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Barristan Selmy
Ser Barristan in armor - by Mike Capprotti ©
Barristan the Bold
Arstan Whitebeard
Ser Grandfather
Barristan the Old
Old Ser
Lord Commander of the Kingsguard (former)
Hand of the Queen
House Selmy
House Targaryen
|In 236 AC or 237 AC[1]
The World of Ice and Fire (mentioned)
A Game of Thrones (appears)
A Clash of Kings (appears)
A Storm of Swords (appears)
A Feast for Crows (mentioned)
A Dance with Dragons (POV)
The Winds of Winter (POV)
|Played by
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|TV series
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Ser Barristan Selmy, also called Barristan the Bold, is a knight from House Selmy and the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard of Robert I Baratheon.[2] A celebrated hero, he has served in the Kingsguard since a time when these knights were still considered to be the greatest of the Seven Kingdoms. Barristan becomes a POV character in A Dance with Dragons. In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, he is played by Ian McElhinney.[3]
- 1 Character and Appearance
- 2 History
- 3 Recent Events
- 4 Quotes by Barristan
- 5 Quotes about Barristan
- 6 References and Notes
Character and Appearance
- See also: Images of Barristan Selmy
Barristan is tall and has blue eyes which some consider to be sad.[4][5] He is an older man, with white hair and lined features. Some consider him handsome, at least for his age. Despite his advanced age, he looks strong and graceful and every bit the skilled knight he was in his youth. Like other members of the Kingsguard, his armor, cloak, and shield are all in white. His enameled scales have silver chasings and clasps.[6]
In 300 AC, Barristan becomes the Lord Commander of the Queensguard of Queen Daenerys Targaryen in Meereen. As a token of her esteem, Daenerys gifts Barristan with armor. The mail is gilded, finely wrought, the links as supple as good leather, the plate enameled, hard as ice and bright as new fallen snow. A dagger goes on one hip, his longsword on the other; it hangs from a white leather belt with golden buckles. He wears a long white cloak about his shoulders. The helm has a narrow eye slit and ornate dragon's wings, which are splendid to look upon.[7]
Barristan is considered one of the most skilled and respected knights in the Seven Kingdoms,[8][9] considered to be made of the true steel that marks a Kingsguard knight.[10] Bran Stark believes him to be the greatest living knight.[8] However, according to Illyrio Mopatis, Barristan cannot be considered to be cunning.[9]
Early life
Barristan was born the first son of Ser Lyonel Selmy, the Knight of Harvest Hall. He squired for Lord Manfred Swann in his youth.[11][12] At the age of ten, Barristan donned the armor of a mystery knight and entered a tourney at Blackhaven. Prince Duncan Targaryen took pity on the small mystery knight while others laughed. Duncan jousted Selmy when no one else would and it was Duncan who gave Barristan his epithet.[13][12][14]
Barristan received his knighthood at the age of sixteen from King Aegon V Targaryen after unhorsing Prince Duncan Targaryen and Lord Commander Duncan the Tall of the Kingsguard at a tourney in King's Landing.[12] An eminently successful tourney knight throughout his career, he also proved his worth on the battlefield. During the War of the Ninepenny Kings Barristan slew Maelys I Blackfyre in single combat, ending the male line of the Blackfyre Pretenders. Selmy had to cut a bloody path through the Golden Company just to reach him.[12][9][7][15] The remaining members of the Band of Nine had little to no interest in conquering Westeros, and soon returned to their own domains. Barristan's deeds during the War of the Ninepenny Kings gained him undying fame and his name was well known throughout the Seven Kingdoms afterwards.[9][15]
Barristan was named to the Kingsguard at the age of twenty-three and swore his vows before Ser Gerold Hightower, while King Jaehaerys II Targaryen bestowed the white cloak on him.[16][17] In joining the Kingsguard, he gave up the claim to his family seat, and the girl he was to wed was married to his cousin instead.[18][12]
In the Kingsguard
Barristan continued to serve in the Kingsguard when King Jaehaerys died, and Aerys II Targaryen ascended the throne. In 277 AC, during the Defiance of Duskendale, King Aerys had been held hostage inside of Duskendale for half a year. Lord Tywin Lannister, Hand of the King, was planning to storm the town, but Barristan offered to personally attempt to retrieve the captive King Aerys himself. Tywin gave him a day.[19][16][20][12][7]
Many songs were later made about Selmy's daring infiltration.[19] Selmy disguised as a hooded beggar climbed the walls of Duskendale in the dead of night, walking through the town streets cloaked and hooded he approached the Walls of Dunfort, scaling the walls of the castle, and slaying a sentry before the man could raise the alarm. Selmy through stealth and courage found his way to the dungeons and freed Aerys and led him to the upper levels. During the escape attempt, Barristan slew two guards and Ser Symon Hollard, avenging the death of his sworn brother, Ser Gwayne Gaunt. He and the King rushed to the stables, Selmy slaying all those who tried to intervene as the alarm was being raised. Selmy and King Aerys mounted on stolen horses charged out the Dunfort gates before they could be barred and raced through the streets of Duskendale to the towns walls eventually escaping.[19][12] Selmy, took an arrow to the chest during the rescue.[21] After the defiance Ser Barristan pleaded for the life of the child Dontos Hollard as a boon, when House Hollard was destroyed for siding with the Darklyns in the Defiance, to which King Aerys acquiesced.[20]
In the later years of King Aerys's reign, the band of outlaws known as the Kingswood Brotherhood caused problems, and the King send his Kingsguard on campaign. Barristan fought in the battles of this campaign, rescuing Lady Jeyne Swann and her septa, and killing the bandits' leader, Ser Simon Toyne, in single combat.[12]
During a tourney at Storm's End, Barristan defeated Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen in the final joust, and won the tourney.[21]
Like his other sworn brothers of the Kingsguard, Barristan was present at the tourney at Harrenhal. He was infatuated by the beautiful Lady Ashara Dayne, though he knew nothing could come of his desire for her. He planned on naming her queen of love and beauty if he won the tournament, but was unhorsed by Rhaegar Targaryen. Rhaegar then crowned Lyanna Stark, setting off a chain of events that led to Robert's Rebellion. Selmy wonders if he could have averted the war if he had defeated Rhaegar in the tournament. He also fantasizes that, if he had won the tourney and crowned Ashara, perhaps she would have turned to him "instead of Stark." He thinks of the consequences of his unspoken love for Ashara as one of his many failures.[7][22][23]
During Robert's Rebellion, after the defeat of Lord Jon Connington at the Battle of the Bells, Ser Barristan, with fellow Kingsguard knight Ser Jonothor Darry, was sent to rally the remnants of Connington's army.[24] He fought in Battle of the Trident and was severely wounded. Lord Roose Bolton counseled that Barristan's throat should be cut, but Robert Baratheon instead called for his own maester to attend Barristan.[25][7] Because he had been wounded so badly, Barristan was not present in King's Landing when the bodies of Princess Rhaenys and Prince Aegon were presented to Robert.[7]
The Targaryen dynasty came to an end with the Rebellion's conclusion, and while Barristan had fought bravely for the old dynasty, he later took King Robert I Baratheon's pardon, and was named Lord Commander of Robert's Kingsguard.[25] Having had reservations about Jaime Lannister even before he earned the epithet "Kingslayer" due to Lannister's age and inexperience, Barristan did not approve of allowing Jaime to be allowed to continue his service after killing King Aerys II Targaryen, and was known to say that Jaime's white cloak should be traded for a black one.[26]
Barristan had moral reservations about serving the new king, Robert I Baratheon, but served loyally nonetheless. He does feel that, if he had seen Robert smile when Tywin Lannister presented him with the bloody bodies of Rhaegar's children, he would never have served Robert and nothing on earth would have stopped him from killing Robert.[7]
During Greyjoy's Rebellion, Barristan led the attack on Old Wyk.[12] He has remained a formidable fighter even in his advanced years, winning the championship of a tourney at King's Landing at the age of fifty-seven, and unhorsing Sandor Clegane in a tilt in the tourney on Prince Joffrey's name day in 297 AC,[27] and unhorsing men thirty and forty years his junior in the Tourney of the Hand in 298 AC.[28]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
As the Lord Commander of King Robert I Baratheon's Kingsguard, Barristan travels together with Lord Renly Baratheon and Ser Ilyn Payne to the Inn at the Crossroads, to serve as an honor guard to the procession led by Robert and his new Hand of the King, Lord Eddard Stark, on their way back to King's Landing from Winterfell.[6] He later accompanies the King during his travels through the city.[29] During the Hand's tourney, Barristan is only defeated by Ser Jaime Lannister after three tilts, having defeated men ten and twenty years younger in his first two contests.[28] When Ser Hugh of the Vale is killed in the tournament by Ser Gregor Clegane, Barristan stands vigil over the young knight himself, as the boy had no one else.[10]
As the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, Barristan is present at the small council meeting when King Robert orders the death of the pregnant Daenerys Targaryen, daughter to the late King Aerys II Targaryen. He and Eddard are the only council members who protest the move.[25] He accompanies Robert on his ill-fated boar hunt in the kingswood which leads to the death of the king.[30]
In an unprecedented move, as per Lord Varys's suggestion, Barristan is dismissed from the Kingsguard and the small council by the new king, Joffrey I Baratheon, on grounds of old age, the implied accusation being that he did not keep King Robert safe. The Lannisters' motivations, however, are to allow Joffrey to give a white cloak to his "dog," Sandor Clegane, and to allow Cersei Lannister to place her brother Jaime as the new Lord Commander with a seat on the small council. Outraged by his removal, Ser Barristan throws down his sword and leaves the throne room. After Selmy leaves the room the king orders him seized and questioned for a perceived threat uttered in the heat of his dismissal. Selmy enters the White Sword Tower to edit his White Book entry, dutifully recording his own dismissal.[12] Upon leaving the Red Keep, Janos Slynt orders his men to seize Barristan. Though he does not have his sword, Selmy kills the gold cloaks sent after him and flees the castle.[18][31][32]
While his kin at Harvest Hall would have welcomed Barristan back home without a doubt, Barristan did not want to inflict Joffrey's displeasure on them. Instead, once outside of the city, Barristan sells his horse and disguises himself as a commoner, cloaked in his old age. He returns to King's Landing along with the stream of smallfolk fleeing the war, pretending to be fleeing from the war himself. He is later present in the crowd when Lord Eddard Stark is executed before the Great Sept of Baelor. Following Lord Eddard's death, Barristan goes to the sept, to pray for Eddard's soul and thank the gods that he himself had only been dismissed. Reevaluating his years of service in Robert's Kingsguard, he admits that Robert had been a good knight, but a poor king. Barristan decides that he must find his true king and die in his service.[32]
Lord Tywin Lannister considers Ser Barristan's dismissal a folly. While Barristan is old, he still commands enough respect to make him a threat in case he chooses to back Stannis Baratheon or Robb Stark, and he cites it as one reason why he sends his son Tyrion as acting Hand to King's Landing to keep Joffrey better in check than Queen Cersei is capable of.[33][31]
A Clash of Kings
Renly Baratheon declares himself king and hopes that Ser Barristan's announcement that he is going to serve the true king refers to him. Renly keeps a cloak in his Rainbow Guard ready for Barristan in case the old knight offers him his sword. When he concludes that his hopes have been futile, Renly gives Barristan's spot on his Kingsguard to Brienne of Tarth, believing that Ser Barristan might have gone to Riverrun to support Robb Stark as king.[34] However, Lady Catelyn Stark informs him that Barristan is not with Robb. Renly concludes that Barristan must have decided to support his brother Stannis, and he orders his knights to spare Barristan's life if it comes to a battle with Stannis.[35]
Following his decision to find his true king, Viserys Targaryen, Barristan crosses the narrow sea and travels to Pentos.[32] Barristan eventually ends up in contact with Magister Illyrio Mopatis, and learns of Viserys's death in Vaes Dothrak. Magister Illyrio sends Barristan, disguised as the old squire Arstan Whitebeard, alongside the huge eunuch Belwas to Qarth, with three ships, to bring Queen Daenerys Targaryen back to Pentos.[36]
They arrive in Qarth and follow Daenerys Targaryen and Ser Jorah Mormont, when they are walking through the docks, trying to find passage on the ships docked there. Mormont notices them, and becomes suspicious. However, when a Sorrowful Man attempts to assassinate Daenerys by presenting her with a box containing a manticore, Barristan knocks the manticore from her hands and kills it.[36]
Barristan introduces himself as Arstan Whitebeard, and together with Belwas tell Dany that Magister Illyrio Mopatis had sent them to serve her, and bring her back to Pentos, as there were four kings in Westeros when they left Pentos, and no justice.[36]
A Storm of Swords
Rather than sail to Pentos, Daenerys chooses to sail to Astapor to buy Unsullied. Barristan, still keeping his true identity a secret, discusses dragons, Daenerys's father King Aerys II, and her brother, Prince Rhaegar with her. Ser Jorah Mormont distrusts Barristan and Belwas, pointing out that Barristan speaks out too brazenly for a mere squire.[4]
Barristan is with Daenerys in the Plaza of Pride when they meet with the slaver selling Unsullied. Barristan disapproves of buying slaves, and when Daenerys asks how she is win Westeros without an army, he replies that half of Westeros would support her because of Rhaegar. When she asks about her father, however, Barristan has little positive to say. He advises Daenerys that she should send envoys, and that even those that opposed her father might support her.[37] He also objects to Daenerys's plan to pay for the Unsullied with one of her dragons, but she conquers Astapor by ordering her new Unsullied to attack the slavers,[38] after which she frees them from slavery.
When Daenerys announces her plan to take Yunkai, Barristan agrees with Ser Jorah that she is Rhaegar Targaryen's sister, adding that she is also a queen. While waiting for the results of the battle against the Yunkai'i, Barristan and Daenerys discuss Rhaegar, the tourney at Harrenhal, and Summerhall.[21]
When Daenerys besieges Meereen, Oznak zo Pahl rides out of Meereen on a white charger with a fourteen foot lance, challenging the besiegers to send forth a champion. Barristan tells Daenerys that this challenge must be met, after which Daenerys decides that Belwas is the best choice.[21]
Daenerys later decides that she will ride out amongst her people with only a limited guard. She is attacked by Mero, the former commander of the Second Sons, but Barristan is able to easily dispatch him. He falls into the water and the freemen fall on his body.[11] Daenerys wishes that Baristan be knighted in gratitude, but both Barristan and Ser Jorah Mormont refuse this at the same time. Mormont, highly suspicious, questions how an old squire with a stick could have been capable of killing Mero, the Titan's Bastard, and asks Barristan who he is, to which Barristan replies "a better knight than you, ser".[11]
Barristan reveals to Daenerys that, while he never really lied, he did withhold truths from her, and begs her forgiveness. Jorah Mormont recognizes Barristan, and informs Daenerys that Barristan had betrayed her family to serve Robert I Baratheon. When Daenerys asks if Barristan is hers or Robert's man, Barristan tells her that he is hers, if she will have him. He also tells how he took Robert's pardon and served with men not worthy of a place in the Kingsguard, and that, when Joffrey Baratheon had dismissed him aside and sent men to kill him, he had realized that he had to find his true king. He then tells her that he had to keep his identity a secret because he wanted to prevent the Lannisters from learning he had joined her. When he informs her that there had been a spy by her side who has been informing on her ever since she wed Khal Drogo, Daenerys realises to her horror that he means Jorah, who affirms the accusation is true.[11] Barristan later admits that this is only part of the reason why he kept his identity hidden, informing Daenerys that he first wanted to observe her for a while, to be certain that she did not have the taint of madness like her father had.[39]
Daenerys captures Meereen by having Barristan, Jorah, and Belwas infiltrate the city through the sewers and release slaves. Afterward, Barristan shaves his beard and looks ten years younger. Daenerys reveals she had hoped that they would die in the sewers. Barristan is forthright, telling her that her brother Viserys had more of a taint of her father, the Mad King. Rhaegar Targaryen did not, and he sees no taint in her. He further tells her that he will do whatever she asks, and if she will not have him he would continue to serve Belwas. Daenerys accepts him in her service, and Barristan receives a sword from her, refusing to take one from anyone else. In contrast, Jorah is exiled from Meereen.[39]
Daenerys realises that Barristan had personally known her grandfather, and could tell her more about where she came from. After he has been pardonned, Barristan goes to her on the terrace, and tells her that her father Aerys's secrets, which he had overheard as a Kingsguard knight, now by rights belong to Daenerys. He informs Daenerys that her father had not been mad initially, but that his lapses became worse over time, while her mother did her best to shield Viserys from his father's insanity. Daenerys decides she does not want to hear it at that moment, but that he should tell her more some other time. Barristan is among her advisors when she states she will not leave but stay, rule and be a queen in Meereen.[39]
A Dance with Dragons
| Note This section requires a rewrite, and additional sourcing
[citation needed].
Barristan continues his service of Daenerys Targaryen, and has been named Lord Commander of her Queensguard. As such, he attempts to lead her down an honorable path towards the safety of Meereen. Barristan opposes Daenerys's relationship with her paramour Daario Naharis, and even her marriage to Hizdahr zo Loraq, which ensures temporary peace within Meereen.
Barristan also begins training knights. His squires are Tumco Lho, Larraq, the Red Lamb, and the Boys, who are three Ghiscari brothers. After Daenerys's departure on Drogon's back, Barristan assumes the title of Hand of the Queen within Meereen. He is present when Bloodbeard presents the court with the head of Groleo. Barristan is enraged and wants to kill Bloodbeard, but stops because the act would break his queen's peace.[14]
Barristan finally decides to work with Skahaz mo Kandaq, despite his loathing of the man and his own inhibitions about making decisions of state in the absence of his queen.[16] Selmy leads with honor and refuses Skahaz's council on killing the Ghiscari child cupbearers who are the sons and daughters of powerful Meereenese nobles. He also enlists Grey Worm, and they plan to take King Hizdahr hostage. Selmy fears that if he harms Hizdahr the Yunkai'i will kill the remaining hostages Daario, Jhogo and Hero just as they killed Captain Groleo. Skahaz states it would be better for Daenerys in the long run if they killed Daario.
Despite his personal feeling about Daario, however, Barristan goes to the Tattered Prince and enlists his help.[40] He promises to reward the Tattered Prince if he frees the three hostages from the Yunkai camp. Selmy then goes to capture Hizdahr.[7] In doing so, he slays Hizdahr's protector, the formidable pit fighter Khrazz. Barristan longs for the return of Daenerys, but prepares for battle with the Yunkai, using a beacon system to call the attack should the fragile peace between the sides be broken. During a meeting between Ser Barristan and the Green Grace, Skahaz notifies Barristan that the Yunkish catapults are flinging corpses infected with the pale mare into the city.[40]
The Winds of Winter
The Yunkish threat has been augmented by the presence of the bloody flux. Ser Barristan notes that under normal circumstances, he would defend Meereen from behind its strong walls. However, because the Yunkish introduced the pale mare into Meereen by catapulting infected corpses over the walls, he resolves to ride out and meet his enemy on the field rather than watch the impending outbreak annihilate Meereen. On the eve of the offensive, he gives a pep talk to his newly anointed knights and soldiers. When his talk is interrupted by the arrival of dawn, Barristan orders the Red Lamb to "sound the attack."[41]
Quotes by Barristan
- Barristan's declaration upon being removed from the Kingsguard
Have no fear, sers, your king is safe... no thanks to you. Even now, I could cut through the five of you as easy as a dagger cuts cheese. If you would serve under the Kingslayer, not a one of you is fit to wear the white. Here, boy. Melt it down and add it to the others, if you like. It will do you more good than the swords in the hands of these five. Perhaps Lord Stannis will chance to sit on it when he takes your throne.[18]
– Barristan denouncing his former Sworn Brothers
I took Robert's pardon, aye. I served him in Kingsguard and council. Served with the Kingslayer and others near as bad, who soiled the white cloak I wore. Nothing will excuse that. I might be serving in King's Landing still if the vile boy upon the Iron Throne had not cast me aside, it shames me to admit. But when he took the cloak the White Bull had draped about my shoulders, and sent men to kill me that selfsame day, it was as though he'd ripped a caul off my eyes. That was when I knew I must find my true king, and die in his service...[11]
- Barristan to Daenerys Targaryen
Some had been heroes, some weaklings, knaves, or cravens. Most were only men-quicker and stronger than most, more skilled with sword and shield, but still prey to pride, ambition, lust, love, anger, jealousy, greed for gold, hunger for power, and all the other failings that afflicted lesser mortals. The best of them overcame their flaws, did their duty, and died with their swords in their hands. The worst ... The worst were those who played the game of thrones.[16]
– Barristan reflecting on the history of the Kingsguard
Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna and thousands died for it. Daemon Blackfyre loved the first Daenerys, and rose in rebellion when denied her. Bittersteel and Bloodraven both loved Shiera Seastar and the Seven Kingdoms bled. The Prince of Dragonflies loved Jenny of Oldstones so much he cast aside a crown, and Westeros paid the bride price in corpses. All three of the sons of the fifth Aegon had wed for love in defiance of their father's wishes. And because that unlikely monarch had followed his heart when he chose his queen, he allowed his sons to have their way, making bitter enemies when he might have made fast friends. Treason and turmoil followed, as night follows day, ending at Summerhall in sorcery, fire and grief.[7]
- thoughts of Barristan
I am an old man, an old knight, and I have seen more battles than most of you have years. Nothing is more terrible upon this earth, nothing more glorious, nothing more absurd. You may retch. You will not be the first. You may drop your sword, your shield, your lance. Others have done the same. Pick it up and go on fighting. You may foul your breeches. I did, in my first battle. No one will care. All battlefields smell of shit. You may cry out for your mother, pray to gods you thought you had forgotten, howl obscenities that you never dreamed could pass your lips. All this has happened too.[41]
– Barristan addressing his men before going to war
Quotes about Barristan
Eddard: Ser Barristan is as valiant and honorable as any man in King's Landing.
Petyr: And as tiresome.[42]
– Eddard Stark and Petyr Baelish
Of these seven, only Ser Barristan Selmy is made of the true steel.[10]
- Varys to Eddard Stark regarding Robert I Baratheon's Kingsguard
...dismissing Selmy, where was the sense in that? Yes, the man was old, but the name of Barristan the Bold still has meaning in the realm, He lent honor to any man he served.[33]
– Tywin Lannister to Tyrion Lannister after learning of Barristan's dismissal from the Kingsguard
The smallfolk talk of him the same way they talk of Serwyn of the Mirror shield and Prince Aemon the Dragonknight.[31]
– Tyrion Lannister to Cersei Lannister
He has a good face, and great strength to him.[37]
- thoughts of Daenerys Targaryen
I saw him perhaps a dozen times ... from afar, most often, standing with his brothers or riding in some tourney. But every man in the Seven Kingdoms knows Barristan the Bold ... Khaleesi, before you kneels Ser Barristan Selmy, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, who betrayed your House to serve the Usurper Robert Baratheon.[11]
– Jorah Mormont to Daenerys Targaryen
I learned from the White Bull and Barristan the Bold. I learned from Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, who could have slain all five of you with his left hand while he was taking a piss with the right. I learned from Prince Lewyn of Dorne and Ser Oswell Whent and Ser Jonothor Darry, good men every one.[12]
- Jaime Lannister to Loras Tyrell
Ser Barristan is a valiant knight and true; but none, I think, has ever called him cunning.[43]
- Illyrio Mopatis to Tyrion Lannister
Entry in the White Book
Ser Barristan of House Selmy. Firstborn son of Ser Lyonel Selmy of Harvest Hall. Served as squire to Ser Manfred Swann. Named "the Bold" in his 10th year, when he donned borrowed armor to appear as a mystery knight in the tourney of Blackhaven, where he was defeated and unmasked by Duncan, Prince of Dragonflies. Knighted in his 16th year by King Aegon V Targaryen, after performing great feats of prowess as a mystery knight in the winter tourney at King's Landing, defeating Prince Duncan the small and Ser Duncan the Tall, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. Slew Maelys the Monstrous, last of the Blackfyre Pretenders, in single combat during the War of the Ninepenny Kings. Defeated Lormelle Long Lance and Cedrik Storm, the Bastard of Bronzegate. Named to the Kingsguard in his 23rd year, by Lord Commander Ser Gerold Hightower. Defended the passage against all challengers in the tourney of the Silver Bridge. Victor in the mêlée at Maidenpool. Brought King Aerys II to safety during the Defiance of Duskendale despite an arrow wound in the chest. Avenged the murder of his Sworn Brother, Ser Gwayne Gaunt. Rescued Lady Jeyne Swann and her septa from the Kingswood Brotherhood, defeating Simon Toyne and the Smiling Knight, slaying the former. In the Oldtown tourney, defeated and unmasked the mystery knight, Blackshield revealing him to be the Bastard of Uplands. Sole champion of Lord Steffon's tourney at Storm's End, whereat he unhorsed Lord Robert Baratheon, Prince Oberyn Martell, Lord Leyton Hightower, Lord Jon Connington, Lord Jason Mallister, and Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. Wounded by arrow, spear, and sword at the Battle of the Trident whilst fighting beside his Sworn Brothers and Rhaegar Prince of Dragonstone. Pardoned, and named Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, by King Robert I Baratheon. Served in the honor guard that brought Lady Cersei of House Lannister to King's Landing to wed King Robert. Led the attack on Old Wyk during Balon Greyjoy's Rebellion. Champion of the tourney at King's Landing, in his 57th year. Dismissed by King Joffrey I Baratheon in his 61st year, for reasons of advanced age.[12]
- the achievements of Barristan as recorded in the White Book by Gerold Hightower and Barristan himself
References and Notes
- ↑ See the Barristan Selmy calculation.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Appendix.
- ↑ HBO: Game of Thrones: cast and crew
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 8, Daenerys I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 30, Daenerys V.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 15, Sansa I.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 67, The Kingbreaker.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 8, Bran II.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 5, Tyrion II.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 30, Eddard VII.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 57, Daenerys V.
- ↑ 12.00 12.01 12.02 12.03 12.04 12.05 12.06 12.07 12.08 12.09 12.10 12.11 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 67, Jaime VIII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 24, Bran II.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 59, The Discarded Knight.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Jaehaerys II.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 55, The Queensguard.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 48, Jaime I.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 57, Sansa V.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aerys II.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 9, Brienne II.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 42, Daenerys IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 58, Eddard XV.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Fall of the Dragons: The Year of the False Spring.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 37, Jaime V.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 33, Eddard VIII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 57, Tyrion XI.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 25, Eddard V.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 29, Sansa II.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 20, Eddard IV.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 47, Eddard XIII.
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 3, Tyrion I.
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 11, Daenerys II.
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 69, Tyrion IX.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 22, Catelyn II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 33, Catelyn IV.
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- ↑ 37.0 37.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 23, Daenerys II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 27, Daenerys III.
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 71, Daenerys VI.
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 70, The Queen's Hand.
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A Cambridge company says it's brought some new technology to lights. It looks like that old -fashioned bulb Thomas Edison would recognize. But, says its creators, it is "the first energy-efficient A type light bulb that truly replicates the familiar warm and reassuring glow of the now-banned incandescent bulbs."
"I like to tell people that their search for the right light is over," said John Goscha, founder and CEO of the Finally Light Bulb Company. "Until now, consumers basically had a choice between low-quality light, or paying exorbitant prices for brighter light that can't help but feel cold and clinical"
Goscha worked with a team including Dr. Victor Roberts, the former Head of Lighting Research at General Electric and Dr. Walter Lapatovich, formerly of Osram Sylvania, to successfully harness and miniaturize the best attributes of induction lighting, originally only found in commercial lighting, for home use, according to the company.
The lighting for everyday home use, called Acandescence was developed exclusively by Finally. The company's banking on consumer desire for traditional color, hue and classic design of an incandescent bulb, combined with energy-efficiency at a price somewhere between the phased-out traditional and new, more expensive LED-or CFL-based home bulbs.
Finally bulb will sell for around $8 and will last 15 times longer than an old incandescent bulb, providing up to $75 worth of savings over its lifetime, the company claims.
The light it produces is both eco and consumer-friendly, turns on instantly, is easy on the wallet and comfortable on the eyes, says Goscha.
Acandescence uses a copper coil – not a tungsten filament or an electrode – to generate light, according to the company announcement. Inventors Roberts and Lapatovich applied and refined an old lighting technology to a new format and application.
Energy.gov, a U.S. Energy Department website, calls induction lighting one of the best kept secrets in energy-efficient lighting. It's essentially a fluorescent light without electrodes or filaments, the items that frequently cause other bulbs to burn out quickly. It also has a broader color spectrum, that gives it that softer, less harsh, glow.
The technology, however, is far from new, according to the site. Nikola Tesla demonstrated induction lighting in the late 1890s around the same time that his rival, Thomas Edison, was working to improve the incandescent light bulb. In the early 1990s, several major lighting manufacturers introduced induction lighting into the marketplace.
So far, most of the uses have been for municipal or industrial applications.
The Finally 60 Watt light bulb is available for pre-order at the company website, www.finallybulbs.com and is due for release to select retail outlets in July. Release of higher wattage bulbs is planned for later this year.

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Lou Gianacopolos turned his back to the scoreboard and gathered his team in a huddle.
Sure, the Knights had lost the first game to their Staples nemesis, but it could have just as easily been a win. The Knights controlled the pace. Mistakes determined the outcome.
The coach scanned his player's faces, liked what he saw, and returned to his seat on the sidelines with a look of quiet confidence.
"I think that we were more well-rounded than they were," said the coach. "In the first game, we had four net violations, three missed serves, and a lot of errors that we could control like hitting into the block. We knew where those points came in for that game. In the huddle I told the team that the game was lost by points, but we controlled our destiny."
Every Southington season since 2007 has ended with a postseason match-up against Staples. Four have come in a championship game, and Southington's victory in 2010 was the only time that the Knights finished with a victory.
Gianacopolos might not admit it, but this was more than just a regular season matchup. That's why the coach was so pleased with the way his team responded.
"We knew going into game two that we had to limit net touches and errors, and the team that made the least amount of errors was going to win that match," he said. "If you look at game two, they missed a few vital serves. They were struggling, but we were hitting our spots to keep them out of system."
Nick Powell set the pace. The senior hitter attacked the net 41 times for 21 kills. He served 16-for-18 from the line and anchored the defense with a team-best 10 digs.
"If there was someone that put the game on his back, that was Powell," said the coach. "For the first time since seeing him as a freshman. Today was the day that he actually stood up and said that this was his game."
Chris Sherwill joined him at the net with 13 kills and in the back row with nine digs. Alex Zajda marshaled the attack with 48 assists and nine digs. As a team the Knights served 93 percent, and they rallied for three straight victories to clinch the series.
Southington improved to 2-0 with the 3-1 victory. Staples won the first game, 25-23, but the Knights answered with wins of 25-22, 25-21, and 25-23. The tightly contested game could have gone either way, and Gianacopolos brushed aside the final result.
"This is just a good, early on, tough match," he said. "We've still got a lot to work on, and this match really proved that. It was a high-intensity match with Staples, which is another good, competitive program. I think today gave us a ton to work on and fix."
The game was a stark contrast to the opening day sweep of Bulkeley-Hartford Public. Sherwill led the way with nine kills. Powell scored six kills and eight digs. Zajda distributed 23 assists, and the team served 92 percent from the floor.
Bulkeley managed to score in double digits in just one of the three games as Southington rallied to a 3-0 win, 25-7, 25-10, and 25-8.
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Wow….here I am in week 2 of my salad challenge! I really can't tell you all how much I am enjoying creating fun & new salads, adding things I would have never added before. Great way to become more creative with my cooking & food prep. I did today's salad for lunch because I am meeting a couple of friends out for dinner at Outback, one of my favorite places to eat gluten-free.
The make up of the salad:
~ 2 cups of arugula & mixed baby greens
~ large handful of grape tomatoes
~ 1/2 zucchini
~ 1/4 cucumber
~ 1 chopped steamed beet (got these pre-made at Trader Joe's today..YUM)
~ 1 TBSP Goat Cheese
~ 1 TBSP Pine Nuts
~ Drizzle of balsamic vinaigrette
This may have been one of my favorite combos by far. I love beets (this is just within the past year), but hate the prep. Peeling, etc. They are messy & stain. The ones I got from Trader Joe's are already steamed (so they are peeled) and ready to go. Just open the package & slice for a salad or heat up. Perfect for my salad.
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NY Mets Critics Oppose Colorful Flavor
Ironically the Mets play in Queens, the most ethnically diverse county in the United States. In his assessment of the social strata of the Mets' locker room, Filip Bondy of the New York Daily News pointed out the white players hung out with each other on one side of the locker room, while the Latino players congregated on another.
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With the New York Mets sitting in first place nearly a year ago just months after coming within a base hit of the World Series, general manager Omar Minaya was lauded by Sports Illustrated for the ethnically diverse club he put together.
But with the Mets' season spiraling out of control last week, critics called the club's racial makeup into question -- blaming the team's struggles and allegedly poor chemistry on Minaya's rainbow coalition.
The issue erupted two weeks ago when closer Billy Wagner chafed at being interviewed following a maddening 1-0 loss to the Washington Nationals -- a game he didn't participate in. Meanwhile veteran first baseman Carlos Delgado -- who lined into a double play to end the game -- was long gone.
"Can somebody tell me why the closer's being interviewed and I didn't even play?" Wagner told reporters. "Why they're over there not getting interviewed? I get it. They're gone. Shocker."
Wagner's anger stemmed from the fact that he, David Wright, Ryan Church and John Maine -- who are all white Americans -- are the only players who routinely speak to the media following games. Many of the Mets' key players are Latin American, including Jose Reyes, Delgado, Carlos Beltran, and Johan Santana.
Half of the players on the Mets' 40-man roster are of Latin American descent.
The first tremor along the club's racial fault line shook last year when Paul Lo Duca voiced the same concerns as Wagner's -- that not enough of the Mets' Latino players were stepping up to the plate to speak with the media following games.
"Some of these guys have to start talking," he said. "They speak English, believe me."
Wagner and Lo Duca's comments are poignant. Professional athletes are rarely candid with the media, so clearly this has been an issue eating at some Mets for a while. And now some members of the vaunted New York media are questioning whether Minaya's pursuit of Latin American players is a chemistry experiment gone horribly awry.
Ironically the Mets play in Queens, the most ethnically diverse county in the United States.
In his assessment of the social strata of the Mets' locker room, Filip Bondy of the New York Daily News pointed out the white players hung out with each other on one side of the locker room, while the Latino players congregated on another.
Meanwhile, New York Post columnist Larry Brooks compared the Mets' situation to the New York Rangers -- who have a diverse mix of Americans and Europeans on their roster.
"You better believe the question is asked every day around NHL front offices: Do we have too many Europeans? ... You better believe the question was asked by the Rangers when they collapsed late in 2005-06: Do we have too many Czechs?," Brooks wrote last week.
"Those posing the questions aren't necessarily bigoted. They're simply covering the bases in attempting to apply common sense to a complex equation in which two dozen men of disparate backgrounds must live and work together over eight months in order to achieve a common goal," Brooks wrote.
A legitimate point perhaps. But on the other hand, how come no one questions whether or not a struggling baseball team has too many white players? And remember, Minaya was criticized a few years ago for signing too much Latino talent.
Sports are not only about the games on the field; they also act as a barometer for the key issues of the day. And as much as we like to sweep it under the rug, the innuendos gnawing at the Mets show how obsessed our nation remains with race.
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This is going to be one of my last blog posts in the Monitor about Sheep Dog Hollow, our green renovation adventure. The greening aspects of the project are almost all complete, from the geothermal heat system to the low-E windows to the on-demand water heaters.
So we're looking to future green options – and the one that's currently caught my attention is wind. In my previous two posts, I discussed how to determine whether wind would be a viable option for you and then gave a thumbnail sketch of the initial challenges – which include getting town approval to put up a big tower on your property to measure the air speed overhead.
"To really know for sure where you're at, you need to put up your own anemometer and do a little bit of a wind study of your own," says Bruce Lichenwalter of Northeast Alternative Energy.
An anemometer is a little mechanism that measures and can record wind speeds. Many states – most of which are out West, although others include Vermont and Virginia – have anemometer loan programs that homeowners can take advantage of.
The Department of Energy's Wind Powering America site has a map that shows which states have them. Their mission, like the one in Virginia at James Madison University is "designed to empower landowners by generating their interest in wind energy through the borrowing of meteorological towers and encouraging wind development."
Connecticut, where Sheep Dog Hollow is located, alas, doesn't have such a program, but it's easy to buy an anemometer – they can cost as little as $35. The big expense comes from the tower, which should be the recommended 30 feet above the tree line.That could cost from a few thousand dollars to as much as $25,000 or $30,000.
Since I haven't undertaken this challenge yet, I'd recommend other sites, such as otherpower.com, which touts itself as the "cutting edge of low technology." It has a great page that has far more detailed information about towers and how to build them. It's also a great primer on getting started in wind.
But if your interest is in just learning and watching other people take the plunge into wind, the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund has just announced that it will be providing regular, Web-based updates on the four small wind-turbine demonstration projects that it has set up around the state:
"The projects, located at Coventry High School, Lyman Memorial High School in Lebanon, Meriden YMCA Mountain Day Mist Camp and New Haven Visitor Information Center, are designed to provide CCEF with valuable information about the operation of wind turbines in Connecticut. Because the projects are set in diverse locations – including coastal, near-costal and inland/mountain – and incorporate diverse wind turbine systems, their performance will help clarify which types of installations CCEF should support in the future."
The CCEF website has detailed information about each project, including site characteristics as well as what kind of equipment is used. Eventually, once the small turbines start operating, the website will provide live data "including wind speed, direction and frequency information, and turbine power output will be available, as will other system monitoring information."
It should be a great way for anyone interested in pursuing wind, at least vicariously at first, to get a sense of what works best and where.
For now, I believe that's what I'll be doing. That's because we're running out of money at Sheep Dog Hollow. Our focus right now is on finishing up things like Sheetrock, the water well, and the septic system.
Then there's the painting to do and electrical fixtures to put in.
But the biggest challenge, bar none, is finding more money to put in all of the wonderful finishing touches – such as those elegant, but costly 200-year-old wide- board floors we've been eyeing. All we have to do is sell our current house…. Good thing the real estate market is picking up!
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The 2014 GODORT Reception and Awards Ceremony will be held Sunday evening, June 29th in the Goldfield Room of the Lied Library on the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) from 6:30-8:00PM. The event will be held in the Goldfield Room.
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27 January 2012
We should become "swift messengers" in order to share the gospel with the world, Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said, and Elder Jeffrey R. Holland spoke about the nature of the Godhead. Their comments were addressed to new missionary training center presidents and their wives and new visitors' center directors and their wives, as well as missionaries at a devotional.
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Rely on Steady Scaffolding
25 January 2012
"Eternal principles are the scaffolding the Church provides," Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles told students at Brigham Young University—Idaho. "These eternal principles are embedded in the doctrines of the kingdom of our Eternal Father and reflect His eternal plan of happiness. We meet as members of the Church to teach and learn from each other the principles of righteousness and receive saving ordinances so the scaffolding is stable and steady as we build our eternal family units."
- 25 January 2012
How to Survive in Enemy Territory
24 January 2012
"You are growing up in enemy territory," President Boyd K. Packer told youth during a broadcast commemorating 100 years of seminary. "When you become mature spiritually, you will understand how the adversary has infiltrated the world around you." But, President Packer added, "You are not ordinary. You are very special. You are exceptional." And he offered counsel about how to survive in enemy territory.
- 24 January 2012
No One Else Can Do It
20 January 2012
"The priesthood of God is a power like nothing else on earth," Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles told a priesthood leadership conference for several stakes in and around Centerville, Utah. "We ought to be certain that people understand what a great blessing it is to receive this priesthood and what it means in our Father in Heaven's kingdom."
- 20 January 2012
Earning Answers in Seminary
17 January 2012
As the Church commemorates 100 years of seminary, watch and read the testimony of prophets and apostles concerning the immediate—and eternal— blessings that seminary, institute, and gospel study can bring to youth and others who will make the effort to learn.
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Courage to Stand
13 January 2012
"May we ever be courageous and prepared to stand for what we believe, and if we must stand alone in the process, may we do so courageously, strengthened by the knowledge that in reality we are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven," President Thomas S. Monson said during the priesthood session of the October 2011 general conference.
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12 January 2012
Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught, "As members of Christ's restored Church, we have the covenant responsibility to search out our ancestors and provide for them the saving ordinances of the gospel."
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Today's Family: Protect the Power to Create Life
11 January 2012
"You live in a world where moral values have, in great measure, been tossed aside, where sin is flagrantly on display, and where temptations to stray from the strait and narrow path surround you," President Thomas S. Monson says. "Many are the voices telling you that you are far too provincial or that there is something wrong with you if you still believe there is such a thing as immoral behavior. . . . Does this make immoral behavior acceptable? Absolutely not! The commandments of our Heavenly Father are not negotiable!"
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How would a living prophet, an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, treat young children in Guatemala today? The same way the Savior treated children during His ministry in the Holy Land, when He said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." And that is exactly how President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, treated little children during a recent visit in Guatemala—he sought them out and blessed them.
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In this episode of To The Journey, hosts Zachary Fruhling and Suzanne Williamson continue their season-by-season "Desert Island" episode lists. Find out which episodes from Season 6 of Star Trek: Voyager that Zachary and Suzanne would take along with them to a desert island, forsaking all other Season 6 episodes forever. Also find out why this podcast may be monitored for quality assurance and why Suzanne punched Zachary before giving him the silent treatment about one of his episode picks.
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40 is the New 30 (00:03:12)
It's Hard to Give Up the Pips (00:08:59)
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Borgs Be Crazy! (00:17:24)
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Seven of Nine Mini-Marathon. We go into our alcoves for a three-episode Seven of Nine mini-marathon, and we discuss the return of Seven of Nine in the upcoming series, Star Trek: Picard.
"The Cloud" Commentary. We peek in on Captain Janeway's animal guide vision quest and holodeck pool hustling at Chez Sandrine's with an audio commentary on the first-season Voyager episode "The Cloud."
Desert Island Episodes - Voyager Season 7. We wrap up our "Desert Island" podcast series with our top three Desert Island episode picks from Season 7 of Star Trek: Voyager.
Voyager Romance. In this special Valentine's Day episode of To The Journey, we explore the many romances, both good and bad, in Star Trek: Voyager, from romantic moments between members of the staff to various alien romances of the week.
Message in a Bottle. We discuss the fourth-season Voyager episode "Message in a Bottle" and the comedic duo of the Emergency Medical Hologram, Mark I (Robert Picardo) and the Emergency Medical Hologram, Mark II (Andy Dick).
"Mortal Coil" Commentary. We raise our glasses for a holiday Prixmas toast with an audio commentary on the fourth-season Voyager episode "Mortal Coil."
Tom Paris Mini-Marathon. We compare our top episode picks for a three-episode Tom Paris mini-marathon.
Faces. We discuss B'Elanna Torres's inner dual nature and the many faces of "Faces" (Star Trek: Voyager, Season 1).
Desert Island Episodes - Voyager Season 6. We compare our top three "Desert Island" episode picks from Voyager Season 6, forsaking all other Season 6 episodes forever.
Kes Mini-Marathon. We put together a mini-marathon of the essential Kes episodes in Star Trek: Voyager.
Things We Love and Hate about Neelix. From groan-worthy comic relief to embracing his inner Klingon, we discuss the things we love and hate about the character of Neelix in Star Trek: Voyager.
Innocence. We discuss Tuvok's Vulcan parenting skills, the fear of death, and Chakotay's diplomacy learning curve in the second-season Voyager episode "Innocence."
Characters We Wanted More Of. We discuss one-off characters that we wanted to see more of, and characters we wish had joined the Voyager crew.
Nothing Human. We discuss the fifth-season Voyager episode "Nothing Human" and the pros and cons of using Crell Moset's morally questionable research to save the life of B'Elanna Torres against her wishes.
"False Profits" Commentary. We bend the Prime Directive in an audio commentary on the third-season Voyager episode "False Profits."
Top Harry Kim Moments. We compare our picks for the top three Harry Kim moments in Star Trek: Voyager.
Desert Island Episodes - Voyager Season 5. We compare our top three choices from Voyager season 5 to take with us to a desert island, forever abandoning all other episodes from season 5.
"Muse" Commentary. We give an audio commentary on the sixth-season Voyager episode "Muse" and explore the classically epic quality of the Voyager story.
Doomed Voyager Relationships - Part 2. We continue our two-part discussion on failed Voyager relationship attempts, including those of B'Elanna Torres, Seven of Nine, Commander Chakotay, and Captain Janeway.
Doomed Voyager Relationships - Part 1. We discuss the many failed relationship attempts in Star Trek: Voyager, both organic and holographic.
Virtuoso. We discuss the sixth-season Voyager episode "Virtuoso," from The Doctor's newfound musical fame with the Qomar Planetary Alliance to the diversity of musical styles in the 24th century.
Tuvix Alternatives. We imagine alternative Voyager character hybrid pairings besides Tuvok and Neelix in the second-season episode "Tuvix."
Halfway Home. We discuss possible futures for Voyager, assuming the events of "Endgame" had never happened, 30 years into the journey and halfway home.
Seska...What If? We explore alternative directions for the character of Seska on Star Trek: Voyager, and the impact those alternative versions of Seska might have had on the overall Voyager story.
Course: Oblivion. We obsess over the minutiae of the wedding of Fake-Tom and Fake-B'Elanna and wrestle with the existential burdens of being a biomimetic duplicate in our discussion of the fifth-season Voyager episode "Course: Oblivion."
What Voyager Means To Us. We take a personal look at the meaningfulness of Voyager through our own personal stories and reflections. Plus we have an important announcement about the future of To The Journey and the journey ahead.
Non-Doctor/Seven Episodes from Seasons Five through Seven. Despite the many great Doctor/Seven episodes in the later seasons of Voyager, we go in search of our favorite non-Doctor/Seven episodes from Voyager's last three seasons.
We Need to Talk about Chakotay. We come to Commander Chakotay's defense against the Chakotay-haters with a discussion about what we love about, and what was done right with Voyager's intrepid first officer.
"Year of Hell" Commentary. We switch on our temporal shielding for an audio commentary on the two-part fan-favorite Voyager episode "Year of Hell."
Prixmas Potluck. We attend Voyager's Prixmas potluck in search of the crew's favorite holiday dishes.


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Because the capital markets industry is somewhat shielded by large balance sheet requirements, regulation and network effects, firms are unlikely to experience the kind of big-bang disruption caused by companies like Uber and Netflix in other industries. Nonetheless, three key trends are creating a perfect storm of "compressive disruption" that's forcing change and reinvention in capital markets:
Stagnating revenue: Following the global financial crisis, top-tier investment banks and boutique advisory houses have seen their pool of revenue stagnate or fall in real terms
Growing competition: While the industry's revenues are stagnating, capital markets players are still dealing with the rise of non-bank competitors in both primary and secondary businesses.
Weak returns: Capital requirements for balance sheet-led businesses have increased so much that they have destroyed shareholder value generation at even the purest of investment banks.


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It's not Windows, you are not more or less stuck with the default theme - you can choose from hundreds of window/gtk themes, and I believe most of them have scrollbar arrows.morri wrote:Cinnamon looks great, although I am missing the scroll bar arrows.
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I wish to encrypt credit card numbers one by one using asymmetric encryption on the command line. My current approach is this…
/usr/bin/openssl rsautl -encrypt -inkey 'myKey.pub' -pubin | /usr/bin/openssl enc -base64
openssl enc -base64 -d | openssl rsautl -decrypt -inkey myKey.pem
It is my understanding that this is secure, even when using the same key for each number, because rsautl introduces randomization to prevent finding patterns in the cyphertext.
Am I correct, and is the approach therefore secure?


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Urban Scout Makes Fire
Date: April 03, 2012
As part of the second annual Locavore Lit Fest at Washington College, Rewild Portland Executive Director Peter Bauer (Urban Scout) demonstrates how to use makeshift materials to create a bow drill for starting a fire.
His work examines assumptions about civilized culture and stresses the importance of our relation to food in an industrialized society.
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One's ideas, opinions, or point of view. Primarily heard in UK. If anyone wants to hear Dr Sanders' two pennies worth about the anti-vaccination debate, you can tune in to his podcast this Friday. I'd just like to put in my two pennies worth before we finish up the meeting, if I may.


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Who would have predicted it? The government's bailout of General Motors has become a hot political issue in the run up to the fall presidential election.
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who opposed federal loans to GM and Chrysler, said he'd sell the Treasury's 26 percent stake in GM quickly if he wins office in November.
"There is no reason for the government to continue to hold (GM shares), said Romney, son of late Michigan Gov. George Romney. The elder Romney ran American Motors Corp. in the late 1950s and early '60s before entering politics.
Romney's dad also made a run for the GOP presidential nomination in 1968 and served as Richard Nixon's first secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Romney said the only reason the government is holding on to its GM shares is to avoid an embarrassing news story about another loss. But last month an assistant Treasury secretary told The Detroit News there was no timetable for selling the GM stock because the administration had to "balance maximizing recovery for the taxpayers with the speed of exit."
Treasury has never planned to remain in the auto business, but with GM shares trading at $21.85 on Friday the government would lose about $16 billion if it sold its shares now.
Taxpayers pumped $49.5 billion into GM to save the company and hundreds of thousands of jobs around time Romney wrote a 2008 op-ed piece The New York Times titled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."
In fairness to Romney, his title of his guest editorial was "The Way Forward for the Auto Industry." A Times editor changed the headline but the piece itself was not changed.
"My own view is that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help," Romney said during an interview with WEWS-TV, Cleveland, after an Ohio campaign event in May. "And frankly, that's finally what the president did. He finally took them through bankruptcy."
Facing one of the worst economic meltdowns in U.S. history, with capital credit markets contracting and some financial institutions on the verge of collapse, the government provided financing to help GM and Chrysler. The Bush administration wrote the first checks.
Chrysler has since repaid its government loans and is now posting record sales, making Romney's recent bid to take credit for the industry's rebound a pretty hard sell.
"The last time Governor Romney weighed in on the future of the auto industry, it was to suggest we let Detroit go bankrupt, a betrayal no Michigander is likely to forget," Obama campaign spokesman Matt McGrath told The Detroit News. "As someone who was dead wrong about the industry's present, Mitt Romney is the last person who should be offering advice about its future."
Romney accused Democrats of "distorting" his position.
"If they needed help coming out of bankruptcy and government support, that was fine, but I was not in favor of the government writing billions of dollars in checks prior to them going into bankruptcy," Romney said .
Romney also said he wants to end federal loans and guarantees to help private companies develop alternative energy.
"The government is now picking winners and losers -- or in the case of this president -- it's picking losers and private sector does a much better job," Romney said in a Detroit News interview.
"The reality is that Solyndra [a bankrupt solar panel maker in California] received [$535 million] funding through a Department of Energy program created [by Congress] under the Bush Administration -- a program that has supported tens of thousands of jobs across the country and is moving forward with investments in innovative projects like the first nuclear plant built in the U.S. in decades and the world's largest wind farm," an Obama campaign spokeswoman told the News.
Ford's new F-150
Ford's top-selling U.S. vehicle, the full-size F-150 pickup, is getting a facelift.
Ford used a Texas meeting of the Future Farmers of America to introduce the 2013 F-150, which looks good hauling cargo or taking the family around town. The refreshed F-150 sports a beefier grill, optional high-intensity headlamps and the latest MyFordTouch voice navigation, entertainment and climate controls.
"Farm families have always represented an important F-Series truck constituency," said Ford Truck marketing manager Doug Scott. "For these multitasking customers, a Ford pickup means family transportation, economic livelihood, rugged capability and reliability."
There will even be a luxury-oriented F-150 Limited.
Full-size trucks make up about 10 percent of all vehicles sold in the United States and Ford will face tough competition from the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, which are both being redesigned for 2013, and the new V6 Dodge Ram.
Honda Fit EV electric mileage champion
The all-electric Mitsubishi i EV, which gets the impressive electrical equivalent of 112 miles per gallon, has been dethroned by the new Honda Fit EV.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- in its latest fuel efficiency ratings -- estimates the plug-in 2013 electric Fit EV gets 118 MPGe. MPGe is the EPA's mile-per-gallon equivalency rating for electric vehicles.
A front-wheel drive Fit EV has a 20 kilowatt lithium-ion battery pack powering a 92 kilowatt electric motor producing 123 horsepower and 188 foot-pounds of torque.
The five-passenger Fit EV can go as many as 82 miles on a single charge in combined city/highway driving, better than the all-electric Nissan Leaf's 73 miles per charge combined range and the Mitsubishi i's 62 miles per charge.
The plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt can go 35 miles on electric power before its gasoline engine takes over to recharge the battery for the next 250 miles. Minor battery changes will boost that to 38 miles on electric power in 2013 models. GM says it sold more than 7,000 Volts from January through May, nearly as many as it sold in all of last year.
Nissan sold 2,613 Leafs through May.
The EPA estimates it would cost about $500 a year to power the Fit EV and Honda said its batteries can be recharged in as little as three hours when connected to a 240-watt charging station.
With a manufacturers' suggested retail price of $36,625, Honda said the Fit EV will be available for lease for $399 a month this year in California and Oregon. A wider roll-out is expected next year.
In other gas-sipper news, Consumer Reports recently drove a Honda Civic HF, the Chevrolet Cruze Eco and the Ford Focus SFE, and concluded small cars with special "eco" packages don't improve mileage enough to justify the added expense.
An "eco" vehicle has special systems, like low-rolling resistance tires, to maximize fuel economy and can cost $500 to $800 more than its conventional gasoline engine sibling. Consumer Reports said a Focus SFE would save owners about $145 in gas a year over a standard Focus, the Civic HF $135 annually over a conventional Civic, and the Cruze Eco, just $20 a year in fuel.
The consumer magazine praised the $20,850 Toyota Prius C subcompact hybrid's 43 mpg combined fuel economy and its parking ease, but panned the C's stiff ride, steering, hard plastic interior, rear visibility, and wind and road noise.


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Last night, as I prepared to head to work, I got into my car as usual. I cranked my car, and as usual I reached over to turn on my stereo. ( It has to be turned on separately.) As I reached for the power button, I was surprised when my hand continued to reach through the console. My stereo had been stolen. while my car sat in my driveway the night before, someone came along, got in (for the five years we've occupied our house, I've never locked the driver's door.), pulled the radio out of the dash, clipped all connections, and made off with it.
Now, I only paid fifty bucks for it. I know it's gone. I'm not worried about ever getting it back. That's not the problem.
The problem is this: I have worked hard for what I have aquired over the years. I have spent countless hours, literally, in a hole in the ground, shoveling, to earn the money to support myself and my family, only to have some creep with a habit steal from me, in order (I'm quite positive) to get money for his (or her) next "fix".
I know that my ranting here doesn't solve the problem of theft or drug habits, but I can say that I feel a little bit better about the whole situation having done this. Thank you for listening.


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A few weeks ago I was sitting at a poker table, as I often am, when my phone rang. It was Mikey Weinstein asking if I would like a review copy of his new book No Snowflake In An Avalanche. I would have accepted the offer, of course, but I had already bought the book, though I hadn't had a chance to start it yet. This is my review of the book.
Since I started the book, I had the opportunity to spend a weekend hanging out with Mikey at Ft. Bragg for the Rock Beyond Belief event. It was the first time we'd met in person after many years of regularly exchanging emails, talking on the phone and working together on projects. When I saw him at the airport I knew instantly that it was him. I have rarely met someone who looks more like his personality; the man looks like a bulldog — compact, stocky, muscular, and fierce.
So let's start with the obvious disclaimer: Obviously I know Mikey. I consider him a friend and an ally in many important battles. And I like him a lot. It would not be unreasonable for you to keep that in mind as you read this review.
Let me also start with what some may find bothersome about this book. It is not a scholarly study of the issues, it is a dramatic call to arms. Mikey plays the role of a polemicist or a general firing up the troops for battle. The book is written very much the way Mikey talks, as though he were attempting to break the Guinness record for the highest number of adjectives and adverbs used in a single paragraph. A given situation is not merely bad, it is hideously appalling or outrageously vile. It's a style that many will no doubt find off-putting.
But the book is at its best when telling real-life stories, both of the — yes — hideous and outrageous abuse he and his family have endured over the last few years with the founding of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and of the men and women that foundation has intervened to help over those years. The Weinstein family has had dead animals left in its driveway, had their windows shot out and had a swastika and a crucifix — a telling combination — painted on the side of their house in New Mexico. They receive death threats on a weekly basis and now must travel with bodyguards and concealed weapons to protect themselves. I imagine that might amplify my outrage and make me sound a bit strident as well.But all that aside, what makes this book really worth reading are the stories of the soldiers and the way so many of them have had their rights violated in the name of God, including the members of his own family. It's also the story of the many others who have stepped up and joined MRFF to fight the ongoing battles. Former Air Force chaplain MeLinda Morton, Yale Divinity School professor Dr. Kristen Leslie, retired Air Force Col. David Antoon, Vice Admiral Bernard Marvin Kauderer, our own Chris Rodda and many others have enlisted and helped to defend people like Dustin Chalker.
Chalker's story is an excellent case study of the problems many soldiers face. He was forced to attend many meetings where superior officers demanded that the troops say prayers. He asked repeatedly to be excused from such events and was denied every time. As he puts it in the book:
"You can imagine the sense of betrayal I felt when I was involuntarily drafted into these religious gatherings and forced to put on a charade of praying along with Christian clergymen, whose salaries were paid with tax dollars. These ceremonial prayers were not innocent acts of 'free exercise,' but forced exercise that non-Christian soldiers cannot escape."
Far too many people do not take his position seriously because they see Christianity as a default, as the de facto official religion. This is a Christian nation, they argue, so Chalker should just remain silent. The flaws in this argument would be breathtakingly obvious to those who make it the moment they are required to bow toward Mecca for a Muslim prayer.
The battles that MRFF fights are important. As I said in my opening remarks at Rock Beyond Belief, the separation of church and state is never more important than when it involves those who take an oath to defend the constitution that is the source of that vital principle. And while some may object to Mikey Weinstein's flamboyant and provocative style, the reality is that no one much cared about these issues, even civil libertarian groups like the ACLU, until he started rocking the boat. No Snowflake in an Avalanche tells the story of how it all happened.


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USC Book Club: Jesus and the Emergence of a Catholic Imagination
May 2012:
Jesus and the Emergence of a Catholic Imagination
By John Pfordresher
In this fascinating account, John Pfordresher, an English professor at Georgetown University, traces the roots of the Catholic imagination from Jesus to the arts of the West through the centuries.
His chapter on Jesus, "the poet of everyday life," takes apart his imagination and preaching techniques: parable, analogy, irony, and the use of everyday objects and situations such as lost coins, masters and servants, vineyard owners hiring workers. The book then examines artwork found in a third-century house church in Syria, the Roman catacombs, and the famed Book of Kells in Dublin, Ireland. A fascinating tour of the images that have shaped our lives as Catholics, whether we realize it or not.
—Catherine O'Connell-Cahill, Senior Editor, U.S. CATHOLIC
[1]Paulist Press says: Traces the development of a Catholic way of imagining the world, from its genesis in Jesus' teachings through the first 800 years of Christianity.
Paperback: $27.95
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A sculptural exploration of curved folding and a tension based quasi origami system I personally developed.
More explorations of 3D surfaces, this time using science fiction body armor, traditional Japanese tattoos, and shibari rope art, courtesy of my friend Seattle Shibari.
I was inspired to explore 3D paper art after reading "Paper Sculpture: Fluid Forms" by Richard Sweeney. By using curved folds, incredible beauty and structural strength could be achieved at the same time.
Using this tech, I wanted to create a dynamic art template and was reminded of another book- "Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design."
Render studies for future projects.
Three paintings 40x50" spray paint and acrylic on canvas.
'Gaea Bellium' translates to 'Earth War' which can then be viewed in two ways:
Human wars throughout history- the East (Oriens) and West (Occasus) aesthetically represent Samurai and Greco-Roman helmets/armor. The third piece, which has more of a 'Fallout' gas mask vibe, I titled 'Futurus.' Because, well... I don't think we're going to run out of wars anytime soon.
I guess you could also say the floral element is my techno-futurist representation of the time honored anti-war tradition of placing flowers in gun barrels.
The military/industrial construct of the helmet(s) can also be viewed as society itself, struggling to contain the inescapable submission to nature and time. So, the more environmentalist reading of 'Earth War' would be the literal destruction of the planet.
a person's facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin.*
*Like phrenology, another disproven system of physical assessment.
This is an ongoing series of mask/face schematics and cultural mashups from my biracial childhood. Masks are universal in human history, and I wanted to combine them in a very diagrammatic way, something similar to the instruction manuals for model toy robots that I studied as a youth.
All this juxtaposition allows for interplay between hard/soft and modern/traditional. And you know how I love that.
By combining classical ukiyo-e aesthetic and narrative, I wanted to create an anachronistic background to highlight a modern technological concern.
'Digital Love' explores traditional shunga and displays of affection.
'Scareware' addresses malware and digital viruses in the form of yokai, and I based the composition from a Yoshitoshi piece. (There is also a reference to Aphex Twin)
'Troubleshooting' references 'Shoki the demon queller,' a traditional character famous across ancient Asia.
From Wikipedia:
"The iconography of the Raijin and Fuujin gods has been heavily influenced by Buddhist art, itself influenced by Greek and Indian art."
This sort of malleable identity led to the idea of doing another ukiyo-e/hiphop remix. One one side, these two ubiquitous deities who are gods of thunder and wind. On the other, the eternal combination of DJ and MC, represented by one of the greatest-of-all-time duos, Eric B and Rakim.
The original Raijin has drums encircling him, so it wasn't a stretch to imagine them as vinyl records. And since I wanted to depict Eric B and Rakim in the height of their cheesy golden-era-of-hip-hop pomp, I needed to adorn the deities with thick chains and ostentatious jewelry.
I'd never done an airbrush painting this big before, and it took longer than I ever expected. But I also learned a tremendous amount.
More structural explorations combined with modern video game/traditional Japanese culture.
katagami papers are hand cut, mulberry paper stencil designs for the purpose of painting textiles. Treated with oils and layered with reinforcement threads, these antiques are an artpiece in themselves. So what do I do? Cut them up and start painting.
I started the process in a similar manner to collage, using the most advantageous elements of the base material. And designing excess paper as border elements gives the pieces strong compositional qualities.
Creating new designs from stencils I had already used was an additional way to remix multiple formats of media in one artpiece.
The subdued color scheme is a new exploration as well... using the natural worn tones of the paper by picking minimal color additions.
'(UN)known Icons' explores the construction of celebrity and influence through four pivotal figures from the 1960's/70's New York City counterculture.
Combining streetart and traditional Asian style, Wakuda creates a fusion that is both modern and timeless. With '(UN)known Icons' he merges stencil graffiti technique with classical Japanese kabuki portraits to reimagine the likes of Andy Warhol, Brian Jones, Steve Paul, and David Bowie. All of these figures influenced the world around them, but each did so in very different ways.
Bowie's Ziggy Stardust was the original inspiration for the Icons set. Upon watching a film of his 1972 London performance (in kimono), Wakuda was struck by the parallels between his character and aspects of traditional kabuki performance- the artist began to think of other icons in the same era, and how they realized their identities would be perceived over the course of time.
While Bowie transitioned on from the Ziggy character (note the subtle 'Spiders from Mars' background), Andy Warhol never lost the wig and other accessories that defined him- from the precise pose of the hand on his chin, to the camera always at the ready. The parallels between traditional Japanese ukiyo-e and Warhol's 20th century studies in color and repetition are finally connected here.
Wakuda fully explores the spectrum from unknown to icon with the five print series 'Becoming Andy.' Warhol begins as almost unrecognizeable- lacking any of the distinguishing characteristics and accessories that complete him, even the famous wig. But over the next four prints, the iconic details gradually fade in and stranger becomes celebrity.
On the other side of the spectrum, the publicly low-key Steve Paul's critical eye and sharp wit made him a celebrity's celeb. As a tastemaker for his NYC venue, 'The Scene,' Paul created an environment where many future legends gestated. Warhol himself designed posters for the club, and the infamous owner was always standing guard outside, his ever present joint in hand.
Finally, Wakuda uses the tragic figure of Brian Jones to examine genius and self destruction with this 'forgotten' icon. As founder of the Rolling Stones, Jones is still lesser known because he died, drowned in a swimming pool, before the height of the band's fame. Known for his flamboyant outfits and consumption of psychedelic drugs, he is depicted in classic Kabuki actor style. But the variations in the paintings bring different interpretations- pill in hand, Jones seems either lost within another epic trip, or standing before his watery grave.
19x25" Edition of 20.
Hand cut stencil I made when working in Brooklyn and felt homesick for clean air and green spaces.
The simplicity of the stencil allows the colors of the weather to be the emotional focus. And a multi-edition printing is the best way to represent how micro-climates of the Pacific Northwest allow for such variety of weather.
Digital Superstitions:
We live in an age when technology is becoming an indistinguishable part of human existence, even as our popular understanding of it diminishes. 'Digital Superstitions' explores the duality of this space using the filter of Japanese history as prior cultural metaphor. Rapid industrialization of Meiji-era society meant modern scientific knowledge was in direct contact with timeless elemental folklore. The interaction of these two dissonant worlds provides a wealth of concepts through which to address modern life.
The supernatural world of the Yokai is founded on dualities and contradictions, filtered through time that stood as explanations for the unknown. When faced with eradication through the light of science, Yokai culture survived by hybridizing its most fundamental aspects in a modern context. As a meme that embodies the uknown, this discourse is an ideal way to translate conversations on environmental and futurist concerns, post-humanism, and how culture changes through the passage of time.
Starting to embrace mixed media techniques, this was the first time I really started to manifest inspiration from the streetart world.
May 6 - June 26, 2010
Artist Reception: Thursday, May 6, 5-8 pm
Pioneer Square Art Walk: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 5-8 pm
In "Future's Past: The Black Ships," opening May 6 at ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle artist, Jonathan Wakuda Fischer, investigates the dual perception of Japanese culture as hyper contemporary and technologically advanced, yet one that retains and prizes its ancient traditions. Using urban graffiti techniques (spray-paint and stencils), Wakuda references both modern and ancient Japanese aesthetics such as ukiyo-e woodblock prints and the contemporary superflat movement. The paintings in "Future's Past" tell visual stories based on folklore, anime, science fiction, and Japanese history.
From the very beginning. My first experiments with multilayered stenciling and an exploration of my bi-racial heritage.


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Cecil necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 4 diseños de 2 diseñadores freelance.
We are a Forex education publishing company. visit our site below to get a good Idea what our site looks like and what we do.
Note: We will be monitoring this project pretty closely, so if you have questions, please post them... we will respond quickly.
The market will be people that visit our site by Google Adword PPC campaigns, and affiliate referrals.
We are redesigning our web presence. We have just finished the design of our new site and we need banners created for our three products. Our site is not live yet, but you can preview it at: http://yourforexmentor.com/yfm3/
I am giving you two examples of art work that we have had done on two of our products. Keep the style similar. We like this art, but we would like the banners to be simple and lighter (not so dark).
1. Advent Forex. You will find the artwork below;
2. FAA (Forex Alternative Adviser) You will find the artwork below;
3. FXST (FX Swing Trader). We will need you to create this banner and include a logo that is simple.
For all of the banners we would like to have:
1. Some flash...lightly done... not too much to give someone an epileptic fit.
2. In each banner design, we would like one that also includes (Limited Time Offer)
3. For each banner, we would also like a static (no flash version)
that is pretty much it. We would like for you to stick to the basic art work that we have provided you below for the AdventFX and the FAA. However, the AdventFX logo has a reflective shadow (below the letters) that we want to eliminate in the banner.
Finally, the winner will need to provide us with two additional sizes of each banner for our affiliates to use on their websites.


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Vikings punter Chris Kluwe and Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo have put their money where their mouths are.
Kluwe and Ayanbadejo have submitted, via a lawyer, a brief to the United States Supreme Court regarding the issue of same-sex marriage, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
On March 26, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of California's ban on same-sex marriage. The brief was filed by attorneys John Dragseth and Timothy Holbrook.
The legal system routinely allows for the filing of "friend of the court" briefs from entities not directly involved in the case.
As pointed out by Deadspin, the brief omits one of Kluwe's more colorful terms for describing the unlikely societal impact of allowing persons of the same gender to marry.