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Tarasha squeezed his fingers as it touched her palm. It took him by surprise. He didn't know she was awake and had been watching him as he walked towards her, leading his way with his phone's screen backlight. She had noticed when he sat on the floor beside the sofa and was wondering what he was doing when he spent sometime there silently without doing anything.
'So you're awake?' he said, raising his phone to see her face with the backlight.
'Yes, why didn't you switch on the light and why were you tiptoeing here like you wanted to steal something?' she asked with a light tone.
He chuckled. 'I didn't want to wake you up,' he said and tightened his fingers around hers. She pulled his arm across her body making it lay on her belly touching his breasts slightly. He adjusted his seating position on the floor while she also turned towards him on three seater where she laid. 'So why are you not sleeping?'
'I was sleeping,' she replied. Their faces were close to each other's.
'Sleeping? But you saw me tiptoeing to you,' he questioned.
'Yes, you woke me when you got out of your room.'
Henry was confused for a moment. He had opened and closed his door as gently as he could and the door wasn't even one that made noise when it wasn't even handled gently.
His phone's backlight went off and he could barely see Tarasha's face in the darkness.
'How did you know I was still here?' she asked while Henry was still trying to turn on his phone's screen again.
'I've not slept, I've been waiting to hear you enter your room since but I never heard the sound of your door closing.' Henry replied.
'Well… I just wanted to think alone in the darkness, that's why I turned off the light but then, I slept off.' she explained.
'But you said I woke you up when I stepped out of my room, how is that possible? I didn't make any noise with the door,' Henry asked.
'It still made some very low sounds, especially when you closed it back.'
Henry tried to remember the manner at which he closed it. 'I closed it gently,' he argued.
'The whole house is silent, I can hear the gentlest sound now. Even if the noises are from different sources, I can still differentiate where each is from, I did a course on that for three years.
Henry shook his head and smiled. A brief silence followed. The phone's backlight switched off but he didn't bother to turn it on again.
'That man you came with, who is he?' Henry asked.
'He's Dr Martin, he worked with Elvis Richards several years ago and he seems to know a lot of the man's secret.' Tarasha replied, after taking some seconds to consider whether it was time to tell him or not.
'How did you get to meet him?'
'I got him from my research on Elvis Richards, he was the one I went to look for in Anambra.'
'And he agreed to come here with you?'
'Yes, he did.'
Henry let out a breath, not really sure of what to talk about anymore.
'I was scared of losing you, I thought I would never see you again when I heard the sounds of those gunshots that night.' Henry said in a deeply terrified voice. 'Thank God you're alive but…' he stopped and gave a gasp.
'But what?'
'So many innocent people died,' Henry said in a sad tone and let out a very deep breath.
'They had to die, I was attacked,' Tarasha said defensively and sat up, she felt he was about to judge her again. 'There was no way I could have left there without them going down.'
'I know, I understand that they had to die. But I think is that we should avoid such situations from reoccurring,' he said, turning on his phone's backlight again. She had shifted away from him to the middle of the sofa while Henry remained at the edge with his hands on the armrest where she previously laid her head.
'I didn't plan to fight or kill anybody there, the only ones I plan to kill remains Elvis Richards and Inspector Rikau. But anybody that comes in my way and leaves me without a choice will have to go too.'
'But do you know we can do this without you having to kill?' Henry asked thoughtfully. 'Even Elvis Richards and the Inspector General.'
'That's not possible, I've told you several times that I ain't gon take that sermon.'
'It is very possible Tara,' Henry insisted.
'It isn't,' she argued.
'Shh…' Henry hushed, their voices were getting louder. He moved closer to her and positioned his elbows on her knees, he located her palms and held both in his. 'Now, you said that man, the doctor that came home with you worked with Elvis Richards for several years.'
'Yes, he worked with them.' she replied, wondering what he was driving out. She tried to release her hands from his grip and fold them but he didn't let her go.
'And you also say he has so much information,' Henry continued. He released one of her hands to take his phone, he turned on the flashlight and then placed the light to face up on the seat. He took her hand in his again.
'Yes,' she now folded her lips in and stared at him sternly.
'Then, if we're to go by the manner you said it, we should be able to get enough information from the man to bring these wicked men to justice.'
Tarasha shook her head at him. 'How can you suggest that when you know that Elvis Richards can easily influence the court processes? The judiciary system here is still been control by the men at high places.'
'I know, but we don't have to take them to court directly.'
She stared at him without saying anything.
'Now, for example, Inspector General Rikau was a major head of the terrorists that disturbed the nation several years ago. If we can get valid proofs of the man's involvement from anywhere , then we can bring him down with that. If we also get valid proofs implicating the Vice President too, we can do the same with him.'
'I still don't understand how that is going to send them six feets down,' she argued.
'They would be killed or be forced to kill themselves especially if we make it in a way that none of them would be able to escape,' Henry said. He paused to see if she understood him.
'I still do not understand him.'
'Simple, we can get the masses to also want them dead. That would force the system to judge them rightly but if that doesn't happen, the cry of the masses can make international bodies come in.'
'Hmm… So how do we make that happen?'
'Easy, this is how…'
'Good morning Sunshine, I can't wait for us to be at my parents house together this afternoon.'
Cole's heart skipped a beat as he read the message. He wasn't scared of meeting her parent, he was only afraid that it wasn't the right time to do it. He also knew he could be putting her life in danger by associating too much with her.
He wanted to send a reply immediately to cancel off the appointment but he stopped. He had already planned it to take place during a period that Tarasha won't need him and also planned not to stay long at the place. There was no need to change his plans now, except if the boss needed him to do something unplanned for.
'Good morning dear, I can't wait too. Hope you slept well,' he typed in a reply and clicked the enter button.
He dropped the phone beside the pillow and stretched for some seconds in the bed. He stopped as he realized something, he picked his phone again and opened the messaging app, it was actually the first time Patricia would be the first to send a message in the morning. Maybe she was loving him more, he thought. Or perhaps she was taking him more serious because he was now ready to visit her family. He drew in a breath and closed his eyes. He got some kind of encouragement to meet her parents more.
Her image formed in his thoughts. He fantasized about her smooth curves and sexy lips, how he wished he could just have a taste of her that morning. Maybe that day could be the day. They had planned to go to his new apartment together after leaving her house. That could be the opportunity he had been looking for to have a taste of her great body. Not that it mattered to him than she herself but he still longed for the opportunity.
His phone beeped in his hand again and he scrolled down to read her reply.
Inspector General Rikau's Residence, Asokoro
'Rex, I think you should just tell us how long we should give you to kill her. We're tired of just making empty assumptions,' the IG complained bitterly.
'C'mon, give me a break dude,' Rex replied in a rude way which shocked the IG. The IG looked around to see if any of his men had not heard or seen the way he was being disrespected. Rex gulped down a glass of hot drink before he continued, 'You give me a target without sufficient information and you're expecting magic, you must be kidding.' he said as he dropped the cup on the table noisily. 'Stop bossing me around like you give me the information I need.'
They were in the same room Rex was always allowed to stay whenever he came to the IG's house. Rex was seated on the armless chair which back was turned to the table, his legs crossed and his left hand resting on the table. A bottle of wine and a small cup was on the table just beside the computer set.
The Inspector General stared at Rex with so much anger bottled inside for some seconds, he couldn't find words to say anymore, he only clenched his teeth and fists in anger and disgust.
'What do you need from us?' he asked, his fists still tightened in anger.
'Just tell me where she is right now and her movements for the next forty eight hours, then I'll bring her dead body to you in less than seventy hours. That's the information you should give to an assassin if you want immediate results. But right now, I'm doing the job of an investigator too.'
The IG's mouth was sealed after hearing his words. He still felt feed Rex wasn't right but he had no words to counter him.
'Let me go straight to the reason I'm here,' Rex said after gulping another cup of wine. 'I wanted to ask if there is anything of yours or the Vice President which Samantha Osman touched in that state she went to.'
The Inspector General stared at his face, 'Things like?'
'Your family, investments or property.'
'I don't have anything in Anambra State and the Vice President also does not have any business or family member there too.'
'So, it meant she might have just gone for another business?'
'Yes, as far as I'm concerned, there's nothing in Anambra that has to do with us.'
'What about that SSS Agent who trailed her, do you know him and what useful information does he have?' Rex asked.
'I don't know who he is. Right now, he's still in Anambra State but I'm aware he'd be returning today.'
'That means you can find out who he is when he comes?'
'No, he's a secret agent, the only person allowed to know him is the Agency's Chairman.'
'Is there no way you can get any details about him?'
'I can, but I don't know what he has to do with this,' the Inspector General said, giving Rex a questioning look. 'What do you need to know him for?'
'I do not necessarily need to know him, I only need to know what he knows.'
'If that's what you need, I can provide you with that. He's submitting a report to the NIS immediately he returns.'
'Come on, they're waiting for us already.' Patricia said as she dragged Victor by hand into the house.
'Wait!' Victor pulled her back. She stopped and turned to listen to him. 'Are you sure I'm properly dressed?' he asked. She had painted her parents as very strict people and he tried his best to dress as responsible as possible.
'Of course, you look perfect.' she replied, sizing him from head to toe with her eyes. She wrapped her arms in his and pulled him along as they climbed the stairs to the balcony.
Victor couldn't explain his anxiousness. The thoughts of having her parents reject him kept running through his mind. He felt for some reason that they might find something in him that they didn't like and order their daughter to call off their friendship.
Patricia's father was in the living room when they entered. He was lying on the three seater sofa with his legs crossed, a tablet device in his hands and an earpiece fixed in his ears.
He didn't seem to notice their entrance until Patricia got to his front.
'Pat, when did you come back?' the man asked, sitting up and taking off his earpiece.
'Just now, Daddy. Good afternoon sir,' she said all smiles, bending her knees slightly in courtesy. 'This is Victor,' she said beckoning on Victor who was still standing afar off to come closer.
'Victor!' the man called with so much enthusiasm showing his complete set of teeth.
'Good afternoon sir,' Victor bowed slightly as he proceeded forward, the man was already stretching his hand forward to him.
'My son,' the man continued cheerfully as they shook hands warmly. 'You're welcome to our home, Patricia has said a lot of things about you already.'
Victor faked a smile and flashed a look at Patricia. He hoped she had told the father only good things about him and not how he was staring at her breasts and backside when they first met.
'You may have your seat,' the man finally released his hand and pointed him to an adjacent seat close to the couch.
'Thank you sir,' Victor said as he took his seat.
'You should go and call your mother to come see our guest,' the man said to Patricia. She turned and smiled at him before taking the way that led into the other parts of the house.
Victor took some seconds to look around the house. It wasn't expensively decorated but was beautiful enough. He noticed that the walls were just recently painted and the air conditioners newly installed.
'So Victor, where are you from?' Patricia's father began. 'I mean your state of origin.'
'From Edo state sir,' Victor replied, focusing his gaze on the man's face. The man had a round face with a flat nose, his hair, partly grey and already halfway the top of his head.
'Where in Edo State?' he asked.
'Benin sir,' Victor replied.
'Benin!' the man gave out a bright smile. 'I served in Benin and also spent the first five years after service working there. I have a lot of friends there. So can you tell me which area in Benin?'
Now Victor was scared to continue. He didn't lie when he said he was from Benin but his fear was the man knowing more about him if he mentioned the exact location. If the man knew his area, then research could be easily made on his background and details he would want to hide revealed.
Patricia and her mother joined them in the living room at that moment, rescuing Victor from his tight situation.
'So, is this the young man who wants to marry my daughter?' Patricia's mother said in a lively tone as she approached them. She was short and fat. She had a round face just like her husband and walked like someone who was struggling to support the weight of her body on her legs. However, she was neatly dressed and her hair was well plaited. She had an apron on her body which showed that she was coming from the kitchen.
'Good afternoon ma,' Victor stood to greet her, managing to put on a smile.
'Good afternoon my dear,' she walked close to him and gave him a side hug before going to the sofa just opposite him. Patricia stopped behind Victor's seat and rested her elbows on the top of the backrest. 'Pat, aren't you going to entertain your husband?' she said to Patricia.
'Oh! Mum, thanks. I'm okay for now,' Victor tried to stop Patrica from going.
'No, you can't just be seated like that,' the woman insisted. 'Pat, get your husband fruit juice while we wait for the food.'
Cole took in a deep breath. He didn't know whether to feel welcomed or uncomfortable now that her mother was already referring to him as her husband, does it mean that she accepted him already. She also asked him when she entered that was he the man who wanted her daughter's hand in marriage. It meant Patricia must have told her parents that he was her fiance. He was also amazed at the way he was welcomed, he was expecting a thorough scrutiny by both parents.
'Yea, I'm very hungry too, I would not mind a cup of juice first too.' Patricia's father joined in.
'Always hungry Papa Pat,' the woman jeered at him.
'Yes o, Saturdays are my free days, allow me eat as much as I can please.' the man replied back jovially.
'So Victor,' the woman called to his surprise. 'You didn't answer my question.'
Victor stared at her inquisitively, not knowing what question he didn't answer.
'I asked if you are the man that wants to marry my daughter.'
He let out a smile, feeling embarrassed as his eyes met with the man's own. 'Yes, by the grace of God,' he responded shyly. He was surprised at the words which came out of his mouth. He could tell where he got 'by the grace of God from'. Now, Patricia must explain to him why she told them he had asked to marry her.
'You're welcome my son, feel at home.' she said with a smile and relaxed back.
'Thank you ma.'
'So what job so you do?' Patricia's father asked and Victor's gaze turned to him immediately.
'I run my firm under AA group of companies.'
'What do you do in your firm?'
'I deal with exporting Nigerian made products, so it means I serve as a mediator between the indigenous production industries here and the distributors in other countries.'
'That sounds nice. Where do your parents stay?'
'My parents are in Lagos state,' Victor replied.
'Okay, well…' the man got up to his feet holding his device in his left hand. 'I want to do something inside before lunch, do make sure you feel at home.'
'Thank you sir,' he bowed slightly and his eyes followed the man as he walked inside.
'Let me go and check the food in the kitchen,' the woman was already up before Victor turned his face back. 'Pat!' she shouted as she made her way into the kitchen. 'Don't you know you're keeping the young man waiting?'
Her voice vanished as she disappeared and for once Victor was left alone in the living room. He took a moment to look round the walls of the living room again. He could see the wedding pictures of Patricia's parent and also a family picture by the side. An old wall clock was positioned up above the flat screen TV close to the ceiling.
'Victor, what do you think about my parents?' Patricia said as she walked in from behind with a tray and a pack of juice in it.
'They are wonderful people,' Victor said, turning back to look at her. His eyes followed as she walked to the footstool and placed the tray on it and then carried everything to his front.
'Thank you,' he said.
'You're welcome,' she replied with a smile and squatted beside the stool to open the fruit juice, she poured some into the cup for him. 'You'll like it, it's cold.' she said as she got up to her feet.
'Thank you,' he took the glass cup and took the first sip. He dropped the cup and relaxed his back. Patricia was now seated on the left side arm of his chair and her right hand placed on top of the backrest. 'Pat,' he changed into a serious tone and turned to her. 'But why did you…'
His statement couldn't be completed as she pulled him forward with his collar and covered his lips with hers. He felt powerless for that moment and couldn't resist the kiss. She placed her arm on his head and pulled him closer.
'Pat! Food is ready now, come and serve.'
They quickly broke away as they heard the voice of her mother approaching. Patricia got up and turned towards the kitchen immediately.
'Victor, hope you're enjoying yourself?' the woman asked as she came in view.
'Yes, thank you ma.' Victor replied and quickly went for the cup of juice again, grateful that the woman did catch him smooching her daughter.
55 minutes later
'I was thinking I would meet your sister today,' Patricia said as they drove down the road. Victor was in the driver's seat and she was at the passenger's.
Victor gave a chuckle, 'She's not the kind of person that likes meeting people, except for business reasons.'
'She seems kind of weird to me,' Patricia said, bending her lips in a funny way.
'People say that often,' Victor nodded.
'So why haven't you moved into your own apartment since you have one?'
'There has really been no reason to, and I also don't want it to sound like I'm an ungrateful person, so I have to take it slowly.'
'Okay… So, do you have foodstuffs in your house there?'
'Ermmm… Yes, I stocked the place with some…'
'You didn't order from us?' she cut in.
'No, I did. EasyShoppers sent another of their delivery men.'
'Okay, but you should order through me next time'
'It's okay ma, correction taken ma.' he said and both of them laughed briefly. 'But I hope you're not planning to cook again when we get there?'
'Why shouldn't I cook?' she raised a brow.
'We just had lunch,' he stared at her with his eyes wide open.
'Yes, that's lunch. Won't we have dinner?'
'Dinner? Isn't it too early to think of dinner?'
'Early? It's not,' she argued.
'I think you shouldn't bother about cooking, we could just get something to eat from an eatery close by before I drive you back home.'
'No, I'll cook.' She insisted. 'In fact, we have to stop by at the mall in front. I'm sure you don't have the food items for the meal I'll like to prepare.'
Victor shook his head and blew out breath from his mouth. He knew he couldn't convince her to stop. It took them three minutes to get to the mall and she stepped out after Victor stopped the car in the parking space.
'What exactly do you want to buy?' Victor asked as he stepped out from the other side.
'You don't need to follow me,' she said and began climb up the verandah of the mall.
'So you think I'll sit and wait for you in the car?' he asked after leveling up with her.
'I won't stay long in there, that's why I asked you to wait.' she replied.
'It doesn't matter how long you want to stay,' Victor said to her. He got distracted as his phone began to ring. He took it out from his pocket and checked the caller, a serious look appeared on his face as he stopped to answer the call. 'Boss.'
'I'm in the compound of the mall, my car is parked at the other side. Come meet me there briefly.' Tarasha's voice sounded through the speaker.
His heart began to beat faster as he turned back and looked towards the parking space at the opposite side to locate her car.
'Ain't you coming with me anymore?' Patricia stopped to ask as she was about going in through the door.
He took the phone away from his ear to whisper to Patricia. 'I'll meet you.' He put the phone back to his ear. 'I've seen your car boss, I'm coming there.'
Patricia watched him for some seconds before entering the mall.
Last Week's Question
– From the last episode, Cole told Tarasha that the other vehicles pursuing were far behind. How then did the SSS vehicle catch up with Tarasha so quick?
Answer – The Vehicle that caught up with them wasn't coming from behind, it came from the other direction.
THIS WEEK'S QUESTION
According to what the SSS men told the owner of the Chevrolet Camaro, what is the occupation of the person who drove in her car?
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Q: Refused to execute inline script because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "default-src 'self'" My Html file looks like below. When I launch the HTML file it says, content security policy is broken. How do I fix it from the HTML side?
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A: How do I fix it from the HTML side?
Easy answer, you don't. The server is most definitely responsible for this and with good reason but let's say those reasons are simply security. You may bypass this by adjusting your headers but it will not be done on a client level side at all!
That's bad.
You can maybe get comfortable with these security features often applied and understand the different headers/measures taken:
contentSecurityPolicy,
dnsPrefetchControl,
expectCt,
frameguard,
hidePoweredBy,
hsts,
ieNoOpen,
noSniff,
permittedCrossDomainPolicies,
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SoftBank Move on Rakuten Spurs Mogul Rivalry
By Mayumi Negishi
Japan is getting too small for its two biggest Internet moguls.
SoftBank Corp. founder Masayoshi Son, an investor in all-things Web and telecommunications, and Hiroshi Mikitani, head of the country's biggest online shopping mall Rakuten Inc., are two of Japan's most-recognized businessmen, known for spotting early the power of the Internet. They've managed to build billion-dollar fortunes in the cozy confines of the Japanese Internet world, while avoiding direct competition with each other.
That changed this week when online portal Yahoo Japan Corp., 36%-owned by Softbank and chaired by Mr. Son, wiped out fees it charges merchants who operate stores on its site. Shops selling goods on Yahoo Japan used to pay an initial fee of ¥21,000 and a monthly fee of ¥25,000, as well as a commission of 1.7% to 6.0% of sales.
The sudden elimination of fees could mean an exodus of merchants to Yahoo Japan from Rakuten, which could be forced to raise incentives or cut fees to keep business. Yahoo Japan, which hopes to expand the pool of online shoppers -- whose purchases make up only 3% of Japan's entire retail industry -- said it expects a temporary drop in operating profit of up to ¥9 billion ($92.5 million) in the year to March. It plans to earn profits from advertising.
Rakuten's share price crumpled 11.7% and Yahoo Japan fell 6.5% on Tuesday on fears Yahoo Japan's strategy would trigger a slowdown in growth for both companies. On Wednesday, shares in Rakuten fell 1%, while Yahoo Japan ended down 3.7%.

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Eden Newman must mate before her 18th birthday in six months or she'll be left outside to die in a burning world. But who will pick up her mate-option when she's cursed with white skin and a tragically low mate-rate of 15%?
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have the fbi been to your house?
i'm sure it's been wildly pushed round the livejournal community, but i'm going to link it anyhow, in case you haven't seen it. (plus, i get a lot of traffic outside livejournal.)
from anniesj:
"A couple of weeks ago, following the last presidential debate, I said some rather inflammatory things about George W. Bush in a public post in my LJ, done in a satirical style. We laughed, we ranted, we all said some things. I thought it was a fairly harmless (and rather obvious) attempt at humor in the face of annoyance, and while a couple of people were offended, as is typical behavior from me, I saw something shiny and forgot about it, thinking that the whole thing was over and done and nothing else would come of what I said.
At 9:45 last night, the Secret Service showed up on my mother's front door to talk to me about what I said about the President, as what I said could apparently be misconstrued as a threat to his life. After about ten minutes of talking to me and my family, they quickly came to the conclusion that I was not a threat to national security (mostly because we are the least threatening people in the entire world) and told me that they would not recommend that any further action be taken with my case. However, I do now have a file with the FBI that includes my photograph, my e-mail address, and the location of my LJ. This will follow me around for the rest of my life, regardless of the fact that the Secret Service knows that I am not a threat."
the rest is here.
The Murder Meme
in what will, no doubt, prove to a bad idea (or at least one i regret tomorrow), i've come up with a new livejournal protest meme.
i came up with it while reading the post about the fbi showing up at a blogger's house. i thought to myself: this world is fucking uptight. kids can't write violence in schools. people can't say that they don't like presidents (or maybe prime ministers, but who knows about that). nintendo is suing someone who listed their games on a board related to the suicidegirls.com site. it's just getting out of hand. the world needs to chill. so i came up with a new meme to help the world chill.
usually, memes are stupid. lets be honest: what book do you like, music no one else has, if you can chew gum and walk, and when was the last time you had sex with your father. stuff like that.
this meme, is different.
this meme is about satire.
this meme is about picking yourself a world leader, and then describing how they were brutally murdered.
what you do is simple: you pick a world leader you don't like, and in a paragraph, give the rundown on how they were brutally murdered. we're talking the blood, the details, the screaming, and the giant pretzel shaped monster that rose out the sea and jammed its salted fist down the throat of a world leader, about really killing them. then you put in your subject heading 'How to Brutally Murder ' so that google and all the other search engines can pick it up and share in your satirical wit and ability to write these things.
it is not, and this should be pretty damn obvious, about really killing anybody. it's a satire, and a satire is "a composition in verse or prose ridiculing vice or folly or lampooning individual(s)" and so your brutal murder should adhere to that concept in one form or another.
if you decide to do this meme, post the rules first, followed by your brutal murder.
if you're thinking this is a bad idea, well, maybe it is. i'm unsure on the intelligence behind it myself, but it kinda pisses me off, people being unable to write what they want. i mean, how ridiculous is that? now, in truth, i know this isn't much. it's a pretty small thing, but i hear there's this thing called a blogsphere, and i dream of a world where the net search engines are swimming in the satires that depict the brutal murders of world leaders.
Refused - Refused Are Fuckin Dead
How to Brutally Murder George W. Bush.
It was Tuesday, and the American President was standing at his bedroom window. Hair uncombed, eyes squinting into the midday sun, hand scratching his unshaved chin, Presidential pajamas wrinkled, and unclipped toenails running through the carpet... George W. Bush wasn't quite sure what to do. Tuesday. Almost the middle of the week. Yet outside were giant, brown biscuit and heavily salted legs that stretched twenty, maybe thirty feet into the air before connecting to a thick biscuit base.
"Lemme ask," drawled George W. as the bedroom door opened. "Just tell me straight that you're seeing this."
"Sir?" said the aide's faint voice. The door closed. "I'm not quite sure, sir, but you--"
"You're seeing those things out there, right?
"Sir?"
"Yeah." George W. paused, lent against the glass, and began to count. "It's like giant things, yeah? Huge fucking... well, giant salty snacks. I mean, you're seeing the giant salty snacks, yeah?"
"...Absolutely, Sir," replied the aide. "But you have a phone call, Sir."
George W. picked up the white phone, but paused. There was something about the aide. Something that wasn't quite right. A texture to his skin. It was hard to describe. It was smooth, yeah, sure, and the aide was hairless, and there was something that made George W. Bush want to lean forward and lick him, to run his tongue up along his neck, to dip in between those hard lips... but more than that, there was something about the colour that didn't strike him as right. Brown. Dark, dark brown. A colour that had always left him uncomfortable. A colour that he instinctively made him want to pull out his home made lethal injection kit. That colour.
But he wanted to nibble. To taste. To lick. To crack open a beer and sit back with it on his lap, to work his lips across it, to have his hands feel across ever inch, and work down to the hard, hard centre--
The pain in his chest was secondary. The phone fell to the ground with a dull thud. The Presidential pajamas soiled. George W. looked dimly at the stick like fist protruding through his chest. It was so brown. God he hated that colour. Hated it so much.
"They should've made... made white ones," he murmured faintly, his legs failing.
"Indeed," replied the aide, his fist still lodged in his chest. It was all that held the body upright. That useless, ugly little meat body that had been nothing but a menace to his people. "But the flavour is all off."
author targeted.
here's the link to an author who got raided for her research in the states. figure i'd provide it as a bookend to the first piece:
SB: Did you have any reason to suspect you were being targeted for a raid, any advance notice?
Dilyn: No. Not a clue. Although, for a while prior to the raid, I thought I was being stalked. Mail was missing from my box, I caught someone searching my trash, I saw a prowler in my yard and actually called the police. One of my neighbors saw someone watching from across the street--she wasn't sure if it was my house or hers. She called the police, too--turns out they were taking surveillance photos.
link here.
Iggy Pop - Sixteen
Howard Hears "Open Sesame."
from the bbc:
"Australia's John Howard has captured control of his country's Senate, making him the most powerful prime minister in 24 years. Final counting of votes from the 9 October election showed Mr Howard's coalition won 39 of 76 Senate seats. It means he becomes the first man in decades to control both the upper and lower houses of parliament.
Senator Ron Boswell of the National Party, partner to Mr Howard's Liberals, said he phoned Mr Howard with the words "open sesame" in congratulation, but went on to deny the Senate would now be simply a rubber stamp for government policy."
because, you know, the words after open sesame are always, 'got some id, mate?'
the rest of it is here.
Woody Allen - Night Club Years 1964-68


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Megan Rapinoe, Christen Press speak out after ending US Soccer salary mediation
The defending World Cup winners are looking for equal pay to the men's team.
ByMark Osborne andKatie Kindelanvia
Rapinoe, Press speak out after pay mediation breaks down
USWNT stars Megan Rapinoe and Christen Press tell ABC News why the defending World Cup winners ended mediation in their equal pay lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation.
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Two stars of the U.S. women's soccer team say the ball is in the court of the U.S. Soccer Federation after the reigning World Cup champions walked out of mediation talks being held Wednesday in their fight for equal pay.
"They're the only employer that we could have playing for the national team, we're the only employees that they could have, so for better or for worse we're tethered together," Megan Rapinoe, co-captain of the U.S. Women's National Team (USWNT) said Thursday on "Good Morning America." "I think that if and when and ever they are willing to have a conversation about equal pay that starts there and goes forward, we're always open to that."
"We won't accept anything less than equal pay," she added. "We show up for a game, if we win the game if we lose the game if we tie the game, we want to be paid equally, period."
USWNT stars Megan Rapinoe and Christen Press speak out on "Good Morning America" about the end of mediation in their fight for equal pay.
The USWNT filed an equal pay lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation earlier this year. The two sides had agreed to go to mediation just before the World Cup kicked off in France in June.
The lawsuit cites the discrimination in pay, but also the denial of "at least equal playing, training, and travel conditions; equal promotion of their games; equal support and development for their games; and other terms and conditions of employment."
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"I think we're very confident in our case in what's transpired," USWNT player Christen Press said on "GMA" alongside Rapinoe. "I think for us it's more than about this moment or this team ... It's actually about women everywhere being treated equally and respectfully in the workplace so if that means that we're going to go to trial then we're going to do that, and we're going to do it very confidently."
The U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) fired back at the athletes in a Wednesday statement, calling their actions "aggressive" and saying they had presented "misleading information" for months.
"We have said numerous times that our goal is to find a resolution, and during mediation we had hoped we would be able to address the issues in a respectful manner and reach an agreement," the USSF said in the statement. "Unfortunately, instead of allowing mediation to proceed in a considerate manner, plaintiffs' counsel took an aggressive and ultimately unproductive approach that follows months of presenting misleading information to the public in an effort to perpetuate confusion."
"We always know there is more we can do," the statement continued. "We value our players, and have continually shown that, by providing them with compensation and support that exceeds any other women's team in the world. Despite inflammatory statements from their spokesperson, which are intended to paint our actions inaccurately and unfairly, we are undaunted in our efforts to continue discussions in good faith."
Press argued Thursday that equality is "not just a word you can say."
"I think it's quite simple from our perspective," she said. "We want to be paid equally and that just means that when we show up to a game that we get compensated the same way that a man would for showing up for the same game."
"And I think that U.S. Soccer and Carlos and the board just showed us that they weren't willing to start there with equality," Press continued. "And it's not just a word you can say, it's something you have to stand behind because on this issue there is no social equality for women without financial equality."
The U.S. women ran undefeated through the 2019 World Cup in June and July, including a 2-0 win over the Netherlands in the final. It was the second consecutive World Cup victory for the women, who have also won three of the last four Olympic gold medals.
In this file photo taken on July 10, 2019, Megan Rapinoe, center, and other members of the World Cup-winning U.S. women's team take part in a ticker tape parade for the women's World Cup champions in New York.
The U.S. men's team did not qualify for the most-recent World Cup, and their best World Cup result, third place, came 89 years ago.
When it comes to the actual legal issues at play, the suit points to two federal laws: the Equal Pay Act, which prohibits paying employees unequally based on sex, and Title VII, which prohibits employers discriminating on the basis of sex.
"The U.S. women's soccer team does not need to be the best in the world in order to earn equal pay. The point of non-discrimination law is that employees doing similar work should be paid equally," Suzanne B. Goldberg, director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at the Columbia Law School, told ABC News earlier this year.
Women earn guaranteed yearly contracts and benefits, while men are paid for individual match appearances.
In a statement released Wednesday, a USWNT spokesperson said the team wants women to know "we are undaunted" in the fight for equal pay.
(MORE: US women's soccer team member Alex Morgan talks what's next in the battle for gender equality)
"We entered this week's mediation with representatives of USSF full of hope," said Molly Levinson, spokesperson for the U.S. women's national team. "Today we must conclude these meetings sorely disappointed in the Federation's determination to perpetuate fundamentally discriminatory workplace conditions and behavior. It is clear that USSF, including its Board of Directors and President Carlos Cordeiro, fully intend to continue to compensate women players less than men. They will not succeed. We want all of our fans, sponsors, peers around the world, and women everywhere to know we are undaunted and will eagerly look forward to a jury trial."
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Alex Morgan, right, fights for the ball with Netherlands' Stefanie Van Der Gragt during the Women's World Cup final soccer match between US and The Netherlands at the Stade de Lyon in Decines, outside Lyon, France, July 7, 2019.
When asked about a plan should they lose in their fight, Press responded, "I think you're asking the wrong people what if we lose. It's not generally how we approach things."
Regardless of the trial results, fans spoke out loudly in support of the team both during and after the World Cup. Attendees in France chanted "equal pay" after the women won, while similar chants echoed in the Canyon of Heroes days later when the team paraded through lower Manhattan.
"In 2019 I don't think equal pay is necessarily a novel idea," said Rapinoe. "I think people see how successful we've been and I think that they think we should be compensated for that."
ABC News' Alexandra Svokos and Kelly McCarthy contributed to this report.


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U.S. National Committee for the International Hydrological Programme Active
By Water Resources January 27, 2020
The International Hydrological Programme (IHP) is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) international scientific cooperative program in water research, water resources management, education, and capacity-building.
In 2006, the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO established the U.S. National Committee for the International Hydrological Programme to support IHP activities. The functions of the Committee are to provide advice on hydrological issues to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO in accordance with the Bylaws.
IHP activities in the United States are carried out under the guidance of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. There are two meetings of the IHP National Committee each year, in the fall and spring. Activities are conducted largely between the members by telecommunications. IHP activities are regularly reported to the UNESCO National Commission.
The National Committee for IHP brings together many of the key Federal agencies with mission responsibility for in the hydrologic sciences, hydrological research groups, and academic researchers in the hydrologic research community within the United States. As such, the United States is able to contribute towards IHP through a variety of hydrologic research programs and related activities. The National Committee for IHP plans to undertake activities which are closely aligned to the themes of IHP-VIII. The description of IHP VIII is available at http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/water/ihp-viii-water-security/
Functions of the Committee include:
Making recommendations on U.S. participation in the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme and assisting upon request in the formulation and review of other UNESCO international water resources activities.
Providing advice on domestic and international activities related to UNESCO programs that advance research, education, or training in water resources sciences or the application of water resources sciences to specific problems.
Recommending U.S. programs for participation in the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme.
Providing advice to organizations involved in U.S. participation in UNESCO international water resources activities.
For additional information about the program, see UNESCO IHP. For information about National Committees of other countries, see the IHP National Committee page.
The U.S. National Committee includes members of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, U.S. government agencies, and external organizations with expertise in water resources. U.S. National Committee IHP members serve terms of 1-3 years, with the responsibility for chairing the Committee rotated among the Federal agencies. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is currently chairing the Committee. For additional information, please contact: Verne Schneider, National Committee Executive Secretary (vrschnei@usgs.gov) or Bill Cunningham, Chair (wcunning@usgs.gov).
U.S. National Committee Members
Katherine Bailey - The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Jerad Bales - The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc. (CUAHSI)
Michael Campana - American Water Resources Association
Chuck Chaitovitz - U.S. Water Partnership
Bill Cunningham1 - U.S. Geological Survey
Terry Davies - National Science Foundation
Maria Donosom - Florida International University
Bradley Doorn - NASA
Russel Jones2 - American Association of Engineering Societies
Richard Meganck2 - Oregon State University
Randall Over2 - American Society of Civil Engineers
William Logan - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Lauren Schapker - National Ground Water Association
Soroosh Sorooshian - University of California at Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Richard Volk - USAID
Eric Wood - Princeton University
Thomas Graziano - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Reagan Waskom - Colorado State University
1 Chair, U.S. National Committee for the International Hydrological Programme
2 Member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO
UNESCO Water and Hydrology-Related Resources
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UNESCO Water Portal
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
UNESCO HELP (Hydrology for the Environment, Life, and Policy)
Global Water and Development Information for Arid Lands (G-WADI)
International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management (ICIWaRM)
Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management (ISARM) Americas
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23rd Intergovernmental Council IHP - Verne Schneider and Will Logan
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CSU Water Center International Initiative - J. Nukols, Colorado State University
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Proposal for the Creation of the "Land Subsidence International Initiative (LaSII)" - Devin Galloway
WMO HydroConference - Draft Conference Statement - William Bolhofer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Special Dialogue on Water - Concept - William Bolhofer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Joint UNESCO/ARSET Training in Brazil - Ana Prados, JCET, UMD
ICIWaRM Update - Will Logan, ICIWaRM, US Army Corps of Engineers
Proposal for a new UNESCO Chair Hydrology - Maria Donoso, Florida International University
Organizing US National Commission Activities within UNESCO-IHP VIII Themes - Bill Cunningham, US National Committee Chair
ICIWaRM and G-WADI - Will Logan, Bob Pietrowsky, ICIWaRM, US Army Corps of Engineers, Soroosh Sorooshian, UC Irvine, and Eric Wood, Princeton
U.S./Mexico Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program (TAPP) - Jim Leenhouts, Director, USGS Arizona Water Science Center
U.S. Support for IHP Phase 8 - International Hydrological Programme United States National Committee (September 2013)
IHP-VIII Water Security Brochure
William L Cunningham
Director - Office of International Programs
wcunning@usgs.gov
Groundwater Monitoring
Hazards (Floods, Droughts, Hurricanes, etc.)
Land-Use Change
Urban Water Concerns
Water Availability and Use
Water Supply and Demand
Measuring and Monitoring Water
Common Water Issues
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
International Water Resources Activities
USGS water-related projects of international interest.
Water Resources, Pennsylvania Water Science Center, International Programs
Partners associated with the U.S. National Committee for the International Hydrological Programme.
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Project Wet Foundation
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Editora Peixes, the publishing company of Brazilian gay magazine DOM, announced last week that due to financial problems it would be restructuring and closing five of its publications, one of them being DOM. I had heard rumors about it before the announcement, but decided not post anything here until I had more accurate information.
Last Friday, DOM posted on its blog that Editora Peixes plans to turn the magazine and other titles into websites in 2009. I emailed the editor Augusto Soares, and was told that DOM is already looking for a new publisher and investor outside of Peixes to keep the magazine on newstands. The December issue will be the last one published by Peixes.
I am offering my full support to the magazine here on the blog as it is a project I believe in, and have already contributed to several times. I would like to note that DOM was not canceled because it was a gay title, but because it was the newest publication under Editora Peixes. DOM had gone monthly in July.
that's a sad sad news! may we offer our support also in france! We are retransmitting your post to announce this bas news and hope we ll get some contacts to help.
Sad news. I hope they can find an "angel" to help keep them on the newstands. Fantastic magazine!


*****The above answer is wrong. if Crusher Run weighs 150 lbs/cubic foot, then the weight per cubic yard is 4050 lbs. (150x27=4050) The calculation above was done in error by multiplying by 9 which is SQUARE FEET per SQUARE YARD.
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Everyone has his or her own secret to making perfect guacamole but some of those recipes have been pretty controversial among avocado aficionados.
Actress-turned-Cooking Channel host Tiffani Theissen has been quoted as saying she loves grapefruit in guacamole and Chrissy Teigen received a lot of backlash after proclaiming that she actually adds cheese to hers!
But Ina Garten, who we have long trusted as the gatekeeper to many of the finer things in life, has a somewhat unusual recipe that we can absolutely get behind. While many chefs and home cooks put a dash of lime in their recipe, the Barefoot Contessa is on a different side of the citrus tracks.
Her recipe also includes red onion, garlic, kosher salt, black pepper, tomato and Tabasco sauce — a relatively unorthodox choice for heat instead of diced jalapenos. Hey, it's a twist...but it's a twist from a pro so we'll certainly give it a try.
Garten's Instagram video was posted less than 24 hours ago and it's already garnered almost 200,000 views with lots of commentary over whether it's better to use lemons or limes, the lack of cilantro, the relatively rough chop and the use of Tabasco.
We say, it's your guacamole, do what you want with it!


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Geopolitics, Espionage, and Poop
Did Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin Spy on Mao Zedong's Excrement?
A story carried by the BBC in late January 2016 reported that Joseph Stalin spied on Mao Zedong and other world leaders by collecting and analyzing their feces.
Stalin is said to have directed his KGB henchman Lavrenti Beria to set up a secret department tasked with surreptitiously collecting and analyzing feces to gain insight into their targets' medical and psychological states.
However, this isn't the only example of espionage via the toilet! The U.S. and France also tried to exploit this questionable source of information. The Cold War contained some strange and desperate plots.
Toilet in a Moscow train station.
Toilet and shower in a Russian nursing school.
In December 1949 Mao Zedong visited Moscow. He was kept waiting for ten days before meeting Stalin. During this time he was fed well but confined to his guest quarters, a house in which the toilets are said to have been disconnected from the sewer line and connected to special collection systems. The historian David Halberstam reported in his book The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War:
When Mao first arrived in Moscow, he announced that China looked forward to a partnership with Russia, but he emphasized as well that he wanted to be treated as an equal.
Instead he was being taught a lesson each day. He had become, in Ulam's words, "as much captive as guest".
As such, he shouted at the walls, convinced that Stalin had bugged the house: "I am here to do more than eat and shit!"
The BBC story comes from former Soviet intelligence officer Igor Atamanenko, who says that he uncovered the project details while doing historical research in the Russian secret service archives.
He reports that high levels of the amino acid tryptophan suggested that the person was calm and approachable. A low level of potassium was seen as a symptom of a nervous disposition and insomnia.
Not the First Story of Fecal Espionage
In a 16 September 1971 article "CIA Eavesdrops on Kremlin Chiefs" in the Washington Post, the syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported that the CIA had retrieved and analyzed some of Nikita Krushchev's feces during his 1959 state visit to the U.S. The CIA medical team had concluded that Krushchev was in excellent health.
The retired French spymaster Alexandre de Marenches told a Time journalist that the French Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage had collected Leonid Brezhnev's urine. The Soviet leader stayed at the Hotel d'Angleterre in Copenhagen during a state visit. The SDECE rented the suite directly below, cut through the ceiling, dismantled Brezhnev's toilet waste line, and sent his toilet flushings to Paris for analysis.
In 1987 Jack Anderson reported a story told to him by a confidential source about a series of failed attempts by CIA and MI6 to collect Mikhail Gorbachev's feces.
Yes, the CIA has a Medical and Psychological Analysis Center, and intelligence agencies try to analyze the health of world leaders and use their remote conclusion in analyses and predictions. See this VOA story about the CIA MPAC. But...
Not the Most Reliable Source
The BBC story, which was picked up and repeated with great enthusiasm and only minor changes by many news outlets, is based on a report by Igor Atamanenko in Komsomolskaya Pravda. Atamenenko is a regular source of absurd stories for that publication.
Комсомольская Правда or Komsomolskaya Pravda, literally Komsomol Truth, is a daily Russian tabloid newspaper.
The paper was founded in 1925 as an official organ of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. Komsomol or Комсомол is a typical Russian syllabic abbreviation for kommunisticheskii soyuz molodyozhi, "Young Communist League". The organization is officially Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи or ВЛКСМ, the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.
Young children went into the Little Octobrists. When nine years old, they graduated into the Young Pioneers. At fourteen they graduated into Komsomol, the third, final, and longest stage, to which they belonged until 28.
The organization's official organ, Komsomolskaya Pravda, runs stories like its January 2015 front-page claim that the U.S. had perpetrated the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo publishing office in Paris. Atamanenko's contributions to Komsomolskaya Pravda include what claims to be a surprising revelation about Stalin's decisions in during the Great Patriotic War (also known as World War II). But actually it's just a retelling of the made-for-TV sequel to The Dirty Dozen.
Dear Diary — Today that old Mao Zedong was really full of it.
Fears of Stool Diversion
Kim Jong-Un of the DPRK or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is known to travel with his own toilet. Reports say that he takes his own portable toilet to inspect military bases and factories within North Korea. He took one to the border village of Panmunjon in April 2018 for the historic meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. He is also reported to have taken one on his trip to Singapore in June 2018 to meet with Donald Trump. Here are media reports on Kim's portable toilet:
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Copromancy
There are opportunities for legitimate medical analysis of feces. Copromancy, however, is more like fortune telling. If there isn't a Copronomicon describing the practice, there should be.
Ayurvedic medicine analyzes feces, as does traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese practices link stool details to purported bodily accumulations of heat, cold, and dampness, and blame diarrhea on exogenous evils and yang deficiency.
"Cleansing"
On the Ayurvedic side, Deepak Chopra urges you to examine your feces for color, smell, stickiness, and other attributes. And, of course, his company sells various purgative cleansing treatments.
But for high-grade copromantic nonsense check out the system of copromancy advocated by American charlatan Raymond A. Moody before he got into near-death experiences. In 1972 he was already talking about computers and their potential coprological applications:
Without in any way disparaging tea-leaf reading, astrology, palmistry, phrenology, or any of the other similar techniques, we can say with certainty that coprology — with its modern scientific methods of research, controlled experiments, and computer analysis — is able to obtain much more accurate predictions of future life trends than any other known method.
These were simple sketches, not the science embodied by the Bristol Stool Chart.
The End of Open Defecation?
Other blog postings...
The term open defecation became commonly used after the UN observed the International Year of Sanitation in 2008 and the first annual World Toilet Day in 2013. It refers simply to people defecating outdoors, in fields, streams, or alleyways, and not into toilets. r.i.c.e. report on open defecation The World Health Organization estimated in 2014 that about 1 billion people, 15% of the global population, practice open defecation. The Research Institute for Compassionate Economics report has maps showing open defecation rates world-wide. WHO/UNICEF Progress
Guns and Toilets at the U.S. Capitol
The U.S. Capitol Police force received special training in 2015. The topic? How to use public toilets without leaving their guns behind. USCP officers had accidentally left their guns behind in restrooms in the Capitol building three times during the first four months of the year. Several news organizations reported the story in May 2015. The Chief officer of that armed police force, Kim C. Dine, was called to explain the matter to Congress. He said: "We are now providing additional training on what
How Your Pee Can Change The Sex Of Fish And Reptiles
Human urine and thus wastewater treatment plant output can contain hormones. Some of this is natural output, but some comes from medical hormone treatments. Scientists are discovering that populations of fish and reptiles are changing their sex because of hormones in the water. And, in some cases, fish populations are crashing because almost all of the males are changing to females and the females can't produce viable eggs. Chromosomes determine the sex of many, but not all, animals. In humans and most other mammals,
Coffee, Tea, or Coliform?
The horror stories continue: "Flight attendants will never drink tea or coffee on board because it's made from water believed to be frequently contaminated." Coffee and tea are made with water stored in on-board tanks, not water brought aboard at each stop in plastic bottles. The on-board tanks are the responsibility of the airline. They can be topped up as needed at any airport, although the airlines try to refill the water tanks at the aircraft's home airport in order to save mony. The
Switzerland's Golden Sewage
About 95 pounds of gold and 6,600 pounds of silver pass through Switzerland's wastewater stream every year. Swiss refineries handle 70% of the world's gold production, A fraction of that makes its way into the sewers. The gold and silver certainly get our attention as they are classic precious metals. The amounts in national sewage add up to values of about 1.5 million Swiss Francs worth of each (or about 2 million US$ each). Several valuable rare earth metals and other trace elements appear
Discovering the Roman Military Diet through Biochemistry
The Romans built defensive walls along their northern borders in Britain. How difficult would it be to cross such a wall? The Romans had figured out how to make a formidable set of obstacles using little more than the existing soil. At forts, the first obstacle might include wading through their cesspit! Both the large-scale coast-to-coast walls and the perimeters of attached or nearby forts used a sequence of obstacles. They dug a ditch, piling the removed soil along the interior bank of the
The Mayans Had A Pressurized Water Supply
The ancient Maya are seen for some reason as excellent builders but as no more than mediocre engineers, while the Romans are praised for their engineering skill. That's unfair. The Romans used a ridiculous numbering system. They could, with a lot of effort, do addition, so they could keep track of some logistical details. But the sort of mathematics you need to do true engineering design and analysis is far beyond the Roman numeral system. During the Classic Maya period, roughly 250-600 CE, the


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with [[File:skilltree_096.jpg]] I have uploaded a newer image of the skilltree. Also slightly outdated, but more actual than the one used there. Original size is scaled down to 1140x1200.
We need a new picture.
I think we should have a category for passives that no longer exist, as deleting them loses part of the history of the game, but they are potentially clogging up particularly the basic passives category with red herrings.
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