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Dream Job Alert: You Can Actually Get Paid to Watch Christmas Movies This December
Erin Cavoto
From House Beautiful
Do you doodle Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas lineup on your calendar? Is Freeform's Christmas schedule announcement like a holiday in itself? Do you agree that the best way to spread Christmas cheer is by singing loud for all to hear? Then you've found your dream job.
Reviews.org is on the hunt for a "Chief Holiday Cheermeister" with one goal in mind: finding the best Christmas movie of all time. The role sounds pretty difficult, too. You have to watch 25 holiday movies in 25 days. Tough!
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You'll get to choose each film, so go ahead and fill your month with a mixture of classic Christmas movies, romantic Christmas movies, and even your favorite '80s Christmas movies. Ree Drummond would definitely make sure Elf and It's a Wonderful Life are on her list! After the credits roll, you'll take a brief survey that'll measure the movie based on its Christmas cheer, nostalgia factor, and all things warm and cozy.
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At the end of the 25 days, you'll not only be paid $2,500, but you'll also get a year's worth of streaming subscriptions to seven different platforms. It's truly the gift that keeps on giving (name that movie!).
You're probably wondering, what's the catch? Well, they're only choosing one person, so you'll have to keep your fingers crossed if you decide to apply.
Even if you don't win, you can still spend the month of December catching up on all your favorite family Christmas movies. So really, we're all winners here!
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Twitter has locked the account of China's U.S. embassy for a tweet that defended China's policies in the Xinjiang region, which the U.S. social media platform said violated the firm's policy against "dehumanization". The Chinese Embassy account, @ChineseEmbinUS, posted a tweet this month that said that Uighur women were no longer "baby making machines," citing a study reported by state-backed newspaper China Daily. The tweet was removed by Twitter and replaced by a label stating that it was no longer available.
Republicans call for Senate review before U.S. re-enters Paris climate deal
A group of Republican senators on Wednesday called on newly sworn-in President Joe Biden to submit his plan to re-engage the United States in the Paris climate agreement to lawmakers for "review and consideration," moments after Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the accord. Biden's announcement that he would seek to return the United States to the agreement was the centerpiece of a raft of day-one executive orders aimed at restoring U.S. leadership in combating global warming. However, the senators' move reflects the deep-seated political divisions over global warming policy that are likely to dog Democrat Biden throughout his presidency as he seeks to drive greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
The European Union will on Thursday press Turkey to make good on recent gestures from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to calm tensions, as Ankara's foreign minister visits Brussels.
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[294 U.S. 165, 166] Messrs. Raymon Schwartz, of Sumter, S.C., George P. Barse, of Washington, D.C., and R. O. Purdy, of Sumter, S.C., for petitioner.
Mr. Samuel Want, of Darlington, S.C., for respondents.
March 17, 1927, Moses Green of Sumter county S.C., died testate. He left three sons, a daughter, and a deceased son's three minor children. His will was established in probate court; the executor qualified and entered upon his duties. The residuary estate contained 20 shares of stock of the City National Bank of Sumter which were distributed by the executor and transferred on the books of the bank: four shares to each of testator's children and four to the three minors. The executor was discharged. The bank continued for several years thereafter to carry on as a going concern. Then it closed because of insolvency and was put in the hands of a receiver, the petitioner. The Comptroller made an assessment of $ 100 a share. No payment having been made on account of the [294 U.S. 165, 167] four shares in the names of the minors, an administratrix de bonis non with the will annexed was appointed. She refused to pay the assessment. The undivided interest in real estate received by the distributees under the testator's will is worth more than $2,000, the par value of the 20 shares, and the minors' interest is worth more than $400.
Respondent maintains that no federal question is involved. To the extent the opinion implies that liability of stockholders of national banks is a creature of or depends upon a statute of South Carolina the assumption is so plainly without foundation as to suggest that it must have been inadvertently made. The court's ruling that the estate is not liable for the assessment necessarily depends upon its construction of 12 USCA section 66. The judgment is reviewable here under section 237(b), Judicial Code, 28 USCA 344(b).
For the want of capacity the minors are not subject to the assessment. The shares, though in form transferred to their names on the books of the bank, actually continued to be and still are a part of the testator's estate. Early v. Richardson, 280 U.S. 496, 499 , 50 S.Ct. 176, 69 A.L.R. 658. Cf. McNair v. Darragh (C.C.A.) 31 F.(2d) 906. And the estate continued to be liable as a stockholder under 12 USCA 66. The liability was not by the Congress intended to be limited to property actually in the hands of the personal representative when the bank became insolvent or when the comptroller's assessment was made. Section 64 imposes liability upon the stockholder while living. Section 66 lays the same burden upon his estate. The purpose of the latter is to make the estate liable for the comptroller's assessment made after the stockholder's death just as it is liable for decedent's indebtedness arising before he died. Zimmerman v. Carpenter (C.C.) 84 F. 747, 751. Cf. Matteson v. Dent, 176 U.S. [294 U.S. 165, 169] 521, 20 S.Ct. 419. The obligation continues unimpaired until valid assignment of the shares by final distribution of the estate if not by an earlier transfer. Forrest v. Jack, 294 U.S. 158 , 55 S.Ct. 370, decided this day. Our attention has not been called to any South Carolina statute purporing to, and the state supreme Court did not hold that any law of the state does, bar the enforcement of the assessment on the ground it was not made before the discharge of the executor. The decree of the court by which he was discharged, while having the effect of vacating the office, did not operate to extinguish the estate and so the administratrix de bonis non with the will annexed became the personal representative of the testator and is liable as the testator would be if he were living and owned the stock. As suggested in Forrest v. Jack, supra, the enforcement of liability imposed by section 66 may not be thwarted or impeded by state law. The state court failed to enforce that liability. It should have held that petitioner is entitled to judgment against the administratrix for the indebtedness owing by the estate on account of the four shares standing in the names of the minors and that the judgment be enforced against property owned by testator when he died and now held by his children and grandchildren. Matteson v. Dent, supra; McNair v. Howle, 123 S.C. 252, 268, 116 S.E. 279; Columbia Theological Seminary v. Arnette, 168 S.Ct. 272, 277, et seq., 167 S.E. 465.


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English Translation of Bolivian Novel ¡ Hijo De Opa! / Son of the Murdered Maid
Author: Vallejo, Gaby
The novel chronicles the degeneration of a middle-class landowning family related to the national Revolution of 1952, agrarian reform and three decades of political repression. Vallejo skillfully intertwines "public" political abuse with "private" abuse of females, in which both silence and illness play major thematic and stylistic roles.
". . . a brilliant translation. This novel will be a most important addition to the archive of fiction by Latin American authors, and women novelists especially, now available to the Anglophone world. This is a complex novel, written in a form meant to convey a layered history. . . . Weldon has preserved this complexity as well as the at times subtle textual clues that allow a certain thread of coherence for the reader to follow. Her Introduction is a valuable guide for the English speaking reader, introducing Vallejo as a writer, the history out of which the novel was written, and some of the major features of the story and of its narrative form. . . . There are powerful lessons here for those of us who want to learn more about the limits of representation in the struggle against repression in Bolivia, about the role of art and cultures of resistance in that struggle – but also about that most magical and loving practice of translation that brings this book into the hands of English speaking readers." – Rosemary Hennessy
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Famous in the Hawaiian Islands and other locations across the Pacific, ABC Stores brings shopping convenience with a touch of the islands. With friendly store people, great service and a large selection of items, ABC makes it easy to get the essential items you need, including groceries, gifts, souvenirs and local apparel. In fact, no one sells more macadamia nuts, suncare products and souvenirs in Hawaii than ABC!
To manage a chain of stores that spans an ocean, great communication and logistics are critical. Whether it's making sure shelves are stocked at stores in Guam or end displays are set up in Hawaii, employees at ABC depend on reliable email to maintain smooth operations.
In fact, it was smooth sailing at ABC Stores until their iNotes email service provider announced it was going out of business.
ABC Stores is a chain of 78 convenience stores based in Hawaii, with additional locations in Saipan, Guam and Las Vegas.
The IT department found themselves in an urgent situation where they had only one month to find a new email solution and migrate 400 email accounts. The prospect of failure would have been disastrous, according to Dave Awaya, CIO for ABC Stores. Employees would have had to default to telephone and fax or using a new email account without all of their prior messages and contacts.
The new email solution needed to be cloud-hosted. As the previous system was also hosted, the IT staff didn't have the expertise in-house for managing email systems, and didn't want to spend the time to develop it. Cost and flexibility were also considerations, as was having an easy-to-use, full-featured web interface. But most importantly, the solution provider needed to step up with a fast, thorough migration to save their users' email accounts.
ABC Stores selected Intermedia Exchange Email with Advance Email Security and Email Archiving as their new email solution. Intermedia's Worry-Free Experience™ includes onboarding and migration services, and ABC found Intermedia's approach to be methodical and thorough. "They told us what they were going to do. We installed the software and they helped us to complete the migration. We worked with really great guys on the onboarding team…it was simpler than I expected," said Yim.
Furthermore, Exchange Email delivered enterprise-grade, cloud-hosted email at a price comparable to their previous solution. It is flexible as well. For instance, some users were not used to the conversations feature for organizing email, so it was turned off for them. Others kept the feature because they liked how it groups associated emails.
With Intermedia's expertise, ABC Stores migrated all 400 email accounts from iNotes to Exchange Email in less than three weeks. It came off without a hitch. "We experienced no downtime during the changeover from one system to the other," said Yim. Users were able to switch with all of their email and contacts intact.
Beyond the migration, Intermedia provided solid support for day-to-day operations. "The help desk responsiveness is very quick," said Awaya. Intermedia's Knowledge Base is also very good and simple to follow, according to Yim. IT is now able to self-manage changes to user accounts and configurations. Previously they had to submit requests by email to the hosting provider, adding delay and complexity.
Another benefit has been high reliability. "The system is giving us more stability, as far as relative uptime," he said.
Intermedia's Private Cloud for Exchange Email is the way to go if an organization wants the flexibility to customize its environment.
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The Cloud Concierge team knew exactly what questions to ask to ensure our email accounts were moved effortlessly and with no disruption.
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A Batavia-based global business aims to change the way schedules are collected on how workers clock in and out daily from their jobs.
TimePilot Corp. has made time clocks for companies worldwide, including Tanna Farms Golf Course and Settler's Hill Golf Course, both in Geneva; Optimum Granite & Marble in South Elgin; and DePaul University Theatre in Chicago, among others.
Doug Marsh, TimePilot CEO at left, and Mike Hanlon, TimePilot design director, hold the TimePilot Extreme, the basis for the company's Kickstarter Project called Extreme Blue. They co-founded the company in 2001.
Now, the company aims to produce a new Bluetooth version of its time clock so the boss can download information to his smartphone. The new clock, called Extreme Blue, also will be weatherproof and battery powered. Employees clock in and out at their worksites, and when it's time to do payroll, the data downloads wirelessly from the clock to the boss' smartphone.
The boss will have the information needed to cut checks for employees right at the worksite. Or the data can be uploaded to the web and TimePilot's PC-based software can be used to prepare the information for the company's payroll software or service, said CEO Doug Marsh.
"The Bluetooth is so far the biggest change we've made in years," Marsh said.
Marsh helped to co-found the company in 2001 with Mike Hanlon, both of Batavia. While the company has just eight workers, they hope the new Bluetooth version of their time clock will become successful and help the company grow further.
The company also aims to raise about $30,000 for more hardware and software to develop the new product via a Kickstarter.com fundraising campaign that runs through Feb. 2. So far, the firm has developed a Windows Phone app, and is still developing other apps for Android and iPhone, Marsh said.
"Every time we've developed a new product, we had to get a loan, so Kickstarter will be a new experience for us," Marsh said. "We are hoping to get enough to cover the equipment and tooling for the new moldings."
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We strongly encourage the Chinese national government to draft a National Bicycle Revival Plan. One of the main elements of this Plan is a bicycle transportation plan as part of the national transportation plan. This would include the implementation of networks of bike lanes. The cycling environment must be improved in megacities with the focus on protecting the rights of bicyclists. A more bicycle-oriented transportation plan should be implemented in small cities.
Integrate bicycle transportation into the construction plan as part of a Green City to significantly increase the rate of biking.
Restrict the number of car lanes and expand the space provided for cyclists to create more favorable conditions for cycling.
Integrate bikes into the public transit system of urban plans. Unify management of bicycle transportation networks, including a bicycle rental network.
Establish a financial system to provide funding for bike transport.
Financial support should be provided to develop bike transportation and parking facilities. A system of bicycle rental stations should be implemented and supported through government funding. A certain amount of advertising should be allowed to cover operational costs. Furthermore, current monthly commuter subsidies for government employees should be revised to include cyclists and pedestrians; motorists should not be given subsidies.
Strengthen relevant laws and regulations to protect the safety of the cyclists.
The development of electric bicycles should be enhanced; electric recharging facilities should be established in public areas. However, the production of electric bikes that exceed 50 kilometers per hour should be limited. Those riding electric bikes should undergo training and stricter licensing procedures to ensure safer roads for traditional bicycles. Moreover, bike parking management should be strengthened at community parking lots and bicycle rental stations to ensure the safety and convenience of bicycle riding. A bicycle theft reporting system should be implemented and stiff penalties imposed on those who steal and traffic in stolen bicycles; rewards should be offered to informants.


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North Clarksville library request back before county Budget Committee
This spring, Montgomery County Mayor Jim Durrett and the county Budget Committee will walk a tightrope as they weigh a lengthy list of proposed capital projects — some $18.2 million worth — and at the same time try to limit spending and sustain the $3.07 county property tax rate.
The Budget Committee has a mathematical goal of cutting some $9 million in new spending requests, including requested new hires across several county government departments, to meet its overall fiscal target for the year.
But in capital projects, there are some familiar requests from previous years that are back on the table, ranging from a new branch of the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library for somewhere in north Clarksville, to a community center for the rural Fredonia area.
North Clarksville library
Proponents of the new library branch are already pledging to be visible and vocal at the courthouse and throughout the community this spring.
In the current fiscal year, their request for the new library for north Clarksville didn't make the final cut. There have since been more public meetings about it, and now, it's showtime again as the county looks ahead to 2018-19 spending.
Martha Hendricks, library director, said the public campaign has already begun on social media and the library's website.
"This will be the second year that we have made this request," Hendricks said.
The library is an arm of county government, and Tennessee's fifth-largest city has one library location near downtown Clarksville on Pageant Lane.
Officials and library supporters maintain that north Clarksville is particularly underserved with library access, and a community this large should have multiple library locations.
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The Library Board and staff will be appealing to county commissioners and the community to make the new north Clarksville library happen in the coming fiscal year, or at least get the facility designed, and the site, identified and acquired.
Hendricks said the targeted promotional campaign will involve the use of all forms of media, as well as mailers, promotional messages on T-shirts ... you name it.
Hendricks said the Library Board, staff and other supporters are striving for a big show of community support at a county Budget Committee meeting on April 25, 9:30 a.m., where the library topic is expected to be on the agenda, as well as during the May 7 informal County Commission meeting at 6 p.m.
This year in the capital projects budget, the Library Board is asking for $750,000 to purchase land for the new north Clarksville library branch, plus $900,000 for the design of the library.
"We don't have a specific location identified, but we do have two preferred locations that we're currently interested in," Hendricks said.
One is on Boy Scout Road across from the West Creek schools complex.
The second is across Arrowood Drive from the Tennessee State Veterans Nursing Home.
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Other requests
Also back on the table at the courthouse is the requested Fredonia Community Center and park area. This year commissioners will be weighing a property purchase for the project, as well as the costs involved in renovating the old Fredonia school to transform it into a community center.
Some of the other capital projects under consideration include these, based on a list provided to The Leaf-Chronicle by county Accounts & Budgets Director Jeff Taylor:
Emergency Medical Services ambulance fleet replacement
EMS Station 20 renovation
Continued expansion of St. B Civitan Park
Rotary Park Nature Center
New county Archives facility
Court Center renovation Phase II
Class A pumper trucks, tanker and brush truck for county Volunteer Fire Services
Public Safety Training Complex firearms range
Reach Business Editor Jimmy Settle at 931-245-0247 and on Twitter @settle_leaf.


California's new statewide student assessment system. On January 1, 2014, California Education Code Section 60640 established the CAASPP System of assessments.
Educational data about our schools maintained by the CDE.
The Commission integrates policy, fiscal, planning, data, and programmatic analyses about issues concerning education beyond high school to the California government.
Data files pertaining to student and school demographics that can be downloaded to your computer.
CDE reports for accountability, test data, enrollment, graduates, dropouts, course enrollments, staffing, and data regarding English learners.
The primary federal entity for collecting & analyzing education data.
Smarter Balanced is developing an assessment system that will measure mastery of the Common Core State Standards and provide actionable information about student progress toward college and career readiness.
Smarter Balanced will provide parents, students and teachers a clearer window on whether students are on track to graduate high school, ready for college and the workplace. The assessments will be ready by the 2014-2015 school year.
focusing national attention on key educational issues; etc.
President Obama has established a goal that, by 2020, the United States will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. ..... To monitor the country's progress towards reaching our goal, the U.S. Department of Education presents the United States Education Dashboard.


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A Cruel Game of Clue: 276 & 278 Applications in Sex Crime Cases
As we are seeing more and more in the media (mainstream and social), many sex crime claims based solely on uncorroborated verbal testimony actually find their way into courtrooms. These types of claims seem to proceed through the legal system as believed to be true, unless proven otherwise. The removal of the corroboration requirement in the 1980s is mainly what paved the way to allow such flimsy claims to waste government resources and livelihoods of the innocent accused in Canadian courtrooms. When an innocent man (or woman) is accused of such a crime with no supporting evidence, it becomes a classic game of clue for the innocent accused to first figure why the accuser (male or female) would make such a claim. Although the general belief is that the prosecutor bears the burden of proof to prove their case
against the defendant claiming innocence, it doesn't mean the burden still hasn't shifted underhandedly to the accused to prove the accusation as wrong. Nor has it stopped imposed defence restrictions from making it extremely difficult for the defendant to follow clues that may lead to the accuser's motive. In turn being able to create a convincing reasonable doubt of their guilt before the judge or jury.
The game of Clue, the Classic Mystery Game, is described as following in this excerpt from Hasbro's product description:
One murder…6 suspects. In this suspenseful Clue game, players have to find out who's responsible for murdering Mr. Boddy of Tudor Mansion in his own home... Eliminate information throughout the game in this classic whodunit. The player who correctly accuses Who, What, and Where wins!
While detecting who killed Mr. Boddy isn't quite the same as defending against baseless sex crime charges, the act of having to defend yourself against a wrongful accusation is in principle, similar; using clues to eliminate information to figure out what motivated the accuser in order to be able to prove yourself innocent. A motive is not always clear from the get go. It has been sparsely researched and documented that a myriad of irrational motives can and do exist. One clue can lead to the next, eliminate a theory, and eventually lead you to the most likely and provable theory that might even lead to a recantation. For a reasonable and logical person, being forced to look for an irrational motive can be a distressful task without having access to examine all available potential clues. This is equally true for judges, juries and the innocent accused.
Enter the legislated so-called 'rape shield' laws. They were incrementally put in place as a consequence of the repealed corroboration requirement and the repealed statute of limitations to make it nearly impossible for the detective (or defendant) to be able to move from one clue to the next in order to solve the "why would she/he accuse you of this?" mystery. For an innocent defendant to be able to clear their name they effectively have to prove their own innocence and the only way they can do this is by reading the accuser's recorded police statement, look for clues in that statement to develop theories for arguments, and then examine whether or not any clue can prove or disprove a theory. This is where the process of elimination comes in handy. (Do they still teach this basic problem solving method in schools?)
Where the rape shield laws, namely the s. 276.1-.3 and s. 278.1-.9 applications, end up standing in the way with basic problem solving techniques is that it disallows the defendant to freely examine a clue they may know exists by forcing them to ask the trial judge for a procedural hearing to determine whether or not the defendant can examine the clue they think may have potential to prove or disprove a theory. Such a clue would consist of private records such as therapy records, sexual history, job retention history, previous claim history, criminal history, text messages, medical records, etc. This type of hearing hands the power to the judge to examine the clue themselves and then make their own determination on the admissibility of it. But here's the catch: when the defence applies for the judge to do so, they have to present their theory in detail to both the judge and prosecutor beforehand on what they expect the clue to reveal, and the relevance of it to the accuser's claim, in order to make the case for the judge ultimately to:
a) agree to review the clue,
b) decide if it's admissible as evidence in terms of probative value and not prejudiced against the accuser.
At this point the defence is basically guessing and hoping they have nailed their theory, while the prosecutor has just gained an advantage by knowing what the defence does or doesn't know.
The defence needs to examine the clue in order to be able to eliminate their theory or advance it during cross-examination at trial. So if the judge chooses to examine the clue, but finds it doesn't match the specific theory presented by the defence, then the judge has to deny its admissibility and reseal the clue in the confidential envelope, never to be seen by the defence. Also, the prosecution is now advantaged by knowing the advantage/disadvantage to the defence. But what the judge doesn't reveal is whether something in that clue might point to another theory that could have helped the defence create a reasonable doubt in terms of innocence. Once this clue's admissibility is ultimately denied, the defence team would have to regroup and look for another chance to pin the tail on the donkey with the correct theory in a new application hearing. But guess what? Each 276 or 278 application hearing costs thousands of dollars and it's likely after the first or second attempt the defendant can no longer afford to keep asking for a chance to examine a potentially fruitful clue. Legal Aid doesn't cover this extra cost, so the defence attorney is not going to spend any further unbillable time after the first failed attempt at pin the tail on the donkey. The prosecution again finds themselves at an advantage.
We've established the basic premise of the process of elimination being used to solve a mystery as in the classic game of Clue. We should be shocked by the fact that there are legislated laws in place that not only demand permission for a third-party (the trial judge) to examine a clue under strict criteria, but that they also can deny the innocent accused the opportunity to examine unexpected, potentially helpful clues preventing them from being able to solve the mystery of why they are being wrongly accused of something they did not do. All the while all advantages go to the prosecution. Keep in mind that both the judges and prosecutors are paid a handsome salary by the public's tax dollars regardless of how much time they spend on a case, while a defence attorney is paid by the hour, or only limited hours if paid by Legal Aid.
This should bring one to pause -- is this a clear example of the erosion of one of the most basic fundamental principles of justice, an accused's right to make full answer and defence?


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(EDITORIAL from Korea Times on Aug. 1)
All News 07:03 August 01, 2018
Political fund act
Lawmaker's death underlines need for revision
Many people are still mourning the sudden death of popular lawmaker Roh Hoe-chan last week. The three-term lawmaker who served as the floor leader of the minor opposition Justice Party committed suicide amid allegations of receiving illicit political funds.
In a note that was discovered by the police, the late lawmaker admitted to accepting 40 million won ($35,200) from an online political forum led by Druking, a blogger at the center of an online opinion-manipulation case involving some close aides to President Moon Jae-in, including South Gyeongsang Governor Kim Kyoung-soo. The note shocked many people as Roh was known for his active push for clean politics and reformist ideals.
Although he denied accepting the money in return for any favors, Roh did recognize he was at fault by not going through the proper procedures regarding "sponsorship" to legally claim the money. He said it was a "foolish choice and a shameful decision."
The death of the icon of progressive politics has underlined the need to revise the political fund act, which was amended in 2004 to restrict political funds and promote transparency in politics. Despite the good intentions, the act does not fully reflect the reality where it is impossible to be in politics without money. For lawmakers, it takes a huge amount of money to manage election campaigns and maintain regional offices. The act has resulted in various malpractices by politicians.
After Roh's death, some lawmakers started to raise the need to fix the current system which makes it difficult for legal fundraising for politicians outside the National Assembly and for political newcomers.
The biggest problem with the act is that it is absolutely favorable for incumbent members of the National Assembly and large parties. A big portion of the subsidies allocated to political parties by the National Election Commission are distributed to big parties. Under the act, political newcomers and politicians outside the Assembly are prohibited from registering sponsorships until 120 days before a general election. This is considered a huge barrier for new politicians. Roh received the money in March 2016, when he was not a member of the Assembly.
It is necessary for parties to discuss ways to make the act better reflect reality and promote fairness while maintaining its original intent.


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The future of the NHS | Jennifer O'Mahony : Journalism & Opinion – We analysed every English trust (Scotland and Wales have separate NHS systems) and checked out services for acute care across the board.The findings are quite shocking. More than twenty A&E; wards are threatened with closure or have already closed, and only a slightly smaller number of maternity wards have either closed or may do so when proposals by trusts are completed.
In addition, paediatric heart surgery has been scaled back from ten centres to seven. Centres of excellence like the Royal Brompton in London will no longer be saving children's lives as the NHS is streamlined and savings are made.
These are called 'public consultations', but did we, the British public, really know this was happening to our health service on such a scale?
Exclusive: CCGs told how practices should spend £30,000 quality premium | GPonline.com – GPC negotiator Dr Chaand Nagpaul said that he expects that in some areas practices will not receive the quality premium directly.'This is not a payment for practices', he said. 'If practices incur more workload in delivering the CCG's objectives then they would have to be rewarded.
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Rogue Wave's Zach Schwartz and singer-songwriter Courtney Jaye are combining forces for a new project called Pent Up, due out in 2017, under the name Rogue + Jaye.
The album is described as "something as informed by Belle and Sebastian and Mazzy Star as it is Ingrid Michaelson," as well as a pairing of the sounds of Nashville and Los Angeles. Listen to "Forces of Decay" by Rogue + Jaye below, and beneath that, watch Rogue Wave's June Paste Studio session.


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The most famous clock in the world – Big Ben
The worlds most photographed antique clock has been standing proudly to dominate London's skyline for over 150 years. Big Ben is how everyone has come to call it, is the nickname for the great bell of the clock. Now everyone refers to Big Ben as the overall clock and tower. The tower as it so happens is to be renamed the Elizabeth Tower in honour of the Queen. This is to celebrate the Queen's 60 year reign.
Great Tom
The clock tower as we know today as 'Big Ben' is not the first clock tower to stand in Parliament's grounds. The first tower nicknamed 'Great Tom' was built in 1288-90. A second tower replaced the first in 1367 and this was the first chiming public clock in England. In 1707 this tower had fallen into a state of disrepair and was demolished. When a terrible fire destroyed most of the Palace of Westminster in 1834, architects submitted designs for the new Palace. Of the 97 designs submitted, Sir Charles Barry's was picked. His design did not originally have a clock tower but this was added to his design in 1836. Construction of this tower began in 1843.
Dent Clockmaker
Clearly the manufacture of the mechanism for the clock needed to be done by a specialist. The Queens clockmaker at the time was Vulliamy and he wanted to design and make the clock. Other specialist clockmakers also believed they should make the clock. A series of disputes therefore resulted and it was decided to appoint a referee to make the decision on who made the clock. The decision was left to the Astronomer Royal, Sir George Airy. He set the standards by which the clock must keep, Denision a barrister and gitfted amateur clockmaker assisted in this decision.
Delays in Building Big Ben
All this led to delays in the decision. It was not until Feb 1852 that it was decided that Dent was to build the clock to Denison's own design. Dent died in 1853 and so the clock was completed by Dents stepson, Frederick in 1854. It cost £2,500 to make. The tower itself was still not finished though and so the clock was kept at Dents factory in the meantime.
Denison Design
Denison made refinements to the clock while waiting for the clock tower to be finished (1859). He invented a 'Double Three-legged Gravity Escapement'. This was a revolutionary and an ingenious invention and refinement. It made sure the pendulum was unaffected by external factors, such as wind pressure on the clock hands. A constant impulse was always applied to the pendulum. This escapement won worldwide acclaim, it is now known as the ' Grimthorpe escapement', and Denision was later made Baron Grimthorpe in 1886 as a result.
Long Pendulum of Big Ben
The pendulum to the clock is 13 feet long and installed in a windproof box, it beats every 2 seconds. On top of this pendulum there are old coins. Adding weight to the top of the pendulum will lift the pendulum's centre of gravity and thus shorten the effective length of the pendulum. This has the effect of speeding the clock up by just under half a second a day.
Symbol of London Big Ben
The clock has become one of the main symbols for the United Kingdom and London in particular. From the news programs like ITN to New Year celebrations, to General Election's end of voting. Big Ben is the centre of our life. It stands proud and has had numerous years superb service. It has sted the test of time and London would not be the same without it. A truly remarkable achievement. The clocks Westminster Chime is typical of clocks after C.1860 and is found on many modern clocks. Most Georgian antique clocks just strike the hour on a single bell.
Daniel Clements – www.pendulumofmayfair.co.uk
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Finesse Mitchell Net Worth
Finesse Mitchell net worth and salary: Finesse Mitchell is a Comedian who has a net worth of $1 million. Finesse Mitchell was born in Atlanta, in June 12, 1972. American comedian and actor who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2003 to 2006. In 2012, he participated in Fox's dating game show The Choice.
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American comedian and actor who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2003 to 2006. In 2012, he participated in Fox's dating game show The Choice.
He was born in Atlanta and later attended the University of Miami. He made his first television appearance on BET's Comic View in 1999 and soon he was appearing on The Late Late Show with Conan O'Brien.
He has appeared in comedies such as Who's Your Caddy?, The Comebacks and Mad Money.
He was married to Jessica Santos from 2008 until 2011. In 2013, he married Adris Debarge.
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Insurance premiums rose by 15.39% in the first five months of the year to 219.5bn RMB (US$26.5bn), the China Daily reported, citing the China Insurance Regulatory Commission. The commission said premiums from property and casualty insurance rose by 20.5% from a year earlier to 56.98 billion RMB and life insurers earned 162.5bn RMB in the five-month period. Over the past 20 years, premium growth averaged 30% a year. The insurance industry has been growing fast because of the nation's prodigious economic expanson and increasing awareness among the people of the need for risk protection.


Drake hit yet another career milestone recently, with "God's Plan" becoming his longest-running #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
"God's Plan" debuted at #1 on February 3. It becomes the first single in over 20 years to spend its first 11 weeks at #1, equaling the nearly three months Puff Daddy and Faith Evans' "I'll Be Missing You" spent at the top of the chart in 1997.
There are only two singles to have spent more than their first 11 weeks at #1. "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men from 1995 currently holds the record for spending its first 16 weeks at #1.
Drizzy hit Instagram on Monday (April 9) to celebrate the news of his single's continued success, sharing two images from the track's video shoot.
The video to "God's Plan" — which was filmed in South Florida earlier this year — features Drake giving away nearly $1 million to those less fortunate. It currently has more than 358 million YouTube views since its February 16 release.
The visual did, however, receive criticism from some quarters. Peter Rosenberg of Hot 97 was one such critic, questioning Drake's intentions.


For many people fitness is not defined as the need to look good on the beach or to fit into a tight pair of jeans. Fitness, although a necessary part of a healthy lifestyle, is often very hard to schedule into our busy lives. Alix Florio is changing that. Her company, Beautiful Fitness, has found its niche bringing high end fitness services and health education right into the home.
Still a growing entrepreneur, Alix is learning that the true cost of the business is not measured in dollar signs. In fact, she keeps her costs very low, only paying for multiple phone lines and a computer. She takes meetings away from her home office. What is most costly for Alex is her time. Still a mom and what she considers a social person, she knows that it will soon be necessary for her to build a team on the back end in order to prevent burn out.
Now Alix is a one woman show. She works with numerous partners that provide fitness and lifestyle services to her clients. Almost entirely internet based, even her hiring has been mainly done on the websites such as craigslist.com. In this way she is able to continue to grow her companyorganically, which is important, as she does not want it to grow faster than she can handle.
Finally, Alix has learned that it is vital, especially as woman, to be able to understand technology. For running an online company, it would be impossible for her to get what she wanted from her website if she could not communicate with her developer. Moreover, like all entrepreneurs Alix encountered naysayers. She believes it is important to consider who the naysayers are and why they have these feelings, often they are understandable. However, it is most important to not let the naysayers stop your from doing what it is that you want to do. Whenever Alix did, she was sorry.


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Firefighter At Marshall 24/7
By Ricky Sayer – Syracuse, N.Y. (CitrusTV) – It is a month after students have moved into The Marshall apartment building, and construction is still going on.The Marshall struck a deal with City of Syracuse that involved using firefighters to patrol the building while workers finish the building.
The firefighters, which are present on site 24/7, are looking for unsafe conditions.
The building was not able to receive all completed code certifications from the state before it opened to students in mid-September. The building was supposed to open in time for the start of the Syracuse University Fall semester.
"The matter that is under code compliance review is the exterior wall assembly of the building – which is actually being installed at this time," said Greg Loh, a spokesperson for the City of Syracuse.
Loh says the state gave The Marshall a temporary certificate of occupancy in return for The Marshalls owners to agree to pay Syracuse to have firefighters patrol the site.
To keep students safe, construction workers are only allowing pedestrians to walk under part of the building. The concern is that a tool or piece of construction material being used to finish off the building will fall on to pedestrians walking below.
About five to ten firefighters patrol the site at a time. They work on three shifts.
Some students were told the building would be fully completed next month, but a construction superintendent on site says that he doesn't expect to finish the project until the end of the year.
The superintendent says having students in the building has greatly slowed construction.
Some residents have been having issues living in the building. One resident said her asthma has been acting up as a result of excessive dust created by construction.
Other students say the main issue is the noise from bars like Orange Crate that keeps them up at night.
Hot water is another issue students are upset about, saying it simply isn't there at peak times.
The residents who spoke with us say they were frustrated by the building not opening on time.


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In upgrading online programs at community colleges and institutes, teachers are often the developers. Video enriches the online learning experience, so these teacher-developers need simple tools and quick steps to producing quality media. In this webinar, we will look at rapid video development using four steps: content gathering, instructional design, production and delivery. We will also look at some widely available applications, such as PowerPoint, Camtasia Studio and YouTube.


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 Rays of the genus Mobula, cartilaginous fish including:
 Pygmy devil ray, Mobula eregoodootenkee
 Lesser devil ray, Mobula hypostoma
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 Devil fish, Mobula mobular
 Munk's devil ray, Mobula munkiana
 Lesser Guinean devil ray, Mobula rochebrunei
 Chilean devil ray, Mobula tarapacana
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 Manta ray, Manta birostris, the largest of the rays
 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League baseball team based St. Petersburg, Florida, known as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays from 1998–2007
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Discussion in 'Microphones (live or studio)' started by pageanthony, Jul 9, 2003.
can 2 digital s/pdif pieces be connected by your average analog rca cable?
also 1 more, is there a quality loss or reason why you should not use an xlr to unbalanced 1/4" cable to connect gear to a patchbay. ie: balanced in/out of DA-30 to an unbalanced patchbay?
Anthony, you can't use an rca cable to connect, but you can use an rca style cable intended for video. That way you can save $20 per cord.
You won't destroy your studio by going from xlr to 1/4, as long as it's TRS(tip, ring, sleeve) Just try to make sure that if it starts out as xlr output, it goes into an xlr input.
Patch bay connectors are usually TRS, so a three conductor wire can be continued through this device without an unacceptable amount of degradation.


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At a special dinner held on 2 April 2009 to mark the completion of his term as Chancellor of the National University of Ireland, the NUI Senate paid tribute to Dr Garret FitzGerald. The dinner was held in Farmleigh House by permission of the Taoiseach.
The hosts were Dr Michael Murphy, Vice-Chancellor and President of UCC with new NUI Chancellor, Dr Maurice Manning. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Michael Murphy remarked that Dr FitzGerald 'has made an immense contribution to Irish society – a challenger of dogma, an upholder of decency when silence tempted, a leader when needed….
When our University called upon him, at a time of turbulence and uncertainty following the 1997 Universities Act, he selflessly immersed himself to protect what he saw as a national treasure. The path has not been easy but he leaves the helm of an NUI that has reached a broad understanding of its continuing value in Irish Higher Education …'
The Vice-Chancellor said that he, like his colleague Presidents, had enjoyed and benefited from Dr Fitzgerald's 'grand fatherly' interest in the well-being of each of our institutions, the occasional phone call, or visit, to enquire about progress, to test a notion, to diffuse a "family" skirmish, to commiserate on disappointment – and occasionally to chastise (gently) aberrant behaviour – the admirable light touch of the caring, concerned "pater familias". It has been a strategy, fit for the era, fit for the circumstances, that has kept the family together – and we gather tonight to say a heartfelt thank you.'
He concluded 'Ar son muintir na hOllscoile, anseo i mBláth Cliath, i Má Nuad, sa Ghaillimh agus i gCorcaigh, míle buíochas duit agus go raibh fada buan do shaothar'. The newly elected Chancellor, Dr Maurice Manning who earlier in the day had chaired his first Senate meeting said that he was greatly honoured to follow in Dr Fitzgerald's footsteps and would continue to value his advice.


The populations of relativistic electrons and high-energy cosmic rays in the extended components of radio-loud active galaxies-kiloparsec-scale jets, hotspots and lobes-make them, in principle, interesting sources of gamma-ray photons up to the highest (TeV) energies. Here I discuss the few detections of extended gamma-ray emission with Fermi and show what constraints they put on the physical conditions in radio galaxies. Although detections of radio galaxies at TeV energy are rare, I show that the information we do have can already put interesting constraints on radio galaxy physics: the CTA should have the sensitivity and resolution to improve this situation considerably, and to resolve the expected arcmin-scale gamma-ray jet in the nearest radio galaxy, Centaurus A. Finally, I review the connection between the gamma-ray observations and the acceleration of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, and suggest that, while radio galaxies may well be the sources of the highest-energy cosmic rays observed, they may constitute a 'disappointing' population in the sense that only very nearby sources, such as Cen A, will ever be identified as discrete cosmic-ray sources.


I returned from Kindiecomm 2015 with arms full of new all-ages albums, music for kids and their families, and so much of what was dropped into my mailbox at the industry event is really, really good! So, I've put together this special Kindiecomm edition of the podcast, featuring songs by bands I met in Philadelphia last month. Hear great new songs from Karen K & the Jitterbugs, The Singing Lizard, Lloyd Miller, Josh & Gab, Firedog, Pointed Man Band, Vered and many more. Enjoy fresh hits from the Golden Age of Family Music.


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A Gly145Ser substitution in the transcriptional activator PrfA causes constitutive overexpression of virulence factors in Listeria monocytogenes.
M T Ripio, G Domínguez-Bernal, M Lara, M Suárez, J A Vazquez-Boland
M T Ripio
Unidad de Microbiología e Immunología, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
G Domínguez-Bernal
M Lara
M Suárez
J A Vazquez-Boland
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.5.1533-1540.1997
Virulence genes in Listeria monocytogenes are coordinately expressed under the control of the transcriptional activator PrfA, encoded by prfA, a member of the cyclic AMP (cAMP) receptor protein (CRP)/FNR family of bacterial regulators. Strain P14-A is a spontaneous mutant of L. monocytogenes serovar 4b which produces elevated levels of virulence factors (M. T. Ripio, G. Domínguez-Bernal, M. Suárez, K. Brehm, P. Berche, and J. A. Vázquez-Boland, Res. Microbiol. 147:371-384, 1996). Here we report that P14-A and other variant strains with the same phenotype carry a point mutation in codon 145 of prfA, leading to a Gly-->Ser substitution. trans-complementation experiments with PrfA-deficient mutants demonstrated that the Gly145Ser prfA allele causes overexpression of virulence factors in L. monocytogenes, to the levels found in the virulence factor-overexpressing variants. In strain P14-A with a chromosomal Glyl45Ser prfA background, transcription of prfA and of PrfA-dependent virulence genes remained constitutively high under culture conditions in which virulence factor expression is downregulated in wild-type L. monocytogenes. The Glyl45Ser substitution is located in a PrfA stretch (residues 141 to 151) showing high sequence similarity to the D alpha-helix of CRP. Interestingly, well-characterized crp* mutations, which make CRP functionally active in the absence of cAMP, map in this region (i.e., Gly141Ser and Ala144Thr substitutions). By analogy with the CRP model, the phenotype conferred to L. monocytogenes by the Gly145Ser substitution in PrfA could be due to the mutant regulatory protein being locked in a transcriptionally active, cofactor-independent conformational state. Our observations allow the construction of a model for PrfA-dependent virulence gene regulation in which the levels of virulence factor expression depend primarily on the conformational state of the PrfA protein, which alternates between active and inactive forms according to its interaction with an environmentally regulated signal molecule or cofactor.
Journal of Bacteriology Mar 1997, 179 (5) 1533-1540; DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.5.1533-1540.1997
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Gethrun the Rogue
Published by Barret on October 10, 2019
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"What are you talking about, Tam?" Gethrun said. "It was a perfect lift. We've got nothing to worry about."
Tam ran one hand through the pile of coins and gems on the table. All told, the value was more than 25,000 gold pieces worth of treasure. A literal fortune to two simple thieves like themselves, it was more money than he could have put his hands on in three lifetimes on the streets of Neverwinter. But Tam knew that right now it represented something much bigger for the two of them: death.
"You just don't get it, Gethrun. No simple merchant carries this kind of money on them. EVER!" Tam began shoveling the treasure back into the deceptively small bag.
Gethrun watched silently as he did. How did it fit all that stuff inside, anyhow? It was like the bag was bigger on the inside or something. "What are you talking about, Tam? The guy has been hanging round the bazaar for weeks. He's gotta be a merchant."
"You got all kinds of talent, kid. I knew that when I took you on as my apprentice. Never seen anyone with as much natural talent to lift a coin purse or pick a lock as you got. But you got a lot to learn, too." Tam paused his work on bagging and looked intently on the boy.
"So much just passes right by you kid. Goes right over your head. In one ear and out 'ta other, as me Ma always said to me. I worry about you." He resumed bagging up the haul.
"You're daft, Tam" Gethrun said, flipping a coin into the air. Tam grabbed it mid-flight and added it to the bag. Gethrun thought about grabbing some of the coins, but he knew better than to cross Tam when he was like this. He figured he'd try pursuasion instead.
"We're set for years with this one. Troubles are all behind us now." He'd already convinced himself and readily forgot that he had been trying to convince Tam. "Gimme a few of them silvers. I'm gonna hit the gambling dens." As Gethrun reached for a few of the coins still on the table, Tam slapped his hand away.
"Ahhh!" Gethrun cried, yanking his hand back. "What did ya do that for? It's just a few silvers!"
Tam finished scooping the last of the treasure into the bag. "You're a smart kid, but sometimes you got soup for brains. Stay here, don't open the doors or windows and DON'T LEAVE." He paused for a moment and stared directly at Gethrun, jabbing a finger towards Gethrun to emphasize his point. "DON'T…. LEAVE!"
Tam picked up the bag, threw it in his haversack, then walked into the next room he'd set up as his bedroom, shutting the door behind him.
Gethrun had every intention of doing as his mentor had instructed. He pulled out his deck of cards and began practicing some of his card sleight of hand as a distraction. And it worked, for about 10 minutes.
"Meh," Gethrun muttered, glancing towards the bedroom door. "He doesn't know everything. It's night now. I can hide with the best of them," he continued, his determination solidifying.
"No worries, then," he concluded, and quietly slipped open the secret panel to the back alleyway, slipping away into the night. If Tam wasn't gonna let him enjoy the spoils of the day's efforts, he was gonna find another coin purse to fund the night's enjoyment.
He wandered several streets and alleys, but luck was not with him early on. The streets were unusually empty this evening. The giants had been stirring up trouble recently and it had the residents on edge.
"Even so, where is everyone?" he muttered, unable to the take the clue for himself. Finally, as he crept down one alley near the bazaar, luck finally found its way to him. Two figures were huddled in conversation in the shadows about 30 feet from the alley entrance.
Gethrun moved slowly, carefully, keeping to the darkness of the alley as he approached the pair. Given the situation, it was likely that when the conversation was done, they would each go separate directions.
He made his way to a position about 20 feet from them and crouched behind a rain barrel. It was the perfect position to step up and relive the purse of whichever one came this way as the other disappeared around the corner in the other direction. As he settled in, he found he could make out pieces of the conversation.
"I'm tellin' ya, it's all or nothin'. Da boss want's his pound a' flesh." hissed the first. This one was clearly a gang enforcer, all brawn and not much brain.
"Look," whispered the other, "it's all there in the warehouse. Trust me. I'll even show ya where it is, take ya there me'self. It's the ole' Dunby Goods shop. Been empty for years. Makes the perfect hideout for a coupl'a thieves."
Gethrun just managed to stifle a gasp of surprise. He couldn't believe his ears. They'd been careful. No one knew where he and Tam would hold up after jobs. At least, they'd thought not. But here was someone who clearly knew. How could that be? Enveloped in a heavy cloak with their back to Gethrun, there was nothing about the second figure that revealed who, or what, they were. But somehow they knew! And they'd just shared that knowledge with the enforcer!
Panic began to well up into Gethrun's mind. What to do? What to do? They were betrayed. Did he run back to warn Tam? He'd have to reveal himself. And while he was a pretty good sprinter, it was a long ways back to the warehouse and he was pretty sure that enforcer would have the stamina to outlast him over that distance. He'd never make it, and then he'd be dead… or worse.
By the time he had settled on his course of action, it dawned on him that his body was already in motion, racing across the distance between his hiding spot and the two figures. The enforcer just had time to realize Gethrun was there before the two daggers stabbed into him, the first slashing across his neck and the second stabbing into his guts.
Gethrun sensed the second figure starting to move, but Gethrun moved faster. He reversed himself, bringing both daggers up between the figure's ribs. The figure cried out and toppled backward to the ground.
As the figure fell, light played across their face and Gethrun finally got to see who it was. "TAM!" he cried out, unable to help himself. He dropped quickly to his mentor's side, taking his hand, crying. "No! No… no, no, no, not this. Not this…. not this…"
Tam's eyes fluttered open. "It's…" he started to say. "It's… okay…. Not… not your fault." His eyes started to roll back into his head.
Gethrun shook his mentor gently. "No… no, stay with me, Tam!" he urged.
Tam's eyes focused on Gethrun once more and he suddenly gripped Gethrun's arm. "They know!" he hissed. "Magic… They already knew it was us. Tryin' ta make a deal. Weren't… weren't going fer it," he gasped, coughing up blood. "You gotta run, Geth," Tam whispered. "You gotta run…."
Tam ceased to move and Gethrun watched as the light left his eyes. He felt a sudden numbness overtake him and he just sat there, staring. What had he done? What had he done?
He wasn't sure how long he sat there. It felt like hours but it was probably no more than a minute or so. He slowly became aware of the approach of booted feet. Whether it was more enforcers or the city guard, he couldn't stay there.
With the echoes, he couldn't tell which direction they were coming from. He assumed, therefore, that he was surrounded. With a quick glance about, the best way out seemed to be up. Using a variety of ledges and cracks in the walls, he quickly made his way to the top of the nearest building. He had just slipped over the roof's edge, when multiple groups of gang enforcers began entering the alley from both directions.
"At least I did one thing right," he muttered to himself and began dashing lightly across the rooftops. Finding a quiet spot several buildings down, he slipped back down to street level in the next street over. From there he ran all the way back to the warehouse. It was only a matter of time before they would get there, so he had to move quickly.
He ripped aside the secret panel and stepped into the building. No need to hide the entrance anymore. He quickly gathered up all the gear he could find. They didn't have much, but it would be enough to survive on his own for a while: his daggers, Tam's shortbow, rope, and a backpack full of their tools and equipment.
He stepped into Tam's bedroom. The bag full of treasure lay on Tam's cot. "No," he said to himself. "There's no way I could take that now. It's blood money. I… just can't" It wasn't until later that he realized he had been trying to convince himself of that fact more than anything. After all, treasure was treasure. But no, not this time.
Leaving the living area behind, Gethrun made his way though the maze of abandoned boxes, crates and barrels. They had been careful to keep the warehouse clean and tidy. Tam had been brutal in his enforcement of that rule. Now, Gethrun knew why. A dirty floor leaves footprints. Their… his… escape route would be easily found if there'd been footprints left behind to see.
After a couple of minutes, he arrived at one crate in particular. He and Tam had spent days carefully crafting the crate and it's mechanism. The crate itself was full of assorted bolts of cloth. Dunby's had been a general goods importer. When he was arrested for smuggling, the warehouse had been seized by the city and held as collateral and evidence during the trial.
When Dunby had been convicted and sent to prison, the judge declared the warehouse was forfeit to the city as part of Dunby's fine. It, and the goods it held would eventually be auctioned off, but the city had a number of other pressing issues currently and this warehouse of miscellaneous junk wasn't a high priority. Until then, Tam and Gethrun had made it their own.
With a look around and a sigh, Gethun reached behind and hit the trigger that released the crate to move. Tilting it upward on hidden hinges, it revealed a shaft and ladder descending into the darkness below. 30 feet down, another tunnel went west about 40 feet to a secret door that opened into the city sewers.
The shaft and tunnel had already been there. It was how Dunby smuggled some of his goods. But it wasn't very well hidden. Tam had been surprised the city inspectors had never seemed to find it when they had searched the warehouse. But by the time he and Gethrun were done, they had made sure it was much better hidden.
Now, with a renewed energy of desperate panic welling up within him, Gethrun descended the ladder, pulling the crate back down and latching it behind him. It would take the thugs hours, if not days of ripping the warehouse apart to find that. And by then, he would be far, far away from here.
Slipping into the sewers, Gethrun decided to make use of that energy. He ran. He ran, and ran, and ran. He wasn't sure how for how long. All he knew was that it was a long time. He also wasn't sure at what point things had changed. Somewhere along the way he had left the city's sewers behind.
A thick mist had risen up around the floor of the tunnel, eventually enveloping him up to his waist for a time. Now, as it began to recede, he could make out a light up ahead. The end. It was the end of the tunnel, and the beginning of whatever life came next.
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