanks to the limitless powers of magic, their Dark society could meet in secret in this seemingly innocent cottage. More people stood in the hall, also wearing blood-red cloaks and robes. The whispering in the 'cottage' ceased, and everyone turned their eyes on the newcomer. The man nodded coldly to them and swept down the stone hallway, keeping his eyes fixed firmly in front of him.
The path finally stopped at a single door. The man entered a gloomy chamber, which seemed to glow blood-red. His eyes scanned the room, stopping once he had caught sight of the side wall. This wall was different from the rest—it was a dark red shade and rippled strangely, distorting and swirling. The man walked over to it and placed his palm on it. The effect was instantaneous. His hand was sucked inside and the blood-red wall glowed brightly, illuminating the previously dim room. The man could hear people coming inside as the wall shone brighter and brighter, nearly blinding him. With a horrible squelching noise, the man withdrew his hand from the wall and turned around to face the people who had entered. The red light died down.
"Welcome," he hissed to the crowd of red-cloaked people assembled in front of him. If his face was terrifying, it was nothing compared to his voice, which was dry, shuddering, and blood-curdling. The people in front of him barely held back shivers. The man continued his introduction. "My dear fellows, you are here today at the our headquarters to confirm the rumors you have all surely heard."
Some people nodded, looking eager for news.
The man turned once more the wall. He stared at it, and his dark eyes momentarily flashed red. The wall glowed in response. "What you see in front of you," the man said, gesturing to the wall, "holds the secrets to Dark Magic."
A few people stirred, though most looked as if they already knew this.
"Soon, darkness itself will come from within this wall and walk into this world, destroying it."
The eyes of the people in the crowd shone hungrily, as if the prospect of world destruction pleased them.
"The leader of the darkness, the very embodiment of evil himself, will also be awakened, and he will lead—with us as his loyal servants—the armies of his creatures through this world, ravaging everything in his way. He is the Paradox, the only one with the power to truly destroy the world. He is our Master, and the Blood Lord."
The people listened to every word, waiting for the man to confirm the rumor that Dark Wizards all across the world had been hearing. "You had previously thought that only the Paradox has the power of pure darkness and evil, but there is now one other boy who has the same abilities..."
There was silence. Everyone in the room held their breath. Surely, it couldn't be possible. Nobody could match the power of the Paradox, who had plunged the world into terror a thousand years ago before he had been trapped once more into the Realms of Darkness—the very origins of magic. All mention of him in history had been erased so that the wizarding world of a thousand years later would be unprepared for power of his scale when he rose again—a power ten times more terrifying than anything wizardkind had ever encountered before.
"And these rumors that you have heard are true," the man said. "Another boy made of darkness was born a month ago. The very balance of good and evil has shifted, and I can detect this new boy's unmistakable presence. Where he is and who he is... well, that is a difficult question."
The people muttered to each other, unable to believe it. What did it mean for them—for everything they had been working toward since the start of time?
"He is our Paradox's opposition, and he is the only one able to stop us. As of now, we do not know who he is, because we cannot track his presence. But do not worry. We have nothing to fear if our only obstacle is a month-old boy. He will be a teenager by the time he has full control over his power. Obviously, he cannot compare to an evil essence that has been learning from the wars of wizardkind and has practiced with his power for a thousand years."
The people in the crowd looked a bit more assured. Some of them laughed. The idea of a mere boy having the power to defeat them was ludicrous.
"In eleven years time, I will send spies to Hogwarts and every wizard school in the world. Even if this child poses no real threat, we will still find out who he is, hunt him down, and stop him from saving this ruined world. It is likely that the Ministry will find him and kill him for us because of his dark powers, thinking that he is a threat to their precious order. Once he is dead and out of our way, we will destroy this world and rebuild it from the ground up—exactly in the way we please," the man said, raising his fist.
The people in the room nodded in agreement, relieved that the news of the second, smaller Paradox was not as worrying as they had expected.
"You ask when we will finally be able to release the first, greatest Paradox. Well, it will take many years of planning. However, I think our time is quickly approaching. Only a little longer..."
The man turned back to the blood-red wall, which seemed to be glowing brighter than ever before. The wall of Dark Magic swirled and distorted, sending shivers through everyone in the room. They could all sense an ancient, evil presence from behind the wall, threatening to burst forth and tip the world into an absolute and endless night.
And these people in the blood-red cloaks—people more ruthless and cruel than the Death Eaters—knew one thing: To win the greatest war of the ages, they would have to fight darkness with darkness.
This, strangely enough, was true for both sides—evil and good.
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Preface for Instructors
1. The Writing Situation
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DALLAS – Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Ed "Too Tall" Jones is among 11 elected to the Black College Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2013, the Atlanta Falcons announced Tuesday.
Jones, a Landry era linchpin, shares the club record for most seasons played (15) with defensive back Bill Bates and offensive tackle Mark Tuinei. Jones played for Dallas from 1974-78 and from 1980-89.
Jones, who earned All-Pro recognition once and was a starter on the 1977 team that won Dallas' second Super Bowl, played his college ball at Tennessee State University from 1970-73.
The other members of the Class of 2013 include North Carolina A&T linebacker Elvin Bethea, Prairie View A&M quarterback Charles Brackins, Tennessee State University quarterback Joe Gilliam Jr., Prairie View A&M defensive back Ken Houston, Grambling State wide receiver Charlie Joiner, Bethune-Cookman offensive lineman Larry Little, Savannah State tight end Shannon Sharpe, Jackson State offensive lineman Jackie Slater, Tennessee State coach John "Big John" Merritt and longtime college football commentator Charlie Neal.
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interested in conserving threatened and endangered species
on their properties. DEP is taking applications now under
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lands, recognizing that landowners are often the best stewards
of our natural resources," said Commissioner Campbell.
"The grants will help New Jersey preserve the richness
and diversity of its natural resources and rare species,
while recognizing the interests of private owners."
Most rare species in New Jersey are found on privately
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The Department of Health shut down 83-year-old pizzeria John's of Bleecker Street on Tuesday after the discovery that most of their customers were vermin. DOH closed the restaurant for a number of health violations, and though they have yet to put the specific reasons for its closing on their website, a source tells Gothamist that, with a score of 45 points, the pizzeria was closed "due to a severe vermin infestation."
Any recent diners shouldn't be too concerned about what they just consumed, because as AFITR explains, the pizza's "are cooked at 900 degrees and delivered to the table hot, and no bacteria or virus can survive that."
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In 2013 when site-blocking was hitting the courts in Norway (again,) Sony's legal team briefly considered the threat of a challenge from the Norwegian Pirate Party or other groups opposed to filtering the internet. But any fears of a challenge were quickly brushed aside. Why? Because, in all likelihood, no one could take the financial risk of… Read more »
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Reading: Keep Rootin' for Putin
Get the book HERE. If you aren't reading Barrett Brown's work, you should be. This week, I'm reading his latest book, Keep Rootin for Putin, after witnessing (from afar – thanks, Twitter) the depressing spectacle of his December 16th sentencing. LOL jk, I mean "sentencing." More like a sorry excuse to drag the poor guy in front of an apathetic… Read more »
Will the Internet Ever Have a Library?
Will the concept of a library die with the advancing digital age? Listen, if you haven't heard – although the gaping vacuum in the Internets is hard to miss. That's the whisper, in ever corner of the digital 'verse, of the Pirate Bay vanishing, taking with it massive swaths of culture-hungry, file-sharing traffic. It'd hardly be news, except that… Read more »
Pirate Bay Founder Spends Another Birthday Behind Bars
On October 17th, Gottfrid Svartholm – founder of the Pirate Bay and Scandinavia's favorite hacking scapegoat – will spend his birthday behind bars… for the third time. We already know why we should still care about Anakata's post-Pirate Bay trials, and how tech-illiterate prosecutors are a chilling side effect of the digital age. But today, how about just dropping a card… Read more »
Artists Have Opinions, Get Over It
This post was inspired by a TorrentFreak comment thread earlier this week. But it could have been inspired by any number of interactions I've had over the years as an artist with a political opinion. It's been said a hundred times, but I say it again because it keeps needing to be said: Artists can make up… Read more »
Interview: Imprisoned Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde
Please sign the petition to help Peter! This is an English version of the latest interview with Peter Sunde where DN.se journalist Hanna Fahl talked with the Pirate Bay founder about being wanted by Interpol, standing in the European Elections, debt, and goldfish. The original is in Swedish, I just tried to smooth out the translation. Please… Read more »
Mats Kolmisoppi "On Prison, My Brother, And Our Father's Illness "
Please sign the petition to help Peter! On September 15 shortly after his father's death, Mats Kolmisoppi, brother of Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, made a rare statement about his brother's imprisonment and the effect on their family. The original is in Swedish, but even through the clunky filter of Google Translate, the moving, heartbreaking commentary shines through. This is a crucial perspective,… Read more »
Chilling Effects – Updates From Anakata's Trial
So I'm getting caught up in the curious case of Gottfrid Svartholm – we all know him as one of the heroes of the Pirate Bay, but he's currently facing some more serious charges involving hacking & Denmark. Getting the details is challenging if you don't speak Danish, but word is trickling out through the English world (and hey, here's me doing… Read more »
Now, There's A Petition. Improve Peter Sunde's Prison Conditions NOW!
This week, I wrote about the chilling descriptions of prison life from Peter Sunde, or as you probably know him Brokep from the Pirate Bay. I asked – and still hope – for everyone to write him letters of support during this difficult time. But if you are busy to write letters, you can always just sign your name!… Read more »
I am so angry about The Pirate Bay founder's treatment. Also, I'm becoming a vegetarian.
UPDATE: Now there's a petition to improve his conditions. Please sign and show your support! Since his arrest, Peter Sunde, founder of The Pirate Bay, has written to the outside world twice to describe the terrible conditions which he and the other Swedish prisoners are subject to. Early in July, he revealed that he'd already lost over 10 pounds in… Read more »


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Twitter Goes Public
Join Fast Company from 9am to 5pm ET as we watch Twitter go public Thursday. Fast Company senior writer Ellen McGirt will be taking your questions at 1pm E.T.; University of Notre Dame Finance Professor Tim Loughran will be joining us to answer your questions at 3:30pm ET.
Twitter also has its sights set firmly on TV. But can those efforts really lead to a more profitable future for the microblogging service, which despite a high user base has yet to make any profit at all? Ellen McGirt and Nicole LaPorte took a deep look for our November cover story.
Thanks for joining our live coverage! We'll be kicking this blog off at 9am.
There are lots of good articles being published about Twitter today, we'll be providing shortcuts to the best material here.
"Twitter's founders recognized that encouraging people to use a very small number of very tightly controlled forms, billions of times over, creates huge, deeply interconnected, highly creative, and potentially profitable new spaces." - Paul Ford, in BusinessWeek today.
Twitter 5:50am http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYeSPSuCQAA6XHS.jpgby Eric Metens via twitter 11/7/2013 2:14:04 PM
Woke up to this... @jack http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYeVSY4IgAAN17E.jpgby borovsky via twitter 11/7/2013 2:15:42 PM
For those of you who didn't catch the news yesterday, Twitter set its share price at $26. If it sells the maximum of 80.5 million shares at that price, the company will raise $2.09 billion, making it the second-largest Internet IPO in history (Facebook would still be the first).
AdAge has found the first tweets sent by several big consumer brands back in 2009. Here's the first tweet from @Google: "I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010" - Read more here.
Twitter employes are working today, but the office opened at 5 a.m. PST for those who want to watch the IPO with their coworkers.
While she didn't name Twitter specifically, it's perhaps no coincidence that the the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Jo White, said in a speech yesterday that the SEC is concerned that investors may be misled by the "unique financial or operational metrics" tech companies use to tout their success, such as high user numbers. The SEC is concerned that investors may think that these high numbers correlate with high profitability.
Twitter, of course, has yet to make a profit, despite having 232 million users--and that number is growing.
"What if only a fraction of those users are paying customers? What does that mean for future financial results? What if the bulk of the growth in the number of users is in an area where the company has not yet figured out how to turn those users into paying customers? What does that then say about the meaning of user growth rates? White posed.
Twitter doesn't charge its users, and its hard to imagine a future in which it would ever consider such a risky move. White poses some serious questions. But the company is not without a plan. Read about Twitter's vision for a -powered, profitable future here.
And it's public!
Twitter picked a 9-year-old girl with a lemonade stand whose proceeds are used to fight slavery to ring the bell for them. She was joined by Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart and a Boston police officer.
The moment Twitter went public.
Ringing the bell was the easy part. Twitter can look forward to a lot volatility and noise around its stock in the months to come.
Twitter opening indication: $42-$46, reports Business Insider. StreetInsider reporting $40-$44. Reuters' Olivia Oran is hearing $44 to $45.
Twitter's launch on the stock market just made a small but select list of founders and investors very, very rich indeed. Some names you'll know, some you won't. To learn more about the Twitter IPO Player's Club members, check out our write ups:
Evan Williams
Jack Dorsey
Dick Costolo
Biz Stone
Adam Bain
...plus a few more folks you may be less familiar with like Peter Currie.
Adam Bain is an interesting Twitter millionaire, with a family man reputation. He was formerly the president of the Audience Network and EVP of product and technology at Fox Interactive--and was at Fox Sports before that. At Twitter he's President of Global Revenue, which has likely been one of the most important roles on the run up to IPO as Twitter tells its revenue growth story and shows its plan to convert growing sales into profits. He's also a bit of a philanthropist, so maybe some of his new net worth will go into helping others.
Ev Williams is Twitter's famous cofounder. His stake is said to be worth over $1.5 billion at Twitter's offering price of $26. A successful entrepreneur he made a lot of money selling Blogger to Google, but he was actually pushed out at Twitter over alleged bad management skills!
Biz Stone, perhaps the most famous Twitter chap after Jack Dorsey, is a slightly mysterious figure at IPO--his absence from Twitter's S-1 form led to a lot of debate. But since he's no longer an officer of the company, and doesn't own more than 5% stock he didn't have to appear. Assuming he does own 5%, though, he may have made about $600 million at the stock's launch price.
These names are going to be in the media for a while, because a sudden income of millions, even billions of dollars, means you can have quite an ongoing impact on the world. Learn about them now!
Twitter shares orders at $40 -$44 , traders say. on.mktw.net/16JiokUby brianaguilar via twitter 11/7/2013 3:21:43 PM
Twitter getting right to work increasing rev post-IPO with this survey about Trident chewing gum in my feed. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYenz9TIEAAtmiq.jpgby Noah Robischon via twitter 11/7/2013 3:27:28 PM
NYSE leads US Tech IPO listings; 58% of Tech IPOs list on NYSE this year, eclipsing NASDAQ for first time on record http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYedVlWCQAA15FF.jpgby Dealintel via twitter 11/7/2013 3:29:17 PM
Twitter's $1 .8 billion IPO could rank as the second largest US Internet offering on record http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYbX2mBCEAAi5lc.jpgby Dealintel via twitter 11/7/2013 3:29:34 PM
Still waiting for the first Twitter trade. "Traders on the floor are guessing Twitter will open at $46," reports the New York Times' David Gelles.
Here's what Twitter looked like in 2006 -- kudos to Jason Kottke for this early screenshot.
"The freedom to share without placing the recipient under any obligation to read, respond or reciprocate." - The Drum asked top tweeters from the world of media and marketing what Twitter means to them. The above is @rorysutherland's answer. What's yours?
Jack Dorsey's Vine from the floor: "just sitting up our $twtr"
Traders at #NYSE trying to get in on the Twitter IPO (photo: @CNBCnow ) http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYekriMIYAAikfY.jpgby BuzzFeed News via twitter 11/7/2013 4:05:21 PM
Phew!by Anthony Noto via twitter 11/7/2013 4:07:49 PM
Twitter is finally trading -- at $47.12 a share.
TWTR trading at $48.78.
Remember the Miracle On The Hudson? Christina Chaey rounded up 14 of the most important moments in Twitter's history here.
Twitter is already up 80% -- fireworks! And by that I mean: Best to sit back and watch, but not get in on the action unless you don't mind getting burned. This is now the most over-valued stock on the market. Look back at Facebook, LinkedIn, and Baidu: they all dropped back under their IPO price for a period of time before regaining ground. Groupon and Zynga fell and never recovered.
The purpose of raising money on the market is to fund new initiatives, which is great. But those take time to come to fruition and become profitable. How long? Depends on how ambitious those plans are.
Another factor to consider is that the supply of shares on the open market will increase over the next year or two as people who hold stock get out of the lockup period, or employees see their shares vest. This can change the market in unpredictable ways.
What are the big challenges facing Twitter as it goes to market?
* User growth is slowing.
* The company is already generating large losses.
What else?
Noah, I'd add improving the user experience to make it more accessible to new users (and improve retention rates of new users -- getting them to send that second tweet!) without upsetting existing users.
Groupon stock price, Nov 11, 2011 - Nov 7, 2013
Zynga stock price Dec 23, 2011 - Nov 7, 2013
Another challenge facing Twitter -- and this is a big one on IPO day -- about 75% of Twitter's users live overseas, but only about 25% of its revenue comes from non-U.S. advertisers.
Now let's look at a couple that started steady, and went the other direction.
LinkedIn stock price May 27, 2011 - Nov 7, 2013
Yelp stock price Mar 9, 2012 - Nov 7, 2013
There have been 120 IPOs in 2013. An interesting tally from Jay R. Ritter at the University of Florida.
Year - # of IPOs
2007 - 160
2008 - 21
2009 - 41
2010 - 92
2011 - 81
2012 - 94
2013 - 120
In 1996 there were a whopping 676 IPOs.
He also calculates the mean return on the first day of trading in a report last updated Oct 23.
h/t to Alexis Madrigal for the link to this report.
How exactly does Twitter think it's going to make money from TV? I don't see where the revenue options are?


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Haskell to miss Toulouse clash, England duo return
James Haskell has been ruled out of Wasps' European Champions Cup crunch clash with Toulouse on Saturday, but England team-mates Joe Launchbury and Elliot Daly have been passed fit.
Haskell lasted just 35 seconds of his comeback against Leicester Tigers last weekend following a lengthy absence due to a toe injury after seemingly being knocked out when tackling Freddie Burns, leading to concerns over his availability for the Six Nations.
The flanker did not do any serious damage, but Wasps director of rugby Dai Young said he will not be risked for a huge Pool 2 encounter at the Ricoh Arena.
"James is fine within himself, but he took a significant bang to the head on Sunday and we don't feel it right to push him to meet the tight deadline for a six-day turnaround," said Young.
"We would obviously all like for James to be involved in our big game against Toulouse, James included, but the most important thing is for him to feel completely right and under no pressure to make the game this weekend.
"This is first time he has suffered concussion and we have told him to take extra time, with the aim of being fit for Zebre [a week on Sunday] in the final pool round."
Launchbury was a doubt for England's Six Nations opener against France on February 4 due to a calf injury, but Wasps on Wednesday revealed that the lock is in contention to face Toulouse.
Daly came off for a head injury assessment during the Premiership win over the Tigers, but the utility back is set to face the Top 14 side.
England head coach Eddie Jones has a number of injury problems to contend with ahead of the Six Nations, with Joe Marler the latest to be ruled out for the start of the tournament due to a fractured of his lower leg.


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A rural area in northeast Saskatchewan says it's having a problem with hungry wolves and wants the government's help.
The rural municipality of Porcupine is already paying a $250-a-wolf bounty and some wolves are being trapped, but officials say it's not enough.
No humans have been hurt, but a quick survey of area residents indicates 30 cows and more than 300 calves have been killed by wolves in the past year and a half, according to RM of Porcupine Dean Lanning.
He estimates wolf-related losses have topped $700,000.
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Shyness on the phoneVisitor's Question from a 16-20 year old Male
Ok... So, there's this girl that is in 1 of my class that i like, now. It started out simple enough, she invited me to join google talk by e-mail.(class list) I was planning on doing the same, but w/ skype, she dl'd skype and we socalized. Then her mom deleted it so we used google talk. Then, i got msn 4 her cuz she didn't care for google talk. Days into msn messenger, she asked me who i liked. I thought about it and realized it was her. So, cuz im shy, i told her i"had to go". the next day on msn she asked again. I stalled trying to get a new reason and asked her who she liked. Not a good answer, then she asked again and i told her i liked her. Then, i asked if she liked me, she told me that she did but was afraid of what her friends would say. So, another day she said i should call her. Once again, im shy, she understood, but i told her id call when i got a cell phone or courage. later, she was asking about if ive ever kissed anyone before or if id been cheated on, both no. Then i asked her, she'd been cheated on a few years back. next, she wanted to no if id kiss her to win a bet 4 her. the next day, she said at the time she probably wanted to kiss but not anymore, she thinks. on top of that, she and i were im'ing and somehow me lying to her came up, which really upset me and i got very stressed. i got upset because i was not my normal nice, happy self. Then i started getting suspicious and wanting to hurt her, never did but hated myself for my thoughts. Two days later, she helped settle me down, by talking, go figure. But, i was so worked up that i sent email that was incrediblly emotional and involved lots of me being sorry before we im'd. When she checked email she sent one saying i was emo. But, we never stopped having feelings for each other through any of this. She is busy til 8-9pm on week days ectect. The odd thing is that at first she wanted the candy i carry, but now she likes me for me. Plus, she said she felt bad for leading me on and thought she was being mean, i don't think she was.
Now, whats your thoughts, does she like me as more than a friend? what can i do about phone shyness? How can she become less selfconcious? Also, is there any other advice you think would help?
(if possible could the advice be more friend to friend than what ive seen as textbook answers.)
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Your best bet is to establish how you two feel about each other right now. It seems clear that you like her but does she like you? She said she was leading you on and being mean... what was she talking about... ask her.
Phone shyness. The key is to care about the other person, what they are thinking, what they are feeling. Whenever they say something interesting ask them what they meant by that. Write down a long list of things to talk about in case you come up dry. This could include school, teachers, pets, family, holidays, classes, music, cable, past loves, plans for the future, friends, etc.
Is she self-conscious? Nothing you said leads me to believe that she is. But if she is, the way to help her is to be ready to talk about *anything* ... talk about what you are thinking and feeling and ask her what she is feeling and thinking. Just as an example... you must be thinking and feeling something about this email I'm sending you. Imagine talking to her about it and describing your feelings and thoughts. It isn't all that hard is it?
My last advice is to laugh and have a good time. That's some of the best times you'll have in your life.
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Hello all!! I'm SO EXCITED to show you the fun little project I've been working on over the past week or so. Well, the space is little, the work was not. 😉
The idea for this project came to me over time…the first idea was to just replace the wire shelving in a closet off the playroom with wood shelves and then paint the inside a fun color. I picked out the paint forever ago to do just that….and it sat. And sat.
As time went on (and I avoided building those shelves week after week), another idea came to me that I liked SO much better. I mentioned before that we weren't using this closet anymore (thank you decrapification!) – so it was just calling out for something FUN.
And fun it is. 🙂
I have this thing about nooks – I just think they are the coolest. I think kids are drawn to small spaces too. I know I was growing up – a space to read, play, dream, whatever. We don't have many nooks in this open floor plan house, so when I got this idea I was in luuurve with it before I even started. 😉
I began with the help of an electrician – which we were going to do anyway because we have no lights in our closets. (I'm hoping to add them here and there over time.)
I saw the end result in my head, and in my head there was an adorable lantern/outdoor-type light. When I found the light that was in my head at Menards a couple of months ago, well…it was meant to be:
The fact that it was only $12 made it even better. 😉 WHOO!
(I did some research and asked a few electricians to make sure the outdoor light would be OK installed inside – all said it was fine.)
Once the lighting was taken care of, I started the building process. I wasn't sure where to start, so I did what any good DIY gal does – I called Dad. 😉
He talked me through it and then left me to try it. All by my lonesome. Did I mention I've never built anything like this (on my own)?
I wasn't sure it was going to work, but I went for it! I started with a bottom shelf:
And once that one was done, I did the next one, which was the actual bench:
I was totally winging it, but it was working! And I was using only scrap wood from other projects. About half way in, I was challenging myself to keep it up and see if I could do the whole bench without buying anything for it. And I did. 🙂
The top was a bunch of scrap pieces:
Which was OK, because I was going to cover it with a cushion, which I threw together with scrap particle board and foam:
And finally, I created some shelves:
And when I was done, the cutie patoot book nook was born!:
Shut the front door – I LOVE IT. I think it may be my new favorite room in the house!
Well, favorite nook in the house:
I had planned on closing off the bottom part, and making it look like a built-in bench, but then I realized it could be great extra storage. And it works perfectly for those big honkin' books.
I considered a curtain of some sort, but I'm leaving it be. I love having it open…for now. We'll see how if it stays this organized. 😉
And originally I planned on making the board go vertically, but because I'm
lazy inventive OK, lazy…I made them horizontal to hide most of the holes from the wire shelves:
I covered most of the holes with those boards. SCORE!
The bookshelves fit perfectly in the little recess inside the closet:
It was that little recess that started my mind rolling on this project. 😉 (The door used to open out to that side, and I'm guessing that's why there's extra space there.)
You might notice the light changes a bit throughout the pictures – I had the electrician install a dimmer (first one in this house I haven't put in myself!) so we could keep it low as a nightlight (since the door is staying off) or up high for reading.
I painted the walls and ceiling above the molding with a beautiful deep blue/green color I found at Lowe's:
I picked this color out months ago to work with the new drapes in the playroom, and it's so so SO pretty.
I wanted to create a little space for the Bub to get away and dream, and I think I accomplished it:
The fact that it's new storage for half of his books is just a bonus. 🙂
And I'll admit it…I'm dreamin' in it too:
I'll share the whole process of how I did everything in the closet later this week – the bench, shelves, paint, cushion, costs — all of it. There were little things that tripped me up here and there and I'll show you how I dealt with them.
We all love this little space so much. 🙂 Hope you enjoyed the tour of our new favorite nook!


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STL (file format)
STL is a file format native to the stereolithography CAD software created by 3D Systems. This file format is supported by many other software packages; it is widely used for rapid prototyping and computer-aided manufacturing. STL files describe only the surface geometry of a three dimensional object without any representation of color, texture or other common CAD model attributes. The STL format specifies both ASCII and binary representations. Binary files are more common, since they are more compact.
An STL file describes a raw unstructured triangulated surface by the unit surface normal and vertices (ordered by the right-hand rule) of the triangles using a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.
An ASCII STL file begins with the line:
solid name
where name is an optional string. The file continues with any number of triangles, each represented as follows:
facet normal n1 n2 n3 outer loop vertex v11 v12 v13 vertex v21 v22 v23 vertex v31 v32 v33 endloop endfacet
where n1-n3 and v11-v33 are floating point numbers in sign-mantissa'e'-sign-exponent format and concludes with:
endsolid name
The structure of the format suggests that other possibilities exist (eg Facets with more than one 'loop' or loops with other than three vertices) but in practice, all facets are simple triangles.
White space (spaces, tabs, newlines) may be used anywhere in the file except within numbers or words. The spaces between 'facet' and 'normal' and between 'outer' and 'loop' are required.
Binary STL
Because ASCII STL files can become very large, a binary version of STL exists. A binary STL file has an 80 character header (which is generally ignored - but which should never begin with 'solid' because that will lead most software to assume that this is an ASCII STL file). Following the header is a 4 byte unsigned integer indicating the number of triangular facets in the file. Following that is data describing each triangle in turn. The file simply ends after the last triangle.
Each triangle is described by twelve floating point numbers: three for the normal and then three for the X/Y/Z coordinate of each vertex - just as with the ASCII version of STL. After the twelve floats there is a two byte unsigned 'short' integer that is the 'attribute byte count' - in the standard format, this should be zero because most software does not understand anything else.
Floating point numbers are represented as IEEE floating point numbers and the endianness is assumed to be little endian although this is not stated in documentation.
Colour in Binary STL
There are at least two variations on the binary STL format for adding colour information:
The VisCAM and SolidView software packages use the two 'attribute byte count' bytes at the end of every triangle to store a 15 bit RGB colour:
- bit 0 to 4 are the intensity level for blue (0 to 31)
- bits 5 to 9 are the intensity level for green (0 to 31)
- bits 10 to 14 are the intensity level for red (0 to 31)
- bit 15 is 1 if the colour is valid
- bit 15 is 0 if the colour is not valid (as with normal STL files)
The Materialise Magics software does things a little differently. It uses the 80 byte header at the top of the file to represent the overall colour of the entire part. If colour is used, then somewhere in the header should be the ASCII string "COLOR=" followed by four bytes representing Red, Green, Blue and Alpha channel (transparency) in the range 0-255. This is the colour of the entire object unless overridden at each facet. The per-facet colour is represented in the two 'attribute byte count' bytes as follows:
- bit 0 to 4 are the intensity level for red (0 to 31)
- bits 5 to 9 are the intensity level for green (0 to 31)
- bits 10 to 14 are the intensity level for blue (0 to 31)
- bit 15 is 1 if this facet has its own unique colour
- bit 15 is 0 if the per-object colour is to be used (or no colour at all if the "COLOR=" string is absent from the header.
The red/green/blue ordering within those two bytes is reversed in these two approaches - so whilst these formats could easily have been compatible the reversal of the order of the colours means that they are not - and worse still, a generic STL file reader cannot automatically distinguish between them. There is also no way to have facets be selectively transparent because there is no per-facet alpha value - although in the context of current rapid prototyping machinery, this is not important.
The Facet Normal
In both ASCII and binary versions of STL, the facet normal should be a unit vector pointing outwards from the solid object. In most software this may be set to (0,0,0) and the software will automatically calculate a normal based on the order of the triangle vertices using the 'right hand rule'. Some STL loaders (eg the STL plugin for Art of Illusion) check that the normal in the file agrees with the normal they calculate using the right hand rule and warn you when it does not. Other software may ignore the facet normal entirely and use only the right hand rule. So in order to be entirely portable one should provide both the facet normal and order the vertices appropriately - even though it is seemingly redundant to do so.
History of use
Stereolithography machines are basically 3D printers that can build any volume shape as a series of slices. Ultimately these machines require a series of closed 2D contours that are filled in with solidified material as the layers are fused together.
The natural file format for such a machine would be a series of closed polygons corresponding to different Z-values. However, since it's possible to vary the layer thicknesses for a faster though less precise build, it seemed easier to define the model to be built as a closed polyhedron that could be sliced at the necessary horizontal levels.
The STL file format appears capable of defining a polyhedron with any polygonal facet, but in practice it's only ever used for triangles, which means that much of the syntax of the file is superfluous. It is also the case that the value of the normal shouldn't be necessary, since that is a direct calculation from the coordinates of the triangle with the orientation being controlled by the right hand rule.
STL files are supposed to be closed and connected like a combinatorial surface, where every triangular edge is part of exactly two triangles, and not self-intersecting. Since the syntax does not enforce this property, it can be ignored for applications where the closedness doesn't matter.
The closedness only matters insofar as the software which slices the triangles requires it to ensure that the resulting 2D polygons are closed. Sometimes such software can be written to clean up small discrepancies by moving endpoints of edges that are close together so that they coincide. The results are not predictable, but it is often sufficient to get the job done.
Obviously, there is much scope for "improvement" of this file format, which in its present form is nothing more than a listing of groups of 9 (or 12 if you care about the normals) floating point numbers embedded in some unnecessary syntax. Since each vertex is on average going to be used in six different triangles, considerable savings in memory could be obtained by listing all the points in a table at the beginning of the file, and concluding with a list of triangle definitions composed of triplets of integers that referenced this table.
However, for the purpose of generating a single contour slice using a very lightweight piece of software on a computer with little memory, this format is perfect since it can be processed in one pass regardless of file size.
Use in other fields.
Many Computer-aided design systems are able to output the STL file format among their other formats because it's quick and easy to implement, if you ignore the connection criteria of the triangles. Many Computer-aided manufacturing systems require triangulated models as the basis of their calculation.
Since an STL file output, of a sorts, is almost always available from the CAD system, it's often used as a quick method for importing the necessary triangulated geometry into the CAM system.
It can also be used for interchanging data between CAD/CAM systems and computational environments such as Mathematica.
Once it works, there is very little motivation to change, even though it is far from the most memory and computationally efficient method for transferring this data. Many integrated CAD and CAM systems transfer their geometric data using this accidental file format, because it's impossible to go wrong.
There are many other file formats capable of encoding triangles available, such as VRML, DXF, but they have the disadvantage that it's possible to put things other than triangles into it, and thus produce something ambiguous or unusable.
See also
- RepRap is an OpenSource project that uses STL file input and generates solid objects as output.
- PLY (file format) is an alternative file format with more flexibility that is in use in some stereolithography applications.
- MeshLab is an open source Windows and Linux application for visualizing, processing and converting three dimensional meshes to or from the STL file format.
External links
- The STL Format - Standard Data Format for Fabbers: The STL Format
- How to Create an STL file Guide to exporting STL files from various CAD packages (courtesy of ProtoCAM)
- SolidView SolidView is a commercial STL manipulation package that has a Lite version available (under provision of a business email address) for STL viewing.
- Freesteel with a web-interface where you can upload an STL file and render it into an image in your browser.
- ADMesh is a GPLed text-based program for processing triangulated solid meshes, and reads and writes the STL file format.
- Back to the Format Registry


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