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"So, where iss the nearest [=SssDF=] sstation again?"
"Who knows. This ship's computer should have some map data though. Werther?"
"Yeah, yeah... I'm working on it."
"All thiss running and traveling; why can't you humansss be more direct...?"
"The Prophetess hardly ever makes things simple. And now that Zeke and the SDF have another reason to kill me, well..."
"Your passst is impresssively convoluted, gunssslinger, and I've only encountered part of it. I don't sssuppose you have any other enemiesss that will ssshow up to harasss uss too?"
"Hmph, considering how long things have taken already, we're more likely to meet one of yours."
"Hehe, generally my enemiess do not deal in the dessstruction of worlds, but who knowsss?"
"Alright, I think I've found a smaller base that might have a better ship for us to steal. Problem is, it's kinda far away; by the time we get there Zeke'll either have caught up to us or they'll have tripled their patrols to find us."
"Well, I guess it's a risk we'll have to take. Wouldn't want to make it too hard for my past to catch up to me..."
The Prophetess sometimes thought she had too many bodies to choose from. She was very careful about picking each one, and they all had their advantages. In a way it was sort of a relief when one was killed; made it easier to choose the next time she switched.
And in another way, it was infuriating. Vaniah kept taking away her resources. From never giving her her new world, to killing her bodies, and now the Blaggemol; killing him was starting to get more and more appealing.
As she was mulling this over an SDF soldier walked into her room.
"Zeke would like to see you ma'am."
"Well, of course he would."
"He said it was urgent."
"Everything is urgent to that man. When everything is urgent nothing is."
"Uhm... yes, well, please go see him when you are ready."
"Very well. You may go."
''What did I do allying myself with these idiots. Almost every one of them is either too attached to protocol to manipulate or too incompetent to be worth the effort. But it ''will'' all be worth it in the end. And the end will come soon enough...''


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What is the real reason for wanting Elwood in a mental institution? Who will benefit most from this arrangement—Elwood or his family?
Veta is desperate to find a husband for her daughter Myrtle, who appears destined to march down the horrible path to spinsterhood. How has society's perception of single life changed since the depiction in this 1950's film?

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A recent poll by the Knights of Columbus and the Marist College Institute of Public Opinion found that 76 percent of Americans and 58 percent of top-level business executives think the moral compass of corporate America is pointing in the wrong direction.
Fifty-two percent of Americans assign corporate America a grade of D or F for its honesty and ethical conduct. At the same time, however, less than half of Americans – 43 percent – think that government should play a major role in upholding high ethical standards in business.
There is no question that the actions of large financial institutions have contributed to the corporate failures and the credit crunch that have followed the collapse of the housing market. Would more-ethical behavior by financial-institution executives have made a difference?
You people have asked a very stilted and populist question. There is nothing immoral in trying to make money. It is the basis of our economy. What really is immoral are politicians taking taxpayer money and trying to act as social engineers, They seem to be reelected over and over again no matter how poor the record or how much money was confiscated from those who do not benefit in any way. Government is by its nature immoral and counter to freedom. Starve the beast!!!!!
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Jon FineThere are (still) people within Mayor Michael Bloomberg's orbit that still think that a post-mayoral bid for the New York Times would be a worthy next-act for the Mayor, who will be term-limited out of his job at the end of next year. This, even though Bloomberg has been reasonably emphatic about what he thinks about the idea.
As I write in this week's column, this is a very pretty notion: here comes the benevolent billionaire to 'save' the Times from the vicissitudes of the market and Murdoch. Unfortunately, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and there are very strong arguments against this happening.
But a longtime reader floats a whole 'nother notion in a series of emails:
Bloomberg should pick up Pearson's Financial Times.
everyone is looking the wrong direction at bloomberg and the nyt. the logical place to look is bloomberg and the FT. hell i can already write the ad theme line: The paper the Journal used to be.
in general i agree with you [regarding the Times being bad idea] but the mechanics of the ft acquisition offer too many benefits that are nowhere in a nyt acquisition. first you're basically taking the existing bloomberg and spreading its cost on an additional revenue stream.
Further it appears there may be a hole developing in the market for business newspaper that someone could seize on. finally there is a danger someone else could enter bloomberg's market if he doesnt do the deal. the nyt isn't for bloomberg. FT is.
I'm not wholly sold on this idea, in large part because I still see a big gulf between Bloomberg's basic business--data, not journalism--and what the FT does. (And, like the Times, the FT ain't exactly, uhm, for sale.)
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In the video, Rodriguez said Romney "will destroy this country" and added that she would "like to kill him" if she ever saw him. The Secret Service's involvement was first reported by the Daily Caller.
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Wasilla, Alaska has a continental climate with short dry cool summers. The area within 25 mi of this station is covered by forests (59%), tundra (20%), shrublands (12%), oceans and seas (6%), and lakes and rivers (3%).
The month of December is characterized by gradually falling daily high temperatures, with daily highs decreasing from 26°F to 22°F over the course of the month, exceeding 40°F or dropping below 6°F only one day in ten.
Over the course of December, the length of the day is essentially constant. The shortest day of the month is December 17 with 5:21 hours of daylight; the longest day is December 1 with 5:56 hours of daylight.
The earliest sunrise is at 9:49am on December 1; the latest sunset is at 3:48pm on December 31; the latest sunrise is at 10:19am on December 27; the earliest sunset is at 3:34pm on December 15.
Daylight savings time is observed in 2012 but it neither starts nor ends in December, so the entire month is in standard time.
The median cloud cover is 45% (partly cloudy) and does not vary substantially over the course of the month.
On December 16, a representative day, the sky is clear or mostly clear 48% of the time, partly cloudy 5% of the time, and mostly cloudy or overcast 44% of the time.
There is either very little precipitation at this location in December, or the weather station does not reliably report the conditions.
Either snow is exceptionally unlikely to fall at this location in December or this station does not reliably report precipitation types.
The relative humidity typically ranges from 52% (mildly humid) to 89% (very humid) over the course of a typical December, rarely dropping below 31% (comfortable) and reaching as high as 100% (very humid).
The air is driest around December 29, at which time the relative humidity drops below 62% (mildly humid) three days out of four; it is most humid around December 17, rising above 83% (humid) three days out of four.
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Over the course of December typical wind speeds vary from 0 mph to 11 mph (calm to gentle breeze), rarely exceeding 21 mph (fresh breeze).
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Researchers using high-tech photography have reconstructed a signature that may belong to William Shakespeare — or perhaps a clever forger.
It's not yet known who scrawled "Wm Shakespeare" across the title page of the legal treatise "Archaionomia," a collection of Saxon laws published during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. It may never be clear, said Gregory Heyworth, a professor of English at the University of Mississippi.
But now, Heyworth and his students have used new technology to reveal the nearly lost scribbles on the old book. The work is part of The Lazarus Project, an effort to revive damaged texts using a technique called multispectral imaging. The researchers take very high-resolution photographs of old text, art or objects using 12 different wavelengths of light, ranging from ultraviolet to infrared, beyond the boundaries of the human eye. Next, they use software to combine these images into the clearest possible picture of the text.
In this way, researchers can reconstruct writing that has been erased and written over, scratched out, singed or even damaged by water, Heyworth told LiveScience. For example, last year, the Lazarus Project used this technology to discover five new poems from the writer William Faulkner from a collection that had been damaged by fire.
Shakespearian mystery
This spring, Heyworth took a group of undergraduates to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., to investigate a scrawl that believe to be the Bard's. The team hasn't yet begun the process of authenticating the signature as Shakespeare's, but they did reconstruct it.
"We have a clear idea now of what the signature looks like, and we can compare it to Shakespeare's signatures and forgers' signatures," Heyworth said.
The group is currently deciphering a line above the signature, which is written in a 16th-century hand based on the style of the lettering, Heyworth said. That line is written in different ink than the signature. [History's Most Overlooked Mysteries]
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Heyworth plans to compare the signature with that of well-known forgers as well as known Shakespeare signatures such as those on his wills. He also hopes to investigate other potential Shakespeare handwriting samples, including one in a book of essays published in 1603.
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"One of the interesting questions for Shakespeare scholars is what Shakespeare read," Heyworth said. "If we know what he read, then we know what he was thinking when he wrote his plays."
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Current Tally:
Uxie: 6
Ivysaur: 4
Whirlipede: 3
Umbreon: 2
Whimsicott: 1
Current Tally:
Uxie: 6
Ivysaur: 4
Whirlipede: 3
Umbreon: 2
Whimsicott: 1
Voting Whirlipede.
Switching from Whimsicott to Whirlipede.
I vote Uxie.
Switching from Umbreon to Whirlipede.
goodbye Uxie!
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Rules of the Game
There will be around 20 Pokémon at the beginning of every set. You will vote off your least favourite, and you will have ONE vote PER ROUND. Breaking this rule will cost you your vote for the round. You may change your vote, but you may only do it once per round, and you must state what your old vote is in the post. Then, the Pokémon who has the most votes at the end of the round is eliminated. All posts in this thread must relate strictly to the current events of the game, and if we deem a post as too off-topic or unrelated, the poster will receive up to a one week ban from the thread.
The Pokémon that wins the set gets added to the Winners Circle! When there are ten Pokémon in the Winners Circle, the same type of thing will happen. Once a winner is decided, it goes into the "Hall of Fame". Once 10 of that is made, it get's added to "Serebii.net Favourite".
If you want to see exactly how this game works, you can visit the previous two Survivor Games here or here.
Special Rounds
Now, this game would be no fun if you voted off Pokémon the same way round after round. So, there are a few special rounds that get added into the game to make things interesting. Here they are:
Finals - This is when two Pokémon are left. When this happens you have to be clear if you want the certain one to win or lose. If it is not clear enough, it will not be counted.
Twist Round - If one of the owners/co-owners puts in size 5 text, bolded, and underlined anything that has "twist" in its name that means there was the same amount of votes for two or more Pokémon. Then, both Pokémon get eliminated.
Saved Round - Once per game, at a random point, this will occur. Where you vote for your favorite Pokémon that is still in and the Pokémon with the most votes will be immune from voting against until the top 3. At the top 3, it will come back, and create the top 4.
Double Down Round - This round can occur at any time, at any point, excluding winner's circle and it can occur more than once a set. Here, you must vote for two Pokémon, but the rules still apply that the Pokémon with the most votes is out, though it is likely that there will be a twist.
Prediction Time - This round occurs during every first round of a set. In addition to your regular vote on who you want out, you predict who you think will win the entire set. If a person predicts correctly, they have the ability to automatically eliminate any Pokémon of their choice until the Top 10 begins. If multiple people predict correctly, they vote on who should be eliminated. You cannot participate if you can predict the future.
Abandon Round - This round can only occur before the Top 15. Instead of voting for your least favourite Pokémon, you select your favourite one, and that Pokémon is saved from elimination and cannot be selected by any other voter. When only one Pokémon in the set has not been selected, that one is eliminated. You may not switch your selection.
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I vote wailord
I obviously vote Wailord.
Here Is A Tally:
Wailord: 2
Ivysaur: 1
Whirlipede: 1
Ivysaur again.
I like trains.
"Hi, girl, can I Squirtle on your Jigglypuff?"
Ivysaur out.
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Whirlipede out
Ivysaur out. Whirlio next.
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Voting Wailord.
Voting Wailord because Ivysaur is cool and you all are hatin on NFEs.
Current Tally:
Ivysaur: 6
Wailord: 5
Whirlipede: 2
Ivysaur begone!
Whirlipede for me as well.
Current Tally:
Ivysaur: 7
Wailord: 6
Whirlipede: 4
Whirlipede again.
My shiny pokemon: as well as shiny Snivy I got from some randomer japanese guy over the GTS
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Play Ocarina Of Time. Get to Ganon. Replace Ganon with Emboar and tell me he doesn't fit right in? The truth is out, Ganon has escaped, and is now in the form of a Pokemon!!!
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The trailer for George Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau has been released via Yahoo, and I think it is one that deserves a look. Nolfi, who wrote The Bourne Ultimatum, will be making his directorial debut with this film, which is based on a Philip K. Dick short story. Matt Damon will star as a promising young United States Congressman who finds his life spinning out of control when he discovers inexplicable forces trying to keep him away from his love interest, who will be played by Emily Blunt.
This Manhattan-based story was shot on-location in New York and will be released September 17th. Some of the co-stars include Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), Terence Stamp, and Shohreh Aghdashloo.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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- filmgeek said...
Ooh, I like the look of this. But then I'm a sucker for anything with Emily Blunt
- May 14, 2010 at 6:14 AM
- Fitz said...
Ditto, Blunt is a great actress.
- May 14, 2010 at 5:01 PM
- Andrew: Encore Entertainment said...
This looks good, and Blunt and Damon are usually both reliable.
- May 17, 2010 at 4:05 PM
- Castor said...
Looks intriguing but I think Blunt is a bit too young for the role (13-yr gap). Looking forward to it!
- May 21, 2010 at 8:57 AM
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Zapdos (Japanese: サンダー Thunder) is a dual-type Electric/Flying legendary Pokémon.
It is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon.
Along with Articuno and Moltres, it is one of the three legendary birds of Kanto.
- 1 Biology
- 2 In the anime
- 3 In the manga
- 4 In the TCG
- 5 Other appearances
- 6 Game data
- 7 Trivia
- 8 In other languages
- 9 External links
- 10 Related articles
- 11 Notes
Zapdos is an avian Pokémon with predominantly yellow plumage. Black rings encircle its eyes, and it has a long, thin, light orange beak. Its wings and tail are a mass of spiky feathers, with black feathers covering the back of its wings and inner tail feathers. A large crest of spiked feathers surrounds its head. Its thighs are a khaki color, and it has anisodactyl feet ending in talons.
When Zapdos flaps its glittering wings, it releases electricity that can potentially cause thunderstorms. It causes cause massive crackling and snapping sounds when it flies; these are attributed to the lightning bolts sheds when airborne. When stricken by lightning, it gains power. Zapdos reportedly appears only during thunderstorms, and is said to live among thunderclouds. However, it is rarely seen.
In the anime
Major appearances
Zapdos (M02)
Zapdos made its first true appearance in The Power of One. Lawrence III wanted to capture the three legendary birds as well as their master Lugia.
A rough image of Zapdos was first seen etched in a stone hanging in the Viridian Pokémon Center in Pokémon Emergency.
The Electric Pokémon made its anime debut appearance in As Clear As Crystal. When Team Rocket made an attempt to steal a crystal that gave a lake the ability to heal Electric-type Pokémon, they were side-tracked when Zapdos showed up and they changed their objective to capture Zapdos instead.
Minor appearances
The first time Zapdos was seen was in Island of the Giant Pokémon. However, it wasn't a real Zapdos, just a machine.
A Zapdos appeared in An EGG-sighting Adventure! as part of Team Rocket's fantasy.
A Zapdos made an appearance in the credits of Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea. Jackie had captured it with a Capture Styler and flew away on it.
A Zapdos made a cameo appearance in Doc Brock!. This may have been taken from Pokémon Platinum, where in this version, there is a Zapdos roaming Sinnoh.
A Zapdos made a cameo in the intro of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, The Rise of Darkrai and Zoroark: Master of Illusions.
It made a cameo in a flashback in Dealing With a Fierce Double Ditto Drama!, and both of Narissa's Ditto transformed into it.
Pokédex entries
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Having captured this legendary bird in the abandoned Power Plant as in the games, Lt. Surge appears with Zapdos in his team during the events of Volume 3, using it as a never-ending power source for his Electric types, allowing them to continually shock Red at full force, a strategy that turns against him when Red uses Saur's Razor Leaf to cut the supply cords and his insulating underwear with them. After having been merged with Articuno and Moltres into an undiscovered Pokémon, the three Pallet Town Trainers are able to defeat the combined monster, so it leaves his team, and Team Rocket afterwards to go back to the wild.
Green later captures Zapdos before the Gold, Silver, & Crystal chapter and uses it against Will and Karen, having caught it and its legendary bird companions on her personal training journey to overcome her fear of birds. During this battle, it is lent to Blue when things get rough. Once returned, it is put back in its Poké Ball and isn't seen again, meaning it has either been deposited into her box or released.
In the TCG
- Main article: Zapdos (TCG)
Other appearances
Super Smash Bros. Melee
When released from a Poké Ball, Zapdos uses a powerful Thunder Shock that hits opponents several times to produce a substantial amount of damage.
Trophy information
Zapdos flaps its wings, and summer storms appear, throwing lightning every which way. It's said that you can hear this legendary Pokémon coming, as its wings make a very distinctive popping sound as it flies. In addition to electrical moves like the dreaded Thunder, it also wields a vicious move called Drill Peck.
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NPC appearances
- Zapdos is the first legendary Pokémon encountered in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. After it kidnaps Shiftry, the player must fight it at the top of Mt. Thunder. It is possible to recruit Zapdos by returning for another fight after the credits.
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Pokémon Snap | Tunnel |
Pokémon Pinball | Lavender Town |
Pokémon Trozei! | Random Agent Cards Mr. Who's Den |
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red/Blue Rescue Team |
Mt. Thunder Peak (3F) |
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time/Darkness |
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Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs |
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Pokémon Rumble | Eternal Tower Normal Mode S |
Pokémon Rumble Blast | Factory: World Axle - B2F (post ending) |
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Gotta Catch 'Em All Station! Zapdos | English | United States | 50 | November 30 to December 20, 2001; February 15 to 21, 2002 | |
RSEFRLG | Journey Across America Zapdos | English | United States | 70 | February 25 to July 23, 2006 |
RSEFRLG | Party of the Decade Zapdos | English | United States | 70 | August 8, 2006 |
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- Of all legendary Pokémon with fixed in-game locations, Zapdos can be obtained with the fewest number of Badges: 3. In the Generation I games and their remakes, one can catch Zapdos with only the Boulder Badge, Cascade Badge, and Soul Badge, although it is far too strong for most Trainers at that stage, at level 50.
- Zapdos shares the same species name with Elekid and Electabuzz. They are all known as the Electric Pokémon.
- Zapdos and Jolteon's Japanese names are almost exactly the same as each other's, with a final s being the only difference.
- Zapdos possesses a type advantage over all other members of its trio, as well as its trio master, Lugia.
- In the anime episode The Bridge Bike Gang, Chopper's bike was decorated to look like a Zapdos.
Zapdos is based on the Native American legend of the thunderbird. The thunderbird was known for being the spirit of thunder, lightning, and rain in the form of a giant bird. The beating of the wings was said to create thunder. It may also have been based on the Lightning Bird, a bird created from wherever lightning hits the earth. It may also have been based on the Impundulu, a bird of witchcraft said to summon thunder and lightning with its wings and talons.
Name origin
Zapdos is a combination of zap and dos (Spanish for two, indicating that it is the second in the series of Kanto legendary birds).
Thunder is literally thunder.
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When I was visiting my parents and grandma last month, there was a discussion about my grandpa's uncle with a wooden leg. My mom and grandma didn't remember his name, but remembered visiting him in Ontario on vacations. They thought the wooden leg was from a war injury (World War I).
My grandfather's father, William Francis Elvey Suckling, was the only son in the family. My grandfather's mother had only one brother, Leslie Merritt Stull. Leslie served in WWI, but he moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Grandma and mom said that the wooden leg uncle lived in Ontario. I kept saying that grandpa only had one uncle and assumed that they didn't know what they were talking about.
I was so confused until two weeks later. It finally came to me that when your aunt gets married, you get an uncle. Duh! I think I have been so focused on the family groups of my direct line, that I forget about all those extra collateral relationships.
So one of my grandfather's aunts married a WWI veteran with a wooden leg. I don't know which one it was yet. The Ontario records that are online do not capture the time frame of the 1920s and 1930s that I need to solve this new family mystery. But at least now I know my grandpa could have had an uncle with a wooden leg.
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Fifty to 80 percent of all amputees experience pain in their stumps or what feels like the missing limbs long after surgical wounds have healed. Now new research from Johns Hopkins suggests the two pains have different sources, bringing us a step closer in understanding what types of drugs might help.
In a study examining stump pain vs. "phantom pain," researchers observed that the powerful pain reliever morphine significantly relieved both stump and phantom pain, while the local anesthetic lidocaine relieved only the stump pain.
"Our results suggest that different therapeutic sensitivities of stump and phantom pain to these drugs exist, and that the mechanisms of these two types of pain may differ," says Srinivasa N. Raja, M.D., lead author of the study and professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Hopkins. The report is to be presented Oct. 16 in New Orleans at the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
"Overall, the treatment of phantom and stump pain has been disappointing, in part due to the uncertain nature of the mechanisms behind the pain and the lack of well-controlled clinical studies," he says.
Stump pain is believed to arise from nerve injuries at the site of the amputation and the resulting formation of neuromas, noncancerous tumors that grow out of the injured nerve fibers. Phantom pain is thought to reside in the brain. When the part of the brain that controlled the limb before it was amputated no longer has a function, other areas of the brain fill in. The Hopkins data supports that theory, in that lidocaine, a drug that predominantly works on the peripheral nervous system, did not relieve phantom pain. Morphine acts on the peripheral and central nervous systems.
For the study, Raja and his colleagues studied 32 patients with an average age of 54 who had amputated limbs. Twelve patients had pain in the region of the stump, while nine had pain in the missing part of the limb. Eleven patients experienced both types of pain.
On three consecutive days, each patient was given an intravenous injection of either morphine, lidocaine or placebo. Pain measures and patient satisfaction scores were recorded every five minutes from a half-hour before the injection until a half-hour after. The study was double-blind, meaning neither the patients nor the researchers knew which injection was being given.
Patient satisfaction scores were similar and significantly higher for both lidocaine and morphine compared to placebo, which did not significantly reduce either type of pain.
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health. Other study authors were Christopher L. Wu, M.D.; Peter S. Staats, M.D.; Prabhav K. Tella, M.B.B.S., M.P.H.; and Rachel Vaslav.
Abstract #A-955 "Analgesic Effects of Intravenous Lidocaine and Morphine on Post-Amputation Pain: A Randomized Double-Blind, Active-Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Trial"
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American Society of Anesthesiologists http://www.asahq.org
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Once I spent six hours of a twelve hour Greyhound ride sitting across the aisle from a couple who had met when they sat next to each other, and apparently, discovered that they were two halves of a sundered whole. Or something. When we hit El Paso, they were going to part ways, she for Tucson, he for Denver. Off to lead their lives, I suppose, I never caught the exact story.
They spent their time alternating between discussing the deep and abiding parallels between the courses of their respective lives and worldviews and making out under a blanket. At the time, the whole thing made a deep impression on me.
Assuming that what they thought they had was honest, which I suppose nobody can know but them, think of the existential conflict involved. Assume that you have one perfect soulmate: would it be better to live your life in ignorance of this fact, making do on your own, or meet that person exactly once ever, for a few hours around midnight on a cramped bus full of poor students and day laborers? It's been a year or so since then, and I wonder if they still think about it. Probably they've just laughed it off. It's the sort of thing you would really have to diminish in your head, to be able to keep on going.
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In recent weeks, U.S Department of Justice investigations into currency traders have drawn renewed attention to the permanence of even seemingly fleeting communications. In that investigation, the DOJ is looking at, among other things, Bloomberg chat room transcripts of members of the so-called "Cartel," a group of currency traders. As a result of such investigations, the days may be numbered for widespread use of Bloomberg chatrooms: the Wall Street Journal reported recently that several large banks are already considering restricting chatroom access. But while regulators and companies have their attention turned to chatrooms, new methods of communication continue to emerge, presenting new challenges for corporate compliance.
Take Snapchat, for instance. For the uninitiated, Snapchat is a smartphone app that allows people to send each other "disappearing" pictures. The sender can choose how long the recipient will be able to view the picture—anywhere from one to ten seconds—before it disappears from the recipient's phone. Users can also send single-view videos up to 10 seconds long that erase as the recipient plays them. And while Snapchat has its legal uses from the mundane to the prurient, the possibility of its misuse in the securities context is worth attention.
In June 2013, New York Magazine posted a blog article entitled "Wall Street Is Obsessed With Snapchat." The article largely ignored discussion of the potential use of Snapchat for insider trading, focusing instead on the app's usefulness in avoiding the circulation of compromising pictures of social media-obsessed young bankers. On July 17, however, CNBC's Jim Cramer brought the potential of Snapchat insider trading to light when he asked the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, about precisely this possibility. Bharara hadn't heard of Snapchat. His response was that, "to the extent that people can figure out ways to communicate, either by IM or Snapchat or some other method, law enforcement needs to think of that . . . but nobody should feel safe because they're using a particular method of communication."
Bharara's lack of knowledge of the two-year-old app is not surprising—keeping abreast of and control over technological channels is a never-ending game of regulatory whack-a-mole. But it does underscore the importance of keeping current on what apps are popular and, crucially, how those apps work, in order to ensure that legal practice and compliance efforts evolve to reflect the ever-changing technological landscape.
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The thing about the Internet of Things, which describes the near-future in which all our devices and appliances are connected to the Internet — and one another — is that suddenly they're vulnerable to the dark side of constant connectivity, too. Cybersecurity folks point out it "opens a Pandora's Box of security and privacy risks that cannot be ignored," writes Christophe Fabre, CEO of software services vendor Axway.
Just on the heels of Google joining the smart appliances frontier, the security firm Proofpoint Inc. reports it has uncovered one of the first Internet of Things cyberattack. (The firm gets hired to, among other things, monitor the email gateways for hundreds of companies, scan them and analyze them for nefariousness.)
Included in the attack were smart TVs, wireless speakers and at least one refrigerator. It turns out refrigerators can send out emails, so just as your email can be hacked, your fridge can, too.
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Here's how the company says it worked: Sometime between Dec. 23 and Jan. 6, hackers commandeered home routers and the like and used them to send out malicious emails to grow their botnet, or, army of infected devices. Botnets — and now, "ThingBots" — can be used by hackers to perform large-scale cyberattacks against websites by drowning them with traffic.
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When we learned that a fridge was hacked, my editor wanted to know what was in the fridge, since it could easily log into it. But Proofpoint said it didn't peek.
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2012-12-22, 07:47 | Link #21 | |
Seishu's Ace
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kagurazaka, Tokyo
Aside from that, why would they target him just about Saki learned the truth? It's no coincidence.
2012-12-22, 08:26 | Link #22 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Following trails in the snow..
All that's left of Mamoru were his sled. Luckily a queerat saved him. So he ran 'cause they wanted to kill him too. Damn, they seem to be offing kids a lot lately. Things are getting more complicated. Not much is know and the mystery continues.
2012-12-22, 09:45 | Link #23 | ||
Dream Banger, Love Liver!
And kuromitsu, there's two reasons why I find the sudden targeting of Mamoru suspicious. First of all, it's not like he's exhibiting things that he hasn't been exhibiting all along. The guy's always had a crying, cowardly side. His latest "nervous wreck attack" was perhaps a bit louder than most, but still, it's nothing new. So I can't help but think that there's something new and special at play here. Such as... Quote:
Maybe Mamoru has always been a borderline guy - Just competent enough with his powers to not fall into Reiko territory, just emotionally stable enough not to fall into Shun territory. They decided he wasn't much threat, but that he was more "expendable" than most if hard choices have to be made. I can see some people on the Ethics Committee having second thoughts on Saki - "Sure, she's impressively emotionally stable, but she can't handle the conflicts of interest inherent in this position. Whenever there was a conflict between "helping her friends" and "following the rules", she always chooses to break the rules. She'll always put her friends and loved ones before the role of Head of the Ethics Committee, and that's unacceptable for somebody in that role." And maybe it was agreed upon that Mamoru will provide Saki with a final test to see if she's now willing to put "the greater good" of her society ahead of the personal welfare of her family and friends.
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2012-12-22, 10:18 | Link #24 | |
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I agree with you and Enzo that this might be a test for Saki. I wonder what exactly they want her to do though...? They should know there is no way she would betray her friend. Anyway, they are definitely in a precarious situation. There are not many options open to them. They can either bring back Mamoru by force (not gonna happen) or choose to stay with him outside of the Holy Barrier. The preview infers that Spoiler:
2012-12-22, 10:32 | Link #26 | |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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If there is still time before then, that suggest that his imminent disposal is either a test (or tribulation) for Saki, or else he's very recently been flagged as a threat for some reason. |
2012-12-22, 10:38 | Link #27 | |
Dream Banger, Love Liver!
Scare Mamoru into thinking he's being targeted for elimination, and hence he runs away. Maria loves him so she'll search Mamoru out. Maybe the gamble is this will lead into Maria and Mamoru leaving the village and living the life of nomads. This would mean that the only people left in the village that Saki has any particular attachment to are her parents, and Satoru.
2012-12-22, 10:57 | Link #28 | |
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2012-12-22, 11:18 | Link #29 |
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Location: UK
Age: 26
Sorry to drop the IQ points in this thread a little bit, but I couldn't have been the only one getting unintentional lols at Maria bunny hoping all the way?
Though, I kinda like how we get hints of their cantus becoming more personalised. And it wasn't just Maria because there was an interesting moment when Satoru retrieved the sled by throwing off the snow in a fashion eerily similar to his rock throwing back when he was battling the Monster Rats. Since the cantus are a product of their unconscious, I wonder if these personalisations will give us a deeper/added insight into their psyche.
2012-12-22, 12:05 | Link #31 | |
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And yes, it was very cute. |
2012-12-22, 14:12 | Link #32 | |
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Age: 31
Anyway I agree with what others have said the board of education or ethics committee are targeting Mamoru either because they're running out of time or as a way to test Saki.
2012-12-22, 14:36 | Link #33 | |
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Also, aww, they made the kitty make dog noises. It's a pity they didn't make it more cat-like. Cats don't growl like that. (Then again, animals tend to be silent when they're stalking their prey...) Btw, I watched it with subs, and wtf, copycats?? o_o) I can barely understand "Cantus" (I don't know why there was even a need to rename it, and why a bunch of Japanese people 1000 yr in the future would call their innate power a Latin word that, if I'm not mistaken, means "singing" or something like that), but copycats? Why? o_o) Last edited by kuromitsu; 2012-12-22 at 15:15. |
2012-12-22, 16:44 | Link #35 |
One-Eyed Dragon
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: NJ, USA
Like how they brought back the queerrat that they saved when they were younger. Good that they found Mamoru, but to bad he had no option, but to run. From the preview sounds like Maria will be staying with Mamoru, while Saki and Satoru return to the village.
2012-12-22, 17:07 | Link #37 |
Dream Banger, Love Liver!
I'd sooooo play a Shin Sekai Yori-based mod of Super Mario Bros.
Mamoru Toad: Maria, your Princess (Saki) is in another Castle! All those big cats would be used in place of Bowser. Queerats in place of goombas. Minishiros in place of turtles.
2012-12-22, 17:16 | Link #38 | |
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I don't know personal preference I guess. Maybe with time and practice she'll be flying.
2012-12-22, 18:48 | Link #39 | |
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(What reason would there be for them to be suddenly 16, anyway? What would be the point?) |
2012-12-22, 18:59 | Link #40 |
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Board of Education and the Ethics Committee might not be entirely in agreement regarding the handling of the group through the various events, and therefor the former decided to destabilise the foundation of the group in order to eliminate Saki as a successor to the job she was offered.
There might be some serious disagreements considering how often they all were willing to break the rules, and as the competition episode told us the Board of Education considers rule breaking to be a quite serious red flag. However the Ethics Committee might have a different view, e.g. considering more the context and the person.
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NEARI President Claims Gist Threatens Careers of Her Critics
Friday, March 28, 2014
This week, National Education Association Rhode Island (NEARI) President Larry Purtill Tweeted:
"Someone in the media needs to start checking in on sups who have been threatened with loss of certification if speak out against RIDE."
On the same day, he also Tweeted:
"Teachers have been told not to speak out because if speak out against RIDE policies can have negative impact on evaluations. #Reign of Fear"
In a statement issued to GoLocalProv through NEARI Communications Director Karen Comiskey Jenkins, Purtill explained his Twitter posts.
"Over the past couple of years, I have been told and I have heard – both directly and indirectly – that many superintendents are hesitant to speak up and/or raise concerns about RIDE policy because their certification could be at stake. I have heard it too often to ignore.
I have also been told by teachers – again both directly and indirectly – that they have been told to be careful speaking out because it could negatively impact their evaluation."
Widespread anxiety
Purtill described what he called "widespread anxiety" in his circle of educators.
"I am certainly not going to provide names, and I doubt anyone will want to go on record, so I understand this is a 'he says/she says' situation. However, Commissioner Gist could ease this anxiety by issuing a public statement asserting that no administrator or educator who speaks out about education – whether for or against RIDE policy – would ever have their certification revoked; and that no teacher should have his/her evaluation impacted by comments made regarding education in his/her school, district or state."
The commissioner isn't likely to make that statement. Kimberly Bright, RIDE Chief of Staff, was curt in her response to Purtill's allegations.
"This accusation is ridiculous."
When asked for elaboration, or a comment from the Commissioner, Bright said "my statement stands", and looped in David Abbott, RIDE General Counsel, who provided information on the process for revoking a certificate.
"Take a look at RIGL 16-11-4. Note that an educator's certificate is a form of a license to work. As such, it is a constitutionally protected property interest. 16-11-4 provides additional statutory due process protections and establishes a 'for cause' standard for annulment. Annulment decisions are made only after a full investigation and an evidentiary hearing. Exercise of one's First Amendment rights would never constitute 'cause' for annulment," Abbot said.
"Annulments are extremely unusual and have rarely, if ever, occurred unless the educator has engaged in criminal activity or actions that would otherwise shock the conscience. There is no reason to reassure educators that they will not be punished for engaging in lawful, constitutionally protected speech. The very suggestion has no basis in fact, law or logic."
Purtill's Tweets were posted one day after State Board of Education Chairwoman Eva-Marie Mancuso apologized for her criticism of Providence Superintendent Susan Lusi. Lusi recently testified at the State House that she could not continue to support the use of NECAP testing as a graduation requirement. Mancuso called the act "grandstanding" because Lusi chose to speak before members of the General Assembly instead of the board.
Maribeth K. Calabro, President of the Providence Teachers Union, said the education community is not surprised by the accusations of retaliation from RIDE.
"I have no direct knowledge that Superintendent Lusi has been threatened. The dismissive, disrespectful and condescending nature of the Commissioner, the BOE Chair and other RIDE employees is the norm rather than the exception. Teachers, administrators, superintendents and students have been forced to comply with many edicts from RIDE which are punitive in nature," Calabro said.
"Constant" threat of retaliation
She described the threat of retaliation for speaking out against RIDE "constant." The Commissioner refers to teacher feedback as "Crickets," and student voices are "side shows," according to Calabro.
"It takes real courage to stand up and speak up and to liken these students to a side show shows a lack of integrity and respect. The unwillingness of Chair Mancuso to hold Ms. Gist to the accountability guidelines that were agreed as part of her contract are a few clear indications that she uses her power as a way to demoralize and devalue anyone who has views opposite of her own."
Calabro's strong feelings do not equal a consensus in the local education community. Timothy P. Ryan, for example, isn't buying it. Ryan is the Executive Director of the Rhode Island School Superintendent's Association (RISSA). He was previously the superintendent of Portsmouth Public Schools. He said someone relayed Purtill's Tweet to him.
"I am personally not aware of any superintendent who has been threatened with any repercussions because they stated their opinions. I, personally, and the officers of the RISSA have been very frank with this commissioner when we have not agreed. One of those areas has been teacher evaluations. The commissioner listened to that in the process if making constructive and positive changes."
"I have personally been at meetings with the commissioner and seen nothing but collegial interactions."
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Handwriting Without Tears
Got a kid learning letters and numbers? Handwriting Without Tears, a system used in schools around the country, has come up with an app that can make things a lot easier.
Peaks App
The Peaks app instantly identifies mountains in view, determines their altitude and how you could get to them.
Tasty Health App
Tasty Health not only shows you how to make dishes that are better for you, it also breaks down the carbs, fat and protein, as well as the calories.
Hykoo App
You may be familiar with the poetry version of Haiku – three or five line stanzas that tell a short story. Now there's Hykoo, the app, only this one focuses on your photos.
Departure Board App
Departure Board lets you instantly find train departure times in the UK – as well as the platform they're departing from.