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Finding home LED lighting ideas is not that difficult: there are dozens of articles dedicated to this subject on the web and in the newspapers. Less obvious is to put into practice the right idea to light up the house at sustainable costs, without ending up spending a fortune on work, maintenance and electricity bills. Our editorial staff of specialized light designers decided to share the best ideas to illuminate the house effectively.
Start reading our guide and discover the alternatives of the moment to light up your home and your indoor spaces with energy efficiency and design. Let's start with the first four ideas based on the most common types of properties.
The first possibility that we can identify is that of the classic apartment, intended as a house from 80 to 140 square meters with various rooms including a kitchen, a living room, bedrooms and bathroom / s. In this case, the lighting will have to be studied for "watertight compartments" since the rooms will all be separated by walls. (Unlike for example lofts and open spaces). This peculiarity, combined with the more or less wide space, results in the combination of light sources independent of each other, able to enhance the individual rooms depending on the natural exposure, the furnishings and so on. The suggested categories are many, we highlight in particular the design wall lamps, the suspension lampstand the innovative high brightness and efficiency LED strips.
2) Home LED LIGHTING IDEAS FOR LIGHTING ATTIC
Unlike a traditional apartment, attics and penthouses have narrower spaces, usually because the ceiling is low or the roof cuts the environment along an oblique line. In contrast, the presence of skylights ensures a certain natural light from above. Here the ceiling or suspension lamps can be superfluous, so we will choose lamps of other types, on all floor lamps, excellent for lighting up even a large room, minimizing space and consumption. A model like the giphy floor lamp, for example, it lends itself well to the furnishing of a modern attic, thanks to its arched profile that follows the inclination of the ceiling ensuring maximum stability. Valid in this case also the recessed LED spotlights: they do not take up space and carry light where needed.
Here is always the problem in studios and apartments. Here we have three main ways to follow to optimize the available volumes:
ceiling lamps, LED and Strip LED spotlights or a mix of both. To understand what is convenient for us, let's look first at the ceiling height and
at the arrangement of the windows: high ceilings and large windows must suggest lights from below, while a good compromise between ceiling lamps and recessed spotlights are the ceiling lights: series successful as the ceiling Oxygen testify customers' appreciation for these solutions, perfect for lighting studios and one-bedroom apartments with a design simple, contemporary and without too many frills.
4) Home LED LIGHTING IDEAS FOR LIGHTING BASEMENT HOMES
In the Pakistan metropolises, many people live in semi-basement houses, where a big problem is the lack of natural light due to the absence of windows and skylights. It is, therefore, necessary to focus on high brightness solutions, with adequate light and power diffusion. The possibility of adjusting the light with a dimmer can be useful more than anything else in the bedroom or in the bathroom, since in the other rooms you will need, in the case, "open" lighting. In this case, we opt for performing models such as the Stardust suspension lamp, or the 100 cm long Dub light, ideal over the table, or the Branch with anti-glare polycarbonate diffuser. And if that's not enough, we can reinforce everything with a few wall lights or high-quality Premium LED strips.
When you think of wall lamps, surgeries or hotel corridors immediately come to mind. In reality, design exceeds aesthetic limits and allows us to enjoy original lamps, which give color, identity, and style to our homes. Think for example of Cacio & Pepe portable lamps, which look like a greater (hence the name) or Lama LED wall lamps, developed to create atmospheres of comfort, relaxation, and intimacy. There are also models with a more formal flavor, such as the My White series which, in addition to the wall, can also be installed on the ceiling, in small (S) or medium (M) sizes. In the category of designer wall lamps, you will find numerous proposals for every need and living environment.
Illuminate home with ceiling lamps? Nothing could be simpler: just replace the old chandeliers in use or connect the models purchased in the case of new buildings to the electricity network. To highlight the article of our blog dedicated to the 5 models of design ceiling lamps, where we talk in detail of latest-generation LED solutions. Attention to the subtle difference between ceiling lamps and suspension lamps: both apply to the ceiling, but while the former do not detach from the surface, the latter hang from a cable at more or less important distances and remain "suspended" in the air with decorative and light effects of great visual impact. If the idea excites you, take a look at the category of our design pendant lamps!
The design floor lamps are certainly not to be confused with the bedside lamps. If we choose to light the house with these models of lamps we will have dozens of valid alternatives, small or large, simple or eccentric, with geometric or rounded shapes, with different finishes, colors, and treatments. Among the more fortunate versions, it is worth mentioning the Moon, in the two variants Floor Moon (in turn in three models) and Ex Moon (always in three models). On the same wavelength also the series Oh! Garden, designed for outdoor use but actually usable also indoors without any particular precautions. In the design floor lamps category, there are more than twenty Made in Italy LED models with prices ranging from 50 euros to 1,200.


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Since I was a child, I've kept a carefully logged journal and nothing helps adjust an aging perspective like your own handwriting. It's easy to sit on the sidelines, editing and cheering writers from a safe perch. I've encouraged and helped dozens upon dozens of authors.
But my view of my childhood, my family and faith has come into question the last few years and my journal has been a steadying force. I recently helped an author transition her memoir into a novel.
There is freedom in creative nonfiction, allowing an emotional truth that many memoirs, especially when trauma is present, can stifle. Watching this writer revisit her personal history was not only inspiring but contagious.
And so I've left the safety of my perch, and am finishing my own memoir-turned-novel. It's terrifying; truth was never accused of being pretty. But the reception, so far, of how my personal narrative (even novelized) can change a man's perspective, propels me forward.
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America is the greatest country on the planet! We are a bastion of hope and freedom! We are a Christian nation! Or are we?
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This week I chat with John Dominic Crossan about Christmas and the birth of Christ. His views though are ones that in part resonate easily but at the same time hold my mind in tension.
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As you listen and watch people discuss faith and God it always turns to "this says this!" or "you're taking that wrong". But what if we embraced the mystery? What if we reconnect to the mystical aspects of our faith?
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This week I chat with John Mark McMillan about what it looks like to be honest in music and how that impacts the way we think about and talk about God.
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5856. What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. (Bertrand Russell)
5857. Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar. (Jim Butcher)
5858. Adam and Eve were punished because they were vegetarians. They should have eaten the snake. (Robert Sabatier)
5859. Most Miami residents are genuinely nice, once you get past their brusque urban façade and tendency to resolve traffic disputes with automatic weapons. (Dave Barry)
5860. Logically considered, freedom and equality are Mutually Exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. (Thomas Mann)
5861. He was so paranoid that he cancelled his Twitter account; he was afraid of being followed. (Réjean Lévesque)
5862. Seagulls are born out of the handkerchiefs waved at the ship's departure. (Ramon Gomez de la Serna)
5863. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. (Granville Hicks)
5864. After cutting the umbilical cord, humans become wireless. (Michael Linhart)
5865. A civilized society is one that learns to live with its contradictions. (Michel Garcia)
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Preparing you for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Supporting you through the change…
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new EU law that comes into effect on 25 May 2018. It will replace the current Data Protection Act 1998 and the changes will remain in place even after the UK leaves the EU in 2019.
Under GDPR individuals will have greater control over their own personal data. Your setting may already have a data protection policy in place but GDPR will introduce some significant changes to the current rules. Although it is not yet absolutely certain, exactly how the GDPR will be implemented in practice, some things are already clear. Nurseries and childcare providers need to be aware of these now and to start taking preparatory steps so that they are ready in good time.
However, there is no need to panic. GDPR is an evolutionary change, not revolutionary. You do however need to be taking the appropriate steps to be compliant.
Wales PPA is here to support our members through this change. Over the past months we have issued guidance information on how you can prepare for GDPR, all of which can now be found below!
We have also put together a 'Members Guidelines for Privacy Policies' it is important to note that these are for guidance only. Each setting will have it's own individual requirements and circumstances to consider. For further information and examples of policies visit: ico.org.uk
Useful resources:
- smalltalk magazine (winter 2017 ed): Preparing you for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- smalltalk magazine (spring 2018 ed): Preparing for the GDPR: what nurseries and childcare providers can start doing now
- earlyyears.wales/news: Research reveals GDPR could leave charities at risk
- Wales PPA: Members Guidelines for Privacy Policies
- ico.org.uk: Preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): 12 steps to take now
- www.wcva.org.uk: #DesktopData – preparing you for GDPR
- ico.org.uk: Your privacy notice checklist
- Wales PPA: GDPR Top Tips
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- www.gov.uk: A New Data Protection Bill: Our planned reforms
- www.gov.uk: Data Protection Bill 2017
- ico.org.uk: Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- ico.org.uk: Education
- ico.org.uk: Your data matters – building trust and confidence (downloadable communications templates)
- ico.org.uk: E-newsletter (sign up here)
- www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk:
- ico.org.uk: Children and the GDPR
- ico.org.uk: Guidance on the processing and application of Children's Data
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- smalltalk magazine (autumn 2017 ed): Crime v Cyber & Data Liability Insurance (pg 19 – 20)
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$1,995,000 - 13 Marbella, San Clemente
- 4Beds
- 5Baths
- 4,657SQ. Feet
- 0.24Acres
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PANORAMIC OCEAN VIEWS, LARGE ENTERTAINER'S BACKYARD, OPEN FLOOR PLAN, MAIN FLOOR BEDROOM, PRIVACY …THIS HOME HAS IT ALL! Located in the prestigious guard gated community of Sea Pointe Estates, this custom home offers spectacular ocean views from almost every room in the house. A grand entry leads to a large family room that has been configured perfectly for entertaining with multiple seating areas, a pool table, wet bar and direct access to the impressive backyard living space with an expansive grilling area, tranquil water feature and coastal breezes. The gourmet kitchen boasts countertop seating, granite counters, stainless appliances, dual ovens, wine fridge, a large center island with prep sink and charming Dutch door. Upstairs features the master suite with breathtaking ocean views, a romantic fireplace, large master retreat and freshly remodeled, light, bright & airy master bathroom. Additionally, upstairs you'll find an open loft area connecting two generously sized secondary bedrooms each with their own private en-suite bathrooms, stunning ocean views and balcony access. A remarkably large driveway provides ample parking for all your guests to visit this amazing estate. Impeccably manicured grounds create a stunning ambiance that pervades the property. Life in San Clemente at it's finest.
Sales Agent
- Sam Smith
- San Clemente Realtor ®
- Phone: 949-204-5110
- Cell: 949-204-5110
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- UtilitiesCable Connected, Electricity Connected, Natural Gas Connected, Sewer Connected, Telephone - On Property, Water Connected
- Parking Spaces8
- ParkingDirect Garage Access, Driveway - Concrete, Garage, Garage - Front Entry
- # of Garages3
- ViewCity Lights View, Hills View, Neighborhood, Ocean View, Catalina View, Coastline View, Panoramic View, Water View
- Has PoolYes
- PoolAssociation Pool
- SecurityGated Community, Gated with Guard, 24 Hour Security, Automatic Gate, Carbon Monoxide Detector(s), Guarded, Smoke Detector
School Information
- DistrictCapistrano Unified
- ElementaryPALISA
- MiddleSHOREC
- HighSANCLE
Essential Information
- Price$1,995,000
- Bedrooms4
- Bathrooms5.00
- Full Baths4
- Half Baths1
- Square Footage4,657
- Acres0.24
- Year Built1984
- TypeResidential
- Sub-TypeSingle Family
- StyleTraditional
- StatusClosed
- ExteriorFrame, Stucco, Concrete, Drywall Walls
- Exterior FeaturesBarbecue Private, Lighting
- Lot DescriptionBack Yard, Front Yard, Landscaped, Lawn, Level with Street, Paved, Sprinkler System, Yard, Gentle Slope, Lot Shape-Rectangular, Walkstreet
- WindowsWindow Shutters
- RoofFlat Tile
- ConstructionFrame, Stucco, Concrete, Drywall Walls
- FoundationConcrete Slab, Pillar/Post/Pier
Additional Information
- Date ListedJuly 9th, 2018
- Days on Market241
- Short SaleN
- RE / Bank OwnedN
Community Information
- Address13 Marbella
- AreaSan Clemente North (SN)
- SubdivisionSea Pointe Estates (SPE)
- CitySan Clemente
- CountyOrange
- StateCA
- Zip Code92673
- Interior FeaturesTurnkey, Balcony, Beamed Ceilings, Ceiling Fan, Crown Moldings, Granite Counters, High Ceilings (9 Feet+), Pantry, Recessed Lighting, Wet Bar, Wired for Sound, Drywall Walls, Bar, Wired for Data, Living Room Deck Attached, Open Floor Plan
- AppliancesDishwasher, Double Oven, Garbage Disposal, Gas Range, Microwave, Refrigerator, Barbecue
- HeatingCentral Furnace, Fireplace
- CoolingCentral A/C
- FireplaceYes
- FireplacesFamily Room, Living Room, Fire Pit, Master Bedroom, Master Retreat
- # of Stories2
- StoriesTwo
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- Price Range:
- $1,000,000 - $2,750,000
- Current Listings:
- 13
- HOA Dues:
- $365
- Average Price per Square Foot:
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This Tzim-Sha vinyl figure is released by Funko in their POP! TV x Doctor Who vinyl figure series.
Funko POP! is a crossover vinyl figure series by Funko and other famous franchises such as Disney, Pixar, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Simpsons, South Park, Uglydoll, etc. Each POP! figure is about ~3" to ~5" tall and crafted in a Japanese anime/manga super-deformed style (NOTE: due to the unique design of each character, the actual size of the figures may be smaller or bigger than stated).
The POP! TV x Doctor Who features characters from the long running British TV drama that depicts the adventures of the Doctor, a Time Lord— a space and time-travelling humanoid alien.
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Original oil paintings and prints of beach paintings, animal art, flowers, landscapes, street scenes and coastal decor.
Sunday, 23 February 2014
Landscape Painting 'By the Creek'
The stretched canvas measures 28" x 14" x 1 1/2" side edge painted black.
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Ocean painting on Etsy 'Footprints in the Sand'
Oil on stretched canvas 20" x 16"
A gorgeous, still dusk evening in summer! Perfectly peaceful!
Monday, 17 February 2014
Sheep Painting 'Camilla' on Etsy Art
For more details or to purchase this sheep painting, please enter my Etsy store here
A thickly textured, woolly sheep!
Oil on panel 8" x 8" unframed.
Saturday, 15 February 2014
Rooster Painting 'Raffaelo'
Please enter my Etsy store here for more details or to purchase
Oil on canvas 24" x 20"
A colorful rooster with a bright blue background for your kitchen, home, or cafe decor!
Rabbit Painting 'Jeremiah'
A bright splash of red for the kitchen, cafe or child's room decor!
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Owl Painting on Etsy Art
Oil on panel 10" x 8" unframed
A brilliant red background for this owl 'Oscar'!
Saturday, 8 February 2014
Cow Painting 'Serenity' on Etsy Art
Oil on panel 10" x 8" unframed
A talking point for your kitchen or cafe decor, or just for the cow lover!
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An accident has left you stunned and in need of continued medical care. You likely have a lot of questions, such as:
- "What is personal injury law?
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- drunk driving
- failing to enforce the correct safety standards on a job site
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Personal injury lawsuits are filed so that the plaintiff, the person who was seriously injured because of another's negligence, has the opportunity to recover compensation. Compensation obtained through a lawsuit is intended to allow the plaintiff the financial means needed to restore their quality of life. This typically covers losses such as medical expenses, lost wages, and even non-monetary losses such as physical and emotional suffering. The total amount that can be recovered always varies between plaintiffs because no two people suffer the same losses.
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Anyone who owns or manages a property is required under the law to take reasonable steps to check each part of that property for hazards that could cause visitors harm. Yet time and time again, major slip and fall hazards are overlooked by those in charge.
Slip and fall accidents don't just cause bumps and bruises, serious injuries frequently occur such as:
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Have you avoided contacting an attorney after a work accident because you believe that you aren't eligible since workers' compensation prevents lawsuits filed against an employer? While it is true that in the majority of cases, a lawsuit can't be filed against your employer, accidents frequently occur because of the negligence of a third party. Lawsuits can be filed against this party.
A work accident lawsuit can provide a plaintiff with compensation for:
- medical expenses
- lost wages
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Future of Cal Poly
calpolyslorocks 0 replies1 threads New Member
edited May 2013 in Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Student Profile - Admissions - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo26 replies
Cal Poly is becoming more competitive every year! The average GPA was a 3.96 and the average ACT was a 29 for this fall's entering freshman class. The math and science related majors have even more impressive stats. What do you guys think the future has in store for Cal Poly? Lower acceptance rates? U.S New's rankings? Maybe even surpassing the UC's?
Cal Poly is becoming more competitive every year! The average GPA was a 3.96 and the average ACT was a 29 for this fall's entering freshman class. The math and science related majors have even more impressive stats. What do you guys think the future has in store for Cal Poly? Lower acceptance rates? U.S New's rankings? Maybe even surpassing the UC's?
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Thanks for posting this information. Yes, Cal Poly attracts incredibly well qualified students and will continue to do so. I am sure that the UC's have upped their game too.
However, in the future you can expect Cal Poly to become even more selective. It already is in the top tier for its category with U.S. News. Of course it could go slightly higher, but it already is the top public school for universities in the West whose highest degree is a masters for almost two decades straight.
Cal Poly already surpasses most UC's and has stats for entering freshman similar to UCLA, UCSD and UCB.
What I see as most likely is that the reputation of Cal Poly will continue to skyrocket and we will see more applications from highly qualified candidates and public recognition.
"Cal Poly already surpasses most UC's and has stats for entering freshman similar to UCLA, UCSD and UCB."
Not sure why the constant oversell? It comes off a little insecure, or a constant marketing move to entice the smart kids to come. If you are a really super bright kid whose goal is to be around other really super bright minds across all disciplines, are you going to find more of those similar minds (and stats) at CP or UCB? That answer should be clear. I think the intellectual population is in fact very different, sorry. Not saying CP doesn't have some super achieving really smart kids, it certainly does, but this constant elite status sell is getting old and is sometimes misleading to these young students and parents.
@blueskies2day -- There is no oversell going on here. I am a totally satisfied Cal Poly parent whose kid is having an awesome educational experience at the school. I love it too. With the world as messed up as it is, it is great to have something in our lives that is off the charts awesome. My posts are generally from our own personal experiences and quite frankly, for us there has been very little downside to this school. I appreciate your opinion, but you are sorely mistaken that we are insecure about our choice. We are literally so satisfied with the program that we feel completely justified crowing about it from the roof tops. Sorry if my posts annoy you. But they are genuine. We really do feel this great about the school.
universityfreak 84 replies1 threads Junior MemberI don't think it's an oversell at all. To each his or her opinion. Cal Poly is certainly on the rise and in certain areas more highly regarded than some of the UCs. And I went to UCLA. I experienced zero "hands on." I did become a master test taker though. My son is an EE major at Cal Poly and his best friend is an EE major at UCLA. The educational experience is very different and my son believes he will be more ready for industry, which is his goal. He also learns the theory behind his hands on education. For my son, it is the perfect fit.
@ blueskies2day Well, you pose an interesting question. Many of us have felt for a very long time that a UC education carried real weight, and for me, I believe it still has some of that value. However the GPA/SAT/AP race to the top in the last 10 or 20 years has put an unfavorable spin on the access to public schools in California. Let's not fool ourselves, an 800 on a SAT math test is no guarantee a kid will even graduate, let alone become a productive member of the work force, but it might get the kid into UCLA or UCB. We are surely all aware that the system can be gamed to the advantage of the privileged. Not every California kid has $6,000 to spend on a summer long SAT prep crash course, but taking one will give some kids a seat at UCB at the expense of a seat lost to someone who does not have the deep pockets. Many's the kid who had a coach 'help' write his or her Personal Statement. I know a number of UC kids who are working as lab techs or EMT's instead of engineers or MD's. There are plenty of smart kids who worked their way through high school and college who are good at something useful besides taking SAT & AP tests, and yes some of them attend Cal Poly. If you know any of the extraordinary kids at Cal Poly you are aware that many of them turned down UC's some even UCLA & UCB. They go to SLO because they want to, they like it there, and that's part of the reason it's tough to get them out in 4 years. Every kid is different, as is every school. Most of the kids at Cal Poly choose to go there because for them it's a great place to go to get an excellent education, not because it has a fancy label. Pretty smart kids it seems to me.
ouiounon 26 replies3 threads New MemberI do firmly believe that Cal Poly is a great university, one of the crown jewels (if not THE crown jewel) of the CSU system.
On the other hand, Cal and UCLA are the two fantastic flagship universities of the UC system; they are highly respected world-renown institutions.
The UC and CSU systems are set up by the state to achieve somewhat different objectives.
Why can't we just accept them as such, they are some of the greatest assets of our state. I agree that the frequent attempts to prove that Cal Poly is on par with Cal and UCLA do reveal a sense of insecurity. I doubt if there are many posts on the Cal and UCLA forums comparing Cal and UCLA to Cal Poly.
I've also seen some knocks on UCLA and I also wonder if this may be due to a sense of insecurity and some hidden animosity. Unless you've been a student at UCLA, you do not know what it is like to really be a student there. One can extoll the virtues of one university without knocking another one.
Regarding the post by slolearner, somehow I doubt that one of the reasons that it's hard to complete your degree in 4 years at Cal Poly is that the students like it so much they want to stay longer than 4 years.
As a Cal Poly engineering graduate, I have to embarrassingly admit that I purposely overstayed my time at SLO because of my love for the school, San Luis Obispo, and my friends. I took several classes (Japanese cultural evolution from feudal to modern era, I loved the class) that are completely unrelated to my major and told my parents that I needed those classes for "graduation". I know this "overstay" is actually quite common and became a problem for the university.
As for the comparison issue, I agree that Cal Poly doesn't really need to be constantly measuring itself against other schools. Just being good on your own terms is already an achievement.
But I also want to note that I have seen frequent Cal Poly bashing (frequently related to UCLA threads) even if poster casually mention that Cal Poly is a good university in response to other threads. Due to the strong pride people have in Cal Poly, these denigrations attract very strong responses from CP supporters. I think Cal Poly has grown enough that it can feel secured regardless of what detractors have to say. Not every insult requires a blistering response.
But I also opine that there is nothing wrong praising Poly in this thread, given students and parents come here to actively seeking information for the school.
Ya the sticking around thing at Cal Poly can be perceived as a love for the school or just kids wanting to hang out and avoid responsibility longer, which is not a selling point. On here I read np getting classes, my dental hygenist tells me her son is bored and only in 12 units this semester cause that's all he could get. But I think the biggest mislead I ran across over and over was certain people stating their student had turned down UCB or UCLA or UCSD or Harvey Mudd or whatever for CP, when if you read their other posts, you realize they didn't even apply to those schools. They turned down simply being interested in them, very different than actually getting accepted. That's misleading and oversell. Evaluating and pontificating on the academics at another institution because they went on an hour long tour/open house is very different than going through the entire process (applying and getting accepted) where a lot of time is spent in deeper research to get to that final decision, or having a kid that actually goes to these other schools. In that case, they would actually know about it. This is a kids life and an important choice is being made, don't come off as an authority unless you really are, is what I am suggesting. Tell the real CP story without the uninformed bashing of some of the best schools in the country.
^^^But I think the biggest mislead I ran across over and over was certain people stating their student had turned down UCB or UCLA or UCSD or Harvey Mudd or whatever for CP, when if you read their other posts, you realize they didn't even apply to those schools.
I respect all these schools, otherwise my kid would not have applied to them. However, they were a mismatch for my kid and some left a less than favorable impression on us.
EVILteddie 47 replies2 threads Junior Member@blueskies You are acting like this is the only board on this site that oversells its respective school. Honestly I find it highly unlikely that students are basing their decisions based on the postings of strangers on a message board. You are over generalizing the decisions people make on their schooling, and often prestige is not the overall deciding factor on where they want to go.
@ blueskies2day Say what you want. For lots of different reasons not every kid wants the experience offered by the UC system. That is surely no knock on the UC's, they offer an excellent education from Berkley to Merced. A casual look at the grades & test scores for incoming Cal Poly freshmen and the same for the UC freshmen show a fair amount overlap. It is likely that each and every engineering student at SLO was or would have been accepted to one or more of the UC's. I have had the privilege to meet hundreds of Cal Poly students, not one of them has expressed any regret for making the choice to attend SLO. The diploma from SLO will get a kid hired just as fast and for essentially the same amount of pay as a UC diploma. Again, no knock on an excellent UC system. Five or ten years after the ink is dry on the diploma, prospective employers will be shifting their gaze from the school name on the diploma to what the applicant can do to strengthen their business. Cal Poly grads are adding muscle to business all over California, quite a lot of muscle. You're lurking on the Cal Poly CC blog and talking smack about SLO won't change that.
Cal Poly already surpasses most UC's and has stats for entering freshman similar to UCLA, UCSD and UCB.
There is no doubt that Cal Poly is a desirable college. But I also agree that I feel there is an oversell from some in the forum and when I attended admit day this year. My son was deciding between Cal Poly, UC Irvine and UC San Diego. We toured all 3 and I only felt the oversell from Cal Poly. My son also passed up on UC Berkeley which he was accepted.
It is fine to show that you like your/your student's school. But it is not good for students and parents who are trying to learn about various schools when mis-information is given.
Following link has freshman profile for 2012 for all the UCs. I don't know if the 2013 ones are available but they are probably similar.
Cal Poly freshman profiles are below UCB, UCLA and UCSD.
They are similar to UCD, UCI and UCSB.
They are above UCSC, UCR and UCM.
@ BusyMei You are correct about the freshman profiles. We know that those profile stats use a single number to represent thousands of kids in different schools and departments at each campus. Obviously there are some students at Cal Poly who were also admitted to UCB, UCLA and UCSD. There are a number of reasons to choose Cal Poly over these schools as well as other UC's. Putting forth the things that made students choose Cal Poly over the UC schools is not "oversell" in my opinion. You are not likely to find a discussion of those topics on any of the UC threads. For some kids Cal Poly is the preferred choice. This thread should be a place to discuss those topics.
You said, "Ya the sticking around thing at Cal Poly can be perceived as a love for the school or just kids wanting to hang out and avoid responsibility longer, which is not a selling point. "
Overstaying during my undergraduate days is a personal choice of mine and not the university's fault. It was not meant to be a selling point. Not sure why you thought that. You are right on about avoiding responsibilities, that was pretty much my entire goal at that point in my life at age 21. I enjoyed sitting out at Pismo beach or Dexter lawn sunning myself and looking at girls a bit too much, doing all that while hanging out with my Poly pals. But it's okay, I grew out of that. I am productive member of society with a paying job now.
@blueskies and also Busymei
As your assertion that Cal Poly students were just window shopping UCs but never applied/accepted. The admission data for CP would pretty much rule that out due to the high degree of symmetry between mid-tier UCs' admission requirements and Poly's. I read somewhere that UC Davis' highest cross-admit school is SLO, and vice versa.
As for oversell, my take is that this thread is sort of like a Cal Poly showroom hosted by happy customers of Poly. So if they don't share their happy experience with other prospective clients here, I don't know where else. I know it is the exactly same for my graduate school's thread. Students, parents, rave about my graduate alma mater ad infinitum.
So if you want some undiluted raw reviews of Poly, you can go to UCLA, UCSD threads (more so UCLA, SD/SB/Davis people are mellow, and UCB mostly doesn't care either way). I have read plenty of unbiased feedbacks there.
jamestg 94 replies1 threads Junior Member@blueskies- I too see very little bashing of other schools, with your posts as the exception. I'll back up osakadad's "real" experience.
My son, a freshman Computer Science major at SLO, exceeded every category of the freshman admin stats for all UCs, including UCB. He visited every campus in which he was interested, before he even applied. He didn't apply to UCB because he didn't like the campus vibe or size. So, these were his results.
Early Decision declined for Stanford. Declined at CalTec. Waitlisted UCLA and University of Chicago, and I certainly would not put UCLA at the same level as Chicago. Accepted by UCI- Honors, UCSD, LMU - Honors, Chapman University- Honors/Chancellor's scholarship. Every other private school, to which he applied, offered him acceptance with significant scholarship dollars.
He re-visted his top 5 during their respective accepted students day. CP was the last campus we re-visited. At the end of the day, walking back to the car, he said to me and my wife, "Looks like I'm a Mustang."
So, yes, there are some UC-worthy kids who knowingly turn down "better" schools to attend at SLO.
Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion. College is a very personal choice. Most students I know are happy with their college choice. I am definitely not disagreeing that Cal Poly is a good college as I stated in my earlier post.
The only reason that I posted was in direct response to a quote which I included at the top of the post.
Cal Poly's freshman profile surpasses 3 of the 9 UCs which truly is not most UCs.
Cal Poly's 3.98 gpa is not similar to UCB's 4.16 gpa.
I am only sticking to the facts, not opinion. Please there is no need to be defensive or insecure.
engineerisme 219 replies19 threads Junior MemberWell I am a happy freshman at Cal Poly SLO in computer engineering. I was accepted at UCSD, UCSB, UCI and Cal Poly Pomona. SLO was the last one I toured and within 30 minutes of stepping into the campus I was sure this was the place for me. So don't say that those of us that accepted SLO did it because our stats were not good enough and we just dreamed about the other schools. That is not true. If you hate SLO go hang out on a different board, we will not miss you.
Cal Poly 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007
GPA Average 3.87 3.84 3.84 3.81 3.78 3.71
ACT Average 27.1 27.0 26.8 26.3 26.1 25.5
SAT Composite* 1231 1226 1215 1202 1200 1183
GPA Average 3.91 3.91 3.92 3.85 3.84
SAT Composite* 1852 1846 1832 1801 1781
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Here's a game Ocelot ran a while back, set in Panama City. Players were Joseph Kilcoyne (Galen O'Gara), Adam Luther (Ryan Gross), Amy Luther (Jody Morris), and Brant Clabaugh, as [deleted for security reasons]. See Virtue's character file for an idea of just how poor everybody was in this game. Millennial Girl Productions contains the programs she wrote during and after the game. Please note that this narrative is entirely from Virtue's point of view, and as such, some facts may be distorted and/or incorrectly remembered.
[TRANSCRIPT of INTERVIEW with Jody Morris, aka Joann Jenkins, full name Jody Ann Jenkins, apprehended 6-2-22 by Interpol in London for Class 3 Data Theft. Subject left Interpol custody 6-3-22, and it is believed that unknown parties electronically tampered with detainee records, securing subject's release. Subject is currently at large, whereabouts unknown.]
JENKINS - My name is Jody Ann Jenkins. That's J-E-N-K-I-N-S, comma J-O-D-Y. Middle name A-N-N. I am twenty-two. [1/1/00 CONFIRMED] My NorCal SIN is 9842-2104-524-6015. [CONFIRMED] My most recent home address is 210 Via Sonaja . . . that's Tambourine Way, I think. Oh, uh, Panama City, Panama. Right now, I'm staying in a boarding house in [DELETED]
Well, there are three things I hate about Panama: the weather - hot , the security - none, and the crime rate - high. I think they tie together somehow.
[4 min 3 sec DELETED]
Um, RELEVANT events start on March 21, 2022. That was a Monday. Every Monday we eat at [DELETED]. That Monday it was me, Galen, and [DELETED]. Ryan got there a little late, and when he walked in he looked real bad. What? Ryan G-R-O-S-S, aka Jitters, J-I-T-T-E-R-S. I think Galen's last name was O'Gara.
[Ryan Gross, aka Jitters, CURRENTLY WANTED by Panamanian authorities for questioning re: net crimes in Panama City region and Class 2 Data Theft. Galen O'Gara CURRENTLY WANTED by Interpol and British authorities for questioning re: possible Irish Republican Army activities. Details appended.]
Anyway, Ryan came in and said he'd just come from Chinga's apartment, and Chinga was smeared all over it. No, I am not making a joke. His name was really Chinga. No, I didn't know his real name. It's not kosher to ask that right out. Chinga was Ryan's friend, and if he never told Ryan his name he sure wasn't going to tell it to us. I heard he worked for the Columbians.
Ryan went through Chinga's place, looking for some sign of who'd killed him, or why. He found both, too; a vacuum-sealed packet of coca leaves and a cold-eyed suit heading down on the elevator as Ryan was going up. Corpse [possible slang term for CORPORATE] vanished, but the leaves didn't; real coca leaves, the kind cocaine came from back before the norteamericanos did that biowarfare thing all over South America.
[PRESENCE of alleged coca leaves unconfirmed, though American LEDiv agents report small quantities of what appears to be naturally dervied cocaine now appearing in Miami and Cuba; the source is unknown. Details appended.]
About ten minutes later we decided that Ryan had to vanish for a while.
[DELETED] took the leaves out and started asking some questions. Galen and I went over to Ryan's place to pick up his stuff. Galen's walking, and I'm on my bike about twenty feet back, and I notice there's this guy following Galen. He's got a big armored trenchcoat on, and since it's ninety degrees out and about as sticky as the inside of a microwaved grapefruit, I figure it's either A) armored or B) concealing a weapon of some sort or C) both of the above.
So I run him over on my bike. It's a 1964 Raleigh nine-speed, solid steel frame, and I knocked him flat. He reaches out, quick as a snake, and slashes my front tire with a mean-looking stiletto. Then he gets up and goes right after Galen again, can you believe it? Real single-minded type. So I nailed him with a bottle I picked up out of the gutter. Plastic, you know? The square kind that doesn't break, recycles easy and weighs about three pounds. That's when he reached in his coat. And I'm not stupid, so I took off and caught up with Galen. I didn't think anything of it at the time, except to congratulate myself on my ingenuity. I guess that was stupid, because he turned up later. But I'll get to that.
So we get to Ryan's house, and we're packing his socks in a duffle, and we look up and there's this suit standing in the doorway, and it's the same suit that Ryan bumped into on the way up to Chinga's. And he wants to know where Ryan is, and who we are, and why we're packing up his stuff.
So we give him some bullshit line about how Ryan's dead, and he owes us money, so we're cleaning out his place 'cause he's kinda incapable of paying us back, and it looks like the suit buys it. He says his name is Gilbert, and he'd like to talk to us about what happened to Ryan, and he's looking at us funny the whole time. He's just this little guy, you know? A real nerd. Galen tells him to fuck off. Kinda forcefully. And he leaves.
The next day, Galen's out with [DELETED], asking questions about the leaves. Ryan's kicking around my place, bored out of his skull 'cause we won't let him jack or go outside. I'm just finished hacking the PCA [Panama Civil Authority], paying my rent and utilities for the year, when my door gets kicked clean off its hinges and a shotgun goes off and Ryan's flying across the room.
I run for the bathroom. The window in there's pretty small, but I can squeeze through a keyhole if the alternative is two barrels of double-ought buckshot in the face.
Desgraciadamente, the guy displays his reptilian quickness again and nails me in the leg with some kind of gel round and ties me and Ryan up with strip tape. We're on the ground, Ryan's screaming, I'm screaming, and the asshole takes off his shoe and one of his dirty socks and stuffs it in my mouth!
What? It was that guy, the one I pegged with the bottle. He gets on the phone and he says, Hey, Gilbert, I caught them. And does Gilbert want to come up and ask Ryan some questions? And would Gilbert mind if he took the girl with him afterwards?
Shit, yeah. I was scared.
Next thing I know, the guy's face is on the floor next to mine. The guy is still standing up. Not for long, though, because he's painting the walls red with what's left of his head. He comes down on top of me like a stone wall, and then Galen's there, untying us.
I don't know if the guy was dead, but he'd have been better off if he was. We get the guy's wallet and PDA and take a look, and it turns out he's a licensed bounty hunter, and he has files on me and Galen. MO, history, psyche profiles, SIN, arrest records, you name it. [CONFIRMED identity of victim, John Hopper, licensed NorAm bounty hunter and skip tracer]
And that's when I see that Trinity's got a 10K bounty on my head. [CONFIRMED]
Hell. We were pretty damn stupid. We talked to exactly the wrong people. We got together with [DELETED] and talked to [DELETED] about the leaves.
[5 min 21 sec SECTION DELETED, EYES ONLY ACCESS CODE]
[DELETED], and we go to have "dinner." We end up in the back room of this really posh Japanese restaurant. There's this table, and there are four big Japs with submachine guns in each corner. So we sit down at the table, like they say, me and Ryan and Galen. And that Gilbert guy comes in, and tells everybody to put their guns on the table.
And we eat. Well, nobody eats, really. They serve up these live lobsters, and even though nobody has much of an appetite, there's no way I'm going to eat fucking live, raw lobster. I don't care how much it's worth. No way.
A big wall screen comes on and there's a Japanese guy there--
Yak, yeah, I figured. You guys are real quick.
What did he look like? Kinda [DELETED].
Anyway, he comes on and starts yakking in Japanese. Yakking, get it? Punny, huh?
[3 min 2 sec DELETED]
Gilbert translates. He wants the leaves. And, like I said, we were stupid, and [DELETED] had them on him, and he hadda hand them over. At this point, very rightly, I figure we're all dead. No way they're going to let us out after this. The goons' guns come up, and they move so they don't mow each other down, Polish-firing-squad-style, and I'm wishing I hadn't told Jesus to fuck off, because it looks like I'm going to be meeting him in a couple seconds.
And then we hear, "DEA! Get down!"
The door disintegrates. Literally. I mean, it was blown into dust. In the cloud is this dude in royal blue clamshell armor with "DEA" in big yellow letters on the chest.
Galen flips the table over and starts shooting at the DEA guy, who's shooting at the goons, who are shooting at us. The Gilbert guy gets caught in the crossfire and goes down. Then the wall -- the fuckin' wall! -- gets blown in, and more DEA guys come in. More shooting. More screaming. Galen gets hit a couple times. I fall down and make like a corpse. Ryan falls down and starts whimpering. [DELETED] hits the floor, but somehow, he doesn't look all that surprised.
I found out later the DEA raid hit right when the Columbians blasted their way in, looking for the leaves. Chinga worked for the Columbians, you remember.
The smoke clears and we're huddled under the table. The DEA guys head out down the stairs, mostly ignoring us. Well, Galen was down, and Ryan was crying in a heap, and I was pretending I was dead. We pick ourselves up and go for the hole the DEA guys blew in the wall. We can't go out the front, 'cause the shit's way too thick out there. And we're mostly out when the last DEA guy -- this is why I fucking hate LEDiv -- the last DEA guy grabs [DELETED] by the collar, throws him down the hall with the other DEA guys, sticks his head back in the door and throws a frag in. Turns out fuckin' [DELETED] had gotten collared by the federales and was cozy with the DEA the whole time. Well, not exactly cozy, but they were sweet enough on him to want to ask him a few questions, if you know what I mean.
Well, needless to say, we took the hole pretty fast. It was out of the figurative shit into the literal shit, because it led down to the sewers. Panamanian sewers. We're crawling around down there, covered in muck and slime, trying to decide whether to dungeoncrawl or wait until the shooting stops and go back upstairs.
Then I get the bright idea to crawl back up through the hole and get my deck. "It's armored," I say. "Maybe it survived the grenade." And, amazingly enough, it was intact. I'm going towards the hole with it when this arm goes around my neck from behind.
I freak, and I swing my deck up and break it over the guy's head.
Nothing doing. It's that Gilbert guy. He's taken hits from DEA, Galen, the goons, and a frag. He's still alive. He's pissed. He says, "I'm going to kill you," and he throws me down the hole. I land on my face in a foot of Panamanian sewer water and I have just enough time to stick my head up and take a breath when Gilbert lands on my back and pushes me back down. He stands on me, and while I'm drowning, he takes hits from Ryan and Galen, pops his wolvers, steps off me, and kills Ryan. Just like that. It's like he's doing Tai Chi -- it's that smooth and easy.
[Subject GILBERT belived to be a Gemini FBC, whereabouts currently unknown. See attached surveillance photo removed from premises].
Yeah, that's him. That's the fucker.
I don't know what happened next, because I ran. Right back up the hole and out of the building. I'm crying, covered in muck, coughing up huge lungfuls of sewer water, soaked to the skin, running right past DEA and the federales and [DELETED] and the Panamanian police, and nobody did a damn thing to stop me.
Panamanian police picked Galen up later when they were cleaning up the carnage. He wasn't quite carnage yet, but he was close. Woulda ended up in the body bank if someone hadn't stepped in and paid his bills.
Can I stop now? I need to use the bathroom.
[TRANSCRIPT of second interview with Jody Morris, aka Joann Jenkins, full name Jody Ann Jenkins, apprehended 6-2-22 by Interpol in London for Class 3 Data Theft. Subject left Interpol custody 6-3-22, and it is believed that unknown parties electronically tampered with detainee records, securing subject's release. Subject is currently at large, whereabouts unknown.]
JENKINS - Again? I just told you all this! My name is Jody Ann Jenkins. J-E-N-K-I-N-S, comma J-O-D-Y, comma F-U-C-K O-F-F.
Yeah? Fuck you, too!
[6 min 37 sec DELETED]
Middle name A-N-N. I'm twenty-two years old. [1/1/00 CONFIRMED] My NorCal SIN, as if you didn't know this already, is 9842-2104-524-6015. [CONFIRMED] Most recent home address is 210 Via Sonaja, Panama City, Panama. Present transient address is [DELETED]
Okay, so after I got out of there, I went and paid two bucks for a room by the Fish Market. After I cleaned up, I hacked until I found the police reports about the firefight at the restaurant. Then I hacked hospitals until I found Galen. He was plugged in, mostly dead, and some guy name of Panama Jack was paying his medical bills.
I figured anybody paying Galen's bills might be willing to hear the story of the injuries that required the bills from somebody who was there, so I went to the hospital and talked to the man. PJ was a gringo from the U.S. of A., a white seersucker suit kinda guy who had his finger in a lot of pies. He asked some leafy questions, too, and I told him what was going on.
Hah. He was about as far from a guardian angel as you can get. He was buying a free enforcer by patching up Galen, and he bought me, too, though I never did any netrunning for him. He told me what was what, which was basically, "You're working for me now, and if you don't like it, Pablo and Franco here will twist your little head off."
I happen to like my head, despite all the damage you assholes have been doing to it, and I signed on the dotted line. Galen had even less of a choice than I did, because in addition to paying for Galen's brand-new arm, PJ put in a little extra something to make sure Galen didn't skip out. A little something explosive.
Our first job was when PJ sent Galen to assassinate the Panama City Chief of Police. I heard he was on the take, but he wasn't doing any giving to make up for all his taking, if you get my meaning. Me and Galen end up going to our "appointment" in a giant mid-seventies aircraft carrier-looking sedan. I had to drive the damn thing in through the wrought iron electrified gates, past the guards with Cuban machine pistols. I put it into Park and wait to see whether Galen comes out or the policemen on duty fill out a "shot while trespassing" report on yours truly.
Galen told me later that he went in with a dinky little pistol, and said it was his new arm that was setting off the metal detector. He goes in to deliver his important message from Panama Jack. Just him, the Chief, a big teak desk, and a guard with an Uzi.
He draws down on the Chief. Perfect bead. The guy's practically dead. All he has to do is pull the trigger.
His gun jams.
Now it's him, the Chief, a big teak desk, a jammed pistol, and a guard with an Uzi who's bringing said Uzi up into a position where he can make punk pate out of Galen. I'm not entirely clear on how he got out of it, except it involved diving over the desk on top of the Chief, getting the Chief's pistol from him while the guard showered the teak desk with bullets. I think he took a couple hits, but he ended up shooting the Chief and the guard and running away.
Meanwhile, I'm sitting with my legs stuck to the melting vinyl of the CVN Virtue, listening to Panamanian pop and trying to look winsome and airheaded whenever the gap-toothed guard looks at me. There's a commotion inside, and the guard goes away, so I start the engine just in time to see Galen burst out of the front doors.
He gets about two steps when this robotic thing bounces out of the bushes and takes him down like he's a crippled zebra on Wild Kingdom.
See, nobody bothered to tell us the Chief kept cyberhounds.
I've got a Panamanian polymer one-shot in my bag, but I can't shoot the damn thing because while it's chewing Galen's meat arm off, he and it are thrashing around on the ground and there's no way I'll be able to nail it without shooting Galen. And since he's already experiencing significant physical trauma from the cyberhound, inflicting additional bullet wounds doesn't seem like a good idea at this point.
What I do get out of my bag is a little goodie called an EMP grenade, one of a pair which I bought at extremely inflated prices from a guy named Ronnie Watts, who I hope falls down his trapdoor some day and breaks his neck, because he was a dick about selling them to me.
I throw the grenade at the dog. It goes off. The car shields me from most of its effects, but the dog is right on top of it. Lassie falls over, Galen falls over, the radio fritzes out, and the electric gates start fizzing. I get Galen and what was left of his arm and we get out of there. On foot, of course, because the car is dead.
And, after I go through the totally disgusting process of finding, picking up, and carrying Galen's severed arm, it turned out that the doctors couldn't reattach it because the damn dog had swallowed a three-inch section. Murphy's law, I guess.
Galen goes to the hospital again. When he gets out, we're even deeper in debt. So, bright person that I am, I figure I'll put my netrunning skills to good use and earn us some extra cash so we can maybe buy our way out from under Panama Jack's meaty gringo paw. I'm reading the ads, and I see somebody wants a programmer to do some coding for him. "Hey," I say. "I can do that, no sweat." After all, I'm a hot-shit datathief, right? I can take care of myself, right?
I call up the guy and he arranges a meet at the Panama City Public Library. I figure that's as safe a place as any, 'cause it's "Public." Since Galen's still kinda banged up, I don't want to tell him what's going on, because he'll insist on coming along and end up bleeding all over the nice clean Library floor and probably screw the meet, 'cause it's obvious he's a damn meatboy and God knows this corporate guy will crap his pants when he sees him.
I get there and I'm waiting upstairs in the reading room for this guy to show. He's late, and I'm kinda bored, so I go in my bag and start doing some coding, just for the hell of it. So, of course, I don't see Gilbert coming up behind me until he puts his hand on my shoulder and says, "Hi, there."
'Course it was him put the ad in the paper. I'm a valuable commodity, you know, seeing as how Trinity's willing to pay 10K to have me shipped in a little box back to the compound.
He says something like, "Now, you know you're coming with me. The question is, are you coming the easy way," and he lets his wolvers out just a little bit, just enough so I can see the tips poking out, "where I kill you here and drag your body outside, or the hard way, where you walk along quietly like a good little girl?"
"Hard way," I say, like I got much of a choice. I gather up my stuff and he puts me in front of him, and after I give him some shit he just knocks me down and starts carrying me out of the place by my belt. So I'm hanging there, I can't breathe, I'm turning purple, and on top of this my pants are giving me the wedgie to end the world, and I think, Shit! Why the hell didn't I tell Galen where I was? Then I think, Hey, wait a sec. Maybe I can.
So I reach into my bag, real quiet-like, and I get hold of my cellphone. I manage to open it up and speed-dial Galen's number. I can't hear whether he's picked up, or even if it's ringing, but I say, real loud, "So, GILBERT, what possessed you to set up a meet at the PANAMA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY? You know, if GALEN catches you here, or if I scream, the COPS are going to blow the shit out of you, me, and all the LIBRARIANS--"
Gilbert's not an idiot. He's probably got enhanced hearing. And a radio link. And his own implanted phone. And an "idiot-netrunner detector." So he stops and rolls his eyes at me and throws me and my bag all over the floor, and gets hold of my cellphone and crushes it. Then he wraps my hands up behind my back with striptape and picks me up by them and carries me across the lobby, flashing some kinda ID at the security guards. That's it, I figure. Even the fuckin' cops are on his side. No chance. Jesus, here I come, one way or the other.
Then Galen comes in the front doors, just like in the movies.
Gilbert throws me away and his wolvers come out and he and Galen start to do that testosterone-laden action hero circling shit, with the security guards standing there not sure who to shoot. And Gilbert just eats Galen alive. He is totally unstoppable. It's like Galen jumped into a Cuisinart -- hack, bleed, hack, bleed, hack, and all the blood is Galen's.
Finally, Galen gets smart and decides that he doesn't want to end up as cutlets on the floor of the Panama City Public Library. He heads out towards the door, and starts blowing the crap out of Gilbert with his shotgun as he goes. The cop grabs me, I knee him, he lets go, and I'm out the doors. And either one shot hits Gilbert in his brain or he decides Galen's DPU is a bit too painful to keep taking, 'cause he falls down.
We run. Galen ends up in the hospital, again. PJ has this big mess to explain away to the cops, and not only did I fail to make any money, we're WORSE in debt.
So, after Galen got out of the hospital, we got together and decided we wanted out.
This is how we did it.
I took my deck out of its case and we packed it with C-6. The idea was, we'd set up an "appointment" with Panama Jack, and after the discussion was over, we'd conveniently leave my deck behind, where it would blow up, taking PJ with it. I think my notes are still in my bag, if you want to look at them.
We got the appointment, and we went in sweating. I left my bag with my deck-bomb in it under the sofa in PJ's office, and I went out on the pretext of using the bathroom. What? Oh, yeah, Galen's cyberbomb. Well, we tried to find out exactly what PJ had put into Galen, but we didn't get anywhere. We figured that when PJ died, whatever it was would either go off or it wouldn't. Either way, Galen wouldn't have to worry about it any more.
I went outside. Unfortunately, Franco followed me out. Franco's one of PJ's matched set of goons. Pablo and Franco. They're both about seven feet tall and four feet wide and look like a pair of giant Mexican Mormons when they're dolled up in suits, which they usually were. Anyway, Franco's giving me the eye, and he looks like he's thinking seriously about causing my head to part company from my body, and I'm thinking seriously about causing my body to part company from the room, when there's an explosion from the office.
At that point, I was pretty sure that Franco was going to pop my head clean off. However, he decided to run to the side of his master, who, along with Pablo, was dripping in small messy globs from the ceiling and walls of his office. Galen was on his way out when he detonated the bomb, blowing him into the hallway opposite the door, but he was mostly all right. He blazes past Franco, who pulls out what looks like a PVC tube out of his pocket and points it at Galen.
But nothing happens.
I don't know quite what happened at that point, because I was running on sheer panic. I know we got to the car and were partway to the airport when Galen started shaking. See, what PJ had put into Galen wasn't a bomb. It was a nanite, and when Pablo woke it up with whatever was in that tube, it was hungry. And it started eating his nervous system.
When the plane took off, he was having trouble walking. By the time we got to England, he couldn't even hold his head up.
He's in a wheelchair now. Doctors say he has something that's not quite Parkinson's. He can't talk, eat, or breathe without a respirator. He's got family in Ireland, and they take care of him. I send him money sometimes.
Me? I'm sitting in a fucking wooden chair in a little concrete room telling the story of my life to two Interpol assholes who are a little too happy about using their fists.
[END TRANSCRIPT of INTERVIEW with Jody Morris, aka Joann Jenkins, full name Jody Ann Jenkins, apprehended 6-2-22 by Interpol in London for Class 3 Data Theft. Subject left Interpol custody 6-3-22, and it is believed that unknown parties electronically tampered with detainee records, securing subject's release. Subject is currently at large, whereabouts unknown.]