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TSRT-06-11: CA Multiple Product DBASVR RPC Server Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities Oct 05 2006 10:18PM
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TSRT-06-11: CA Multiple Product DBASVR RPC Server Multiple Buffer
Overflow Vulnerabilities
October 5, 2006
-- Affected Vendor:
Computer Associates
-- Affected Products:
BrightStor ARCserve Backup R11.5 Client
BrightStor ARCserve Backup R11.5 Server
BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5
BrightStor ARCserve Backup v9.01
CA Server Protection Suite r2
CA Business Protection Suite r2
-- TippingPoint(TM) IPS Customer Protection:
TippingPoint IPS customers have been protected against this
vulnerability since March 27, 2006 by Digital Vaccine protection
filter ID 4268. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:
-- Vulnerability Details:
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on
vulnerable installations of Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve
Backup, Enterprise Backup, Server Protection Suite and Business
Protection Suite. Authentication is not required to exploit this
vulnerability and both client and servers are affected.
The problem specifically exists within DBASVR.exe, the Backup Agent RPC
Server. This service exposes a number of vulnerable RPC routines through
a TCP endpoint with ID 88435ee0-861a-11ce-b86b-00001b27f656 on port
6071. The most trivial of the exposed vulnerabilities results in an
exploitable stack overflow.
The vulnerable routines include:
/* opcode: 0x01, address: 0x00401A70 */
long sub_401A70 (
[in][string] char * arg_1,
[in][string] char * arg_2, // stack overflow
[out][size_is(8192), length_is(*arg_4)] char * arg_3,
[in, out] long * arg_4
/* opcode: 0x02, address: 0x00401CC0*/
long sub_401CC0 (
[in][string] char * arg_1,
[in][string] char * arg_2, // stack overflow
[in][string] char * arg_3,
[out] long * arg_4
/* opcode: 0x18, address: 0x004041C0*/
long sub_4041C0 (
[in][string] char * arg_1,
[in][string] char * arg_2, // stack overflow
[out] long * arg_3
The first two vulnerable subroutines are the result of inline
strcpy()/memcpy()'s. The third vulnerable subroutine is due to an
insecure call to lstrcat().
-- Vendor Response:
Computer Associates has issued an update to correct this vulnerability.
More details can be found at:
-- Disclosure Timeline:
2006.03.27 - Digital Vaccine released to TippingPoint customers
2006.03.28 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2006.10.05 - Coordinated public release of advisory
-- Credit:
This vulnerability was discovered by Pedram Amini, TippingPoint Security
Research Team.
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This type of massage is often combined with breathing techniques known as pranayama. This is intended to move energy throughout the body more effectively. When performed regularly, Tantra massage and the associated breathing techniques can be used to improve breathing techniques overall. This can improve alertness and exercising capabilities. Improved breathing and relaxation can also improve healing time from injury and diseases.
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Like any type of massage, Tantra massages can be used to relax the body. In addition to relieving physical ailments, Tantra massage can be used to allow emotional pain to subside. Many people claim that they feel less guilty or fearful after receiving a Tantra massage. Some also find that they feel more alert and energetic, which allows them be more active during the day and sleep more soundly at night.
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Too Bad The NBA Doesn't Have A Lockout Every Season.
By Tom Danehy
MAY 10, 1999: I THINK IT'S pretty much unanimous that this is the most exciting NBA regular season in the past quarter-century or so. Why didn't they think of this strike thing before? I mean, all those years of crowing about how the NBA was the only professional sports league never to lose a game due to work stoppage. Big deal.
Viva la huelga! Long live the strike!
That darn strike has revitalized the sport. Heck, when the regular season went into its final weekend, several teams were clawing for those last playoff spots, four games in the standings separated the third-place team from the seventh-place team, and three other teams were in a virtual dead heat for the best record in the league and the important home-court advantage which accompanies that achievement. This is cool.
Usually the NBA season starts around Halloween. Then, it's ignored by the average sports fan through the football bowl season and then the exciting final two months of college basketball. When we pick it back up in early April, they're still playing, but most of the important stuff has been decided while we were away.
Over an 82-game schedule, things tend to spread out, teams tend to find their proper level. That's all well and good; there is something to said for the best teams to establish themselves as such. But it also explains the allure of college basketball, where the best don't always win. There's nothing like a surprise ending.
In late April, they start the playoffs, which plod along until mid-June. We're grateful for this, because in June, the only alternative to basketball is...well, there is no alternative.
But this season didn't start until February. Teams had to play three or four games a week, 50 games in 90 days. Some teams had to play back-to-back-to-back games. Yeah, now we'll see what's up when there's no time to coast.
Sacramento made the playoffs. Toronto missed by this much. Seattle missed, period.
This season was special in so many ways. We got to hate the rich, spoiled leaders of the strike (I know it was officially a lockout by the owners, but it wouldn't have happened if the players had shown some good faith). We got to ridicule the multi-millionaires as they went on TV and said one stupid thing after another about $75,000 a year in car insurance payments or living from one $200,000 paycheck to the next.
Then we got to celebrate as the mid-level players won the settlement. The top-level players were forced to accept living on a mere $12 million or so per year so that the majority of players could get a pay raise and the owners could balance their books.
Finally, we got to have this really cool season where ESPN SportsCenter had highlights from seven or eight games every night, where teams played constantly, and every game really mattered.
(Major League Baseball tried to cram that slogan down fans' throats last year on ESPN, but nobody bought it. Technically, every game in a baseball season does count, but how often after 162 games do we really have a tight finish in baseball? Maybe one out of six divisions? Not good enough.)
(Imagine if the baseball season didn't start until mid-May and got over around Labor Day. The teams would play around 90 games. Boy, then the games would all count. They could add more playoffs and the World Series would be over in the first week of October, sparing us the spectacle of the world championship of baseball being decided in a blizzard. Just a thought.)
Some people have complained about the shoddy play and low scoring this year in the NBA, but it's all a myth. The fact is that scoring has been on the decline for more than a decade. It started when the "bad boys" style of thug basketball supplanted the "showtime" run-and-gun Lakers. The real problem, however, can be traced to today's kids not learning how to shoot a basketball. All they want to do is dunk or shoot the three. The 15-footer is too mundane, I guess. All it does is win you championships.
As for the shoddy play, the lack of real training camps hurt. But there has been plenty of lackluster play in every NBA regular season in memory. In other years, guys were just in the doldrums, bored with the routine and looking ahead to the playoffs.
This year, they played like crap because they were exhausted. That's a much better reason. We can identify with that, and even appreciate it.
SHOULD MAKE THE FINALS: Utah and Miami. The Jazz should grind down the West with determination; the Heat should grind down the East with defense. The only thing that should keep the Jazz away from its first title is age. As Richard Pryor says, "That Old'll be f---in' with your legs."
C'mon, Stockton and Malone, win one, then go make a golf foursome with Elway and Gretzky. Don't play with that Jordan guy. He's got a gambling jones and no source of income.
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We're at midcourt, and the ball is about to go up…it's Monday Tip-Off! Start your week here at the NLSC with a feature that's dedicated to opinions, commentary, and other fun stuff related to NBA Live, NBA 2K, and other basketball video games.
By now, you've probably heard that NBA 2K17 will feature revamped shooting controls on the Pro Stick, with the angle of the stick now determining whether or not your attempt is on target. While many of the early impressions suggest that it's not as complex as it may sound, it's something that basketball gamers will ultimately decide for themselves upon getting their hands on the game. Fortunately, for gamers who prefer to use the Shoot button, Mike Wang made it clear in his developer blog that it's still going to be a viable option in NBA 2K17.
One of the things that made it difficult for me to get into the NBA 2K series all those years ago was its controls. I was accustomed to dribbling controls on the right stick, I didn't care for the original approach to Isomotion, and I felt like the Shot Stick was overkill. With the Shot Stick becoming the Pro Stick in recent editions of NBA 2K, combining dribbling and shooting controls, I've definitely warmed up to the concept. However, when it comes down to it, I still prefer using the Shoot Button. With the changes in NBA 2K17, I now find myself wondering if I'll change my approach.
First of all, I suppose I should explain why I continue to use the Shoot Button, when the Pro Stick offers deeper shooting controls. More accurately, these days I'm using a combination of the Shoot Button and Pro Stick; I use the button for all jumpshots and some shots in the paint, and the stick when I want to perform a specific inside move such as a floater or flashy dunk, or I specifically want to finish left or right. In other words, in most situations I default to the old school approach of using the button, and make use of the stick when I have a need or desire to trigger a specific type of shot.
It's an approach that works well for me. With the changes to the shooting mechanics in NBA 2K17, in some ways it sounds as though the Shoot Button will be the more dependable option. Of course, that really depends on how forgiving the game will be if the stick isn't at a precise 90 degree angle. In any event, I was glad to see Beluba address the issue in his deep-dive blog on gameplay, and confirm that gamers who prefer to use the button won't be at a disadvantage if they continue to use that method.
I have experimented with using the Pro Stick for jumpshots in various iterations of NBA 2K, but I've always returned to using the Shoot Button. It's not that I don't see the advantages of using the stick for everything, however. Now that it comprises both dribbling and shooting controls, there's obviously no need to move your thumb from stick to button, facilitating a smooth transition from a dribbling move into an immediate shot attempt. That's how it should work in theory, but I've always found that my method feels more comfortable, even if that defies common logic.
Many more years playing NBA Live titles that strictly use the right stick for dribbling controls is probably also a factor here. I do feel that NBA 2K has done a pretty good job of combining shooting and dribbling controls with the Pro Stick, though. I haven't had too many moments where I've ended up accidentally shooting when I wanted to perform a dribbling move, which was my fear when the series adopted the Pro Stick approach in NBA 2K14. That being said, there's still the potential to slip up and make mistakes like that. If nothing else, I find it a lot easier to fake a shot by tapping the button, rather than trying to perform one with the stick.
However, with NBA 2K17 revamping the Pro Stick shooting controls, I'm at least going to give them a try. If there's no noticeable advantage in terms of a significant success boost, or if I don't find it any easier to get a Green Release – which will once again be a guaranteed make in NBA 2K17 – I expect that I'll continue to default back to the Shoot Button, at least for jumpshots. It's a familiar approach, and as I've said, it's worked out just fine for me when playing NBA 2K in recent years.
I have a feeling that once again, I'll be mostly using the advanced shooting controls on the Pro Stick to select the dunk I want to perform, trigger a floater, or use the new evasive layup moves (which, incidentally, sound like a really good idea). Once again though, depending on how forgiving the mechanics are in terms of the precise angle of the stick to the nearest degree, or whether trying to time the release of layups doesn't feel good with the Pro Stick, I may also find myself using the Shoot Button for inside attempts a lot of the time as well. Of course, the timing will be crucial even if you're using the button, so it may be a moot point.
I'm also willing to listen to any fellow basketball gamers who will advocate for primarily using the Pro Stick for shooting. If there are certain tricks and techniques that I could benefit from, then I'm certainly open to giving them a try. I guess at the end of the day, I've been playing basketball video games for around two decades now, and in some areas I'm very stuck in my ways. My current approach feels comfortable and seems to be effective, but if there's a way that I can get better on the virtual hardwood, I'm not going to dismiss any advice or methods out of hand.
If I do stick to my old ways, it'll be nice to know that I'm not alone. According to Beluba, there are members of the NBA 2K development team who still prefer the Shoot Button to the Pro Stick. If some of the people working on the series that has hung its hat on right stick shooting for so long are still using the button themselves, then perhaps I'm not too out of touch after all. It's also an encouraging sign that the Shoot Button isn't likely to be phased out, or become a vastly inferior option to the Pro Stick, in order to force all NBA 2K gamers in that direction.
With all that being said, I'm wondering what the general preference is in our community. Which do you use: the Pro Stick, the Shoot Button, or some combination of the two?


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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Pic of a happy place
Donna, of Quiet Life, asks us to post a pic of a happy place.
Well, Red Rock Canyon, here just outside of Vegas is a place where I have had many a happy hike. I have come here for decades and for about a year Mark, my best friend, and I were going out there couple times a month.
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I have written a few blog posts in my head this summer, mostly as I'm biking home from work. Then I remind myself to enjoy the ride, the sunshine, the trees, the mountains . . . and I forget what I was going to blog about. Oh well!
I was re-reading my post about my 2009 intentions and realized I have not really changed my intentions much. This one got to me:
So, my biggest intention this year is to simply be with whatever my feelings are and not try to force myself into some half-formed ideal.Still working on this, think I will be for a long time. I noticed when I went to my 20-year high school reunion last night that I was doing some of the forced-feeling thing. Not in the "wow I am so happy to see you (not)" way but in the "I don't care if anyone notices how fat and unstylish I am" way. Only after I gave up on all that did things get fun. Big surprise there, eh? And I realized this morning how, well, nervous I was and that I acted all weird trying to hide my nervousness from myself. What a colossal waste of time. On the other hand, nervousness got me to paint my toenails a delicious shade of teal.
Some of the things we planted didn't survive, like the Coral Canyon Twinspur, the thyme, the various stonecrops, flox and sedums (I just did not water them enough), a couple of the newest penstemons. There's one corner of the front walk that's really hard on plants. The walk also faces west, so it gets intense sun in the afternoon. The shrubs are growing very slowly - we hope they are building good root systems.
As for the food plants: the tomatoes have really taken off, as have our berry canes. The corn is tiny and most of the broccoli has been more bitter than it should be. Good greens and herbs. We have both intentional and volunteer squashes. We have no insect pest problems because there is a flock of about two-dozen quail who nest in the old pheasant cages next door. They swoop into the garden every morning and eat all the bugs. (They also enjoy baby plants - that was an adventure.) After the fall harvest, we intend to till everything we can and sow a late soil-building crop. Year by year the land will get better and produce more, we hope. We also need to do more tree pruning, to let some light in.
You might have noticed that I changed the layout of the blog. I thought that having the rain motif might encourage the monsoon season to, you know, create some actual rain. I also created better links to some cool blogs. I will hopefully be updating my reading lists soon.
Well, I think that's sufficient updatey-ness. Hope you are also enjoying your summer!


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Part 6: The Summer of Blood Part 3
And welcome back imaginary readers! I know its been a while since our last installment, but given these events transpired about a year and a half ago now I figure my memory isn't getting any worse. So here I am diving back into my haphazard little notes to bring you our tales from 1970s Cootamundra. For those of you just joining us, see here for our Rogues Gallery, Setting Summary, Hedge Summary, and the Summer of Blood Part 1 and Part 2.
Our heroes, as always, are Anais the Fairest Dancer and Blaize the Fireheart Elemental, former servants of the Lord of the Maze, and Father Callahan, an escapee from the Witch of the Wilds' bio-luminescent forest. We left our heroes fleeing from the wrath of Father Damian Crowley, who they had tried to rob on behalf of a local Korean Demonologist and restranteusse they had met a few days earlier.
The motley limp home as the sun is rising and collapse into their respective haphazard nests. The days wear on, and the motley ponders the mess they've gotten into.
Anais begins to leaf through the classifieds of a discarded newspaper in search of a job, while Father Callahan grills Christine, a younger woman doing volunteer cleaning at a church that serves more tourists than worshipers. Blaize, finding her hunting talents largely uncalled for in the town, wanders a while before seeking out Solomon at the library, having formed a curious fascination around the old academic. The others find their way in as the day moves on.
Solomon, unfortunately, doesn't have much to offer in terms of job advice, but he does decide that now is the time to call in a favour. Reminding them of his help in their first stuttering days, he asks them to look into something for him.
A few nights previous, a couple of young drug enthusiasts met in the graveyard and were attacked by the Devil.
The paper man hopes that it was nothing. The gnawed wounds on one of the young men's legs could have been a dog, and the Devil they saw little more than a shared hallucination. But he doesn't want to discount the possibility that something more problematic is active, and would prefer that the problem were resolved without drawing too much mortal attention; by the time monster hunters have taken notice, chances are the more worrying focus of the True is already incoming. As the librarian is already occupied with maintaining the local peace as he puts it, and rather forcefully requests that the motley investigate and report back to him when they have more information.
Anais asks what Solomon knows about Black Hill, and the strange sickness hovering over the town. Solomon thinks for a moment, before recounting that perhaps seven years earlier there had been a great furore when a star had fallen to Earth near Black Hill. There had been a brief flurry of scientific interest, until the heat of the meteor had caused it to fall into the old tin mines beneath the town. Since then, there have been fewer visitors from the outlying hamlet. The old fae agrees to look into it while the motley checks the graveyard.
The motley returns home.
Blaize takes a brief detour, wandering the streets near the house. Drawn by a collection of curiously twisted night sounds, she finds a beige envelope on a doorstep. A voice from the deepening shadows warns her to leave it be, and she beats a cautious retreat.
As the night grows deeper, Owl flutters in through Blaize's window.
"There's someone on top of the nest."
"What was that little guy?
"Someone's on top of the nest. They gave me jerky."
A panic grips Blaize's heart. With the weight of a promise already on her mind, she doesn't want to consider what the Mirrorbirds might do if something happened to the egg they were caring for. Shoving Owl under her arm, she leaps out the window and sprints for the tree. Clambering to the top, she finds the nest she built… and the Hedge-bird's egg remains, safe and undisturbed.
"Owl… what happened?"
"Like I said. There was jerky."
"You said there was someone on top of the nest…"
"Where are they?"
"Not this nest, silly."
"Then what nest?"
"Our nest."
Cursing loudly, the Fireheart leaps from the branches, letting Owl fly off as she tucks and rolls on the ground. She runs back to the house.
Clambering onto the roof, she finds a hunched figure sitting over the gutter, a crawling pall of shadow surrounding her.
"Your little friend is a pretty crappy messenger. Ate all my jerky too."
Blaize approaches cautiously, and the figure rises to her full height, the shadows slipping from her skin like silken sheets. Her dark skin in a tapestry of burn scars, her eyes empty pits like the night sky. A loose bun of dreadlocks twitches like a mass of worms.
The stranger introduces herself as Half Penny, and says that she had come to check on the newcomers Solomon mentioned. Given the recent surge in Cuckoo activity, and the disappearance of a number of resident Cootamundra fae, she made it clear that she intended to find out for herself if these events and the arrival of the newcomers formed anything more than coincidence.
Nodding slowly along at the barely veiled threat, Blaize asked if the Tunnelgrub wanted to come inside.
Blaize climbed down, while the newcomer slithered down the wall ahead of her, and was waiting when the Elemental moved to open the door. The dark fell behind as the ropy young woman strode into the house, interrupting Father Callahan's painstaking sorting and sampling of his most recent Hedge-berry harvest. There was a brief but cagey conversation; where the motley had come from, what they intended to do in town, and a number of reasons why they should consider the area around the Cold Hill Slaughterhouse off limits. Anais brings forth a new concoction, a glamour rich tea, and the meeting begins to settle. Soon, Half Penny makes to leave.
"You guys are either the best liars…" she mutters from the door, "… or the worst Cuckoos I have ever seen. You'll be hearing from me."
And with that the night swallows her again.
A little worried by the local denizens, the motley opts to settle in for the night. Upon awakening Callahan finds a surprising amount of loose change in his socks, and smiles at the idea that maybe their luck is changing. Bouyed by this, the trio head into town once more, trying to source what they'll need for the coming troubles. Anais dials a number she finds in the classifieds of a discarded paper, responding to the request for new exotic dancers at Lady May's Adult Entertainment company. The voice who answers sounds tired, but after a short chat agrees to meet.
Blaize wanders into a record store to find a collapsed, aging hippy face down on the counter, with a couple of others hidden away under the shelves and a pile of discarded pizza boxes. Waking Petey, the counter dwelling proprietor, she strikes an agreement to clean the place once a week in exchange for David Bowie postcards. She catches a wisp of glamour from the agreement, the crackling voice of the fire within surging into activity.
Father Callahan takes some time to study the book he took from Crowley's Black Hill Church, and notes that despite the references to Antebellum America, the print plate the book keeps falling open on is out of place; over the chain gang stands a man in a British Colonial Officer's uniform, and the plants in the background suggest an Australian scene. The chained man in the foreground is a tall and muscular African, but the print does not belong in the book. Holding his crucifix close, the Father closes the book, and decides that its time to go to the library.
He spends the afternoon amongst the books, and eventually begins turns up a name to go with the figure.
The former slave turned convict enjoyed a brief bout of fame after having delivered a knockout punch to the Aboriginal war leader Pemulwuy, a man of no small reputation for toughness, while the latter was leading a raid. Tracking the name through records over the next few days, he found that both Cesar and, later, his son were buried in the area that would later be Cootamundra. Any haunting that old had no choice but to be entrenched and resilient. The Father, it seemed, was going to need extra supplies.
Christine did indeed know where to find some priests' vestments. The former priest had left a set with the church, saying they belonged to it and not to him, and she knew exactly where they were. She was also entirely willing to trust Father Callahan when he said that he was a priest. What took a bit of convincing was why exactly he needed a set immediately. In the end he spun some tale of a wedding on a tight turnaround, as it were, and made off leaving behind a promise to have the Catholic paraphernalia back in good condition.
He'd figured she probably wouldn't believe he was going to exorcise a ghost in the church of the next town over.
Having stowed his new acquisitions, the trio meet up to discuss a potential solution to the Devil in the graveyard. The place has no history of unnatural trouble that they can find, but the night tourists' statement made the local papers, and has circulated to the local rumour mill with a chuckle ever since. Figuring there's not much they can do without a bit more information, they decide that they should take a closer look. Better to get at least one favour owed out of the way.
They make their way across town, and do a brief reconnoiter around the edge of the cemetery, figuring that a quick clamber over a lower section of the eastern wall is their best option. Sneaking through the long shadows of funerary gardens and being careful to avoid the lone nightwatchman, they pick their way through the dark towards the old mausoleums where the incident took place. As the graves grow taller around the paths, an unseasonal mist and chill begins to well up around them.
Anais steps into the clearing first, and she sees a name carven upon a gravestone in the dark that she recognises as her own, even if she can't truly remember it. She falls to her knees, and starts digging at the ground with her fingernails. In an instant, Anais is gone.
The others notice her disappearance, and try to fan out and search for her. The shadows of the tombs crawl with malice, writhing forward to snatch more of the feeble light from their torches. Then, they see a tombstone too, with the name "Anais" dripping darkness on the face. Blaize lays into the earth with her shovel as they scramble to open the grave in time.
Meanwhile, their friend is cold. She can see her motley scrabbling away, mere meters before her, but her arms feel constricted by an iron grip, and when she raises her voice to scream the breath is snatched from her lungs before it can make a sound. As she struggles, she feels consciousness ebbing away, and makes one last desperate push…
The huntress' shovel cracks a slab of stone, and the dancer falls wheezing out of the air.
While Blaize and Callahan struggle to get Anais back on her feet, a vicious neck wound bleeding into her dress, and fear itself steps forth from the shadows.
Blaize and Anais see the Lord of the Maze strut forth from between the tombstones, while Father Callahan sees his own Keeper limp forth from the shadows. The old priest slumps to the ground shaking.
Blaize raises her shovel and, interposing herself between her friends and her once Keeper, screams out for the interloper to back off. The Maze Lord's face snarls back for them to leave the cemetary before it gets angry, but there is a creeping baritone in its voice that seems unfamiliar. Blaize scents the illusion; there's none of the Maze Lord's wisps of perfume or debauchery here. The thing before her reeks only of worms and cold, dark places, and it is in their heads.
When she refuses to back down, the thing leaps forward. Caught in its shadow, Callahan's mind plummets back to an image of his Keeper's son, the Wilting Waxen Woodsman, beating him bloody with the haft of his axe. The old priest screams and runs with the devil's own speed. The nightmare surges on towards Blaize and Anais.
The Elemental snaps her lighter, and drives the flickering flame into the skin of her arm. The flesh singes, and in response the Wyrd honours her contract; the fire within her surges out, flashing and coruscating in a raging shroud around her. The thing wearing the Maze Lord's face falters and takes a cautious step back, like a cornered wolf.
"Not so cocky now, huh? Who the hell are you?" the Fireheart snaps.
"Nobody you'd want to get close to," the figure replies in its sepulchral tones, before single handedly wrenching a gravestone out of the earth and pitching it like a discus at the furious fae. Blaize tried to dive out of the way, but the massive stone caught her under the arm, and she felt at least two ribs break as she falls with the slab on top of her. Through the veil of pain, the illusion around her crumbles, the night in the graveyard returning to the crisp mugginess of the Western summer. Anais struggles with the heavy stone before managing to lever it off Blaize's chest with the haft of the shovel, and the younger fae drags in a wheezing, painful breath. Seeing that her friend is stable for now, she briefly follows the footprints of their assailant; finding the door of a mausoleum thrown open and a flight of steps beyond; she spies an incense burner flickering dimly in a small alcove below, but no sign of their attacker, and figures it wiser to avoid any further confrontation at this stage. She slips back to Blaize, and manages to help her friend to her feet as they both stagger away from the mausoleum.
They find Callahan cowering in the shadow of the outer wall. Coaxing him out of his near catatonia, he feeds some of his Hecate's Eye extract to Blaize; not enough to heal the broken ribs, but sufficient to stop the injury getting any worse while they head home. They drop down over the wall and limp back through the midnight streets.
They are relieved at least that in the morning they will be able to tell Solomon that whatever is in the graveyard is no True Fae; after all, fear of flames and crushing people with tombstones never really were the Maze Lord's style. They are also reassured that whatever it was seemed to wish more for privacy than expansion. And they are at least ninety nine percent sure that it was definitely not the Devil, which is probably another plus.
What is worrying is that they don't really know what it was at all.
And I think we'll leave it there for this week folks, nice little bit of a mystery for you. I'm afraid competition for the historical figure guessing game are now closed in light of Father Callahan's revelations, but phone ins from my dear imaginary readers are always welcome. As ever, feel free to use any of the ideas you like in your own games, though I guess if you publish it refer to my usual CC-A-SA-NC spiel. That is, throwing me a mention would be appreciated. Anywho, have a good week everybody.


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Nick Cannon on The Anderson Live Show
I got an email that Nick Cannon will be on The Anderson Live show next week. If you live in NYC, check it out.
On Tuesday morning November 13th, Nick Cannon will be our celebrity guest on the Anderson Live show.
We welcome all fans who are in the NYC area to be a part of our studio audience. Tickets are free and all you have to do is email us at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Please include "Nick Cannon" on the subject and then include your full name, # of tickets and a contact # and we will send our Priority VIP seats to all guests who wish to attend!
The show arrival is 7am for a 9am LIVE SHOW and it will end at 10am
Thank you and hope to see you in our audience this Tuesday morning.


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Product FAQs
How to
How do I initialize a brand new hard drive in Mac OSX?
Before you can access a new or formatted drive in your operating system, you need to initialize it first and then create a partition on the drive. A partition defines an area of the drive to use for storing data. The partition uses a file system (for example, HFS+, ex-FAT, NTFS, and so on).
Initialize a drive
Mac OSX detects a drive that needs to be initialized and automatically prompts you to initialize the drive. If you are prompted to initialize the drive, click Initialize. If you are not prompted to initialize the drive and you cannot find the drive in Finder, you will need to create a partition on the drive.
Create a partition on a drive
Note: The following steps create an HFS+ (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) partition that uses the entire drive space.
To create a partition on a new drive, complete the following:
Open Finder.
Navigate to Applications and click Utilities.
Open Disk Utility.
Select the new drive and click the Partition tab.
Click Options and verify that it is set to GUID Partition Table.
Enter a name for the partition.
Click Partition.
The drive should now be accessible in Finder.


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Doctor Who: The King's Dragon
by Una McCormack
Hardcover, 245 pages. Published 2010. Acquired November 2010. Read November 2011.
by Una McCormack
Hardcover, 245 pages. Published 2010. Acquired November 2010. Read November 2011.
I followed the ninth Doctor adventures pretty faithfully (easy to do with six books), but lost interest in the novels based on the new series three books into the tenth Doctor's adventures. (Easy to do with crap like The Stone Rose and The Resurrection Casket.) Since then, I've picked them up only occasionally, and The King's Dragon is the first eleventh Doctor adventure I've had cause to read.
I rather liked it. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory land on a medieval alien planet, which is supposed to be friendly and democratic, but turns out to be rude and monarchical. So, investigations begin and trouble ensues. Where The King's Dragon particularly shines is its characterization; all three characters sound perfectly like their television counterparts. Indeed, I wish the characters had been written this well on television. The novel takes place during Series 5, between "The Vampires of Venice" and "The Hungry Earth," and it fits perfectly, especially in its depiction of Amy and Rory's relationship, which is still kinda uncertain as Rory tries to figure out how he relates to Amy with this Doctor fellow around.
Plus, Una McCormack's writing sparkles as it always does, the power of the enamour is suitably creepy, it has a nice emphasis on the storytelling act, and there are lots of good jokes and witty lines. The good sort of standalone Doctor Who adventure, and thus the best sort in general.


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MELVILLE, N.Y. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — July 9, 2013 — Canon Solutions America, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A, today announced that it will display its latest solutions to help Geographic Information Systems (GIS) operators improve print quality, efficiency and workflow at booth #901 during the 2013 ESRI International User Conference, July 8-12 in San Diego, CA.
Canon Solutions Americas printing solutions on display at this years user conference easily integrate with ESRI applications to provide one of the fastest, most productive and easiest to use large format color printing systems, able to handle the largest and most complex of GIS files, said Sal Sheikh, vice president, Large Format Systems, Canon Solutions America.
Capture and Print Complex Information at World Class Speed
Layers of complex imagery and data are necessary to produce intelligent maps that enable proactive decision making. Unfortunately, limitations within existing large format print technology often cause GIS operators to remove layers of critical information. Maps are scaled back prior to printing because printers lack sufficient processing speed and cannot handle the required file size, detail or depth.
During the conference, Canon Solutions America will display an innovative solution to solve plotting issues in GIS workflows the Océ ColorWave® 650 printer. This all-around productive system allows technical users to print, copy and scan in black and white and color without sacrificing productivity, quality or layers of detailed information. The printer can produce up to 30 full color 30 x 42 maps per hour and the embedded Océ PowerM® Plus controller helps to ensure that processing times for complex GIS files do not create bottlenecks. The 42-inch-wide printer holds up to six media rolls, each holding up to 650 feet of inexpensive, uncoated plain paper. This unprecedented media capacity reduces media loading and saves time.
Additionally, innovative Océ CrystalPoint® technology delivers instantly dry prints, so GIS maps may be handled, stacked or folded immediately. These images are waterfast, making them ideal for field work in a multitude of conditions. This durability is extended with the ability to print on Tyvek, which is recognized as a superb water resistive barrier material that combines strength, protective properties and high vapor permeability. Users can now leverage the unique printing capabilities of the Océ ColorWave 650 to create a wider variety of GIS prints that might be exposed to the elements.
Canon Solutions America will highlight the benefits of the Océ ColorWave 650 printer and other advanced large format printing solutions for GIS users as part of the conferences Federal Agencies Industry Showcase. This showcase focuses on how U.S. federal agencies use GIS to address a wide variety of national issues.
For more information on how GIS operators can improve the overall quality of prints and increase efficiency within the print workflow, download the Océ PDF Solving GIS Plotting Issues in GIS Workflow.
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The Misfit Shine is an activity tracker for people who are tired of bracelets. Sure, this nifty guy comes with a sports band, but it's easy to pop out and hang from a necklace strap, belt clip, or whatever your tracker-holding-method-of-choice happens to be. Now you can get one on Touch of Modern for just $70.
For comparison, Amazon, Apple, and Misfit are still selling the product at its usual retail price of $120. Best Buy, on the other hand, is willing to part with one for just $100. That isn't bad, just $30 more than what you can currently get the Shine for by jumping on this deal.
Now here's the thing with Touch of Modern - this deal ends January 7th at 12 PM PST, and you will need to sign up for a free account before viewing the site. After placing an order, the Shine may take anywhere from four to six weeks to arrive. Sure, things can and sometimes do arrive sooner, but the potential wait is something to keep in mind as you head for the link below.
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The Roman Church has been singing the "O" Antiphons since at least the eighth century. They are the antiphons that accompany the Magnificat canticle of Evening Prayer from December 17-23. They are a magnificent theology that uses ancient biblical imagery drawn from the messianic hopes of the Old Testament to proclaim the coming Christ as the fulfillment not only of Old Testament hopes, but present ones as well. Their repeated use of the imperative "Come!" embodies the longing of all for the Divine Messiah.
O Wisdom of our God Most High,
guiding creation with power and love:
come to teach us the path of knowledge!
O Leader of the House of Israel,
giver of the Law to Moses on Sinai:
come to rescue us with your mighty power!
O Root of Jesse's stem,
sign of God's love for all his people:
come to save us without delay!
O Key of David,
opening the gates of God's eternal Kingdom:
come and free the prisoners of darkness!
O Radiant Dawn,
splendor of eternal light, sun of justice:
come and shine on those who dwell in darkness and in the
shadow of death.
O King of all nations and keystone of the Church:
come and save man, whom you formed from the dust!
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Bring Out The Health Within
Five Facts About Homeopathic Medicines
Homeopathy is a therapeutic method that uses highly diluted natural substances to relieve symptoms.
- Natural—The active ingredients in homeopathic medicines are diluted plants, animals and minerals that relieve the same symptoms they cause at full strength (i.e., a micro-dose of coffee bean helps nervousness).
- Scope of Use—Similar to other over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, homeopathic medicines can be used to relieve symptoms of a wide range of acute health conditions such as allergies, coughs, colds, flu, stress, arthritis pain, muscle pain, and teething.
- Quality-controlled—Homeopathic medicines are manufactured according to the highest standards, complying with specifications of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States (HPUS) and Drug Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
- Safe—Homeopathic medicines are one of the safest choices for self-treatment.
- No known side effects such as drowsiness
- No interactions with conventional medications or herbal remedies
- No contraindications with pre-existing conditions
- No masking of symptoms
- Forms—Like other OTCs, homeopathic medicines are available in a variety of dosage forms such as gels, ointments, creams, syrups, eye drops, and suppositories.


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Hi there everyone!! Well, this posts ends inspiration week at Lawn Fawn for the month of June. Haven't all the projects been amazing thus far?!! Loving them! Tonight we are showcasing the set, "Blissful Botanicals" for you, and it is one that I just LOVE!! It is so pretty, and has so many amazing possibilities for it!!
I created this card with a couple of challenges in mind as well. First up, Lawnscapings Challenge #11 is all about clean and simple design. Well, my card is pretty much the epitome of CAS this time around!! I also created it for CAS-ual Friday Challenge #6, which is a tic tac toe grid where you choose a row of items to use on your card! I chose gems, dies or punch, & flowers for this one. Here is what I created!
Julie Campbell
Latisha Yoast
Lea Lawson {You are here!!}
Lynnette Kauffman
Teri Anderson
Tiffany Johnson
And as always, there will be lots of giveaways on the Lawn Fawn blog this week!! Click on these links and follow the comment instructions for your chance!!


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The My Valentine Blogger Theme is a 2 column theme which Blogger Buster has released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
- Demo : My Valentine
- Download : My Valentine Blogger Theme
Installation Instructions
- Extract all files from this folder and save to your computer.
- Log in to Blogger and choose the blog you wish to install this template for.
- Choose the Layout>Edit HTML tan.
- Near the top of the screen, you will see the option to "Upload a new template". Click on the "Browse" button and locate the valentine.xml file on your computer. Then click on the "Upload" button.
- This will upload your new template to your blog and save this instead of your existing template.
You will also need to change the date settings for your blog to ensure the calendar widget is properly displayed.
For this, go to Settings>Formatting in your dashboard, and ensure the date is set to the YYYY-MM-DD format.
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This Dog Is Not A Fan Of Sharing
For many, sharing can be a challenge. Sharing food, sharing the covers, sharing toys…and sharing affection. This pooch has me LOL'ing for sure! He does not want his human giving love to his sibling. He wants all the love and attention and does the cutest thing to let his human know.
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Julie Hunt Julie resides in Northern New Jersey with her two kids, two dogs, cat and partner. She has two published books which make excellent trivets if you aren't a fan of poetry. She tolerates people but LOVES animals. If she isn't blogging, she's most likely cuddling with her pups, Paisley and Skyler.


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I would buy the ten day paint but even that is not long enough for me. I want my paint open for up to 30 days. The problem is when I go on trips... I might be only half finished with a painting and gone for a week. I know, I am wishing for the impossible.Mark_Carder said:
So my question to you is, "how fast do you want your paint to dry?"
I just bought some lottery tickets! I guarantee that if I'm holding a winning ticket I will be retiring tomorrow night. In fact the airline merger has generated new uniforms for all employees, the pilots included. Mine came via FedEx this week. My opinion, Meh ... , looks schlocky, like a small regional airline pilot uniform (that sounds snobby. What can i say) ... but it would be my absolute pleasure to give that uniform to Goodwill having never worn it. : ) Maybe I'd burn it.. or put it on an effigy of one of my favorite management persons and then burn it.Gary said:
Hey G! I've got a solution to your 30 day problem......retire! It's a beautiful thing!!


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Stowe, with its famous landscape garden, has the longest bibliography of all National Trust properties. It has inspired and challenged visitors, artists and scholars ever since Lord Cobham began transforming it in the 1710s.
Any new publication about Stowe has to prove itself in that context. But Stowe: The People and the Place, by Michael Bevington and with contributions by George Clarke, Jonathan Marsden and Tim Knox, is an interesting addition to the literature partly because it descibes Stowe as a phenomenon, as a garden with a national and indeed international reputation.
Although it is notoriously difficult to establish the precise influence of one garden on another, echoes of Stowe can be found in a number of English gardens. At Hagley Hall in Worcestershire, Cobham's nephew George Lyttleton erected a number of temples, a column and a Palladian bridge inspired by Stowe.
Frederick, Prince of Wales, added politically symbolic busts of King Alfred and the Black Prince to his garden at Carlton House, London, just as his ally Cobham had done at Stowe. The Prince of Wales also built a House of Confucius in his garden at Kew, which again seems to have been a subtly political emblem similar to Cobham's Chinese House at Stowe.
However, Stowe also became well know abroad. There were so many French visitors that in 1748 a French guidebook entitled Les Charmes de Stow was published. Traces of Stowe can be found in gardens in France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Italy, and even as far afield as Monticello, Virginia.
Stowe's most direct and striking influence can be found in the pleasure grounds of Tsarskoye Selo, one of Catherine the Great of Russia's residences. The famous 'Frog' dinner service that the Empress commissioned from Josiah Wedgewood in 1773, and which was decorated with British scenery, featured more views of Stowe than of any other place.


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Updates : Provinces
Posts are arranged in alphbetical order of provinces
Benguela Province – Catumbela
The new road bridge over the river Catumbela has now been innuagurated by the President. Journey times between Lobito and Benguela should be much quicker now.
Zaire Province – Soyo
Interesting blog on Soyo
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I am not mad at it. (Lainey: me neither.)
If you are, let's take a second. What are you mad at, exactly?
Here's what I love about this amazingly ballsy dress: it's not trying to be something else. It's not like "Oh, but no, I am a sleek and wonderful chemise!" Not that there's anything wrong with that look, it's just this isn't that. It's actively not trying to be that.
In fact, it's the fact that it's trying something new that is most exciting. I get that not everyone is going to be into something pink and quilted, but look, when else is she going to wear something made out of a fabric like that? We can't all wear the dressing gowns they rocked in 'Mona Lisa Smile'. It's an awards show, if we can't look at some interesting clothing on the people we think we know, what are we doing here anyway?
Or is it the fact that the big voluminous shape means she doesn't have to prove to every long-lens camera and sleazy producer that she's 'gotten her body back' after giving birth in July? Is this about her daring to do something that makes the conversation something different than the number of pairs of Spanx she's layered into?
Look, it's 3:31 AM and I've seen a billion shots of that little kid in a cape. This dress should be the cape story of the day, not a costume that will most definitely wind up in a dress-up chest before the end of next week. Like, feel free to yell at me but when you do, just tell me, cogently – what are you mad at?


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The 11th Panchen Lama is the spiritual leader of Buddhism in Tibet. As the country celebrates the 20th anniversary of his enthronement, he has talked about some of the changes he wants to make.
Tibet celebrates anniversary of Panchen Lama\'s enthronementThe 11th Panchen Lama is the spiritual leader of Buddhism in Tibet As the country celebrates the 20th anniversary of his enthronement, he has talked about some of the changes he wants to make.
The 25-year-old religious leader is one of the highest ranking Lamas in the most influential sect of Buddhism.
"I did not waste time studying over the past two decades. I have been to 23 provinces and cities, broadening my horizons. I tell myself to make buddhist sutra part of my values, code of behavior," Qoigyi Gyaibo, the 11th Panchen Lama, said. "The scriptures are about life philosophy and goals. The reading process for every line in the scriptures is also a process of combining what is in the book and what is in my soul."
As a post-90s leader, he believes that interpretation of Buddhist scriptures needs to catch up with modern times.
The Panchen Lama has also tried to be part of social life. He has touched the heads of over one million believers, blessing them. He made donations and prayers for victims of earthquakes. He believes what he did was in line with the Buddhist idea of mercy for all, which is also part of Tibetan values.
"Core values of socialism, such as harmony, honesty, and equality, have their corresponding contents in Sutra. Panchen of past generations have been known for patriotism," he said. "I'm considering how to combine modern believers' demand with the Scriptures, and carry out Buddhist ideas on harmony, which is also my responsibility for society."
The 11th Panchen Lama was recognized 20 years ago in a five-year-old boy as the incarnated soul of his predecessor. The living Buddha was chosen by strict lot drawing, a ritual first set up two centuries ago.


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Today's bound to be one of the most beautiful…
I haven't posted in a while, but long update short: work at the library has been phenomenal over the past three months I've worked there. Kansas City has been amazing, and I am constantly surprised by how much I'd missed this city.
I'm playing my cello again, I'm singing again, I'm chipping away at my student loans and saving at the same time, possible new musical opportunities have appeared-ones that would stretch me as a musician and a person, and I'm getting back in the shape that I used to be last summer.
Yeah. Something's gonna happen.


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Outside the Box, January 2011
Outside the Box was retired on April 25, 2018, to make way for the new and improved premium research service, Over My Shoulder.
If you're interested in joining John Mauldin, Patrick Watson, and the thousands of Over My Shoulder subscribers as they analyse important research several times a week, please click here to find out how you can subscribe for less than $10 per month.
Pavlov's Bulls
January 31, 2011
My long-time readers are familiar with Jeremy Grantham of GMO, as I quote him a lot. He is one of the more brilliant and talented value managers (and I should mention, very successful on behalf of his clients). He writes a quarterly letter that I regard as a must-read. In fact, anything Jeremy writes is a must-read. This week's OTB is a little longer than most, but it is actually two separate parts, which can be read at different times – but you want to take the time. He makes his predictions...
2011 Investment Strategies: 9 Buys, 9 Sells
January 24, 2011
This week I am really delighted to be able to give you a condensed version of Gary Shilling's latest INSIGHT newsletter for your Outside the Box. Each month I look forward to getting Gary's latest thoughts on the economy and investing. In his 2009 forecast issue he suggested 13 investment ideas, all of which were profitable by the end of the year. Last year he gave us 16, of which the large majority hit the mark. It is not unusual for Gary to give us over 75 charts and tables in his monthly...
STRATFOR's 2011 Annual Forecast
January 20, 2011
As you know, I'm an avid researcher when it comes to my own annual forecast, which you saw a couple of weeks ago. One of my favorite resources is STRATFOR, a global intelligence company founded by my friend George Friedman. Their focus is geopolitics, which means they cover political, economic and military developments all around the world. They have an annual forecast of their own, and George has been gracious enough to allow me to share it with you. As long-time OTB readers may know,...
Hoisington Fourth-Quarter Report
January 17, 2011
Long-time readers of Outside the Box are familiar with the names Dr. Lacy Hunt and Van Hoisington. They are a regular feature here, as quite frankly, anything that Lacy writes or says I pay serious attention to. This is their regular quarterly report, where they outline seven things that are likely to retard US growth. An easy read, but take the time to think this through.
Hoisington Investment Management Company (www.hoisingtonmgt.com) is a registered investment advisor...
Global Aging and the Crisis of the 2020s
January 10, 2011
From the fall of the Roman and the Mayan empires to the Black Death to the colonization of the New World and the youth-driven revolutions of the twentieth century, demographic trends have played a decisive role in many of the great invasions, political upheavals, migrations, and environmental catastrophes of history. By the 2020s, an ominous new conjuncture of demographic trends may once again threaten widespread disruption. I am, of course, talking about global aging, which is likely to have a...
The Next Decade: Where We've Been… And Where We're Going
January 6, 2011
This week I'm sending you a real treat. My friend & geopolitical expert George Friedman has written a fascinating new book, The Next Decade: Where We've Been... And Where We're Going. His previous book, The Next 100 Years, hit the New York Times bestseller list, so it's not just his fishing buddies like me that think he's good.
I've had the pleasure of reading a galley copy, and after a grueling arm-wrestling match, won the exclusive privilege of sending you the Author's Note and Introduction...
In Defense of the Old Always
January 4, 2011
Long-time readers of Outside the Box are familiar with the name of James Montier, who is now with GMO in their London office. Today, James, with his usual acerbic wit, takes on the notion of the "New Normal" and offers us a defense of the "Old Always." James is a value investor and sees mean reversion as still alive and kicking, where some proponents of the New Normal think we should throw out all of the old aphorisms. While I am in the New Normal camp, I also agree with James. This makes for...


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Love, love, LOVE this new pattern by notNeutral! "Brown Season" is a whimsical-mod mix of outlines and silhouettes brought to life in high-contrast chocolate brown and white. I'm especially loving the serving plate with it's bold tree silhouette graphic. This pattern is available as a coffee set, cup & saucer set, and birch veneer placemat & coaster set. A great way to welcome fall…and guaranteed be in style all year round!
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Sarna News
|Production information
|TharHes Industries[1]
|Production Year
|9,807,366 C-bills
|Technical specifications
|Mech type
|Inner Sphere BattleMech
|55 tons
|Earthwerk GRF
|Kallon Unity Weave Ferro-Fibrous with CASE
|Hermes 275 XL
|Communications System
|TharHes Euterpe HM-14
|Targeting Tracking System
|TharHes Ares-8a
|Heat Sinks
|11 Double Heat Sinks
|86.4 km/h
The Bushwacker was originally a failed BattleMech concept designed to have a smaller forward profile to make the 'Mech a harder target to hit. The Bushwacker's unique design caused problems with the engine shielding, the side-effects of which manifested themselves as various gremlins in the 'Mech's on board electronics on the prototypes fielded during the Clan Invasion. The 'Mech was redesigned after schematics for an OmniMech known as the Vulture were captured during a raid into Clan territory. Information gleaned from the schematics were used to overcome the aforementioned engine shielding problems. Finding the schematics had given the Bushwacker a second lease on life. Full production of the corrected Bushwacker began just after the Truce of Tukayyid, and the 'Mech has since become a favorite of MechWarriors in the Draconis and Capellan Marches of the Federated Suns.[3][1]
Weapons and Equipment[edit]
The Bushwacker has a top speed of 86.4 km/h and carries nine tons of armor. What the 'Mech lacks in protection it makes up for in range, using its speed to keep enemies at arm's length while using its slew of long range weaponry to slowly wear down enemies.[1]
In an attempt to keep the enemy at as long a range as possible, the Bushwacker carries two Federated 5-Shot LRM-5 launchers. The LRM-5s give it the capability to give some indirect fire support as well as laying down minefields with specialized munitions. These are backed up by a BlazeFire Sweetshot ER Large Laser and an eighty millimeter Mydron Model B Autocannon/10, which give the 'Mech a powerful long range direct-fire punch. A pair of Johnston Minigun Machine Guns are the only short range weapons carried by the 'Mech.[1]
- Based on the standard Bushwacker, this simple variant removes the ER Large Laser and replaces it with an additional LRM-5 launcher in the torso and a pair of Medium Pulse Lasers. It also drops one heat sink. BV (2.0) = 1,193[5]
- The L1 variant of the Bushwacker is a configuration that changes the 'Mech to a close combat unit. The only long range weapon on the L1 variant is an ER Large Laser. For close combat, the L1 carries an LB-X Autocannon/20 that can fire either standard or cluster ammunition, adding versatility to the crippling firepower of this extremely deadly close combat weapon. Two and a half tons of additional armor was added to the BSW-L1, giving excellent armor protection. The L1 saw its engine upgraded to a Light Fusion Engine for increased survivability. BV (1.0) = 1,342[6][7] (1,264)[8], BV (2.0) = 1,513[9]
- The S2 is a variant of the Bushwacker that makes the 'Mech more effective at short to medium ranges. The 'Mech carries an ER Large Laser to allow the 'Mech to engage an enemy at long ranges as it closes. The 'Mech carries an LB-X Autocannon/10, which can fire both standard and cluster ammunition for long to medium range engagement capabilities. For close combat, the 'Mech has two SRM-4 launchers, making it a powerful unit at any range. For added defense, the S2 carries an Anti-Missile System. BV (1.0) = 1,103[6][10], (1,123)[11], BV (2.0) = 1,293[12]
- BSW-S2r
- This variant mounts a Plasma Rifle and ammunition in place of one of the SRM launchers and the ER Large Laser of the BSW-2S.[13] BV (2.0) = 1,339[14]
Apocryphal Variants[edit]
These variants presented here were introduced in MechWarrior Online, and thus far have not appeared in any canonical media.
- A missile boat in the mold of the X2, the P1 moves one of the left-torso LRM-5 launchers to the right torso, retaining the X1's center torso mounted ER Large Laser by replacing the AC/10 with lighter AC/5 and removing the Machine Guns. Removing the CASE, the P1 also exchanges the Ferro-Fibrous armor of the standard Bushwacker for an Endo Steel frame, the extra weight saved allowing it to carry three tons of LRM missiles, two tons of autocannon rounds and mount thirteen double heat sinks.[15]
- Built for increased field endurance, the P2 moves the X1's ER Large Laser to the right-arm mount that previously held the AC/10 and installs the X2's twin Medium Pulse lasers in the center torso. Retaining the LRM-5s and Machine Guns, any loss in protection by removing the Ferro-Fibrous armor and CASE is mitigated be carrying more standard armor made possible by a swap to an Endo Steel frame. A single ton of missile and machine gun reloads each and sixteen double heat sinks give the P2 good endurance in battle.[15]
- BSW-HR High Roller
- While all indications are that Valten Ryder piloted a standard (albeit prototype) BSW-X1 variant, some sources indicate his so-called High Roller was refitted, dropping the left-arm mounted LRM-5 launcher for a brace of three Medium Lasers, exchanging the Ferro-Fibrous armor and CASE for Endo Steel to carry an extra half ton of Machine Guns reloads and an extra double heat sink.[15]
Notable pilots[edit]
- Sergeant Major Amanda Black, officer of the Kathil Capellan March Militia fought in a Bushwacker in the first battle of Kathil, the earliest stage of the FedCom Civil War.
Related 'Mechs[edit]
- Mad Dog - TharHes's design of the Bushwacker had been complicated by space-constraints within the torso, leading to system glitches. When the Federated Commonwealth encountered the Clans' Mad Dog, the Bushwacker's torso was reorganized based on captured and salvaged samples. The resulting BattleMech was free of glitches, and quickly put into production.[3][1]
- Barghest - TharHes, at the behest of Archon Katrina Steiner-Davion, constructed a new quad BattleMech based on the Bushwacker. The chassis was modified by moving the legs forward and adding a second pair of legs in the rear, followed by increasing the mass of the chassis by 15 tons.[16]
Design Quirks[edit]
The Bushwacker has the following Design Quirk:[17]
A Bushwacker is featured on this MRBC advertisement.
MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries version of the Bushwacker
MechWarrior Online art of the Bushwacker
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade, p. 136-137, "Bushwacker Profile"
- ↑ MUL online date for the Bushwacker
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Technical Readout: 3058, p. 114
- ↑ Record Sheets: 3058 Unabridged (Inner Sphere), p. 247
- ↑ Record Sheets: 3058 Unabridged (Inner Sphere), p. 248
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Combat Operations, p. 131
- ↑ Record Sheets: 3058 Upgrades, p. 239
- ↑ Record Sheets: Upgrades, p. 94
- ↑ Record Sheets: 3058 Unabridged (Inner Sphere), p. 249
- ↑ Record Sheets: 3058 Upgrades, p. 240
- ↑ Record Sheets: 3060, p. 154
- ↑ Record Sheets: 3058 Unabridged (Inner Sphere), p. 250
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3085, p. 190
- ↑ Record Sheets: 3085 Unabridged — Old is the New New, p. 82
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 MechWarrior Online - Bushwacker Sale Page
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3060, p. 114
- ↑ BattleMech Manual, p. 90 Design Quirk Table - Bushwacker.
- BattleMech Manual
- BattleTech Compendium: Rules of Warfare
- Combat Operations
- Master Unit List
- MechWarrior Online Bushwacker Lore and Blueprint
- MechWarrior Online Bushwacker Sale Page
- Record Sheets: 3055/3058
- Record Sheets: 3060
- Record Sheets: 3058 Unabridged (Inner Sphere)
- Record Sheets: 3058 Upgrades
- Record Sheets: 3085 Unabridged — Old is the New New
- Record Sheets: Upgrades
- Technical Readout: 3058
- Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade
- Technical Readout: 3085
- Technical Readout: 3060
- Technical Readout: Clan Invasion
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...Christian Zionism can easily spill over into religious bigotry against Muslims....[In addition,] Gershom Gorenberg points out that for Christian Zionists, Jews are actors in a play where the final curtain forces them to either convert to Christianity or die in a blaze of fire sent by God.
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Urvesh kindly shared this recipe for mugg (mung bean dal) with me, when I interviewed him as part of a series in which I explore the foods that are important to Borough Market's traders. You can read the article here.
"A staple of any Indian cook's repertoire, I love mugg. It's a really comforting dal that reminds me of my childhood. The flavour should be a balance between the taste of the chilli, the sweetness of the jaggery and a sour note from the lemon juice. Delicious mugg would be served with hot buttered chapatis direct from the tavo." Urvesh also recommends cucumber raita and cumin poppadoms on the side.
220g mung beans
4 tbsp sunflower oil
3 cloves garlic
1 tsp green chilli, finely chopped
1 tbsp ginger, finely chopped
4 tsp dhana jeru (ground cumin and coriander)
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp turmeric
¼ tsp garam masala
4 tsp lemon juice
4 tsp jaggery
Small bunch of coriander
1 dried whole chilli
½ tsp mustard seeds
2 sprigs of fresh curry leaves
250ml tomatoes, pureed in the blender
Handful cherry tomatoes, to serve (optional)
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