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Chosen-ciphertext attack
A chosen-ciphertext attack (CCA) is an attack model
Attack model
Attack models or attack types specify how much information a cryptanalyst has access to when cracking an encrypted message...
for cryptanalysis
Cryptanalysis
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in which the cryptanalyst gathers information, at least in part, by choosing a ciphertext
In cryptography, ciphertext is the result of encryption performed on plaintext using an algorithm, called a cipher. Ciphertext is also known as encrypted or encoded information because it contains a form of the original plaintext that is unreadable by a human or computer without the proper cipher...
and obtaining its decryption under an unknown key. In the attack, an adversary has a chance to enter one or more known ciphertexts into the system and obtain the resulting plaintexts. From these pieces of information the adversary can attempt to recover the hidden secret key used for decryption.
A number of otherwise secure schemes can be defeated under chosen-ciphertext attack. For example, the El Gamal cryptosystem is semantically secure
Semantic security
Semantic security is a widely used definition for security in an asymmetric key encryption algorithm. For a cryptosystem to be semantically secure, it must be infeasible for a computationally bounded adversary to derive significant information about a message when given only its ciphertext and...
under chosen-plaintext attack
Chosen-plaintext attack
A chosen-plaintext attack is an attack model for cryptanalysis which presumes that the attacker has the capability to choose arbitrary plaintexts to be encrypted and obtain the corresponding ciphertexts. The goal of the attack is to gain some further information which reduces the security of the...
, but this semantic security can be trivially defeated under a chosen-ciphertext attack. Early versions of RSA padding used in the SSL protocol were vulnerable to a sophisticated adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack
Adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack
An adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack is an interactive form of chosen-ciphertext attack in which an attacker sends a number of ciphertexts to be decrypted, then uses the results of these decryptions to select subsequent ciphertexts...
which revealed SSL session keys. Chosen-ciphertext attacks have implications for some self-synchronizing stream cipher
Stream cipher
In cryptography, a stream cipher is a symmetric key cipher where plaintext digits are combined with a pseudorandom cipher digit stream . In a stream cipher the plaintext digits are encrypted one at a time, and the transformation of successive digits varies during the encryption...
s as well. Designers of tamper-resistant cryptographic smart card
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s must be particularly cognizant of these attacks, as these devices may be completely under the control of an adversary, who can issue a large number of chosen-ciphertexts in an attempt to recover the hidden secret key.
When a cryptosystem is vulnerable to chosen-ciphertext attack, implementers must be careful to avoid situations in which an adversary might be able to decrypt chosen-ciphertexts (i.e., avoid providing a decryption oracle). This can be more difficult than it appears, as even partially-chosen-ciphertexts can permit subtle attacks. Additionally, some cryptosystems (such as RSA) use the same mechanism to sign messages and to decrypt them. This permits attacks when hashing
Cryptographic hash function
A cryptographic hash function is a deterministic procedure that takes an arbitrary block of data and returns a fixed-size bit string, the hash value, such that an accidental or intentional change to the data will change the hash value...
is not used on the message to be signed. A better approach is to use a cryptosystem which is provably secure
Provable security
In cryptography, a system has provable security if its security requirements can be stated formally in an adversarial model, as opposed to heuristically, with clear assumptions that the adversary has access to the system as well as enough computational resources...
under chosen-ciphertext attack, including (among others) RSA-OAEP
Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding
In cryptography, Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding is a padding scheme often used together with RSA encryption. OAEP was introduced by Bellare and Rogaway....
, Cramer-Shoup and many forms of authenticated
Authenticated encryption
Authenticated Encryption is a block cipher mode of operation which simultaneously provides confidentiality, integrity and authenticity assurances on the data. It became readily apparent that securely compositing a confidentiality mode with an authentication mode could be error prone and difficult...
symmetric encryption.
Varieties of chosen-ciphertext attacks
Chosen-ciphertext attacks, like other attacks, may be adaptive or non-adaptive. In a non-adaptive attack, the attacker chooses the ciphertext or ciphertexts to decrypt in advance, and does not use the resulting plaintexts to inform their choice for more ciphertexts. In an adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack, the attacker makes their ciphertext choices adaptively, that is, depending on the result of prior decryptions.
Lunchtime attacks
A specially noted variant of the chosen-ciphertext attack is the "lunchtime", "midnight", or "indifferent" attack, in which an attacker may make adaptive chosen-ciphertext queries but only up until a certain point, after which the attacker must demonstrate some improved ability to attack the system. The term "lunchtime attack" refers to the idea that a user's computer, with the ability to decrypt, is available to an attacker while the user is out to lunch. This form of the attack was the first one commonly discussed: obviously, if the attacker has the ability to make adaptive chosen ciphertext queries, no encrypted message would be safe, at least until that ability is taken away. This attack is sometimes called the "non-adaptive chosen ciphertext attack"; here, "non-adaptive" refers to the fact that the attacker cannot adapt their queries in response to the challenge, which is given after the ability to make chosen ciphertext queries has expired.
A (full) adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack is an attack in which ciphertexts may be chosen adaptively before and after a challenge ciphertext is given to the attacker, with only the stipulation that the challenge ciphertext may not itself be queried. This is a stronger attack notion than the lunchtime attack, and is commonly referred to as a CCA2 attack, as compared to a CCA1 (lunchtime) attack. Few practical attacks are of this form. Rather, this model is important for its use in proofs of security against chosen-ciphertext attacks. A proof that attacks in this model are impossible implies that any realistic chosen-ciphertext attack cannot be performed.
A practical adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack is the Bleichenbacher attack against PKCS#1
PKCS1
In cryptography, PKCS#1 is the first of a family of standards called Public-Key Cryptography Standards , published by RSA Laboratories. It provides the basic definitions of and recommendations for implementing the RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography...
Cryptosystems proven secure against adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks include the Cramer-Shoup system and RSA-OAEP.


Silver has been in a long-term downtrend since hitting a high in 2012.
Nonetheless, several bullish catalysts have come to fruition as of late.
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In the following article I make the case to buy the SLV now.
I believe the bottom for silver is in. My vehicle of choice to play silver is the iShares Silver Trust Fund (NYSE: SLV). SLV has been in a long-term downtrend since touching an all-time high of $48 in 2011. Even so, I posit now could be the ideal time to buy SLV shares. The weakening dollar and inflation finally raising its ugly head are the primary culprits. These developments combined with several positive catalysts on the horizon lead me to believe the SLV has nowhere to go but up.
A strong U.S. dollar began to sell off courtesy of Federal Reserve's dovish tone at its most recent meeting.
Furthermore, the Fed chair's decision to not increase the trajectory of rising rates incited a strong bid for commodities and foreign currencies after leaving the forecasts for rate hikes in 2017 at two. I believe the Fed is playing it safe by maintaining such a dovish stance. This happens every time. The Fed always seems to tighten or loosen interest rates for long after they should have stopped.
This leaves the door open for inflation to spike even higher in the coming years. Basically, the Fed would rather fight off rising inflation in the future than be blamed for crashing the markets now. Fortunately, the SLV provides an ideal hedge. The S&P 500 and the SLV have shown a near perfect inverse correlation for the past few years.
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'Not high enough to keep our numbers down': Dr. Shahab stresses need for flu vaccination
Saskatchewan chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab is stressing the need for more people to get vaccinated against influenza.
Cases of the seasonal flu have surpassed those of COVID-19, according to the latest Community Respiratory Illness Surveillance Program (CRISP) report released by the province Thursday.
"We didn't see [the flu] too much over the last two years," said Dr. Shahab. "Now it's coming back with a vengeance."
Influenza increased from 68 cases in late October to 635 in the current week with a test positivity rate of 34.2 per cent. With a vaccination rate of just 19 per cent, Dr. Shahab is stressing the need for vaccination this season.
"It's not high enough to keep our numbers down," he said. "More importantly, influenza can be a serious illness, especially if you're under the age of five or have underlining health conditions."
"We're doing a poor job in high-risk groups, especially for vaccination," said Dr. Rupesh Chawla, a paediatric infectious disease specialist. "And remember, if you are getting vaccinated, you're also protecting that high-risk population around you."
Influenza hospitalization and ICU admissions increased with the majority of cases in children under 19 (37 per cent) or adults over 60-years old. (40 per cent).
Chawla said this was to be expected based on what happened during flu season in places like Australia.
"We knew that who got sick was school-aged children," he said. "[They] were the ones most admitted to hospital and had the worst problems."
Dr. Chawla believes three things attributed to the increase in cases: the poor vaccination rate; children's increased ability to spread germs; a drop in simple respiratory health measures, like hand washing or coughing into your arm.
"The problem is that's when things often get the worst," he said. "When we start to lose that aspect that, 'this is an important thing to do,' we see those things increase."

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Liberal Outrage: Trump's America is living well, the best revenge
by Karen Hagestad Cacy Sep 10, 2018
written by Karen Hagestad Cacy Sep 10, 2018
COLORADO SPRINGS: Here's a news bulletin for all the "Never Trumpers" out there: Donald Trump is still President of the United States. Still living in the White House. Melania Trump is still gorgeous. And they are still incredibly wealthy. Despite the unending Liberal outrage and media reports to the contrary, Trump's America is living well. And that is the best revenge.
And, with his behavior still reflecting an unfettered ability to call balls and strikes without the benefit of Establishment counsel, he has the unmitigated gall to be racking up achievement after achievement.
Donald Trump's "style" is not unlike Maria's in "The Sound of Music."
He's spontaneous, he's himself, he's not your mother's politician. With all he's accomplishing, the left and the Washington Establishment are beside themselves.
Like Maria, Donald J. Trump is incorrigible! And there seems little they can do about it.
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find the word that means Maria?
A flibbertigibbet! A will-o'-the wisp! A clown!
Many a thing you know you'd like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you make her stay and listen to all you say
How do you keep a wave upon the sand?
Oh, how do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?"
That Shining City on the Hill
Putting politics aside for a moment, Washington is 'think-tank' city. A place where that little kid with the Princeton glasses and leather briefcase who never helped you with answers back in grade school, grew up to inhabit the rarified and snooty intellectual atmosphere of official Washington.
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But here comes a man who has a gold, gold, for God's sake, bathroom. Trump, like the veritable bull in a china shop, with all the exuberance of "Maria," has the nerve to pack fly-over country arenas, both pre-and post-election with like-minded Americans who want their country returned to them.
The outsider with his own airplane and name brand, nary a briefcase or spectacle in sight, has done what Obama only said he would do, fundamentally change America.
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As for Obama's edicts about impossible future economic growth? They have been proven wrong by Trump policies. But wait, nobody proves America's symbol (i.e, the former president) of a post-racial society wrong. Nobody!
Bi-lateral agreements, threats and promises, removal of Lilliputian regulations, demanding America's money back, the man seemingly has no shame! By-passing 'the way it's always been done,' he's brought common sense back to Washington.
For that alone, the resident swamp dwellers say it constitutes a crime beyond measure!
The Anti-Establishment President
Overriding steadier heads, keeping his own counsel, Donald J. Trump, eschews "The Establishment."
No Georgetown in-group parties for him. And no excuses either. For this man who reportedly sleeps but four hours a night, the welfare of the country comes first.
In a deliciously karmic way, Trump did not choose America. America chose Trump.
But positive results won't do, especially when the worker is inexperienced in the ways of the Deep State. With a shockingly untamed mass of blondish-red hair presaging his every arrival, he is managing to gore everyone's ox equally.
So very galling from such an "unserious man."
So sa'eth Bob Woodward, The New York Times, and Maxine Waters. Where's the careful diplomacy? When does he seek counsel, and from whom? And why does he keep coming back after their knock-downs like some sort of pop-up doll?
Does he not understand that in order to graduate "The Swamp" one first must cooperate with them?
They tried stealth. Upon his Republican nomination for president, they set up a grand surveillance system. Like Soviet strongman, Beria, "Show me the man and I'll find you the crime."
They surrounded the Trump team with microphones, computer searches, and a thick, gummy substance called "lying to authorities." Mueller's team of 12 angry Democrats, worked day and night to catch the up-start in some sort of malfeasance with which to "Impeach, Impeach, Impeach" him from their rarified midst.
Nobody questions Obama's Award for Ethics in Government
He risked one so-called high crime and misdemeanor by firing his own FBI Director, (emphasis on "his own.") With his beautiful wife, and young son heading for their home in Florida, they cried, "Foul!" Mostly, it's a safe guess, they were jealous of his Mar-A-Lago estate, a place God would own if he could afford it.
Today, with half the country wearing pink vagina hats and revoking free speech on every front, the man who would be president soldiers on. His highest crime perhaps is the one he perpetrated on the country long before his entry into politics. Quite simply, the man has it all. And he can't be bought.
As seventeenth-century poet George Herbet said:
"Living well is the best revenge."
Even the dictator of North Korea has been angling for entry into Trumplandia. It may very well work! May his optimism and Maria-like exuberance always wave. The flag of truth finally has returned to the USA.
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Karen Hagestad Cacy, of Colorado Springs, is a former Washington speechwriter and transportation lobbyist. Raised in Portland, Oregon, she holds a BA degree in Russian and Middle East Studies from Portland State University (and American University in Cairo.) Her four novels are available on Amazon.com. She is also the author of two plays.
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A Wild ColdDrake Has Appeared!
Characters: Loki, Thor, Sif, Hogun & Eir the Healer (emitted by Hogun)
Rated: R (Language)
Summary: Loki, Thor and Sif go hunting deer in Ireland and end up coming face to face with a ColdDrake who isn't at all happy about being woken up. A battle ensues and when it's all said and done, Sif ends up in the Healer's Hall in Odin's Palace with questions about whether she'll survive or not hanging in the air.
OOC Date: Feb. 02, 2018
IC Date: Approx. 11pm, Fri., Feb. 02, 2018.
Where: Dun na Ri Forest on the outskirts of Kingscourt, Cavan, Ireland.
Odin's Palace, Asgard.
Let's go hunting, the brothers said. It'll be fun, the brothers said. On Midgard, the brothers agreed.
Which is why Loki, Thor and Sif are now stalking their way through Dun na Ri Forest on the outskirts of Kingscourt, Cavan, Ireland in the dark, while it rains and is just barely above freezing by Midgardian standards.
Wildlife is plentiful here and the sounds… the chills, chirps and chitters of those creatures that prefer the cover of night fill the air as surely as the scent of wet earth and moss does. At least it isn't a torrential downpour and there's no lightning or thunder to scare the animals off.
Sif is practically silent as she moves, having opted to go high and move through the tree tops. Instead of her sword and shield… Instead of her heavy leathers and armor… The Goddess is dressed in earth tone, soft suede with a quiver slung over her back and a bow in her hand. Her hair has even been braided back to keep it from her face.
As much as she'll harp on the boys for it later… She's enjoying this. It's been a long time since she's been on a hunt. Even if the animals of Midgard didn't really offer much of a challenge.
The horses are ground tied nearby as the three move through the dense forest. While Sif was going 'high', Loki's on the ground, pike in hand just in case one of the animals they do come across is a boar. Though they're not tracking boars; they're going after fallow deer, a type of deer that has been in Ireland since, well, since the last time they were here. He's dressed in his leathers, minus any hint of cape, leather boots, and he actually does move easily and quietly. Occasionally he does pause, listening for the sound of hoof before moving forward again.
Loki, too, is enjoying this. It's cold, dark, overcast, but it's not raining, and he's not surrounded by complete idiots. Pausing once more near a tree, he takes a breath, holds it, and exchanges his main weapon for one of his daggers.
When Thor and Loki actually agreed to go hunting on Midgard, it wasn't too difficult for Thor to apparently help get Sif involved. Totally not cuz she's his Valkyrior or anything. Regardless!
On Midgard, Thor is wearing human clothing to help the God fit in. He wears a long black coat with fingerless gloves, black boots, a brown shirt, and black woodland pants. his golden hair pulled back into a ponytail..though some of the strands have been braided. Likely Sif's doing. A small breath as he readies a hand-axe and a spear, leaning against a tree. Thor went for the low ground as well, moving in opposite of Loki so as to trap the creature that they hunt.
Yes…Mjolnir was left home. Because that would be some serious overkill.
'Overkill' is a bit of an understatement there, don't you think?
In the trees, the Goddess pauses, shifts, tilts her head and then drops a nut on Thor's head. Oops! She had totally mean to hit his shoulder. …Ahem…
Once she has the attention of both Princes, she nods her head forward and points off to the northeast, holding up three fingers.
A moment later and she shifts her position once more, this time to let her hop from one tree to another without causing so much more than a faint shake. For as heavy as Sif is, for humans anyhow, she's got an incredibly light step and is exceptionally agile.
Further a bit more and she stops, draws an arrow, nocks it, releases and only seconds later, the cry of a dying deer.
"Two coming at you."
'Overkill' is exactly what this is. Really. Three GODS hunting mortal deer? It's the textbook definition of 'overkill'. Still, Loki's not doing this for the 'challenge'. He's doing it because, well, it's fun. And he's able to actually not have to worry about anything except what is before him.
The nut falling brings a smirk as green eyes lift to the canopy and the basic area of where Sif is. His attention comes back down, and he nods in Thor's direction, moving off in order to forestall any animals running away from them. The deer's death cry fills the air, and the other two deer startle and begin to run, their tails held high. Loki exhales in a chuffed breath, and one step is taken, two.. and the dagger that he holds is thrown, leading the creature so when the weapon meets flesh, it digs deeply, and the animal goes down. Not dead, not yet.. but wounded.
Dropping a nut on Thor's head is a way to truly get his attention…I mean, who on earth is -brave- enough to even THINK of doing that? Oh, probably the lady that's pretty much tied to Thor's soul. Yeah, that's acceptable.
He turns those ocean blue eyes towards Sif, who he gives a wide smile to with a nod, looking in the direction of the deer who let out a death cry…Thor watches two deers run towards them, and while Loki makes quick work of one, Thor does the same with the other, a throw of his axe strikes down the creature mid-run, and Thor approaches it then, admiring his hit. A thumbs up to Loki then.
Sif very rarely ignores the boy. When hunting, however, all bets are off. Especially here where they'd be hard pressed to find an animal that can actually do them any harm.
With her own animal wounded, Sif slips from the trees and starts to cross the distance, another arrow pulled and let fly. The deer goes down and Sif slings the bow over her back, reaching into her boot to pull a dagger from a sheath there before pulling the rope from where it hung from her quiver. The animals will need drained, after all, at the very least.
"Have either of you hunted in this area before?" It's an odd question, especially given the way the Goddess has stopped moving and is arching a brow deeper into the woods. Why? It would seem they woke a sleeping and now cranky-that-it's-awake thing (no! not me!).
Loki waits for the second deer to go down at Thor's hand before he quickly steps towards his own downed buck. Grabbing hold of the antlers, the younger prince makes short work of the animal, putting it out of its misery. While he's doing it, though, he whispers a quiet phrase, essentially thanking the spirit of the animal, sending its soul on. Only then does he get back to work, pulling his weapon from the animal's side.
Looking up from his task, Loki's head tilts, his brows rise before, "In this forest, no.. further north, yes.. you recall, right Thor?" They've been all over this island, Scotland, Iceland..
Green eyes follow Sif's gaze, and he straightens, the buck ignored for a moment. His voice is soft, "Thor?"
With a jab of his pike, the deer that Thor has in his mighty grasp breaths it's last, and enters rest eternal. Though his ears perk up when he hears the sound of something waking up…looking to Sif, then Loki with a small nod. "Aye. we've crossed this island many times." but he straightens when he hears the mighty beast apparently stirring. Loki muttering his name gets a small glance, before he extends his hand…and while it takes a few moments, Mjolnir descends from the sky and into his hand.
Though he doesn't convert into his Asgardian armor, he does enter a sort of defensive stance. "I don't know what it is…but it's not pleased." he looks to Loki then, giving him a nod as if to prepare himself.
What manner of creature inhabits these lands now??
There's a ruffle of leaves, the sound of a tree cracking and suddenly the Goddess steps back and turns her face away. "I should have brought my sword," is muttered. "Eyes on the ground!"
Out of tress comes a very large, lizard like creature covered in deep grey scales, spikes running down it's spine and along it's tail as well as at the edges of the frill which puffs out around a dragon like head and snout with fangs that drip venom. The same spikes run down the four legs to meet paws with vicious looking claws on them.
The creatures, 'cold drakes' is what humans had called them, used to be prevalent in this forest but now only one or two remain. Usually deeply hidden. A breath that can, venom that would weaken Odin himself and a stare that petrifies. "I thought these things were gone from this Realm."
No sudden movements, please. Sif may be the Goddess of War but she's not stupid.
As Thor calls Mjolnir, and it arrives after a heartbeat, Loki's own weapon is drawn, and it's in the shape of a dagger. The pike that he'd been hunting with is cast to the side, and the dagger grows into a very nasty looking pike. "What is—" but when he gets a good look at the creature, he's moving quickly in order to keep his brother from becoming lizard 'fatality'.
"Brother—" and he's attempting to turn Thor aside. "Do not meet its eyes," and his own rise to check on Sif. Good, she's got it.
Thor gets one glance at the creature before he has a good idea of what it is. Loki helps him out in the knick of time, with Thor lowering his eyes from the beast with Loki. "Duly noted, brother. Now then…what are the odds of me making a good blind throw?" he grins then, before he chucks Mjolnir at the creature!
A look is spared to Sif to make sure she's alright….and it's extremely relieving to see that she's got the gist of what's going down.
Now would be great for an overhead voice to shout FINISH HIM!
Loki moves quickly… Why!?
No. Sudden. Movements. Loki!
The drakes head snaps around, tail lashing out and coming within inches of where Sif is. Or, rather, was. She just barely managed to sump out of the way in time. "Stupid Princes and their stupid magical damn weapons." Someone's a bit irritated. Her arrows are not going to cut it when it comes to that creature. She packed ones that wouldn't tear apart Midgardian animals.
A blind throw from Thor… Oh dear… Of course, neither brother is wearing a cape today. One would be extremely helpful right about now! "Coat! Give me Thor's coat!" Because, Hel, they've already got the thing's attention. No point in trying to be quiet now.
The dash she does across the clearing draws the beasts attention from the brothers and the breath it was going to aim at them is, instead, aimed at the Goddess. The stumbled step is proof enough that it hit her somewhere but that frost on the back of her arm likely isn't visible just yet.
Aw, Sif is always irritated in battle! Loki was keeping his brother safe… er.. though he probably didn't need to. Thor got the gist reasonably quickly, and now that the creature has turned to Sif, he's setting his own magic to grow trees' branches down in order to take hold of the creature, setting a 'cage', if only as a delaying tactic. The breath, though, there's nothing Loki could have done to prevent that, though his call does hold a hint of concern, though couched in that battle's call. "We'll bring him around, like the harts!"
Thor looks at Sif running, and he sees her call out to him, though now he's fairly pissed off. He easily runs towards Sif, passing her his coat in passing while he summons Mjolnir to his hand. He attempts to swing the mighty hammer right for the lizards head as he passes!
"Loki! conjure an illusion to distract it!" he calls out to his far more magically inclined brother.
It's sweet that they're concerned. It really is. At some point, Sif will remember to thank them for it. Not right now, however.
"Stay away from it's fangs!" Of course, no sooner does she have the coat in hand than she's running towards the beast. "You two better finish this thing off quick!" Why them? That becomes apparent as Sif uses a tree as a jumping off point, lands on its back and reaches down to wrap Thor coat around its eyes. She doesn't even take note of the 'scratches' from those spikes.
"Got it!" At least they don't have to fight blind now. Unfortunately, it also means the creature is thrashing about a fair bit and it takes Sif out of the battle.
As Sif makes the leap onto the back with Thor's cape, the trees grow up around it, effectively caging it, and giving it a smaller area in which to move. Soon enough, that area gets smaller and smaller to the point where the animal simply can't move to the side, can't move forward or backwards. The tail flails like a whip, bits and pieces of wood flying everywhere like shards of, well.. wood.
Easy enough to stay away from fangs, now, and as Thor's hammer strikes the lizard, there isn't a whole lot of room for the creature to come around and protect itself completely from such a hit. Green ochre blood oozes from the wound, and it begins to flail in earnest now, undoubtedly giving Sif a hard time to stay on its back.
Thor watches Sif mount the Lizard as she blinded it and…that was pretty impressive actually. with his eyes only vaguely opened so he could reach out and grab the creature, he closes his eyes when he knows he has it…and just starts to try and pummel it to death with Mjolnir!
Hopefully it'll help since Loki decided to trap it in a messload of trees. Way to go Loki!
With the creature trapped and blinded, it's only defense is its breath and the flailing it's doing. Even a beast like this, however, can only take so much and with one last thrash, which throws Sif forward and over its head, the drake heaves a last breath collapses.
The Goddess, for her part, hit the ground and a moment later rolls away. "Next time," is groaned, as she rolls to her back. "You go hunting on your own." She's going to feel this mess for days. "And you wear your damn capes."
The thrashing has put large holes in its wooden cage, but it managed to hold it in place for the violence that would be brought to bear against it. That's all that Loki wanted. He's back away enough from the fray, keeping his eye on everything going on, orchestrating it's 'capture'. When Thor smash.. and Sif is thrown, Loki is pretty sure that the battle is done, and the day is won. Her comment gains a lopsided smile, and he twists to gesture towards the bucks that are still waiting for their attention, "Just think of the feast afterwards."
Thor wipes the lizard blood off of Mjolnir before he just -chucks- it to parts unknown. It looks like it freaking broke orbit immediately. Stretching a little bit, he moves over to Sif to help her back up to her feet. "I apologize…normally that doesn't happen." he looks legitimately concerned for her, and if she looks into his eyes, she'll notice.
He looks then to Loki. "Are you unharmed, brother?" he asks the younger Prince before his attention is back on Sif, a hand on her upper back as worry seems to have overcome his more boastful nature.
With Thor's help, the Goddess stands. She's got a few scrapes here and there, a cut on the side of her leg nearing the back, and what was almost frostbite on her arm.
She gives a very unladlylike snort. "I just want a long, hot soak." Slowly, and with the tiniest, occasional sway, she walks over to put the bucks in the three bucks in one area.
"I've hunted with you two before. It's always an adventure…" Pause. "Heimdall. And don't forget the horses."
Because it's time to go home. And apparently the horses will be taken first.
Loki approaches once again, his own weapon going from pike back to dagger, and he sets it onto his waist, once again hidden. His pace quickens to catch up with his brother and the sword maid, reaching out to put his hand on Sif's shoulder as he does. "I'm fine, brother.." Though he does give Thor a quick glance to be sure he's fine, but he's sure he is! "Sif," and his tones drop. "Stay a moment," and he holds out his hand.
Loki looks at Sif once more before he crouches down to look at that leg injury, brows creasing. His lips are moving, but he's not making any sound as he truly talks to himself. Rising once more, he shouts to the 'heavens', "Take them first!" before he steps aside quickly. "I will see you both soon.. brother, watch over her. Sif, I'm afraid you will be feeling the effects of this battle soon enough." He's not going back to Asgard, not yet..
As dawn approaches on the horizon of Asgard, the Bifrost activates. Presumably, to retrieve those it had deposited on Midgard several hours ago. Thor and Loki had talked Sif into going hunting with them. On Midgard. And they return. Sans Loki who had opted to stay behind. No one's sure why. Heimdall had take his sister and the Crown Prince from the Realm before she could really ask questions.
They appear, Sif covered in scrapes and scratches with something dangerously close to frostbite on her left arm and a nasty but 'clean' gash on the side-back of her right thigh. Which is where Loki had been knelt and why Sif is looking behind her and very confused when they arrive. "Wha— Damnit, Heimdall. You couldn't let me ask the question first??" The Goddess huffs at her brother.
Finally, her eyes cut up to Thor and she arches a brow. "Do you have any idea what Loki was talking about?" That tiny sway she had earlier? Slightly more pronounced now.
And then a hand is waved. "Nevermind. Let's go. I need a hot tub. I'm cold." Her hand grips his wrist. For someone who is freezing, her temperature is high. A heartbeat later and they're standing in the Courtyard of the Palace. That's when Sif sways obviously and actually, openly, grips Thor for balance.
And where Hogun, who had been alerted to the Prince's and his Shield Maiden's return had been walking QUICKLY on his way to the Observatory. Seeing the pair appear and Sif's condition, Hogun sucks in an audible breath only to exhale sharply, shoulders rising and falling with the motion.
I see you. I'm not happy. Tails to your room, Princeling, before I summon Eir.
Thor walks with Sif, keeping an arm around her to make sure that she stays upright, since she sways. "Come, let's get you some rest." He looks to Hogun then as he arrives, nodding a little bit at him in an
I know. Don't make me throw you off the rainbow bridge.
…kind of way. But then he smiles, and any notion of danger is removed! Though in response to Sif, he shakes his head. "I don't know…Loki's been acting strange lately. I'll look into it. But for now, you're my priority." love shines in his eyes even if his face doesn't reflect it, but he walks right beside her, giving Hogun a 'walk with us' kind of look.
"She will be taken to Eir. Now." It's a deep voice that booms. Heimdall's telepathy at its finest.
Sif rolls her eyes at all three men. "Excuse me. She will be going to her room where she can soak in a hot bath." So the poison can pump through faster. " I'm covered in dirt, from and ColdDrake blood. I'm also freezing so if we could get inside, that would be fantastic."
She's starting to lean more and more on Thor.
Heimdall's telepathy can take a flying leap. Hogun's lips press together unhappily. It is the only outward reaction he has to the mental touch. Hogun takes up step with Thor, moving to Sif's opposite side and walking a mere half step ahead so that if none are near to open doors for the Prince, Hogun can.
And yet, as a servant is passed, the Grim One, pauses briefly to step into the edge of the servan'ts personal space.
"Eir to Sif's room," is all that is said. Hogun's voice is low, rough and horse from disuse, soft and hardly above a murmur, and yet carries more than easily enough. Last heard a half century ago when the friends were in a tavern and Fandral took some teasing a bit too far in trying to get Hogun to 'lighten up' by having a girl drape herself into his lap. It really wasn't polite of him at all to have simply stood up and let the poor thing fall to a graceless heap on the floor at his feet. All Hogun had told Fandral was: Outside.
Fandral had returned with a busted lip. Hogun had not returned at all.
Now, decades later, Hogun speaks aloud to order the healer to Sif's room.
Order given, the Grim Warrior turns to hasten his steps and catch up to Thor and Sif, seeking to return to his place as a forward guard. No, Hogun isn't worried at all. Can't you tell how much Chill he has?
Thor keeps his arms wrapped around Sif as she leaned more and more into him….before he just scoops her up in his arms and carries her. "shh…rest now Sif." he shouts. A grateful nod is given to Hogun in the 'way to go man, I owe you' kind of way…even though it's kind of his duty, Thor is still appreciative.
Eventually, when they reach her room, Thor sets her down right by the tub and he starts turning nobs. "Let the healers see you without any trouble, Sif. Please." he asks her then as he looks her in the eyes. When Thor says 'please', he means it. In the 'if you move, I will pin you down with Mjolnir and leave you there for a week.' kind of way.
Thor was worried…and it was written all over his face.
All this fuss! Sif's nose wrinkles. "I'm fine, really. I just…" And then Thor says please and Hogun is sending for Eir. Not just a healer but Eir herself and she sighs.
"Fine. I'll let the healers check me. Can you both shoo so I can bathe? Maybe food and water?" And blankets. Are we sure leaving her alone is a good idea?
To Thor's nod, Hogun merely inclines his chin. Yes, this is his duty, but there is something MORE to it than that. Enough that Hogun pushes open the doors to Sif's room, and to her bathing chamber, and then moves to collect towels and a warm robe to set out even as Thor is setting the water and all but begging Sif to let them all mother hen on her.
Hogun doesn't beg. That's not his style of Mother Hen. Hogun merely does. Towels set out, he gives one look to Sif, quirks a brow and slides his brown gaze to Thor.
"No," he tells the Prince. No, don't leave her alone. No, she's really not okay. No, you will not be leaving her side to get her food and drink. No, I will not be leaving you alone to tend to this. No, I will not be staying in the bathroom with you as you undress the girl and get her into the tub. No, I really don't care what EITHER of you think about this.
Nothing more to say, Hogun turns and leaves the bathroom, presumably to order food and drink, gather blankets, stoke up the fire, and wait for Eir's arrival.
Thor seems to smile softly as Sif agrees to his request, nodding softly to her as he -definite- remains there before he looks at Hogun. Doesn't take a genius to interpret that, so Thor gives him a look that pretty much sums up as…
I know, I won't be leaving her alone, and do me a favor and if Loki stomps on over here, give him a book and sit him in the waiting room?
He smiles softly then to Sif as Hogun leaves. "Come now Sif, let's help you into the bath." Yes, he will offer to help her strip down. Cough.
"Odin's left nut! Both of you behave. I may not be fine but I'm not dying. Now knock it of before I knock you together."
She batbats at Thor's hands. "Ha! You don't get to strip me this time. If I have to suffer so do you." She wants to stick her tongue. She doesn't, but she wants toi.
Stripped, she steps into the water and makes quick work of cleaning. Sadly… Warm water, poison, increased blood flow and now the dirt that had been stopping the bleeding is gone.
"I think … I should see a healer… You can carry me though. I'm going to sleep now.."
Yep. Right there. Leaning on the edge of the tub.
"Both of you are idiots," comes a voice from the doorway. Eir has arrived and she's pauses her way in without preamble.
"Get her out of that water and on these towels," she commands with an air of STUPID MEN, STUPID CHILDREN. Hogun, fast on her heels, is already laying out said towels while the healer is opening her medkit to get what she'll need to quick stop the bleeding so she can be transported to the healing rooms.
"And as I work, you will tell me about your encounter with a cold drake and the reason you delayed in bringing her to me."
Thor looks at Eir as she arrives and his facial expression sours to an 'ooohhhh shit.' kind of face.
He looks to Sif as she passes out right in the tub and noticing what he had done, he carries a naked Sif in his arms as he walks over to where Eir can best do her work. Setting her down, he stays kneeling at Sif's side before he looks to Eir.
"Loki, Sif, and I were out hunting…and we came across the Drake. I summoned Mjolnir to my hand to kill it, but Sif blinded it so we couldn't be petrified by it's stare…but it got Sif when it was slain." he shakes his head. "It was my fault." aaaand that is why he's worthy of Mjolnir. His heart.
Once the workspace had been made ready, Hogun steps back, waiting in silence to be told he was needed for something. It allows Eir to work quickly to stop the bleeding.
"How long ago?" asks the Healer, tone clipped and all business. As the wound is tended it is examined, Eir expertly seeing how deep it goes and how old the wound is. By the time Thor tells her, she would have likely deduced the timeframe for herself. Still, keep the worried Princeling focused. His guilt will not help Sif recover, no matter how well placed it may be or may not be.
"Wrap her and bring her," the healer orders of Thor when at last the bleeding is stopped. She needs her full medbay to try to halt the progress of the venom in the vanir's blood, 'freezing' Sif and causing her body to fight by making her core temperature sky rocket out of control.
"You, garden. Inform the grounds keeper: two bunches of basil, three heads garlic, jar of honey," she orders of Hogun who doesn't even spare the time to bow in acknowledgement. Anything he feels in the moment is hidden behind silent and swift action. Eir appreciates that in a 'helper', and so she stands to let Thor scoop up Sif and follow her to the Healing Rooms. Part way there, a guard is ordered by Eir to run ahead and inform an acolyte to make a bed ready, post-haste.
Thor looks to Eir then as she asks him rapid fire questions. "Only moments ago. Half an hour, at the most." he looks at Eir then as he looks at Sif, shaking his head softly before he looks at Eir, nodding as he starts to do as he is told, wrapping Sif and lifting her up in his arms as he follows Eir.
Thor looked to Sif. "Stay with me, Sif.." he whispers toh er softly as he raced after Eir. Once they reached the healing rooms, he would set her down on the prepared bed…then step back, allowing the healers to perform their work.
It takes the Healer of Asgard over an hour to get Sif stable, the fever managed, and her wounds properly tended. Acolytes had politely but firmly directed the two, Thor and Hogun, to the waiting area just outside where Eir is working. When finally Eir emerges, she looks slightly tired and every bit her age. Steady sky-blue eyes settle on the two.
"You may go in and sit with her, when you are clean and changed," says the healer before turning to give orders to her acolytes on how often they are to check on Sif, and under what conditions Eir is to be summoned immediately. For her part, Eir has research to do. She knows what creature the venom is from and most of the symptoms that Sif will be facing, but brewing an antivenom isn't something she's ever had to do. Cold Drakes are not at all common, nor something that could likely be found in just any healer's tome. This is something that will require research and study. For now, Eir knows that fever and dehydration will be Sif's battles, and those are symptoms the healer is more than able to combat.
For now…
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Japanese imports, exports up in quarter one. Japanese stainless steel imports in the first quarter of this year totalled 63,600 tonnes, 1.5% up on the first quarter of last year.
Introduction. Before the introduction of air quality regulations the use of air pollution control technology was to satisfy the requirements of good engineering practice.
The Fermi 2 Power Plant facility produces 1.1 million kilowatts of clean, safe, reliable energy for homes and businesses in Michigan.
Let's face it. We're all loaded with chemicals, toxins, heavy metals, and biological waste products of various types. You're loaded. I'm loaded.
Without electricity or natural gas, heating a home (especially in colder climates) can be difficult. Most modern homes rely on one or both of these sources for all heating duties.
To expand the generating capacity of GDF Suez, this 800 MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant has been planned in close proximity to the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven.


First they want to ban the I-Pod and now cheerleading.
Can't some legislators just back off??
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The Friday night lights in Texas could soon be without bumpin' and grindin' cheerleaders. Legislation filed by Rep. Al Edwards would put an end to "sexually suggestive" performances at athletic events and other extracurricular competitions.
Under Edwards' bill, if a school district knowingly permits such a performance, funds from the state would be reduced in an amount to be determined by the education commissioner.
Edwards said he filed the bill as a result of several instances of seeing such ribald performances in his district.
J.M. Farias, owner of Austin Cheer Factory, said cheerleading aficionados would welcome the law. Cheering competitions, he said, penalize for suggestive movements or any vulgarity.
"Any coaches that are good won't put that in their routines," he said. And, most girls cheering on Friday nights were trained by professionals who know better, he said.
"I don't think this law would really shake the industry at all. In fact, it would give parents a better feeling, mostly dads and boyfriends, too," Farias said.
Although cheerleaders must meet the same no-pass, no-play academic requirements of athletes, cheerleading is not a competition sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League, the governing body of Texas high school sports.
The UIL also does not have performance regulations for squads who cheer for their teams at state championships, said Athletic Coordinator Peter Contreras.
"I think it should have been cut out a long time ago," Edwards said. "It surely needs to be toned down."


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Carolyn Stanley and Tim Ehrhardt are real estate agents in Payson, Arizona who work for Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices Advantage Realty. Carolyn and Tim have over 40 years of real estate experience in the Payson area. Carolyn has been involved with numerous organizations in the Payson area and also has a strong background in planning, zoning, and building from her previous time in Oregon. Tim received Finance and Management degrees from Arizona State University, previously worked as a Research Analyst, and is a published historian.


Charlie sat in the middle of the tiny living room finishing the touches on his current masterpiece. He did not respond to Lynn. He appeared to be searching all over the place for something. Lynn came over and gently placed her hand on his shoulder.
"Hey, buddy, we gotta eat now." she spoke as gently as she could.
"Ah, your white leggo. Um, Charlie, do you know where you last saw it?"
Charlie's face dropped. "I threw Whitey." He gasped. "I hurt Grammy." Tears started to form.
"Charlie, Mrs. Allen... I mean Grammy is okay. It is just a scratch. But you must not throw your toys anymore. It hurts to get hit... right?"
Another memory passed across the face of Lynn's brother. "I want to give Whitey to Grammy. I sorry, LiLi."
"Well, Grammy made us some great stew to eat. She will be sad if her Charlie does not eat it."
"Charlie, I will help you look for whitey, Kay? After we eat... you have to get a bath, brush your toofers...and get ready for bed. Kay?" Lynn was tired and hoped her impatience wasn't getting the best of her. She got up and reached down to take Charie's hand. "Come, Eat."
Charlie reluctantly got up and sat at the table. He grabbed his spoon and galantly attacked the stew. Lynn smiled.
"Grammy's stew is goooooooddddddd." He said with his mouth full. Lynn shook her head, taking a bite.
"It sure is. So let's enjoy it by eating with our mouth closed, Kay?"
"Ah, Charlie, I don't know what I would do without you."
"You are my good brother. Kay?"
The boy beamed as he grabbed a piece of toast, then stopped as if horrified. Clasping his hands together. He bowed.
"Oh, Charlie. Now I am sorry. Let's pray."
The blonde turned to a sandy haired man who came out of no where who was sidling into the seat beside her.
"I am sorry. Did you say something?"
"Um, Hi. My name is Carl Matthews."
"And aren't you with him?" Pointing to Lynn's boss.
"Well, sort of. He is my cousin."
"OOOOOOOOhhhhh. Let me guess. You are the one who got Lynn's promotion."
Carl wasn't quite expecting the conversation to take on this tact.
"Um, well, I would not have gotten it, if I had not been qualified for it."
"Um, I was kinda hoping to let bygones be bygones."
Carl looked at the bartender hoping for some support, but the tall man just kept cleaning glasses with his towel, not saying a word.
"Bartender, I will have what she is having and I will buy her another one."
The bartender smirked and took two glasses filling them with a diet Coke and then placed them on the bar in front of each customer.
Jenny laughed at the look on this man known as Carl Matthews' face.
"So it looks like you are the designated driver too." She pulled her arms up into a stretch with her fingers intertwines, like she was getting ready to rumble. "You know, curiosity killed the cat. You should have asked me what I was drinking...instead of beating around the bush, that is."
Jenny crossed one arm around her waist and then cupped her chin and leaned on her elbow. Turning slightly towards the man, she smoothed her long skirt. "Hi. My name is Jenny Lundstrom. My friend is Lynn Johnson. Now which are you? Friend or foe. I keep my friends close and my enemies closer." She turned her head and glanced at Carl's cousin, then stared gravely at the man in question "Or should I look at you as an enemy of my enemy which makes you a friend."
Carl blinked at that. Smiled. "I believe in making love, not war."
"That is evading the question, Mr. Matthews. But I would be remiss if I did not thank you for saving Lynn's job. I got a text message from her. Seems like you can do no wrong."
"Your friend is really special."
"Oh? and after spending one work day with her, you realize this? How about your cousin? She has worked there for eight years."
Carl frowned a little. This is not going as planned. Who ever heard of a brainey blonde? Then he reciprocated Jenny by taking his hand he cupped his chin and leaned on his arm, gazing at this bombshell.
"You know, one can tell just how special Miss Johnson is by the loyalty exhibited by her friend."
Jenny's mouth dropped open. When out of her periphery she noted movement. She smiled when the other Mr. Matthews placed his hand on Carl's shoulder and made him jump losing his balance, landing with his gut on the stool which made the man just eyelevel to Jenny's knee.
Lynn closed the door to the bathroom and placed the cowbell strategically over the handle. She grabbed her cell, only to find quite a few messages from Jenny. She sighed as she bypassed them and hit the speed dial to Mrs. Allen's home.
"Hello." A gruff voice entered Lynn's ear.
"Hello, Mr. Allen. This is Lynn Johnson. I am sorry to be calling you this late, but I really need to ask Mrs. Allen a question."
"Well, she is busy. And she won't be coming back there anymore. Your brother is a menace."
Then she heard, "Daddy, I will decide if I go back there or not,... Not you. And until you get a job that can pay some bills around here..."
Lynn held the phone away from her ear. Then heard a familiar voice.
"Hi Lynn. Um, until I can set some things straight here, I won't be able to come over tomorrow."
"Um, are you all right?"
"Sure, hon. Just need to knock some sense into that man of mine. I was going to call you, But what happened that you called me so late?"
"Well, Charlie wanted you to have something, but his heart is set on his white leggo. I can't seem to find it."
"Ohhh, that rascal. So he is making me something to apologize?"
"I put that offending piece in jail."
"That is what I told him. It hurt me so I put it in jail."
"In the first aid kit... where else?"
"But, um Lynn, I might have a solution for both of us. I just know that it will take me all night to convince my hubby. So that is why I can't come over tomorrow. Please explain it to Charlie."
Lynn heard the jangle of the cowbell. "Sure. I will figure something for tomorrow... Kay? Bye."
Lynn hung up the phone and there stood Charlie a little damp in his PJs and shivering.
"Ah, sweety, did you forget to use the towel?" walking past Charlie and getting a big towel from the closet. She threw it over his head and started to rub.
"Well, if you did this yourself, it wouldn't tickle now would it?"
Her brother giggled as she finally pulled the towel off. "Okay. Do you want a video or story?"
"LiLi, what about whitey?" As Charlie saw his creation. the missing piece had come to mind.
"Did you forget? Whitey is in jail."
Charlie's face fell. "That sounds like a lonely place."
I wonder... thought Lynn. I hope this works. "So you miss whitey that much?"
"Whitey is in jail cause you hurt Grammy with it. Grammy will be the one to decide when Whitey gets out. Kay?"
"No, Charlie. Grammy has to stay home tomorrow at her house."
"Okay, Big Guy. What was it again? Oh yeah, The Little Engine that Could right?"
Charlie shrugged and headed for the bedroom. Lynn sighed. How can I make him understand?
Snuggled into the covers, Charlie watched, captivated, as Lynn lay down beside him and rubbed his head. Soon he fell fast asleep. Lynn got up and placed the cowbell on the outside of his door. Then she went into the bathroom to see what mayhem was there.
"Phew, it is ten o'clock already. Oh man, I forgot." Lynn exclaimed to herself as she grabbed her cell phone.
"You will never guess who I ran into." read the caption.
There was a picture of her boss with a red face lying across a barstool. Lynn smiled and started to giggle.
"And who else would be there but Mr. Leopard."
Then she saw a picture of her boss holding his cousin by the shoulders as if righting him from the barstool. The face was priceless.
"And I wonder what they are plotting?"
The CO was leaning into his cousin, whispering something into his ear.
The CO looked to be leaving with her manager holding up an arm as it to say hold on a minute.
"And this all just happened. LOL"
"I wish I could help you but it is really busy now at work. They would hunt me down if I went AWOL."
Lynn dialed her work number. It would be good to have a three day weekend with Charlie.
Carl came out of his office. The presentation for the board would be at noon. It was only ten. The stipulation of the CO came as a surprise to him last nigh. He knew he was in trouble when his cousin smirked at him and whispered in his ear, "It is only fitting the one who owns the proposal, presents the proposal to the board. Miss Johnson had better be that person. Carl looked at the empty desk. "Where is she?"
The team leader placed some paperwork on Miss Johnson's desk..
"Hey, Joe. Where is Miss Johnson?"
"Oh, they did not get a temp for you yet?"
"Yeah. Miss Johnson called in sick. I hope everthing is okay. She never calls in sick... the last time was when her mother passed."
"Yes. Her mother died in a car accident about four years ago."
"So you are saying that Miss Johnson..."
"Has never missed a day of work, except that time. I'll call and get you some help."
Carl stood by the empty desk. It is ten o'clock. The presentation would go to hell in a handbasket if Miss Johnson was not there. My uncles will have a field day, So will my father... and what about Rick's?
No... this cannot happen. He grabbed the personnel file of one Miss Johnson that he had picked up yesterday to peruse. Writing the address down, he grabbed his coat and headed out the office with a large package in hand.
"Hey, Carl... where are you going?"
"Um, there might be a slight SNAFU in our presentation."
"What ... did... you ... just... say?" Rick went dead serious.
"I will handle it. Miss Johnson called in sick today... and..."
"I have got this, Kay? Come hell or high water, I will make sure she is there." As he jumped on the elevator and it closed on his boss glaring at him, yelling "WAIT!!!!!"
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Cutter to Houston is an American medical drama starring Shelley Hack, Jim Metzler, and Alec Baldwin that aired on CBS on Saturday night from October 1 to December 31, 1983 at 8 p.m Eastern time. The series was created by Sandor Stern.

Synopsis
Cutter to Houston is set at Cutter Community Hospital in the small town of Cutter, Texas, sixty miles from Houston. The series stars Shelley Hack as surgeon Dr. Beth Gilbert, Jim Metzler as Dr. Andy Fenton, and Alec Baldwin as Dr. Hal Wexler, a GP under probation for writing illegal prescriptions.

Cutter to Houston aired on Saturdays at 8:00 PM Eastern. Due to low ratings, it was canceled after seven episodes and was replaced by Whiz Kids.

Cast
Jim Metzler as Dr. Andy Fenton
Shelley Hack as Dr. Beth Gilbert
Alec Baldwin as Dr. Hal Wexler
K Callan as Connie Buford
Noble Willingham as Mayor Warren Jarvis
Susan Styles as Nurse Patty Alvarez

Notable guest appearance
In a 1983 episode, Chad Allen, then 9 years of age, "played a kid who got hurt and had to be given mouth-to-mouth and carried to the waiting chopper by Dr. Hal Wexler." Years later, Chad reminisced that "I thought it was the greatest job I had ever gotten," because Alec Baldwin was Dr. Wexler.

US television ratings

Episodes

References

External links

1983 American television series debuts
1983 American television series endings
1980s American drama television series
1980s American medical television series
CBS original programming
English-language television shows
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1 How do I Make an Offer on a House Without a Buyer's Agent?
2 Is a Real Estate Home Inspector Liable If He Misses a Major Problem?
3 What Do Home Inspectors Look for in a House?
Adding contingencies to a real estate sales contract is standard procedure in most cases, and a home inspection clause is one of the more common ones. It typically gives the buyer a way to exit the contract if the home inspector finds major problems with the house, such as electrical issues or a leaking roof. There are several elements a buyer should include when writing the contingency, but the seller should also be prepared to add wording that can keep the sale moving forward.
Add a fast exit plan if the home inspector finds problems. Say that the contract can be immediately voided by the buyer if the home inspector turns up issues with the house. Be prepared to negotiate this point -- some sellers want the right to repair problems or define which problems can lead to a voided contract, such as plumbing or electrical issues.
Include wording that allows you to exit the contract if big-ticket items are found to be at the end of their useful life. This usually applies to components such as the roof or furnace -- items that will cost several thousand dollars to replace. If you buy a home that doesn't have a leaking roof but the roof needs to be replaced within the next year, you're already facing large out-of-pocket expenses to maintain the home.
Set a reasonable inspection time frame, such as 14 days. Some sellers want a fast inspection period, such as five days from the date you sign the contract, which means you must hire an inspector quickly. Some inspectors charge a rush fee to come out that quickly, depending on their workload. The time frame typically means you have that many days from the contract signing date to provide a written inspection report to the seller, which sometimes takes the inspector a couple of days to prepare. A longer time frame allows you to shop for the best inspector that fits into your budget and to receive the report in a timely fashion.
Write a clause that specifies you can have the entire house inspected, rather than just selected systems such as electrical and plumbing. Ensure that the seller must have all areas of the house available for inspection, including the attic, to look for wiring or moisture issues.
Prepare a clause for the contingency that states you have the right to cure any issues the home inspector finds, and set a base price limit. For example, you might say the buyer is responsible to fix any problems that are estimated to cost less than $500, while you want the option to repair more expensive issues if you desire. Make sure you're not obligated to fix them, but that you have the opportunity to fix them if you want the sale to continue. If you don't want to repair the issues, you can void the contract or allow the buyer to do so.
Set a standard for the home inspector. Require that he be licensed by the state or a national licensing association -- which might already be required by your state law -- and that he not be related to the buyers. This way you know the inspector is well-trained and not likely to look for ridiculous items to include on the inspection report.
Add wording that lets you decrease the price of the house instead of paying for a repair. For example, if a roof repair is estimated at $750, decrease the cost of the house by that much instead of paying for the repair yourself. The buyer might want to have that money given to him at closing instead, so be prepared to negotiate. However, giving the buyer credit or cash back at closing is sometimes better than tackling the repair yourself. In some cases, bigger problems are discovered once the repair begins -- such as water damage in the subfloor under warped floorboards -- that can increase the cost of the repair significantly. If you've already sold the house and credited the buyer for the repair, you can't be held liable for additional problems discovered after the date of the sale.
Always consult a real estate attorney when drafting purchase contracts and contingency clauses.
Munroe, Shala. "How to Write a House Inspection Contingency." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/write-house-inspection-contingency-51074.html. Accessed 20 April 2019.
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Tech support scams and the call of the void
Posted on May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 by Urban Schrott
The importance of providing the best possible after-sales service to customers.
L'appel du vide is an expression meaning "the call of the void", with a similar meaning to what Poe called The Imp of the Perverse: you might define it informally as the sudden irresistible urge to do something harmful, to oneself or perhaps to others.
I was reminded of the concept when I came across a piece written by Christopher Burgess for Security Boulevard on what happens When Scammers Fill the Tech Support Void.
Burgess says: "I still haven't figured out why those companies that provide tech support tend to hide the connectivity to these saviors of their brand in the weeds of the website, but they do, and we search—and sometimes we strike gold."
However, I don't think the reluctance of companies to draw attention to their support services is too much of a mystery.
It's to be hoped that most legitimate companies feel responsible for providing the best possible after-sales service. After all, when the time comes to replace or update hardware or software, a positive support experience is one incentive to stay loyal to a brand. (Even if a company is sometimes over-eager to sell an update or replacement to a customer who is unwilling or unable to trade up.)
So why do some products and services offer no direct support at all? Why do software companies usually farm out support for free products to a forum or third-party provider? Why are telephone support lines invariably painfully time- and money-consuming to negotiate?
In fact, reluctance to engage directly with customers goes far beyond tech support. I've often asked myself why law enforcement agencies make it so hard to report fraud and other criminal activity online, by requiring the complainant to fill in an inadequate and inflexible web form. Why are many other government agencies and public organizations so reluctant to publicize contact points? And why are emails to corporate addresses so often responded to with silence or an irrelevant boilerplate response?
Why so shy?
There may be a number of factors contributing to these shortcomings, such as:
Poor website and email administration and maintenance, with links that go nowhere or throw the information-seeker into a never-resolving loop or result in email that generates only pro-forma responses or overflowing mailbox error messages.
Fear of exposing staff to (even more) spam, BEC (Business Email Compromise) scams, ransomware and so on.
Insert your own conspiracy theories here.
The bottom line is the bottom line
But I don't think it's cynical to point out a factor that constantly limits the effective delivery of a service or product: the cost of processing support requests and other customer input. The more effective the support, the more it tends to eat into budgets. So it may be understandable if under-publicizing contact points and support availability is sometimes a conscious policy decision, but is it defensible?
I'm reminded of a university that made available a very useful, free networking utility: however, if you actually sent them an email, there was an automated response on receipt, then a long silence. Eventually you received a boilerplate message inviting you to resend your query, as otherwise they'd assume that you'd managed to sort it out yourself. An extreme case, perhaps, but it's understandable if the providers of a free service don't want to spend time supporting it. Fortunately, though, not all free services are quite so reserved. Yet all too many organizations in both the private and public sectors are.
To quote Burgess again: "…perhaps most importantly, companies shouldn't hide the ways and means by which customers can contact them. That little bit of assistance may be the ticket to a long-term relationship with their customers." Indeed it may, but its absence casts doubt on the intentions of the provider, certainly if the product or service provided comes at a cost.
The tech support scammer often succeeds in part by appearing to offer a support service that a legitimate provider fails to offer, or at least fails to publicize adequately. Which isn't to say that provider reticence is the only factor: for example, many a victim owes his or her misfortune to a search engine that displays dodgy sponsored ads ahead of legitimate links, a malicious script that pops up a deceptive message, or a conveniently placed Facebook page. And, in some cases, a lack of caution that may bring to mind the activities of that Imp of the Perverse, or at least an unfortunate "Susceptibility to Persuasion".
Still, if a customer is exposed to fraud because the fraudster appears to offer a support service that the real provider fails to offer, it seems to me that the provider should bear some of the responsibility. However, since we can't always rely on organizations (commercial or otherwise) to do the right thing, those of us who use their products and services also need to take responsibility for our own (in)secure behaviour, and help others to do the same. I won't repeat everything I've published on the topic here, but here are two things worth remembering (there are some links with further information in the references section below):
People who ring you up out of the blue do not have some mysterious power to see malware on your computer. And it's unlikely that they're ringing from Microsoft (or the other companies sometimes misrepresented by these scammers).
Messages that pop up out of nowhere telling you to ring their helpline for help with dealing some sort of virus aren't from Microsoft either. And those 'helplines' are not to be trusted.
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Genetic and epigenetic changes in cancer cells are usually split into "motorists" and "passengers". selection makes such as blood circulation. Simulated therapies focusing on fitness-increasing (drivers) mutations generally reduce the tumor burden but nearly inevitably fail because of human population heterogeneity. An alternative solution strategy focuses on gene mutations that are found. Because up or straight down regulation of the genes unconditionally decreases cellular fitness they may be removed by evolutionary triage but could be exploited for targeted therapy. Intro The changeover from regular to malignant phenotype during carcinogenesis frequently referred to as "somatic advancement " is from the build up of hereditary (and epigenetic) mutations (1-4) but typically shows convergence to common phenotypic properties (the Deforolimus tumor "hallmarks"(5)). Mutations are generally characterized like a "drivers" or "traveler" Deforolimus based on efforts to proliferation and invasion (6 7 Targeted therapies can make significant tumor response by disrupting drivers mutations. However not absolutely all tumors possess identifiable and/or drugable drivers mutations and response to targeted therapy even though the drivers mutation exists is normally transient as resistant phenotypes repopulate the tumor (8). Right here we investigate hereditary heterogeneity phenotypic convergence the traditional binary classification of drivers/traveler mutations and related targeted therapy in the framework of Darwinian dynamics. This stretches ongoing efforts to comprehend cancer Mouse monoclonal to V5 Tag. from 1st principles predicated on advancement by organic selection (9-11) like the traditional trade-offs seen in Darwinian systems. Right here we look at a multi-loci diallelic style of mutation and selection within a finite human population of tumor cells growing along a well-defined adaptive panorama. In analyzing the evolutionary dynamics during carcinogenesis we believe that regular epithelial cells can be found within an evolutionary and ecological condition well below their maximal holding capacity and specific evolutionary prospect of success and proliferation. That is normal cells carry out their differentiated tasks for maintaining whole organism function and their population density survival and proliferation is entirely controlled by tissue signals. Ecologically a new cancer cell lineage begins with abundant available space (the lumen of Deforolimus a duct for example) and is initially free from the life history trade-off of proliferation versus survivorship. Evolutionarily the tumor lineage develops a self-defined fitness function and Deforolimus then uses the human genome to evolve strategies to enhance survival and/or proliferation. Consistent with the fundamental laws of evolution each population may initially undergo exponential proliferation but is ultimately ecologically constrained by limitations of substrate and space. Here the evolutionary trajectory reaches the classical Darwinian life history tradeoff (12 13 in which cancer cells must invest limited available resources in some combination of survival and fecundity that maximizes fitness within the context of their environment. These phenotypic strategies are apparent in the consistent convergence to the "hallmarks" of cancer. We make use of simulations predicated on Darwinian 1st principles and traditional evolutionary trade-offs to research the genomic dynamics that are both a reason and outcome of tumor advancement and development. Our specific passions Deforolimus focus on the traditional designation of drivers and traveler mutations the foundation of noticed spatial intratumoral heterogeneity as well as the dynamics of tumor response and level of resistance to targeted therapies. Our outcomes demonstrate how the fitness value of all hereditary and epigenetic occasions are contextual and rely on extant environmental selection makes other regional populations and the last evolutionary arc from the cell – dynamics that people collectively explain as "evolutionary triage." We discover that due to evolutionary triage the same mutation may act as traveler or drivers depending on framework. In a well balanced microenvironment evolutionary triage will certainly reduce tumor cell variety so the noticed intratumoral molecular heterogeneity arrives largely to Deforolimus variants in local.
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Dysferlin (DYSF) and myoferlin (MYOF) members of the ferlin family of membrane proteins are co-expressed in human placental syncytiotrophoblast (STB). study was performed using specimens of villous placenta collected form women with severe PE (n = 10) and normotensive controls (n = 10). DYSF and MYOF expression were examined using quantitative real-time RT-PCR immunoblotting and immunofluorescence labeling of tissue specimens. Placental DYSF expression was 57% lower at the mRNA level (p = 0.03) and 38% lower at the protein level Deforolimus (p = 0.026) in severe PE as compared to normotensive subjects. There were no differences in placental MYOF protein or mRNA expression between these groups. No appreciable Deforolimus changes in the distribution of DYSF or MYOF within placental villli were observed in PE relative to control specimens. We conclude that DYSF expression is reduced in severe PE relative to gestational age-matched controls. As DYSF has a role in membrane repair these data suggest a role for DYSF in the stability of the apical STB plasma membrane and may account at least in part for the increased shedding Rabbit polyclonal to YIPF5.The YIP1 family consists of a group of small membrane proteins that bind Rab GTPases andfunction in membrane trafficking and vesicle biogenesis. YIPF5 (YIP1 family member 5), alsoknown as FinGER5, SB140, SMAP5 (smooth muscle cell-associated protein 5) or YIP1A(YPT-interacting protein 1 A), is a 257 amino acid multi-pass membrane protein of the endoplasmicreticulum, golgi apparatus and cytoplasmic vesicle. Belonging to the YIP1 family and existing asthree alternatively spliced isoforms, YIPF5 is ubiquitously expressed but found at high levels incoronary smooth muscles, kidney, small intestine, liver and skeletal muscle. YIPF5 is involved inretrograde transport from the Golgi apparatus to the endoplasmic reticulum, and interacts withYIF1A, SEC23, Sec24 and possibly Rab 1A. YIPF5 is induced by TGF∫1 and is encoded by a genelocated on human chromosome 5. of microparticles from this membrane in PE. FER-1 protein have been described in mammalian systems. In addition to DYSF (also known as FER1L1) and MYOF (also known as FER1L3) members include otoferlin (OTOF also known as FER1L2) FER1L4 FER1L5 and FER1L6. Ferlin family proteins appear to share conserved Ca2+-responsive mechanisms whereby membrane fusion events are regulated . The importance of ferlin-dependent membrane repair is highlighted by the pathobiological phenotypes that arise when one of these proteins fails in its normal function. In and analysis revealed that 10 pairs was sufficient to detect the observed effect on immunoreactive DYSF expression with Deforolimus 82% power while the power to detect the more modest reduction in immunoreactive MYOF was only 27%. The lack of a significant decrease in MYOF by immunoblot or real-time RT-PCR analysis might also reflect inherent limitations of these assays which would tend to underestimate changes in MYOF expression if these were restricted to the STB. Of note DYSF expression was relatively restricted being confined largely to the apical STB and to a lesser extent fetal capillary endothelial cells; by comparison MYOF was expressed more broadly among placental cell types. As such the DYSF expression levels obtained using these methods would be more representative of expression in STB and fetal capillary endothelial cells whereas MYOF expression would reflect villous expression more broadly. As a consequence particularly in light of the small sample size it cannot be discerned from these methods alone whether MYOF expression was actually decreased or possibly increased in the STB specifically (as opposed to the placental villi overall). In future studies a method such as quantitative IFM may provide a more reliable means to assess STB-specific MYOF expression in tissue specimens. However any such studies must ensure that the specimen collection and fixation procedures are held strictly constant since stability and immunoreactivity of the ferlin proteins in placental tissue are susceptible to proteolytic degradation and are sensitive to fixation conditions. Further due to these limitations careful interpretation of results obtained from retrospective studies of banked fixed tissue must also be considered. The pathological significance of the observed association between decreased placental DYSF expression in PE requires further investigation. To date the extent to which pregnancy complications affect mothers carrying fetuses with dysferlin deficiencies (such as those associated with limb girdle Deforolimus limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B and Miyoshi Myopathy) has not been addressed. At a minimum the current data suggest that MYOF may be present in sufficient amounts to compensate for relative DYSF deficiency in the setting of PE. In addition ferlin-independent compensatory membrane repair pathways might also be invoked in this context. As an example in clinical cases of dysferlin deficiencies it has been suggested that skeletal muscle (and possibly other tissues) may utilize a "rescue" membrane repair pathway involving the synaptotagmin like protein Slp2a which has structural similarities to DYSF Deforolimus . It is entirely plausible that a similar mechanism may be utilized by preeclamptic placentas. Alternatively villous lesions may also be contained via the deposition of fibrin-rich fibrinoid at sites of STB denudation [50-52]. The utilization of such compensatory repair pathways and the extent to.


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Radiohead : OK Computer
by Ernest Simpson
It's only just now that I realize what's happened. Whether in a daze of grief or I was somehow tricked, duped or bamboozled, my ex-wife ended up with our copy of Radiohead's OK Computer. You know how it is when you start living with your significant other. If you're lucky enough to find someone with the same musical tastes, you end up with a few duplicated albums. We both came in with OK, but as they chant in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, "Two enter, one leaves." I am still the proud possessor of the rest of the Radiohead catalog, including the special edition of Amnesiac that resembles a library book, but she ended up absconding with the crown jewel in the collection. It's easy to replace, sure. I even have it on my iPod, but there was just this feeling of loss this morning as I sat down to write this and I remembered that the actual tangible evidence of musical greatness is gone. I've gone through similar scenarios earlier in the year as I realized that she also had my copy of Gorillaz' Demon Days (which I got back), and more recently, my best of XTC disc, but because of what this album signifies in particular, OK Computer hit me the hardest.
I bought my now purloined copy of OK Computer on its release day of the first of July, 1997. I was living in Delaware, which means that I've purchased (or have had purchased for me) Radiohead albums in five different locales, the other four being Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle and London. On that fateful day, I also picked up a copy of Prodigy's The Fat of the Land, an album ironically enough on XL, a label that would later release Thom Yorke's solo debut. OK Computer's release marked the midpoint of my time in Delaware and truly cemented the shock to the system I felt from moving to a location so disparate from my more familiar surroundings. I had been a Radiohead fan since the now seemingly `alternate universe' single, "Creep" began playing on American radio stations. I championed The Bends as a record store clerk when others dismissed them as a `one hit wonder.' So, when OK Computer came out, I was predisposed to like it, but I just didn't know how much it would absolutely devastate me to my emotional core.
There's no need for me to go through any track-by-track or blow-by-blow account of the album. If you're reading this, then Radiohead means something to you already, and OK Computer, in particular, had a similar effect on you as it had on me. If often think to myself that Radiohead's albums have formed an arc. From the modern rock intro of Pablo Honey to the complete opposite end of the spectrum of the aptly titled In Rainbows, Radiohead's albums can be grouped accordingly as separate segments of that that arc. As an example, I usually see OK Computer as the beginning of a trilogy that ends with Amnesiac. To make it even more of a bookended set, I sometimes think of OK as the alternately titled Paranoiac. This trilogy seems to me to be the odyssey of a character overwhelmed by the modern world, thus seeking escape into several different fantasy worlds, then ultimately completely losing his identity in the face of globalization and politicization. Thus, the reason that OK Computer means more to me is an association with those feelings of alienation, depression and helplessness as the world changes so rapidly that I feel it will someday leave me behind.
"Let Down" and "No Surprises" are perfect examples of songs that act as universal human insights to fear, sadness and sometimes even outrage as well as also being incredibly crafted pieces of rock art. Each and every song adds to the identity of OK Computer in a separate and distinct way, becoming one of those albums where its parts can be enjoyed apart from the whole and vice versa. Each listen elicits different reactions, from blissful familiarity to an inundating yet therapeutic melancholy. Whenever I want to feel a rush of adrenaline, that intense feeling of being charged up with emotional energy, I can alternately listen to any random song on OK Computer, from the elegiac "Exit Music (For a Film)" to the epic, bilious ever-changing song cycle that is "Paranoid Android." There are very few perfect albums out there, albums that can touch your soul and shock your senses with every listen, and OK Computer is one of those few.
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