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Seven killed in attack on DR Congo mining town
04 December 2021 | 2:39 pm
An armed group slew seven civilians in an attack on a mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, a source said Saturday, with the army claiming it killed 36 attackers.
Fighters from the armed Cooperative for the development of Congo (Codeco) on Friday struck the town of Mungwalu, north of Ituri's provincial capital Bunia, local community organiser Cherubin Nkuku Ndilawa told AFP.
"Seven civilians were killed by militiamen, among them two children, one a pregnant woman and four men," he added.
The incident forced local residents to flee the town for neighbouring areas and "two Codeco militiamen captured by angry youths were burned alive," Ndilawa said.
The army said it had "fiercely repelled" the "attempted incursion" according to the force's local spokesman Jules Ngongo.
The military intervened and were scouting the area with at least two combat helicopters, according to witnesses.
"The provisional toll of this operation is that 36 Codeco militiamen were killed and eight captured," Ngongo added.
Explosives dropped during the operation killed two bystanders and injured three in the mining area of Camp Blangete, he said.
Since April 2020, President Felix Tshisekedi has mandated former warlords — including Germain Katanga, convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity — to negotiate the surrender of armed groups in Ituri that include Codeco.
The group purports to defend the interests of the Lendu community, one of the groups present in Ituri.
Since the end of 2017, the conflict in Ituri has resulted in more than 1.5 million displaced persons and several hundred deaths, mostly attributed to assailants from the Lendu community.
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Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, January/February 2004
Feb 14, 2010 Leave a Comment on Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, January/February 2004Analog
Tags Alec Nevala-Lee, Bob Buckley, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Grey Rollins, Kyle Kirkland, Marie Ming, Michael A. Burstein, Ramona Louise Wheeler, Richard A. Lovett, Robert J. Sawyer, Stephen L. Burns, Steven Bratman
Both Analog and Asimov's announced during 2003 that they would be publishing one issue less per year : moving to two double-month issues, and eight single-month issues. This is the first of the two double-month issues of the year, to complement the July/August double issue.
Ramona Louise Wheeler. Inherit the Vortex.
Further adventures of Ray and Rokey, who have appeared in three previous stories in Analog. Captain Ray Harris (human) and Lord Rokhmyr, a fur-covered non-human, are chased by the evil Dr Whorley (bwa ha ha ha), and put down on a remote planet. Their presence awakeness a subterranean creature, who is invigorated by them, and they are lucky to leave the planet in one piece (actually not one piece, as they leave some of their landing equipment behind). Dr Whorley and his crew are not as lucky.
The couple come across an antiquity of shattering importance to Rokhmyr and his race, which needs to be hidden. Where better than in the deep oceans of the aquatic world.
The story ends with the alien intelligence gratefully accepting and integratingthe treasure which they leave – which really is the point at which I expected the story to start, not end!
Grey Rollins. Private Eyes.
A wise-cracking private dick story with a difference – the private dick is in a newly grown body, with a copy of his own uploaded AI also in his computer system, so that they can bounce wise-cracks off each other.
The crime he has to solve (if there has been a crime) is that of why a scientist is now evidently addicted to pain through synesthiastic rewiring of her brain after an accident. Is there foul play afoot?
Kyle Kirkland. Caged.
Scientist Danton Grell has a conundrum to resolve when his grand-daughter is arrested on a felony charge. He has to resolve issues over the work/family balance as well as solving the science behind the crime.
Marie Ming. Swings.
Student Haydon has a conundrum to resolve – what is up with his alien foster brother Macarduboth, and Raya, who has clinical depression. Fortunately Haydon is a bright boy and is able to identify the genetic problems from which Raya is suffering, and thereby removing Macarduboth's cause for worry.
Stephen L. Burns. Short line loco.
Kendra Zenna Joad has a lunar condundrum to resolve. How to stop a terrorist bomb detonating when the only transport available isn't anywhere near fast enough to get to where the bomb has been planted before it explodes? A bit of lateral thinking, and vertical bouncing, solve the problem.
Richard A. Lovett. Weapons of Mass Distraction.
Little more than a 'Probabilty Zero' item, in that the dangers of relying on computer pattern recognition software in the fight against terrorists is shown to be unsafe.
Robert J. Sawyer. Shed Skin.
After uploading himself to a glorious robotic self, the old body and brain are left to live out their life in a luxurious retirement complex. However, the old body and brain are not enamoured of this fate, against which they rebel. New body and brain have a watertight case and refuse to countenance the old body and brain being the rightful legal entity, but old body and brain are cunning, and a hostage situation puts the new body and brain in a conundrumical situation. Having stuck to his guns, new body and brains finds that the fatal resolution of the hostage situation is in fact more than he can take, and despite his new housing he remains human.
Michael A. Burstein. Decisions.
Creaky plot and characterisation which probably would have passed muster in the 1950s, but not the 2000s. Commander Aaron Eliassen comes back from a space mission to find himself apparently back on Earth before he left. Kept incommunicado by those on Earth who reckon it best for him to stay out of sight, he escapes through the age old trick of pretending to be asleep when his guard brings a meal, and utilising 'the lock picking skills he had taught himself at college'. Aaron then confronts his own self prior to the mission launch and swops places. Masquerading as his doppelganger until the launch, Aaron retraces his steps into space. However, he meets up with 'alien creatures' who explain what has in fact really been happening. He struggles with their names, so decides to call them 'George' and 'Gracie' (no, really). Anyway its one of those test-thingies by which each race is measured to determine whether they are fit to enter the galactic community.
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre. Annual Annular Annals.
(B)anal 'humor'.
Bob Buckley. The Dragon Wore Trousers.
Short tale suggesting an alternative reason for the dragon-mythology of Arthurian times.
Steven Bratman. Deletion.
A near-future in which friendships, and all manner of other social relationships are rigorously deliniated, and in which biological bonds are limited (but otherwise an identical society to our own). Bratman uses this scenario to show just how soulless such a society would be.
Alec Nevala-Lee. Inversus.
A writer translating Alice Through The Looking Glass into Hebrew triggers horrors from the other side of the mirror. He has 'situs inversus', a condition in which the organs in the body are on the opposite side to 'normal', a condition shared by a number of men brutally murdered on the night he himself is attacked. He is able to save the day with the help of a clever investigator who graps the scientific conundrum.
Rather a struggle to get through, to be brutally frank. Now I can get on with reading the books I got from Santa!
Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, December 2003
Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, March 2004
Alec Nevala-Lee. The Proving Ground. (Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, January/February 2017).
Richard A. Lovett and William Gleason. Nightfall on the Peak of Eternal Light. (The Year's Best Science Fiction 30th Annual Collection.)
Alec Nevala-Lee. The Boneless One. (The Year's Best Science Fiction 29th Annual Collection)
Analog. March 2010.

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Not every U.S. president has agreed with Jefferson about the importance of journalism, of course.
Canadian journalists battle for press freedoms every day, too.
But as journalists, we share a passion, a mission, a quest.
We search for the truth as watchdogs of the people elected and appointed to serve our citizenry.
As journalists, we're trained to keep a professional distance, to make sure we don't become part of the story.
While we're not the story, the need for our journalism has never been more important to the people and communities we serve.
It has never been more important for journalists to ask questions, scour public records and investigate malfeasance.
It has never been more important for journalists to expose corruption, challenge assumptions and shine a light on sexual misconduct.
As journalists along the Mississippi River in Wisconsin, we've asked in recent months what chemicals were contained in a 10-million-gallon spill floating down a tributary. We've asked about a drastic increase in overdose deaths. We've asked why no criminal charges were filed in a boating accident in which two people died.
You have your own stories to tell about the questions you ask and the journalism you produce.
Make no mistake: Your journalism matters.
It's crucial that we continue to reinforce the importance of our role in society.
And we're not just watchdogs. Our journalism encourages our readers with positive stories that truly reflect the flavor of our communities.
Rest assured, your journalism has never been more important.
This column is being published in observance of National Newspaper Week and was previously written on behalf of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association for journalists in Canada. Rusty Cunningham is editor of the La Crosse Tribune and executive editor of the River Valley Media Group.
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Nice quote. Have a great weekend!
Thanks Niamh. And yes izzy, we do have to have that underlying sense of happiness, or balance call it what you will, to keep us going.
Love it! Necessary weekend quote and perfect picture. Happy weekend!
Joint favourite poet old Frostie along with Yeatsie!Loved them both since I was knee high to whatever! There's wisdom.
Thanks ds, same to you, and yes Gerry and Dee, Mr Frost has a lot of good things to say.
The more I think about that, the more profound it becomes.
It's a good one alright Dave!


The Graphic Arts Loan Collection (GALC) is a collection of framed, original lithographs, etchings, engravings and other works of art that students, faculty, and staff at UC Berkeley can borrow from the Morrison Library.
This program started in 1958 under the direction of Herwin Schaefer, a Professor in the Decorative Arts program at UCB, who believed that the best way to foster an appreciation of art is for students to live with original prints for a term. Funding for the nucleus of the collection was provided by the Columbia Foundation and the International Graphic Arts Society.
During the inaugural exhibition in 1958, more than 5,000 guests passed through the Morrison Library to view this amazing collection of art. The prints were displayed for two weeks for anyone to view before they become available to any registered UC Berkeley student to rent for a single dollar. All of the 158 prints in the collection that first year were borrowed within two hours. Over the years, it was common for students to line up the night before the prints would start circulating in order to get the prints they desired. At the beginning of the spring quarter in 1967, David Smith, a biology student waited 25 hours and 15 minutes to borrow a lithograph by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
There are currently nine other art lending programs at universities and colleges in the United States, but the Graphic Arts Loan Collection at the Morrison Library has the distinction of being the only one of these programs run by a university library. All the others are run by university art museums. As of now, the GALC has more than 900 prints in its collection, with around 100 that are too valuable to circulate. Some of these prints that do not normally circulate can be found on the walls and in the cases of this exhibit.
In 2008, on the program's 50th anniversary, the prints in the collection were digitized for students to review on a new online catalog, and the paper check-out cards were replaced with barcodes on the prints that allowed the prints to be borrowed through the Library's online catalog. As a result, students might not line up anymore outside the Doe Library to get their prints, but they do get up early to request prints through their computers as soon as the prints begin circulating each year. This usually results in over 200 requests in the first few days the program is open.
Even with all the changes the GALC has gone through in the last 60 years—including discontinuing rental fees and allowing students to borrow prints for a full academic year—Professor Schaefer's vision for the collection remains: to put original art in the hands of students.


The authenticity of this rare photo is a source of controversy.
It does not make sense that one with Ben's programming skill would use a keyboard. Keyboards are a clumsy barrier between thought and computer code. We are certain that he uses wires plugged into his prefrontal cortex, as pictured. Ben's impeccable manners and self-control require a constant supply of dopaminergic input through his forehead and into frontal lobe and substantia nigra. Ben's vast knowledge of video games is stored in several glowing artificial brains in jars. The last wire, going into the top of his head, is an external supply of neurotransmitters and lightning bolts, to constantly fuel his creative and analytical brain centers.
There is one more brain wire in the illustration, but it is just ridiculous and unrealistic. I don't know what the illustrator was thinking. He is not as talented as Camila Gormaz.
Ben does not have time for nonsense or mundane activities, therefore, we can conclude that his meals must come from a chest tube, his physical fitness must be provided by a futuristic body suit with pink and purple glowing thingies, and he must have robot spiders with laser eyes to vaporize anyone who might disturb him.
If people knew the full truth about Ben, that he is more machine than man, would they feel comfortable working with him, or would they be frightened? Jordan Clive seems to believe people would be frightened, which is why he keeps Ben's secret.
At some point you have to wonder: is the entity we call "Ben" still human? Is Ben the next step in evolution? Is Ben here to bridge the gap between man and machine? Does Ben still have human emotions?
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The annual Upfront Summit in Malibu, Calif. is big on Hollywood and political star power, but above all it is a chance for venture capitalists and emerging companies to share ideas.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were among many of the celebrities attending Upfront, and each had some sobering news about funding their business ventures. Paltrow's fireside chat with Felix Capital's founder Frederic Court touched on the ease with which she got potential investors to take her meetings, and her difficulty in turning those meetings into firm commitments. We know the rest of the story—Paltrow's company Goop is now valued at more than $250 million.
Gordon-Levitt appeared at Upfront fresh off the announcement of a new wave of funding for his collaborative production company, HitRecord. After eschewing suggestions from potential investors that he leverages his celebrity to promote HitRecord, Gordon-Levitt struck the recent investment deal to help the company establish a branded-content division. It took nearly 10 years to reach that point, and a compelling business reason for investors to trust HitRecord's prospects.
Implicitly and overtly, the 2019 Upfront Summit championed diversity as an essential part of any healthy business model.
Nearly half the speakers were women, reflecting Upfront Ventures' own role in an entirely women-led $75 million round of funding for The Wing. Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX described the prospects of using her company's capabilities to facilitate travel here on Earth, suggesting that we could soon travel—affordably—in one hour from LA to Singapore. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams discussed the cross-party appeal of her voting-rights organization, Fair Fight.
In her conversation with Time's Up CEO Lisa Borders, Abrams noted that, "you can't tell people to come to the table if you don't have a seat for them." Borders herself opened the Summit by describing her organization's strategic roadmap. Time's Up co-founder and actress Natalie Portman did not speak, but attended Upfront in advance of delivering the keynote address at the Cayman Alternative Investment Summit.
It was a trenchant statement of what several speakers echoed and the entire Summit implied: soon, leadership teams composed exclusively of white men are no longer the rule, they're an aberration. And a dangerous one at that to their companies' fortunes.
NetSuite will focus on this issue in particular during SuiteWorld, its annual user conference, with a Women in Leadership track. SuiteWorld will be held April 1-4 in Las Vegas. Click here to register.


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The South Island was treated to a spectacular Aurora Australis display Sunday night.
The Southern Lights, as they're also known, measured seven on the Kp index, a measure of aurora activity. The maximum is nine.
On Sunday night, the lights were seen as far north as Motueka at the top of the South Island - roughly in line with Wellington.


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To celebrate the release of Jane O'Reilly's new novel, Blue Shift, we've got a sneaky excerpt for you… If you can't help but want more (we couldn't!), the eBook is out on June 1st! Enjoy!
Vessel: The Finex. Class 2 long- haul freighter
Destination: Earth
Cargo: Platinum ore
Crew: Eleven
Droids: Two
The phase drive had stopped.
The freighter jerked to a standstill, as if a giant hand had reached out and grabbed it. It shouldn't have been physically possible for a vessel the size of the Finex to stop like that. But it did. Jinn was flung backwards, falling hard, the base of her spine taking the brunt of the impact. The lights went out as she hit the floor, sinking her into darkness so complete that she wondered fora moment if she'd gone blind. Everything hurt. Everything. All she could do was lie there and think about pain.
Then the emergency lighting switched on. The alarms started screaming, an electronic shriek that threatened to break her skull and made it impossible to hear her own thoughts as she staggered to her feet and turned to look at the control panel. She grabbed the back of the pilot's chair, hanging on to it as the freighter tilted left. Empty Soylate cups went flying, as did discarded pieces of uniform and a couple of personal comm. units.
Pulling herself round, Jinn pushed her backside into the chair and gripped the edge of the control panel, forcing herself to stay seated. The data screens flashed. She stared at them, trying to make sense of the streaming feed, but none of it meant anything.
They had been cruising along Space Lane Seven. It wasn't the busiest of routes, but it wasn't the quietest, either. Now with a dead phase drive, they weren't so much cruising as floating, and the last thing she wanted was to get in the way of another freighter. They weren't exactly designed to stop in a hurry.
'Viewscreen on!' she yelled.
Everything around her seemed to freeze. She couldn't breathe.
She wasn't even sure her heart was still beating. There, floating alongside the Finex, was a ship. Not a freighter, or one of the smaller transporters used by the traffic police, but something else. It was long, fat and bulbous at one end, narrowing to a slender point at the other. It reminded her of the giant squid trapped in the frozen seas back on Earth, with its strange curving shape and the eerie way it was just . . . there.
It drifted closer, sinking lower. A vast glowing orb moved across her line of sight like a curious eye. Jinn jumped in her seat, her heart pounding up into her throat. She swallowed, fingers shaking on the control panel. She pressed her feet hard into the floor and tensed the muscles in her legs. 'Just a search light,' she told herself firmly, as the eye moved. 'Just a light. Not a cannon.'
That didn't stop her from feeling like a specimen under a scope.
The ship appeared to have been made from multiple vessels, taken apart and then stitched together with rivets and filth. She had never seen anything like it. It wasn't a government ship, nor did it belong to one of the corporations. That left only one possibility.
Pirates.
Why? Jinn silently screamed, terror stealing her words as the other members of the crew came staggering onto the control deck, all in various states of undress, smelling of chemical sleep and confusion.
'What in the void is going on?' asked Zane. He was the longest-serving and therefore the most senior employee on board, something he liked to remind everyone of. Frequently.
'Pirates,' Jinn replied, her tongue thick and heavy. 'It's pirates.'
'Are you sure?'
'See for yourself.'
Someone swore, a short, sharp word.
'Don't just sit there!' Zane yelled at her. 'Get us out of here!'
Shamed by her own stupidity, Jinn pressed her palms against the small, circular ports that would link her to the on-board system. Within seconds, the tiny Tellurium nanobots that inhabited the flesh of her forearms had formed into long, thin wires and pushed their way out of her hands and into the port.
Wetware connected to hardware, and she was in.
It took her precious seconds to navigate her way through the on-board system, which seemed to be in the middle of a full- scale meltdown. Jinn overrode it and switched to emergency protocol, which would enable her to fly. But the freighter was big, and it was heavy and fully loaded. It wouldn't move in a hurry.
'Shit,' she muttered, when she realised that it wouldn't move at all.
'I can't power up the phase drives.'
And so the scramble for the emergency escape pods began.
Zane moved first. Heavy boots thudded on metal as the crew sprinted to the little transports, located down in the belly of the freighter. Why hadn't she thought of that? There was a way out of this and she was sat in the pilot's chair like an idiot as the Finex drifted closer to the pirate ship, close enough for her to see the individual metal plates that formed the hull. From the way the freighter was moving, she knew the pirates had them in a tractor beam. There was a chance that the emergency pods would be able to avoid the pull if they used the freighter as a shield. That chance was a lot bigger if she was piloting one of them. She had to get to one of the pods, and fast.
Pulling in air, Jinn focussed on the tiny nanobots, willing them to disconnect and move back inside her body. The view screen was still active. As she watched, a small docking portal in the side of the pirate ship spiralled open and a spacewalk emerged, unfolding its way through space. They were going to be boarded.
Jinn had spent enough time watching the streaming newsfeeds to know what that meant. She closed her eyes, and with one massive push of concentration, dragged the Tellurium back inside her body and disconnected from the computer. Her hands burned but she ignored it as she sprinted down into the belly of the ship, chasing her way down endless sharply angled staircases.
Her boots clattered on the metal, her palms slipping as she tried to grip on to the safety rails.
She was almost at the hatch that led to the escape pods when she heard the spacewalk connect. Every second was precious now. She had to keep moving, and that seemed to switch off her fear. She felt nothing, thought about nothing, simply moved to the first hatch and pressed her thumb against the lock pad. It didn't open, the light flashing red to indicate that the pod had already jettisoned. Jinn rushed to the second hatch, repeated the process. They couldn't all have gone. They couldn't. A shiver dropped down her spine as she stood staring at the hatch door, the slow flicker of the emergency lighting showing her the world in brief flashes of sickly yellow light.
'Hull breach detected,' came the voice over the internal loudspeaker.
'Immediate evacuation recommended.'
'Thanks for the advice,' Jinn muttered. A hull breach meant that the pirates had cut their way in. They would find her in a matter of minutes. Or, worse, they wouldn't, and she'd still be on board the Finex when they set it adrift, when it was left to float out into space with a rapidly diminishing oxygen supply and malfunctioning on board computer.
'Shit.' She tried the lock one last, desperate time. She was aware of something crowding the edges of her consciousness, an instinctive sense that danger was closing in, moving closer with every second wasted. Abandoning the second hatch, Jinn moved to the third and final one. She jammed her thumb against the lock, staring intently at the control panel. The light stayed red, stayed red.
Then it changed to green. The hatch door spiralled open, and
Jinn found herself staring into the belly of the little escape pod.
Three of her crewmates were inside. Their heads jerked round and they stared at her. 'There's no room,' Zane said.
'They've already boarded.' Jinn moved closer to the hatch, wrapped her hands around the opening and set a foot to the edge, ready to get in with them. 'If I pilot us out of here, we can use the ship as a shield. Avoid the tractor beam.'
'This is a three- person pod,' Rula said. 'It doesn't have enough oxygen to support four.'
'We're on Space Lane Seven,' Jinn pointed out. The pirates were close. She could almost taste their sweat in the air. 'We'll get picked up long before we run out.'
'I'm not taking that chance,' Zane replied. His hand flicked up, and in it Jinn saw a blaster. 'Get away from the hatch. Or I'll spill your guts all over the floor, Dome bitch.'
'Don't do this,' Jinn pleaded. Deep down, she had known they disliked her, but this was more than that. She looked at Zane.
'Let me pilot. It's our only chance.'
His response was to power up the blaster. 'Get the fuck away from the hatch. I won't tell you again.'
The blaster whined. Jinn closed her eyes.
Then two strong hands closed around her upper arms and jerked her away from the hatch opening. 'What have we here? 'Said a voice, deep and rough and unfamiliar.
Those hands turned her around, and Jinn found herself looking up, up, and into the face of a man she didn't know. Thick eyebrows framed hard green eyes separated by a nose that was slightly out of kilter. If the dark hair hadn't already told her he was an Underworld, that nose would have. All his features were like that, slightly too big, not quite in line, like he'd been put together in a hurry. It was hard to guess his age. His skin said early twenties.
His eyes said something else entirely. She saw no obvious signs of prosthetics, but his size screamed genetic modification.
And her body screamed out in fear.
'Take her!' Zane yelled from somewhere behind her. 'She's Dome- raised. You'll get decent credits for her!'
The pirate kept his gaze fixed on Jinn. 'I've already got more credits than I can spend.' He lifted a hand, wrapped a lock of her hair around his finger, the white contrasting sharply with his skin. 'Now what is a Dome brat doing on a Galactinex freighter?'
'I'm the pilot,' Jinn managed.
'I see.' He poked the retinal implant at her temple. Then he grabbed her hand and examined the implant that banded her wrist, the lights glowing amber to indicate that it was functioning.
She knew if he increased the pressure, her bones would give.
She could sense that in him, that impossible strength. It was why she didn't try to fight him off.
There were others with him, too. They were in the shadows, and Jinn could barely make them out, but they were there, menacing backdrop to the scene. She ignored them. They didn't matter. This one did. She'd imagined pirates to be half starved and dirty and desperate, but this man wasn't desperate at all. His clothes were expensive, he didn't smell, and he didn't seem in any particular hurry to get on with the business of stealing everything on board the ship.
'Please . . .' she whispered.
'Please . . . what?' he asked.
'Please don't hurt me.'
'Now why would I do that?'
'Because . . .' she began, but the sentence remained unfinished, as the sound of the hatch door closing behind her cut through her words.
The pirate released his grip, and Jinn almost fell. It was only through sheer force of will that she stayed anything close to upright, and when she regained her balance she realised that he was no longer in front of her.
He stood at the hatch, and the hatch was open. One big hand wrapped around the edge of the opening, and one big black boot rested casually on the base. She saw him lift that hand, saw him beckon her crewmates out of the pod. Heard the whine of the blaster and the call of pirate scum a second before it was fired.
Instinctively, she held her breath, her entire body shaking. It better have been a clean shot, because she didn't even want to imagine what this man would do if it hadn't.
A half-breath later, she found out. It all happened so fast that she barely had time to comprehend it. All she could think later was that maybe her mind had replaced reality with the memory that she would recall time and time again, of the pirate moving at a speed no human possessed. Of her crewmates flying out of the escape pod, their bodies shooting across the narrow deck before they hit the wall and dropped to the floor. She could taste shock in the back of her throat, the slimy bitterness of it, coated with a thick overlay of fear. Were they dead? Her mind told her to move closer, but her body refused to obey. All she could do was stand there, an open target, and wait her turn.
The pirate climbed out of the pod, the blaster in his hand.
There was blood on his shirt and plenty of it, a bloom of red against the white, but he didn't move like a man in pain. He strode straight past her towards the rear of the bay where the rest of his crew waited. Jinn could see movement in the shadows, then more as they stepped forward. Lean bodies, gleaming, hungry eyes. All of them were dark- haired, with the expected prosthetics.
She saw miners, farmers, engineers, though these were undoubtedly Bugs, people who had skipped out of their colony jobs before they'd paid off the cost of their modifications.
'Strip it down,' the pirate said to them. 'Take the ore and the droids, and whatever else you can find.'
'Aye, captain,' one of them said. Silver streaked the sides of his dark hair, and his left hand had been replaced by a prosthetic, the kind that spun and flicked out an assortment of intricate tools. A biomechanical engineer, which meant he was intelligent and highly skilled, not some low- rent thug. He wasn't what she'd expected. None of this was what she'd expected.
The engineer gestured to the others, and they got to work.
Some of them moved further into the ship, some of them detached laser- cutters from their belts and began to strip out the walls of the bay. Like a group of starving scavengers, they picked it clean, but they did it carefully. Nothing was trashed, nothing was broken. Obviously they weren't just going to take the ore from the hold, they were going to take everything. By the time they'd finished there might not even be a ship for them to leave her on.
The opportunity was there, again, and this time Jinn took it.
But she stumbled as she made her way towards the now- empty escape pod, her feet sliding in the blood that patterned the steel plate beneath her feet. If she hadn't, she might not have heard the voice that came from behind her.
'Help me.' It was little more than a whisper, that desperate plea. 'Please.'
Jinn glanced back. It was Zane. She risked a glance at the pirates on the other side of the bay. They were rapidly dismantling the cooling system, stripping out the pipes and wiring that allowed the vessel to stay at a temperature that the human body could tolerate. Without it, the freighter would rapidly start to overheat. Blood would warm, enzymes would denature, and the biological systems that kept the body functioning would stop.
Anyone left on board would, quite literally, start to cook.
'Bloody supernova.' Jinn turned, started towards Zane. She couldn't leave him to die like that. She barely made it two paces before the pirate captain was in front of her.
He stared down at her with those odd green eyes. 'Don't be foolish,' he said. Then he turned, strode over to her crewmate, and planted one big boot firmly on Zane's chest. 'They made their choice. I offered them work on my ship. They didn't want it.'
Zane struggled against the weight of that boot, but it was futile.
Jinn flexed her fingers and wished desperately for a weapon. Blaster, a knife, and a personal comm. unit she could fling at the pirate's head. Anything.
'Now make your choice,' the pirate said. He gestured to the pod. 'Leave.' He gestured to the rest of the bay. 'Or stay and die with the rest of your crew. It's up to you.'
'Why?' she asked, unable to help herself, knowing the choice she had to make, yet wanting to delay it. Not wanting to face that inevitable moment when she would leave her crew behind, leave them to die. 'Why let me go?'
'You're Dome- raised. No- one cares what happens to a few Underworld workers. But you . . . I don't need that sort of trouble.'
From the other side of the bay, a shout pushed through the hot, sticky air. 'We're done here, captain. Two- minute countdown.'
'Get back to the Mutant,' the pirate replied. He barely raised his voice, yet it had the power to carry across the space. Thence looked at her, straight at her. 'You heard,' he said. 'Get in the pod.'
But she couldn't. She couldn't willingly leave the others here to die. Not while there was still a chance. 'Let me take them with me.'
'Why?'
'Because . . . .' she began, but the words were cut off when she saw Zane push himself up on one elbow. In one unsteady hand, he held a pocket grenade. If he threw it, it would kill all of them.
'No!' she screamed.
But the pirate had already seen. He broke Zane's arm with swift kick, which sent the grenade flying up. The pirate caught it, balancing it on the palm of his hand for a moment, then deftly deactivated it and slid it into his pocket. Zane lay sprawled on the floor, his arm bent at a peculiar angle, his eyes dull. A thin trickle of blood ran out of the corner of his mouth as his throat worked for air.
Jinn turned, flung she towards the escape pod. Feet slipping, hands struggling for grip, she made her way inside, scrambled into a seat. As the restraints automatically wrapped themselves around her torso, she punched the bright red touchpad that would trigger the emergency launch. The hatch spiralled shut and then she was blasted out into space. The pod spun as it rushed away from the freighter, turning her world upside down, and doing the same to her stomach. By the time the boosters kicked in, slowing the pod to a speed that didn't make her want to puke, the Finex was little more than a fragment in the distance.
There was no sign of the pirate ship, only the skeleton of her ship floating alongside Space Lane Seven. She watched it in agony; the only sound that of her own laboured breathing. She watched as it drifted, watched as it burned, watched until there was nothing left.
Then she lowered her hands to the ports on the control deck and plugged in. 'Sir,' she said, when her superior appeared on their screen. 'I need help.'
by Jane O'Reilly
2187. Earth is cold, dead and divided. The rich hide away while the rest will do anything to survive.
Humanity have only one hope: crossing hostile alien territory to reach a habitable planet. (It's lucky that for some, fighting their way through space is just a way of life . . .)
Jinnifer Blue is on the run. An expert pilot, she apprehends criminals on behalf of the government and keeps her illegal genetic modifications a closely guarded secret. But when a particularly dangerous job goes south, Jinn is left stranded on a prison ship with one of the most ruthless criminals in the galaxy.
Now she must decide if she can trust her co-prisoner - because once they discover what the prison ship is hiding, she definitely can't trust anyone else . . .
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Need a cute pet costume before Halloween, but don't have much time left?
Here are some adorable DIY pet costumes to inspire you! All you need is some stuff you have laying around your house and possibly a trip to your local dollar store and you can have an adorable costume for your pet in no time.
This creepy costume can be completed in a few simple steps.
Large rolls of cotton gauze or bandages.
Simply wrap the bandages or cotton gauze around your pet's head, torso, and legs. Remember to leave open space around your pet's face and private areas. Complete the look by applying a little fake blood on various parts of the gauze, keeping it away from your pet's face and eyes.
Make a cute and silly costume for your pet by crafting a festive Halloween wig for the holiday.
Needle and thread, or glue.
Begin by cutting the felt in an oval pattern in accordance to the size of your pets head. Measure between and around the ears to determine where and how large to cut the ear holes. This will be your wig base. Lay the base over your felting brush or pad and place 1/2 inch of the wool at the edge of the base. Use the felting needles to attach it, and continue until strands appear at the underside of the base.
Continue this process 1/4 inch at a time, felting around the base. To cover the felted edge, fold locks up and away from the holes. For the center part of the wig, felt the wool from the ear holes into the center. To hide the felted area, fold the wool strands over the felted edge and back toward the ear hole. To make sure the wig stays on, you can attach two felt straps to either side and tie them together, or attach them with Velcro straps.
Want to change your pet into one of these fun and infamous growing plants? It's so easy to give this costume a try!
Start by measuring your pet from the front of his chest to the end of his body to get the length. For the width, measure from the bottom of your pets stomach to the top of his back and multiply by two, leaving a little extra room for movement. Cut the correct measurements from the felt and lay it over your pet. Mark the neck area, take the felt off, and cut a hole for his head.
Cut holes throughout the felt with an exacto knife and push the prongs of the aquarium plants through the holes (you may have to pull them off a grid first). Next, line the bottom of the costume with felt so none of the prongs will poke or itch your pet. Hand stitch aquarium leaves around his neck and collar to complete the look. Optionally, you can create some Terra-Cotta colored cotton legs to create the look of a potted plant.
Inspired from The Flirty Blog.
This extraordinarily easy costume can make you pup look like a superhero.
Red child-sized t-shirt (varying with the size of your dog).
Fabric glue or iron-on hem tape.
Begin by cutting the signature Underdog U into the white felt. It should be fairly large, enough to cover the center of the shirt. Attach the felt with fabric glue or hem tape. You can also sew it on if you feel so inclined. Sew Velcro onto the neck of the cape to hold it in place, and make sure there aren't any rough edges on the fabric. Attach the cape with the Velcro, and your costume is complete.
This easy costume consists of an adorable flower collar and an optional daisy hat. It's a ridiculously easy last minute DIY costume that is well worth the minimal effort.
Felt: white and the color of your choice.
Start by cutting out the petals. Half of them should be white, and the other half colored. Make the colored ones a little smaller than the white ones, and adjust the size according to the size of your pup. Next, sew each petal into the collar. White petals should be on the bottom, and yellow petals should be on the top. Just like that, you have a flower dog!
Optionally, you can create a daisy hat with some yellow felt for the center, and small white felt petals. Sew some Velcro straps to the center of the flower, hidden from sight, to hold it onto your pup's head.
With one of these 5 costumes, you'll have an adorable, easy to make costume for your pet to wear this Halloween. So, get to it, and have fun!
Article originally published September 2012 and updated October 2015.
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Chinese government quarantines entire city in fear of plague outbreak
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
Tags: plague outbreak, quarantine, Chinese government
https://www.naturalnews.com/046273_plague_outbreak_quarantine_Chinese_government.html
(NaturalNews) A deadly disease that at one time killed off one-third of Europe has reemerged in China, where officials have quarantined an entire city following the death of a resident. The Chinese city of Yumen, population 30,000, was reportedly sealed off after a man who handled a dead marmot contracted bubonic plague and later died, potentially exposing hundreds of others to the disease in the process.
Though no other cases of bubonic plague have since emerged, most of Yumen remains closed off, with nobody being allowed to enter or leave the city. About 150 people who reportedly came into direct contact with the man have been placed under quarantine, according to reports, and officials are keeping a close watch for any new cases that might appear.
Reports indicate that the 38-year-old man developed swollen lymph nodes not long after touching the small, furry rodent, which is related to the squirrel. Though not typically transmissible from person to person, bubonic plague can spread to the lungs and turn into pneumonic plague, which is contagious. Because of this, officials are taking dramatic precautions to prevent uncontrolled spread.
"The city has enough rice, flour and oil to supply all its residents for up to one month," explained China Central Television (CCTV) officials to China Daily. "Local residents and those in quarantine are all in stable condition," it added, noting that no further cases of the disease have been reported.
Professor suspects threat is much worse than just one infected man
Though serious, bubonic plague, especially when observed in isolated instances, does not typically warrant the shutdown of an entire city. According to Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, such actions are extreme and may be indicative of something more serious than the media is reporting.
"We have cases of bubonic plague from time to time in the United States, and they don't require this kind of public health response," he stated to Fox News. "I feel there's something here that we don't know, because this seems a very expansive response to just one case."
What the actual threat could be, however, remains unknown. It is possible that officials are merely being extra cautious about the disease's spread, as China's history is blighted with several major outbreaks of the plague. Or perhaps the type of plague identified is more virulent than the kind most commonly observed, which afflicts between 1 and 17 humans in the U.S. annually.
Chinese man determined to have contagious pneumonic plague
According to The New York Times (NYT), the Chinese man who died from the plague did, indeed, have the pneumonic variety. This means that his condition would have been easily spread through sneezing, coughing and other bodily functions that release droplets into the air. But officials say no further sign of spread has been observed.
"Everything is pretty stable so far," stated an official from the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Jiuquan, the Gansu city that has jurisdiction over Yumen. "No sign of infection on them."
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Captain Kidd is one of the most notorious pirates of all time. Yet all his "pirating" was done during a single voyage to the Indian Ocean that lasted from 1695 to 1699, and there may not have been any pirating at all. Many people believe that Kidd was a lawfully licensed privateer, who never captured a ship that he was not authorized to attack.
Kidd, however, is the only pirate to have buried treasure.
William Kid was born in the town of Dundee, on the Scottish border, in 1645. His father was a ship's captain, who was lost at sea, and the family live on charity during Kidd's early years. Popular belief is that the young man went to sea when he was 15, but no historic details confirm this.
The first solid evidence about Kidd comes in 1689, when he is mentioned as a member of a privateering crew during the Nine Years War. Kidd's ship captured a French vessel and sailed it into harbor on the island of Nevis, then an English colony.
The governor of the island responded by re-naming the captured ship the Blessed William and giving command of the vessel to Kidd. Whether this was because of Kidd's family connections, his level of education, or simply because he was a persuasive man, we do not know.
Whatever the reason, it was Kidd's first command. He defended the island, then joined an English squadron raiding a French sugar plantation. As was usual with privateering vessels, the cash and goods captured in the raid were divided to pay Kidd and his crew. The proceeds made Kidd a wealthy man, and lined the pockets of his crew comfortably.
The privateers were next required to join the squadron in standing up to equally well-armed French ships. This was a far different assignment than attacking a helpless plantation. Kidd's crew were not happy, told their captain so. Kidd's response was that they should do as instructed, for King and country. The crew responded by mutinying, stealing the Blessed William, and carrying off the valuable cargo. Kidd was assigned another ship, the Antigua, but then he disappears from history for a year.
He next surfaces in New York City, then the second largest town in North America with a population of just under 5,000. There Kidd met and married Sarah Bradley Cox Oort, a woman twice widowed and very wealthy. The two lived very comfortably together for five years, and Kidd became a member of the highest level of society in the city.
Five years later, in 1695 Kidd became involved in a privateering mission to attack pirates in the Indian Ocean. We have no idea what motivated him. Perhaps he was tired of his wife's company. Perhaps she was tired of his. Or perhaps Kidd was himself approached. We simply don't know for sure.
The plan was sketchy from the beginning. England was still at war with France, and her international relationship with India had not been good since Henry Avery had attacked a ship carrying a member of the Indian royal family. In addition, pirates inspired by Avery were harassing the East India Company, while at the same time flooding English markets with gold and jewels which may or may not have been Arabian.
So, some of the highest placed men in England planned to build a mighty pirate-hunting ship, captain it with a man of know capabilities, and set it loose in the Indian Ocean, to capture pirate ships and hang wrong-doers. The plan was also to re-acquire plunder taken by the pirates, at a tremendous profit to captain and crew, but more especially to the scheme's backers, who would fund 80% (£6,000) of the venture while remaining safely in England.
Kidd sailed to England to sign papers and receive his privateering commission. The deal, drawn up by some of the most powerful men in England, was not a standard one. In a normal privateering venture, risk was assumed by everyone. Under Kidd's agreement, if the venture failed to produce a profit, he himself was liable to repay his bakers. It was also required that the names of the backers remain secret.
He also needed to come up with the other 20% (£1,500) not something that privateer captains were usually required to do. The profits from the venture were to be divided so that the first 10% went to the King, exchange for Kidd's Royal Commission, and of the remainder, 60% was to go to the anonymous backers, 15% to Kidd and Livingston (the man who had brokered the deal.) The last 25% to be divided among all he members of the crew.
Kidd's problem was that he didn't have £1,500.
Livingston, however, also did not want to be caught out if the expedition failed. He introduced a wool merchant named Blackham, who was willing to provide a loan of the upfront money in exchange for 1/3 of Kidd and Livingston's shares. Once again, Kidd signed highly dubious documents, in complete secrecy.
Kidd's commission, issued by King William himself, instructed Kidd to attack pirates, to attack the French, and to refrain from harming the King's subjects or allies. Kidd was to leave on his mission as soon as possible, and return by the end of January, 1696.


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Additional file 9: of Multiple myosin motors interact with sodium/potassium-ATPase alpha 1 subunits
2018-08-07T05:00:00Z (GMT) by Bhagirathi Dash Sulayman Dib-Hajj Stephen Waxman
Figure S8. Lack of co-immunoprecipitation of Na+/K+-ATPase α1 subunits and β-actin by recombinant myoVI. Lysates of HEK293 cells transiently transfected with GFP or myoVI-GFP plasmids were precleared with rabbit IgG (PC; lanes 2 and 5 in A) or goat IgG (PC; lanes 2 and 5 in B) prior to immunoprecipitation using rabbit anti-GFP antibodies (IP; lanes 3 and 6 in A) or goat anti-GFP antibodies (IP; lanes 3 and 6 in B). Loading of PC complexes in the gel preceded those of the IP complexes. Presence of Na+/K+-ATPase α1 immunoreactive bands in lanes 1 and 4, and absence of any Na+/K+-ATPase α1 immunoreactive bands in lanes 2, 3, 5 and 6 (panel (i) in A and B) indicated lack of co-immunoprecipitation of Na+/K+-ATPase α1 subunits from HEK293 cells transfected with myoVI-GFP. MyoVI-GFP did not co-immunoprecipitate β-actin (lane 6 in (ii) in A and B) from HEK293 cells. Staining the blots with mouse anti-GFP antibodies (NeuroMab: 75–131) indicated successful immunoprecipitation of GFP (lane 3 in (iii) in A and B) and myoVI-GFP (lane 6 in (iv) in A and B) from HEK293 cell lysates. The input signal for myoVI-GFP (indicated with an asterisk '*') appears to be lost during stripping and/or staining with anti-GFP antibodies (lane 4 in (iv)). (TIF 2117 kb)
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LCD Soundsystem's American Dream reaches number one on the Billboard album chart
by Treble staff
LCD Soundsystem's fourth album and first in seven years (following 2010's This Is Happening), American Dream, is also their first to reach number one on the Billboard album chart. In its first week of release, the album sold 85,000 album unit equivalents, which included 81,000 in traditional album sales (physical copies and downloads). LCD Soundsystem released the album with a special album purchase/ticket bundle which ended up helping to boost the band's sales. This represents the fulfillment of something the band's James Murphy has been trying to make happen since 2007, when their second album Sound of Silver was released following a campaign that Murphy started with fans to try to help get the album to reach number one. It turns out that it only took 10 years to make it happen.
Read our review of LCD Soundsystem's American Dream.
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For 15 Petersburg children, Saturday morning was looking a lot like Christmas, thanks to the employees of Petersburg Area Transit.
For the sixth year in a row, employees of the city-operated bus system raised money and volunteered their time to take a group of children from less-affluent homes on a Christmas shopping spree at Wal-Mart, this year at the Southpark location in Colonial Heights.
The children are given $100 each and allowed to choose whatever toys or clothes strike their fancy. PAT employees join the children's parents in supervising the outing and making sure all the kids get their full share of Christmas cheer.
Marvin A. Rollins, PAT's operations manager, dreamed up the idea of a shopping excursion for less-privileged children seven years ago.
"I was sitting at my desk and had a brainstorm," he said. Then he took the idea and "pitched it to the employees as a way of giving back to the community."
PAT's employees embraced the idea wholeheartedly. Over the past six years, in addition to donating their time and energy to the program, they have raised a total of nearly $7,000 to take almost 70 children on the annual shopping trips.
The effort is entirely "a volunteer program within Petersburg Area Transit," Rollins explained, noting that no taxpayer funds are provided.
"We accumulate the money however we can," from collecting and recycling scrap aluminum cans to soliciting donations from community organizations.
The children are selected by various city and nonprofit agencies.
This year, the Department of Social Services took that responsibility, as it has in some past years.
Last year, the city's Parks and Recreation Department made the selection.
CARES Inc., which operates a homeless shelter in the city, has also been involved in making up the list.


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I wouldn't think bees could hurt anything by taking a little pollen.
This was the first year I tried to plant corn. We did 7 rows, each about 10 feet long (our plot is 20x20, so it was about a 4th of the garden). My 2 big problems were japanese beetles tearing up the leaves and the pollen tassels before there was pollen ready to fall off them, and deer eating the silks and top half of many of the ears. We've picked a couple dozen after trying to guess when they might be ready. We figured that without silks intact, they'd never really mature much more anyway. About half of what we picked was worth cooking and eating, although we had to cut some ears to remove what was chewed on.
Hmmm... perhaps not an optimal crop for me and my friend Jeff is selling GREAT sweet corn at the farmers market. Perhaps melons there next year? Or pumpkins? (The squash are still going beserk...) Or more water?
A starchy taste means you should have picked it about three days ago.
jal_ut wrote: A starchy taste means you should have picked it about three days ago.
I believe what that's from is the sugars breaking down and converting into starches. I think that's why I've always hear that corn is best eaten fresh rather than buying it ahead of time an storing it.
I've always hear that corn is best eaten fresh rather than buying it ahead of time an storing it.
Yes, you put the water on to boil then go pick the corn.
All this talk about sweet corn has my mouth watering. Mine is still a few days off. Can't wait.
What's your method for knowing when your corn's at it's peak?


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Canada Appeases NGOs As Rural and Indigenous Peoples Suffer
Thanks to the gentle editing of Tom Shepstone, I discuss a puzzling, uneconomic situation that is unfolding in Canada, although large parts of the world have much the same problem. While governments and heavily populated area dither about global warming, rural and indigenous people are suffering from energy poverty.
The overwhelming scourge of the poor and rural of the world is not global warming, instead it is the harshness of winter. Making matters worse for them, there are wide swaths of rural lands suffering while beneath their feet lays their salvation. For example, 48,000 Brits died in the cold weather; and, one-fourth of al Irish households spent many, many days without adequate heat last winter.
The most concise explanation is that a powerful group of people are practicing the "precautionary principle" with the world's natural resources. Instead using modern technology and techniques to improve the lives of billions of fellow human beings, this group has adopted a "leave it in ground" approach to economic development, also known as no-growth economics. The largest example is Canada. While it has a generous supply of oil and natural gas, native North Americans and rural Canadians remain impoverished.
In truth, a misguided sense of humanity has become a cruel master.
Canada, like New York and Maryland, has chosen to pander to environmental NGOs on oil and gas while ignoring the needs of its rural and indigenous people.
By Steve Heins
Canada's oil and natural gas industry and its Indigenous peoples can and should be working toward shared prosperity, says the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). The problem is that pipeline development to support such shared prosperity is being frustrated by environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to whom too much of government panders. Rural Canada and its indigenous peoples pay the price.
Consider these very important overlooked facts about Canada:
It is the second largest country in the world;
It has a population of 36.3 million (or 1/10 of the US);
It is the 4th largest crude oil producer;
The price of Canadian oil is discounted by 2/3 against US oil;
Storage facilities continue to overflow because oil can't get to market;
Canada has very few pipelines and yet cancelled over $100 billion of new pipelines (including Trans Mountain), with an estimated loss of $86 billion annually; and
Its global credit rating is quite vulnerable crude oil downturns.
To this day, US environmental NGO's are spending significant amounts of money supporting Canada's environmental groups. Still, native North Americans and vast rural areas of Canada remain impoverished. In fact, 30 members of the First Nations Tribes said this:
"We absolutely do not support big American environmental NGO's (who make their money from opposing natural resource projects) dictating government policy and resource developments within our tradition territories."
Inexplicably, Canadians have simply allowed the North American environmental community to prevail. An abundance of oil and natural gas of rural land lays in wait for responsible natural resource development as rural Canadians and members of First Nation Tribes wait for the shared prosperity that should be theirs, all for the sake of appeasing big-money NGOs.
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