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1964-10-12 - Project Virgo: Deadlines
Summary: It starts with a hack on the comm systems. It might end with death.
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Helicopters….they didn't really have those in his day. Not in his first war. But the later ones….those he knows. So Bucky's looking around with interest as they're inbound. Dressed in plain gray fatigues, no insignia beyond basic SHIELD stuff. He's something of an independent contractor and something of a project. His face is almost expressionless….though he smiles, now and again, when his gaze comes to rest on Hellboy. Little hellpupper is all grown up, but in Bucky's mind, Red's one of the more pleasant results of the war. Even if he's no longer small enough to be carried in a ruck, and squalling for pancakes.
Teddy is good at two things: infiltration and breaking things. SHIELD, of course, knows this. Infiltration usually has some advanced warning. So the rush to get on a helicopter and go somewhere is likely an emergency where he might need to break something. Or someone. It's not often he gets to ride in a helicopter so he's looking out and down at the ground.
He doesn't notice that Bucky's looking at him. With his coat opened, the bare-chested half-demon is sitting at the edge of the helicopter, so wishing they'd ridden in with the doors open. Tapping his finger on the side of the Good Samaritan, Hellboy waits for the signal to land and deploy.
Round up a few good men and take a tour. In these troubled times, SHIELD has far too much to do and not enough hands to do it. They can't afford to lose one agent for an idle trip, much less four. Who can spare a pilot and a sleek black chopper that looks like it belongs at Da Nang rather than Throgs Neck? Pilot and navigator both greet the assigned party with a minimum of fuss, giving no time to get strapped in before they're airborne. Kess wears protective earmuffs and carries a black dossier, giving a very simple rundown. "We're headed into Quebec. You can forget about issues with the Canadians," she shouts over the whirl of the blades that bump them high over the city and veer sharply north up the Hudson. "Settle in and let's make this real simple. Site I is a holding facility for some special guests of ours. They went into blackout eighteen minutes ago. Lockdown proceeded to follow. It's nine clicks out of a farming town where shit just doesn't happen, so let's make this a quick sweep. You're authorized to locate and contain. No bullets except for last resort."
She doesn't like the order. It's written in her face, her drawn expression. "Guests are enhanced. Seven total patients. They /may/ speak English. Incomplete assessments. We don't know what sparked blackout on comms, so until we have that we're putting a lid on it."
"Special guests? Enhanced in what way?" Bucky asks. A briefing is a briefing, whether it's here, shouted over the rattle of the rotors…..or in a flapping canvas tent on the south side of the Italian alps, months past the advent of Husky.
Teddy looks forward when the pilot starts filling them in. "Guests are enhanced? Patients? Are you saying you've been keeping people prisoner and experimenting on them?" Technically it's 'we've been experimenting on them' but at the moment, he's not thinking of himself as an agent. "What did SHIELD do to them and how are they 'enhanced'?"
While everyone else is asking about the enhancements, Hellboy gives a grunt. "Dammit. Alright, no shootin' them in the face. Just means punch them extra hard." he offers with a snort as he glances towards Teddy, and snorts. "Doubt SHIELD did anythin' to 'em, probably arrived like this. Ain't all the powered folks good guys, after all."
Kess doesn't look up from her notes for a while. "We've not assessed if they're more like Steve Rogers or him," and she hikes her thumb in Bucky's direction. The cold, flat stare that levels younger agents does absolutely no favours in warming the hawkish looks nature gave her. Credit where due that she doesn't flinch from Teddy's question. "We gave them room and board while administering psychiatric evaluations and treatment for boys that know plenty about killing and not two bits about buses, record players, or can openers. You have any idea of what a wetworks squad looks like? Project Virgo is SHIELD's idea for rehabiliting soldiers caught in a field of war. They're not prisoners because far as anyone knows they don't exist. They're not free because we don't know what trips their triggers and currently their home went dark, no one's answering the door, and we have six thousand people in a fifteen kilometer radius who might start looking like the enemy if you catch my drift."
The helicopter ride is a long one. Forest surrenders to patchwork fields and the pilot starts to push speed higher. It's not every day a military grade choppers goes howling over the north woods. Finger lakes slide in and out of sight. The banking curve sticks them somewhere past the murky point where two countries join.
He only knew about the one, the one in New York. Matvei. But Bucky apparently recognizes the description, and he blanches. "Oh, dear god," he says. And then he turns to the others. "They might react to a set of trigger phrases in Russian. They do work on me, so be careful when you use them." IT galls him to hand over the mental keys to a whole new set of others, but it'll have to be better than seeing his brothers slaughtered. "'Soldat sputnik' is the first one. Should knock them out. The second," He recites the whole 'longing, rusted' litany, "Will render them pliant to orders. Use the first if you can."
Buck adds, after a beat, "….they probably look like me."
Teddy considers what Kess says then nods, looking approving. "Good. We've been trying to help them." It's back to 'we' again. "I'll try not to hurt them." Says the guy who looks like a college jock in a SHIELD uniform. Brow furrowing, he listens to Bucky and mouths the phrases a few times to commit them to memory.
"Soldat sputnik. Ain't going to say what that sounds like, Uncle Buck." Hellboy offers dryly as he turns his attention to the countryside. "Think this is the furtherest north I've been so far." he considers and then ohs. "Is there a pancake house up here?"
Altitude decreases until the pine trees can be counted individually and if Hellboy tosses out a butt from his cigar, he could possibly cause an international incident by blowing up a gas refinery or causing a forest fire. Unlike the War of 1812, the British aren't going to evacuate anyone on their way to Washington. Kess snorts. "Land of maple syrup, big red. You get the finest in the land and they've got a cartel for it. We pay off tappers now and then." Could be serious.
The navigator stretches around his seat. "We're going in. You'll be jumping down from the lines at fifty feet, got it? Any hint of gunfire, bird's out and you go in hot. No word so far." The radios are sadly silent.
Well, it works. Because even that casual recitation is loud enough to be heard, and Buck's head lolls forward in what looks like a dead faint. Thank goodness he's strapped in. He's nudged back into consciousness after a moment, blinking owlishly as if he'd just had a nap, instead of a thirty second blackout.
Teddy just nods at the instructions. "Yeah, sure. We can do that." He doesn't sound very worried and, in fact, his mind is on something else. "Once we're done here, think we can stop at a store and pick up some syrup? If it's that good, I'd like to get some to take home."
Reaching over, Hellboy pokes Bucky a couple of times to make sure he's awake. "…you alright?" he asks. "Didn't tell me that phrase still works on you. Though you keel over at the table later, I'm pouring maple syrup down your earhole." That could have been serious. Who knows for sure, but Kess gets a grin.
Kess curses again under her breath. "This is right inconvenient. Why wasn't this in the file before?" Decimated expectations pile up and get shoved in a mental corner. The agent's jaw works under her thumb and she pulls at the straps. "Ha ha, very funny. We'll talk. These boys just disassembled the tower, sure. They got things happening then prove you can subdue without killing. Otherwise you're dealing with ladies and gents well above my pay grade and a full tribunal."
The pilot starts to slow the chopper and the drop in altitude is guaranteed to pop some eardrums or cause general discomfort. He's not aware of the fainting spell but the navigator is practically staring and undoubtedly remembering that exact phrase.
"Hundred and closing," shouts the pilot. "Get your asses off my bird!" Before him stretches out what for all the world probably looks like a functioning farm of some kind.
"IT's classified info, because I just handed you the keys to the minds of any number of Soviet agents. Including myself,' Bucky's voice has a growl in it, wolfish. "But….better that than you killing them. I count them my brothers," he informs them. Hellboy gets a pat on the arm, and a snort. "I hear you, Red," To the pilot and Kess - "If you've got a broadcast or loud hail on this bird, do it. Use the words, and try and knock 'em out that way." Then he's out of the bird and heading for cover - armed only with rifle and pistol. Neither of which he'll be willing to use, surely.
"I don't kill people." Teddy informs Kess. Even if he's being trained to. In case of emergency. Unstrapping, he glances between Bucky and the red guy, as the former explains. "Not a bad idea." he agrees and follows the former Soviet agent out.
"I only kill demons. And vampires. And other shit that goes bump in the night." Hellboy nods at the pat to his arm. "Stuff some cotton in yer ears before they broadcast, though." With that, he's dropping like a stone from the helicopter and the others head to the treeline, while he's a big red target that approaches the barn directly, lighting his cigar as he goes. Subtle, he's not.
"We'll be keeping the bird in the air and ready. I'm down and providing cover." Kess unstraps herself last, and the unspooling lines launched by a few presses of a button or a switch snap in the wind. It's a nasty way down but suitable for anyone with an iota of strength.
No wonder she reserves getting to the ground at a distance. She isn't a demon, alien or super-soldier assassin. Paygrades imply sitting at the back and firing a machine pistol at the nearest form of trouble. Her black hat and muffs are plucked off, anticipating a hasty departure.
Well, with Tall, Red, and Conspicuous in train, there's no approaching with stealth or subtlety. So Buck's not trying. Quite the reverse. He's yelling, in fact….and in Russian, at the top of his lungs. Considering he made sergeant by field promotion, he's got a set of lungs on him, even if he wasn't a DI. «Brothers!» he bellows, at the top of his lungs. «Hey! It's me!»
Site I
Pretty Quebec farm: imagine green fields that roll up to a collection of farm buildings scattered regularly around a central square. The fences are solid and sturdy as modern agriculture demands, though charged with a hell of a lightning spark for any fool getting close. Gates are pinned shut and the road leading in along the way has clusters of outbuildings presumably for handling things like sprinklers and whatnot. Lies, of course. They're all manned outposts for other countermeasures for anyone moseying up. The main facility buildings are long and low, some made of brick like housing for employees on site. Others are metal-shod and low, dark presumably, for whatever livestock expected here.
Once on the ground, a quick pair of wings making that easy and painless, Teddy trails behind Bucky at a more sedate pace. And with all the shouting, he bulks up enough that bullets won't bother him when they come his way. Guaranteed, someone's going to start shooting something.
With Bucky calling attention to them, Hellboy glances aside to the super soldier. "Yeah, you just keep nattering at them. I don't know your new language." Except in demon speak, but there's no reason to go summoning a russian demon? Illyana may show up and boy would she be pissed if he like.. summoned her from a shower or something. The electrified fence awaits, and he can feel the power flowing from it. "Suggest standing back. This is gonna make me all tingly." With that, he moves to grab the fence to open it.
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Who the hell made that fence? It's probably Tony Stark on a bender, because only a demented man like him would make a reactive metal fence. Hellboy may be immune to electricity but is he immune to barbed wire hugs caused by a number of pressure mechanisms that wrap around him? The mechanisms lash steel wires this way and that, a particularly notable addition. His hide doesn't really get garrotted as wet clay under a thick string, but it still doesn't make for fun.
Naturally the ozone scent of active electrification is there.
No one answers the shout. If there are guards, they are not at their posts.
"Fuck," Bucky says, under his breath. "IF they're like Matvei, they'll just accept me as one of them. He had a real hard time understanding I wasn't just one of the clones. We'll see if these guys do." Smart, Bucky, smart. Wearing a gorilla suit in the misty forests of Africa will totally fool the gorillas that live there. A glance back at the fence. "Here's hoping we didn't just let them all out," he adds. Too late. No one obediently prairie-dogs up at his call. "Down the road to the main house," he says. His rifle's still over his shoulder. No shooting.
Suggest standing back? "Why don't we…" …watch as Hellboy grabs the electrified fence. "…just go over it?" Teddy finishes about three seconds too late. "How much of this place is underground? And is it fortified? Would the guards have holed up somewhere safe or are they now all hostages?" Not that anyone here has an answer.
"What the fraggity frak!" Hellboy's language filter is well in place as he gets wrapped up in the barb wire and it starts to electrocute him with a large zot. The demon's frame is bright blue for a moment before he's straining to try to break out of the barb-wire trap. "Rassin' frassing - stop with the zapping, you damn piece of scrap!" he grunts as he works to rip it from his hide before going to follow after the others.
All began simply enough. The Triskelion or Chinatown isn't much different from Site I. Another day buzzes with the usual routine activities at SHIELD. Paperwork waits for no man or woman but stacks up in mountainous drifts that handlers insist must be dealt with before the weekend. Closer to lunch, the fitness room fills up with people sparring in the plain ring or punching sand-filled bags hanging from the ceiling.
Meeting rooms are filled by bureaucrats and typists. The more important mandarins slip from corridor to corridor, feeding data to the directors. Poor souls listen in to the Tokyo Olympics, tapped lines, bugged hotel rooms.
Some orderly in a brown shirt and ill-fitting suit taps another. The gathered group tunes in to hear news out of Vienna at the IAEA meeting. Was there nuclear fallout over Iraq? No one seems to know.
Lunch plans creep closer to fulfillment. In a glassed-in cell, a young man sits cross-legged on the ground and listens to calming, good old Four Tops under the watchful eye of a shrink and two bored guards.
"Bet the Yanks'll take the Cardinals tonight," says Edmunds.
"They better after the embarrassment yesterday. Boyer made 'em show their bellies." Clark's a bitter man. He doesn't even glance at the Soviet young man tapping out his fingers.
Throughout the facility music starts to play. A few startled sounds might be heard in the office. In a lab, a supervisor spins and demands to know, "What's the meaning of this? Turn that off. We've got sensitive work going on. This isn't a roadhouse and you aren't students!"
In another room, a young man looks up in puzzlement. Speakers that normally ding with the time for the next rotation of activity now blossom alive.
*Outside**
Over the hissing zap and scorch sonnets of the electrified fence, it's disturbingly quiet. Until that cheerful music starts to play, replacing a speaker system. It's definitely Four Tops of a kind.
Minus a word or two sinking in, the background noise on repeat.
"Baby, I need your lovin', baby, I need your lovin', although you're never near. Your voice I often hear… Zhelaniye. Rzhavyy."
A buttery crooning joins together, twinned tracks melting together. "Another day, another night, I long to hold you tight, 'cause I'm so lonely… Semnadtsat'>."
"I don't think they'd take hostages," Bucky says, quietly. "They're more likely to move out by stealth, try to escape, find a way to make it back….or cause what destruction they can reach. We've got no contact here, right? No sound from the legit agents…." He glances at Kess. "Probably underground, right?" he asks her, tone less than sanguine. Then there are those words and he stiffens. They know them now. "Goddammit," he says. "That's it. You may have to knock me out….remember the words I gave you." It's too loud - he can't get away far enough, fast enough.
Teddy hangs back a bit to make sure Hellboy is okay but when it seems that he is, he continues on toward the main house. At least until the music starts and he looks around uncertainly, focusing on Bucky. "Soldat sputnik?" he asks.
Somewhere comes a loud, cracking noise of glass or metal giving. Protesting surfaces hit repeatedly by desperate fists might sound so terribly distant underneath the mono refrain of the announcement system. The cracks originate not from the brick building but one of the longer sheds probably made to store equipment. Or people, as it were.
Finally free of the barb wire, Hellboy grunts and glances over at Teddy. "I don't think you were supposed to say it yet." he hisses, moving in case he needs to catch Bucky before he hits the ground.
Which is precisely what he does. Bucky swoons like a corsetted belle at an overcrowded ball - the pale eyes rolls up, and he simply collapses in a clatter of armaments, right into Hellboy's arms.
"He never said how long it takes for them to be taken over." Teddy points out, a bit defensively. "Better too soon than too late." But while Hellboy plays Prince to Bucky's Sleeping Beauty, he steps in front of them and starts scanning the area for movement. "They obviously know we're here."
"Yeah well, he's out." Hellboy glances down and pats the side of Bucky's face. "Hey, wakey wakey, eggs and bacey." No telling how many times Bucky said that to a much younger Hellboy, but the demon is trying to get the man to wake up.
"Gotta have all your lovin', baby I need your lovin', rassvet." So the lyrics churn on, but their audible instructions cannot help someone driven to sleep. On the other hand, the resisting vibrations of metal shatter under increasingly desperate force that thumps a staccato battery.
No one is moving at ground level. Lockdown is lockdown, after all. Maybe someone heard on the way up. Maybe they never know.
He's up again, if vague and dazed. And then Buck's slinging the rifle to ready, taking it off safety. The half-demon has the right idea, inasmuch as anything else. He's sighting down on the speakers, trying to shoot them out. "Guys," he says, "Shut the sound system down. That's it."
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Teddy glances at the speakers on the poles then nods. "I'll take care of them and then scout around a bit. Put your fingers in your ears or something and wait till the music stops." That being said, he runs for the nearest one with the intention of taking them out one after another.
Cracks break into the dark. Silenced voices crumble away into nothing thanks to a fist or a bullet driven into the casings of cheap metal. Tinny music gutted midbeat allow another word to slip out: "Pech'." One day ask the Soviets why the hell their command words included furnaces. Because really, why bury that in a rising gem of Motown?
With Teddy heading off, and Bucky sighting his rifle, Hellboy is still trying to figure out his role in all this. The Good Samaritan is really worthwhile upclose, and after Bucky warned of his issues, the demon ain't quite ready to leave. Instead, he digs around in his pockets and into a pouch. Pulling out a couple of small bundle, he empties out the contents - saltpeter, and rips the fabric in half before giving it to Bucky. "Stick this in your ears." he says before he starts to move towards that shed he heard the noises from.
The sound comes from a rather large metal building. Whatever it contains hopefully won't ignite. A lack of windows should be no surprise and the tidy front doors are big enough to steer a tractor through. Probably reinforced, too.
He does precisely as Red suggests, and stops his ears with cotton. Someone honestly needs to start carrying earplugs with him, doesn't he? Bucky's working on taking out the speakers as best he can, the rattle of short burst fire loud against the speakers. Because nothing soothes the soul like semiautomatic fire.
Going up to the shed doors, Hellboy frowns as he hears the banging on the otherside. "What ya think?" he asks Bucky. Then pauses. Bucky's ears are plugged. Dammit. Turning towards Bucky, he points at the door and pantomines a punching motion and then shrugs in that 'Ya wanna' type way.
Like any proper partially deaf man, Buck's voice is way, way too loud. "ASK 'EM WHO THEY ARE!" he bellows. And then suits the action to the word by taking one earplug out and shouting the question in Russian.
Banging on the door, Hellboy shouts, "Chinese take out!" And then waits for Bucky to replug his ear and then adds in quite loudly as he prepares to kick in the door if he needs too, "Soldat sputnik!"
The screaming that rattles the dented, extremely mangled chunk of wall within does not mean a good thing for the occupants or any chickens outside. Whatever makes those imperfections is not fighting with more than their fists given the corresponding shapes.
Whether or not they actually sound like him - and he does rememberthe sound of his own voice raised in wordless torment - imagination is painting it that way. Buck's pale again, frantic. "Red," he orders. "Bust it open. I don't know what the fuck's happening in there, but it's gotta stop."
There's a bit of a frown, but Hellboy nods his agreement. "One door opening coming up, get yer punchers ready!" with that, he draws back his much larger right fist to drive the sacred stone into the metal and bend it to his will - or just smash the door open. Knock knock. Who's there? Hell. Hell who? Hello to you too!
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Metal already strained just falls over on the great big man, reinforcements insufficient for holding back the doubled force. Behind that wall is another demolished layer of plaster and insulation, sticking out like the stuffing in a Thanksgiving turkey. Whole pieces are ripped away and the side kicks lashed out against the poor, innocent SHIELD architecture happen from a man with hands pressed to his ears. Behind him is the torn out husk of a door where another figure, slightly younger and certainly hewn from the same physical superiority, shudders violently. Blood trickles from cuts on face and brow and nose, the grim crawl enough to see in the dusty spots.
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Buck's darting past Hellboy in a hurry. And the first word out of his mouth is a Russian imperative. «Report!» Thank God he's not in full SHIELD drag to confuse things further. That's enough to throw someone for a loop, if they haven't encountered that spectacle before - there are more Buckies. Paler, shorter hair, less weathering. But very clearly brothers, if not identical twins.
When Bucky goes racing by, Hellboy almost reaches out to stop him - but trusts that he knows what he's doing. His left hand drops to his pistol though just in case, as the large demon remains in the shadow of the opening he created for the moment, his tail idly flipping back in forth in agitation behind him.
The first flinches back at those words, striving to hear through the musical cacophony deeper in the building. Outside might be silent but how many walls are sufficient to blot out the sounds. «I don't want to go back! Don't let it take me, don't let it take me!» The first's haggard face shows torment and grim determination under a mask of blood. Russian crashes off his tongue as he forcibly keeps moving, hell to pistols. They aren't perfectly facsimiles of Bucky, not this one whose eyes are even paler and build obviously absent a giant metal arm.
The other looks up blankly. «The men would not shut up about their ball game. The music played. I must… must… not… not…»
«Don't listen! Go, to live we go!» the first shouts back to the young man on this belly, convulsing and spitting out bile. His body rejects what his mind knows, and that is not a yoke sitting well.
«No one will take you,» Bucky assures them, putting out hands to each of them in turn. But….this'll be the safest thing. «You're not slaves any more.» And he plugs his ears again before trying the shutdown phrase. If they can be made to sleep, they can be bound…..and kept from harming themselves or others. It's already a nightmare scenario - what'll happen if one of them is killed…..
Hellboy is waiting for Bucky to tell him to approach. It's better for him to handle it for now - because no telling what would happen if the big red hellspawn stepped into the room. Though he can't understand what's being said, he's paying attention to tone of voice.
As far as the soldier in front is concerned, he'll damn well run into the arms of Hell to get away. He just about does if Hellboy happens to be in the punch zone where the wall was. He can't really tell. As far as he can tell, freedom lies in the hills over yonder and nothing will stop him from running, staggering there. The other one, less wounded physically but much more to the soul, wrings at his t-shirt and snags Bucky's hand blind. He grabs a wrist and hauls at it, a lifeline.
"Catch him, Red, don't let him hurt himself," Bucky urges, even as he's pulling the other to himself. «Brother, it's going to be all right. I've got you. But you need to help me find the others. I'm okay, see?» And he smiles into the younger man's face. «You're going to be fine. No one's going to hurt you.»
When the man runs into the opening, the arm of a seven foot tall demon reaches out to grab him. "Not so fast, tossabitch." Hellboy is pretty terrible at Russian. "You can't go running away just yet." he mutters, trying to restrain the… "The hell. You got clones, Bucky?"
It may be a terrible idea for Hellboy to try and stop a man determined at all accounts to get out. Especially because he packs a hell of a punch when he wants to, and all the frozen certainty of a Siberian winter rises to the fore. He's fast. Extremely. Pressure points and weak spots at the body are easily enough exploited, struck in rapid force just in case that hope of release is dying on the vine. Better to go down fighting than not.
The man pulled up clamps his hand over his ear, head tilted against the incomplete activation he's trying so hard to throw off. «Don't know, don't — don't. Don't — let him out, let us go. We can't listen to the music, not the music.»
«Help me,» Bucky pleads with the one he's holding. «Help me find the others. We'll stop this. We've already destroyed some of the broadcast speakers. What's your name?"» Surely this kid has one, if he'sbeen in SHIELD's custody. Then the other one's fighting, and he barks the shutdown phrase. If it makes the guy he's got his hands on pass out…..well, they can be revived.
"Hey, settle down, we're trying to help.. oof! Oh for.. stop it!" Hellboy is trying to grab at the man as he hits at pressure points that would take down a normal man but the demon seems to be fairing.. well enough. "Soldat sputnik!" he barks, and then tries to bring his left hand around to just slug the man.
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Thin light flares in the bloodied man's eyes. "Don't even try." Is that English? Turns out that yes, yes it is. Very much New York English. The younger version of Bucky may not have the full strength (barely) but he's got another trick up his sleeve, the commensurate agility of a Baryshnikov and a snow tiger. People shouldn't really bend the way he can.
«Stop it,» cries out the other, clearly taking about as well to seeing the other harmed as one member of an elite unit does another. His muscles tense, bulging under the skin, threatening to break free for a tandem assault. Training is training is.. «Don't know where they all go. They don't let us out like that. Their rooms? Adam!»
"Fuck," says James, startled into his native tongue. "Guys, stand down. We're here to help you. So you're Adam?" Then in Russian again. «Jesus Christ, guys, look at me. I'm one of you. Hell, I'm the first of you, you're my kids. I'm James. That big red guy's a friend.» He repeats some of it in ENglish. God, it's encouraging to hear at least one of them speak English. He's had no damn luck with Matvei
"Stop trying to punch me and I will. Fucker's more slippery than Jello! And I hate Jello." Hellboy grumbles, hand resting on his pistol grip, but not pulling it yet.
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Am I able to come to where you live and meet the puppies and their mother?
Will I have access to you after placement of a puppy if I have questions or need assistance?
Are you involved in showing your dogs in the breed ring and/or the performance rings?
Can you tell me about the sire of this litter, such as why you chose him?
I know prices for pups are established by the individual breeder and may vary. Can you talk with me about your puppy prices?
Do you belong to the West Highland White Terrier Club of America or to the regional Westie club for your state?
AVAILABILITY – Remember that a breeder should be your best friend when you are looking to bring a Westie into your home. They have spent many hours in the breeding, whelping, and care of their puppies. They should interview you every bit as stringently as you should interview them. Be prepared for this process. Our member/breeders are contacted by many people wanting puppies. The more informed and prepared you are when you begin your search for a puppy, the more receptive they will be to your inquiry.
Please keep in mind that locating a pup from a responsible breeder may take a while. Quite unlike the broker or pet shop, getting a pup from a responsible breeder takes time. Conscientious breeders to not breed for money; they breed for the improvement of the breed, for show, and for themselves. Consequently, they may only have one or two litters a year. So, it is up to you to begin your search by making contacts, developing relationships with breeders, and possibly getting on their waiting list for a puppy.
PRICE -- Puppy pricing varies from breeder to breeder, situation to situation. You will also find that the price varies from one region of the country to another. Price is not an arbitrary amount but rather one which can be based on factors such as the value of the pedigree, the reputation of the breeder, the qualities of the dam/sire, etc. Unlike the ads for a low priced Westie found in the newspaper or on the Internet, reputable breeders are highly selective in deciding which two Westies to breed to further improve their line and the breed as a whole. You are paying for that expertise and experience. Puppies from responsible breeders will cost more, but you will be saving money in the long run when compared to the health risks one may encounter when purchasing from venues that charge much less. Keep in mind that anything of quality is worth the price. Breeders who are breeding to better our Westies always take into consideration health, temperament, and conformation – not profit.
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You do not need to tell anyone who someone else is or your estimation of them. Allow each the opportunity to be who they are. They will show up as they will and prove who they are. When you judge another you are broadcasting your limiting thoughts to the universe. You bring no harm upon anyone but yourself, as each only has access to their own vibrational flow unless you give someone else permission by agreeing with them. The Well Being of the universe, the Fount of all Goodness from which all are born remains constantly and consistently within us, connecting us all by a golden thread.


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import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Implements a user-defined mapping from Throwables to ServiceExceptions so clients can utilize Libraries that
 * throw checked exceptions and map those into a ServiceException that will return an HTTP status code.
 *
 * @author toddf
 * @since Oct 13, 2010
 */
public class DefaultExceptionMapper
implements ExceptionMapping
{
	private Map<Class<? extends Throwable>, Class<? extends ServiceException>> exceptions =
		new HashMap<Class<? extends Throwable>, Class<? extends ServiceException>>();

	public <T extends Throwable, U extends ServiceException> void map(Class<T> inExceptionClass, Class<U> outExceptionClass)
	{
		exceptions.put(inExceptionClass, outExceptionClass);
	}

	public ServiceException getExceptionFor(Throwable throwable)
	{
		Class<?> mapped = exceptions.get(throwable.getClass());

		if (mapped != null)
		{
			try
            {
	            Constructor<?> constructor = mapped.getConstructor(String.class, Throwable.class);
	            return (ServiceException) constructor.newInstance(throwable.getMessage(), throwable);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
	            e.printStackTrace();
            }
		}

		return null;
	}
}

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Will Hannah Brown Be On 'Dancing With The Stars'? The Bachelorette Has Moves
By Lexi Williams
The television world loves a good crossover, and one show that shines when bringing together familiar faces is Dancing with the Stars. Coming up on its 28th season, the dancing competition show is poised to bring viewers another exciting round of twirls, leaps, and poses carried out by some of today's most familiar faces. While the full cast list is still under wraps as of Aug. 19, the show's Instagram account has been posting hints, and thanks to one hint in particular, fans are convinced a certain Bachelorette will be making an appearance. So, will Hannah Brown be on Dancing with the Stars? Here are the clues she will be hitting the dance floor soon.
Leading up to the Dancing with the Stars premiere, the show has been teasing which celebrities will be competing on the show. The full cast will be announced on Good Morning America on Wednesday, Aug. 21, but until then, fans have been having a ball guessing which stars will be competing.
While some of the hints have been a little difficult, one Instagram post from the Dancing with the Stars account seems pretty clear. On Sept. 17, the account posted a black-and-white photo of a woman's torso, accompanied by the caption: "We'd LOVE to tell you who this is… But we're going to make you wait a few more days. 😏 Any guesses? #DWTS"
The comments section is almost unanimously sure the woman in the photos is none other than Bachelorette Brown, and they've got some pretty convincing reasoning.
"That's deff Hannah I looked at her most recent she's got the same hand freckles," one person commented, while another wrote, "I can confirm this is Hannah B. because of the beauty marks on her neck and right shoulder."
If these eagle-eyed fans' observations aren't proof enough, US Weekly reported Brown will indeed compete on the show, according to "multiple sources." E! News also reported on the casting rumor; however, ABC did not respond to Elite Daily's request for comment at the time of publication.
On Twitter, where the photo clue was also posted, fans weighed in on whether they think the woman in the photo is Brown, and how they feel about her potentially joining the ballroom competition show.
If she is in fact part of the DWTS cast, there's a good chance Brown could go far. A trained dancer and beauty pageant queen, she definitely knows her way around a stage, and even if she learned styles other than ballroom, it's likely whatever dance background she has will give her a leg up (possibly literally) on the competition.
Of course, considering how her love life turned out after her season on the Bachelorette, her fans are hoping this next reality show stint could also serve as another shot at romance. Though it's not clear yet who will be her dancing partner, people are already hoping whoever it is will end up being a match for her.
Other fans are hoping she'll have some sparks with a fellow celebrity competitor... perhaps one she's already met before.
If you'll recall, before he was dating supermodels or winning the hearts of millions as a contestant on The Bachelorette, Tyler Cameron was a college football player who took dance classes to beef up his GPA. As he revealed on the show, he came to love dancing, and even almost earned a minor in dance. If Cameron ended up on the show, not only would fans be able to marvel at his talents, but they may even get to watch him and Hannah reconnect onscreen.
Fans will learn the truth soon enough, but until then, they're having plenty of fun speculating about who will be foxtrotting their ways onto their TV screens come September.
The 28th season of Dancing with the Stars will premiere on Monday, Sept. 16, on ABC.

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Q: Grails How to save data in a table with belongsTo association? I have two model classes: User and Balance.
class User {

Balance balance
String name
String role
String password
static constraints = { }
}

class Balance {

double balance
static belongsTo = [user:User]
static constraints = {}
}

Every balance belongs to a user. Now, I need to save user and balance details in their respective tables using saveAdd() function.
 def saveAdd(){
    def name = params.name
    def password= params.password
    def balance = Double.parseDouble(params.balance)
    def u = new User(name:name,password:password,role:"user", balance: new Balance(balance:balance))
    u.save(flush:true)
}

But I get "java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: null" error.
Is there any mistake in the mapping process? What am I missing?

A: I would reorganize the code so:
class User {
  static hasOne = [ balance:Balance ]
}

class Balance {
  static belongsTo = [user:User]
}

then you should have no problems saving the objects in your controller:
 def saveAdd(){
    def u = new User(...)
    def b = new Balance(user:u, ...)
    b.save()
    u.save(flush:true)
}

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Lets Do a count down for the game. every day someone post how many days left till the servers up... ill start off first.
A lot of work to do yet, adding quincy race for u, more zans, icons..
See its worth the wait!
You're all counting down to the day I have to fight in Oklahoma City.
Tear it up then, Aisux! Then come join us and destroy some more poor souls.
lol a month? you trolling?
Some people can't count. It's six days left.
it's five, anyone count it in one day,so i post it 2 times in the same day to make up for.
completely forget about the timezones, i always think that other persons are the same as me. somethink bad about me .
Obviously if we stay down for longer it means the games gonna come back up better and with alot more content to play. Good move.


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Born in Gretna, Louisiana, before there were bridges to New Orleans, when folks dressed up to go to town by way of a ferry, Earline was the oldest of two daughters. She met her future husband, Cleve, at the age of 15, while taking the ferry. She would not date him, unless he went to church with her. He did.
Four years later, they would marry. Six and a half years later the first of two daughters would arrive. Ten more years would rush by. The year is 1965; Earline decides (when most women, are stay-at-home moms, and women's lib is in its infancy) to go to work to help support the family, so Cleve can answer a call from God, at the age of 40, to become a minister.
The four-year college thing would stretch into a good ten years, with Cleve graduating from Tulane University in 1973, coinciding with daughter, Stephanie's graduation from high school. There would be another three years of seminary before Cleve would go on to be ordained a full fledged minister.
All this time, while working full time at Motors Insurance Corp., Earline managed to still be available for school functions at night, throwing together many a meal on the run, before microwave ovens or decent T.V. dinners. She attended church regularly on Sundays, often teaching Sunday school. She occasionally threw together a play, sang in the choir, played the organ (never having taken formal music lessons), and attended night time prayer meetings.
She was also the keeper of the calendar, reminding everyone where they needed to be and what time to be there. She was the chauffeur to school, activities, and doctor appointments.
She proof-read and typed many a school paper for Cleve, as well as daughters, Stephanie and Lisa. She had no maid, and her mother, Grandma Mabel, was the child care.
After Cleve passed away in 1998, she continued to attend Gretna United Methodist Church, the church they rejoined after retiring and moving back to Gretna. This was the church they belonged to before Cleve went into the ministry.
In 2000, Earline was blessed with a great-grandson, Damion, whom she helped raise. She spent two years taking care of her dear sister, Jackie until her passing the day before Earline's 75th birthday, in 2004.
Earline stayed home, alone, for Katrina, refusing to evacuate. A week later, when her daughter Stephanie and her family came to rescue her, they found her house to be hidden by branches, just as Stephanie had prayed that God hide her house and keep her safe.
Shortly after her birthday in September 2006, Earline thought she had bronchitis. Subsequently, she developed pneumonia, and then had a stroke, which contributed to her passing at West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero, Louisiana.
She truly let her light shine. Well done faithful servant!
Source: Louisiana Conference Journal, 2007; p. 253.


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Their ambition: to gather their countrymen eager not only to stay informed of the cultural, political, economic and social of France, but also to deepen their links with their host countries. Our branch of Washington DC is active in the states under the responsibility of the Consulate of Washington : Pennsylvania , Maryland , West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware and District of Columbia .


The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given a green light for Roche's Actemra (tocilizumab) for the treatment of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell-induced cytokine release syndrome (CRS) in patients two years and older.
The decision coincided with this week's US approval for the first CAR-T therapy - Novartis' Kymriah - and the new approval is a big win for Roche, as its intravenous injection is the first and currently only approved medication for CAR-T associated CRS.
The condition is caused by an overactive immune response and has been identified as a potentially severe and life-threatening side effect of CAR T cell therapy.
Sandra Horning, chief medical officer and head of global product development, Roche, said: "Until today there has never been an FDA-approved treatment to manage severe CRS associated with CAR T Cell therapy, which is marked by a rapid onset and can cause life-threatening complications.
Due to the rare, severe and life-threatening nature of CRS, alongside outcome data from clinical trials the FDA also gave the medication orphan drug status.
The trial, which included 45 paediatric and adult patients, was treated with Actemra with or without additional high-dose corticosteroids for severe of life-threatening CRS.
It saw 31 patients achieved a resolution of CRS within 14 days of the first dose, and no more than two doses of Actemra were needed.
There were also no adverse actions reported from patients taking the injection.


It appeared as if almost all of Karachi kept flocking to Beach View Park throughout mid-January, so much so that they had to shut down their gates. Karachi Eat Festival has been a success since its launch and this year was no different.
This time, the organisers of Karachi Eat capped the number of eateries at 90 stalls, compared to last year's 125, and quite honestly, that was a brilliant idea. One might have thought it would compromise on the quality and variety of the food options available but the truth could not be far from it.
The best part about Karachi Eat this year was that even though it looked like the whole city had gathered there, the venue was maintained successfully in terms of cleanliness and hygiene.
One of these stalls was that of Hamdard. At the event, Hamdard displayed and sold its brands on discounted prices along with numerous gifts and promotional items for children and women. Several mocktails, made with the famous Rooh Afza, were served at the kiosk – which was a great neutralizer to the scorching sun and congesting crowds. They also offered fresh tea and coffee for the avid caffeine addicts, making it a designated beverage stall at the event.
The footfall, according to the organizers, was approximately between 200,000 – 250,000 people over three days, which means around 40 percent more than last year. These hundreds of thousands of Karachiites included youth, children and senior citizens, all of whom looked united to satisfy their passion for good food and drinks.
The festival also had an area of rides and games for children to keep them busy and entertained while their families could enjoy the wide variety of customised dishes from Doritochaat to macaroni and cheese in waffle cones. Moreover, the event also featured live music for the attendees to enjoy the festival to the maximum.
The best part about Karachi Eat this year was that even though it looked like the whole city had gathered there, the venue was maintained successfully in terms of cleanliness and hygiene. Representatives of companies such as "Safeguard" were walking around with portable wash basins, with running water and handwash, to facilitate the foodies and ease their transition to the next eatery on their list.
Read more: 'Mashroob-e-Mashriq, Rooh Afza, raises Pakistan's flag in North America!
The progress shown by the administration of Karachi Eat to make its experience bigger and better for the people of Karachi is commendable, all the while providing an amazing opportunity for independent vendors to reach the crowds!


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100 Years of LGBTQ Activism
Adrian Brooks, Foreword by Jonathan Katz
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"Written in straightforward and often bold language, The Right Side of History brings fresh concepts to a polarizing topic. Same-sex marriage has been approved, and demands for LBGTQI social reform have increased worldwide, but general understanding has lagged. This compilation will help. For those in the LBGTQI community, Brooks furnishes heritage, heroes, and a genuine hope for a better future." �VOYA Magazine, October 2015
"The Right Side of History is not an original work of historical scholarship. The essays, when they aren�t first-person pieces or interviews, rely on secondary sources for most of their historical claims. However, as I was reading it I thought of myself as a twelve-year-old, and how I likely would have benefited enormously from having a copy of The Right Side pressed into my hands as a birthday or Christmas gift. I was the sort of child who voraciously read young peoples� biographical sketches of inspiring women of history (some of whom I now know were decidedly queer). This collection would have helped me see possibilities for myself in a similar way as those women-of-history collections did � helped me find language and historical context for longings I was just beginning to form. I suggest you consider this book for the queer, questioning, and just plain historically interested teenagers in your life; it�s never too early to start peering through the windows of the past and considering how and where you might fit yourself." �-thefeministlibrarian.com
"The Right Side of History's fundamental premise: Queer activism is an act of patriotism, and radical Queer activists are, and have always been, central to the struggle for a more perfect union. To read this book is to join our Queer ancestors as they dance, riot, write, organize, sew, sashay, and howl their way through American history." �Katie Gilmartin, author of Blackmail, My Love
Before, During, and After Stonewall: 100 Years of Heroes and History
The Right Side of History tells the 100-year history of queer activism in a series of revealing close-ups, first-person accounts, and intimate snapshots of LGBT pioneers and radicals. This diverse cast stretches from the Edwardian period to today, including first-person accounts of the key protest that is at the heart of the 2015 movie Stonewall.
The book shows how LGBT folk have always been in the forefront of progressive social evolution in the United States. It references heroes like Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bayard Rustin, Harvey Milk, and Edie Windsor. Equally, the book honors names that aren�t in history books, from participants in the Names Project, a national phenomenon memorializing 94,000 AIDS victims, to underground artists and writers.
Adrian Brooks is an American writer and activist who's been the vanguard of progressive political, spiritual, and social movements since the 1960s. An international traveler, poet, performer, playwright, painter, and designer, he is also a novelist and nonfiction writer. Born in Philadelphia, Brooks was raised Quaker. After graduating Episcopal Academy in 1966 as an early hippie and anti-war protester, he attended the international Friends World Institute � a radical Quaker school intent on its students becoming nonviolent "agents of social change." In 1968 he volunteered for Martin Luther King in Washington, D.C. Following Dr. King's assassination, Brooks did field work in Mexico and East Africa before attending Woodstock in 1969, then went to India with the Friends World Institute. In the early 70s, he was active in New York's then radical SOHO Movement, then moved West where he became a prominent as one of the first gay liberation poets and as the scriptwriter and star performer of the legendary San Francisco "Angels of Light," an offshoot of the Cockettes. Brooks remains devoted to good works and activism to this day. He supports orphans and assists education in rural India and contributes to the Huffington Post as well as Lambda Literary. He lives in San Francisco.
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Jonathan N. Katz is an independent scholar and historian of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual American history. He is also a visual artist. His historical work has focused on same-sex attraction and changes in the social construction of sexuality and intimate relationships over time. His works stress that the categories with which we name, describe, define, and understand human sexuality are historically and culturally specific, along with the social organization of sexual activity, desire, relationships, and sexual identities. In his work, language is studied as one important tool that human beings use to construct different, historically specific sexualities and sex/gender systems. He lives in New York.
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The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: An Evolving History
Harold Koda
Jessica Glasscock
Fashion and Museums : Theory and Practice
...The first appearance of the Costume Institute's collection was not in a museum, but rather in a Lower East Side Settlement House in Manhattan, New York. Consisting of the wardrobe of a community theater, the early 1900s "collection...
Dress and Fashion Museums
Akiko Fukai
Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion Volume 10 : Global Perspectives
...Until the comparatively recent establishment of specialist fashion museums, dress collections—focused primarily on ethnic, religious, or court dress—had existed in general art museums throughout the world, but they had usually been treated...


The Australian Government this week has announced that employees currently claiming the Living Away from Home Allowance (LAFHA) will be able to continue doing so until 1 July 2014. The government had previously announced that the LAFHA would be closed to most temporary visa holders from 1 July 2012. This change only applies to people who were claiming LAFHA prior to 8 May 2012.
LAFHA is an allowance paid to the employee to cover the additional costs of living away from home while performing employment related duties. There are typically three elements to a LAFHA: accommodation, food, and hardship. LAFHA is widely used by temporary residents on 457 visas to boost their take-home pay.
People will not be eligible for the extension of LAFHA unless they can show they are maintaining a second home in Australia. In this case, LAFHA can only be claimed for a maximum of 12 months. Under the current LAFHA system, many 457 holders claim LAFHA on the basis that they usually reside overseas and are working in Australia on a temporary basis.
These allowances are currently not taxable to the employee and are generally exempt from Fringe Benefits Tax. But under the new reforms, for those without an Australian home, accommodation and food will be included as an assessable allowance to the employee. Therefore this allowance will be taxable to the employee and there will be the requirement for the employer to withhold tax from the allowances paid. The resulting impact upon the employee will be a reduction in their net take home pay.
"The Government will further reform the tax concession for living-away-from-home allowances and benefits, by better targeting it at people who are legitimately maintaining a home away from their actual home for an initial period," according to government guidance. "These further reforms will stop businesses from being able to give a very large taxpayer-funded tax break to employees who aren't maintaining a second home, or are maintaining two homes indefinitely."
Concessions for "fly in, fly out" employees will continue, along with the current tax treatment of travel and meal allowances for short periods of travel up to 21 days.


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Florida to get $10 million for Obamacare sign-ups
Ledyard King
THE NEWS-PRESS Washington bureau
WASHINGTON — Florida will receive $10 million in federal grants to aid efforts to sign up state residents for health care under the Affordable Care Act, health care activists announced Wednesday.
Florida Covering Kids and Families at the University of South Florida in Tampa will receive the largest share of that — $5.9 million. The program operates in all 67 Florida counties.
The money, made available by the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, will help health care "navigators" locate hard-to-reach populations enroll to shop for plans. Those populations include non-English speakers, the disabled and people challenged by technology.
Florida Covering Kids and Families and other groups have so far helped sign up about 2.6 million Floridians for health care coverage on the federal online exchange at HealthCare.gov.
With a third enrollment window opening in November, they're determined to sign up millions more. But they also want to make sure people take full advantage of the law's benefits.
"We want people, once they get coverage, to keep the coverage," said Jodi Ray, director of Florida Covering Kids and Families. "And the best way for folks to keep coverage is to be able to use it properly and see the real value in having coverage."
Nearly 1 million uninsured adults in Florida signed up for coverage during the first enrollment window, which opened almost two years ago. Some 1.6 million signed up during last year's enrollment period. More than 90 percent of Floridians who have signed so far received a subsidy to help them pay for their coverage.
About 127,000 of enrollees live in Southwest Florida, according to government figures. That includes 41,500 in Lee County and about 23,000 in Collier, roughly double the sign-up rates from the previous year.
Florida is one of 37 states that opted not to create their own exchanges and use HealthCare.gov instead. No state using the federal exchange has enrolled more people than Florida.
Despite that success, an estimated 3.8 million Floridians still lack coverage, partly because the state also opted not to expand its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. That has made Florida a major focus of enrollment efforts by activist organizations, including Enroll America.
"Among the most important lessons learned over the last two open (sign-up) periods was the crucial role in-person assistance played in successful enrollment," said Nick Duran, Florida state director for Enroll America.
Efforts to register more people for health coverage are expected to get a boost from a scheduled increase in financial penalties imposed on people who decline coverage.
Contact Ledyard King at lking@gannett.com; Twitter: @ledgeking


BEIJING – The political scandal surrounding one of China's most high-profile politicians, Bo Xilai, whose wife has been given a suspended death sentence for the murder of a British man, is the messiest to strike the ruling Communist Party in years and exposes divisions just ahead of a crucial leadership transition in the fall. Here's a look at the leading characters in the scandal and his wife's trial.
— Bo Xilai: The Communist Party secretary of Chongqing, the western mega-city's top official, and one of the country's most prominent political figures. A former Commerce Minister and the son of one of the communist state's founding fathers, Bo was already in the party's 25-member Politburo and before the scandal was seen as a contender for the nine-member Standing Committee that runs China. Bo's flamboyant personality made him a polarizing figure among elites. Rumors had also swirled about the Bo family's wealth and the shenanigans of his son. Bo remains under a separate party investigation for unspecified wrongdoings.
— Gu Kailai: Bo's wife has been given a suspended death sentence — which is usually commuted to life in prison after two years — for killing British businessman Neil Heywood. State media reported she confessed to his murder following a dispute over money and worried that he had threatened her son's safety. She is said to have risen out of a trying childhood during nationwide upheaval to become a prominent lawyer and high-flying politician's wife. She was skilled at turning on the charm when the going was smooth, yet quick to turn hostile when crossed. Like Bo, she is the offspring of a prominent Chinese politician.
— Bo Guagua: Their 24-year-old son, who was educated in England and the United States, most recently at Harvard University. Guagua, who has appeared shirtless at parties on photos posted on the Internet, has said he attended social events as an Oxford University undergraduate to broaden his perspective. He denies accusations he received preferential treatment in admissions, that he was a poor student or that he drove a pricey sports car. Guagua is not believed to have returned to China since the scandal broke and his whereabouts is unknown.
— Wang Lijun: Wang was Chongqing's police chief before being demoted in February, and he stayed a night at the U.S. consulate in the city of Chengdu near Chongqing, apparently fearing for his life. He refused Bo's demands that he return to Chongqing and was instead taken into custody by investigators from the State Security Ministry in Beijing. While in the consulate, Wang is believed to have alleged that Gu was behind Heywood's death, prompting the British government to ask China to launch a new investigation. In a surprising twist, people who attended the trial say the court heard evidence that Gu had informed Wang of her intentions and that for a time he too participated in planning the murder.
— Neil Heywood: A British business consultant and Bo family friend, his body was found in a secluded Chongqing hotel last November. Chinese authorities originally blamed his death on excess drinking or a heart attack and his body was cremated without an autopsy. Subsequently, an official Chinese statement said he had a longtime business relationship with Gu and her son, Guagua, but that had deteriorated over financial disputes. Bo reportedly sought to block a police investigation after Wang came to him with his suspicions.
— Zhang Xiaojun: State media have referred to Zhang as a Bo family aide and a former Chongqing city staffer. Zhang has been sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for being an accessory to Heywood's murder. Under Gu's orders, he is said to have escorted the Briton from Beijing to Chongqing and carried the poison that Gu gave him.
— Patrick Devillers. A French architect, he was detained in Cambodia in connection with the scandal but not extradited. Instead he chose to fly to China on his own, apparently in order to give evidence in the case. Devillers had helped Bo rebuild the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian when Bo was the city's mayor in the 1990s, The New York Times reported in April. Peter Giles Hall, a British businessman who had done business with Gu, says Devillers and Gu appeared to be romantically involved and he had seen him holding her hand.


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Oxidation Chemistry of Norepinephrine: Partitioning of the O-Quinone between Competing Cyclization and Chain Breakdown Pathways and Their Roles in Melanin Formation.
Aberrant oxidation of norepinephrine (1) via the transient o-quinone has been implicated as a critical pathogenetic mechanism underlying the degeneration of noradrenergic cell bodies in the locus coeruleus in Parkinson's disease, the degeneration of noradrenergic nerve terminals in Alzheimer's disease and following transient cerebral ischemia, and the onset and progression of idiopathic vitiligo. An oxidative pathway of 1 is also believed to account for the slow deposition of neuromelanin in pigmented neurons of the locus coeruleus. Remarkably, after extensive investigations spanning over several decades, there is still a lack of knowledge of the oxidation chemistry of 1 beyond the classic cyclization route leading to aminochrome and lutin intermediates. We report herein that oxidation of 1 in the 50-500 mu M concentration range with H2O2-dependent oxidizing agents, such as the Fenton reagent (Fe2+-EDTA/ H2O2) and the horseradish peroxidase (HRP)/H2O2 system, leads not only to the known cyclization products, such as noradrenochrome and 5,6-dihydroxyindole (3), but also to a significant proportion of chain breakdown products, including 3,4-dihydroxybenzaidehyde, 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid, 3,4-dihydroxymandelic acid, and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylglyoxylic acid, which has never been described among the oxidation products or metabolites of 1. Analysis of the brown melanin-like pigment obtained by oxidation of 1 with HRP/H2O2 gave pyrrole-2,3-dicarboxylic acid and pyrrole-2,3,5-tricarboxylic acid, diagnostic markers of 3-derived units in eumelanins. Comparison with reference pigments prepared by similar oxidation of dopamine and 3 indicated that in the case of 1 oxidative polymerization of indole units through the 2-position contributes only to a minor extent to melanin formation. Overall, the results of this study provide a complete characterization of the oxidative chain fission pathways of 1, highlight 3,4-dihydroxyphenylglyoxylic acid as a novel possible metabolic product of this catecholamine, and yield an insight into norepinephrine-melanin, a putative component of locus coeruleus neuromelanin.
Titolo: Oxidation Chemistry of Norepinephrine: Partitioning of the O-Quinone between Competing Cyclization and Chain Breakdown Pathways and Their Roles in Melanin Formation.
MANINI, PAOLA
PANZELLA, LUCIA
NAPOLITANO, ALESSANDRA
D'ISCHIA, MARCO
CHEMICAL RESEARCH IN TOXICOLOGY
Abstract: Aberrant oxidation of norepinephrine (1) via the transient o-quinone has been implicated as a cri...tical pathogenetic mechanism underlying the degeneration of noradrenergic cell bodies in the locus coeruleus in Parkinson's disease, the degeneration of noradrenergic nerve terminals in Alzheimer's disease and following transient cerebral ischemia, and the onset and progression of idiopathic vitiligo. An oxidative pathway of 1 is also believed to account for the slow deposition of neuromelanin in pigmented neurons of the locus coeruleus. Remarkably, after extensive investigations spanning over several decades, there is still a lack of knowledge of the oxidation chemistry of 1 beyond the classic cyclization route leading to aminochrome and lutin intermediates. We report herein that oxidation of 1 in the 50-500 mu M concentration range with H2O2-dependent oxidizing agents, such as the Fenton reagent (Fe2+-EDTA/ H2O2) and the horseradish peroxidase (HRP)/H2O2 system, leads not only to the known cyclization products, such as noradrenochrome and 5,6-dihydroxyindole (3), but also to a significant proportion of chain breakdown products, including 3,4-dihydroxybenzaidehyde, 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid, 3,4-dihydroxymandelic acid, and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylglyoxylic acid, which has never been described among the oxidation products or metabolites of 1. Analysis of the brown melanin-like pigment obtained by oxidation of 1 with HRP/H2O2 gave pyrrole-2,3-dicarboxylic acid and pyrrole-2,3,5-tricarboxylic acid, diagnostic markers of 3-derived units in eumelanins. Comparison with reference pigments prepared by similar oxidation of dopamine and 3 indicated that in the case of 1 oxidative polymerization of indole units through the 2-position contributes only to a minor extent to melanin formation. Overall, the results of this study provide a complete characterization of the oxidative chain fission pathways of 1, highlight 3,4-dihydroxyphenylglyoxylic acid as a novel possible metabolic product of this catecholamine, and yield an insight into norepinephrine-melanin, a putative component of locus coeruleus neuromelanin.


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У геометрији полупречник je дуж која спаја центар круга (лопте) са тачком на периферији. Уобичајена ознака је -{r}- (латинично мало слово р), што води порекло од латинске речи -{radius}-.

Полупречник је такође половина пречника круга.

Из полупречника се изводе и неке друге формуле за израчунавање: површине, обима, кружног исечка итд.
Формула за добијање обима круга је: -{2r}-π

Полупречник круга обима  је:

Формула за добијање површина круга је:

Ознака за пречник круга је мало латинично слово  је, a за центар кружнице је .

Формула

За многе геометријске фигуре, полупречник се може изразити формулом преко осталих мера фигуре.

Кругови
Полупречник круга површине  је

Полупречник круга кроз три неколинеарне тачке ,  и  дат је са

где је  угао . Ова формула користи синусну теорему. Ако су дате координате три тачке , , и , полупречник се може изразити са

Референце

Кругови

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Seamus was born in Co. Kildare, Ireland, the youngest of eight. Predeceased by son Brendan and brother Brin, as well as parents Sarah & Patrick. Survived by son Erin and daughters Shannon & Jessica. Married to Catherine for 22 years. Seamus immigrated to Canada October of 1977. Seamus had a passion for life that sparkled in his eye. His chuckle could shake the frown from any mans face. His jokes and his blarney entertained for hours. Those who knew Seamus, knew him as a friend. You will live on forever in our hearts. Rest in peace "giggler". Memorial Mass will be held in St. James Roman Catholic Church, Saturday, January 19 at 11A.M. Fr. Martin Peyton Celebrant. Reception to follow at Fraternal Order Of Eagles Hall at 1:30p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society in memory of Seamus O'Gorman.


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TT: A little taste
Here's a photograph of the scale model of Hildegard Bechtler's set for the opening scene of The Letter. The first thing the audience hears is gunfire on a darkened stage. Then the lights come up:
Cool, huh?
TT: Home-style rock
Erin McKeown, the singer-songwriter who has been praised many times in this space, is presenting a series of four live house concerts over the Web in order to raise funds to underwrite the release of her next album, Hundreds of Lions.
Says McKeown:
My new record, Hundreds of Lions, was made on my own dime and my own time, with no influence, input, or manipulation from any outside source. It has meant so much to me to be able to record the music I've written just as I imagined it to sound, with nothing lost in the translation.
The series, which McKeown calls "Cabin Fever," will be aired on July 7 at seven p.m., July 16 at noon, July 22 at three p.m., and July 26 at five p.m. All times are EST and all performances will be telecast live from McKeown's home in western Massachusetts. Tickets are $10 per show or $30 for the complete series.
For more information, go here.
Here's a video trailer for "Cabin Fever":
TT: Snapshot
Francis Poulenc, Jacques Février, Georges Prêtre and the Orchestra National de la RTF perform the first movement of Poulenc's Two-Piano Concerto. Poulenc is the pianist on the left:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
"I don't care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I've already written."
Anton Chekhov, letter to A.S. Suvorin (Oct. 27, 1888)


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Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross Appoints New Members of the President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department of Commerce, on behalf of President Donald J. Trump, has appointed 26 members to the President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA). "The United States is making real progress in Africa, and we remain a strong, long-term, and stable partner in the continent's economic development especially through the...


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Q: Remove empty attribute bindings in Ember components I'm trying to make an Ember Component for clickable icons in a new project (an getting to know Ember in the process) and have run into an issue with attribute bindings:
How do I remove empty attribute bindings from the rendered HTML?
According to the official guides I can either bind to a string or number to let the attribute be poppulated with the string/number or bind to a boolean to toggle the attribute (assuming attributes and class names follow the same structure), but if I pass a boolean false to remove the attribute, its value is just set to the string "false".
Component code
export default Ember.Component.extend({
  tagName: 'i',
  classNameBindings: ['icon'],
  attributeBindings: ['title', 'roleAttribute:role'],
  icon: 'blank', // Defaults to a blank icon
  title: '', // Defualts to empty title
  click() {
    this.sendAction();
  },
  roleAttribute: function() {
    return this.get('action') ? 'button' : false;
  }.property()
});

Usage in template
{{ui-icon icon="close" title="Close" action="hide"}}
{{ui-icon icon="close" title="Close"}}

Expected result (Ember ID's and class names removed for clarity)

Real result (Ember ID's and class names removed for clarity)

If I pass an empty string instead of false I still get the role, but without a value assigned, but I want no role at all.

A: Based on this comment in the issue thread you should return null instead of false to remove an attribute.
Here is the working demo