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text: Following an outstanding career with the NBA's Boston Celtics, James Loscutoff enjoyed tremendous coaching career as Boston State College's men's basketball mentor from 1964-76. The former University of Oregon star was the most successful basketball coach in school history, compiling an impressive 219-92 record over 12 seasons for a .704 winning percentage. Loscutoff suffered his only losing season, going 8-12 as a rookie coach in 1964-65, but quickly made Boston State into one of the best programs in the region with a 23-5 mark the following season. He directed the Warriors to nine seasons of 18 or more wins, including five campaigns of 20-plus. A professor for 17 years at Boston State, his teams found the national spotlight on more than one occasion, making an appearance in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) national tournament in 1967 and another NAIA berth in 1972. Losky led Boston State to an 18-8 mark for the 1969-70 season and was offered to coach the NBA's fledgling Portland Trailblazers, but elected to stay at BSC and coached the Warriors to their first ever New England State Athletic Conference title the following season. He wrapped up his Boston State coaching career with a pair of NCAA tournament appearances, while posting a combined 45-9 record in his final two seasons of coaching. Prior to his arrival to Huntington Avenue, Loscutoff put together a legendary career with the Celtics, helping the Green to seven world championships in a span of nine seasons after being drafted in the first round by the Celts in 1955. His retired jersey currently hangs from the rafters of the Boston Garden.


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Today is my 29th birthday, and it's hard not to be overwhelmed and humbled by all the good things in my life right now. I have a loving and supportive husband, a warm and happy home, plenty of my favorite foods to eat, good friends, a good church, and 150 copies of my newly printed book scattered across the living room floor.
To be honest, there have been moments today when I've felt the increasingly familiar pangs of survivor's guilt. I can't help but consider the fact that due to the (largely uncontrollable) circumstances of my birth, I will spend the day celebrating while roughly 24,000 children under the age of five die from preventable, treatable diseases.
It can be hard sometimes to strike a balance between thankfulness and outrage.
In fact, sometimes I think it should be harder.
For the longest time, I figured I'd take my 29th birthday to make a list of 30 things I wanted to accomplish before I turned 30. But if I've learned anything over the past few weeks it's been that accomplishments in and of themselves are not ultimately fulfilling. Rather, it is the intangible, immeasurable things you pick up along the way that make all the difference—relationships, moments of clarity, fruits of the spirit.
What's most beautiful about these things is that they are accessible to all people—the rich and the poor, the educated and the unlearned, the privileged and the marginalized.
In fact, sometimes I think they are even more accessible to "the least of these."
So rather than focusing on 30 accomplishments I would like to achieve, I think I'll focus on 9 character traits I would like to develop over the next year. Something tells me I'll be working on these long after I pass my 30th birthday:
1. Love: I want my default setting to be an attitude of mercy, forgiveness, and love rather than one of self-preservation and entitlement.
2. Joy: I want to tap into that ever-present source of infinite joy by stopping long enough to find it in the little things—the bird's next in my carport, the Book of Common Prayer, long talks with good friends, the sound of Dan breathing (but not snoring!) next to me in bed at night.
3. Peace: I want to repair that broken relationship I've been neglecting for so long.
4. Patience: I want to learn to revel in the in between, not just survive.
5. Kindness: I want to consider how my everyday decisions affect people around the world, and change even my favorite habits should respect for my fellow human beings compel me to do so.
6. Goodness: I want to speak as well about other people when they are not around as when they are in my presence.
7. Faithfulness: I want to help build a church that my children can be a part of.
8. Gentleness: I want to speak less and listen more.
9. Self-Control: I want to practice mindfulness in what I consume.
What about you? What character trait would you like to develop over the next year?
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Zoology The respiratory organ of most aquatic animals that obtain oxygen from water, consisting of a filamentous structure of vascular membranes across which dissolved gases are exchanged.
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- the respiratory organ of aquatic animals. External gills, as in tadpoles, are produced by the embryonic ECTODERM; internal gills, as in fish, are developed from the pharynx and are thus endodermal (see ENDODERM). Gills are usually well supplied with blood vessels, and interchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place across the extensive surface area (see COUNTERCURRENT EXCHANGE). Gills also occur in many invertebrates, for example, in insects such as the caddis fly larva and molluscs such as oysters. Occasionally, unusual structures act as gills, for example, the walls of the rectum in certain dragonfly nymphs, water being pumped in and out via the anus.
- the spore-carrying lamellae in basidiomycete fungi, located underneath the cap or 'pileus'.
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an infectious disease of aquarium and salmonid species of fish caused by Flavobacterium bronchiophila. Also in Crassostrea angulata caused by an iridovirus and in larval shrimp caused usually by a Leucothrix spp. bacterium. Chronic, proliferative inflammation causes the gill filaments to be swollen and may be clubbed or fused. Called also bacterial gill disease.
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the following external parasites are commonly found on the gills, and elsewhere on the skin, in aquarium fish: Gyrodactylus elegans—a monogenetic fluke; Diplozoon barbi, D. paradoxum—monogenetic flukes; Ergasilus sieboldi—crustaceans. Freshly caught seahorses may carry the crustacean Argulus spp. Pond fish may carry the anchor worm Lernaea spp. These are all visible with the naked eye and can be removed manually.


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Former Liverpool full-back Julian Dicks was perhaps the first to try his luck, with only moderate success, but Stephen Grant is making a rather better fist of swapping the football field for the fairways.
Dicks was soon forced to call time on his career change after a troublesome knee injury flared up, but it was a lower back problem which first prompted Grant to hang up his football boots and try to find fame and fortune on the professional golfing circuit instead.
At last week's ALLIANZ Côtes d'Armor Bretagne on the Challenge Tour, the 35 year old opened with a round of 67 before high winds in northern France blew his title tilt off track.
After such a bright start Grant was understandably disappointed with his final finish of tied 37th, but the Irishman still took plenty of encouragement from a performance which vindicated his decision to switch sports.
Before his premature retirement in 2004, Grant enjoyed a productive playing career as a striker in both his native land and across the Irish Sea in England, where he enjoyed spells with Sunderland and Burnley.
His career was bookended with two spells at Shamrock Rovers where, after scoring on his debut against Bohemians in 1996, he returned five years later and ended his playing days on a high as the club's leading scorer in the 2003/2004 season.
Grant recalled: "I had ten good years as a footballer, and enjoyed every one of them. The thing I miss most is probably the training, because it's a lot of fun. It's also handy having ten other players on the team to bail you out if you're having a bad day!
"Whereas golf is obviously an individual sport, so it's down to you and you only. Plus there's a bit less camaraderie and you also spend a lot longer practising, so it can be quite a lonely experience at times. But I've no regrets, because I'm really enjoying testing myself out here."
As a latecomer to the game – he only picked up a golf club for the first time eight years ago – Grant is understandably keen to make up for lost time.
Grant, who will be largely reliant on sponsors' invitations to compete on the Challenge Tour this term, is hopeful of performing well enough in his occasional appearances to secure full playing privileges for next season.
He said: "I was completely out of my depth when I turned pro only three years after touching a golf club for the first time. So I got some experience on the EPD Tour, played pretty well and was up near the top of the Order of Merit for most of the season. Then I travelled over to the States and spent a season on the Hooters Tour last year, which was another great learning experience for me.
"I think I probably jumped into the game too quickly, and expected too much of myself. Now that I've got a lot more experience to draw on, it should hopefully stand me in good stead this season and going forward.
"After I turned pro I was probably only making about 30 per cent of cuts. But over the last two or three years I think I've only missed three cuts in more than 50 events. So even though I haven't managed to win a tournament yet, I've improved my consistency massively. I just want to keep playing and keep improving, and hopefully within the next couple of years I'll make it onto The European Tour."
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Intimately connected to New York City, Vincent Garnier has dedicated a new series to it, full of contrasts and reflections. With his trusty Leica M9 in hand, the artist once again travelled to the biggest city in the United States in order to capture its incessant energy, both by day and by night. His multiple shots establish a panorama of symbolic sites of the global metropolis, such as Times Square, the Hudson River, its numerous bridges and towering skyscrapers. The predominance of colour virtually became the theme of the series. Phosphorescent lights emanate from the city?s architecture and reflect on the water or the façades of buildings. Lit up in this way, New York seems almost unreal, but according to the photographer, never truly exotic: it offers many points of identification that guide the visitor, filled with wonder at such monumental sites.Certificate of authenticityWe, the undersigned YellowKorner, certify that the photograph entitled« Resonance » is an authentic work of Vincent Garnier.Edition YellowKorner individually numbered.This photograph is numbered :This photograph is developed by a professional laboratory and handly checked.www.YellowKorner.comRead more Read less
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I once read a piece about the merits of exhibiting in a trade show, and it's stuck with me for more than 15 years. The material can be applied to visiting a trade show as well as exhibiting at one. The author, Steve Miller, president of The Adventure LLC, presented a series of calculations to indicate the financial success of exhibiting at a show. I was intrigued by the hypothetical situation he described that seemed reasonable and logical.
It starts by multiplying the total number of hours a show will be open by the number of salespeople working the booth. If the show will be open 8 hr/day for three days, and you two salespeople will attend, you'll rack up a total of 48 person-hours. Okay so far. You then multiply this figure by the number of prospects you expect each salesperson to garner each hour. Steve suggested six leads per person per hour, which seems excessive to me, but even if two is used, the final result is still impressive.
If we use the suggested 6/hr, we would finish the show with 288 qualified leads (48 X 6). Now, if an average of 10% of a company's qualified leads result in a sale, and we multiply this figure (we'll round it down to 28) by the average annual sales per customer, and the average number of years a customer stays with the company, we'll end up with a total return on the investment for exhibiting at the show.
Steve's hypothetical example assumes average annual sales per customer at $5,000, and that the average customer lasts 10 years. Our end result, then, would be $1.4 million generated by exhibiting at the show (28 X $5,000 X 10) .Even 1 1/2 leads/hr would return $350,000.
Perhaps a similar type of extrapolation can be applied to attending a trade show. You invest your time away from work plus travel expenses. What you gain are ideas from dozens of exhibitors gathered in a single place. You can:
* compare one vendor's apples to another's
* look for solutions to current problems, and even look for better solutions to problems you've already solved
* learn how application problems similar to yours— but from other industries — were solved (opportunities to share ideas with colleagues may occur relatively often, but trade shows present an opportunity to cross-pollinate problems and solutions between industries), and
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Jaffa residents ired over lack of Arab street names
By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz – 16 Nov 2009
The municipal committee in Tel Aviv that is responsible for naming streets was due to convene last week to discuss complaints of discrimination from residents of Jaffa, but the meeting was postponed due to illness. As the date for the discussion approached, the residents had expressed the hope that several decades of injustice would be redressed and that some of their streets would be renamed for Arab personalities. They claimed they could not understand how, in a part of the city where half of the population is Arab, and which has some 400 streets, only five are named after Arabs.
One is named for Abd al-Ghani Karim, an Arab resident of the city who was killed in a terrorist attack in March 1992 next to the garage he managed. He tried to defend Ilanit Ohana, a young woman who was stabbed when returning from a Purim party; she died on the spot and he later died of his wounds.
Another street is named after the mayor of Jaffa, before it became part of Tel Aviv: Abd al-Rauf al-Bitar. There are also streets named for historical figures such as renowned philosophers Ibn Rushd (12th century) and Ibn Sina (or Avicenna, 10th century).
Residents of Jaffa are convinced there are many Arab figures worthy of having streets named after them, and accuse the municipality of an undeclared intention to Judaize the entire mixed city. The straw that broke the camel's back was the intention to name a new road in Jaffa's Ajami quarter after Shmuel and Sultana Tagger, who helped found Tel Aviv.
Prior to that, Arab residents had requested that it be named for a venerated imam, Sheikh Bassem Abu Zied, who died last year.
Residents had also called for the square next to the clock tower at the entrance to Jaffa to be named after Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat; instead, the municipality named it for a philanthropist, Yossi Carmel.
"I wanted this to be a square of peace named after two brave leaders who forged the first peace in the Middle East. I thought that perhaps it would be nice to set up electronic machines there, where you put in a coin and hear parts of their speeches. It would be possible for tourists to take pictures and be photographed, and to buy souvenirs. Do you know what that would do for business here in Jaffa, what it would do for the country?" says Ahmed Masharawi, a member of the city council from the Meretz party, who is spearheading the campaign to have streets named for Arabs.
Previous requests rejected
Previous requests for Arab names, submitted to the municipal committee, have all been rejected. In some instances, the panel did research the proposed personalities but found problematic details, such as involvement in the Arab rebellion in the 1930s.
More than two years ago, the committee decided to name streets after leading Arab figures including writer and former communist MK, Emil Habibi; Adil Azar, who lived in Jaffa a century ago and was known as "mother of the poor"; historian Ibn Khaldun; and poet Jubran Khalil Jubran. Menahem Rabin, a member of the committee, proposed naming streets for Haroun al-Rashid, from "A Thousand and One Nights," and for the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz.
Meanwhile, however, the municipality has not taken any action. Residents of Jaffa thought there would be progress in light of Tel Aviv's 100th anniversary celebrations this year, but they have been bitterly disappointed.
"When Shlomo Lahat was mayor, he pushed the idea forward," said Rabia al-Ghani, 31, who lives on the street named for his late father. He added that what really bothers him is not so much the lack of commemoration of Arab notables, but rather the quality of life in Jaffa.
"In the last month I have killed eight mice in our house. There are burrows where the rodents live under the sidewalks. There are no proper entrances to this road and no road humps to slow the traffic. Drivers enter at high speed, with their stereo sets blaring so loudly that the walls practically fall down. That's what happens when no one invests in our roads," he said.
A few weeks ago, a contractor arrived and put up a huge sign for new apartments on the street, with the emphasis on "luxury dwellings." Al-Ghani knows that means his new neighbors will have to be wealthy, so perhaps, he said, the municipality will finally have to fix the road and get rid of the mice.


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Starting with a given simple, directed Graph G, I define a two-edge swap as:
- select two edges u->v and x->y such that (u!=x) and (v!=y) and (u!=y) and (x!=v)
- delete the two edges u->v and x->y
- add edges u->y and x->v
Is it guaranteed that I can reach any simple directed graph with the original (in- and out-) degree sequence in some finite number of 2-edge swaps?
If we need some sort of 3-edge swaps, what are they?
Background: I intend to use this as MCMC steps to sample random graphs, but over at the Networkx Developer site, there is a discussion that Theorem 7 of the paper P Erdos et al., "A simple Havel–Hakimi type algorithm to realize graphical degree sequences of directed graphs", Combinatorics 2010 implies that we need 3-edge swaps to sample the whole space.


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Hypatia Sans Pro Now Available for Purchase
When Thomas Phinney announced via this blog three years ago that his typeface family was "available," he left us with a bit of a cliffhanger by telling us that the italics would be forthcoming. Today I can tell you that the wait for the complete family is over. The roman and italic fonts can now be purchased online from our type showroom. We will be offering all of the faces as individual font sales, or available in two packages – one which includes the full family and another which offers only the italics. The package offering only the italics is offered at a special discount of $55 for all the italic fonts (versus $35 per font) and is intended for customers who received Hypatia as a registration incentive and only want the italic faces.
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VUHS softball semifinal postponed to Saturday
VERGENNES — The clash between the No. 2 seed Vergennes Coomodores and the No. 3 BFA-Fairfax Bullets was cancelled today and rescheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, June 14, at 5 p.m. at Vergennes Union High School.
The game had been already moved from Tuesday to Wednesday at Fairfax's request because the school had a graduation ceremony for its technical students and a home baseball playoff game both already scheduled on Tuesday. Then the game on Wednesday was suspended in the bottom of the first inning because it was raining so hard. The Commodores were winning at that point, 2-0.
The game was postponed again on Thursday and Friday because of the weather. But clear skies are forecast for Saturday.
The game will be resumed onSaturday exactly as it ended on Wednesday when umpires halted play due to the weather, with Commodore runners on first and second and nobody out.
The winner of the semifinal between the 16-2 Commodores and 17-0 defending champion Bullets will face No. 5 Otter Valley for the D-II title on Monday at a time to be announced at the Poultney Recreation Field.


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Second suspect arrested in WWII vet's death
(CNN) — The killing shocked and saddened the nation. Hours after World War II vet Delbert Belton died following a brutal beating during a botched robbery, police Chief Frank Straub Jr. vowed that police in Spokane, Washington, would find the second of two teens believed responsible for his death.
Early Monday, Straub's investigators made good on that promise, tracking 16-year-old Kenan Adams-Kinard down and taking him into custody without incident around 3 a.m., police spokeswoman Monique Cotton said.
Several others with him were arrested for rendering criminal assistance, she said.
Authorities named Adams-Kinard during the search for him even though he is a juvenile, saying "he represents … an actual danger to the community." Authorities have not released the name of the first suspect, who was taken into custody last week.
Police arrested Adams-Kinard on suspicion of first-degree murder and first-degree robbery. It was unclear when he would make his first court appearance.
Police found Belton on the ground Wednesday night in the parking lot outside the Eagles Lodge, where he had been waiting to go bowling with a friend.
The Spokane County Medical Examiner's Office determined he had died of blunt facial and head injuries.
Police called it a botched robbery, and said race did not appear to play a role in the attack, despite public speculation to the contrary.
Coming just days after an Australian baseball player died in a shooting that police said was conceived by three teenagers out of boredom, Belton's death shocked with its apparent brutality and random nature, and left friends and family wondering why it happened.
"He didn't drive a big fancy car. He didn't dress in expensive clothes. He didn't have a lot of money," Belton's daughter-in-law, Barbara Belton, told CNN's Alina Machado last week. "What did they think they were going to get from this man?"
Belton, a retired aluminum company worker, was wounded during a battle on the Pacific Ocean island of Okinawa while fighting in World War II.
He was affectionately known to friends as "Shorty" because of his diminutive height.
"He was awesome," Lillian Duncan told The Spokesman-Review newspaper. "Anybody that didn't get to know him missed out on a wonderful angel in their life."
CNN's Chuck Johnston and Mayra Cuevas contributed to this report.
By CNN Staff
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Obamacare minor subject for schools
When children return to school a few weeks from now, don't expect to find Obamacare forms stuffed inside their backpacks.
Supporters of the health law see back-to-school season as a natural time for Obamacare outreach, a chance to find young families who could benefit from new health coverage options. But weeks before the school bells start ringing in parts of the country, there's no concerted effort to reach parents at the schoolhouse door. It's yet another sign of how the undying controversy could overshadow attempts to get people enrolled.
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan told POLITICO this summer that his department has no plans to actively advocate for the health law, only providing help when asked. "No one has asked us," he added.
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More recently a Department of Education spokesman said federal officials are sending out brochures from the Department of Health and Human Services. They are also working with "state and local partners" on written and online materials, and one aspect they want to stress is that Obamacare's preventive health benefits would be particularly important to children and families.
But schools at this point aren't a nationwide focal point of outreach and enrollment. The National PTA isn't gearing up either. "National PTA does not have any plans to assist in the dissemination of information about the Affordable Care Act," said spokeswoman Abiah Weaver.
( PHOTOS: 25 unforgettable Obamacare quotes)
And the big sign-up campaign from Enroll America, an organization of Obamacare allies and health law stakeholders, hasn't focused on schools, at least not as of now.
States or school districts can act on their own; Los Angeles, for instance, is training some high school juniors and seniors how to be Obamacare messengers to their families and communities. But the lack of a national strategy is just one more sign of how hard it is for the administration and its allies to focus on health benefits, not health politics, as Obamacare enrollment nears. And the Republicans have made it clear that they don't want the schools to go anywhere near the controversial health law.
"What authority does the Department of Education have to disseminate information and assist with the implementation of the president's health care law?" Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), a former Education secretary, and other GOP senators wrote Duncan in July. "How do the Department of Education's activities further the education of our nation's students?"
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Alexander says school administrators and teachers are already overwhelmed with education mandates from Washington. "They don't need another one, especially not one that's outside of their mission as educators, and one for which Congress hasn't appropriated any funds," he said in a recent statement to POLITICO.
Nobody working on the law's implementation is ruling out more school-based activity as the fall gets underway; enrollment in Obamacare's online health exchanges doesn't start until October and it lasts through March. But the lack of outreach dismays advocates who say schools have unique connections to families who could most benefit from the health law.
Schools already reach out to students and families for two other health entitlements: Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. And it's maddeningly easy, the advocates contend, to slip Obamacare insurance enrollment information into the packets that parents receive at the start of the school year.
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"Putting a piece of paper into the packet … is not a big deal," said Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus, an advocacy group for children. "I haven't heard of any national, organized context for it the way we've really been successful at with Medicaid and CHIP."


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On the evening of the 2000 presidential election, as the vote counting stretched late into the night, a weary Dick Cheney slipped into his hotel room in Austin to lie down. But his rest was soon interrupted when word arrived that Al Gore had just conceded. Cheney was awakened and told, albeit prematurely, that he had just been elected vice president.
But who woke him up?
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In his memoir, In My Time, Cheney recalls being roused with the news of Gore's concession by his daughter, Liz Cheney.
Mary Cheney, Liz's sister, remembers it differently in her book, Now It's My Turn. She writes that their mother, Lynne Cheney, was the one who stirred the future vice president.
Nick Brady, an old friend from the first Bush administration who was in the hotel suite that night, recalls being the one to interrupt Cheney's repose. And then there is Alan Simpson, the former Wyoming senator and longtime Cheney friend, who believes he was the waker. "Get up, bastard!" he remembers calling out. "You're the vice president of the United States."
The disparate memories of that night take on a little more meaning these days as the Cheney clan and its friends fracture over gay rights. While supportive of her lesbian sister when Mary thought about quitting the 2004 campaign because of Bush's support for a ban on same-sex marriage, Liz Cheney, now running for Senate in Wyoming, says she opposes legal recognition of such unions. Mary Cheney and her wife, Heather Poe, have implied Liz never used to be against it and in fact welcomed their marriage. Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, have weighed in to affirm that Liz has indeed always stood against same-sex marriage. But Simpson, increasingly estranged from the family, says Liz is doing whatever it takes to win an election.
The conflicting accounts underscore the challenge in reconstructing the story of any presidency. In both big details and small, the major players often remember events quite differently, sometimes out of obvious self-serving motives but quite often just due to the natural reality of flawed human memories. In writing Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, a history of the last administration told through the prism of the relationship between its two major protagonists, I found that one of the most daunting tasks was trying to reconcile varying versions of what happened when.
Did CIA Director George Tenet give Condoleezza Rice, then Bush's national security adviser, a stark warning about a coming terrorist attack two months before Sept. 11, 2001? Did Bush authorize Cheney in advance to order the military to shoot down any further hijacked planes after the first ones hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? Did Attorney General John Ashcroft agree to reauthorize a controversial surveillance program before changing his mind? When did Bush first broach the idea of an invasion of Iraq?
In coming years, the Bush archives will divulge the papers and emails that may help us set the record straight, but until then, in the course of six years of research, I relied on nearly 400 interviews with about 275 key players, along with notes and other documents they gave me and a bibliography of some 200 books, including a host of I-was-there memoirs. It may be that the Bush-Cheney administration produced more memoirs than any in history. Of course, the major figures all published books, including Bush, Cheney, Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove and Laura Bush, as well as numerous Cabinet secretaries and an array of generals.
But plenty of other lesser-known figures did as well. Not one but two chief speechwriters wrote books, and so did at least two deputy speechwriters. There were books by a deputy national security adviser and a deputy director of faith-based services, not to mention the domestic policy adviser to the vice president, the Pentagon comptroller and the White House chef. The guy who brokered the deal for Bush to install Hamid Karzai as president of Afghanistan wrote a book, as did the guy who brokered the deal to dismantle Muammar al-Qaddafi's weapons program in Libya. So did the guy who couldn't find the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Many of the discrepancies in all these varied accounts can be resolved by repeated interviews with as many people in the room as possible and by understanding that no two people see the same event in quite the same way. Sometimes it is a matter of interpretation. But other times, even seemingly simple math becomes confounding. The Lebanon war of 2006 drove a wedge between Cheney and Rice, but how long did it last? Some newspapers and reports added it up to 33 days, while others came up with 34 days. Even the historians could not agree. One book on the war is titled The 33-Day War. Another is titled 34 Days.
Many of the inconsistencies were over timing. Did outgoing President Bill Clinton call Colin Powell, the new secretary of state, to kvetch about the Palestinians on the day of Bush's inauguration (as Karen DeYoung writes in Soldier, her critically acclaimed biography of Powell) or the day before (as Patrick Tyler says in his definitive history of Middle East policymaking, A World of Trouble)? Did Bush tell Vladimir Putin that the Taliban unraveled "like a cheap suit" after the fall of Mazar-e Sharif (as the former president recalls in Decision Points) or after the fall of Kabul (as Rice recalls in No Higher Honor)? Did Bush ask Powell to give his ill-fated Iraq presentation to the United Nations on Jan. 30, 2003 (as Powell writes in It Worked for Me) or on Jan. 27 (as DeYoung and news clips from the time indicate)? Did Bush have his decisive meeting approving his PEPFAR program fighting AIDS in Africa on Nov. 18, 2002 (as Michael Gerson, the president's top speechwriter, writes in Heroic Conservatism) or on Dec. 4 (as Jay Lefkowitz, another Bush aide, writes in a history of the program for Commentary magazine)?
Getting it right does matter; in some cases, it even alters the understanding of the event. Lefkowitz recalled the AIDS meeting coming immediately after Bush met with Jewish activists who admired Bush's boldness overseas and told him that had he been president during World War II, he would have saved more Jewish lives; Bush seemed quite moved by the comment, and Lefkowitz believed that the sentiment emboldened him to approve PEPFAR because it was his own way of saving millions of lives overseas. The meeting with the Jewish activists was indeed on Dec. 4.


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Maintenance and common sense are the keys to towing safely
We race. Which means we need to have some sort of tow vehicle and trailer. For most of us, it's a pickup truck and an open or small enclosed trailer. For others, it's a 53-foot semi. They requires a special license and the trailing that goes along with it. For the rest of us without all that training, towing pretty much comes down to common sense. And let's be honest, there are a lot of people on the road with a serious lack of that!
Even though all your on-track experience will, in most cases, make you a better driver on public roads, you still need to worry about everyone around you. Beyond that, regular maintenance and inspections of your truck and trailer can help you be a lot safer on your way to and from the track. The next few pages will cover some of the obvious, and not so obvious things to remember, look for, and inspect each and every time you take your truck and trailer out.
1. Check Tire Pressures
Tire pressures on your truck and/or trailer are usually one of the most common things that go overlooked. This can make for a very dangerous situation. Low tire pressure can lead to excessive heat in the tire, which will lead to a blow out. When your trailer is holding your race car, spare parts, tools, and other equipment, the sheer dollar value of the contents should be reason enough to inspect everything. A blown tire can lead to a loss of control, and you could lose everything.
2. Wiring
Most trailers are stored outside. The exposure to the elements can be very hard on many of the components, especially the wiring. Frayed or broken wires can result in lights that don't work or the loss of brakes. Each is extremely important. Damaged wires should be fixed properly to ensure a solid connection with enough room for the wire to move (if the wire is in motion on the road).
3. Brake Controller
A brake controller is a must for any racer with even a small open car trailer. The combined weight of the trailer and race car can equal the weight of the truck, and the total weight is more than any truck's brakes are designed to handle on its own. A good brake controller will give you the ability to adjust the trailer brakes to help you safely stop your rig. The level of trailer brakes should also be adjusted every time you use the truck and trailer. Keep in mind that the level will depend on the weight of the load and what type of driving you'll be doing.
4. Service Axles
If you use your trailer on a regular basis, the axles should be inspected and serviced on a regular basis as well. The bearings should be greased and the axles checked for alignments. The axle bearings support large amounts of weight, and take a beating on the road. Maintenance is the key for long life.
5. Inspect Hitch and Ball
Your hitch and ball are extremely important, as these are what connect the truck and trailer together. The hitch and receiver support huge loads, and although they are built to be very tough, they should still be inspected for wear and cracks. Trailer balls should be greased regularly to prevent binding, wear, and rust like the one to the left. The ball is how the trailer locks to the truck. If it wears, the truck and trailer could become separated on the road leading to huge problems.
6. Balance Load
Loading your trailer correctly is important. Be sure you have plenty of D-hooks and tie-down points for you car and equipment.
Loading your car and equipment is a very important part of towing safely. The load should be centered over the trailer's axles. If the weight is too far back, it can cause the trailer to sway, which can result in a lack of control at highway speeds. Put the load too far forward and the truck is carrying more of the load than it should. This cause premature wear in shocks, springs, and tires.
7. Proper Strapping
Good quality straps are extremely important. If you see excessive wear or tears in your straps, replace them immediately. Strapping your car and equipment is also extremely important. Be sure the straps are clear and any suspension components or other equipment that could sever a strap. There a couple of schools of thought when it comes to strapping a car. Some people cross straps, which keeps the car straight. While this does keep the car straight, if a strap does brake, the other diagonal strap will pull the car to that side of the trailer. At that point there are essentially no straps keeping the car tied down. If you keep the straps as straight as possible, any one strap can brake the car will stay in place.
8. Brakes
Trailer brakes should be inspected often. What good are having trailer brakes if they don't work? Be sure the shoes are in good shape and all electrical connections are solid. If you trailer through a hilly part of the country, trailer brakes can really be a lifesaver!
9. Lights
Let's be honest, you need the people around you to be able to see you on your way home from the track. It's easy to overlook the lights on your trailer, but you should inspect the marker lights, brake lights, and flashers every time you use your trailer.
10. Safety Chains
In the event your trailer breaks away from your truck, the safety chains are there to catch it. It sounds simple, but most people connect these incorrectly. Safety chains have to be crossed without excessive slack to be effective. When you cross them, they will catch the tongue of the trailer if breaks away. Without the chains crossed, the tongue of the trailer will dig into the ground. This could result in a complete loss of control, and with other drives around you, that's the last thing you want.
11. Tuners
Trailering isn't all about your trailer. Tuners for late-model trucks can give you more power and better fuel efficiency. With the price of fuel as high as it is, any saving you can get at the pump are greatly appreciated!
12. Driving
The biggest safety aspect of trailering is you. You have to drive smart! Tailgating, speeding, or changing lanes too quickly can lead to accidents or damaged equipment because trucks and trailers aren't designed to handle that. Slow down and take your time. Also be sure to drive with plenty of rest. The effects of fatigue are amplified with a trailer behind you. You need to be rested so you can react with plenty of time to whatever may happen on the road.
Be sure to give the structure of your trailer a thorough inspection. If your trailer has suspension, be sure to inspect it regularly. Broken spring shackles like this one to the right can lead to some serious damage!


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I have been entranced by the trailers for Tim Burton's new Alice in Wonderland starring Johnny Depp that opens this Friday, March 5th and I'm sure many of you have as well. As Lewis Carroll's classic returns to our public consciousness, a new edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, gorgeously illustrated by the artist Camille Rose Garcia, is just on sale in a gorgeous hardcover edition. With one look at these illustrations, you'll see how beautiful it is. And I'm thrilled to report that I have three great prize packages to give away in celebration of Alice. The grand prize includes a lithograph of the below illustration signed by Camille Rose Garcia, a copy of the book and an Alice in Wonderland tote bag. Two first prizes include the book and tote bag. To enter to win, comment here about why you love Alice in Wondland. I'll choose the winners randomly on midnight, Thursday March 4th and announce them on Friday, March 5th, the day the film opens.
Browse inside Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, check out the below video where Camille Rose Garcia talks about her creative process, look for her on tour near you, and go here for downloadable Alice wallpaper.


text: Being able to "read" or decode music to learn a complex piece is not the same as sight reading. Sight reading means you can read fluently, accurately, and rhythmically the first time through.There is a series of five sight reading books which are great for reading patterns. They are Sight Reading Short Shorts by Edna Mae Burnam. They present patterns in gently progressive lessons. Each Short Short should be played four times in a row WITHOUT STOPPING at the end of one. Play like they have repeat bars. Start with Book 1, first lesson. Each lesson has two pages, with (if I remember) three Short Shorts on each page. Each one is generally 4 measures long, so playing through four times is 16 measures rhythmically. These are really GREAT for learning to be a good sight reader.


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Scottish Duathlon Champs 2016
March 31st, 2016 by Fraser
2016 is a new year, and this weekend saw me start this new season wearing new racing colours. – I am now a part of the Pewag Racing Team, which is Austrian sponsored and based, but is composed of an international group of 9 professional athletes. I look forward to wearing the kit and promoting the brand in international competition over the coming months.
The Stirling Duathlon has many times been a season opener for me, and as long as I am at home and in the country, I will do my best to race. I might not entirely enjoy the idea of running and biking (and running some more) in the mud, wind, rain, hail and cold… But I'll get on with it😉 Read on …


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Making Lemonade...Cake Pops!
You know how life so often hands us a lemon and we get to figure out how to make it into lemonade? Well, I think this is a great story of just that!
While grocery shopping, I saw a big box of very pretty cupcakes marked down. It was so much less than I could make them for, and I was having company for dinner. I bought them and oh so carefully nestled them into place for the ride home, thinking I'd embellish them in some way to make them special. When I got home, it looked like I had been demolition driving with a heat lamp over them! I knew I should take a picture, but I didn't.
As I looked at them, knowing I didn't want to serve that mess to company, the lemonade solution came to me. What was I seeing? Cake...and frosting.............. CAKE POPS!!!! Why not?
I love this lemonade!
- The big bunny pedestal is a new gift from my daughters from Pier 1. I have been soooooo wanting him to go with my Pottery Barn bunny cupcake pedestal that I've loved for years. I'm so excited to have them and so grateful! Doesn't he look perfect holding the cake pops? They go so perfectly with my daughter's Easter plates that I just found this afternoon. They were among things she never took with her when she moved out. :) It all couldn't have gone together better if I'd planned the entire thing!!!
- The cloche on the cupcake pedestal is from Home Goods.
- The ceramic chick and bunny baskets and matching salt and pepper shakers are Hallmark, bought from Kohl's.
- The tablecloth, (my favorite!) was from Bed, Bath & Beyond.
- The gorgeous crystal chargers were from Hobby Lobby (not actually chargers, but on clearance as the last remaining pieces of three tiered servers). The eggs were paper maché from Hobby Lobby too. I covered some with old book pages and mod podged diamond dust on them, painted some silver, some were left plain and some with only diamond dust. I love them all! A very easy project with a BIG payoff in person! The moss filling the clay pots is from there too.
- The glasses are Libby's Gibraltar from Walmart as are the napkins and candles too.
- The tiny clay pots and the flocked green bunnies were from Michael's.
- I think the Easter plates were from Cracker Barrel.
- The napkin ring roses were from MacRae's.
- The flatware is Oneida's Michelangelo, also gifts from my wonderful daughters!
- That just leaves the white basket weave plates. They were from an outlet store in Nashville that no longer exists.
- The candlesticks were from Service Merchandise and the candles from Walmart.
He's holding pillars we cut from our much loved Bradford Pear tree that fell this time last year. Also, some wild flowers. It went with the spring garden motif of this tablescape.
BTW, If anyone wants to follow me on Instagram, my name is "lynettesphotoart" - LOL, big surprise huh?!?!?!
Thanks for dropping by and hope you enjoyed your glass of lemonade!!! God bless you and yours!


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It is cold, it is windy, in fact it is blowing a gale. Sending an icy chill through to my bones…and I,m not ill (well not physically!)
The patients we,ve been out to for this morning have been subject to those winter ailments expected at this time of year….chest infections, exacerbation of COPD and other associated illnesses.
And all we have to cover them in to keep them warm as we carry them from their nice warm homes to our truck is a small thin white blanket that bears more of a resemblence to a net cutain!
Over the years in the Ambulance Service, we have obtained at quite considerable cost lorry loads of new blankets. Nice big, thick warm blankets that can easily cover the patient and keep them safe from the biting winds and the freezing cold. They have even had the service name printed/embroidered onto them so as to keep track of them. (the blankets not the patients!)
We even bought coloured blankets so that they would not end up on hospital wards or in nursing homes. Vibrant colours like red (hides the blood better), dark green (hides the snot and sputum from chest infections better) and sky blue (for ex Royal Air Force people?)
The thing is….where have they all gone??
And can we have them back please?
Are they all stored in some former patients attic along with all the other bits of essential kit like pillows?
Anyone any ideas where they have all gone to…?


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NCSAM Tip #13: Understanding Operational Security Metrics
Many people often think that information and network security is just about technology and how reliable or sophisticated these technologies are. Additionally, many people ask why after spending tons of money on network and security gear, their network still gets hacked, information is lost and business continuity is disrupted. For example, often questions like these run through their minds: "Am I not buying the right security products? Am I not configuring or deploying them correctly? Do I have the right staff to run my network?"
The lack of credible and relevant network security operational metrics can contribute to this paradigm. The understanding security operational metrics doesn't require classes on Nobel Prize-winning theories or very complicated math that may make the process too complicated to even execute. You have to understand what you are trying to protect and first establish a high level process map via your own research. Use common knowledge a broad survey to validate and identify metrics in each procedure or operational area. For instance, build a set of metrics for things like, but not limited to, the following: Incident Management
- Patch Management
- Device Compliance
- Security Device Monitoring
- Network and Internet Access
- Device Identity Management
- User Identity Management
- User Access
- Application Robustness
- User Security Awareness
These are just some examples, the list can be much longer. The goal is to define a set of subprocesses for each high-level process (or operational area), then build metrics for each sub-process. More importantly, assemble these metrics into a model which can be used to track operational improvement.
I will give some examples of metrics you can collect and examine for each of the processes or operational areas I mentioned.
Operational Metrics for Incident Management
An incident is a chain of events that may signal an attack in your network. It is, of course, very important to have a good methodology to simplify and expedite the detection, mitigation, reporting, and analysis of an incident. All this information can be captured in a case report with a case management tool and escalated to the relevant personnel. So, my question is, how effective are you or your organization in the detection, mitigation, reporting, and analysis of an incident in your network? You should at the very minimum ask the following questions and collect the corresponding metrics.
- How long does it take to identify an event?
- How long does it take to identify an incident?
- How long does it take to contain or mitigate an incident?
Let's look at the following figure:
- To – is the time when an event occurs on the network
- Te – is the time when the event is detected on the network
- Ti – is the time when the event is classified as an incident
- Tc – is the time when the incident is contained on the network
Measure the time that takes your organization for each step and try to understand how to reduce it and be more effective.
Operational Metrics for Patch Management
Everyone understands that patch management is a critical issue. We also understand that every organization must create a consistently environment that is patched or configured against known vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, good and practical solutions aren't often applied as everyone thinks. How do you know how effective you are in patch management, if you do not collect operational metrics that can help you measuring success or identifying gaps in such process.
The following figure summarizes (in a high-level) a typical patch management process.
First a vendor identifies and announces a vulnerability for a product or software. In the case of Cisco, we announce all of our vulnerabilities on the Cisco Security Intelligence Operations portal.
Note: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) — which is my team — creates and maintains publications for security issues that affect Cisco products. For more information, review a description of the types of documents and the issues that they address.
If you are subscribed to receive notifications, you quickly identify all the devices that are affected within your network for that vulnerability/advisory. It is possible that the vendor has identified workarounds that you can implement quickly. You need to identify those workarounds and understand how to apply them in your environment. While a workaround is being placed, you obtain the patch or the fix for that vulnerability. In most cases you do not have a lot of time to test the new software before you deploy that patch or fix in your network. However, once the patch or image is certified, you schedule a maintenance window to roll it out into the production environment.
You will always need to keep up with the vulnerability announcements from the vendors. You can do this by subscribing to RSS, CVE announcements, monitoring aliases such as bugtraq, or any other mechanism that vendors use to notify their customers that a vulnerability exists. Additionally you must have an understanding of what devices are affected within your network so you can easily implement any workaround.
The following are some of the questions you can ask yourself to start building the operational metrics that will help you in patch management:
- How long does it take you to become aware of the new vulnerability announcements from vendors?
- How long does it take to identify affected devices?
- How long does it take to implement workarounds (when available)?
- How long does it take for you to test and implement the fix/patch?
Operational Metrics for Device Compliance
Since we talked about patch management, let me share a few metrics you can collect for device compliance. The first question is:
- Do you have devices that are not using a "certified image/version"?
The biggest risk in running a "non-certified" software version is the exposure to software vulnerabilities. If a new security advisory is released with a highly-critical vulnerability that may even impact hundreds of different products, it will be difficult to identity the impacted devices in a timely fashion. Furthermore, software version control is a best practice while deploying consistent software versions on similar network devices. This improves the chance for validation and testing on the chosen software versions and greatly limits the amount of software defects and interoperability issues found in the network. Limited software versions also reduce the risk of unexpected behavior with user interfaces, command or management output, upgrade behavior and feature behavior. This makes the environment less complex and easier to support. Overall, software version control improves network availability and helps lower reactive support costs.
The following are a few more questions
- What percent of devices are in compliance with certified software images?
- What percent of devices are in compliance with standard configuration templates?
I always recommend creating standard configurations for each device classification, such as routers, switches, firewalls, and any other security or network device. Each standard configuration should contain the global, media, and protocol configuration commands necessary to maintain network consistency, resiliency, and overall security. You can use several global configuration commands or templates in all devices that are alike and include things such as service commands, IP commands, TACACS commands, vty configuration, banners, SNMP configuration, and Network Time Protocol (NTP) configuration. Additionally, make sure to document device
and interface "descriptors". These "descriptors" includes the purpose and location of the interface, other devices or locations connected to the interface, and circuit identifiers. This helps your support and security groups to better understand the scope of problems related to an interface and allows faster resolution of problems, such as security incidents.
Operational Metrics for Monitoring
One of the first steps in the process of preparing your network and staff to successfully identify security threats is achieving complete network visibility. You cannot protect against or mitigate what you cannot view/detect. You can achieve this level of network visibility through existing features on network devices you already have and on devices whose potential you do not even realize. In addition, you should create strategic network diagrams to clearly illustrate your packet flows and where, within the network, you may enable security mechanisms to identify, classify, and mitigate the threat. Remember that network security is a constant war. When defending against the enemy, you must know your own territory and implement defense mechanisms in place.
Security monitoring is similar to network monitoring, except it focuses on detecting changes in the network that may indicate a security incident. You must also understand and identify what the level of monitoring is required based on the threat to a system or network. For instance, a firewall is considered a high-risk network device, which indicates that you should monitor it with high priority. This means that you always should check for things such as failed login attempts, unusual traffic, changes to the firewall, access granted to the firewall, and connections setup through the firewall, etc.
Following this example, create a monitoring policy for each area identified in your risk analysis. It is often recommended monitoring low-risk equipment weekly, medium-risk equipment daily, and high-risk equipment hourly. If you require more rapid detection, monitor on a shorter time frame. However, this all depends on your environment and your staff.
These are some high-level questions that you should always ask when building operational metrics for monitoring and visibility:
- What percent of network and security devices are being successfully remotely monitored?
- What percent of the network is adequately documented?
- What percent of unauthorized data flows are found on firewalls and other networking devices?
- How often do you audit and analyze your network traffic baselines?
Operational Metrics for Network and Internet Access
The following are a few questions that you can use to develop metrics for general Internet and network access.
- What percent of edge interfaces are protected by anti-spoofing mechanisms?
- How often do you audit your firewall rules?
- How often do you audit the configuration of network and security devices that are considered critical?
- What percent of unauthorized data flows are found on the firewalls?
- What percent of devices are logging administrative logins and configuration changes?
- What often do you audit AAA systems for unauthorized users?
- What percent of unauthorized users have attempted access to network infrastructure devices?
Some of these questions tie back to the items I described earlier.
Operational Metrics for Device Identity Management
Device identity is the understanding of what a specific network device is on the network, what is its function and purpose. The following are a few questions that you can use to develop metrics for device identity management.
- What percent of unauthorized devices are on the network?
- How long does it take to locate a device from its IP address in real-time?
- How long does it take to locate a device from its IP address using historical logs?
I invite you to do a quick test within your organization. Ask any network engineer or security engineer those questions. Especially, how long does it take for them to locate a device from its IP address in real-time and by using historical logs. They will provide you some answer (i.e., 5 minutes, 10 minutes, an hour, etc.). Ask them to prove it. You will be surprised with the actual results!
Operational Metrics for User Identity Management
You can ask similar questions to develop metrics for user identity management.
- What percent of unauthorized users are on the network
- How long does it take to identify a user from its IP address in real-time?
- How long does it take to identify a user from its IP address from historical logs?
There's no right or wrong answer for some of these metrics/questions. However, what is important is to understand these metrics and use them develop better processes and procedures to reduce the time that it takes someone to identify a device.
Do you often ask yourself these questions and track similar metrics? Please share what you are currently doing to improve and completely understand operational security metrics.
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Graphic imagry, not for the squeamish.
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The Centaurim at first glance look very much like the typical centaur archetype, that is a human torso complete with head and arms attached to the shoulder of an equine body. This is where similarity to the traditional centaurs end. The joining of the human and equine parts upon closer inspection is artificial, the skin and muscle held in place by stitching of the flesh. If the muscle were flayed away, the grafting continues into the skeletal system. The neck vertebrae of the horse are fused and reinforced to hold the weight of the human torso, while the human spine is also reinforced at the anchor point between the two species' bodies. While the number of horse bloodlines and human races are quite diverse, the Centaurim were manufactured almost exclusively from the Aberthol steppe horse, and the associated Aberthol nomads who rode said horses to tend their herbs of bison and half feral cattle.
The Creation Process
Ideal candidates to become Centaurim are generally the team of an Aberthol Nomad, and his horse. The importance of the horse to said nomads ensures that riders have very strong bonds with their mounts, many being treated better than the wives of the nomads. Once a horse and rider are both captured alive, the process can begin.
The nomad, preserved by life oriented magics, is literally chopped in half just above the pubic bone. The legs, hips, and now redundant viscera are discarded or given to necromantic students to practice on. The horse is given a more gruesome treatment, the life force of the animal bonded to a temporary object. The head and most of the neck vertebrae are removed and the two spines are fused together, though a small range of movement is still allowed by this heavy joint. Arteries are connected with fine sewing, nerves aligned, and the esophagus is lengthened to connect the human mouth to the horse gut. The spirit of the animal is reintroduced and with soul altering magics, the horse and rider are literally melded into a single mind and spirit. This melding is fairly traumatic, turning decades of human memory and years of horse thoughts into a jumbled mess of incoherent dreams and half ideas.
Once completed, the new Centaurim is subjected to a battery of motor tests, administration of mind controlling magics and geased behavior programs. The monster is left to brood upon its condition, mixing the impulsive nature of the horse stew with the latent outrage of the human soul mangled. It takes a few days to two weeks before a proper level of anger and rage is reached, and usually twice as long to 'break' the new Centaurim to the commands of the handlers who will tend the beast and care for it before and after battle.
Care and Maintenance
The largest problem faced by the Centaurim is the small capacity of the human mouth and the large caloric needs of the equine body. Specially prepared high calorie and high fiber meals are brewed by the Handlers to reduce the rapid wear and tear of the small and weak human teeth. The rest of maintenance is based along the lines of horse care, keeping up iron horse shoes, keeping the tail and coat clean and the like. The human side needs less physical attention, but more mental stimulation. Much like a child, the Centaurim are entertained by bright colors and toys like balls and the like.
Things can become problematic when a Centaurim is filled with the urge to mate. While mares are able to handle the demands of a Centaurim, the things that are begotten in the womb are always stillborn and most of the time kill the mare in the process. This is the lesser of the problems are the Centaurim are generally only attracted to human females, few of which are physically capable of mating with a Centaurim. Those who are subjected to this, most often slaves and enemy captives either are emotionally and physically scarred for life, or die from trauma and internal bleeding.
Arms and Armor
When the call to war comes, the Handlers dress the Centaurim in custom made plate and chain barding. This is a hybrid of human and horse armors with the strongest protection being for the jointure of the neck/torso. Donning this barding takes fifteen to twenty minutes, and just as long to remove after a battle. Killing a Centaurim is generally a tough matter, as a chest shot to the human torso can only harm organs secondary to the larger and stronger heart and lungs of the equine body. Only the head is vulnerable, and a strong helm is often enough to compensate for this weakness. The most common weapons of the Centaurim are the lance, curved falchion sword, and the horseman versions of the hammer, pick, and flail. Given the stoutness of the barding, shields are only seen when archers are known to be about in large numbers.
Engines of War
Created by the morally bankrupt western provinces of the Old World and associated Empire, the Centaurim were made to be living breathing war machines. Larger and stronger than men, and smarter than horses, they were ideally created to hunt and kill nun-humanoids such as trolls, ogres, minotaurs and the like. In this role, they performed exceptionally well. Mentalists considered the violence demonstrated by Centaurim in battle as a vent for the rage generated by their fused souls. Given this unnatural condition Centaurim never tired of battle, but instead grew increasingly difficult to handle without regular bouts of hunting and warfare.
The death of a Centaurim is a considerable loss, taking into account the time and effort required to capture, create, and 'tame' the beasts before they are ready to battle. Consequently, despite their bloodlust, few were ever thrown away in pointless or suicidal battles. In the event that a Centaurim was slain in battle, a necromancer familiar with the creature's hybrid soul could be on hand to reanimate the corpse of the creature as a greater form of undead, a zombie of exceptional strength, physical fortitude, and violent disposition.
Variations and Oddities
Female Centaurim - Few were made as the needed emotional bond between horse and rider was patently missing among the Aberthol nomads. This primarily stemmed from the fact that local taboo forbade women from touching or handling the horses, or even seeing the stallions of the tribe during the menses. Those that were made were unstable even by Centaurim standards, though the few that did survive the transition were generally used in ceremonial roles and following the Nightmare war, no more were ever made.
Other Animal Hybrids - certainly unusual and cruel, other races, notably halfling and gnomes were subjected to fusion with goats, pigs, ponies and other animals. All of these ventures were failures, as none of these races shared a bond with the given animals they were whipstitched to.
Other Horse Breeds - Experimentation showed that other human stock and horse breeds could be used, but none came close to the synchronization ratio of the Abertholian nomads and their horses. It was also discovered that for the ritual to work, both specimens had to be adults, past puberty and no longer growing. The lifespan of the horse also limited the lifespan of the Centaurim, with old age crippling the creature after fewer than 30 years, assuming a stallion no more than a six to eight years old was used in the creation process.
Of the Abertholians
Ranging across the North-Western highlands, the Abertholian natives are relatively peaceful nomads. They are certainly able to defend themselves in times of war, but are content to follow their herds of bison, unlike the savage and cannibalistic Tuyewera Nomads, whom all loath and hunt on suspicion. The heartless magi and necrosurgeons who build the Centaurim tend to 'harvest' their stock with as little attention as possible, and rather than entire nomad toumans vanishing, hunting parties instead go missing, or trips to sell horses to other tribes end with all parties gone. For the most part, the Abertholians will lament their dead and speak tales of keeping close to the camps, never traveling alone, and fearing the unknown monsters of the plains.
This selectivity by the magi is in no way based on any sort of squishy sentimentality. If they took too many of the natives they would damage the breeding pool of their human and equine stock. It is better to be selective and not let the herd see when the butcher comes to take his piece. For the most part, the butchers do quite well, plying their trade until the Nightmare war blasts across Aberthol, slaughtering magi and nomad alike, leaving behind naught but shattered fields of ice and smoking ghost lakes.
Plot Hooks
The Tomb - Rather than encounter the standard rank and file of zombie guardians placed in a royal tomb, instead a group of four Centaurim revenants stands vigil over a great warrior's body. Strong, aggressive, and fast, these zombies should provide a strong and painfully unnatural foe for combat heavy PCs
The Rosy Codex - named for its rose like color, this diabolical book details the process to create the magnificent and twisted Centaurim warriors. With ample time, a wizard could take victims from overlooked tribes to create deadly warbands of Centaurim Brigands to terrorize the countryside. A variation would be a just kingdom making Centaurim from horse thieves and criminals and impressing them into the army to fight 'the evil'
The Horror - more for a one on one game, a horse loving PC is themselves mutilated into a Centaurim and rather than being completely broken escapes. The resulting adventure can end in tragedy, of branch into a larger group affair with the Horror now serving as a living cavalry beast.
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The Rocket is an internationally acclaimed story about a spirited boy's quest to break free from his ill-fated destiny. Performed by mostly nonprofessional actors, it is one of the first internationally released feature films from the seldom-seen country of Laos.
When his family is forced to leave their village to make way for a massive water dam, Ahlo is blamed for a string of disasters. Along with his father and grandmother, he must escape through a land scarred by war in search of a new home.
A rocket festival offers a lucrative—but dangerous—chance to earn a new beginning. With the help of his new friends, an orphan named Kia and her James Brown-loving uncle, he sets out to prove his worth to his family.
Including material filmed at a real rocket festival in Laos, the filmmaker based scenes and characters on real encounters; resulting in a well-observed and humanistic drama about resilience and perseverance in the face of painful hardships and social inequity.
Kim Mordaunt
Sylvia Wilczynski, Pauline Phayvanh Phoumindr (Associate Producer)
Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam,Thep Phongam, Bunsri Yindi, Sumrit Warin, Alice Keohavong
Director's Bio
Kim Mordaunt
Kim Mordaunt's feature-length documentary Bomb Harvest was nominated for Best Documentary (IF Awards, ATOM Awards and Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards), Best Director (ADG Awards), Best Cinematography (AFI Awards), and won Best Feature (children's rights) at Hollywood's Artivist Awards. The Rocket is Kim's debut feature.
Crystal Bear for Best Feature (Generation KPlus section), Best First Feature, Amnesty International— Berlin International Film Festival 2013
Best Narrative Feature Film, Heineken Audience Award, Best Actor in Narrative Feature Film—Sitthiphon Disamoe—Tribeca Film Festival 2013
Audience Award for Best Feature— Sydney Film Festival 2013
People's Choice for Best Feature— Melbourne International Film Festival 2013