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It's weird seeing him without the Amazons filter over him. His design is great though and looks cooler than the actual Riders in the show.
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I was expecting more from this character, but the upgraded suit looks really nice.
Amazons was a revelation. I hope they do more mature KR shows in the future. Mamo was a great character! I regret passing in this figure. I'll probably pick him up at some point!
Great pictures, I really need to buy the other Amazons.
Oh Mamo-chan, why must you be so pricey?
I feel you could recommend SHF Mole Amazon with just the burger accessory alone.
I'll definitely try to hunt this down.
I've only watched one episode of this show. Definitely interesting.
It looks really good, I only wished I cared about his character enough to get it.


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A bespoke CRM solution for a global business group
Hi-Force has offices all over the world, with even more customers at each one to manage. They partnered with Ninox to find an efficient, secure way to manage customer data that works for both sales teams and customers.
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Hi-Force is the UK's leading designer, manufacturer, and supplier of hydraulic tools. Catering to a wide variety of industries, the product range comprises over 2,000 products including hydraulic cylinders, pumps, jacks, torque tools, bolt tensioners, hydrotest pumps, puller kits, crimpers and cutters, nut splitters, flange spreaders, Toughlift jacking systems, and other industry-related hydraulic tools.
Different offices, different needs
Hi-Force needed a quick and easy CRM system for their sales team to use. Different offices had previously been using different systems and software to manage data, making it impossible for colleagues to work across the business with a single set of customer data. Reports were having to be pulled together from numerous different sources, which was unclear, unsafe, and impossible to manage. A solution was needed which would also enable managers to access real-time information and provide the senior team with an overview of business performance.
We now have a single, easy-to-use system globally. Our CRM system provides a translated user interface for each location.
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A bespoke solution to suit all parties
Using Ninox, the team at Hi-Force have been able to create a bespoke CRM system that works across all nine companies in the group and the head office. With 50 'in-the-cloud' licences, the database can be accessed by office staff and through iPads and iPhones wherever the sales team are working.
Some key features include a database that's capable of operating across different business units in different countries, an integrated quotation system with KPIs, translation into different languages for different regional offices, and management action buttons that are only visible to senior staff.
Customer care and management
Central data storage
Adopting Ninox has been hugely beneficial to the business, introducing complete uniformity across the group, delivering noticeable time savings and efficiencies. Customer data is now secure and the additional details have been added and securing customer data that is constantly updated in real-time.
An integrated quotation system has been developed which monitors and manages customer relationships, while additional data is also now stored in the platform, including price lists, absences, travel mileage, and other fundamental business data requirements.
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Pest description and damage Female scale are semiglobular, brown or reddish, and occur at the base of new shoots. They tend to be very inconspicuous, as they may be partly hidden by the bark and may resemble buds. Lower branches often are infested heavily and may be killed, while upper branches are much less affected. Spruce bud scale produce a large amount of honeydew which often is covered with black sooty mold.


Agoraphobia is a condition which sees the sufferer have an extreme fear of public places or places which they don't know well. This can lead, in some cases, to the person avoiding the likes of busy shopping districts, airports and train stations or anywhere they aren't familiar with.
While agoraphobia traditionally stood alone as a social anxiety issue, current thinking has it strongly linked to panic attacks.
Most experts in the field now believe that it is the fear of having a panic attack in a place which offers the sufferer no easy way of getting away that causes them to avoid such places. In some cases the person affected can find it highly difficult to leave their home at all and can end up living in a series of ever decreasing circles which eventually leads to them being virtually confined to their home by the fear of suffering a panic attack out of doors.
It can also be triggered by the mere thought of returning to the place where a previous panic attack or other traumatic event occurred in the past.
It is believed that in the USA alone over 3 million adults suffer from this phobia, which works out at around 2% of the population. It is most commonly noted in the female population and generally occurs for the first time, or develops into a more serious problem in cases where it was already present, between the ages of 20 and 40.
Two thirds of agoraphobia sufferers are female and it account for around 60% of all cases of phobias. There is a theory that there are simply more women who seek help for the condition, rather than it being the case they are more vulnerable to it than men.
Agoraphobia is a serious condition and the sufferer needs help and support from their family, although in many cases the people close to them are too quick to dismiss it as a simple fear or phobia rather than as a complex psychological issue.


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Renu Dalal is the daughter of legendary cook book writer, late TARLA DALAL. For most of her life Renu has crunched numbers and analysed spread sheets at her Nariman Point office. Although blessed with a natural flair in culinary matters, her talents for cooking came to the fore only after the passing of her beloved mother. Her extensive travels have also helped fuel her passion for creating vegetarian options for the modern palate.
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Hepatitis B Could Be a Risk Factor for Pancreatic Cancer
A new study has shown that evidence of past hepatitis B infection was twice as common in people with pancreatic cancer than in healthy controls. This study is the first to report an association between past exposure to the hepatitis B virus and pancreatic cancer, but researchers cautioned that more studies are necessary to evaluate the nature of the link.
"While our findings indicate that past exposure to hepatitis B is associated with the development of pancreatic cancer, more research is needed to determine whether this relationship is one of cause and effect," said lead author Manal M. Hassan, MD, PhD, assistant professor at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. "If these findings can be confirmed by other studies, hepatitis B could be another risk factor for pancreatic cancer that is readily modifiable with treatment, and even preventable with a vaccine."
In this study, Hassan and her colleagues compared evidence of hepatitis B and C infection (as determined by blood tests assessing antibodies to these viruses) between 476 patients with pancreatic cancer and 879 matched healthy individuals. Evidence of past exposure to hepatitis B was found in 7.6 percent of patients with pancreatic cancer versus 3.2 percent of controls. The association between hepatitis B exposure and pancreatic cancer remained statistically significant even after controlling for other risk factors, such as smoking. People with both diabetes (an established risk factor for pancreatic cancer) and hepatitis B exposure had a seven-fold increase in pancreatic cancer risk, compared to controls. No association was observed between hepatitis C exposure and pancreatic cancer.
The authors noted that past studies have reported the presence of hepatitis B antigens in pancreatic fluids; others have identified impaired pancreatic function in people with chronic hepatitis B infection. These findings suggest that the hepatitis B virus may cause inflammation or DNA damage in the pancreas, which could increase cancer risk.
The researchers also indicated that there may be an increased risk of liver failure after chemotherapy treatment among patients with pancreatic cancer who have a history of hepatitis B infection. Dr. Hassan noted that if their findings are confirmed, oncologists may want to consider checking the hepatitis B status of their patients with pancreatic cancer before beginning chemotherapy.
Pancreatic cancer is estimated to strike 37,680 people in the U.S. in 2008, taking 34,290 lives. Because it is usually advanced by the time patients experience symptoms, it is very difficult to cure. Smoking and diabetes raise the risk of pancreatic cancer, but the disease also develops in people without these risk factors.
Two million people in the U.S. are currently living with chronic hepatitis B infection. While most new cases in previously healthy adults are cleared by the immune system within a few months, many people – especially those infected as newborns and children – develop chronic, lifelong infections.
Patrick J. Loehrer, Sr., MD, deputy director and medical director of the Indiana University Cancer Center, notes, "Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease that is very difficult to treat successfully. In large part, it is a result of the inability to prevent and diagnose early as treatment for advanced disease is palliative at best. If these data are confirmed by larger studies, they would highlight a new risk factor for this lethal cancer, a virus for which both treatment and a vaccine already exist. Whether this could then lead to an impact in the incidence of this disease requires further study."


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With international standards, high expertise and local understanding being the root of our management, Odyssea Hospitality is a hospitality management company that was found in 2013 with extensive experience and a diverse portfolio of thriving hotel brands throughout Vietnam. As a company with a prominent reputation in the industry, our Executive Team combined brings over 20 years of experience with diverse backgrounds and proven track records of success. We pride ourselves on the foundation of our main pillars, including: customer satisfaction, employee training and development, close relationships with owners. Driven by passion, we value quality over quantity and partnerships over share.
- Assign and operating all activities of Hotel IT.
- Coordinator all of operation on department, arrange duty on over time to make sure system working online and stable on 24/24 and 7 days per week.
- Plan to improve, maintenance IT System.
- Propose and advice to Board of Director about IT Management, distribute computer equipment to improve efficiency.
- Research new technologies capable for application in company IT system.
- Propose and manage the project on software to serve the business of corporate.
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- Coordinate with SMILE partner finish all of project about SMILE system at hotels.
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Airway clearance technique prescription in COPD: unmet need or unclear data?
We thank the authors for their interest in our paper (1) which was designed, among other things, to be a statement of intent regarding the need to improve the evidence base concerning the use of adjunct devices for sputum clearance in patients with COPD.
The authors reiterate some limitations of the data that we had outlined in our paper. In particular we are not able, using prescribing data, to capture other pathways through which patients may have obtained devices, including purchasing them from pharmacies. Direct patient surveys would address this as might company or pharmacy data on sales, if available. We did however present data on actual use of devices, reported by survey respondents, who were mostly in hospital practice, in the preceding year (Table 3). This confirms that use of devices for COPD patients was at an extremely low level and does not support the idea that a large amount of in hospital prescribing, not captured by prescription data, has been missed. We agree that some of the huge disparity with the use of mucolytic agents may reflect overuse of those medications. Nevertheless, the central point, that current extremely limited use of these devices in COPD patients seems at odds with the likely prevalence of patient phenotypes which are believed to benefit, stands.
At present, this subject is largely ignored in clinical guidelines (2,3). Attention will be needed to address the limited evidence base and so feed into clinical guidelines and clinical practice.
2. Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD). Global Strategy for Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of COPD: Updated 2017 2017:http://goldcopd.org/gold-2017-global-strategy-diagnosis-management-preve... accessed 24-3-17.
Christian R Osadnik, Physiotherapist / Research Fellow Monash University, Department of Physiotherapy, Australia; Monash Health, Monash Lung and Sleep, Australia.
It was interesting to review the findings of the study by Barker and colleagues  regarding airway clearance techniques (ACTs) for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The authors suggest there may be a relative 'under-prescription' of simple adjunctive therapy options such as oscillatory positive expiratory pressure (OPEP) devices for the care of this patient group and reflect on the ability for 'actual use' registry data to inform research questions in this area. The data certainly show OPEP devices to be used less frequently and at significantly lower costs than prescription medications such as Tiotropium and Carbocisteine. This is not surprising, and is a likely accurate reflection of clinical practice.
Identification of the most important clinical question(s) to arise from this data, however, appears quite challenging owing to significant limitations that may have been under-emphasised. The true incidence of OPEP device use amongst patients with COPD will certainly have been underestimated in the data obtained from the OpenPrescribing.net resource due to the 'hidden' market related to private or hospital-based device purchases. While this is acknowledged by the authorship team, we feel this may be more significant than that proposed. Our experience as clinical physiotherapists working in this area suggests a large proportion (if not the majority) of airway clearance therapy is the remit of physiotherapists working in cardiorespiratory medicine based primarily in (or outreached from) hospitals. This appears supported by the authors' survey data responses, of which 72% of the 116 respondents stated they worked in hospitals. In these settings, ACTs are rarely formally 'prescribed' in medical registries, but rather implemented using existing resources, purchased privately or loaned / provided from the centre (as indicated in the survey instrument). Cost is a realistic barrier to OPEP device use, often resulting in education to substitute device use at home for cheaper, alternative means such as bottle-PEP (which could be performed at no cost). This would not appear on a prescription registry.
OPEP devices may also be considered clinically indicated for certain patients, but this does not necessarily mean they are prescribed. Previous data from physiotherapists across the world demonstrates considerable variability regarding ACT prescription for this patient group, particularly during acute exacerbations. The most commonly used ACTs include the active cycle of breathing technique and deep breathing exercises in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand [2-4], 'conventional chest physiotherapy' techniques (e.g. postural drainage, percussion, vibration) in Canada  and even physical exercise in Australia , despite scarce research examining this precise effect . PEP device use did not feature prominently in any of these surveys, however its use is known to be widespread in countries such as Sweden.
It is also unclear whether survey data (e.g. Table 2, Figure 1) represents opinion or actual practice patterns. Questions regarding 'considerations' or 'recommendations' may be quite different to treatment that a patient actually receives, particularly if the recommending therapist is different to the professional responsible for treatment 'delivery'. And the survey responses, which represent only 12% of ACPRC members (and should therefore not be referred to as 'clinical consensus'), may differ considerably from other members and/or the health professions represented in the prescription data. It would, of course, be interesting to know the extent of overlap between the two samples, however this is not likely to be possible. This uncertainty makes it challenging to comprehend the precise area in need of further research, particularly as it is possible the findings simply reflect differing views of two distinct health professions groups. For example, it is plausible the survey may primarily reflect opinions of physiotherapists but prescribing data that of general practitioners. If so, there remains a need to source more accurate information about OPEP prescription practices, potentially via closer examination of data originating from the therapists responsible for its implementation.
Finally, as stated by the authors, we currently have very little clinical data upon which to base decisions regarding long-term ACTs for patients with COPD and chronic sputum production . Further research is indeed required, but it is crucial that good judgment underpins decisions regarding the most relevant clinical question(s) to investigate. Identifying patients with stable COPD and chronic sputum production (in the absence of co-existing bronchiectasis, which reportedly occurs in up to 50% of COPD cases ) is not without challenge, with one previous physiological investigation of PEP therapy for this patient group observing a 43% exclusion rate of those screened due to a lack of regular sputum production .
iii)	Distinct clinical phenotypes who may benefit most from future, high quality clinical trials of ACTs.
In conclusion, we congratulate Barker and colleagues for raising awareness of some of the challenging issues clinicians encounter when trying to deliver evidence-based care for patients with COPD and chronic sputum production. We encourage the issues to be further examined but implore a degree of caution when using inherently limited data as the foundation for future, clinically relevant research seeking to improve patient care.
1. Barker R, Laverty AA, Hopkinson NS. Adjuncts for sputum clearance in COPD: clinical consensus versus actual use. BMJ Open Respiratory Research 2017;4(1) doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2017-000226.
4. Osadnik CR, McDonald CF, Holland AE. Airway clearance techniques in acute exacerbations of COPD: a survey of Australian physiotherapy practice. Physiotherapy 2013;99(2):101-6 doi: 10.1016/j.physio.2012.01.002.
7. Osadnik CR, McDonald CF, Jones AP, Holland AE. Airway clearance techniques for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2012(3):CD008328 doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008328.pub2.
8. Patel IS, Vlahos I, Wilkinson TM, et al. Bronchiectasis, exacerbation indices, and inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2004;170(4):400-7 doi: 10.1164/rccm.200305-648OC200305-648OC.
9. Osadnik C, Stuart-Andrews C, Ellis S, Thompson B, McDonald CF, Holland AE. Positive expiratory pressure via mask does not improve ventilation inhomogeneity more than huffing and coughing in individuals with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic sputum expectoration. Respiration 2014;87(1):38-44 doi: 10.1159/000348546.
10. National Clinical Guideline Centre. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults in primary and secondary care. 2010. http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG101/Guidance/pdf/English (accessed 15/08/2017).
11. Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD). Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of COPD (2017 report). 2017. http://www.goldcopd.org/.
12. Yang IA, Dabscheck E, George J, et al. The COPD-X Plan: Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for the management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 2017. Version 2.50, June 2017. 2017. http://www.copdx.org.au/.


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Jeopardizing Job Cuts
Elon Musk cuts size of Twitter's child exploitation team, days after calling it his top priority
byJustin Klawans
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk has significantly reduced the size of the team dedicated to fighting child sexual exploitation on the social media platform, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
Amid continuing job cuts by the company, at least half of the employees working against child exploitation have been let go, sources told Bloomberg. The team's skeleton crew now reportedly consists of less than 10 people, down from 20 at the beginning of the year.
The team, which Bloomberg said consists of "a mix of former law enforcement officers and child safety experts based in the U.S., Ireland, and Singapore," was already being pushed to its limits prior to this latest round of cuts. Even with less than 10 people on the team, they are still responsible for an all-encompassing range of tasks to stop child sexual exploitation on Twitter. This includes stopping the spread of child sexual abuse material, identifying online groomers, and tracking down media that promoted sex trafficking.
Musk's decision to slash the team in half comes just days after he reiterated that stopping child sexual exploitation was his top mission.
"Removing child exploitation is priority #1," Musk tweeted. "Please reply in comments if you see anything that Twitter needs to address."
Removing child exploitation is priority #1. Please reply in comments if you see anything that Twitter needs to address.
— Mr. Tweet (@elonmusk) November 24, 2022
While Twitter has taken steps to remove hashtags and posts associated with child exploitation, this was reportedly in motion prior to Musk purchasing the company.
Additionally, The Daily Dot noted that removing hashtags will likely not do much to solve the problem, as predators can simply continue their conversations using a different hashtag.


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Q: Can the zeros of an analytic function have an accumulation point outside the set of definition? $f\in \mathrm H (\Omega)$, the region $\Omega \subsetneq \mathbb C$. Can the zeros of $f$ have an accumulation point on $\mathbb {\hat C}\backslash \Omega$?

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$\textbf{Proposition}$. Let $\Omega$ be a dominion (open and connected set). Then, for each $a \in \{z\in \mathbb{C}: f(z)=0\}$ exists $\delta > 0$ such that $D(a,\delta) ⊂ \Omega$ and $f(z) 6\neq 0$ for all $z \in D(a,\delta) \backslash \{a\}$. For that reason, $Z(f):=\{z\in \mathbb{C}: f(z)=0\}$ has no accumulations points in $\Omega$.

$\textbf{Proof}$. Consider $a \in Z(f)$ and let $m$ be the order of the zero of $f$ in $a$, so then exists a function $g$ such that
$$f(z)=(z-a)^mg(z) \qquad \text{and} \qquad g(a)\neq 0.$$
As $g$ is a continuous function in $a$, exists $\delta>0$ such that $D(a,\delta) \subset \Omega$ and $g(z) \neq 0$ for all $z ∈ D(a,\delta)$. For $z ∈ D(a,\delta) \backslash \{a\}$ we have that $(z−a)^m \neq 0$ y $g(z)\neq 0$, so $f(z) = (z−a)^m g(z) \neq 0$.
For all $a \in Z(f)$ we got $\delta > 0$ such that $D(a,\delta)\cap Z(f) = \{a\}$, so every point of $Z(f)$ are isolated, that is to say, $Z(f)∩Z(f)'
= \emptyset$ . However, $Z(f)$ is a closed subset of $\Omega$, because $f$ is continuous, so $Z(f)' ∩\Omega ⊂ Z(f)$, and $Z(f)'
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A: The answer is yes! A function that is analytic in domain $\Omega$ can have an accumulation point of zeros outside $\Omega$.  Consider the function $\sin(1/z)$.  This function is not analytic at $0$, but since $\sin(\pi n) = 0$ for all $n \in \mathbb{Z}$, $0$ is an accumulation point of the zeros of $\sin(1/z)$.  But $\sin(1/z)$ is analytic in a lot of places, for example around $z = 1/\pi$, so functions that are somewhere analytic can have accumulation points of their zeros outside the domains in which they are analytic.
(Since this holds for $\mathbb{C}$, it of course holds for $\hat{\mathbb{C}}$).

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The D-Word
by Christina Craig | 24 October, 2017 | Filmmaking, Producing | 0 comments
This year at Raindance Film Festival, a wide variety of films from different filmmakers was shown, making for an impressive and diverse lineup.
The move toward increasing diversity within the film industry has catapulted in recent years, with protests like the OscarsSoWhite hashtag pressuring film executives to be more inclusive. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization responsible for the Academy Awards or "The Oscars" as they're more commonly known, has committed to doubling the number of women and minorities by 2020. But the fact remains that as of 2016, the academy is around 89% white and 73% male. Just this past August, the BFI published their annual Employment in the Film Industry Statistical Yearbook where they claimed that "women made up 13% of directors and 16% of screenwriters of British films released in the UK in 2016." These numbers are paltry. And I'm sure if we were to look at the numbers for women of color, they would be even worse.
Historically, straight, white men have been the ones in positions of power in the film industry (the television industry, any industry, the world), giving them the unique power to decide which stories are told and which are not. They are the tastemakers of society, and this is a disservice to women, people of color, queer folks, female actresses over 40, etc. And it is a disservice to audiences. How are you supposed to know what stories your audience (an audience that will most definitely consist of more than just white men) wants to see when you only have one demographic calling the shots?
When you have a lack of diversity in the boardroom, you have a lack of perspective, which can significantly blind you. Ex-head of Amazon Studios Roy Price came under considerable scrutiny, sexual harassment allegations aside, for passing on "Big Little Lies" and "The Handmaid's Tale," both of which tell powerful stories about women and both of which won big at the Emmys. Price also canceled "Good Girls Revolt" after one season, and even admitted that he had never watched it.
Diversity in the boardroom is important for making sure the best, most unique stories are being told. Which will then, of course, lead to more diversity on screen. Representation is excruciatingly important. There is a sociological theory called Labeling Theory, which is the theory of how people's identity and behavior can be determined by the terms used to classify them, in other words, how they are labeled. The theory is akin to concepts such as stereotyping and self-fulfilling prophecies. If we don't let Indian actors be anything but the tech guys and the cab drivers, that could have negative consequences for Indian audience members. Furthermore, by typecasting and stereotyping entire minority groups, we are alienating legions upon legions of talented actors and writers and directors that could revolutionize the film industry. How can we truly diversify the film industry when we can barely diversify the big screen? If we increase representation on screen, we increase interest in audience members. We remind them that their stories are worth being told, too. It's a fairly simple equation.
People want new stories and new characters. They want to see something that hasn't seen done before. And the fact is, white people, white men, specifically, have already done everything, including play other races. There's nothing they can't do and there's nothing they haven't done.
It's common for white men to feel threatened whenever the words "diversity" and "representation" are thrown around. Remember when they wanted to boycott the latest Star Wars film because there was a female lead AND a black stormtrooper? In his latest stand up special "Annihilation," Patton Oswalt points out the sudden emergence of "White Genocide," saying, "White people… we used to be in charge of, like, 99.9% of [stuff]. And in recent years, that number has plummeted to 96.4%. We are on the way out." In other words, we are not on the way out. White people can afford to share some of the power they hold in various industries across the world. "Sharing is caring" is one of the first lessons you learn as a child. You know what other lessons children often learn? To not interrupt, and to wait for their turn to speak. We white people have spoken a lot, for a while.
And if you still feel threatened, don't worry! We are literally untouchable. If you're white and you don't believe that you're untouchable, consider Donald Trump. Accused by multiple women of sexual harassment, bankrupted a casino (kind of impressive, because that's virtually impossible), said he would date his own daughter (less impressive, because that's virtually incest), potentially thinks Frederick Douglass is still alive. No experience as a politician. And he was elected President of the United States. So worry not, white people! You can do anything! So why is it such a big deal to give other people the opportunity to do something, too?
About Christina Craig
Christina Craig is a Raindance intern currently studying abroad in London. She is originally from California and is pursuing a degree in Film and Television at Boston University.


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The Tattlesnake — Beck to Run as GOP Veep in 2012? Edition
Filed under: Commentary,Opinion,Toon — Tags: 2012 Election, ACLU, ACORN, Communists, fascists, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Humor, labor unions, Michael Steele, MSNBC, President Obama, Presidential Candidates 2012, Republicans, RNC, RS Janes, Sarah Palin, satire, Socialists, Tattlesnake, Vice Presidential Candidate — RS Janes @ 4:32 am
Beck Says He'll Be 'Available' for Republican V.P. Slot in 2012
But Presidential Candidate Must Meet His 'Core Principles"
By Don Van Vliet
Special to the Times
WASHINGTON – Controversial Fox News Channel talk show host Glenn Beck announced Friday evening that he would be "available" to any Republican Party presidential candidate in 2012 to "run with them as their vice president."
Speaking on his television show, Beck added that he would "guarantee victory in 2012″ due to his "enormous, insane popularity with all of America."
"Hundreds of millions hang on my every word," Mr. Beck boasted, "and I can get them out to vote for anything."
There were several caveats to his offer, however. Mr. Beck said he would only lend his support to those candidates that embraced his "core principles."
Among those principles, according to Mr. Beck: the community group ACORN, the American Civil Liberties Union, cable television network MSNBC and labor unions must be banned, in the "name of preserving our precious freedom."
He also advocated a "Fair American Voter Equalization" plan, which would mean that a Democrat or other opposing candidate would need three votes to equal every one vote for a Republican. Mr. Beck explained that this was necessary to counter, "the misguided young and independent voters, and all of the illegal Hispanic and black voters registered by fascist groups like ACORN."
The conservative talk show host told his audience that once the Republicans attain a majority in Congress in 2012, "they should take steps to insure another fascist dictator like Obama doesn't come to power." He suggested that the Republicans pass laws establishing "a thousand years of liberty and low taxation" under a permanent Republican majority in Congress and a Republican president in the White House.
"Democrats and liberals always turn into fascist socialists and Communists when they have power," Mr. Beck concluded, "and the only way to check that is to make sure they never have power again by writing it into the law."
Mr. Beck ended his show by mimicking one of President Obama's campaign lines, "That, my friends, is change you can believe in!"
Contacted for comment, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele welcomed Mr. Beck as a potential candidate for vice president. "He has his hands on the public at all times," Mr. Steele said. "His hat may be on funny, but it's the same hat I proudly wear every day – forward, backward, sideways, whatever."
Megan McCurdle, a spokesperson for Sarah Palin, claimed the former Alaska governor also embraced Mr. Beck's possible entry into politics, "he'd be dynamite on the campaign trail and Gov. Palin would be tickled pink to share the national stage with him, as long as she's on top."
Other potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates declined comment for this article.
Copyright 2009 R.S. Janes. LTSaloon.org.
LOL…I hope to God you are being facetious with this one. If you are, then I must admit you had me because I went to the NY Times site to try to find it. It just goes to show how insanity like that would be something that I do not think is beyond right-wing media and the people in this country. A (sane) conservative columnist and author, David Brooks, has an interesting thesis that right-wing pundits do not have substantive political clout. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/opinion/02brooks.html?_r=1
I think Beck may be about as effective on the GOP ticket as Palin was. Good one RS!
Comment by Greg in cheeseland — October 3, 2009 @ 6:55 am
No, Greg, this was satire all the way, and I even used Captain Beefheart's real name for the fake byline. Thnaks for the link to the Brooks article.
Comment by RS Janes — October 3, 2009 @ 6:11 pm


I have a question regarding the setting up of multiple instances of JBoss on the same machine. JBoss 3.2.1 is running with Tomcat for web applications in 64bit JVM.
However a newly installed application has to access JBoss only runs in 32bit mode. I am copying the current JBoss files to a new folder wher e I am making port changes to the server config files and the run script. Hopefully this will start a 2nd 32 bit instance of JBoss.
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Metabolism was slowing down, weight was coming back on, even though they were eating next to no carbs and no sugar. Both hormones and thyroid were out of whack, which was making them feel like crap. And they were wondering what the hell was going on!
Low heart rate – I'm 60 bpm and apparently a healthy metabolism is supposed to be up around 75!
And I've always known my digestion was slow and I generally hate the cold – it's why I moved to Queensland! But I thought it was just me, not that there was something wrong and that it could potentially be changed!
So the basis of Dr Ray's theory is that sugar is actually a necessary component for easy conversion to glycogen for the brain and muscles.
While it is true that fats and protein can be converted in the body into glycogen, it is quite a difficult taxing process for the body to do it apparently. It does it in times of survival. So if you stay in this state constantly you are stressing your body out – think premature aging, break down of organs and affecting hormones etc.
So given that we are all currently in the mode of 'sugar is the devil' and it causes a list two pages long of disease, this is pretty radical information.
However Dr Ray's explanation is that it is actually PUFAs (poly unsaturated fatty acids) which are the problem as they damage the mitochondria of the cells and ruin their ability to process sugars efficiently. So you can take the sugar away, but the cells are still damaged.
Well, a tiny bit any way. You know me, I'm not a fan of any excessive exercise. But muscles assist with metabolism. So each day I'm doing the following – 20 knee push ups, 20 weighted squats (10kg), 'legs passing' exercise for the stomach. Have been doing it for a month so far and can already feel the difference.
This is an interesting one because of my past troubles with it. Read that here and here. However I was missing one important factor – you are supposed to have your caffeine with a meal or after a meal, as it needs the sugars and nutrition to help it digest properly. Not have 3 coffees before lunch and no food and wonder why your eyeballs twitch!
I always preferred water, tea maybe a bit of fruit until about noon, so I am giving it a go to see if it has an effect. Many sources say this is important for a fast metabolism and weight loss. But the elimination part was most important for me, so we'll see.
Apparently raw carrot is great for digestion and helps remove excess oestrogen from the body. For best effect it is recommended to have it grated with coconut oil, Himalayan rock salt and a little apple cider vinegar. If you don't have time to fuss with that, then at least a small raw carrot a day is better than none.
Adding a little raw honey and fruit back in. Apparently sugars are really thermogenic, they help your metabolism greatly however some have taken Dr Ray's advice to the extreme and adding back like a cup of sugar a day and wondering why they are putting on weight! Given my past disastrous history with sugar, I'm treading carefully with this one and I say fuel with carbs according to your needs. I don't do much in the way of exercise, so I don't need much.
So these are a few things I am playing with at the moment and I will let you know how I go!


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DETROIT — Justin Verlander can expect a warm welcome Monday night when he pitches against his former team, the Detroit Tigers, for the second time in his career and first time in Comerica Park.
Verlander (14-9, 2.73 ERA) remains a popular figure in Detroit even after the Tigers dealt him away at the waiver trade deadline last year. It was a trade he agreed to only at the last minute as his desire to pitch for a championship team overcame his reluctance to leave the franchise where he made his bones as a major league pitcher.
"I am sure he had this series marked on his calendar for a while," Detroit catcher James McCann told reporters. "Regardless of what we did to him last time. You know he's going to want to come out and pitch well, coming back to Comerica.
He has faced his ex-team just once so far and it didn't go so well for him.
Detroit visited Houston earlier this year and pounded the ace of the World Series champions for four home runs among six hits good for six runs (one unearned) on July 15. Verlander took the loss but struck out 12 in six innings and didn't walk a batter.
Since his first appearance against Detroit, Verlander is 5-4 with a 3.93 ERA in his last nine starts.
The Astros head to Detroit after losing 6-5 at Boston on Sunday night on a walk-off single by Red Sox pinch-hitter Mitch Moreland. Houston is 89-54 and 2 1/2 games ahead of Oakland in the AL West while Detroit (59-84) is riding out the rest of the season, though it is 6-3 in its last nine games.
"It will be a completely different animal the first time I go back to Comerica," Verlander said in July.
He will be opposed by left-hander Francisco Liriano, who at this time a year ago was pitching for the Astros.
Liriano (4-9, 4.90) faced Houston in the other series against the Astros but did not figure in the decision during a start in which worked three innings, giving up a run on one hit with three walks and three strikeouts.
Liriano picked up his first win since April 28 on Tuesday against the Chicago White Sox when he allowed three runs, on seven hits in 5.0 innings.
For his career, Liriano is 2-1 with a 4.37 ERA over four starts against the Astros.
Rookie left fielder Christin Stewart can expect to get his first major league at-bat against Verlander after being called up to Detroit on Sunday when his team (Toledo) was eliminated by Durham from the International League playoffs. He hit .264 with 23 home runs and 77 RBI for the Mud Hens.
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In a secret location Hotwire
In a secret location Hotwire Data Headquarters.
Code Monkey was looking at the information gathered from the Aryan's computer when he smiled seeing a list of names. "Oh, this is interesting."
"What is it?" Hotwire came into the room hair in a towel dressed in a T-shirt and jeans.
"Finally out of the shower I see."
"I haven't had a shower for months give me a break. What have you found?"
"It's an Aryan subscriber list."
Hotwire looked at the screen. "How can we use this? Blackmail? Do we sell the info?"
Code Monkey leaned back waving a hand and a list of possible Anti-Aryan groups came up on screen. "We have a few Anti-Fa that could be interested in it. Some Pro-Meta groups even the extream Human Superior groups. Being Meta myself I really don't like even bothering with Blackmailing. I want to target them direc..."
An alarm started going off cutting Code Monkey's comment off. Both him and Hotwire looked at each other then ran down the hall to a medical chamber where the body of Hotwire was laying in a bed with medical gear going off. "How do you shut off that annoying beeping!" Hotwire's body said as she yanked off another monitoring sensor.
"Janet?" Code Monkey looked at his Cybernetic sister then to the Hologram turned solid Sister. "Okay, this is odd. God, I hate magic."
Janet looked at her other self-standing there in the doorway. "How long was I out for you to make another me?"
"Another you? I am you... wait... what do you remember?" Hotwire looked at her physical body.
"I remember being hooked up to the internet when those Metalheads attacked then... a power surge? What the hell happened."
Code Monkey looked between the two. "When the Metalheads attacked you were still connected. You were unconscious for months. Your consciousness was lost... well I guess was copied, on the internet. She has been running things till now. For the last few months, you were in a coma nearly brain dead."
Janet looked at her brother and her somewhat other self. "What changed? Last I knew interaction of my Avatar with the real world was via holograms."
"Well, when I was cut off from my.. er our body? I somehow changed I could manifest without a hologram emitter and could take over machines. Then today some Aryan morons were causing trouble badmouthing Metas and..."
"No one messes with my little brother. Got it. So how come there two of me now?"
Code Monkey nodded "Magic. Some mage cast a spell on yo...er her. Then she became solid and can feel again."
"So now there two Hotwires one a cyborg the other a living Data construct. This is so freaky."
All three said at the same time "Fucking Magic."
Later on air
"This is your Digital Deva! Your Cyber Sex Goddess now..."
The second Hotwire appeared beside her blue-skinned white-haired double. "In Stereo!"
"That right the original Cyber Sexiness is back online and functional. Thank you, Aryans for finding a way to make my Awesomeness twice as good. Now so all of you won't be confused this seductive Cyborg will go by the handle Hardware! So take it away, my Software counterpart I got Game of Thrones episodes to binge watch!" With that, it was just the blue-skinned version on screen.
"Now for a Special Auction! We have a list of ARYAN Subscribers! Going for the highest price for the next three day just call your Villain Net contact and make a bidding! Winner takes all! Starting at 5000 dollars!"
"Hi, Gayle Force! My name's
"Hi, Gayle Force! My name's Hank Talliaferro; I call myself Minstrel. I'm thinking what magic did, magic can undo. We get everyone we can who has both musical and magical talent, especially if they're linked. Add some professional music types like yourself, cause if the magic's in the music, more and better music should help. We make a playlist of songs about Hope and Recovery, getting back what was taken, that kinda thing, maybe some antifa, but all as positive as we can make it. Then we find a big enough stage... no, right here is better, Make a stage here if we can. Anyone affected by the Aryan's spell gets front row seats, and we see what happens...So, waddayathink?"
Tinker Belle pulled out her
Tinker Belle pulled out her all-purpose laser, plugging the cord into her flight pack. She began cutting into the cockpit of the mech, taking care not to cut into the occupant. Rotten Luck wasn't likely to be wrong about the pilot being dead, and she couldn't care less about a bigot's feelings because a body he wasn't using got singed. She just didn't want to be the kind of person who did that.
A man walked up to the
A man walked up to the Minstral overhearing him. "Perhaps I can be of some help. The Gods have directed me here." The man was Finnigan or as he was known as the Rune Priest. He was dressed in blue jeans, black boots, brown shirt, and a rune stone necklace. He had a trimmed beard and ponytail both of lush blond hair with a hint of red.
"The fates of many people were affected and balance must be restored. My humble skill at Rune working is at your disposal."
Rotten Luck got as far away from the scent of freshly dead. "Fuck, at least I didn't directly kill the bastard. The crash did him in not my hands..." He looked to Old Soldier "Right?"
"Hiya, Hank. I love that idea
"Hiya, Hank. I love that idea! I'm always up for a good collaboration!" Gayle replied, perking up even more. She squinted and wrinkled her nose as she wracked her memory to check her schedule. "How about one week from today, early evening, profits to music education and anti-hate programs?"
"My phone thing is off in the ocean, but you can contact me through the League of Titans AI or Sylvia Crestin over at Aitken Interactive Marketing, my agency. I'll start pulling strings! Let's do it!"
She smiled at the Rune Priest, Finnigan, as he offered his assistance. "See? We're already attracting folks who can help!"
"That's great! Both worthy
"That's great! Both worthy causes." The Minstrel's costume had pockets, so his phone was ready. His thumbs flew as he texted the League of Titan's AI, just his name and plz give the number to Gayle Force if she asks, 10Q. Then he put the phone away. "So, Finnigin, we're thinking of using bardic magic to undo what the Aryans did. Any ideas on how you can help, or even try something else entirely?"
"well, I'm no bard. My
"well, I'm no bard. My singing skills end up with Amerikatt knocking on my door to make sure I wasn't some evil villain harming cats."
He reaches into his bag and pulls out a runestone. The rune itself was Fehu "It seems the Gods approve of such an idea. I see prosperity and the circulation life-force. That said I think I could inscribe runes on some speakers and perhaps a stage with magic circles and other runecraft. It would help if we know fully what that magical device was. Anyone know someone that could look into the past. My Divisions only tell me the essence of what affected a person, not the true event."
"Oh, look into the past?"
"Oh, look into the past?" Gayle almost giggled. "Definitely! I gotcha covered, there. I just have to call... um...." She blinked and then asked. "Can I borrow a phone?"
Taking the borrowed device with a quick word of thanks, the singer entered a number. "Hi, Sheena! ... Yes, I'm at the park. ... Yeah, I got hit with the ARYANs' stuff, whatever it was. ... Weak. Weak and un-powered and I lost my wind. ... No, lost like for real. And wet, too, but I've dried up a lot since getting out of the water."
She smiled at Hank and Finnigan and continued. "We've got an idea here of something that might restore everyone, but we need to see what the thing was. So, some re-winding would be kind. Can you help us see what really happened? ... You can? ... Great! Where do we meet you? ... You'll come here? Good. I can't fly anywhere, at the moment."
Gayle laughed as the person on the other end said something. "Right! This is fully within the FBSA's jurisdiction. And even if it weren't, you'd be here. Got it! See you soon!"
She handed the phone back to the person she'd borrowed it from and announced to the others, "Shanikali will be here soon. She can spin time back a bit to take a look for us. Let's figure out what we want to ask, though. She can look herself, but she can't take anyone with her. Messes up the timeline, or something."
"Then let's see what the
"Then let's see what the runes can tell us. Like I have said my power isn't audio based. The magic is in the runes." He pulled out a matt from his traveling bag and laid it down then sat down crossed legged. "I can see what the runes have to say. The gods can guide us in the direction that is best."
He then starts drawing out nine runestones setting them down. "Odin High father lend us your wisdom, Loki trickster lend us your cunning, We seek to undo a fiendish act guide our path." The runes are in order Gebo, Ingwaz, Wunjo, Tiwaz, Eihwaz, Nauthiz, Uruz, Thurisaz, Dagaz. He makes a bow over the runes "Thank you."
"Seems we are on the right track. If I read the runes right our coming spell will react to the wills of those it affects. Some may recover their powers completely, other... powers may manifest differently. The spell would act as a catalyst to a positive outcome. But I see a warning as well, it might be painful and will take personal strength to keep focus during the spell." He motions to Dagaz "The last rune Dagaz is telling me the Power of change is directed by the will. I believe that only those who really want to be returned to who they once were or even for their powers to manifest differently will be affected."
"Many of the other runes speak of Strength, of will, and of the body." He replaces the runes "None speak of failure. Just warning that it won't be easy."
"That sounds promising,"
"That sounds promising," Gayle replied. She shrugged. "The magic stuff is beyond me. I just know that it works for people who know how to make it work. I guess we'll just let people know that some struggle may be involved."
She glanced over to where D-Day seemed to be organizing the clean-up of the wreckage. He was directing, more than doing any of it himself, as far as Gayle could tell, but still providing his strength of character to the effort, if not his direct physical strength.
Hank deleted the record of
Hank deleted the record of Gayle's call from his phone - he paid by the month, and he'd likely meet this "Sheena" soon enough anyway. "Hard work - and planning - has always been the best way to avoid failure. Stubbornness helps, too."
Across the park, Tinker Belle took her leave, vaguely mentioning something that had come up. A few minutes later, an electric Mini Countryman pulled up at the site where the fighting had started, and two women got out and began documenting the damage.
Shortly, an eagle-winged
Shortly, an eagle-winged woman in a loosely tailored "MIB"-style suit and dark wrap-around glasses swooped in and landed by Gayle. She pushed the mane of sandy blonde hair back over her shoulders and looked around. From a pocket inside her jacket she pulled out a replacement headband and handed it to the singer. "Here you go, Gayle. Looks like you lost your primary, so I grabbed your backup."
"Thanks, Sheena!" Gayle activated the communicator features and put it on her head. Then, she gestured at the collection of metahumans gathered about. "Special Agent Sheena Gardner, FBSA, this is... well, everybody."
Sheena gave them a quick wave and nod. She looked to Gayle again. "No breeze? I see what you mean about the de-powering effect."
"Right." Gayle took a deep breath to calm herself again. Spirit-sensitives paying attention to the scene noticed a pony-sized wolf demon made of iron arrive. It sat down watchfully behind the FBSA agent. Gayle explained what had happened while Sheena nodded. She finished with, "And so we need to see what that device was, so we can re-create it, or see how it works, or something."
"Right. So, I can take a look myself, but I'll need to know what you want me to observe, specifically. I can take good notes, but I might miss important details if I don't know what I should look for." She looked at the others. "Let me know what you want me to investigate."
"Hank Talliaferro, ma'am.
"Hank Talliaferro, ma'am. Minstrel. Pleased to meetcha. The visible manifestation was a cloud, came from those mechs over there, while they were voltronned. Only affected people, far as I could tell. Tinker Belle, she's a gadgeteer, said she'd lost Improv but was still a genius, and her gear still worked."
The Old Soldier moved among the mechs and added, "There seems to be flywheel in this one, ma'am, with some familiar materials..." He turned his left arm up and pulled the sleeve down to display a patch of his shell that still had a hole in the illusion of his flesh. "I think that's orichalcum."
"Orichalcum? That's, uh...
"Orichalcum? That's, uh... right." Sheena frowned thoughtfully for a moment as she sifted through her memory for just what that was, and what it meant. "They did it magically, then. Let me see what we've got. That might help me narrow the focus."
She came over to take a look at the apparatus and tapped her glasses. "Recording, of course." After studying it for a couple of minutes from different angles, she shook her head. "This matches no specific tradition I'm aware of. That just means that it's a different genius who cobbled it together. Got the cloud description, sir. Thank you. I've pulled that from video captured of the event. Thankfully, it registered to electronics. Anything else people observed?"
"It felt cold," Gayle offered. "Like ice water when it hit me. And you know I'm usually not affected much by temperature."
Rotten Luck came over "The
Rotten Luck came over "The magic affected me, but not in the way it affected others. Hel kind of took offense at such magic. Not sure if she was pissed I was affected or if the spell was just offensive. She kind of took control for a time." He was still in a slightly pissed off mood at the Goddess of Death. "Hate when she does that." So Rotten wasn't as up to snuff as normal perhaps he was a tad weak but the word orichalcum did enter his thoughts "Isn't that the Atlantis alloy stuff? Suppose to be rare as heck isn't it?"
Fin was looking at Sheena then knelt down to one knee "Devine one how can this humble servant assist." The guy does call himself the Rune Priest and he worships all forms of divinity. So, of course, he would be awestruck by Sheena.
D-Day walked over to Sheena "Madam I understand you are taking over investigations. I had made sure people stay away from the main rubble till it was cleared of any possible contamination. Clean up and recovery been focused on the surrounding area." He staggered a bit then takes a deep breath and tugs his uniform shirt. "I haven't felt this weak since the first night of basic training."
"Orichalcum is supposedly
"Orichalcum is supposedly Atlantean in origin, but I've seen reports that it has been created more recently, too. I think it just takes a firm will and a whole lot of mojo." Sheena smiled wryly. "I can imagine that Hel taking over is never a pleasant experience."
Sheena paused and looked over the man kneeling before her. She nodded to him. "Time is valuable. So is your service. Use the time and talents you have to make this world one where people can live together in harmony. But, more to today's point, help us find a way to turn this situation to good ends."
She looked up as D-Day approached. "Good work, sir. Thank you. The forensic team will be here very soon. They can take over the detailed collection of evidence. I've already got a transponder log of everyone who was here helping out, and the AI will be taking and triangulating statements. Maybe... give yourself a break? You've all earned it. I'll be busy with the 'lookback' here for a bit, but my partner, Agent Calderon, is on his way to keep everything moving."
The goddess looked around. "I'm ready to take a look. You are okay here?"
"Fraulein Dammerung once told
"Fraulein Dammerung once told me that it's mostly the enchantments that makes the Mountain Bronze, but she'd gotten good results with eleven percent aluminum bronze," The Old Soldier commented.
The Minstrel asked, "Any preferences for an assistive tune? I was thinking about something based on Cher..."
The Aryan Leader walked into the apartment he was renting for now. It wasn't much a basic building enough to give him a place to sleep. The high rise buildings would be more to his liking, but the landlord here didn't ask questions and accepted cash. Being untraceable was more important than views and comfort. There was no way to find him here... at least he thought he stopped as a light flashed in the living room and a figure appeared sitting in his chair.
The figure was dressed in black one would say it was a generic biker outfit complete with helmet. The lines of light seeming to dance along the seems were not standard however and he could see the eyes looking at him with hate behind the helmet mask.
"Hello Father, I see you got your toy working after all this time. I wonder did you think I would be one of those who comes charging to take your Aryan mechs down? Was it bait for your darling daughter?"
"Don't bother answering this is a recording. No, I wasn't lead into your trap. I remember you testing those toys on me how they burned and froze me at the same time. How you forced me to make the metal for you, I wonder do you have a new supplier?"
"What would your followers say finding out that your own daughter is a Meta? Have you stopped beating on my mother for giving birth to a freak yet?" The hologram stood up "I can find you anywhere at any time. There is no place you can hide. I got free of that Steel Mercy place where you hide me. I only grow in power your toy will never burn me again. Oh and one more thing Father... Ten
Nine...
Eight...
Seven...
Six...
FIve...
Four..." With each number said a beep was heard above the door frame where the Hologram projector was located, with a countdown.
Sheena chuckled and smiled.
Sheena chuckled and smiled. "Yes, Cher would be good." She nodded to Old Soldier and then waited for the Minstrel to begin playing.
As she caught the tune, Gayle chimed in with accompaniment. Sheena said, "All right. Back in a wink or two." She spread her wings and leaped into the air, beating down with her feathered pinions, and slipped out of existence.
"We don't know how they did
"We don't know how they did the things they did.
We don't know how we will undo it.
Magic like a blade has cut away,
The pow'rs heroes use to save the day.
Our heroes didn't ask for this fight.
But when evil comes they must take a stand.
And they'll take it again, powers or no
And so we'll turn back time,
And we will find our way,
To restore what our heroes have lost
On this day...."
(Adapted from lyrics by Dianne Warren)
The goddess Shanikali
The goddess Shanikali appeared in the crisp mountain air of the cedar forest and stretched out her wings to catch the wind. She made a slow circle in the sky over the divine forest like a watchful eagle before gliding down to land at her customary campsite beside the River of Time. The river stretched out before her, cool, crystal clear, and carrying the fates of mortals ever into the future.
As before, her FBSA uniform had changed into a short, feminine toga of smooth black material. Her shoes were black corded sandals. The uniform change was routine, but something seemed off. She called her bow into her hand and turned to study the forest carefully.
"I am present, Mistress," the iron demon-wolf Sharur growled as he appeared beside her, as big as an ox and ready to protect her. He followed her gaze. "What do you sense?"
She glanced back at the river and shook her head. It wasn't there, but out among the trees where the winds blew that she felt the oddness. Everything seemed as it should be, but for a faint tickling in the back of her mind. It was faint, but real. Something was out of place. She replied, "Nothing with the waters, but of the forest. I think there is an intruder."
"Not one of the gods, then?"
"No. It has the feel of a mortal." She chuckled wryly at her own statement. "Don't ask me how I can tell that. It just… feels that way."
The wolf asked, "Should I call the pack?"
Sheena hesitated, then nodded. "Yes. Better to be safe than sorry."
She stood watching and listening as Sharur leaped away into the trees with barely a sound. There was no rush. She had time. All the time in the world. In all the worlds, in fact. But someone had been here, or was here now. That was significant enough to merit her attention.
The campfire was laid, but the wood remained unlit on its bed of old ashes. She smelled the faint scent of cedar wood smoke on the wind. The tent was as she had left it with the tools she needed to craft arrows that extended her powers in the real world. The arrowheads were ready for mounting on the shafts she had chosen. The sinew was ready for binding. The feathers for fletching were… no. There were three feathers missing from the pottery jar. The feathers given to her by Raven, her celestial colleague, were missing.
Sheena frowned. That just made the mystery even more puzzling. Did someone come here to steal the feathers, or had Raven sent someone to make mischief? Or, was there some other explanation? She couldn't just rewind her perception of time to view the theft here in the Cedar Forest—all time was now in this place—and the one who had come and gone had left no tracks to follow. That was strange, too.
"Goddess," Sharur's voice whispered in her head, "I have found her."
"She says she is here on your orders. A human girl barely a woman. And covered with ice."
"Ice? My orders?" Sheena shook her head. "Bring her here. Oh, and does she have three feathers from Raven?"
"Yes, Mistress."
"All right. That explains one thing. Bring her here and let's find out what this is about. I don't remember sending or bringing anyone here."
"She says her name is 'Battle-20,' or Leyla Dodge. And that you 'damn well better know her, because you stranded her here,' according to the girl. She seems quite angry."
Sheena thought briefly and replied, "No clue. Must be from my future. I'm not sure what would ever cause me to bring a mortal here, though."
"You brought Gayle."
"Yes, but she's a special friend."
"There is something of your scent about this one, too."
Sharur did not bother to repeat himself. "We come to you, Mistress."
"All right." Sheena emerged from the tent and waited. Subjective time considered, it must have been a fair walk back through the forest for the mortal to reach the campsite beside the river. Seeing the teenager, Sheena was just as puzzled as she had been. She did not recognize the girl.
The scowling young woman was lean and built like an athlete. Not particularly tall, just Sheena's own height, perhaps. Her skin beneath the casing of ice covering her body was warm-toned and her dark eyes and hair suggested a Middle Eastern heritage. The girl's hair was done up in a tight braid that she pinned behind her head in a military sort of style. Her well-defined eyebrows were cast resentfully toward the bridge of her rather long nose. Under the thick coating of living ice Sharur had mentioned, she wore a set of U.S.-patterned military fatigues and boots. She looked to Sheena like she was just out of high school.
The girl stopped inside the campsite and put her ice-encrusted fists on her hips. She frowned and her icy armor evaporated in the blink of an eye. In taut, Middle Eastern accented English, she demanded, "Well?"
Sheena snorted. 'Well, what?"
"Am I done, yet, ma'am? I've been out here for three nights."
"You have?"
"Yes. Child's play." The girl almost sneered. "I've had tougher training exercises dodging back and forth over the ISIL border just to prove I could. And killed seven terrorists there, too. The wolves you've got out here don't scare me, and neither do the spirits."
Sheena considered that for a long moment. Carefully, she asked, "Which spirits have you seen?"
The girl tossed her head. "Three kinds. Wolf spirits, like you said I would, and the ghost deer, too. Lots of them. And two spirits of the dead. Men I killed."
"And what did you learn?"
"That the dead are no more sorry for what they've done than the living." The girl's expression was fierce, resentful, closed. "They would do the same thing again. They're fanatics, and dying for their cause caused them no regrets."
"And what about you?"
"I would kill them again! They raped and killed and beat people, imposing their hatred on everyone. They deserved to die!"
Sheena blinked. She wasn't sure what to say to this, or what it was about. This was nothing she had done. At least, not yet.
The girl continued. "I couldn't hurt them. I tried, but I couldn't touch them. And they couldn't do anything to me except spout their hate. I don't even need my ice armor to turn aside their feeble words, and my sword won't touch them. It just goes right through."
"Your… ice sword?" Sheena guessed.
The girl glowered again. "Of course! What is all this, like you don't remember bringing me here and trying to make me see whatever it was you wanted me to see, which I don't even get!"
"What did I tell you that you were supposed to learn?"
"Forgiveness for the ones I've killed."
"And that's not working, huh?"
"No." The girl crossed her arms again with a sulky expression.
Sheena tried a different approach. "When did I tell you that you could return?"
"When the feathers turned white." The young woman pulled three black feathers from the front pocket of her fatigues. They were glossy black with clearly-defined edges and a radiance Sheena could see, though she doubted the girl could. Raven's feathers. She waved them at the goddess. "Still black!"
"Mm-hmm," Sheena observed. "As black as your own anger, I get it. What else?"
The girl grumped, "Only what you told me to report—that you are loopy."
"Looped," Sheena corrected, beginning to see what was happening.
"Whatever. And the orichalcum came from the Dark Society supplier that manipulated the ARYANs. The mechapulse was from a magical flywheel set up by the ARYAN contractor, some crystal-using guy calling himself Jewels Verne. And the drop box address where the schematics are, JV underscore 2000LUTC."
Sheena understood now. The girl was from Sheena's own subjective future, placed here to provide some useful information that she had discovered, in addition to making the girl serve her own sort of 'detention' in the spirit world. It seemed like she had set the girl here to learn something about forgiveness. She wondered why.
"Well, it doesn't seem like you have learned what I had put you here to learn, yet."
"You think?" the girl shot back sarcastically. "I only put up with this because I'm just as stubborn as you, ma'am. You say this is the only way they'll let me use my powers without joining up in the army, and I said the army's just fine with me, as long as I get to kill extremists, and you just sigh and give me that pitying look. 'They won't let you kill the people you want to, Leyla,' you said, 'Only the ones they want you to kill.' Fine, I said. At least I'm hurting the ones who deserve to be hurt."
"And what did I say, then?"
The girl's face fell. Grudgingly, it seemed, she admitted, "That I would be used just like the jihadists used their believers."
"Do you think that's true?"
The girl looked away. Her attention seemed far away. Sheena waited. Eventually the girl replied, still staring at the river, "Maybe."
"What is it that I'm trying to teach you, Leyla?"
The ice girl took a long breath and released it. "To see other ways to fight the injustice, you said."
"And to do that, you have to get over your anger and what they did to you, right?"
"Right," Leyla muttered.
"All right, then."
"But it's so hard!" the teenager complained to her. "And it isn't fair!"
Sheena raised an eyebrow. Before she could say anything, the girl tossed her head and admitted, "I know, I know! 'Whoever said life was fair?' But it ought to be."
"You're right, but that's only something we can give to others; not what we can expect to get."
The girl huffed. Her breath made an icy cloud in the dry air of the spirit forest. She glanced at the river, and then back to Sheena with a resigned look. "I'd better keep trying, then, right?"
"That seems best. Follow the instructions I gave you. I'm sure you can do it. I have confidence in you, Leyla." Truly, Sheena didn't know this girl, but she knew herself. If she had given her this task, then the girl would be able to succeed, eventually. She had all the time in the world to get it right, after all.
"More talking to spirits," the girl grumbled. "You want me to stay here and do it, ma'am, or is anywhere in the forest okay?"
"Have you found a place you like?" Sheena asked with a touch of curiosity.
"Yes, ma'am. The hill where the giant tree fell, and I can climb up it and see out for miles. I like that spot."
Sheena thought while the girl waited for an answer. "Yes, that should be fine. It's probably better for you to find your own peaceful spot. It might make it easier on you."
"All right, ma'am. Then, you'll come back when I've got it, or do you plan on checking up on me again?"
"You aren't in need of supplies or anything, are you?"
Leyla shook her head. "No, ma'am."
Sheena settled her feathers. "I will probably come again when you are ready, or when it seems like you need more help."
"Fair enough," the girl replied stoically. By the look in her eyes and tightness of her lip, she seemed only marginally less sulky than before her outburst, but she was obviously disciplining herself well. She added politely, "Good luck with whatever you need that information for."
The young woman coated herself in ice from head to toe again and turned away. Before she had climbed all the way up to the trees, she turned and said, "Sometimes, killing them is the only way to stop them."
"Yes, I know. But what does it do to us, when we do that?" Sheena replied. "I'm not thinking only about the extremists you're talking about, but everyone around them, and around you. And the effect that has on you, yourself."
Leyla grunted and nodded, and then turned and trudged off into the forest.
Sheena released a breath and let the tension flow out of her.
Sharur commented, "Your sidekick."
"Sidekick?"
"Yes. In your not-too-distant future, you will accept that girl as your sidekick, though neither one of you likes that term."
Sheena shook her head "Whatever will make me think that's a good idea?"
The iron wolf grinned. "You will say that you seem to have a knack for turning people around. She needs turning around, or she will die young and bitter, with her talent and powers wasted."
"I will, huh?" The goddess sighed. "That does sound like something I would say. Do you know if I will remember this little episode, at the time?"
"Yes, Mistress. It is part of what convinces you to accept the suggestion."
"Hmph. Time twisting again."
"Well, at least I can console myself in that there are no paradoxes."
"Not the way your powers work, Mistress, no." The wolf seemed to be grinning, still.
"But, other time manipulators don't have that restriction."
"As you have observed to yourself several times, no, they don't."
"And I'm running up on one of those times, aren't I?"
"It is hard for me to tell, Mistress. All time is now, to me."
"I think you just answered my question, sly wolf."
The demon dipped his head in acknowledgement.
"It seems I have what I came for. I don't need to alter the time stream, based on what this seems to say."
"No, Mistress," Sharur confirmed.
"Then let's get back to the park and finally tell everyone what we've got for them."
"It will seem like they have been waiting a long time."
"I'll be back in an instant, from their point of view."
"Time is an illusion."
Sheena snorted. "Whoever said that wasn't paid by the hour!"
She made ready to leave the spirit world and return to the park where the wreckage of the battle with the ARYAN forces still lay fresh on the ground.
Sheena swooped back into
Sheena swooped back into reality an objective thirty-five seconds after she had left. It was just enough time for one verse of the Minstrel's duet with Gayle. She landed lightly on the ground next to D-Day and smiled, waving for the two to continue. Sheena waited for the song to finish and the applause from the crowd to subside before sharing what she had learned.
"The Dark Society put the ARYANs up to it and supplied the orichalcum and the device. A crystal-powered guy—a neutral or a villain, I'm assuming—named Jewels Verne did the work, and the schematics are available at a drop box labelled JV_2000LUTC. I'm assuming that gives us enough to go on to find out the exact details about how this was done and what we can do to reverse or end the effects. What I learned also suggested that it would be more dangerous for me to actually try to turn back time than it would be to grab this information and let things proceed. Hope this helps."
She was confident that this information would be enough to turn the situation around.
The Minstrel slung his guitar
The Minstrel slung his guitar back over his shoulder. "Yeah, if someone can figure out those details, I can help out on the undoing part. But for the figuring out, I'm thinking we need a magical engineer, or mebbe a forensic sorcerer..."
The Rune Priest was busy
The Rune Priest was busy drawing runes on some speakers and shook his head. "I regret that my skills are more general. Kind of a swiss army knife plenty of tricks but not really good at heavy work. The main reason I'm not in the whole Hero trade."
From behind Sheena came the android ALX-32 "Perhaps I shall provide assistance. I have been studying magic and can grasp the concepts." His form showed little of the cold calculating android he really was. To be able to examine a bit of tech that incorporates magic will further his own research into such magic-tech.
"Excellent," Sheena replied.
"Excellent," Sheena replied. To the broader group, she said, "I'll coordinate the effort from the FBSA office. We'll vet the volunteers. Those who can help can contact me at the FBSA hotline, with the reference tag 'Deer Park' or 'ARYAN.' Please pass this on to everyone here, and to anyone you know who can possibly help."
Special Agent Calderon arrived in an agency SUV. The government shaman relaxed and smiled broadly as he surveyed the scene. The work Hank and Gayle had done to calm the heroes and bystanders--as well as D-Day's calming presence--had everyone well below the threshold of panic he had apparently expected. He lowered his dark glasses and looked a question at Sheena. She nodded to him as she forwarded the information to the AI on duty. Within moments, the identity of Jewels Verne and the location and contents of the drop box had been secured. The call-in entry for volunteers and an additional FBSA call-out for qualified assistance had been established, as well. Sheena pulled up the file on the 'technomancer,' as the FBSA record described him.
"Interesting. Jewels Verne is a rogue inventor. Neither a hero nor a known villain. Biggest offenses on his record are for property damage, creating a hazard--multiple citations--and disturbing the peace. His identity is protected, for some reason."
She looked to D-Day, Hank, Fin, and Gayle to see if they had other ideas or questions as Calderon began to follow up with those who had been affected or witnessed the event. An official clean-up team pulled up with heavy equipment and lift vehicles secure and remove the evidence and debris from the park.
"Mr. Ayelex! How kind of you
"Mr. Ayelex! How kind of you to offer to help. Although I didn't know that you were studying magic as well as cybernetics..." Tinker Belle had made no attempt to conceal her approach.
ALX turned to Tinker Belle.
ALX turned to Tinker Belle. "It's not something that I generally make known. As a synthetic intelligence, the idea of an unlimited power source that could be tapped is very intriguing. Like for an organic to learn there is an unlimited supply of food and drink." Both a lie and truth.
Sheena settled her feathers
Sheena settled her feathers again and stepped aside to confer with Gayle. The singer nodded in response to her questions, replied with explanations, and seemed to be holding together, though she remained shaky about her loss. They hugged and Sheena let Gayle go to the car that her friend's management firm had sent over.
She walked back to the others. "Magic is far from an unlimited power source. There are always prices to be paid. But we will certainly welcome any expert help that we can get." She waved to the Minstrel. "Gayle will help get that concert set up right away. You two will be in touch, I expect. I have some clean up and datawork to finish, but please feel free to contact me as needed."
She went to take care of things in the park before departing.


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All Nations Conference boosts participation, commitment
Native American Schools: Roster numbers are up nearly 70 percent overall
By Ryan Deal
Lance Witte's No. 1 objective of the All Nations Conference has been accomplished.
The Lower Brule school superintendent was instrumental in forming the football conference made up of 12 Native American high schools. Witte's vision was to pump up football participation numbers and that goal has been met during the inaugural season.
"When we started conversations about forming the conference, our No. 1 goal was to increase participation numbers," Witte said. "That's happened in every school that's been involved and some pretty significantly."
Witte has also noticed a bigger commitment from the players, and that has been observed across the All Nations Conference. Of the nine schools to respond to a Daily Republic request about participation numbers, coaches and administrators raved about the conference. This year among those schools, 222 students are participating in football, a 69.5 percent increase over 2018, when there were 131 students participating. Two schools added new football teams, and four others nearly doubled the number of players on their squads.
Lower Brule has gone from 17 players last season to 21 players this season. Not only have the numbers climbed, but Witte also said kids are engaged in practices.
"The thing I have noticed is the commitment from the kids," Witte said. "Everybody is in and nobody is wanting to miss practice. Everybody wants to be there and everybody is excited about next week and that's been kind of a change."
Flandreau Indian ended the 2018 season with 15 players, but it currently has 25 players out this season.
"So far we have been able to keep all of our players out this year," Flandreau Indian coach Trevor Greger replied. "The biggest factor I believe is because our students know that they have a shot at competing week in and week out playing other teams in the All Nations Conference."
Crazy Horse has noticed a similar jump.
"I believe we had 11 players out for football last year and this year, we have 23 players out," Crazy Horse coach James Bagwell wrote. "So it has been a huge impact being in the All Nations Conference. It's gained the interest of my kids and giving us a real opportunity to build a program."
The building is happening all over. Red Cloud coach Arthur Vitalis said the Crusaders have gone from 18 to 30 players in one season. Cheyenne-Eagle Butte's roster consists of around 35 players again this season and coach Michael Scott said the Braves have 12 freshmen out this season. Tiospa Zina coach Mikey Peters said the program has increased from 23 to 30 players this season and said "it's been a real big change for the better."
St. Francis athletic director Roger Crow Eagle also said numbers are up and "it seems like our students like the idea of nine-man football and it shows in our numbers that are out this year."
Marty Indian played just a junior varsity schedule last season and coach Jay Maynard said the team was lucky to have around 12 players at games, while between just 6 to 9 players at practice each day.
This year?
"We have 21 individuals on our team," Maynard said in an email. "Practice attendance is much better this year compared to previous years. Most days we have enough to scrimmage a full offense and defense."
This is Takini's first season fielding a football team and it has 17 players from 7th-through-12th graders on the squad, said athletic director Travis Albers. Oelrichs hasn't had its own football team since 2011 and it would co-op with Hot Springs in previous years. But that wasn't always a fit for the kids, said Oelrichs athletic director James Knutson.
"We have a roster of 20 high school boys who are playing this year and we have that pride of representing our school again," Knutson wrote. "Being such a small school, we had to postpone our middle school program so that those players can add depth to our high school roster. But all in all, we went from zero students to 20 students."
Future expansion?
The conference is a nine-man league and is separated into two divisions: West and East. The 12 teams will play a six-game regular season schedule and the playoffs start on Oct. 17. The first and second seeded teams in each division will receive a first-round bye. The championship game is Nov. 8 at the DakotaDome in Vermillion.
Schools were chosen for the conference based on the percentage of Native American students in their student body. Tribal and public schools with an enrollment of 50 percent or more Native American students were sent an invite. Chamberlain, Pine Ridge, and Todd County received invites, but declined.
Witte said Pine Ridge and Todd County administrators are in a wait-and-see approach through the first two years and could possibly join after the 2020 season. Witte said Nebraska schools -- Winnebago and Omaha Nation -- have already expressed interest in joining the conference next year.
The competitive nature of the All Nations Conference games have been wide ranging this season. Last week, Little Wound defeated Takini by a 78-6 score, while Red Cloud defeated Cheyenne-Eagle Butte 58-6. But also last week, Marty slipped past St. Francis 26-14. During Week 1, Tiospa Zina nipped Marty 18-14 and Red Cloud edged Lower Brule in a 58-48 shootout.
The disparity in the size of the schools play into the competitive inbalance. According to the South Dakota High School Activities Association website, Little Wound has the largest male-only average daily membership with 164.188. Takini is the smallest with 19.125.
The rest of the league's male-only ADM includes: Red Cloud (111.499), Cheyenne-Eagle Butte (106.108), St. Francis (85.677), Flandreau Indian (82.045), Tiospa Zina (74.491), Crow Creek (67.397), Lower Brule (45.788), Crazy Horse (45.369), Marty (40.822) and Oelrichs (34.446).
"So there's a lot of disparity in size," Witte said. "So you have kind of an upper-tier kind of competitive group and you kind of have a lower-tier that are competitive amongst the smaller schools. I don't know in the future — if we will get enough interest — if we will end up having maybe leagues based on size of enrollment possibly, rather than just everybody lumped into one."
Today and Saturday, the teams will play in Rapid City and will play in conjunction with the Lakota Nation Invitational volleyball and cross-country events. The LNI basketball tournament in December in Rapid City has evolved into a 32-team tournament and is the highlight for student-athletes each year. Witte hopes the football version will resemble the basketball tourney.
The football matchups include: Red Cloud vs. Little Wound; Crazy Horse vs. Marty; Cheyenne-Eagle Butte vs. Tiospa Zina; Oelrichs vs. Takini; Lower Brule vs. Crow Creek and St. Francis vs. Flandreau Indian.
"It's kind of a rivalry weekend," Witte said. "We've got some teams that are similar in size and maybe have some past history as far as rivalries and maybe they were basketball rivalries. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I think everybody is looking forward to it."
Cougars sign 30 for new coach Jim Glogowski
By Matt Zimmer
SDSU, USD football add to recruiting classes on late signing day
Coyotes sign 10, Jackrabbits nine to join initial class that committed in December
Area basketball roundup for Jan. 31: Ethan boys, girls down Sanborn Central/Woonsocket
Prep basketball action from around the state for Tuesday, Jan. 31.
PHOTOS: Ethan sweeps Sanborn Central/Woonsocket in basketball doubleheader
Ethan defeats SB/W 64-27 girls and 60-38 boys.
By Adam Thury


Valeska Neumann studied design at the Hochschule Mainz, Germany, and at the University of Plymouth in Exeter, Great Britain, and cultural history and theory with a minor in gender studies at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin. In 2012 she was project assistant for the interdisciplinary conference »BONDS: Guilt, Debts and other Liabilities« (December 6–8, 2012, Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Berlin; project management: Thomas Macho). From 2013 to 2014, she was responsible for the editorial supervision of the BONDS publication (ed. Thomas Macho, Fink 2014). During the winter term 2014-2015 she was research associate at the institute of cultural history and theory of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, from January to March 2015 she was coordination fellow for the art, science & business program at Akademie Schloss Solitude. Since June 2015 she has been assistant to the board at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden.


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