As the presidential, gubernatorial and legislative races scurry towards November, candidates and parties are attempting to address my concerns — assuming my concerns are already on their agenda. As a woman, an aerospace worker and a member of the middle class, my vote is clearly valuable if you judge the campaign by the content of 30-second commercial debates.
But what if my actual concerns for the problems in our community are not on the political agenda of the candidates at all? Do they ever get addressed or even heard? Is my vote ever wooed in the direction of a candidate that I actually want in office?
I've always felt that rather than debate an opponent, candidates should debate a voter instead. And with that format, the field is wide open on topics for discussion.
So my debate with the candidates would include issues of the Washington economy and access to affordable health care, but it would also include my long-term concern for the welfare of animals and support for the un-glorified government agencies and organizations that try to address these issues.
And I'm not alone. Not only is Seattle an intensely dog-centric city, it is home to roughly 50 animal rescue, welfare and advocacy groups. Additionally, these groups don't even reflect a true estimate of the number of individuals who live without harming animals at all. For example, if we use the density of vegan restaurants (around 20 or so thriving businesses in the City of Seattle) as a yardstick of the number of people interested in the welfare of animals, this unit of measure indicates that Seattleites not only care about animals and what happens to them, but they have created a community that reflects that ethos.
Furthermore, our population of vegetarians, feral cat rescuers, pet adopters, shelter volunteers, foster families, and conscientious people who are willing to take that extra step to house back-yard chickens and goats, buy free-range eggs and support humanely raised local meats should indicate to candidates that animals matter in our community.
So in my hypothetical debate with the candidates, here are a few issues I would like to discuss.
For the past few years, legislators in Olympia have passed over future consideration of the so-called spay/neuter bills. HB 1226 and SB 5151 would essentially create a state-wide program to provide low-cost, accessible spay/neuter services to all areas of Washington State. The goal is to help reduce the number of homeless animals that are euthanized in our shelters and to relieve local governments of the financial pressure of dealing with so many homeless pets. The problem is that it costs money. Not much money, and the proposal for the program includes a fee on pet food to avoid using general funds. The opposition is simply from people who are tax-phobic – even when cities and counties in Washington have to pay many times the cost of the spay/neuter program to euthanize animals rather than fix them.
Second, I want to know that progress will be made to help end long-term chaining or tethering of dogs in Washington State. This is an issue that was considered in previous legislative sessions as HB1755 and SB5649. Advocates hope to reintroduce the bills in the 2013 legislative session. From my discussions with a handful of Washington candidates, opposition to this bill comes from legislators who don't think you can tell people how to treat your dog. So who will fight the good fight in Olympia?
I recently learned that the Washington Alliance for Humane Legislation (an advocacy group in Olympia) hopes to find sponsorship in the 2013 legislative session for a bill that would give animal control officers (ACO) in Washington the authority to enforce anti-cruelty and neglect laws (read more here). I don't need to see another news story about neglected, starving horses or a raided puppy mills to know this is a good idea, but I do need to know my representatives will support such a bill.
Finally, while I'm a fan of small businesses, I don't feel that businesses that cost our government money, instead of adding to the economy, are appropriate. This is the problem with retail pet stores found scattered across Washington State. In the past few years, many city governments in Canada and the US have banned the retail sale of dogs, cats and rabbits to stop the flow of impulse-purchased pets into shelters and end support of puppy mills. Austin, TX made an early move to ban the sale of dogs and cats and found an almost immediate reduction in the number of animal intakes at their local shelter. The Los Angeles city council is poised to do the same this fall (ref: Spot). LA council members in favor of the ban report that it will help reduce the nearly 20,000 animals euthanized in LA each year.
So why not in Washington State? Why not in Seattle? We have a lot of homeless pets in our city and our state, coupled with a network of private breeders who can provide purebred dogs to appropriate homes with the proper oversight. We don't need animals shipped from puppy and kitten mills in the Midwest and sold to any passers-by. Furthermore, I'm tired of paying for the consequences of massive numbers of homeless pets shuffled through our animal control agencies statewide. I want this to be an election issue, and I want to know where the candidates stand.
I'm fairly certain that an election is about what voters decide to speak up about. And for me, this election agenda includes animal welfare and the financial pressures that failures to address these issues puts on our local and state governments.
CHRISTIE LAGALLY is a freelance columnist who writes for City Living Seattle newspaper and the blog "Sniffing Out Home: A Search for Animal Welfare Solutions" at www.sniffingouthome.org.
See original article in the Richmond News.
In the wake of the recent destruction of 100 sled dogs in Whistler, it's natural to reflect on what could have been done to prevent this horrific event.
Political voices from the sled dog community to animal welfare advocates say that we need better laws to protect animals (which we do) and that we need the sled dog industry to be responsible and take care of their own.
The man who shot those dogs claimed he had no other choice and that he asked for help from various agencies, and was a victim himself of a company that put profits first.
Of course this does not justify his actions or that of his company.
But the lesson I learned from this mass murder is that animal welfare has always been and will always be is a matter of diligence and cooperation in our communities. And diligence is what is needed right now here in Richmond.
My friend Helen Savkovic works at the front desk of the Richmond Animal Shelter and receives nearly every call to our local shelter regarding dogs, cats or other animals in distress or in need of new homes. But some of the hardest calls to receive are those about a dog chained in a yard, penned up or used as a guard dog for an industrial site with no real home or family.
Alone, frustrated and confused, these dogs suffer from exactly the problems you'd expect from unending isolation — aggression, anxiety and fear. Worse yet, chained dogs often suffer from the collar wearing all the hair off their necks and the collar can even imbed into the skin.
Clearly, chaining or tethering a dog is against the law in Richmond, yet people still do this. And often it's only the neighbours or passersby who see a dog living in these conditions.
Marion Hewko is the Canadian representative and contact for Dogs Deserve Better (DDB), an international organization dedicated to educating the public about the cruelty to chained and penned dogs.
In addition to advocacy work through local shelters, Hewko and other area representatives for the organization work to help owners understand how awful life is for a dog on a chain.
Hewko works to form a relationship with owners of dogs who are reported to be living life on a chain or always penned in a yard.
She says that so many people don't realize the emotional and physical trauma they are causing their dog, and Dogs Deserve Better helps owners understand the need to bring the dog into the family and "break the chain" of isolation and abuse.
But a handful of representatives can't address the issue of chained and penned dogs alone. DDB depends on neighbours, friends and family, or passersby to report a chained or penned dog in distress.
In Richmond, you can call the Richmond Animal Shelter at 604-275-2036. If you see an incident of a chained dog, write down as much information as you can about the address and conditions.
If you have a cellphone or camera, take a video to document the situation so that an animal control officer or a representative from DDB can get in contact with the owner and ultimately help the dog.
While we may not be able to help those sled dogs now that they are gone, we can certainly make every effort to help every dog in distress in Richmond. If you want to do more to help chained or penned dogs, visit the Dogs Deserve Better website at www.dogsdeservebetter.com.
Christie Lagally is a volunteer pet columnist and founder of the Animal Welfare Advocacy Coalition. View her blog at christielagally.wordpress.com.


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Santa Croce a Via Flaminia ou Basílica da Santa Cruz na Via Flamínia é uma igreja titular e basílica menor localizada na Via Flamínia, no quartiere Flaminio de Roma, e de dedicada à Santa Cruz.

O cardeal-presbítero protetor do título de Santa Cruz na Via Flaminia, desde de 19 de novembro de 2016, é o Cardeal Sérgio da Rocha, atual arcebispo de Salvador.

História
A igreja foi construída em 1913 pelo arquiteto Aristide Leonori por encomenda do papa Pio X (r. 1903–1914) para celebrar o 1600º aniversário do Édito de Milão, que legalizou o cristianismo no Império Romano. No estilo de uma basílica romana, sua fachada está decorada por mosaicos de Biagio Biagetti e é precedida por um pórtico sustentado por seis colunas jônicas. O campanário tem cinco andares.

O interior é composto de três naves separadas por seis colunas de granito bávaros de cada lado.

Aberta em 12 de julho de 1914, Santa Croce foi entregue à Congregação dos Sagrados Estigmas de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo (estigmatinos), mas só foi consagrada em 1918 numa cerimônia celebrada pelo arcebispo Giuseppe Pallica. O papa papa Paulo VI elevou-a ao status de basílica menor em 1964.

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Basílicas em Roma
Igrejas titulares em Roma
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Roma Q. I Flaminio

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Observable Evolution
July 20, 2014 Neil Worcester Action, Movie Reviews, Posts, Science Fiction 1
Pro-tip: monkey with shotgun is an automatic win in Rock-Paper-Scissors.
Movie Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
…and then monkey George Washington crossed the Delaware with his assault rifle, and that is why we celebrate Monkey Independence Day.
The Planet of the Apes franchise has struggled to find its niche of late. An ill fated remake was followed by a lifeless reboot, and this summer we are treated to a sequel to that reboot of a remake of a franchise. If you have already fled screaming, I can understand. Hollywood has a pretty dismal track record with reboots of old franchises, and between Amazing Spider Man 2, Godzilla, and the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja "Oh-My-God What Happened to Your Face?" Turtles, this is promising to be a hell of a summer for disappointing re-treads. That being said, I think Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (DPA) is a quality movie, and perhaps just good enough to generate fresh interest in a franchise that has been teetering on the brink for several films.
To the Trees!
The credits do a remarkable job of catching viewers up who may have skipped the previous movie (because James Franco induces that reaction in most viewers.) Almost all of the questions I entered the theater with about the plot were answered in the first 20 minutes, leaving my brain free to enjoy the film. An ethically challenged lab created a serum to fight Alzheimer's disease, but tests on monkeys reveal that it has increased their intelligence to roughly human levels. I know, sucks for them. James Franco teaches one chimp, Caesar, language and culture. Caesar then engineers a prison break and takes his newly minted clan of intelligent simians into the forests of California. At the same time, a bio-engineered simian flu escapes the lab, wiping out about 9/10ths of the human population. Yay science!
Was I the only one who wished they had hid a Simpson's reference on the monkey school black board?
Fast forward 10 years. The apes live in a hunter-gatherer society, blessed by prosperity thanks to the disappearance of humans. Caesar leads the tribe, which we find has implemented many improvements, such as building a kick-ass monkey fort and creating a school to educate their young. Trouble intrudes on this idyllic version of monkey Robinson Crusoe when humans suddenly appear again. Attempting to repair a hydro-electric power station to provide energy to their precarious settlement, the survivors of the simian plague accidentally trespass on Caesars domain. A stand off occurs, Caesar is both fair and tough, and apes and humans decide to live and let live. Yeah. Nope.
The meat of the plot centers around the feelings of fear and anger that flare up in both the human and ape camps. Convergent evolution has ensured that both tribes have an equal scattering of assholes amongst them. Some humans fear that apes still harbor the plague, and will cause the final destruction of mankind. Some apes remember the horrors of human labs and cages, and figure that humanity must be crushed before it can go back to subjugating apes. Caesar and his human counterpart, Malcolm, want to use the pressing of the reset button as a chance to normalize relationships. Their optimism is tested as escalating confrontations push apes and humans down the path to war.
Squares can't dig a monkey's love.
Three Ring Serkis
To be honest, this looks like the most fun you could have at a job.
As everyone will tell you, the real star of the picture is Andy Serkis, the ubiquitous motion-capture performer who brought Gollum to life for Peter Jackson's movies. Those people aren't lying to you. The motion capture is flawless, and the digital apes are about the best use of CG that I've seen in a movie. The uncanny valley disappears for apes, whose facial features and bodily movements seem tailor-made for the slightly stiff puppet-like movements that computers create. Serkis truly makes this film about the apes. I could frankly have spent the whole run time watching the apes as they went about their business of manufacturing a society. The clash between Caesar and his lieutenant Koba is fascinating, and hardly needs any human intervention to create a dynamic plot.
A great cast, and they work for peanuts!
The monkeys are so well rendered and brought to life, the movie may well have been stronger had humans been merely a whispered threat from off-stage instead of an actual antagonist for the apes to physically fight. Unlike other feature films that have sacrificed an engaging non-human story line in favor of a tacked on human interest story (Godzilla, all four Transformers movies) DPA sticks mostly to its best feature: the monkeys and their society. Even when humanity becomes the major cause of strife, it is still viewed through the prism of ape culture.
Jane Mostly-Goodall
Koba makes my list of all time great movie villains.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the movie that the Planet of the Apes franchise desperately needed. It provides a credible and well articulated back story that moves the ball forward. The relationship between Caesar, Koba, and the rest of the pack gives plenty of material for additional films set before the iconic first film. I find myself looking forward to the looming war between the species, as both camps have been handled well. That being said, I think DPA may have discovered the secret to the originals success: The apes. If you have interesting apes, the human element is almost unnecessary. The original was pretty much a guided tour of an alien culture, as seen through one man's eyes. There was no human ascendancy angle, no winks or nods towards how amusingly human the apes were. They were apes, with their own story, and that story only incidentally involved humans. I hope this trend continues, as we truly have a great chance to experience a unique perspective thanks to Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
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Bhattacharya Lab Analyzes Genome Sequence of Paulinella, Shedding Light on the Origin of Photosynthesis
October 12, 2020 by Office of Communications
Paulinella chromatophora.
Paulinella chromatophora, described in 1895 by the German zoologist Robert Lauterborn, is considered to be one of the first documented cases of endosymbiosis, that is, a "plant-like" cell living inside an "animal-like" cell. Therefore, Paulinella occupies a pivotal position in the endosymbiosis field. However, because this is a rare and difficult to culture single-celled organism, very few studies have been done, until distinguished professor Debashish Bhattacharya (Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology) and his colleagues were able to culture enough cells to sequence the genome as well as do many other experiments.
The origin of photosynthesis in algae and plants occurred over a billion years ago, whereas the Paulinella event occurred about 100 million years ago. The Paulinella is a "work in progress" model of endosymbiosis that helps explain how the ancient endosymbiosis, that shaped our planet, succeeded. Therefore, Paulinella is a critical tool for understanding the origin of primary production—the conversion of the sun's energy into organic material through photosynthesis—important because it is the process that forms the foundation of food webs in most ecosystems.
The team determined the 707 million base pair genome sequence of Paulinella and studied how photosynthesis works in this species. To do this, they identified genes that are active over the daytime-nighttime cycle and determined how Paulinella responds to high light, a common stress factor that algae and plants need to deal with. The team's findings suggest that massive gene evolution was needed to allow photosynthesis in Paulinella.
Why does it matter? Photosynthesis is critical for our planet because algae and plants use this process to "fix" inorganic carbon into sugars that support many ecosystems, including crops that feed humans. How this complex process evolved is shrouded in mystery because it occurred over 1 billion years ago in algae and plants and the early steps have been lost to time. Paulinella offers the opportunity to access this information and learn about the major early innovations that allowed photosynthesis to take hold. We can also apply this information to potentially improve primary production in crop plants, algae, and edible seaweeds.
Ongoing work funded by NASA in the Bhattacharya lab is aimed at better understanding how the photosynthetic machinery works in Paulinella and what sorts of genomic changes have occurred in this species. Working with their partner on the NASA grant, Arthur Grossman at the Carnegie Institution in Stanford, they are identifying newly arisen genes in Paulinella that may help improve photosynthesis in other algae and plants. The Grossman lab will express these novel Paulinella genes in photosynthetic cyanobacteria to test their impacts on reducing stress caused by excess high light that disrupts the photosynthetic machinery. The Lab is also developing single cell methods to study gene expression to understand how individual Paulinella cells are regulating photosynthesis and coordinating their circadian clock throughout the light-dark cycle.
The published preprint in Oxford Academic is at https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msaa206/5892262. Pubmed.gov National Library of Medicine also published at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32790833/. The final paper will appear in the November issue.
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Writer David Foster Wallace found dead
David Foster Wallace won a cult following for his dark humor and ironic wit, which was on display in "The Broom of the System," his 1987 debut novel; "Girl With Curious Hair," a 1989 collection of short stories; and "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments" (1997). The writer was found dead Friday night in Claremont, reportedly a suicide. He was 46. (Marion Ettlinger)
Los Angeles Times Book Editor David L. Ulin on the death of David Foster Wallace:
"He is one of the main writers who brought ambition, a sense of play, a joy in storytelling and an exuberant experimentalism of form back to the novel in the late '80s and early 1990s. And he really restored the notion of the novel as a kind of canvas on which a writer can do anything." (Gary Hannabarger)
A talented tennis player as a youngster, David Foster Wallace attended Amherst College and majored in philosophy before switching his focus to writing fiction. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1985 and turned his senior thesis into the basis for "The Broom of the System."
After earning a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Arizona, Wallace began teaching writing at Illinois State University in Normal in 1993. In 2002 he was named the first Roy E. Disney professor of creative writing at Pomona College in Claremont. (Keith Bedford / Getty Images)
In a 1996 profile in the New York Times Magazine, Frank Bruni wrote: "Wallace is to literature what Robin Williams or perhaps Jim Carrey is to live comedy: a creator so maniacally energetic and amused with himself that he often follows his riffs out into the stratosphere, where he orbits all alone." (Eric Chu)
In a book review dated Feb. 7, 1997, Los Angeles Times staff writer Susan Salter Reynolds wrote:
[I]t's nice to see young folks having fun with language, and I think that after his famed 1,000-page novel, "Infinite Jest," there is no question that David Foster Wallace has fun with language.
He trounces words; he pivots on commas; he drops in and out of styles like a vaudevillian who lets the audience watch him change costumes right there on stage.... It's the dress-up quality of Wallace's prose that is both disconcerting and charming. (Handout photo)
Scott M. Morris reviewed "Oblivion" for the L.A. Times on June 13, 2004. Here are some excerpts:
David Foster Wallace has earned a place as one of America's most daring and talented young writers. His use of language is pyrotechnic, and he is impatient with traditional narrative forms. In his new collection, "Oblivion," he is up to his customary tricks, but he has also plumbed a little deeper in matters of the heart.
Those who are familiar with Wallace's inventive wordplay will not be disappointed. In "Another Pioneer," a passenger on an airplane relates a conversation he overheard about a Third World village that has produced a gifted child able to answer any question put to him. In Wallace's hands, the story itself is questioned: "[A]t certain points it became unclear what was part of the cycle's narrative Ding an sich and what were the passenger's own editorial interpolations and commentary...." Which, not incidentally, is a good way of describing Wallace's writing....
Of course, these being Wallace stories, such plot summaries are to some degree beside the point. There are stories within these stories, along with Wallace's trademark footnotes, parenthetical comments and bracketed observations. His eye for cultural detail is ever sharp, his humor ever dry. (Michael Morgenstern / For The Times)
Steve Almond reviewed "Consider the Lobster" for the Los Angeles Times on Dec. 18, 2005. Here are some excerpts:
There is no writer alive to whom I would more happily entrust the task of covering the Adult Video News Awards (the porn industry's Oscars) than David Foster Wallace. There is no writer alive more incisive and hilarious, more ruthlessly tender, when it comes to documenting the perversities of modern American life.
As wittily as Wallace records the moral horrors on display, he never loses sight of the genre's essential pathos. The most fascinating subject he encounters at the Adult Video News Awards is an elderly police detective -- a gentle, soft-spoken grandfather -- who watches porn "for those rare moments in orgasm or accidental tenderness when the starlets drop their stylized ... sneer and become, suddenly, real people."
This is what makes Wallace so effective as a correspondent: his emotional curiosity about the world. For all his nimble phrasing and postmodern tomfoolery, he's something of an innocent. (Wes Bausmith / Los Angeles Times)
By Claire Noland and Joel Rubin
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46.
Jackie Morales, a records clerk at the department, said Wallace's wife called police at 9:30 p.m. Friday saying she had returned home to find that her husband had hanged himself.
Wallace, who had taught creative writing at Pomona College since 2002, was on leave this semester.
Times book editor David Ulin was in New York City for a National Book Critics Circle Board meeting Saturday.
"What was a party is now a wake," Ulin said as the news of Wallace's death circulated. "People were speechless and just blown away.
"He was one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years," Ulin said.
"He is one of the main writers who brought ambition, a sense of play, a joy in storytelling and an exuberant experimentalism of form back to the novel in the late '80s and early 1990s," Ulin said. "And he really restored the notion of the novel as a kind of canvas on which a writer can do anything."
Wallace won a cult following for his dark humor and ironic wit, which was on display in "The Broom of the System," his 1987 debut novel; "Girl With Curious Hair," a 1989 collection of short stories, and "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments" (1997). In 1997, he also received a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
A year earlier he shot to the top of the literary world with "Infinite Jest," a sprawling, ambitious novel with a nonlinear plot that ran 1,079 pages and had nearly as many footnotes.
Critics marveled at the prodigious talent evident in his imaginative take on a future world, comparing him to Thomas Pynchon and John Irving.
In a 1996 profile in the New York Times Magazine, Frank Bruni wrote, "Wallace is to literature what Robin Williams or perhaps Jim Carrey is to live comedy: a creator so maniacally energetic and amused with himself that he often follows his riffs out into the stratosphere, where he orbits all alone."
Other collections of fiction and nonfiction followed, including "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" (1999), "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity" (2003) and "Oblivion" (2004).
In June, to coincide with this fall's presidential election, he reworked a 2000 essay about Republican candidate John McCain for a paperback published as "McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express With John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope."
Wallace was born Feb. 21, 1962, in Ithaca, N.Y., and raised in Illinois, where his father taught philosophy at the University of Illinois and his mother taught English at a community college.
A talented tennis player as a youngster, Wallace attended Amherst College and majored in philosophy before switching his focus to writing fiction.
He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1985 and turned his senior thesis into the basis for "The Broom of the System."
After earning a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Arizona, Wallace began teaching writing at Illinois State University in Normal in 1993.
In 2002 he was named the first Roy E. Disney professor of creative writing at Pomona College.
Gary Kates, the college's dean, called Wallace's death "an incredible loss."
"He was a fabulous teacher," Kates said Saturday. "He was hands-on with his students. He cared deeply about them. . . . He was a jewel on the faculty, and we deeply appreciated everything he gave to the college."
In addition to his wife, Karen Green, and his parents, Wallace is survived by a sister.
A memorial service is planned at Pomona College.
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Firstly I would like to credit the two following pages from The Tektite Source - 'Is it a tektite?' and The Meteorite Times - 'Jim's Fragments, January 2003 - Tektite Testing'. These pages have excellent information on how to differentiate tektites from terrestrial volcanic obsidian and other glassy materials.
Our specific problem was that Desmond Leong had been supplied a couple of pieces of Moung Nong-type Philippinite from Davao City, which is in the south of Mindanao - the southern-most area of the Philippines. This area boasts a famous and very beautiful active volcano - Mount Apo (undoubtedly a ready source for obsidian). The supplier reportedly had 100 kilos of material, which in itself is suspicious. Desmond, obviously concerned about the authenticity of any specimens he adds to his personal collection or sells on his site, www.tektiteinc.com, asked me for my opinion. Instantly my feelings were that this material was terrestrial volcanic obsidian. It simply did not look correct and was not identical to Moung Nong-type tektites that I have from Thailand. It also had a hole running all the way through the specimen and was clearly related to flow and appeared more reminiscent of obsidian. Moung Nong-type tektites have been reported from the Philippines, but personally I have never seen any. I would question the existence of Moung Nong-type tektites in the Philippines, perhaps suggesting that they have been muddled up with tektites that show elongate bubbles rather than true layering. If Moung Nong-type tektites were to exist in the Philippines I would anticipate them to occur in the northern area of the Philippines, in closer proximity to the source crater, located somewhere on or close to the Indochinese Peninsula. One would not expect this tektite type in more distal regions of the strewnfield.
ABOVE: The material believed to be obsidian, not a Moung Nong-type tektite, that we intended to test. From near Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines. In the bottom photo, note the hole that goes all the way through the specimen in the middle-top left hand side.
ABOVE: A second piece of the material we believed to be obsidian, not a Moung Nong-type tektite. From near Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines.
So, to be certain whether this material was obsidian or Moung Nong-type tektites we decided to carry out some destructive tests (afterall there was 100 kg of material) !
First we took an oxy-acetylene torch to a nice biscuit-type Philippinite. It was spectacular to watch! The photos are shown in strict order.
With the fun over, we now allowed the tektite to cool at the outside temperature (around 30 degrees Centigrade).
The tektite behaved exactly as anticipated. The lack of volatile elements meant that no frothing/foaming was observed, the glass simply became molten and flowed. The most interesting part of this experiment was how quickly the glass cooled afterwards. I am not familiar with glass making and this surprised me. Within 5 minutes the glass had gone from white hot, to orange, red and then back to black. Once black the tektite appeared to become brittle. After about 20 minutes, whilst still warm, the tektite was fine to handle.
In Commercial glass making Schuler, F. and Schuler, L., 1970, give the following colour-temperature scale:
Colour Temperature (Degrees Centigrade)
Brilliant White 1515-1270
White 1270-1215
Yellow 1215-1080
Orange 1080-975
Cherry Red 975-850
Dull Red 850-600
(Rigid and Brittle glass) Under 450
It is worth noting that, due to the speed the tektite glass cooled, one split and one crack formed in the heated area of the specimen. In the last photo a chip of the glass is seen to break off the specimen in a very similar way to 'bald' areas noted in Indochinites. In commercial glass making, in order to avoid this cracking/breakage, which is caused by thermal expansion/contraction, an annealing process is followed. This basically slows the cooling rate - an example given is holding the glass at 500 deg C for 20 minutes: this is the annealing stage, which relieves stresses introduced by heating. Next, two cooling steps are carried out, dropping the temperature by 75 deg C to 425 deg C over 67 minutes, then to room temperature over a further 45 minutes. The cooling steps must be slow enough so that stress can be partially relieved and not become too great.
Assuming an inherited cosmic velocity of around 10 km/sec the tektites would have reached the Philippines around 3-4 minutes after impact. Whilst the size and surface area of the body and exterior temperature would have resulted in variable cooling rates, I think it is fair to say that by re-entry time the exterior of the tektites had cooled sufficietly to become brittle.
Next we attacked the obsidian or possible Moung Nong-type tektite from Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines. If this was obsidian (as we expected) it should have bubbled and foamed due to the volatile content. It didn't - it exploded within seconds of heat being applied. We did the same with a known piece of Obsidian and that also exploded. This highlights the importance of wearing proper eye protection. At this point the experiment was terminated as it was unsafe to have glass shards flying everywhere! On the foaming front, this experiment was inconclusive.
ABOVE: When heat was applied to obsidian (the possible Moung Nong-type tektite) it exploded!
Despite it not being possible to create the frothing and foaming, we were able to utilise the glass shards. By holding the shards up to a light source it was possible to observe the colour. Australasian tektites exhibit a coffee brown colour in transmitted light. (Other tektites may exhibit a green or brown-green/olive green colour in transmitted light). Obsidian, however, is commonly grey in transmitted light and this is what we observed in our possible Moung Nong-type tektite, thus confirming that it was, in fact, terrestrial volcanic obsidian.
ABOVE: On the left a possible Moung Nong-type tektite from near Davao City, Philippines. The grey colouration indicated that it was in fact terrestrial volcanic obsidian. On the right is a shard of a large, confirmed Philippinite tektite. This exhibited the typical coffee brown colour of Australasian tektites.
Schuler, F. and Schuler, L. 1970. Glassforming. Chiltern Book Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A. and Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd, Onatario, Canada.
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Mr Woodroofe said that many of the drone sightings were by people he knew personally and trusted – "members of my team, people I have worked with for a decade, people who have worked for thirty years on the airfield, who fully understand the implications of reporting a drone sighting". "They knew they'd seen a drone. I know they saw a drone. We appropriately closed the airport."Panorama has been told witnesses reported seeing an extremely fast-moving, large drone with bright lights. At least one person noted the characteristic cross shape while others described it as "industrial or commercial" and "not something you could pop into Argos for", an airport spokesperson said.Threat remainsOther international airports have installed counter-drone technology and Gatwick has confirmed that, in the days after the attack, it spent £5m on similar equipment.Asked whether Gatwick should have done more to protect the airport from drones before the incident, Mr Woodroofe said the government had not approved any equipment for drone detection at that stage. "The equipment I have on site today is painted sand yellow because it comes straight from the military environment," he added.Panorama has learned that Gatwick bought two sets of the AUDS (Anti-UAV Defence System) anti-drone system made by a consortium of three British companies. AUDS was one of two systems the military deployed at the airport on the evening of 20 December.


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Bookish Wednesday: Her Body and Other Parties
By Gabriela Ramos Tavárez • UPR Contributor • Entertainment November 13, 2019 at 12:00pm
he short story author, essayist, and critic Carmen Maria Machado made her debut in 2017 with a short story collection called Her Body and Other Parties. It's composed of eight speculative tales and the book is quite difficult to categorize. They don't circumscribe to the traits of a single genre. Arguably, they can all be thought of as horror, but the horrific stems from fantasy, fairy tales, folktales, or science fiction. The horror is also very diverse. There's body horror, paranormal horror, horror-romance, and psychological horror. Sometimes the situations are horrifying or unsettling within the context or because of their implications.
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The first tale, "The Husband Stitch," is a reimagining of the classic children's tale, "The Green Ribbon", told from the point of view of a wife with a ribbon around her neck that her husband insists on removing throughout their lives together. The story laments how men, whether they're "bad" or "good," disrespect the boundaries and autonomy of the women they love. The husband misinterprets her refusal as distrust or dishonesty, refusing to allow a secret to the woman that has given herself to him through all their lives.
The second tale, "Inventory," is easily identifiable as a science fiction tale. A woman recounts all the lovers she's ever had throughout her quest for survival in the middle of a mysterious epidemic. The following story, "Mothers," is the surreal and ambiguous tale of two women and the child they conceived together. The longest tale, "Especially Heinous," tells an unsettling ghost story using Law and Order: SVU episode titles and descriptions crafted by Machado.
The protagonist in "Real Women Have Bodies" works at a dress store. A ghastly ailment is making women vanish slowly. She discovers the essence of these women is sewn into the dresses sold at her workplace, but nobody else can see them. The story takes this notion of "real women" to explore what would happen if women were literally stripped of their bodies. It takes the struggle for self-ownership that women face their whole lives a further and disturbing step, be it through the quest for healthcare, sexual liberation, or defying beauty norms.
The next spooky narration ("Eight Bites") is about a mother that decides to have a surgery that alludes to the gastric bypass. This decision puts her at odds with her daughter, and with her inner self. In the second to last story, "The Resident," a writer is invited to join a residency in the woods and something is amiss in her cabin. The chilling closing tale,"Difficult at Parties," tells the tale of an assault survivor who can suddenly listen to porn actors' thoughts. The story uses fantastic elements to exemplify the aftermath of sexual trauma and being stripped of your bodily autonomy.
My favorite short story was "Inventory" because it very originally transgresses the apocalyptic/virus narrative by telling it exclusively through sexual encounters. The main character is also queer, so it's even more alternative to popular stories about epidemics. It gives that additional perspective that epidemic stories lack.
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As you can see, the stories range from fairytales and folktales to science fiction and dark fantasy. But as different as they may be, they're all undoubtedly feminist, queer, and terrifying. Machado frequently explores women's relationships with their bodies, and how our bodies are subjected to violence in a patriarchal society. She turns the horrors of gendered violence, rape culture, and feminine beauty ideals into unsettling what-ifs.
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Politics 15/04/2021
Two months of blockade since 14-F
On Saturday, ERC sent a proposal for a pact to Junts, which has to respond this week
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Pere Aragonès at Wednesday's event to pay tribute to the anniversary of the Second Republic Govern
It has been seven days since the delegations of Esquerra and Junts have formally sat at a table -presential or telematic- to negotiate. And it has been two months since the February 14 elections, which resulted in a pro-independence majority of more than 50%, with ERC as the leading force. The negotiation between the two Governmental partners is advancing slowly and the complete agreement is still far away: the negotiators now speak of a deadline at the end of April or the beginning of May, but the truth is that the portfolios of the eventual executive have not yet been distributed beyond assuming a 50-50 coalition distribution. As ARA reported on Tuesday, what is on the table is a global proposal from Esquerra -the result of previous talks with Carles Puigdemont's party- which sets out the strategy to be followed in the area of the Catalan independence bid- centred on the dialogue table, at least until the first half of the legislature-; the principles to be followed in the Parliament (with a reform of the regulations yet to be specified); the government programme, and mechanisms for coordinating the coalition and monitoring the agreement to avoid the crises of this legislature. The document is being studied by Junts' negotiating team, which is expected to return it this week.
In any case, once this global agreement is closed, there will still be a pending issue: to deal with the distribution of the ministries and which areas and competences each party will keep. A new phase in which it is already clear that power over the field of social policies and the management of European funds will be at the centre of controversy.
This Wednesday both the Republicans and those of Carles Puigdemont have held internal meetings, but have not met to work together on the document, which Esquerra negotiators sent on Saturday to their counterparts of Junts. "They have to give us an answer", say Republican sources, while from JxCat they assure that they are studying it. In this context, the vice president and aspiring president, Pere Aragonès, has reaffirmed in an interview with Catalunya Ràdio that the Republicans have made a "complete" proposal and confirmed that he had been involved in the negotiations through conversations with the secretary general of Junts, Jordi Sànchez, who is in Lledoners prison; the former president Carles Puigdemont, with whom he had a "cordial" and "clarifying" conversation - he has assured - and the president of the Parliament, Laura Borràs.
Negotiators have not met since Wednesday
For Aragonès it would be an "irresponsibility" to exhaust the deadline of May 26 - when the elections would be called automatically - and believes that the agreement can come "soon". In any case, he has also warned that he is willing to govern alone if there is finally no coalition agreement with Junts per Catalunya: "We are prepared to take responsibility in any scenario, but it's another thing what you want".
Aragonès and Sànchez, in an archive image
At what point is the negotiation now? Nothing is set, and the talks between the negotiators exude misgivings that are still dragging from the legislature of the 2017 referendum. Even so, in the different folders there are some bases drawn after weeks of talks. In the field of the Catalan independence bid, the strategy that is being outlined involves staging the beginning of a negotiation process with the State - with a declaration in the Parliament and in the government - and an evaluation of the talks in the Catalan chamber through a study commission with different appearances by experts in the field. The dialogue table, which Esquerra supports, would have a central role at least until the middle of the legislature. At the same time, as Junts has demanded, the creation of a general staff of the independence bid is being negotiated within the framework of the Consell per la República -its formation is not yet closed- to build an alternative if the dialogue fails. A "democratic attack", according to the ERC and CUP agreement, which must "preferably" involve a new referendum.
In the area of public policy, the Esquerra proposal submitted to Junts includes measures already verbalised by Pere Aragonès and others, also included by Puigdemont's party in their electoral programme. They have to do with the reinforcement of the health system -both in funding and in strengthening primary care-, economic reconstruction or the health crisis, as well as defining the thematic areas of the Government. To avoid the crises of the coalition government of the previous legislature, Esquerra and Junts are also negotiating mechanisms for monitoring the pact and resolving crises: a parliamentary commission that meets every week; another in which there are representatives of the parties, groups and the government that meets every fortnight, and a commission at the highest level that only meets on an exceptional basis: the so-called red button. At the same time, copying the Valencian Acord del Botànic (Botanic Agreement), the proposal of the Republicans includes meetings every six months of the entire Government to assess the degree of compliance with the coalition agreement.
The secretary general of ERC, Marta Vilalta, with the JxCat spokesperson, Elsa Artadi. ACN
Document exchange without meetings
The course of this negotiation is particular. Since the second failed debate of investiture they have only met twice: one just before Easter to call for a pause and another last Wednesday in Parliament. In the meantime, according to the two parties, documents have been exchanged and contacts are "permanent" between the different participants in the negotiations to try to untangle issues. They agree, however, that they do not want to meet unless it means moving forward.
However, there is no single answer to the question of why the post-election talks of 14 February have developed in this way. The government partners, in fact, accuse each other of leading the negotiations to this situation.
The Republicans have assured from day one that they want a "quick" agreement and consider that Puigdemont's people are dragging their feet when it comes to negotiating because they want to gain time. They claim that they are "divided" internally when it comes to facing the talks and that is why negotiations are dragging on. The version of Junts, however, is the opposite: they claim that if Aragonès has not yet been invested is because ERC decided to reach a pact with the CUP before and "wasted time" at the beginning trying to incorporate the comuns in the executive. They also claim that there are internal voices within the Republican party that question the negotiating strategy that the formation has followed so far, prioritizing the partner of the executive.
This is not the only thing that does not add up: when asked why the teams of the two parties have not met in the last week, ERC says that Junts does not want to meet, while Puigdemont's party claims that it is the Republicans who do not want to convene them. A constant tug-of-war that the two partners in the government hope to resolve before the next term begins so as not to abuse the red button.
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Q: What does it mean for two [multivalued] complex functions to be equal? For $f:X\subseteq\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ and $g:X\subseteq\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$, we may say that $f$ and $g$ are equivalent if $\forall x\in{X}.f(x)=g(x)$.
But for many complex functions $f:Z\subseteq\mathbb{C}\to\mathbb{C}$ and $g:Z\subseteq\mathbb{C}\to\mathbb{C}$, there may be more than one $w\in\mathbb{C}$ such that $f(z)=w$ , so the statement $f(z)=g(z)$ may not be true even if $f$ and $g$ are the same thing.
For example, suppose $f(z)=\left(z^2+2i\right)^\frac{1}{2}$ and $g(z)=\left(z^2+2i\right)^\frac{1}{2}$. Depending on how you evaluate $f$ and $g$, you might arrive at the conclusion that $f(z)=-g(z)\implies f\not\equiv g$. But then, $f$ and $g$ have the same domain, the same codomain, and are defined by the same equation.
How is the "sameness" of $f$ and $g$ expressed given that the equivalence of the values at $z$ is not always guaranteed? Is there a 'proper' way to describe the de-facto of equivalence of complex, multivalued functions that eliminates this sort of confusion?

A: Usually by "multivalued" function one means a set-valued function. In this case, it make sense to use set equality (inclusion in both ways) to have a consistent definition of pointwise equality of functions.

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Best Friends, Reunited at Last! [Closed] Feb 27, 2015 15:50:03 GMT -6
Post by Isabel on Feb 27, 2015 15:50:03 GMT -6
Had it really been a year? The young woman made herself sit straight, stretching her arms above her head, appreciating the feeling of relief following the cracks resounded throughout the mostly-empty room, and yawned. She rubbed her eyes for a solid ten seconds after that, and then her blue-green eyes were open again, her back bent, and her face practically pressed against the open book in front of her. Isabel LeFury's evenings were almost always spent in this manner - sequestering herself within the little part-library, part-bookstore building with a book in front of her, trying to forget the chill of the outside and the regrets that always seemed to surface in herself if she let her mind remain idle for too long.
The black cat, Solomon, was fast asleep on the top of a pile of books beside the desk Isabel had set herself up on. The pile of books, despite being on the floor, were well-organized and stable, with the largest of the tomes being placed upon the bottom, and gradually becoming smaller, until they reached the top. Her only remaining companion from that time was within easy reach, and long nights spent in these same positions meant that the sapphire-haired shaman didn't even have to divert her eyes from the words in front of her to give the proud black cat a gentle, easy pet. A soft purring emanated from the cat's body - was he asleep after all? did cat's even sleep? - while Izzy had her hand on him, but that was the only sound in the room.
It had been a year, though, the once self-proclaimed prodigy realized with a start. The words on the page in front of her were running together, and forcing herself to try to read seemed to be getting her nowhere fast. She rubbed her eyes and yawned again, before pushing herself away from the desk she was reading upon. The Ilian village of Whitewynne wasn't exactly a place many people were clamoring to get to - it was almost always far too cold, far too secluded to be of much interest to anybody. Which was, in fact, part of the reason Izzy had settled here after seeing her friend, Calvin Toros, safely home - the likelihood of anybody she knew finding her here was almost nonexistent, and that was just fine by the sapphire girl.
After all, she was just a massive disappointment. Time after time, she wound up not being able to keep up with her friends and their wild adventures, whether because she was too weak, or she just ended up being left behind, or she wound up just having to leave of her own accord... Heck, she wound up not going back to her mentor, Daryl, in Etruria. Isabel, the grand, proud prodigy of Elder Magic, couldn't face going back to a life simply studying magic until the day when she could become a student to someone like herself... As that thought passed through her mind, she had to laugh a little. After all, if the thought of locking herself away to study magic in her homeland seemed so bad, why had she come to this awful, frigid land of snow to lock herself away and read? Even if the small population of Whitewynne had readily accepted Isabel amongst themselves after the first few months, Isabel hadn't been too keen on integrating with them. Her time was always spent helping the elderly man take care of this book-stuffed building, organizing it and helping him to keep of the surprising stock for the building and town's small size. And, in return for helping, Isabel was free to stay in the bookstore-slash-library, and to eat meals.
The scarf, the same color as her hair, was wrapped around her neck - but as she drew away from the lamp, a case of the shivers stole over her, and she pulled the sapphire fabric up, covering almost her whole face with it. That rather dorky guy had given it to her... Valcrist. That had been his name. Why did she still remember that? It wasn't likely that the Lost Swordsman who had hailed from the desert would be coming up to visit her in the winter wonderland of Ilia, even if he did suddenly find her. After the sudden chill dispersed, Isabel slumped herself down into her seat, sighing loudly. "Valcrist... Valorian... Jya...," she muttered to herself, "Chelsea... Calvin. I sure do hope you're all doing well..." And then she sighed, taking a hold of the lamp's handle, and made her way out from the maze of books and into the small room that she had converted into a bedroom.
Her thoughts could wait until after sunrise.
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Post by Calvin Toros on Feb 27, 2015 18:18:19 GMT -6
The young boy leapt playfully forward, his boots sinking softly into the white snow. With a short, easy chuckle he straightened his back and wrapped his hands around the shoulder strap of his bag, fixing it comfortably on his shoulder. A sheepish smile broadened across his face as he looked into the small village ahead of him, his expression beaming with hope. "This is it. I can feel it!" He cried out to himself, following it with a quiet murmur. "Isabel..." Something inside him just screamed "This is the end!". Calvin had been travelling for such a long time, almost 7 months now, and it had been even longer than then since he last saw his very best friend; Isabel LeFury. His mind drifted back to those times, when he still travelled with such a large troupe of friends. Though he cared deeply for all of them, none of them lingered in his head nearly as much as Isabel. She was the first and best friend he ever made after venturing out alone in the big bad world, and his fondest memories lied with her and the others. At that thought, he reached into his bag and pulled out his sketch pad and flicked through it; starting from the very beginning...
Pictures spoke of him leaving his farm behind so he could save it, as well as meeting Isabel, and all the others; Jya, Valcrist, Valorian, Chelsea and even Rayl. It showed all the adventures and mishaps they got into! He stroked the pages softly, but they didn't stop there. No, much more had happened since Calvin arrived home, and Isabel mysteriously disappeared. There were scenes of a simple, pleasant farm life. Calvin used the money he earned to save his home and spent a few happy months there. However he could never shake his curiosity, his thirst for adventure, or the emptiness he felt without his best friend. So, he set off on a new adventure to find Isabel! Days turned to weeks turned to months as he travelled, searching for any sign, a sense of direction. He met countless new people, and saw many a sight. He survived on nothing but the kindness of strangers and his gift of music. Many times he would take home in the churches of Elibe, where he would learn more about the teachings of Elemine and many other important lessons. He had many close encounters with bandits and beasts, escaping narrowly or even being rescued by mercenaries.
However, the key moment in all of Calvin's travels would have been when he arrived somewhere in Etruria. Here he met Daryl, Isabel's teacher. It was during one of Calvin's more dangerous bandit run in. Things were getting dire before this stranger stepped in and saved him. It was honestly the first person Calvin had seen in all of his travels who wielded magic like Isabel, possibly even stronger! He was flabbergasted. He spent a few weeks alongside Daryl, helping out as much as he could around the house and by running errands. He heard stories of Isabel's studies, and even learned a little bit about the different types of magic. It was a truly joyful time for Calvin, he had never felt closer to Isabel than when he met Daryl. Though he had made and parted with many friends his journey was long and lonely. He had never been so far away from both his family and friends. Meeting Daryl reminded him of why he set out on this journey, and gave him just a brief release from his worries. After his stay with Daryl had come to an end, Daryl tasked him with the job of delivering a package to Isabel and was gifted with her whereabouts which Daryl had obtained through an Ilian contact.
However, that wasn't the only thing he received. With a helpful suggestion from Daryl, Calvin's life took a turn he would never imagine. One which would never have been possible had he not met Daryl. Using his free hand, Calvin stroked the spine of the tome in his bag softly. He then flipped the sketchbook closed. It had become so full since he got it, in fact it was almost entirely out of pages. His drawing skill had also drastically increased since the start. A relaxed sigh escaped him as he slid the sketchbook back into his bad and looked forward into the village of Whitewynne. It had been a long journey since he left Daryl, and even longer since he left home, but he was finally here. The cold air blew through the village as he walked, his boots crunching against the snow. His heart warmed him more than any hat or scarf could.
Suddenly, he came to a stop. He looked around. The village was small, but comfy. Though it was situated a little... out in the middle of nowhere. It was dark and most of the village was asleep, probably even Isabel. He didn't realise it was so late, his excitement must have distracted him, but he wasn't going to let that stop him. He had waited long enough. He took a deep breath and looked at the small library in front of him, his eyes scaling up the building. Finally, he had arrived. He grabbed the neck of the lute sticking out from his bag and pulled it into his hand. Slowly, he started into a soft, gentle song.
Last Edit: Mar 1, 2015 15:32:45 GMT -6 by Calvin Toros
Best Friends, Reunited at Last! [Closed] Mar 8, 2015 19:33:34 GMT -6
Post by Isabel on Mar 8, 2015 19:33:34 GMT -6
She dreamt that night. It was an odd dream, since it took place in a hyper-realistic version of the room she had just fallen asleep in, and she never got out of her bed. Solomon was there, curled up close beside her, and there was a soft song being played somewhere off in the distance. The sapphire-haired young woman who had once called herself "prodigy" couldn't quite place her finger on it, but somehow, in her gut, she was positive that the music was played by that blond, naïve bard... Her best friend in the whole world, who even Solomon was second to. Perhaps it was the way the song was played, or perhaps because it was played upon a familiar instrument, but the song evoked memories in Izzy, of the adventures from a year past...
She sat up suddenly, blinking. Solomon practically jumped off the bed, hissing, apparently displeased that his source of warmth had decided to displace herself, and then stalked off into the dark behind a pile of books, where Isabel could no longer see him. She frowned at that, and then rubbed her eyes, trying to wipe away the sleep... And the exhaustion. At that, the young shaman sat up stiff, eyes wide in the dark. ... Oh no.
With that thought resounding in her head, Isabel planted her feet squarely on the ground, and then quickly made her way to the nearest window, pinching her left cheek in the hopes that, somehow, this was all still a dream... But then the window was thrown open, and there he was. The bard, the artist, the naïve boy who the sapphire girl had the great pleasure of calling her friend, there he was, strumming away at that lute of his. "Oh. Well then. I... I must actually be dreaming," was all she could say, rather flatly, and then she shook her head and rubbed at her eyes again, as if Calvin would be gone again when she opened her eyes. But no, once the dark, cold world came back into focus again, he still stood there.
"Calvin?! What are you doing here?!" And then the practical thing. "... Put that thing away! People are sleeping!"
Best Friends, Reunited at Last! [Closed] Mar 21, 2015 16:00:57 GMT -6
Post by Calvin Toros on Mar 21, 2015 16:00:57 GMT -6
Calvin's fingers gently plucked and strummed the strings of the lute. He remained silent through the song, no words needed to be said. He could only think about Isabel and imagine what her reaction would be when she finally got to see him again. He hoped she would be excited. The time it would take for Isabel to come to the window seemed to drag on for an eternity, but surely enough the windows would swing open. Calvin smiled up at her and kept playing while she seemed to stare back blankly at him. Look how excited she is! She can't even seem to express it! he would think genuinely to himself. Isabel cried out, cutting the song short. He dropped his grip on the lute and lowered it to one side of himself, waving frantically with his now free hand.
"HIII FRIEND!!" He would yell enthusiastically up at her, most likely waking half the town in the process. "I can't believe I finally found you! Is Solomon up there?" He would ask, giving her next to no time to reply before calling up for the cat. "SOLOMON! SOLOMON? THE SONG IS FOR YOU TOO SOLOMON!" He would continue yelling, seeming perfectly content to just talk away to himself while frantically waving his hand up at the window. "Is her up there? Oh, I can't believe I'm finally here! I was looking for so long, I missed you so much friend!!" Then it would finally dawn on him. He was probably waking up half the village! "Oh shoot! I must be waking half the village! I'll come up!" He would them immediately run to the door and start fidgeting with the inevitably locked handle. "OH! I THINK IT'S LOCKED!" he would yell back up.
Post by Isabel on Mar 24, 2015 19:03:42 GMT -6
Isabel's eyes darted around to the handful of other buildings nearby. By some unfathomable miracle, it seemed that the snow had deadened Calvin's shouting, and the rest of the village was still peaceful. The young shaman rubbed her eyes again, and then stared down at Calvin again, oblivious to the second bout of loud noises emanating from his person. This was... Both too good to be true, and utterly horrifying. How did he find me? Why did he find me? Izzy snapped back to attention at the sound of her naive bard friend rattling the handle of the door, shouting back up at her that it was locked. But of course it was locked; it was well after midnight, and this world was never the safest place to live. Not that a mere lock would actually help keep the dangers at bay, nor had Isabel seen any dangers since coming with Whitewynne, but...
"Calvin, keep it down! Just. just... Be quiet for a moment, alright?" The sapphire girl whisper-shouted down at the bard, and then closed the window with a bit more force than she had intended. She spun around, nearly knocking over a tall stack of books, and let out a deep sigh as she slumped against the wall. Please... Please let this just be a side effect of not getting enough sleep...
Despite her misgivings about the whole situation, Isabel still made her way through the maze of books, almost knocking several down in her haste... And then almost knocking over the kindly old man who owned the library-bookstore. Quincy was his name; he was a good half a foot shorter than Isabel in his bent-over state, and the shaman had never seen him any other way, leaning upon a well-worn and quite heavy wooden staff. A heavy wool cloak of unidentifiable color in the evening's gloom made the bearded librarian look several times larger than he truly was. Speaking of that impressive white beard, Izzy sometimes wondered if it was the cause of his awful posture; the well-groomed hair reached well below Quincy's waist, after all, as if it were trying to pull itself and the man it was attached to into the ground. "Isabel? Is something the matter?" The old man reminded her a lot of the grandfather she always wished she had actually had in her life, what with the way he spoke to her and whatnot, and he was awfully lenient of her sometimes... Over-the-top nature, which even the seclusion of this snowbound village could not fully deaden.
"... Yeah, actually, there is. But... Don't worry about it. It's something that I'm more than capable of handling. You should get back to bed, sir." Izzy picked herself back up, readjusting her scarf as she regained her balance in full. "And don't try to tell me that you won't. We both know how the winter days affect your strength."
Quincy picked his walking stick up one-handed, as if proving that he wasn't so affected. "Nonsense, nonsense! I must meet this young man who plays such a sweet song." He grinned as he lifted up a lantern from within the impressive sleeves of his robe, shedding light on his grin. He had surprisingly nice teeth... Well, the handful of teeth he still had. "I expect we'll have to make some room for him, too, since Beth doesn't typically accept guests so late."
Isabel sighed, and then continued on her path toward the door, now followed by not only the sneaky, green-eyed black cat, but also by the tiny old man who had been so gracious as to lodge her. She stopped by the door, turning her head as she wiggled the rather stuck lock. Solomon looked as uninterested in everything as per usual, but the old man... Something seemed off, but the girl who had once proclaimed herself as a prodigy couldn't quite put her finger on it. Then the lock clicked as it slid back, the door was swung carefully open, and there he was: the dorkiest, blondest bard she had ever known. "Calvin! Please, come in, come in... And please, try to be quiet."
Last Edit: Mar 24, 2015 19:04:54 GMT -6 by Isabel