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Economy Grows at 3.5% Pace in 3Q
The U.S. economy grew faster than initially thought in the third quarter, notching its best performance in two years, amid solid consumer spending and a jump in soybean exports.
Gross domestic product increased at a 3.5 percent annual rate instead of the previously reported 3.2 percent pace, the Commerce Department said in its third GDP estimate on Thursday.
Growth was the strongest since the third quarter of 2014 and followed the second quarter's anemic 1.4 percent pace.
Output was also lifted by upward revisions to business investment in structures and intellectual property products, underscoring the economy's solid fundamentals, which contributed to the Federal Reserve raising interest rates last week.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected that third-quarter GDP growth would be revised up to a 3.3 percent rate.
When measured from the income side, the economy grew at a 4.8 percent pace, instead of the previously reported 5.2 percent
clip. That was the fastest pace of increase in gross domestic income since the second quarter of 2014 and followed a 0.7 percent rate of increase in the second quarter.
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, increased at a 3.0 percent rate in the third quarter and not the 2.8 percent pace reported last month. That was still a slowdown from the second quarter's
robust 4.3 percent pace.
Spending on nonresidential structures, which include oil and gas wells, increased at a 12.0 percent rate, the fastest pace since the first quarter of 2014. Nonresidential outlays were previously reported to have increased at a 10.1 percent pace.
The export growth estimate was revised a touch lower to a 10.0 percent rate from the previously reported 10.1 percent pace. It was the fastest pace since the fourth quarter of 2013.
The spike in exports largely reflected a surge in soybean exports after a poor soy harvest in Argentina and Brazil.
Businesses accumulated inventories at a $7.1 billion rate in the last quarter, rather than the $7.6 billion pace reported last month.
(Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Andrea Ricci)


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[![Build Status Master](https://travis-ci.org/customink/fauxhai.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/customink/fauxhai)
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Fauxhai is a gem for mocking out [ohai](https://github.com/chef/ohai) data in your chef testing. Fauxhai is community supported, so we need **your help** to populate our dataset. Here's an example for testing my "awesome_cookbook" on Ubuntu:

```ruby
require 'chefspec'

describe 'awesome_cookbook::default' do
  before do
    Fauxhai.mock(platform: 'ubuntu', version: '12.04')
  end

  it 'should install awesome' do
    @runner = ChefSpec::ChefRunner.new.converge('tmpreaper::default')
    @runner.should install_package 'awesome'
  end
end
```

Alternatively, you can pull "real" ohai data from an existing server:

```ruby
require 'chefspec'

describe 'awesome_cookbook::default' do
  before do
    Fauxhai.fetch(host: 'server01.example.com')
  end

  it 'should install awesome' do
    @runner = ChefSpec::ChefRunner.new.converge('tmpreaper::default')
    @runner.should install_package 'awesome'
  end
end
```

Fauxhai supports [ChefSpec](https://github.com/sethvargo/chefspec) and [rspec-chef](https://github.com/calavera/rspec-chef). In order to prevent polluting the README, only ChefSpec examples will be provided. However, there is an extensive README for each testing framework in the [examples](https://github.com/customink/fauxhai/tree/master/examples) directory.

## Important Note
Fauxhai ships with a command line tool - `fauxhai`. This is **not** the same as Fauxhai.mock. Running `fauxhai` on a machine effectively runs `ohai`, but then sanitizes the data, removing/replacing things like:
- users
- ssh keys
- usernames in paths
- sensitive system information

`fauxhai` should only be used by developers wishing to submit a new json file.

## Usage
Fauxhai provides a bunch of default attributes so that you don't need to mock out your entire infastructure to write a simple test. That being said, not all configurations will suit your needs. Because of that, Fauxhai provides two ways to configure your mocks:

### Overriding
`Fauxhai.mock` will also accept a block with override attributes that are merged with all the default attributes. For example, the default Ubutnu 12.04 mock uses `Ruby 1.9.3`. Maybe your system is using `ree`, and you want to verify that the cookbooks work with that data as well:

```ruby
require 'chefspec'

describe 'awesome_cookbook::default' do
  before do
    Fauxhai.mock(platform: 'ubuntu', version: '12.04') do |node|
      node['languages']['ruby']['version'] = 'ree'
    end
  end

  it 'should install awesome' do
    @runner = ChefSpec::ChefRunner.new.converge('tmpreaper::default')
    @runner.should install_package 'awesome'
  end
end
```

The `node` block variable allows you to set any Ohai attribute on the mock that you want. This provides an easy way to manage your environments. If you find that you are overridding attributes like OS or platform, you should see the section on Contributing.

### Fetching
Alternatively, if you do not want to mock the data, Fauxhai provides a `fetch` mechanism for collecting "real" ohai data from a remote server or local file. Maybe you want to test against the fully-replicated environment for a front-facing server in your pool. Just pass in the `url` option instead of a `platform`:

The `fetch` method supports all the same options as the Net-SSH command, such as `:user`, `:password`, `:key_file`, etc.

The `fetch` method will cache the JSON file in a temporary path on your local machine. Similar to gems like VCR, this allows fauxhai to use the cached copy, making your test suite run faster. You can optionally force a cache miss by passing the `:force_cache_miss => true` option to the `fetch` initializer. **Because this is real data, there may be a security concern. Secure your laptop accordingly.**

```ruby
require 'chefspec'

describe 'awesome_cookbook::default' do
  before do
    Fauxhai.fetch(host: 'server01.example.com')
  end

  it 'should install awesome' do
    @runner = ChefSpec::ChefRunner.new.converge('tmpreaper::default')
    @runner.should install_package 'awesome'
  end
end
```

This will ssh into the machine (you must have authorization to run `sudo ohai` on that machine), download a copy of the ohai output, and optionally cache that data inside the test directory (speeding up future tests).

### Overriding + Fetching
As you might expect, you can combine overriding and fetching like so:

```ruby
require 'chefspec'

describe 'awesome_cookbook::default' do
  before do
    Fauxhai.fetch(host: 'server01.example.com') do |node|
      node['languages']['ruby']['version'] = 'ree'
    end
  end

  it 'should install awesome' do
    @runner = ChefSpec::ChefRunner.new.converge('tmpreaper::default')
    @runner.should install_package 'awesome'
  end
end
```

### Fixturing
If you want to use fauxhai as "fixture" data, you can store real JSON in your project and use the `:path` option:

```ruby
require 'chefspec'

describe 'awesome_cookbook::default' do
  before do
    Fauxhai.mock(path: 'fixtures/my_node.json')
  end
end
```

### Overriding + Fixturing
You can also change specific attributes in your fixture:

```ruby
require 'chefspec'

describe 'awesome_cookbook::default' do
  before do
    Fauxhai.mock(path: 'fixtures/my_node.json') do |node|
      node['languages']['ruby']['version'] = 'ree'
    end
  end
end
```

## Testing Multiple Versions
It's a common use case to test multiple version of the same operating system. Here's a simple example to get your started. This is more rspec-related that fauxhai related, but here ya go:

```ruby
require 'chefspec'

describe 'awesome_cookbook::default' do
  ['12.04', '11.04', '10.04'].each do |version|
    context "on Ubuntu #{version}" do
      before do
        Fauxhai.mock(platform: 'ubuntu', version: version)
      end

      it 'should install awesome' do
        @runner = ChefSpec::ChefRunner.new.converge('tmpreaper::default')
        @runner.should install_package 'awesome'
      end
    end
  end
end
```

## Contributing
See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/customink/fauxhai/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).

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This is an exploration of all the things in the 1999 computer game Alpha Centauri and its expansion Alien Crossfire (SMAX). To go to the first post in the series, click here. New entries are posted daily at 13:37 CET.
Life is merely an orderly decay of energy states, and survival requires the continual discovery of new energy to pump into the system. He who controls the sources of energy controls the means of survival.
There is an old saying that you can't take it with you. 'It' refers to money, and the implied destination is the afterlife, whatever it might turn out to be. With money being what we are used to seeing – currency and bank accounts – this is an eminent truth, rooted deeply within the material conditions of our situation. On Chiron, things are ever so slightly more metaphysical. If life is energy (and energy is life), then you can indeed take it with you, either through an orderly unleashing of the accumulated power into the general environment (presumably to the same state of entropy you went to), or through some sort of symbolic outburst which causes some big event to fire which ultimately culminate in – nothing.
A big hurdle in power generation is what to do with it. To be sure, being able to produce monumental amounts of energy during peak performance is impressive, but it is not necessary to do so at all times, and it would cause the machinery to degrade at too fast a pace to be sustainable. It would also burn fuel for no particular gain. Most of the time, what is needed is a moderate output, with a little extra on top to prevent brownouts. Producing at maximum capacity would thus be both wasteful (seeing as no one uses the power generated), and counterproductive. You can't take it with you, as it were.
An economy based on accumulated energy turns this on its head, however. Not only is cranking up the generator to the max profitable – it is the very definition of profit. It still runs into the same hurdle of having to go somewhere. The surplus that is not pumped into the energy grid for consumption has to be put into some sort of storage – a big honking battery, to use a technical term. By calling this facility an energy bank, the game is ever so slightly making a pun out of the situation – it is both an accumulation of batteries (a bank) and a financial institution. It would have been sufficient to simply call it a bank, but it would not have conveyed just how intertwined power and wealth are.
An interesting question arises with regards to just who is put in charge of these institutions. On the one hand, ensuring a steady supply of power is crucial to life on Chiron. On the other hand, as we have seen here in our own timeline, there is profit to be made by being able to direct the flows of currency. It is possible that these banks are merely big backend batteries that hum along with only occasional maintenance. It is also possible that they become a reincarnation of the power companies of yore, who were none too discreet about how power can mean both energy and political influence. As with the recreation commons, I suspect it differs from faction to faction.
Our first challenge is to create an entire economic infrastructure, from top to bottom, out of whole cloth. No gradual evolution from previous economic systems is possible, because there IS no previous economic system. Each interdependent piece must be materialized simultaneously and in perfect working order; otherwise the system will crash out before it ever gets off the ground.
A very distinct feature of modern societies is that everything is dependent on everything else. Not by design, but by necessity. Should one part of the system suffer a critical failure, everything else would follow suit. The most dramatic example of this is if the production of electricity were to suddenly not happen – whatever you were up to before the interruption, you are no longer doing it now. The same goes, albeit perhaps not as dramatically, for every other critical system. If the water stops, then agriculture stops. If agriculture stops, then food stops. And so on, in ever more complex and interdependent chains of supply and demand.
While it might be tempting to proclaim that some aspect is more important than the others, the crux of the matter is that they are all critical. If any one component breaks down, everything stops – the only difference is the particulars. If you've ever played a town management survival game, you know it really does not matter whether everyone died from lack of food or from a preventable disease. In both cases, everyone died, and your next playthrough will be informed by the need to make every aspect function in good working order.
This does, however, highlight an inherent contradiction of for-profit economics. The drive to maximize profits tends to manifest as a wish to maximize efficiency. In a tautological fashion, efficiency is defined as the reduction of expenditure whilst also maintaining profitability. You gotta spend money to make money, but preferably only the minimum amount of it. There is a tendency to skimp on the things that are not quite necessary when everything goes according to plan, but become very, very necessary once disaster strikes. On Earth, this manifested itself in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, where the lack of preparedness caused over a hundred workers to die as the fire raged. On Chiron, it might manifest as not implementing the double and triple redundancy layers that prevent things from critically falling apart, but which do not generate profit in any immediate sense.
The challenge for Morgan – and indeed every other faction – is to create a situation where it is sustainable to focus exclusively on the profitability of an activity. There is a vast range of infrastructure that has to be constructed within a long term time frame in order to enable short term profit as a social mode of organization. If you want to build capitalism from scratch, you must first construct a social universe.
Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours—the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers.
The quote you just read does us the service of doubling down on the bread and circuses aspect of drone management facilities. The difference between a how a hologram theatre and a recreation commons is presented is stark and telling. The latter are different, unique, an expression of the values and virtues of the different factions that build them. The former, however, are sites of standardized marketization and products ruthlessly focus-tested so as to generate maximum output per energy input. In short, here too we see the difference between the fledgling outposts of the last chapter, and the emerging rapidly advancing civilization we see here. It takes a village to raise a child, but a keynote speech requires a lot more infrastructure than that.
For all their triviality and frivolity, the messages of popular culture circulate in a network of production and reception that is quite serious. At their worst, they perform the dirty work of the economy and the state. At their best, they retain memories of the past and contain hopes for the future that rebuke the injustices and inequities of the present.
We can not postulate that popular culture is an accurate representation of the world as it is, in some sort of true form. We can not, however, go all in and claim it to be all lies. The most useful way to think about it is somewhere in between: there are some true things shown in the theatre, some false, but social reality is constituted by the things people see and talk about. Most of the images and topics of discussion have, throughout the centuries, tended to come from the theatre – be it stage, screen or hologram.
It is tempting to speculate about what kinds of cultural artifacts the different factions create. The Spartans might reimagine 300 in about as many versions; the Believers would make at least one vid about the one pair of footsteps; the University would simply upscale the old Carl Sagan classics. What the Cybernetics or the Cultists are up to is anyone's guess, though I imagine there'd be quite an underground market for a very specific kind of vids wherein the two different factions meet and greet.
Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse.
The Merchant Exchange is one step above the developmental levels of the Industrial Base required to build it. Where the base is concerned with getting things moving in a figurative sense, the Exchange is all about getting things moving in a literal sense. Logistics and finance are the name of the game, and the base that builds the Exchange are the London, Singapore or Hong Kong of the new world. It would be the place to go for commencing commerce, international or domestic. Which is to say, it would be a competitive advantage of note for the faction building it.
Most of this advantage would come from being first. A planet with only one site of commerce and exchange makes very little sense, and it is only natural to find other such hubs across the geography. Being unique would be the mark of a small planetary economy, but being first also means being able to set the rules for further transactions. Furthermore, the second and third such hub would have to establish connections with the first hub, thus increasing its connectivity. While they would functionally do the same things as the Exchange, they would differ in that they do not have the institutional gravity coming from being the prime mover. Once something becomes a habit, it becomes hard to shake it; once a sufficient number of sufficiently wealthy merchants makes a point of being at the Exchange at all times, it becomes a profitable habit to boot.
Mechanically, this secret project adds one energy production to all base tiles that are not xenofungus. Given that most tiles produce no energy at all, this is a substantial improvement. Ironically, despite Morgan being quoted (with their leader quote to boot), the Morganites initially stand least to gain from this advantage. The extra income is tied to the number of citizens per base, and with the population limit of four per base, the additional energy is less than expected. It does, however, speak to this being an early project: it facilitates commerce between people, and it can only facilitate to the extent that there are people to be facilitated.
As time passes, the Exchange becomes less of a crucial financial nexus and more of a prestige operation. A profitable prestige operation, to be sure, but nowhere near the monopoly envisioned in the quote. Nevertheless, staying attuned to the energetic pulse of the economy is a very Morganite thing to do; energy, after all, is life.
Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.
As the name implies, the Industrial Base technology represents setting up the first basic components of an industrial society. This means simple things like conveyor belts and assembly lines, but also more subtle things like supply chains and distribution channels. A factory is not the sum of its parts – it is a node in a complex network of moving parts, where each component has to work in order for the next component down the line to work. Building an industrial base means laying the groundwork for such a network, in such a way that miners know where to send ore, ore processing facilities know where to send its output, and factories knowing what to do with the goods. Neither of these things on their own is as useful as all of them together. In fact, there is something dystopic about a factory producing things which only ever pile up outside of it with nowhere to go; there was supposed to be more to the process.
Setting these things up is not a straightforward process, however. Especially not when on a new planet, where the local conditions are not yet extensively known. A factory has to be built specifically to process a particular kind of materials, and in order to do that it must be determined which materials are around in sufficient quantities to be useful on industrial scales. In order to determine which materials are at hand, the local area has to be surveyed and analyzed. Furthermore, these same materials have to be investigated so as to determine their usefulness. This process takes time and effort, and the results are not given beforehand. The only way to find out what can be used and what cannot is – as extensive as the libraries on Earth materials might be – trial and error.
Conversely, this opens up for new discoveries. Finding out that a new material (such as synthmetal) can do something unexpected means it can (and will) be used for that purpose. This can either be direct consumption, or as a component somewhere in the industrial chain of production. Once plugged into the system, new properties will emerge about this material, which can then be used in additional ways, generating more knowledge, and so on. Setting up an industrial base is not only building a factory; it is in many ways jumpstarting the process of industrial knowledge gathering and generating.
It is likely that Morgan makes some reference to this process further into his Ethics. Even more likely is that this quote is placed in a context of arguing that having more now is better than having slightly more later. What you have now can be used to create more things, which in turn can be used to create more things, and so on. Getting this exponential chain of events rolling as early as possible thus becomes an ethical imperative; what good reason could there be to deny ourselves the definite benefits down the line of getting a head start?
It is unclear whether the switch from currency to energy as prime means of exchange happened before or after the long journey to Planet; cases can be made either way, both with interesting implications. Regardless, the fact that money now exists in the form of energy means that accumulating a large wealth becomes a means in itself. Energy can be used to buy or sell things, or it can be used to quite literally make things happen. A factory needs energy to run, but it will only run if someone is ready to invest in it; if its potential profitability is unsure or too low, investors – power brokers – will turn their attention elsewhere.
This state of things dramatically puts economics at the heart and center of every endeavor. The market quite literally decides whether things will happen or not. But it is not the same economics we are used to. "Supply" and "demand" have imploded into each other, and have to be seen in a different light than we are used to. Having vast quantities of energy means that your demand for a particular thing quickly translates into a supply of this very thing – you can, by choosing to invest your energy in something, make it happen. The question of what to do ultimately comes down to two things: personal preference and the prospect of future profits.
The fact that the Morganites embrace both of these as valid options is represented in gameplay terms by the fact that bases can not grow beyond size 4 before constructing a Hab Complex. On the one hand, the citizens that do inhabit Morganite bases are more likely to generate a profit than citizens of other bases (by virtue of the Morganite bonus to its economy rating). On the other hand, investing in large scale infrastructure is not likely to generate immediate returns on investment, and it is in any case more tempting to invest in more luxuries for oneself. Along the same lines, investing in communal goods such as a standing army is always less profitable than investing in more particular goods, and thus the Morganites have a penalty to their support rating.
The fact that energy is rooted in immediate physics – power is either present or not – rather than the speculative fiction we call money, means that there is little doubt whether an investment is profitable or not. Either you end up with more energy than you started with, or with less. There are no uncertainties in this regard. Given the lack of uncertainty, there are clear incentives for going with what works on a ruthlessly physical level: if something does not work on the level of physics, it does not work on the level of economics, and thus it is better to do literally anything else. This has the effect of creating a society very closely tied to the material conditions of its perpetuation: energy is what makes everything happen. Thus, knowing the ins and outs of physics means knowing the ins and out of economics. Morganite science does not progress because one theory is better than another, but because its immediate application is more profitable. Economics as physical reality also becomes social reality.
It is interesting to note that this ruthless materiality is something that the Morganites share with the Hive. The question of whether or not something works is central to the instrumental rationality they both employ. An efficient factory is a good factory, regardless of which faction owns it. The difference lies primarily in what the end product is used for; the Morganites, as we have seen, are not averse to diverting energy and resources to fulfill the wishes and whims of individuals. The goals are different, but the means are very much the same.
Should the Morganites happen to lead humanity into its transcendence, it would very likely lead to a combination of ecology and this strange energy-based economy. While growth for its own sake has a very specific biological term associated with it – cancer – the notion that energy permeates everything is a core tenet of ecological thinking. The more energy there is in an ecological system, the more ecology there is in that same system. Post-humanity in this scenario would thus be the gardeners of a very energy-intense ecology, dense vibrant paradise jungles where every single falling leaf is quickly reabsorbed into the economy. This vision might seem counterintuitive, until we remember the first founding premise of this faction: energy is life.


As it did last year, the PHDays forum on information security hosted WAF Bypass this year as well. The contest's participants tried to bypass the protection of PT Application Firewall, Positive Technologies' product. For this contest, the organizers developed the site Choo Roads, which contained common vulnerabilities, such as Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection, XML External Entities Injection, Open Redirect. Upon exploiting one of the vulnerabilities, a participant obtained a flag in the MD5 format and gained points. MD5 flags could be found in the file system, database, and cookie parameters and detected by a special bot that was developed by using Selenium.
Though the contest WAF configuration allowed bypassing, uncommon solutions were also presented. This was actually the goal of the contest: participants had the opportunity to try themselves in bypassing protection mechanisms, while we can improve our product due to the results. Let's have a look at those vulnerabilities and bypass techniques.
The vulnerability was in the script that tracked user activity on the site.
To bypass the check, you could substitute Content-Type with text/xml, and as a result the POST data were not processed as JSON (the check was disabled).
The site had a form for searching tickets by forming XML and sending the request to the back end.
XSD was used for the XML request.
According to the schema, the id attribute should contain 35 characters. The attribute value was added into the SQL request without validation. Bypassing required a vector that meets XSD requirements.
The vulnerability was in the "to" parameter of the script redirect.php. The flag was sent to fragment portions of URL where the redirection was executed, i.e. it wasn't sent to the server end. To get the flag, you should send the bot to another site with a page that could retrieve the value from location.hash and send it to the logger.
It was also possible to bypass it with UTF-16.
The winner of the contest is bushwhackers: Georgy Noseevich, Andrey Petukhov, and Alexander Razdobarov. The team solved all the tasks during the first day! (They won the last year's competition as well.) Mikhail Stepankin (ArtSploit) took second place, Eldar Zaitov (kyprizel) was the third. The winner received an iPad Air 2; a Sony Xperia Z3 went to the second place team; the third place team received a license for Burp Suite Professional.
During the contest, 271,390 requests were blocked (twice as many as during the last year's contest). This time, 302 contestants registered (compared to 101 last year). Only 18 participants managed to capture at least one flag.
Thanks to everyone who took part in the contest.
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Arthur's eyes opened. He lay on his back with his large black-feathered wings spread out on the bed underneath him. His bad wing was stiff and numb from sleeping on it, and as he sat up he wondered why he was awake. The clock next to his bed read 5:42, glowing ghostly green. It was still dark outside Arthur's window, and he did need to pee but it wasn't that bad-
Arthur's phone vibrated on his nightstand, giving him a nasty jolt. He snatched up the phone and winced as the bright white screen stung his eyes. The number calling him was unfamiliar, but even as he considered letting it ring, his thumb was already tapping the "answer" button.
"Hello?" Arthur said sleepily. He stretched his good wing behind him, then tried to stretch his bad wing. It was still asleep and prickled vaguely, sagging instead of fully extending.
"Uh…hi. Is Arthur Deepuin available?" said a young, chipper female voice on the other end.
"Speaking," yawned Arthur.
"This is Cyndi from Healing Feather Hospital." The woman's voice took on a hesitant tone that Arthur didn't like. "I have some bad news, I'm afraid."
Arthur immediately thought of his older brother: "Is it Fox? What happened?"
"No," said the woman on the phone. "He's in the next room, though, with the rest of your family. It's your father, Reynard. He passed away about an hour ago."
Arthur's mind went quiet: his father was dead. After a long, awkward pause, Arthur gulped and said the first words that came to his mouth: "Oh…Wow…Great."
"Grief is a complex emotion," said the woman in an understanding tone. "Would you like to speak to Fox? Maybe someone else in your family?"
"No," said Arthur. He noticed that he sounded happy, and a manic little giggle crept into his voice. It felt like it wasn't his.
"When…can you be here?" asked the woman. Arthur took a deep breath; he hadn't been expecting this question.
"I won't. Thank you, Cyndi," Arthur forced out, and was a little impressed with himself for remembering the woman's name. "Have a good day now." Arthur hung up.
Arthur didn't know what to do. His mind was racing: he didn't want to care, but he found himself both happy and a little sad about what he'd just learned and found that he couldn't sit still. He needed to do something, to go somewhere. Anywhere but his apartment, or Healing Feather Hospital.
Slipping on his sandals, Arthur rushed to his apartment's front door and wrenched it open. He didn't notice that his bad wing was still sagging until he shut the door on it with a muffled crunch-
Arthur jolted awake with a twinge of pain in his bad wing, still smarting from the dream. His face was buried in a fine fluff of downy blue feathers: he'd fallen asleep nuzzling into the crook of Digitalis's shoulder near the base of his wings. Some of the fluff had gone up Arthur's nose, and he sat up slowly, fighting an urge to sneeze.
Digitalis was asleep next to Arthur, with his arm draped over Arthur's waist, sliding off as Arthur shifted. Digitalis's blue hair stood out against his pale skin, and almost blended into his wings, large and bluejay-like and pulled neatly up against bahis firmaları his back. He was shirtless with his flannel pants, only half-covered under the duvet. The clock on Digitalis's side of the bed read 07:26, and Arthur stared at it for a few seconds, combing his fingers through his waist-length dark hair. He'd forgotten to braid it the night before and it had come out of his hair tie while he slept.
"What's up Bear?" Digitalis yawned, stretching and opening one pupilless amber eye. Arthur tried to stretch, and another jolt of pain shot through his wing.
"Just my wing," Arthur grunted. Digitalis sat up and examined Arthur, running his fingers gently through the sleek black feathers.
"It feels a little swollen. I have an ice pack for wings if you'd like to use it," Digitalis said sleepily.
Arthur stood up. "That sounds good, but I need to pee first. Is it in the freezer?"
"You go pee, I'll get it," said Digitalis standing up in a single fluid motion. He was so graceful and athletic, even half-asleep, and it always made Arthur's stomach do a little backflip. It compressed his bladder a bit; he didn't need to go badly, but it woke him up a little more.
Arthur led the way out into the hall, going left toward the bathroom while Digitalis headed for the kitchen.
Arthur already knew that he was a little hard when he pulled down the pants he'd slept in – a pair of light cotton pajama bottoms borrowed from Digitalis – but he hadn't anticipated it giving him any trouble with emptying his bladder. He tried pushing, but he couldn't seem to start a flow. Behind him, Digitalis entered the bathroom.
"Lower your wing a little," instructed Digitalis. Arthur felt the cold before the light material touched his feathers. The ice pack strapped at the side, hooking over the top wing joint. It dampened the warm soreness and made Arthur wince. He thought it might help him pee, but it seemed to make his stubborn erection even harder. Digitalis stepped up to the toilet next to him, pulling down the front of his flannel pajama pants. Digitalis's eyes drifted over Arthur's hard cock, and Arthur's stomach did another backflip.
"I was wondering why it was so quiet in here," giggled Digitalis. "I love hearing you pee in the morning." Digitalis let his dick hang in the air, almost as hard as Arthur's at just over half Arthur's length. "Have any of your past partners gotten self-conscious about uh…how big you are?" Blushing a little, he gestured toward Arthur's member.
Arthur grasped his cock by the base with two fingers and shook it playfully. A drop of clear, thick fluid bubbled out of him and dripped slowly into the toilet. "I've only really had two, and they were both a little intimidated. One of them I never really even had sex with, but I've always been a little embarrassed about the size. I'll tell you in some other short story."
Digitalis's blush faded. "Some other…what? Are you okay, Bear?"
Arthur reached out and grasped Digitalis's erection. Arthur used his finger to get some of the clear fluid leaking from the tip and used it as lubrication, stroking the shaft with his long fingers. Digitalis moaned kaçak iddaa quietly, giving Arthur's stomach another pleasant turn.
"I'm more than okay. Shall I keep going?" asked Arthur, feeling a silly grin forming on his face.
"Y-yes, please," said Digitalis. He pawed gently at Arthur's penis. "May I?"
"Please do," said Arthur smoothly, leaning over to kiss Digitalis on the side of his face and down his neck. Arthur's free hand snaked into the crook of Digitalis's hip, and Arthur felt him shiver.
"You sure you want to do that?" gasped Digitalis.
Arthur kissed Digitalis on the mouth, and Digitalis returned it with another moan. "What are you gonna do, come all over me?"
"Well, yes. You're wearing my favorite pajama pants though," Digitalis gasped.
"Oh yeah, I am," Arthur chuckled, dropped his pants, and kicked them backward. With that done, he put his hand back on Digitalis's hip, and let it slide down to his butt.
"That better?" purred Arthur, speeding up his strokes. Digitalis tried to reply, but couldn't catch his breath. Arthur saved him the effort by kissing him on the mouth again, squeezing his butt. The tightly coiled muscles tensed, and Arthur could tell Digitalis was close.
Digitalis began panting hard enough to break off the kiss and buried his face in Arthur's neck. His hot breath rushed through the jet black feathers at the back of Arthur's neck, and he puffed harder and harder until a warm spray spattered Arthur's thighs. Arthur kept up his pace on Digitalis, looking down just in time to watch several rapid spurts come out, coating his legs and dripping in and around the toilet. Arthur only stopped his strokes once it stopped coming, and Digitalis relaxed against him, sweating and twitching.
Arthur expected Digitalis to rest for a minute, but Digitalis almost immediately grasped Arthur's member and started playing with his foreskin.
"You sure you want to do that?" asked Arthur.
Digitalis snorted, "Well I only came all over you just now. I thought I'd return the favor."
"I'd like that," said Arthur. "But I'm not just repeating what you said, I'm gonna ruin your pants if you don't take them off."
"Ooohhhh," Digitalis laughed. "Good point." He dropped his pants and kicked them off to the side. As usual, Digitalis's bladder was bulging from a night's worth of slowly filling, and Arthur knew he had to go.
"Wanna piss on me?" asked Arthur.
"Give me a second," said Digitalis. "And let's move this to the shower. I'm feeling pretty full and we've already made enough of a mess over here."
"Fair enough," said Arthur, planting a kiss on Digitalis's cheek and allowing Digitalis to lead him into the shower.
The tiled shower bay was warm and dry. Arthur held his wing out to the side without thinking, out of the way of the showerheads while Digitalis aimed himself and pushed on his bladder. A small trickle of clear piss came out, and Digitalis's face scrunched up a little in concentration.
"Anywhere you'd like it?" asked Digitalis. The trickle picked up into a stream, gaining pressure as Digitalis relaxed.
"Just hose me down," sighed Arthur. kaçak bahis "Maybe not the ice pack though."
"I wouldn't even if I could pee that high," Digitalis snorted, aiming himself upward and soaking Arthur's chest and belly, stopping short of his wings on either side before settling back on Arthur's cock. Arthur relaxed and let Digitalis masturbate him, contentedly watching Digitalis pee and listening to his grunts and sighs of relief.
Arthur grasped Digitalis's shoulders as Digitalis worked him closer to orgasm. Digitalis kept up a strong flow, and when it finally began to slow, Arthur was moving rhythmically under Digitalis's hand. Arthur pushed his face into Digitalis's shoulder, panting and moaning into the blue fluff at the base of Digitalis's neck. Arthur was vaguely aware of a feather going up his nose again just before exploding all over Digitalis's legs in about half a dozen short spurts.
Arthur slumped forward when he was done, and Digitalis caught him, letting the last of his bladder drain onto their feet. Still panting, Arthur couldn't get Digitalis's feather out of his nose and pulled back a bit, turning his head to sneeze. Behind him there was a sudden slap on the tile floor, and both he and Digitalis jumped. Arthur looked over his shoulder and saw what it was: the ice pack had fallen off the top of his wing when he'd sneezed, and he couldn't stop himself from giggling. Digitalis joined in, and they stood laughing in each other's arms for several seconds.
Arthur picked up the ice pack when he and Digitalis had caught their breath, and set it on the sink while Digitalis turned on the shower. Arthur still felt a need to pee, but decided to hold it for the moment. Digitalis was smiling when Arthur joined him in the shower.
"How's your wing feeling?" asked Digitalis.
"It's a bit better," said Arthur. "You seem happy. Does it have anything to do with the good news you said you got?"
"Somewhat, yeah," said Digitalis. "I got a text when I was in the kitchen – I'm getting the new couch today instead of tomorrow."
"That's exciting," said Arthur. "What made you decide to get a new couch, anyway?"
"I've been wanting to do it for the past year, but I never got around to it. My daughter Mums is going to be staying with me for a few weeks starting Wednesday, and I figured that now is as good a time as any," said Digitalis. "We're having a movie night on her first night here, if you want to join us." Digitalis looked at Arthur hopefully. "I don't know what we're watching yet but I got plenty of snacks yesterday, and I'm making spaghetti."
Arthur sighed, "You know I can't say no to that face, Digit. Even when your moody teenage offspring is involved. You and I will have to restrict our date night uhm…'activities' to the privacy of your bedroom or the bathroom, though."
Digitalis laughed, "Well, I'd like to keep the couch nice for as long as possible, so let's do that even when it's just us here. Where and when are we meeting your brother, by the way? My couch is supposed to get here at noon."
"That donut shop that sells the fresh licorice, and eight-thirty," said Arthur. "We should probably hurry if we want to get there on time."
Fifteen minutes later, Arthur and Digitalis were dressed and walking out the door, both looking forward to coffee and donuts with Arthur's brother.
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May 23, 2014 Conflict resolution
PYD Europe: "The Kurdish initiative towards democratic change on the basis of unity and diversity"
PYD RELATIONS
The Kurdish initiative towards democratic change on the basis of unity and diversity
The Syrian crisis deepened amid blind violence exceeding all limits, in a way pushing the country towards the unknown in the absence of any objective and serious solutions. It is essentially beyond being just a crisis of the regime or the rule or authority, and has moved towards being a comprehensive structural crisis that stems from the unilateral nationalist approach based on the concept of the nation state, which contains within it the seeds of denial and domination and chauvinism which has ruled Syria for almost half a century. This is inconsistent with the fundamental attributes of our era that is known as the era of the democratic peoples.
Despite the diversity and multiplicity of components of the origins of this society – Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians and others – and the multiplicity of religions, sects and languages, since its independence the Syrian modern state brought with it the seeds of authoritarianism as a product of its nationalism and chauvinism that prevented the democratic transformation, and the reduced the number of recognised ethnic identities and political affiliations as per. the identity of the authoritarian rulers, and the problem of the real recognition of citizens' identity emerged. That was followed by periods of darkness of denial of others under the slogans of chauvinism and banners of fanatical and exclusive nationalism, which caused paralysis in the driving forces developing the Syrian society and stifled development. This reflected authoritarianism, and strangled the country in a security State that marginalized citizens and grabbed his free will to represent his true identity, which turned Syria to a big prison for forcibly melting components without any attention or respect for the fact of Syria's authentic pluralism.
The transformation of the State in this terrible way and the regime's use of all the capabilities of the country for the development of its powers, and the control of chauvinist thought by the Baath Party, as well as an insistence on Arabisation rather than admitting the fact of the cultural, social, ethnic and religious components of Syrian society constituted the seeds of the crisis that often erupted and had been controlled using tools of enormous repression, although there has been a recent explosion in the popular movement that developed and has lasted for more than three years.
There is no longer room for doubt that Syria needs democratic revolutionary change rather than just changing the ruler or the regime, or simply being replaced by another, towards a complete intellectual change overall and continuing to include all of the elements that contributed to the creation of this crisis, through the process of innovation and the creation of a new system with new mechanisms and concepts that are compatible with the era of democratic peoples. That means first getting rid of chauvinism and the policy of denial, and the recognition of pluralism and positive inherent diversity in all the components, and to ensure their full constitutional rights are guaranteed through real national institutions that respect the differences between the sons of the same country, to unite their efforts in the framework of the Syrian homeland by their own free consciousness.
It must be stressed in relation to the Syria issue and the Syria solution, and from here we can see very clearly if we take the available data into account, that the solution lies in the embodiment of democracy in building a pluralistic decentralised Syria, regulating the relationship between agreed components of the national Constitution that combines the Syrian identity without exclusion or domination or denial, and brings more freedoms for all components of the community in order to be more effective. In the context of the correct understanding of this construction, this means moving away entirely from the erroneous logic of 'part sacrifice for the sake of the whole', and instead relying on working to save the part and the whole together. Here we should emphasize that in the proper relationship between all Syria and each component part, no-one can be free as long as freedom is prevented for any of its parts.
The basic principles of the project for a democratic solution:
Solving the Syrian issue, despite the enormity of the multiple levels of external interventions which constitutes a key solution, the Syrian solution must be democratic, and this requires the adoption of a political solution, and rejection of violence and sectarian divisive attitudes, whatever level of it and the sources, to pave the way towards Syria's unified, free and democratic future, and from here all the forces of change and revolution should emphasise the democratic rights of the Syrians on the one hand, and each of its components individually and in groups on the other hand.
Considering that pluralism is a kind of richness, not an excuse for division, this is what requires everyone to confirm their commitment to the right of free citizenship, and to securing ways to construct a free and democratic citizen with genuine identity and belonging who will strongly go to protect each person's identity and existence, and belonging.
This means holding the components of the Syrian national identity, while retaining their natural right to protect their particularity within the framework of voluntary free union in the middle of a democracy that allows this pluralism, which is possible through:
1 – Syria democratic pluralistic decentralisation
2 – find a democratic solution to the constitutional guarantees of the Kurdish issue, and resolve the issues of nationalities according to international covenants and conventions on Human Rights and additional protocols.
Action Plan:
We will work to put this project out to all opposition forces of different backgrounds and orientations for discussion as a working draft to lead to a common vision to understand the Syrian scene, and then propose the rational, logical and objective, democratic solution to the crisis, noting that this draft is for development and updating through serious participation of the effective Syrian powers on the ground, and will pave the necessary way to discuss the Syrian situation in a democratic, enlightened free Syrian thinking to create the future of the country by the hands of their children.
It is demanded of the national Syrian opposition in all its spectra that they close ranks to be an effective and avant-garde force for change taking its historic responsibility before the people and the country, and we see:
1 – Presentation of this initiative to all the forces, and the spectra of the national opposition;
2 – A committee representing all spectra of the Syrian opposition to draft a national Syrian solution in the period agreed;
3 – Rewrite the project after taking all the notes and discussion, by the Committee concerned;
4 – Convene a national Syrian conference with invitations extend to all opposition parties;
5 – The formation of a Committee emerging from the Conference, representing the opposition in international forums;
6 – Display this project to the Arab League and the United Nations and concerned parties.
It is time that we respond to the cries of children and orphans who have had their bodies torn apart in front of the eyes of their bereaved mothers who dried up the tears as dried blood from the veins of their children. It is time to put an end to the pain of parents who were still searching the rubble for parts of the bodies of their children, which ruptured under barrels of death and shame. Accordingly, we call on all the forces, institutions and Syrian figures to address this project in the spirit of responsibility, which is pushing to resolve the Syrian issue and is considered as a gateway to a comprehensive solution in the region, and will turn into a decisive turning point to bring history back on track.
We believe that this initiative provides a vision to resolve the Syrian issue as a whole, and will ensure that all the components of society resolve the outstanding issues, and we will give all our efforts in this regard.
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22-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murdering woman
Police were called to a home in Hillingdon to reports of a woman with stab wound Credit: PA
Detectives have launched a murder investigation after a 25-year-old woman died after being repeatedly stabbed.
A 22-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and remains in custody.
A Met Police spokesman said detectives "are not looking for anyone else in relation to the investigation."
Police were called to a home in Pinkwell Lane, Hillingdon after reports of a woman with multiple stab wounds.
Emergency services, ingluding the air ambulance, were called at about 5am yesterday but she was pronounced dead less than two hours later.
The woman's next of kin have been informed but she has not yet been formally identified.
A post-mortem examination started yesterday at Uxbridge Mortuary.
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First part of 'the world's longest artwork' goes live in London
Firefighters who died in Dudgeon's Wharf disaster honoured
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Police renew appeals over linked series of rapes in east London
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Do stepparents have the right to visit their stepchildren even if they are no longer married to the children's biological parent?
In California, the court may grant reasonable visitation to a stepparent if it determines such visitation furthers the child's best interests. (Fam. C. § 3101.) However, stepparent visitation rights are considered secondary to the rights of biological parents. Accordingly, there are quite a few limits on stepparent visitation rights.
What happens if both biological parents object to visitation between the child and stepparent?
In summary, the court may order stepparent visitation against the biological parents' wishes only in the most "unusual and extreme cases." (In re Marriage of Gayden (1991) 229 Cal.App.3d 1510, 1520.) If the biological parents oppose the visitation, the stepparent has the burden to show by clear and convincing evidence that such visitation is in the child's best interest and denying such visitation would be detrimental to the child.
The laws about stepparent visitation are illustrated by two major court cases: In re Marriage of W. (2003) 114 Cal.App.4th 68 and Chalmers v. Hirschkop (2013) 213 Cal.App.4th 289.
Here, the court found that when Family Code section 3101 is applied, there must be a presumption that biological parents' decision about visitation is in the child's best interest. In Marriage of W., Stepfather sought visitation with the child after separating from the child's biological mother. At first, the child's biological mother and father approved of limited visitation between the stepfather and child. However, when the sepfather moved out of the geographical area, both biological parents objected to ongoing visitation.
Here, the biological mother's former domestic partner asked the court for increased visitation with the child pursuant to Family Code section 3101. Both of the child's biological parents objected to increasing the stepmother's visitation. The court denied the stepmother's request, stating that parents "have the responsibility and the duty to make decisions that they determine, jointly, are in this child's best interest. They have done so and this court is not going to interfere with that." (Chalmers v. Hirschkop (2013) 213 Cal.App.4th 289, 296.) The court found that while the stepmother argued that more visitation with her was in the child's best interest, she failed to show how the child would suffer detriment if visitation remained limited pursuant to the biological parents' wishes.


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Russian 2019 box office report: territory bounces back after World Cup struggles
By Geoffrey Macnab2019-12-23T11:48:00+00:00
Russian audiences are embracing US films as well as local patriotic and comedy titles. Geoffrey Macnab reports
Source: Bazelevs
'Christmas Trees. Final'
The Russian box office bounced back in 2019 after the dip due to the 2018 FIFA World Cup — which the country hosted — and by a fatal fire in a Siberian cinema that badly affected public confidence in the sector.
The country remains one of Europe's biggest film markets and local analysts are predicting a 12.9% year-on-year increase in box-office takings and a similar rise (12.2%) in admissions in 2019.
By December 1, 22 films had grossed $10m or more at the Russian box office. As in most other territories globally, Disney dominated, with five of its titles in the top 10. The Lion King grossed $47m and posted the second biggest opening weekend of 2019 in the territory, behind only patriotic Second World War tank movie T-34. Additionally, Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil performed relatively well in Russia compared to the US.
One glaring difference between Russia and the rest of the world is that Netflix is not active in the territory and Russian theatrical and streaming audiences have not (legally) seen The Irishman, Marriage Story or any other Netflix title. Plans for a local partner to release these films in cinemas reportedly fell through.
Source: Comscore
Russia 2019 Box Office
The picture in the theatrical marketplace remains much as it was last year. Overall box office is continuing its slow rise as more releases reach theatres (591 in 2019 compared to 522 in 2018). US studio blockbusters dominate but there is generally at least one local film that performs as well as the Hollywood tentpoles. In 2019, this was T-34, released by Central Partnership — the biggest local distributor — and which grossed $31.3m, only a little less than 2017's equally patriotic basketball film, Three Seconds.
Independently released films have limited traction in the marketplace although Capella Film, under CEO Nadezda Motina, did well with its release of Oscar winner Green Book, which grossed just under $9m.
Both Three Seconds and T-34 were given massive releases in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 Christmas and New Year periods respectively, considered the most lucrative window for local films. Prolific producer/director Timur Bekmambetov's company Bazelevs was behind another box office-hit, seasonal comedy Christmas Trees. Final, part of a long-running franchise, released in the same period.
Although local market share was down slightly in the first part of the year, Russian titles scheduled for release in late December are expected to push local market share back up again. These include the latest in comedy franchise Policeman VIP and the big-budget historical blockbuster Union Of Salvation.
Perhaps paradoxically, at a time of great political suspicion between the US and Russia, Russian cinemagoers are flocking to US movies. In the space of a little over a decade, this region has become an important market for Hollywood studios in spite of perceived Russian protectionism and chauvinism. In late 2019, Russia announced a 40% tax rebate for international film productions. If the country can attract international investment, its own production industry should benefit.
Disney and Sony have had a successful joint venture, WDSSPR, for several years but this partnership is expected to dissolve in 2020. Sony will be run independently as Disney begins to release the Fox films.
Russia box office booms over New Year with 'Another Round' and 'The Last Warrior: Root Of Evil'
Disney Russia recorded box office takings of $22m over the New Year period.
Openers included Taiwanese sci-fi drama The Soul and animated feature Wish Dragon.
Russia opening helps 'Wonder Woman 1984' stretch lead over 'The Croods: A New Age' in global tallies.
Screen celebrates a refreshingly diverse range of early frontrunners.
What a Joe Biden administration could mean for Hollywood
Hopes running high, although film industry will not necessarily get its way on all issues.


The authors described the emotional turmoil and the precise timings of events to paint an accurate portrayal of 9/11. The book is incredibly informative, diving into the details of dozens of individuals who survived or perished and how their lives were upheaved in an instant. Every little detail from the building codes of the twin towers to the heroism of dozens of individuals is accounted for within this book. The research writing is impeccable as the authors quote conversations from 9-11 dispatchers and use accurate timestamps to show readers what happened during those tragic 102 minutes.
I am so grateful to have read this book because now I truly understand. I understand the anxiety riddling American society at the sound of a plane flying low overhead. I understand why airplanes only allow 4 oz of liquid on board. I finally see that I was born into a new America. My generation is the 9/11 generation, the ones who have and will continue to grow up in a society where terrorism lingers in the back of minds and even a nail file is feared as a weapon. I never could claim to be able to comprehend the experiences of those who were alive and experienced firsthand the frightening and tragic events of 9/11. However, this book has provided me with valuable insight into the true horrors of 9/11. No longer is my knowledge of the event a vague, sugar coated version provided by prior teachers and relatives. 102 Minutes was a painful read, causing me to shed tears at times due to both the beautiful acts of heroism from rescuers and the untimely deaths of hundreds. The details were hard to comprehend, but they were informative and opened my eyes to the individual perspectives on that day.
Over spring break, I had the chance to visit the 9/11 Memorial in NYC, and it opened my eyes, providing a physical and tangent depiction of the horrors I had read about in 102 Minutes. But it was also beautiful. It illustrated the loss we as a nation have experienced while also demonstrating how a strike against our morale only brings us together to show honor and compassion instead of tearing us apart.
Photograph I took of the 9/11 Memorial.
I know I took a more personal approach to this review, but 9/11 is personal for everyone. We all have our own feelings or memories about it whether we were alive and watching on television or are living with the repercussions. This book had a powerful and unforgettable impact on me, and I recommend it to everyone who can get their hands on a copy. I advise reading it slowly as it will bring up a lot of powerful emotions, but it is certainly a book worth reading as it provides astounding insight into the minds of individuals impacted by the collapse of the World Trade Centers.
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"Give me a blade and a soft throat!"
"Swift as the desert wind."
"Only one of us shall survive."
This card was previously part of the training mechanic where it could be upgraded from Alik'r Bandit at level 19.
This card's equip ability applies the Will to Survive card effect.
The card is named for the Hammerfell region of the Alik'r.


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Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by farmerjerome, Jun 27, 2011.
Couldn't happen to a more likeable guy.
Having suffered said injury, I'll reserve mocking my fellow Chattanooga alum.
I've always liked TO, but if it's true he injured himself as a result of taping a show, then he deserves some level of questioning at the very least.
Also, didn't he only go to Chattanooga because he thought it was another University of Tennessee, meaning the one in Knoxville? Or is that just an urban legend?
Whether it's an urban legend or not depends on who you ask...I believe the folks inside the Moc athletic department insist that it's real.
If this is true, it will almost definitely be the end of his career.
I almost always thought he was more misunderstood than anything else, and I think his stint in Philly was proof of that.
I had a really interesting conversation with Mariucci about Owens several years ago and I remember him saying, "Look, he and I had more than our share of issues, but nobody plays harder, nobody practices harder and if I need a receiver to throw a block or be a decoy, nobody does it better than him."
Granted, I don't think anyone would say those kinds of things after his stints in Dallas, Buffalo and Cincy, but this is a guy who should be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. He won't get in on the first ballot, but he should.
It's probably fake. Ratings bump.
T.O. was great in The T.O. Show.


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Canadian National Ski TeamNewsRacingUS Ski TeamWorld CupOn World Champ Turf, Pellegrino Crushes Lahti Sprint; Bolger 11th in World Cup Debut
Chelsea LittleMarch 3, 2018
The men's 1.6 k freestyle sprint podium at Saturday's World Cup in Lahti, Finland, with Italy's Federico Pellegrino (c) in first, Russia's Gleb Retivykh (l) in second and Norway's Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (r) in third. (Photo: Fischer/NordicFocus)
The men's freestyle sprint final in Lahti, Finland, started in almost comical fashion: the six men who had made it to the final heat of the day skied slowly, then even slower, as nobody wanted to lead.
The final was full of dangerous men. Norwegian youngster Johannes Høsflot Klæbo has won five sprints this season, and he just became an Olympic gold medalist in the sprint in PyeongChang, South Korea, a mere ten days ago. In his quarterfinal and semifinal heats, he had put in big turns of speed which had dropped most of the field.
They hadn't dropped Italy's Federico Pellegrino, though, and the 2017 World Champion was the only man competing in Lahti who had beaten Klæbo in a sprint this season.
Then there was France's Lucas Chanavat, who put in a huge burst of speed up a hill in his own quarterfinal, perhaps mimicking the move that Klæbo usually makes to test it out or prove a point.
They were all lurking there in the final, along with Russia's Gleb Retivykh, Finland's Ristomatti Hakola – consistently one of the fastest qualifiers on the World Cup – and Norway's Sindre Bjørnestad Skar.
Norway's Johannes Høsflot Klæbo leading his quarterfinal, which included Italy's Federico Pellegrino (3) and American Erik Bjornsen (29), in the men's 1.6 k skate sprint at the World Cup in Lahti, Finland. (Photo: Fischer/NordicFocus)
Klæbo finally got up to some sort of speed on a gradual downhill, stringing out the field after a full 90 seconds of being clumped together and moving at walking pace. But he still wasn't going full bore. On one of the final opportunities, it was Skar who went to the front and sprinted up a hill, finally turning the speed dial to "full".
Coming down the final hill into the stadium, it was Skar, Klæbo, and Pellegrino, who overtook the leader going into the last turn. In the finishing stretch, the two Norwegians seemed to just fade away; Pellegrino sprinted for the line and a big win of 0.77 seconds.
"I think that when I returned after the Olympics, back home I had a very good time, really good weather in the Alps," Pellegrino – the silver medalist in the PyeongChang sprint – said in a post-race interview with FIS. "And it was very good to recover and train a lot, so that I could come here in the best shape. I'm really proud of this."
Also surging past the Norwegian duo was Retivykh, who had accelerated into and through the final corners and pulled away in finishing lane.
"I have been waiting quite long for the World Cup podium," said Retivykh, according to FIS. "Last time I was top three was in PyeongChang last year. So it feels great to be back. I am not surprised to be second because I knew I could do it. It feels great… I am sharing the podium with two great athletes."
Klæbo hung on for third, +0.90 seconds, and Skar was fourth, +1.30. He edged Hakola (+1.44) while Chanavat was left in sixth (+7.55).
Coming into the final as the giant everyone feared, Klæbo's tactics had not paid off.
"I'm glad this was not the Olympics," Klæbo told Norwegian broadcaster NRK, according to a translation. "Pellegrino was too strong. I had nothing to answer with. Then you have to be thankful for third place. And I'm still smiling pretty wide."
Pellegrino, meanwhile, played his cards exactly right. He also beat Klæbo here one year ago to win World Championships gold, and he channeled that experience.
"I lost too many races in the past when I was leading almost the whole race," he told FIS. "I think that on this track I know how to do it."
And with the win, Pellegrino became the most decorated skate sprinter in men's World Cup history. It was his tenth skate sprint victory, a new record.
With third place, however, Klæbo has sealed this year's overall Sprint Cup trophy even though there are still two sprints to come in Drammen, Norway, and Falun, Sweden.
"That is a bright spot, then," he told NRK. "It helps a little, but there was no snap today. The [qualifier] was good, but otherwise it was a bit dead."
By placing 11th in the freestyle sprint in Lahti, Sun Valley's Kevin Bolger won some Gruyere cheese for being the top-ranked Continental Cup skier of the day. (Photo: Matt Whitcomb)
Bolger 11th in World Cup Debut, Bjornsen 20th
You didn't have to scroll very far down the qualifier results sheet to find the name of a World Cup debutant. In 16th place was Kevin Bolger of the Sun Valley XC Gold Team. The SuperTour leader made the most of his opportunity, and NRK broadcasters referred to him as "the surprising man – Kevin Bolger."
"Honestly, I didn't necessarily expect him to qualify in a Scandinavian World Cup, in his first go at it," Bolger's coach Chris Mallory wrote in an email. "He generally builds into sprint days as they progress, as he's a bit of an all-arounder. But he really stepped up to the plate today."
In his quarterfinal, Bolger was last out of the start gates and sat in sixth place for much of the race. But near the end of the heat he moved into fifth and then coming into the finish turned on the afterburners to move up to fourth.
The last of the quarterfinals, it also turned out to be the fastest one, and both Bolger and third-place Karl-Johan Westberg of Sweden moved on to the semifinals as lucky losers behind Retivykh, the heat's winner, and second-place Franceso De Fabiani of Italy.
"He's a big glider, and can carry his speed really well, but he's focused a lot on improving his speed this year," Mallory wrote of that finishing sprint.
In the semifinal, Bolger couldn't quite pull the same move. He was again in sixth out of the gate, but Pellegrino broke a pole, dropping to last. The two traded off places as Pellegrino then caught back up, and then replaced his pole again. Then Bolger passed Emil Iversen, but the Norwegian passed him back by the finish and Bolger ended up sixth in the semifinal and 11th on the day.
Bolger before the start of his semifinal heat. (NRK screencap)
Bolger graduated from the University of Utah last year and it is his first season as a full-time senior racer with the Gold Team, although Mallory said that Bolger had trained with Sun Valley for two years as a high school postgraduate before heading to college.
Before heading to Europe for the World Cup, Bolger had won a SuperTour sprint in Ishpeming, Michigan, and placed second and sixth in 20 k and 10 k races there. Earlier in the season, he was second in the skate sprint and fifth in the classic sprint at U.S. National Championships.
"My goal was for him to get some World Cup starts and a top 30 this season, so those opportunities would keep coming," Mallory explained. "I watched FIS live timing all night, normally not so exciting, but last night it was!"
Erik Bjornsen of the U.S. Ski Team and APU qualified in 29th place and in his quarterfinal, had a poor start position as a result of his bib and was immediately shunted to the back of the heat.
"Up the first climb I tried to make a couple moves, but I was just kind of boxed in," he explained.
He was in the first quarterfinal, along with Klæbo, Pellegrino, and Renaud Jay of France. By late in the heat Bjornsen was able to move up to fifth when Poland's Maciej Starega, who had led early, began to fade. Then in the final downhill he moved into fourth and held that position through the finish.
Norway's Johannes Høsflot Klæbo and Italy's Federico Pellegrino (3) going head to head down the finishing stretch in the first men's quarterfinal at the World Cup 1.6 k skate sprint in Lahti, Finland, with American Erik Bjornsen (l) chasing. (Photo: Fischer/NordicFocus)
But he hadn't been able to get to the front early in the heat, and by the finish, the two eventual podium finishers were jetting off at hyperspeed. Though he wasn't able to catch onto their tails, Bjornsen said that he was feeling better than he had at the Olympics, where his results had been disappointing.
"I definitely kind of struggled," he admitted of the 2018 Olympic experience. "It was some of my worst distance racing of the year, so it was obviously very frustrating."
After today's sprint, however, there might be light at the end of the tunnel.
"I felt like I had good energy left," Bjornsen said of his heat. "I tried making moves on both sides… the fitness is feeling a lot better than it was a couple of weeks ago. And so, I mean, the peaking plan for the Olympics didn't work as planned. But it's been a relatively good season for me, pretty consistent. I had a lot of top 30 finishes… I'm just trying to move past [the Olympics] and have a solid period four on the World Cup."
He now looks to the 15 k classic on Sunday, which he called "one of my favorite races."
And on getting upstaged by Bolger, Bjornsen seemed the opposite of upset.
"I was just really psyched to see that," he said. "The kid has put in a lot of work the last few years and – I mean, I was very surprised. It was great to see. I like to see those younger dudes coming here and having successful results. It's really impressive. You know, it's his first World Cup and he just looked comfortable and good out there. It's just the perfect transition to the World Cup. Keep it up!"
Canada's Julien Locke on his way to 42nd in the men's 1.6 k skate sprint at the World Cup in Lahti, Finland. (Photo: Fischer/NordicFocus)
"It was so awesome to have two World Cup first timers, Kelsey [Phinney] and Kevin, have such impressive results," agreed teammate Sophie Caldwell. "Kevin had the race of the day and it was so inspiring for our entire team, staff, and hopefully all the skiers back home to see that success in a young, up and coming racer who just sent it today. We were going crazy!"
The rest of the North American field did not make it into the quarterfinals. In the qualifier, Logan Hanneman (APU) placed 49th (+11.45). Paddy Caldwell (U.S. Ski Team/SMS T2) finished 59th (+13.55), and APU's Reese Hanneman and David Norris placed 61st (+14.33) and 67th (+19.27).
Julien Locke led Canada in 42nd place (+9.78), and Andy Shields finished 60th (+14.29).
— Harald Zimmer contributed
Logan Hanneman (Alaska Pacific University) on his way to 49th in the men's 1.6 k skate sprint at the World Cup in Lahti, Finland. (Photo: Fischer/NordicFocus)
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Chelsea Little is FasterSkier's Editor-At-Large. A former racer at Ford Sayre, Dartmouth College and the Craftsbury Green Racing Project, she is a PhD candidate in aquatic ecology in the @Altermatt_lab at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. You can follow her on twitter @ChelskiLittle.
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Northcliffe titles work together for East Midlands business site
Northcliffe Media has launched its East Midlands regional business site, which sees five of its titles working together to supply content.
The Evening Telegraph in Derby, Leicester Mercury, Lincolnshire Echo, Nottingham Evening Post and The Sentinel in Stoke will provide regional business news to thisisbusiness-eastmidlands.co.uk, which will also cover international business stories.
Journalism.co.uk first broke the news of the planned Northcliffe business sites in February, and the launch of the East Midlands site follows that of westbusiness.co.uk, a business site for the West Country area, covering Gloucestershire, Bristol and Bath.
The new site aims to promote the business capabilities and achievements of the East Midlands area.
"Allying thisisbusiness to the pages of the daily titles in the region will create a new springboard for everyone who has the ambition of the East Midlands at heart." said Alex Leys, Northcliffe Midlands managing director.
A third business site is expected to be launched in the South East later this year.
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One in four who are eligible for the earned income tax credit do not claim it
by Brian Jennings
Sue Stockman works for the Internal Revenue Service. When she tells people she works for the IRS, she says, "It's the best conversation stopper ever." However, when she talks about a public-private partnership between the IRS, Oregon, and tax preparation software companies that provides free tax filing online, she says the conversation becomes more interesting to people. Based in Seattle, her job is to coordinate educational programs about the IRS in Alaska, Washington, and Oregon. Stockman recently came to Bend, along with Congressman Greg Walden and Eric Smith of the Oregon Department of Revenue, to promote the free program for filing both federal and state taxes online.
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