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In 1998 40% of the World's energy was derived from oil and 23% from coal. Most of the increased energy demand will be met by increased oil production in the OPEC Countries. Oil production in North America is expected to be flat or declining, and other areas do not have the potential for major increases in production.
Estimates of the total world oil supply that is economically recoverable vary, but the consensus is that we are approaching the peak in production within the next 10 years. http://www.hubbertpeak.com/ . These estimates also indicate that by the around the year 2025, we will have used up 80% of the world's oil in roughly 60 years, a remarkable achievement. The various models also show that new discoveries will not shift the production peak, but will merely flatten out the rate of decline.
If the DOE predictions turn out to be correct and the peak is moved farther into the future, the ultimate decline will be steeper. There is a limit to the supply of oil and it is highly unlikely that any large reserves comparable to those in the Middle East will be discovered in the future. Technological improvements can alter the efficiency and rate of extraction, but the total supply is fixed, and reasonably well known.
Natural Gas
Natural gas supplies are distributed unevenly throughout the world, with the primary producers being the U.S. and Russia. Since it is not practical to containerize and ship natural gas as it is oil, supplies must be looked at on a regional basis. Estimates are that the U.S has 1102 terra cubic feet of gas remaining. At the present rate that would last 60 years, but the rate of consumption is expected to increase due to the increased demand for clean fuels for electric power generation and transportation. The DOE estimates the annual increase will be 1.8% by 2010 which decreases the lifetime of the resource to 42 years.
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The report divides the external costs of gasoline usage into
five primary areas: (1) Tax
Subsidization of the Oil Industry; (2) Government Program Subsidies; (3) Protection
Costs Involved in Oil Shipment and Motor Vehicle Services; (4) Environmental, Health,
and Social Costs of Gasoline Usage; and (5) Other Important Externalities of Motor
Vehicle Use. Together, these external costs total $558.7 billion to $1.69 trillion per year,
which, when added to the retail price of gasoline, result in a per gallon price of $5.60 to
$15.14. http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/rlprexsm.htm
Value of Oil to Future Generations
Our society is based on oil. It appears in cosmetics, foods, plastics, paints, powers the cars we drive and forms the roads we drive on. Is it logical to burn up a resource that could better be used making these other useful items with much higher values, such as the keyboard you are using or the lubricant that keeps the machines of the world turning? What is a reasonable price for oil to make those products? A typical quart plastic food container in the grocery store costs $2.00 and weighs 6oz. which works out to nearly $100 per gallon of fuel. From another perspective that means that driving your car (assuming 25 mpg) for 25 miles deprives some future generation of the raw materials for 20, one quart containers. That may seem like a good deal, after all who needs 20 containers, but it serves to compare the amount of product we burn up for a relatively small benefit.
Other Sources of Hydrocarbons: It needs to be said here that there are other sources of hydrocarbons that future generations could tap when the price of oil rises sufficiently. These include oil shale, tar sands, and methane hydride. Each alternative has its own associated environmental costs related to extraction and processing. When both the economic and environmental costs are considered they may not turn out to be a wise alternative to crude oil and natural gas used, but if we exhaust those resources, future generations may have no other choice.
Environmental Costs
In addition to the social costs of using up the world supply of fossil fuel, there are serious environmental considerations. Air pollution in the form of sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides, and carbon dioxide are a burden on society due both to current health issues, and future costs related to global warming.. There is also significant damage to the environment by extraction processes, whether drilling for oil in the arctic, or offshore, there are oil spills, roads and pipelines to be built. Coal mining destroys whole mountains and is the source of acid from seeping groundwater that is polluting rivers in the Appalachians. Leaking storage tanks are a concern with ground water pollution, and gasoline additives have been causing health problems ever since lead was added to gasoline, with little improvement with the switch to newer additives like MTB.
What is a sustainable level of fossil fuel use? According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in order to stabilize carbon dioxide at twice the 1970 levels requires that we reduce carbon emissions to 2 giga-tonnes/year, roughly 1/4 of the current level. That would also extend the life expectancy of oil to close to 240 years. That would be a good start, but the current trend is clearly in the other direction. Even 240 years is short term solution when measured against the history of the human race, which itself is infinitesimally short in relation to life on earth.
What would a long term solution look like? Fossil fuel use would be reduced to near zero, with none of it being used for energy production. With the present technologies, the only truly sustainable energy source is the sun. Photovoltaic and solar thermal power generation could produce all the power needed. For stored energy, hydrogen, produced by electrolysis and used in fuel cells would be a clean and efficient technology. Other technologies may be developed in the future, but we should keep in mind that it is precisely the availability of inexpensive sources of energy that have led to the rapid depletion of most other natural resources. Solving the energy problem by itself will not lead to a sustainable world, but could in fact increase the rate of travel on an already unsustainable path.


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Ana Caban
Cello | Violin | Viola
Ana Caban began her music training during elementary school at the island of Puerto Rico. Her first instrument was the soprano recorder and she also was taught how to sing in the school choir. After graduating into 7th grade at age 12, she applied and assisted Escuela Libre de Music in Hato Rey Puerto Rico where she was discovered to have perfect pitch ability. She never met the great cellist Pablo Casals but by learning about his residence and good reputation in the island, she decided to pick up the cello.
In 1993, she auditioned and was selected to perform for world famous cellist Yo-Yo-Ma in a masterclass which took place in Melbourne Florida. After his masterclass she decided to study cello more seriously so she continued her college courses graduating in 1998 from the Florida State University School of Music. Shortly later that year, she wanted to continue studying more string technique so she moved to Portugal and traveled to the city of Madrid in Spain. In Madrid she studied with Maria de Macedo (Assistant professor of Jano Starker and Pierre Fournier.) In 2008, Ana moved to the state of Nevada. She enrolled at University of Nevada Las Vegas and decided to attend review cello lessons with Dr. Andrew Smith for one semester.
While in Nevada she worked full time as a private music teacher at a local private music school and performed occasionally at weddings and events, with most of her students passing challenging exams or auditions. Now that Ana is in the Deltona area, she is a part of the Viol Club of Central Florida in Clermont, and she performs with the Maitland Symphony Orchestra.
She has picked up the violin and viola as well as all the instruments from the viol family (antecessor of the violin family). Ana is willing to teach all forms of medieval & contemporary music and is optimistic about incoming students of all ages. She wants her students to be able to compete and survive in the demanding music field. She is a powerful motivator and has developed her own teaching philosophy against pessimism. Her favorite quote is "practice makes perfect."

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Washington, DC 20515 August 14, 1995 Mr. Norman Pearlstine
Editor-in-Chief, Time Inc.
Time & Life Building, 34th Floor
1271 Avenue of the Americas
New York, N.Y. 10020
Dear Mr. Pearlstine:
Teenage smoking is a national epidemic with profound medical consequences. Every day 3,000 children start to smoke. Nearly 1,000 of these kids will become addicted to nicotine and eventually die from lung cancer, heart disease or other illnesses caused by smoking.
Last week, the President of the United States addressed the magnitude of this public health crisis and proposed regulations to curb teen-age smoking. The President correctly identified tobacco advertising in magazines read by large numbers of children as one of the principal factors in teen-age smoking. In the President's words, this advertising is "designed to reach children so we get new customers for the tobacco companies as the old customers disappear"; it is part of "the seduction of skilled marketing campaigns aimed at exploiting their insecurities and uncertainties about life."
Your magazine, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is one of the leading outlets for tobacco advertising designed to entice children to start smoking. Every issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is read by millions of American children. As these kids read about the lives and achievements of their sports heros, they are literally bombarded by advertising promoting the virtues of smoking.
The July 31, 1995, issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED demonstrates how the tobacco companies are using your magazine to hook children. This issue contains five full-page advertisements for cigarettes. One two-page ad features Team Penske, the car-racing team sponsored by Philip Morris, displaying five Marlboro logos. The aption is "Marlboro Team Penske/Follow Us." An ad for Camel cigarettes advertises the Camel collector's pack, urging kids to "collect all ten, before they are history, again."
The tobacco industry's advertising budget has exploded from less than $500 million in 1970 to over $6 billion today. This omnipresent assault is achieving its goal: more of our youth are smoking and a new generation of Americans is turning into nicotine addicts. We are confident that this is not your intent. But without question, it is the effect of the tobacco advertisements in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED.
We call upon you to stop publishing tobacco advertisements in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED voluntarily. The tobacco industry has already filed a lawsuit to derail the President's initiative. Similiar efforts will likely be made in Congress. These efforts, however, do not need to delay voluntary action by responsible publications to stop exposing children to msnipulative tobacco advertisements.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has taken courageous stands in the past on environmental problems, teen-age gambling, and other important issues facing our society. Now that the President and the entire U.S. medical establishment have found that tobacco advertisements in magazines like SPORTS ILLUSTRATED entice children to smoke, we ask you to take a similar step on tobacco by putting the health of our children ahead of the magazine's corporate profits.
As you consider your responsibilities on this issue, we urge you to consider the example of McDonald's, Taco Bell, Dunkin' Donuts, and many other restaurants that serve children. At the urging of many of us, these responsible corporations have already voluntarily agreed to go smoke-free.
We request that you publish this letter in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. We also respectfully request the opportunity to meet with you at your earliest convenience to discuss our concerns further.
Rep. HENRY WAXMAN
Sen. BILL BRADLEY
Rep. JAMES HANSEN
Rep. RICHARD DURBIN
Rep. MARTIN MEEHAN
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It has been more than 3 year since I bought it, I dropped countless times, yet no cracks on the screen. Despite RAM is getting too small, and system update is not up-to-date, it is a wonderful phone. I would not replace it if all the apps I need are compatible with the phone.
I got this device in 2014. Until now I still use it and have never experienced problems at all.
CHOCOLATE Boy, 01 May 2017I bought this phone in 2014 but Now I think it was my big mistake Don't buy any Sony mobile ... moreNot everyone is bad :) All i can see its just fanboy :)
mgpatel , 23 Jan 2017i bought xperia t3 at 19999/-INR.with in 15 month its PCB is not work properly so phone contin... moreChange rom and enjoy
I have been using sony xperia t3 since last 3/4 months. The service centre reloaded software twice. Now it is not working. I approached service centre. After checking they intimated me that the mother board needs to be changed. Isn't strange to find such after one and half year. The inbuilt camera is good one. I wont recommend any one to go for Sony brand of mobile. May i request you to advice me how can I use the inbuilt camera and sound system only. This is hopeless to face such experience after spending about twent thousand of rupees on this phone.
this phone is to week and to mush hang i cant use this phone i break it..
I bought this phone in 2014 but
Now I think it was my big mistake
Don't buy any Sony mobile
It 🔥 heating up
Bad in gaming
Worst device....
i bought xperia t3 in 2015 but no new updates till now stll kitkat my phone back has totaly cracked without any fall. So buying sony phones are worthless...Never ever buy this crap again.
AnonD-421624, 20 Jan 2017does xperia t3 supports 4g
and can get lollipop update
great phone
using my xperia f... moreJio supported yes or no
i bought xperia t3 at 19999/-INR.with in 15 month its PCB is not work properly so phone continuously shut down and heated. I disappointed to Sony b'coz Price of PCB is 7650/-INR so it is so costly. I suggest to all Don't buy any Mobile Of Sony Xperia
does xperia t3 supports 4g
and can get lollipop update
great phone
using my xperia for 3 years
sai, 03 Jan 2017my sony xperia t3 mobile not supporting to the 4G sim but in the network technology specifica... moreHey can u have write manual setting and then save wait two minutes sure work lte
my sony xperia t3 mobile not supporting to the 4G sim but in the network technology specification(internet) it is showng LTE option .please let me know whether is it supporting the LTE or not?.if it supports how shoud i access
I have been using Sony product for morethan a year now nd the phone is working fine
but I just bought the Xperia T3 I wanted to know how fast it is to use
I have had the phone for about a year. At first it was great but the 8GB of memory isn't enough and only about half of it is available to the user. On top of that phone would get really hot when taking pictures using it's AR Effects app. (It's an app that allows you to add special effects to anything your camera is looking at. After about 5 mins of using it, the camera would shut off from the phone being too hot. The phone also stopped recognizing my SIM card but I'm not sure if this was a problem of the phone or the SIM card being 2.5 years old.
If you're a person who tends to drop your phone a lot, I would definitely recommend a case for this phone. After the aforementioned problems, I dropped it a few times and the controls along the sides of the phone fell off and now I have to turn the screen on and off with a pen.
It plays videos and does phone calls wondrously and works in the US and in Europe.
WoW! You guys are... wow
So you buy a phone for about 280-300$ and you want it to be waterproof, ultra 16K front and rear camera, 16gb of ram and to be cold as ice. What is wrong with you? I have this phone for over a year and half, it works great, yes it gets hot while charging, but that's normal! I use instagram, snapchat, fb, messenger, what up, few games, and it works normal. Sometimes it's crash app or two, but that is normal! If you want to buy a phone for 200$ and if you want it to work....well you should just... and stop waisting air.


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Today's session was dedicated to build a group fanzine…
After everyone created them own cover and back of the fanzine and also a internal page with each Design Philosophy categories, we all seated in groups each one with the same category… for example my group were the " Ethics ".
We all discussed about the layout of the pages, what pages were going to be first and the next one and how many pages were together… sorted all of that and organised in the best way possible to match and have a good display of the fanzine at the end.
Now I will show you some examples of the way that you can configure the pagination and layouts, there are plenty of different ideas:


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2017 Hyundai Veracruz Review
For a very long time, we have associated the automobile manufacturer, 2017 Hyundai Veracruz, with elegant, classy and stylish cars. True to their form, this automobile giant is poised to release yet another grand masterpiece that will give every car enthusiast a reason to get themselves this car. When the 2017 Hyundai Veracruz hits the markets, the world will surely be treated to yet another fine product of Hyundai worth risking for. So, what is it about this automobile that's worth the fuss? Join me to find out.
2017 Hyundai Veracruz Review
2017 Hyundai Veracruz the exterior design of this SUV will be stylish on the outside for enhanced aesthetic appeal. Some of the notable exterior features shall be the head lamp LED that shall be designed in a stylish manner that befits a SUV if this stature. 2017 Hyundai Veracruz the lights will not only make this vehicle look more elegant but will also go a long way in improving visibility when driving at night or in any poor visibility condition such as in foggy weather. However, that will not be the only beauty of incorporating the LED lamps in this SUV, as buyers will find that they will also contribute to the reduction of electricity consumption, thereby improving the overall fuel economy of the automobile. In addition to the LED, lamps, there will also be a larger grille that will provide the SUV with a more aggressive look on the roads. The exterior design shall also feature enlarged air outlets so that the engine will be able to obtain enough cooling air. The incorporation of larger wheels will also add to the SUVs already aggressive look.
2017 Hyundai Veracruz the first thing that the interior of this SUV will feature is the beautiful black setting that will create a more formal and relaxed interior atmosphere. Buyers will also find 7 closed leather seats which will be organized in three rows with folded back row. This will ensure that there is enough room for occupants and enough cargo space as well. 2017 Hyundai Veracruz a touch screen installed at the central part of the cabin will be ideal for displaying the status as well as the situation of some of the features that could come with the SUV. An interior control dual-zone climate will ensure that the interior temperature is regulated to the desires of the occupants. A highly functional safety belts and airbags are among the security incentives included in the interior design. 2017 Hyundai Veracruz there will also be a modern entertainment system fully fitted with a host of state-of-the-art connectivity options such as Bluetooth, WI-Fi and USB.
2017 Hyundai Veracruz Engine
The 2017 Hyundai Veracruz will come with a V8 engine of 5.0 liters that may create 450 horsepower and 380 pound feet of torque. In addition, the engine will be coupled to an eight-speed transmission and can perform using the contemporary four-wheel drives. Buyers should also expect an engine with a greater gas mileage.
2017 Hyundai Veracruz Price and Release Date
It is believed that the 2017 Hyundai Veracruz will hit the markets anytime in the second half of the year 2016. Interested buyers should expect to cough up to $ 39, 000 for this SUV, and rightfully so considering all it has to offer.


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Some cheery thoughts on the preservation of books in the year 802,701 A.D., courtesy of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine (1898):
"I went out of that gallery and into another and still larger one, which at the first glance reminded me of a military chapel hung with tattered flags. The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them. But here and there were warped boards and cracked metallic clasps that told the tale well enough. Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified. At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the Philosophical Transactions and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics."
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Santa Clara : Santa Clara University
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Silvia Figueira
Currently, robotics navigation systems are very expensive and difficult to use, decreasing the accessibility of the robotics field to the common individual. Without resources and technical knowledge, it is very difficult to enter the field of robotics. This limitation may be preventing many potential scientific discoveries from occurring. The H2OBot Navigation System is an Android based mobile application that aims to dramatically cut the costs of hardware associated with robotics navigation systems and increase their usability in hopes of making the field of robotics accessible to all. The application is capable of sending navigational controls to an ROV, displaying live video feed from the machines built-in camera device, and collecting sensor readings from the robot. Although the application is currently only built to communicate with a specific ROV, the future goal of this project is to expand its compatibility to work with any robotic system.
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Chong, Amanda; Hardesty-DeMenge, Noel; Martin, Thomas; and Shaffer, Alec, "H2OBot: Navigation System" (2014). Computer Engineering Senior Theses. 16.


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Culture Diary w/c 09-05-2016
What's hot this week? Our pick of the arts listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK…
Monday — Exhibition Opening: 9th Of May @ Art Represent, London — FREE
Be sure to visit Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikosvka's (above) first solo exhibition titled the 9th of May, named after Victory Day, which celebrates the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. Inspired by the sociopolitical events taking place in her home country, including the government's attempt at rewriting the history of the Second World War, and the ongoing dictatorship over Crimea, Kulikosvka expresses her distaste and rebellion through her work. Her sculptures, ceramics and sketches interpret the relationship between humankind and war, creating a message of hope and resistance.
Viking Moses 9pm @ Caledonia, Liverpool — Donation Entry
The modern day nomad (as we like to call him) returns to one of his most regular touring cities tonight; which is no mean feat, as he's reputedly been on tour since 1993. See the US singer songwriter — described by pop mogul Alan McGee as "the most uniquely talented musician since Kurt Cobain… an absolute genius" — perform tracks from his latest LP, Jahiliyah.
Tuesday — Exhibition Opening: Fierce Light 12-7pm @ East Gallery NUA, Norwich — FREE
Created as we come close to commemorating 100 years since the Battle of the Somme, Fierce Light is a collection of works from international filmmakers and poets inspired by one of the bloodiest battles in history; killing over one million men. The exhibition artistically captures the nightmare of war and includes eery works by renowned poet Simon Armitage; creating a time capsule for us to look back and learn from the tragedies of our ancestors.
Wednesday — Exhibition Opening: Painting With Light 10am-6pm @ Tate Britain, London — £16-18
Immerse yourself in the art and photography from the Pre-Raphaelites all the way up to the contemporary age with this new exhibition at Tate Britain, which boasts nearly 200 works; including (above) Bowder Stone, Borrowdale (c.1863-8) by Atkinson Grimshaw. Looking back at the history of art photography and its intersection with painting, Painting With Light focuses on the aesthetic beauty sought from the different mediums of art throughout different periods in time.
PICK OF THE WEEK: Thursday — Manchester After Hours 5pm-Late @ Venues Across Manchester — Events Individually Priced (Most FREE)
Described as a "one-night, city-wide social", Manchester After Hours is one night where the city refuses to sleep — instead offering a huge programme of arts and culture events for all to enjoy. From D'Arts Festival at the Whitworth, to Physical at The Portico, or Climate Control at Manchester Museum, there is something for everyone; including an experience of the world's oldest surviving passenger steam-train at the Museum of Science and Industry.
PICK OF THE WEEK: Friday — Light Night Liverpool 2016 5pm-Late @ Venues Across Liverpool — FREE
It's back, and bigger than ever! Light Night Liverpool unlocks the city after hours for a one-night-only arts and culture festival. Every major venue in town will be taking part, and even expect a secret visit from Liverpool Biennial. Our top picks include Experimental Shakespeare and a Silent Disco at Central Library, the Great Art Bake Off at Tate (above), and an appearance from Open 2: Pieces of You artist Phoebe Kiely in Open Eye Gallery's specially constructed dark room. Oh, and don't forget to attend the After Party at Constellations when you're done!
Exhibition Opening: Afro Supa Hero 10am-5pm @ International Slavery Museum, Liverpool — FREE
Artist Jon Daniel (below) takes a closer look into the importance of Black role models and their capacity to inspire the youth of today. Specialising in the niche collection of comics and games featuring positive Black characters, Daniel has transformed his hobby into an exhibition celebrating the journey from childhood to adulthood, in an era still struggling with racism yet celebratory of African heritage and identity.
Saturday — Meet Todd White 12-2pm @ Whitewall Galleries, Liverpool — FREE (RSVP)
American artist and professional charmer, Todd White, is set to meet the British public during his White Hot tour of nationwide Whitewall Galleries. Known for his risqué paintings of seductive women from the glamorous eras of the past, the expressionist artist has had works commissioned by the Grammy Awards and even his own set of Coca-Cola bottles. Enjoy the evening mingling with the coolest artist in town — just don't mention his past as the creator of Spongebob Squarepants, since he still finds it a touch embarrassing.
GIT Awards 7.30pm @ Constellations, Liverpool — Tickets Available Soon
Revel in the music of Merseyside bands as they battle it out at the fifth edition of the Get Into This Awards. Expect to find great bands you've never heard of before and enjoy a night of drinks, dancing, and live music. Not to mention, the winning live act will receive a cash prize of £1000.
Sunday — Nebraska (2013) 5.30pm @ A Small Cinema, Liverpool — £3-4
In honour of Dementia Awareness Week, Small Cinema are showing the Academy Award-nominated black-and-white comedy-drama Nebraska. This quirky film focuses on a son assisting his decrepit father as they journey across the States to collect a $1 million winning sweepstakes ticket. Despite the wearings of age and alcoholism, the father-son bond is strengthened through selflessness and simply looking out for one another through trying times.
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Don't have a Chihuahua? You can still take part in the excitement with our all breeds contests for best dressed and best trick! All doggie competitors must have up-to-date vaccinations and leashed when not racing. Unruly dogs will be excused, and we ask that owners please pick up after their pets.
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What are the Best Questions to Ask When Creating a Buyer Persona?
So, you've heard about the usefulness of buyer personas and have decided to roll up your sleeves and knock one out. I mean, really, how hard can it be? But, as you stare at the blank screen you realize that aside from capturing basic demographic information, you don't know the first place to start.
Buyer personas are highly customized, written documents that describe fictional people who represent the target market for a business. They are based on as much real data and market research as possible. Naturally, the more information you can gather, the better.
It's not uncommon to create multiple buyer personas. Each one would represent the different types of customers and/or individuals involved in a purchasing decision. So you can see how this can become a bigger project that one might expect. But, I promise, it will be worth your while.
We create buyer personas to get into the minds of our customers. We need to understand who our customers are and the issues they face so we can do a better job of attracting, serving and retaining them. Buyer personas can help you improve your marketing, customer service, sales and product development. So, what are you waiting for?
"Customer service shouldn't be just a department, it should be the entire company."
– Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
Although there is no one-size-fits-all list of buyer persona questions, there are some common ones you can use as a starting point. I have captured them in the nifty infographic below. If you run a B2B focused organization, your buyer persona questions will focus more on your customers' professional life. A B2C company, however, will need to tailor their personas toward personal concerns.
If you would like more information about what buyer personas are, why they are important and how they might be used, please be sure to read my post titled, "What Every SMB Should Know About Buyer Personas." If you prefer to talk to me in person, feel free to reach out in the comments below or through my contact form.
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Hi Amy,
Great infographic on creating buyer personas! I shared it here: https://www.guidetodigital.com/why-buyer-personas-are-important
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text: Be Weather Wary When Scouting June 28, 2017 02:30 PM Tweet Target your scouting this season based on weather risks. © AgWeb TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Sonja Begemann Farm Journal Seeds and Crop Production Editor Email Twitter Insects and diseases likely to vary this season—here's what should be top of mind Insects got off easy this winter and persistent wet conditions this spring mean diseases have a head start. "This season, more than most, 55-mph drive-by scouting just isn't going to work," says Erich Eller, crop consultant and owner of ForeFront Ag Solutions in Indiana. "One reason is you might find more insect issues if you have a lot of replanting or late planting on your farm." The potential for bigger, stronger flushes of insects means you have to be ready to act. "If you look at states all around we're hearing about large flights of armyworm," says Dean Grossnickle, Syngenta agronomic services representative. "Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin have all put out bulletins about them." Armyworms are flying in from southern states with rain and warmer temperatures. They attack corn leaves, sometimes defoliating them. Scout through July and consider treatment if more than 50% of plants show fresh feeding and larvae are 1¼" long. "Corn rootworm might not be a bigger hatch than normal, but in my area we're three to five weeks behind so any pressure on that small of plants will intensify damage," Eller says. Corn rootworm pose a double threat by attacking the crop in two stages, larvae and beetle. Watch for root damage from larvae through July, which can lead to lodging. Consider treatment if you see eight or more rootworms per plant after washing roots or two rootworms per plant if you don't wash roots. Adult beetles attack the top of the plant from July through September. If silks are clipped to ½" or less during pollination it can impact the number of kernels that develop. Consider treatment if silks are clipped to ½" or shorter and fewer than 50% of plants are pollinated. "European corn borer is making a comeback as more farmers try conventional corn to cut costs," says Kelley Timon, Ohio State University Extension specialist and associate professor. The pest of old tunnels into leaves, stalks, tassels, ears and ear shanks, causing standability issues and dropped ears. With the potential for three generations, corn borer attack from June to October. There's no defined threshold for the pest. You'll need to look at yield potential, number of borers per plant, and cost and effectiveness of treatment. Hybrids with Bt proteins provide protection from this pest, but scouting is still important because corn borer's resistance to the protein is growing in many states. Finally, watch for bean leaf beetle in soybeans because the mild winter increases the likelihood of a surge in populations. The beetle defoliates plants and has two generations per year—so you need to scout for them all season. In soybeans, consider treatment if there's 15% defoliation from bloom to pod fill and if there's 25% defoliation with active feeding from full pod to harvest. "The best advice I can give about insects is look around—if you can't see insects or damage it's hard to justify foliar insecticide," says Christian Krupke, Purdue University professor of entomology. "Foliar insects rely on contact, so you can only kill what you can see—if a corn borer is in the stalk an insecticide won't kill them." Expect diseases to spread faster, especially if early season stress has left plants more vulnerable. "Looking at weather and disease pressure and considering the mild winter we had, conditions might favor more gray leaf spot and northern corn leaf blight," says Melissa Bell, Mycogen commercial agronomist. Gray leaf spot (GLS) emerges from silking to maturity and prefers moderate to warm temperatures, above 75° F. Look for yellow to tan spots on leaves that turn into gray rectangle-shaped lesions as the disease progresses. Fields with a history of the disease are especially susceptible. Unlike GLS, northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) needs moderate to cool temperatures, less than 75° F. If you see cigar-shaped gray to green lesions from silking to the end of the season it's likely NCLB. The disease overwinters in corn residue so corn-on-corn fields and fields with a history of NCLB are most susceptible. Anthracnose stalk rot in corn appears at pollination and is most visible just before maturity. The disease occurs when the plant is under stress from insects or weather and the pathogen is present. Check stalks for shiny black blotches and note the inner stalk could also be black—but isn't always. The stalk will crush easily and could cause the plant to fall. Anthracnose can also affect soybeans. The leaves, pods and stems will show irregular brown spots, pods will have fewer or reduced seeds per pod and the plant might defoliate. If it stays wet and turns warm, look for frogeye leaf spot in soybeans—especially in southern states. If infected, you'll see round brown or gray lesions on leaves with reddish margins. New leaves are most likely to show signs of infection, and the disease is more likely to be found in fields with a history of frogeye. Finally, look for white mold in soybeans. It appears after the flowering stage in cool, wet weather especially in narrow rows and where it has been before. If present, plant tops will turn gray, wilt and die and hard black fungal masses will develop on or inside pods and stems. Scouting is vital to the health of your crop—make it count this year by considering weather's impact. Back to news


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It pretty much makes my day when I get a little tip or hint that makes my life easier/happier/awesome-er in some way. So that got me thinking... Why not share the little (and big) things that make my life happy. The things I love. Enter: Things I <3 Thursdays
Not sure if you noticed, but it's already evening on a Thursday and I'm just now posting this week's Things I <3 Thursdays. It's just been one of those days/weeks over here. You know what I'm talking about. We all have them. However, I want to take a moment to share something that is very close to my heart... Something that I love.
Do me a favor, will you? Just watch this for a minute. But WAIT! There's rules: Stop what you're doing and listen. Really listen to the words. Promise? Okay, proceed...
This has been my mantra lately. And this video (as well as Colbie Caillat herself - go look up some of her other songs, she's amazing) has been so inspirational for me. As a mother to four young kiddos, a wife and a business owner (among other things - think: chef, friend, chauffeur, maid... you get the point), life can get really overwhelming. I have a tendency to get hyper focused on all the seemingly important things that I don't have time for in this season of life - things that really just don't matter. They don't. And that focus takes me away from all the wonderful things that really do matter - like being completely present with my children. Like having a real conversation with my husband or giving him a big hug after a long day. Things like helping a friend in need or smiling at a stranger. Or even things like noticing the beautiful world around me and taking a moment to show appreciation. Those kinds of things.
I don't know about you, but sometimes I feel like I'm doing so many things - and yet, I'm not doing a single one of them the way I'd really like to be. I feel like I'm constantly coming up short. And that's when I catch myself and switch gears. Those feelings don't help me accomplish anything and they certainly don't help me stay focused on the things that are of importance to me. So I stop and remember what my number one goal was for that day: To get up and to try my best. Key word: TRY. Mission accomplished.
I hope you can take a moment to pause and refocus on those things that really matter most to you. Take a moment to realize that you're doing a great job. Hey! You got up and you tried today. Maybe things didn't go exactly the way you wanted them to. Maybe you made a few mistakes. Well, guess what? That's okay. Here's one of my all-time favorite quotes:
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher
Hugs friends. Keep up the fantastic work. :-)


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SAPS Air Wing Pilots
Most aviators would agree that police pilots have a much more exciting job than the most other civilian aviation industry pilots. Police pilots work in shifts and are kept on standby during night and day. The South African Police Air Wing operates a variety of aircraft including fixed-wing aircraft as well as helicopters that are based at airports around the country. They are used in many policing operations such as crime prevention, vehicle tracking and pursuit, dagga plantation spraying, crowd control and monitoring, VIP transport and even search and rescue operations.
Requirements to apply
Unlike the South African Air Force, the South African Police Air Wing does not train their own pilots. Most of the SAPS Air Wing's pilots are trained by civilian aviation flight schools and all SAPS Air Wing pilots hold SACAA pilot's licences. Their aircraft are also registered on the South African Civil Aviation register.
According to the SAPS website you need to hold a valid Commercial Pilot Licence (A/H) with a valid instrument rating to apply for a pilot position but they are known to have taken in Private Pilots (PPL) in the past. In these cases the PPL pilots would have been trained to Commercial Pilot level before getting paid. It is still illegal for a PPL pilot to be rewarded for flying! More information about Civilian Aviation Pilot training can be found here.
If you have a Commercial Pilot Licence and would like to apply for a position at the SAPS Air Wing you can visit their website for more information and contact details.
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The FENOX brake pads are produced under the state-of-the-art technologies, they exceed the European ECE R90 standard's requirements and meet the specifications for the original spare parts, what ensures peace of mind to the driver while in driving.
FENOX technologies
• Due to the «TST» (Thermo Stability technology) manufacturing formulation the FENOX brake pad friction material retains its properties even when heated above 400°C.
• The «AGTec» (Anti-Galling Technology) technology prevents galling of the brake friction material onto the disc what results in the maximum braking performance at all times.
• Due to the special geometry of the wiper groove, the surface of the brake disc is completely cleared of dust and moisture what allows the braking rate to be kept at the optimum level (0.4).
• The "3DM" (3D accuracy Movement) design and manufacture technology provides the perfect movement of the brake pads on the caliper guide-ways, whereby the braking distance is reduced by 10%.
• The metal base and the friction part of the brake pad are joined under the high pressure using a special thermo-insulating adhesive that eliminates a detachment of the friction part throughout the entire service life of the brake pad.
• The brake pads are available in a kit with a wear indicator, allowing replacement in time.
The optimal selection of materials, debugged technological process used in the manufacturing of the FENOX brake pads provide even wear of the disk and brake pad under any load, as well as a long service life of the friction pair.


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"Yay", I hear you say – someone has actually found a bona fide, reproducible problem with the last release. Apparently, the keyboard polling option in SeaBIOS causes double keyboard output in Grub, with devices which are capable of keyboard output via IRQ. So, I've made another release with the keyboard polling option of SeaBIOS removed. I recommend everybody using the last release (18/11/14) update if they ever envisage needing to use the Grub shell. Happy holidays!
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Working great. Keyboard problem fixed on my Dell 11. Thank you!
You have no idea how much you've just helped me. I'm an aspiring Computer Programmer still in my first year of college and I had very little money to actually buy a laptop, so I picked up a cheap little HP Chromebook 14 thinking it'd be enough to get me by. I've never been more wrong in my life.
Using web-based IDEs had become so costly and troublesome that I was almost paying for another laptop with expenses alone! I was getting really desperate for a way to get a full-blown desktop enviroment on my Chromebook without having to use some "dev mode" to unlock my Chromebook just so it could relock itself and wipe the partition completely. I decided to dedicate a couple of hours to scowering the web for some information on this Chromebook thinking I could modify a couple things to remove the default ROM it has installed. Finding your blog was a god send. After about an hour I had Debian up and running on this Chromebook.
The only issue I had was that 16Gb seemed abismal for what I was going to be doing, so I went out and bought a 128GB Sandisk SD card and I'm currently using that as my root partition. Needless to say, I've now got a 16GB bootloader/ /home partition integraded into my Chromebook :D.
Anyway, sorry for the life story, just wanted to let you know, you've saved me a lot of time, money, and headache. Btw you can bet you'll be seeing some donations from me! Thanks again!!
Hey John,
I am currently running your seabios ROM v181214 on the Chromebook Link (Pixel) and about 4/5 times I am unable to use the keyboard during boot up. Neither the bios nor grub are able to detect it, and once I'm a while neither is my distro during init (I have Fedora 21 with FDE and need to put in my password).
Any idea why this would be?
Thanks for the awesome work man!
Hi John
I just downloaded the latest wolf ROM (aka Dell Chromebook 11) purely to extract the config.
In there it says the ROM was built with commit cef55018e4e936af9a758675353e332df4d9d1a6 – however that commit doesn't appear to be in the coreboot repo.
In fact it appears to come instead from https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/coreboot/+/cef55018e4e936af9a758675353e332df4d9d1a6/src/cpu/intel/haswell/bootblock.c
Do you have a private mirror with changes, or are they published anywhere?
Hi John
Thanks for reply – some more questions if I may:
1) In a previous post about building the firmware you talk about cloning the vanilla coreboot repo: http://johnlewis.ie/compiling-your-own-coreboot-firmware-for-the-samsung-series-5-550-chromebook/ – that's why I was surprised to find you were using Google's fork. If you've not made changes to Google's fork (other than the minor one you mentioned), I don't see how changes such as removing the developer mode warning screen is achieved?
2) There's substantial differences in the config from the latest wolf ROM I downloaded from you, to what's on my Dell Chromebook 11.
Looking through your blog posts you mention a few of these, but I wondered if you source control your config settings somewhere publicly? Commit messages for each change would be very illuminating.
3) How does jeltka get into the ROM if you've not made changes to the Google fork of Coreboot? Do you just dd it in to the resulting image? Is the jeltka source posted anywhere?
4) The resulting cbfs layout is quite different – why the significant offset change?
Thanks for all your posts on this – very helpful by the way.
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Professor Ken Howard OBE RA
Born London 1932
Ken Howard is one of few living artists who are able to capture light so vividly in both oil and watercolour. After art school and working as the official war artist for the Imperial War Museum, he travelled widely painting life and nature with superb honesty and accuracy, demonstrating a magical understanding of light, often found in works by artists such as J.M.W. Turner.
He has exhibited at the Royal Academy since 1964 being elected ARA in 1983 and RA in 1992, having won a number of major awards along the way.
Today he is known for his ability to fuse light and atmosphere in paint. His range of subjects encompasses the studio nude, Venetian scenes and Cornish beaches. His work is to be found in many private and public collections including the Imperial War Museum and Plymouth City Art Gallery.
Ken Howard is one of the most popular artists painting today and his contributions to the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy are always amongst the first to sell. He also plays a very active role in supporting his fellow artists, he is President of the New English Art Club, on the Council and various committees of the Royal Academy and a keen supporter of the Artist's General Benevolent Fund. Paintings by Ken Howard can be found in many public collections including The National Army Museum, The Imperial War Museum and the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.


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|Our beautiful river park looks like a bomb has exploded in it
|This is the entrance to the park
|The water was so deep over this area that the grass and gas BBQ was left in place, while trees and infrastructure was wiped out.
|This is all that is left of our wonderful picnic spots
|Colleges Crossing was under 2m of mud, volunteers cleared and cleaned it. The water is still very high, because there are huge trees underneath blocking the flow of water.


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Qualifications & Routes into Indirect Tax
The graduate training programmes instituted by the top firms in the late 1990′s are now a firmly embedded part of the indirect tax world. Accountancy firms of all shapes and sizes have formal training programmes in place.
The CTA (Chartered Tax Advisor) qualification is the most widely used as part of graduate training programmes. Indirect Tax specialists take the 'Indirect Tax Route'.
The CTA Indirect Tax Examination Structure
Students take three modules from the Awareness paper (three hours in length):
- Accounting
- Other Indirect Taxes
- One of either: Taxation of Unincorporated Businesses or Corporation Tax
Students take two Advisory papers (three hours in length plus 15 minutes reading time)
- VAT onUKDomestic Transactions, IPT & SDLT
- VAT on Cross-Border Transactions & Customs Duties
Application & Interaction
Students take one Application and Interaction case study (three hours in length plus 15 minutes reading time).
- VAT & other Indirect Taxes
Students take two E-Assessments (one hour in length)
- Professional Responsibilities & Ethics
- Law
Students must sit and pass the Awareness paper first unless certain other professional or academic qualifications are held, details of which can be found at the website www.tax.org.uk.
The Benefits of Professional Qualifications
Certainly, a professional qualification is a real advantage on your road to Indirect Tax 'glory' – whether you career lies in practice or commerce, a qualification is seen as strong evidence of your intellectual and professional capability.
Our dialogue with commercial organisations has revealed their increasingly stringent demands regarding qualifications, especially as in most instances Indirect Tax specialists are physically situated in a finance function and therefore must be able to hold their own amongst their peers. This is especially true in financial / City organisations.
This said, it must be remembered that the majority of Indirect Tax specialists have carved out very successful careers (whether in practice or commerce), unhindered by their lack of formal qualifications - it seems that ultimately there's no substitute for great experience and attitude!


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Ya'll know how much I just love Spring! Well block #7 is all about Spring! Easter actually:
The little chicks, eggs and carrots were a package of buttons that mom bought for me. I'm sure you've seen them at the craft stores.
This is a really bright cheery block isn't it?
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Crazy Memento Quilt Block #7
Posted by Pamela Kellogg at 10:06 AM
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How cute it is, yes! Very spring-like and definitely evokes thoughts of Easter. You are always so creative in the ways you use pins and buttons.
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Recipes with coffee
Almost everyone in India is using coffee powder only as a part of their beverage drink, out of which hot and cold coffee is the most common ones!
While I was writing this article, I was getting tempted to make a coffee for myself!
It's like, "1 cup of coffee a day, keeps me happy all day!"
Coffee is great unless you overdo it. it helps in keeping you alert while you on work, but overdoing it might interfere with your sleeping cycle. So just take care. Moderation is the key to happiness!
However, have you ever thought of eating coffee rather than drinking it?
Try these mouth-watering recipes with coffee powder and share your views on the same!
Coffee Cake With Fruity Effect.
Ingredients: –
– 2 tbsp. of bananas (chopped)
– 1 scoop of strawberry ice-cream
– 1 cup of eggless vanilla cake (spongy)
– 2-3 pieces of nut chikki
– 1 tsp of coffee powder
– 1 cup of warm water
-2-3 pieces of nut chikki
– 1 strawberry waffle roll (optional)
Method: –
– Prepare coffee soaking syrup by mixing 1 tsp of coffee powder in 1 cup of warm water.
– Add ½ cup of vanilla cake in the soaking coffee syrup evenly.
– Add 2 tbsp of chopped banana evenly on the coffee syrup soaked the vanilla cake.
– After adding banana, add 2-3 pieces of nutty chiki on the same.
– After all these toppings, add 1 scoop of strawberry ice-cream.
– Garnish it with chikki and waffle roll (optional).
– Serve chilled.
Cappuccino Mousse
Ingredients: –
– 2 cups of milk
– 10 gms of plain agar agar
– 2 tbsp. of palm sugar/brown sugar/stevia
-1 tbsp. of low-fat cream
– 2 tbsp. of cocoa powder + 2 tbsp. of milk
– 2 tbsp. of coffee powder + 2 tbsp. of warm water
– 1 tbsp. of vermicelli (chocolate can be optional)
Method: –
– Combine 2 cups of water with agar-agar in a non-stick pan and cook on a slow flame till it dissolves completely in the water. Stir it continuously.
– Once it dissolves completely in the water, keep aside and strain the mixture through a muslin cloth or a strainer.
– Boil the milk and add the agar-agar which is kept aside. Now add sugar substitute+ cocoa powder + coffee syrup. Mix well.
– Simmer on a slow flame for 5-8 minutes, while stirring continuously.
– Remove from the flame and cool it down.
– Add the cream to the cooled mixture and mix well.
– Refrigerate for 4-6 hours or till the coffee mousse has set.
– Serve chilled garnished with chocolate vermicelli (optional).
Jamaican Passion Shot
Ingredients: –
– 1 cup of vanilla ice-cream
– 2 tsp. of coffee powder
– 2 tbsp. of honey
– 1 and ½ cup of crushed ice
– 2 tbsp. of whipped cream
Method: –
– Combine vanilla ice cream+ coffee powder+ honey crushed ice in a mixer and blend till it becomes smooth
– In each shot glass, you must pour equal quantity of the drink and serve immediately garnished with 1 tbsp. of whipped cream.
Try these mouth-watering recipes with coffee powder and thank us later!
More recipes coming up! Stay tuned!


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The Berlin selector will play his first show in London next month.
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I was deleting some pictures from my phone when I came across some of our cruise pictures. I don't know about you, but I love to cruise, which was tough for me in the beginning. The first time I went on a cruise, I was so sea sick I missed some of the fun of being on a ship.
I have since visited my doctor to get patches. The patch fits behind your ear and really makes a difference for those of us who suffer from motion sickness. It's not a total fix because I did have one day when I was slightly queasy. So was everyone else! We just had a day of rough waters.
Now, if you haven't cruised, it is so worth trying. And for those who have taken a cruise, you know that packing can be daunting especially if you have to fly to your ship's port. I'm fortunate to live in Florida, so I don't have to fly to any of the ports. We can drive.
However, I still like to pack clothes that are multi-functional. The navy blue skirt below worked for me during the day and night.
Because the skirt was long and flowing, I needed a short top or something tucked in. I chose a light t shirt top I bought at Old Navy and tucked in just the front, so there wasn't too much focus on my waist. I then added a thin, red belt for a little pop of color. I bought the skirt at Bealls, a Florida store. It's cotton knit, so it packed well and was comfortable for the hot days. I also wore this skirt at night for dinner. I changed the top to a white asymmetrical tank and added a scarf.
If you're familiar with cruising, you know there are dress up nights. This is a great time to have your picture taken. In the picture below, I'm wearing white pants with a black asymmetrical top, which is longer than my white tank.
I love black and white. The classic combination works for dress and casual. I was able to combine the top and pants with other items to create more outfits.
Speaking of white, I was going to take the beach cover up, below, but decided I didn't need it since I had a number of other cover ups. It can be worn at night with slacks, as well. This is one of my Etsy creations and is available here.
Enjoy your day, and if you get a chance, try a cruise. It's a great adventure.


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Personality Edit
Spike is occasionally sarcastic and sometimes laughs at others' misfortunes; in Bridle Gossip, he comes up with nicknames for the ponies after their exposure to poison joke; Hairity, Rainbow Crash, Spitty Pie, Apple Teeny, and Flutterguy; however, he can't think of a nickname for Twilight Sparkle and says, "I can't even work with that." When the ponies leave, he finally comes up with the nickname "Twilight Flopple." In Winter Wrap Up, he makes fun of Twilight's terrible nest-making and skating skills. However, he is very helpful and supportive towards Twilight in Lesson Zero. For instance, Spike is the only member of the main cast to take Twilight's concerns about missing a report to Princess Celestia seriously, unlike the other ponies. He is often defensive about his masculinity and dismissive of things he considers "girly," although his outward disdain is often a front. In The Ticket Master, for instance, Spike scoffs at the idea of attending the "girly Gala gunk" throughout the episode, but he's overjoyed when Princess Celestia sends him a ticket at the end. Spike is a fun-loving dragon: he enjoys the welcome party that Pinkie Pie throws for Twilight in Friendship is Magic, part 1, and scarfs down candy in Nightmare Night.


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Table of contents for Destroyer [Inuyasha]
- Inuyasha Fanfiction: Destroyer
TITLE: Destroyer
AUTHOR: setosgirl
FANDOM: Inuyasha
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Inuyasha.
PAIRINGS: technically none, possible Naraku/Sesshoumaru connotations
TYPE: gore… does that count as Drama?
OCs: none
CHAPTER: Oneshot, or maybe 1/3 or 4
WARNINGS: torture. Almost five thousand words of torture. You could also consider it a take on MPREG.
SUMMARY: Sesshoumaru has been captured by Naraku, who once again wants his power. It seems that this time, though, he wants something more… He wants to destroy him first.
NOTES: When I say gore, I mean it. This story is written as an excuse to very literally destroy Sesshoumaru (because I like him, not because I hate him). It features explicit descriptions of gore and torture, and is an example of the guro fetish or style, involving gore and amputation. I'm considering, if this has an audience and/or I feel like it, writing two more chapters – the second having different kinds of torture, possible but pretty unlikely N/C included, and the third involving humiliation and pity/sympathy (since that is a large appeal of it to me; why ruin a boy unless there is someone to acknowledge how bad it is?). That is only a possibility, however. I would like to hear your thoughts. If, however, you find it a bit much, I have to say I warned you.
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Golden eyes opened to darkness.
The prisoner lifted his head from the floor. His heightened sight made sense of faint shades undetectable to humans, resolving the darkness into irregular patterns of rises and depressions that resembled nothing he was aware of. His sharp ears heard a faint pulsating, a heartbeat originating from nowhere, and as he moved a creak, as of wood. More importantly still, his nose was filled with only one scent, a pungent, rotting stench.
"Naraku," he breathed.
Around his throat, something tightened with his word like a living collar, pressing on his windpipe without cutting off breath, telling him for the moment only that it was there… but that it could, if it chose, decide to strangle him. Not that he would allow it to be there that long. He jerked his head with moderated strength to break it, only to have his neck snapped to a stop at the end of its length, a length that he discovered no amount of strength or straining could pull it past.
That wasn't all that he discovered. Moving awakened his limbs in a rush of needle-pains all up his arm and his legs; they had been so far asleep he had not even realized he could not feel them. He twisted his head in its bond to look, finding his arm bound at the wrist above his head in what seemed like a protrusion of the wall. It was pulled back to put his shoulder at an awkward angle that would make sitting up any further painful even if he could. His legs were spread, wide, with his knees under him, forcing him to kneel with his chest parallel to the rough floor. They were bound not only at the ankle but up to the knee where the floor grew partially over them, and he could not yet move them enough to test the strength of those bonds. Even what was left of his left arm was bound beneath and around the shoulder to the floor; that limb he could move easily, but there was no strength in it. How long he had been in this position to lose his circulation so badly, or to what end, he could not guess.
Even so, he knew by whom.
"Naraku," he called again coldly, barely raising his voice. As he spoke he twisted his dead hand, forcing it to wake, and sank the claws into the hard material that pulled it toward the ceiling. The smell as he released his venom into it was bitter and acrid – not the smell of his toxin, but the smell of it mixing with another volatile poison.
"I wouldn't do that."
He hadn't heard a step. The collar dug into his neck as he jerked his head around, teeth already slightly bared. Naraku stood at the edge of his vision behind him. He didn't have to see him clearly; smirking, red eyes glowing faintly in the darkness, spikes rising from his back, he would not have looked more at home stepping directly out of Hell.
"That," Naraku repeated, stepping calmly up between his spread legs and grabbing his fingers. He pried them from the manacle without seeming to struggle. A drop of venom fell from a claw and sizzling on the floor without doing any harm. "Don't think I had forgotten that talent. I've modified my poison to react… poorly, with yours. If you'd rather keep trying until the gas eats away your lungs, though, I'll wait."
He would have liked to believe Naraku was lying, but he wasn't; the smell was already burning his nose painfully – most poisons were simply ineffectual against him, and he could not be bluffing. Still, he refused to answer, seeing instead the ramifications of that poison. He realized that whatever bound him was less like wood or stone and more like the bony protrusions that made Naraku's spikes; with the poison, then, they were within Naraku, or within something he had created of himself or his cast-off pieces. Naraku meant, yet again, to absorb him and his power.
This time he did not have Tenseiga to keep him at bay. His hand clenched, claws swiping for Naraku's hand – missing – but that did not change the fact that his sword was gone, with his clothes and armor, and the fur that draped around him would offer little protection and little chance of freeing him.
"Don't you have anything to say?" Naraku's fingers, blunt and disgustingly human fingers, ran gently down the back of his hand, openly unafraid of his claws.
"You are going to die." He twisted his head to give a cold glare over his shoulder.
A silky chuckle came from his captor. "I've heard that before, Sesshoumaru…"
He stared unblinking at the dark form behind him. This was far from the weak human puppeteer wearing a stinking pelt and deferentially calling him by his proper title, as he offered a dead human arm so that he could use his brother's sword. If he had seen the threat that was within him then… But he had not until Naraku had gained the confidence to openly antagonize him. Folly, it had been and still was, for Naraku to think he would win this, ever… Yet he should have killed him long ago.
Naraku's red eyes themselves seemed to smirk at him, before they shifted over to his hand, where his fingers still avoided his claws and ran over the backs of his knuckles. "You've been hard to catch," he mused. "I don't even need you any more, of course… compared to mine, your power is negligible. All you have is brute strength and sheer obstinacy – you're too dumb to know when you're outmatched."
He couldn't help himself against a surge of contempt and rage – no one described him like Inuyasha! The urge to destroy was overwhelming and he gave in to it, twisting his arm to sink his claws into Naraku's, yanking him forward at the same time that he lunged with teeth halfway through transforming into a muzzle. The collar yanked him up short, digging into his throat and squeezing, but still he snarled and strained against it, and all of the bonds. He was going to break them and rip Naraku's throat out…
A hand wound into his hair and jerked his head back, and he was forced to looked straight up into Naraku's face – so tantalizingly near, so close to being able to tear it off. He lunged upward to reach it despite the pain, but he had only to pull back a little to escape his teeth.
"Go on," Naraku invited, his voice calm and amused. "Transform, tap your whole power. If you think these walls will give, you're mistaken. You'll be turning yourself into a pile of pathetic, steaming dog guts. Not even your youki will regenerate you from that."
He growled and ceased the transformation, unwilling to admit Naraku was right, just as unwilling to kill himself. Even dimmed intellect could see Naraku was telling the truth, even if it wouldn't admit it. He had begun to grow, but the bonds that grew out of the walls had not shattered or cracked and only pressed painfully into his arms and legs and neck. If he continued and it would not break he would destroy his body.
The hand released his hair, and then stroked it in a disgusting mockery of fondness. "You are such an animal."
He struggled with the rage, and snapped at Naraku's hand but managed to resume his human form. "You are a thing."
Naraku only chuckled. "A thing who has you right where I want you." He pried Sesshoumaru's claws from his arm and kept hold of them firmly. "You do have some useful powers."
He declined to respond. He didn't trust himself to do so without giving in to the simmering rage again.
"That little sword, for instance. It's a useless stick to me, but to you… It fought to stay with you, you know." He twisted Sesshoumaru's hand around, inspecting it and pretending not to notice how he made him grit his teeth. "I can see the use in a sword like that, if it would obey me. A sword that won't let you get killed, and a sword that will let you escape from Hell if you are."
"Tenseiga will not suffer your touch," he snapped. He may not have wanted it, but Tenseiga was his and had chosen him, and Naraku would not even dare to covet it, much less speak as though he already owned it, not if it was in his power to prevent. His claws scratched vainly at the air, straining for him again.
His fingers were snatched in he air and held tightly together, pulled straight. "Oh no… not mine…" Naraku ran a finger down his palm, and he growled almost inaudibly. At least, Naraku didn't seem to hear it. "But yours…"
There were vicious hooked bone spikes that ran the length of Naraku's forearm on a false bracer; he set the tip of the last one against his wrist, and Sesshoumaru only had time to realize what he was going to do before he swept his arm back.
It was over in that one motion. Blood spurted from the hole where his hand had been, the smell and sight of it stronger at first than the pain, staining Naraku's hands slightly but mostly flowing back down his arm and soaking into his fur. He saw the claws of his severed hand clench convulsively, once, twice, and then go still. Horror and rage mingled as he watched Naraku admire his prize, smelling his blood heavy in the air. He could reattach it – if he could get it back, he could reattach it. If Naraku absorbed it, though…
Naraku's right hand simply fell off, as though it had been shed, bloodlessly, and he held his hand to the end of his arm. There was that choking smell of mixing toxins again, but Naraku's obviously won and it faded before it grew dangerous. The bony plates grew up around the wrist and secured the hand. It was already moving of its own volition as Naraku tested it out, admiring the claws. It looked ludicrously delicate compared to the rest of him; fine long fingers and claws suited Naraku as well as the wings of a butterfly would have. He didn't seem to mind it.
"I think this will do," he mused, and flexed the claws again. "I'll have to test it with the sword. I thought you would have screamed, though."
The claws ran from the end of his arm down to his elbow, lightly caressing his skin. A low growl bubbled in his throat; he swallowed it, barely. "I have lost worse," he said instead, twisting his arm away from Naraku. The bleeding had already stopped, the end of his arm probably healed over; the pain wasn't yet gone, but he had, as he said, had far worse than that deep ache. It was his pride that hurt most of all right now.
A low chuckle came again, and then Naraku's heavy blunt hand fell on the end of his other arm, what was left of it. "Of course," he agreed, lifting that stump so that he could inspect it. "Not even at my hands."
The digging at his wounded pride was too much; he twisted and snapped his teeth at Naraku, forgetting for the moment that he couldn't reach. His own hand can from behind him and smashed his head into the floor.
"Fast," Naraku said in approval, as he pulled his head up and spat blood on the floor from his broken lip.
He chose not to answer. Instead he stared at the floor, fighting with rage. Naraku dared…
"I should let you go now." Claws trailed down his arm, but he didn't move. "It would be amusing to just set you free, with no hands to hold a sword even if you had one, no claws to shred anyone. What's more pathetic than a three-legged dog? The great Sesshoumaru… the amazing two-legged dog."
With his silence, he willed him to do just that. With enough time and seclusion he would regenerate the lost hand, since the wound was not made by Tetsusaiga… then he would come rip Naraku's head from his shoulders.
"You know I'm not going to."
Claws sank suddenly deep into his upper arm, pressing through flesh with no resistance. He hissed but couldn't move his arm away, and refused to give Naraku the satisfaction of watching.
The smell of blood quickly heightened; there was a horrible ripping sound and a bright shard of pain driven up to his shoulder. His jaws locked together against a cry, and he breathed deeply of the blood-tainted air. It was impossible not to look this time.
Flesh had been ripped away with a thick layer of muscle. Exposed muscle quivered and twitched in the warm air, leaking blood that ran down his arm; he saw the hard curve of blood-streaked bone showing through.
"Sharp," Naraku said unnecessarily. He admired his bloody claws, dropping the chunk of meat casually away from him. It hit the floor with a wet sucking noise and stuck there.
Sesshoumaru breathed deeply, controlling the pain, and glared silently at Naraku over his shoulder. The smell of his blood was beginning to make him nauseous. Both pain and pointless cruelty, though, he could handle. It was just more ammunition for his eventual revenge.
Naraku smirked a little at his glare, the only direct response he gave, and dug his claws into the hole in his arm. Sesshoumaru gritted his teeth and prepared himself as well as he could against the expected agony. Slowly the claws peeled the flesh and muscle back, with more slow wet ripping sounds and the excruciatingly slow tearing pain. It rolled up his arm and down to his wrist, mingling with and overwhelming the pain of his severed hand. Strips of flesh were ripped slowly upward until they hung limp from his elbow, streaming weak blood, and the bone of his arm sat naked and exposed halfway around, for half its length, staring at him.
He tasted blood; he had bitten through his lip. Still, he had not displayed any pain, let alone screamed, and that had deprived Naraku of what he wanted, and that was a victory.
"Still nothing?" Naraku wiped bloody claws through his fur, smearing the whiteness with even more red and cleaning his fingers. "Don't tell me you really are made of ice."
"Torture will accomplish you nothing."
"Maybe not… but you don't know what I want."
He looked back at him over the bloody fur. A small rivulet of blood from his arm was winding its way down his chest, dripping to the floor beneath him, clearly audible to his hearing and subtly disturbing. Naraku could want nothing but his death and his power… perhaps to cause him pain in the meantime… Why was he acting as though there were some deeper motivation?
"I said you had some useful powers," Naraku repeated. His smirk looked pleased with himself, pleased at knowing something his victim did not. He patted the shredded arm, sending spikes of pain up to steal his breath, then let his claws train down his back. "Like your speed. Your speed is damned annoying; you would have been dead long ago if you weren't so fast at running."
His chest rumbled with a growl, but he was still battling down the latest wave of pain with too much concentration to answer with words. Claws were running down the outside of his thigh now; his skin twitched but his legs were still immobilized.
"Do you think I could take that speed if I took your legs?" he mused with mock interest.
The bindings holding his leg to the floor slithered away. Sesshoumaru did not pause to think about it, only took advantage of his chance. He twisted and whipped his leg up and back, the claws of his foot ready to shred Naraku's throat.
He was caught by his knee in midair and pulled back. The force pulled his face to the floor and painfully wrenched his shoulder from its socket. Blood gushed down his arm again, and he tasted it in his mouth. For a long moment, as Naraku pulled, there was the uncomfortable feeling of being stretched, his skin seemed about to rip from the pressure. Then the other hand pressed on his back, pushing him into the floor, and the pulling just above his knee redoubled.
He screamed as the weakest point finally gave way. Blood sprayed over the room as skin tore and muscles shredded from their base. His hip twisted and separated, cartilage ripped, and his leg was torn completely from his body.
He lay panting as blood pooled underneath him, barely noticing as it reached his lips and stained them, struggling with shock and sudden blood loss. He felt agony shooting up and down his leg, a phantom but very real feeling he knew from after losing his arm. It drew a high pitched whine between his pants for air.
Something heavy thumped to the floor beside him; muscles flinched in surprise and then screamed in agony, and he bit back another whine, fighting for control of himself. He rolled his head on his chin and looked over. A gory knob of bone stuck from shredded rags of muscle and red-painted skin, staring him in the face. He could still make out a stripe curving over the edge of the hip that was no longer attached to him.
Naraku's face intruded on the view; the dismembered leg was preferable. "You know, I don't think that will give me your speed," he said with a thin smile, and lifted his head by the hair. "Not dying already, I hope?"
He smelled blood… he tasted blood… his sight seemed covered in a thin sheen of it. Without a thought he lunged forward, ripping out the hair that held him back. He could move better with his shoulder dislocated – Naraku tried to pull back, but not fast enough. His teeth sank into the vulnerable soft flesh of Naraku's throat, and he ripped it out, spitting the chunks of flesh even as he went back for another bite. Now the blood pouring over him was not all his own, and it was a much, much sweeter scent, to smell the blood of his enemy.
The collar still held him; it jerked him up short and Naraku managed to back away, bleeding, but laughing, with a horrible gurgling noise that bubbled blood from his neck wound. He didn't even raise a hand to the gash. Blood flowed down his front, painting him red in the darkness; on the floor their blood mixed together and let off the poisonous gas that drifted around them.
"Good," Naraku said – it came out harsh and bubbling and sent more blood rolling down his chest, but Sesshoumaru saw that the edges of his ravaged throat were already knitting together again. The was not even close to killing him. "You're not dying yet after all."
He growled and spat Naraku's blood from his mouth, daring him to come closer again. The surge of youki with his bloodlust had already stopped the bleeding of his leg and his arm, though neither had really healed and he was no closer to regenerating his hand. Even despite that, he felt better now with rage working on blotting out the pain, and he was in no danger. No, he was not even close to dying either.
"I have plans for you. Don't even think of giving up before I get to put them in place."
Naraku did step closer, but behind him and far out of his reach; he didn't get the satisfaction of taking any more chunks out of him. The claws ran down the center of his back, parting his skin more smoothly than any blade, and fresh rivulets of blood rolled down his sides to join the pool on the floor.
Abruptly the claws dug through the muscles and wrapped around his spine; his second scream drowned out the sound of tearing muscles as he ripped it upward. Any other sensation was lost in waves of concentrated agony, seeming to come from everywhere at once. For he knew not how long he could neither see nor hear nor smell, and experienced nothing but the pain.
The first external sensation that he recognized again was the smell of blood, far beneath the pain, and then a dark chuckle that underscored it. He couldn't spare any mental energy from the pain for anger.
Slowly his vision returned, deciphering the darkness again into shapes. His head had been yanked around, and eventually he could see Naraku's free hand wound in his hair, pulling him around so that he could see clear over his shoulder; he was sure that was causing pain, somewhere, far down below the agony that was everything else, and the angle and force of it was very dangerously close to breaking his neck, but right now he didn't care.
His eyes fastened on the sight of his spine in Naraku's other hand – still whole, but bent at an unnatural curve, suspended in the air until it disappeared back into the bloody mess of his lower back. Strings of gore stretched from the ragged, torn muscles and flesh to the streaked bone, and a web of twined nerves stretched taut from his body over the top, screaming their unbearable agony. Nerves that had already snapped from the pressure hung limp in the air beneath, alongside broken blood vessels that still streamed blood back into the cavity where his spine was removed.
"I need to do that more often," Naraku said with another chuckle, meeting his eyes to make sure he was listening. There was no sign of the mauling left on his throat, save the streaks of blood. "I think I almost killed you on accident with that."
He was barely paying him any attention. His breath was harsh and whining in his ears; the whines were too high pitched for Naraku's human ears, and he made no effort to stop them – he doubted he could. His eyes drifted back to the blood falling through the air in thin trickles. He had lost so much already… He was about to bleed to death if he didn't stop that. He was going to die here with his spine in Naraku's hands.
No, he was not.
The pain couldn't be put out of mind or ignored, but he gathered what he could of his strength and focused it in a single, brief burst of youki. It wasn't enough to heal him – not with his body disassembled and held partially in his own stolen hand – but the severed lines were healed over enough that he was no longer losing blood into his own hollowed body and the spreading pool painting the floor.
"Hn." He glanced back at Naraku, and saw the false youkai watching the flow of blood slow and stop. "Looks like I still need to entertain you, don't I? I don't want that power turned anywhere else just yet." With a smirk, he glanced up to his face, tugging back on his hair. For a moment he felt sure he meant to pull his head off… In his condition, that would be almost certainly fatal.
Instead, he viciously twisted his spine in the hand that held it, using his own former strength against him.
Instead of more pain, everything below his rib cage disappeared; everything above still burned in agony, but comparatively it was a relief. His surprised breath caught in his throat, and he sagged forward, held up only by the bindings and Naraku's hand in his head. It still yanked his head back at such an extreme angle he could see the severed end of his spine fall back into his body, with a sick splash of pooled blood. Naraku still held up the other end for a moment, watching the blood pouring from severed vein and artery, until he dropped it too with a dark grin.
"That should keep you busy," he said conversationally, wiping his bloody claws in his already sodden fur.
He had no response; he could do nothing but stare as the floor freed his remaining leg and Naraku pulled it out straight behind him. He should have lashed out with it; he should have used it to destroy him. Instead it only lay there. Never before had he had to experience the horror of being trapped in a body that would not obey him.
Naraku gave him one more dark smirk and set his claws to the back of his thigh. He did not have to feel it this time, but he did have to watch as the claws sliced neatly through his skin, trailing blood, and tore through the muscle beneath. The leg he saw being amputated did not seem to belong to him. The grisly strips of flesh being flayed back belonged to just so much meat; he watched from a mental distance as the poison in the claws dissolved through the bone with a steam of burning blood, and the final connections of muscle and tissue were twisted apart.
He had no limbs. It was a huge fact, not hard to recognize, but Naraku held up the severed leg to drive it home. "And now we have Sesshoumaru, the no-legged dog," he said, tossing it casually aside with the other. The sound was oddly sick; it made him think of carcasses tossed in a pile, of slaughter and disease – things that normally had no effect on him, yet now seemed very morbid. "You're not going to be running anywhere now."
Very true – and yet. It seemed unlikely Naraku would let him live, after making him this helpless, yet, if he did… He could heal from all of this. Missing limbs could be regenerated, the broken back could be repaired, lost blood could be replenished. But only if Naraku let him live.
That, he realized, was no longer his choice. Whether he lived or died was out of his hands entirely; never had be been so powerless. He despised it just as much as he had ever imagined he would.
"Nothing to say?" Naraku wondered, running the bloody claws through his hair… Like petting.
Had he? Not much. "Finish this," he said coolly. After a certain point acceptance came easily, when he could not longer fight it, but that still didn't mean he would sacrifice his pride. At least he would die with whatever dignity a taiyoukai turned into a quadruple amputee could possess.
Naraku chuckled and picked up one of the severed ends of his spine, inspecting it showily, and then finally released his hair so his head could fall back into a natural position. He let it hang, breathing better immediately, watching Naraku only out of the corner of one eye. The pain was turning into cold numbness as he lost blood; the mental distance was possible a gift of the same. Neither one he minded.
Instead of killing him, Naraku seemed to prefer to ignore him, no doubt to draw it out. He stooped to the side, walking through the space where his right leg should have been, and picked up his discarded hand from the floor. "I don't think so," he said.
He narrowed his eyes.
The false hanyou caught his look and smirked. Malice and sadism emanated from him in waves of dark youki. How strong had he gotten? "I said I have a use for your power."
"Then take it." He couldn't stop him.
"Oh, I will… but not for me." He stepped up to his side and pulled apart the gaping wound down his back; pain flared again and he gritted his teeth. With helpless revulsion he watched Naraku drop the severed hand into his back and then pull the wound closed over the top of it, trapping it within.
"What are you doing…?"
"I've found a new container for my offspring." He chuckled and patted the shredded back. "Let's see how they come out after feeding on your youki while they develop."
He couldn't help a dangerous growl – acceptance had a limit. "Naraku! Remove your filth!"
He only laughed and turned away from him, walking back into the darkness.


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Hint: On the Desktop Icon Settings screen, the checkbox reads "User's Files," but on the Desktop, the folder has your user account name—"Fred Jones," for example.
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Remember: The Homegroup will not appear in the Network folder, even if you are a member of a Homegroup.
Recycle Bin
Normally, this is the only navigational icon to show up.
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Checkmark the boxes next to the icons you would like placed on the Desktop, then click OK. They'll all appear down the left side of your screen (See image below).
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