The following is a complete list of characters that appear in the roleplay, Endsaga. The characters are sorted generally by situation or occupation. Please use discretion when placing a new character in a category, and use other characters ' placements as a guideline.
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Alphonse Tandem, known by others as Alph, is the first mate of the Kokoro and best friend of Victor Ace. He is 28 years old, and a very grounded individual. Often the voice of reason for the captain and the crew, Alph is responsible and reliable. He handles much of the Kokoro's dealings, cargo handling, and helps run the engine room with the chief engineer, Rupert Lodess. Alph loves engineering and everything to with it. He and Victor Ace have made a deal with the God-King to retrieve and deliver the Jang's Head and Rosabella to him safely.
Samuun is a rather dark and foreboding beast of a humanoid. He is 7' tall and at a whim his joints turn fluidic and allow him to run on all-fours like an old terran wolf. He is old. He started counting how old he was when he first came across humanity, that was 245 years ago. His real age is very hard to judge and could be somewhere around two to three thousand years. He still needs to subsist on a diet of blood, but can eat normal food human and otherwise, it simply doesn't nourish him. Due to his age, his need for blood has diminished drastically. According to myth and legend he once destroyed an entire colony and the orbital space station while hunting something. He has been known to have a soft spot for human women and knows the captain and crew of the Ultima Esperanza seemingly well.
Resident A.I. of the freighter ship, the Kokoro. Rodriguez, affectionately called "Rod" by captain Victor Ace, is the living embodiment of the ship, able to control certain mechanisms himself on the ship, as well as assess and monitor the ships specs, performance, and deterioration. He appears as a green-blue hologram of a handsome Hispanic man, able to materialize in just about any space on the the Kokoro. Rodriguez is often a voice of reason and concern on the ship, making him quite popular with the crew. Rodriguez's programming makes him a gentle, at times fatherly, companion.
Rupert is the head engineer of the Kokoro.
Kindhearted, gentle, and slightly high-strung father of Alphonse and Foura Tandem. He was an accomplished and famous architect, who often was able to stay home with the children and work on his designs when not called away. A native of Borr, Gaspare had the traits of many Borreans, including the "Borrean blue" eyes. In 2409 he died when the Deodato was hit with high electromagnetic radiation, and exploded over the planet's surface during the Great Magnetic Storm of Tethys.
Mother of Alphonse and Foura Tandem, Corianna wore the pants in the house. A successful and powerful engineer, Corianna lead some of the greatest projects in the development of Borr in its golden age. Corianna was originally from the planet of Leel and moved to Borr when she was a young girl with her family. She met her future husband while both attended Zodia Corona University, and they were wed two weeks after their graduation. She died, along with her husband, during the Great Magnetic Storm of Tethys.
Younger sister of Alphonse Tandem, Foura was a sassy and spirited youth. She lived a blessed life with her brother and parents on Borr. When the Great Magnetic Storm of Tethys devastated much of Borr, she and her brother became homeless orphans in the space of a night, and were forced into child labor to survive. Foura was resilient and proud, but over time, she became worn and despondent. She died when she and numerous others were crushed by a poorly secured battleship engine.
Elder sister of Corianna Tandem and aunt of Alphonse and Foura Tandem. Like her sister, Sushe (pronounced soo-shah) hailed from Leel. She was rather nerdy and loved books, and followed her sister to Borr. She took a job as a librarian, and there she met her future husband, professor Arend Lease. The couple moved to the city of Hum when Arend received a job offer at Belden University. Sushe was Alph and Corianna's favorite relative due to her fun-loving and quirky nature, and they were often sent to stay with her and Arend when Gaspare and Corianna left for business. She died on her way home from the grocery store, due to severe radiation poisoning and burns she suffered in the Great Magnetic Storm of Tethys.
Madeline is a free agent, much like the crew of the Kokoro, though she tends to work alone. She mans a tiny ship called the Qara Aslan. She is in her 30s, and hails from the planet Heranus in the Republic of Polkind. She has a normally cheerful, boisterous, and confident personality, which can grate on the nerves after long exposure. She became infatuated with Alph when she met him at a space station. After witnessing Alph's superior knowledge of engineering and good looks, Madeline was instantly in love. Since that fateful meeting, Madeline has pursued Alph numerous times by ship and on foot. Whenever Alph rejects her, virtually every time, Madeline turns vengeful and jealous, and will lash out physically either with her own weapons or her ship, depending on which is closer. Alph fears her, and instantly panics whenever she sends a transmission. Alph will drive the Kokoro to its limits to get away from her, not only for his own safety, but all those who might get caught in the crossfire.


Exasperated by intense heat ,the worker rolled his sleeves and lowered his spade towards the glowing furnace with crackling iron and was glaring towards the old wall clock . He started shaking his legs as he grew impatient.
His fellow workers were still engaged in turning the fills,and spreading the liquid metal.
He lookked towards his vibrating mobile and some known names flashing across the screen and some others in his mind.
Siren rang and a wry smile spread across his face and his legs started moving in the direction of rushing crowd . He collected his wage ,wore his jacket ,put off his glare gaurd and headed towards the slums.
On his way he neglected the voices, calls from friends , neighbours and jumped or dodged the barriers in his way. He was also caught in the way by a traffic police man ,he passed his entire wage as penalty and continued running. He became excited as he was coming closer to his destination ( home).
He warmly hugged his son and proceeded inside to meet an elderly woman who reciprocated his love by spreading her arm on his forehead and spoke " bless u son".


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Q: What does ++ do after the array in this function? void doSomething()
{
    int hist[5] = { 0 };
    int num_bins = 5;
    int indices[10] = { 0, 0, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4 };
    int num_indices = 10;
    int i;

    for (i = 0; i < num_indices; i++)
    {
        hist[indices[i]]++;
    }
    for (i = 0; i < num_bins; i++)
    {
        printf("%d ", hist[i]);
    }
    printf("\n");
}

Assume I have correct libraries this is a conceptual question from class. I am wondering how the answer comes out to 2 0 1 4 3 for the array.

A: The line
hist[indices[i]]++

Says "go to the element of the hist array at index indices[i], then increment it."  If you think of the array as a list of counters, this says to increment the counter at position indices[i].
This code builds a histogram of the frequencies of various numbers in an array.  The idea behind the above code is to iterate over the array and increment the frequencies of each element.
Hope this helps!

A: The elements in indices range from 0 to 4, which are all valid index of the 5 elements array hist. (That's why the array is named indices, as it's for indexing)
So for instance, i is 2, then indices[i] is 2.
hist[indices[i]]++;

is equivalent to
hist[2]++;

A: For small questions like this you should try to write down the state of every element of each array on a piece of paper and execute your code step by step. You could also write the code to print useful information in runtime.
If after that you still can't figure it out then it's worth asking here. Otherwise you won't be learning much.

A: This program increments the 0's in
hist

as it indexes appear in
indices[10]

eg.
when you have the first for interation
hist[indices[0]]++   // hist[0]++  --> 0++;

A: It looks like "2 0 1 4 3" is a count of how many items exists in the array. 2 0's, 0 1's, 1 2, 4 3's and 3 4's. So the query is counting how many instances of each number are in the array and then printing out that result.
So the statement:
hist[indices[i]]++

find the value of indices[], then increments the int in the hist[] array by 1 giving you a count of how many of those elements are in the array.

A: 1.As you have partially initialized your array, compiler sets other values to 0
2.hist[indices[i]]++; this statement increments the value of hist[i], for the current value of i
3.the value of i is denoted by your array indices[]
4.try having values grater than 5 in your array named indices[].

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Eighty people were arrested for drunken driving and other criminal offences at a roadblock in East London, Eastern Cape police said on Sunday.
Superintendent Mtati Tana said the arrests were made in a joint operation between police and traffic officers as part of the festive season crackdown on serious crimes and drunken driving.
"Eleven were arrested for being drunk and disorderly in public," he said.
According to police most of the people arrested for drunken driving were released after paying bail, and those arrested for drunk and disorderly behaviour were given notices to pay admission of guilt fines and then released.
Police issued a warning of zero tolerance to people who drove while under the influence of liquor during this period.


A glimpse of the gushing river through the cracks in the bamboo floor makes you giddy. You wonder if this is what vertigo feels like. A misstep could land you into the swirling Siang, 100 feet below. From the other side of the river bank, there is a steady stream of villagers, some laden with sacks and bags. It is an ordeal to hold on to the unsteady ropes on the side to let them pass. Eventually, somehow, you manage to reach the other end from which there is a steep climb up a jagged slope to reach the road where your vehicle is waiting for you.
My friend and I are in Yingkiong, the headquarters of the Upper Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh. We had sent our vehicle by road to the other side of the river in the morning so as to avoid six additional hours of bone-rattling ride. By the time we spot our vehicle, it is already 3.30 in the afternoon. The sun sets around 4.15 pm in these parts and we have an eight-hour-drive to go before we reach Tuting, a village close to the Indo-Tibetan border.
There is nowhere we can stay here, nor can we retrace our way back through the bamboo bridge. There are no villages anywhere till Tuting. Left with no alternative, we decide to move on. We have embarked on this journey to track the Siang from its point of entry from Tibet. The road is a river of slush, thanks to torrential rains the previous week. Soon, it is pitch dark. There are no villages, there is no trace of any habitation, no signages to tell you which fork to take, not a soul whom we can ask to guide us. We're literally driving off the map. Our driver is a young lad from Assam and this is his first trip to these parts of the district as it is for me and my friend Rekha.
As if to reassure us, a full moon rises dramatically in all its splendour to drench the road with its silvery beams. There is a magical aura of moon-lit wilderness. Dense vegetation, mostly wild banana, gives you the illusion of being in a plantation, but in reality, there is roaring Siang on the right and a mountain to the left. This is one drive I will never forget. We reach Tuting around 11 pm that night. Not that Tuting is a town with twinkling lights. It is a tiny village with a population of about 600 and virtually no activity. With nature being so bountiful, villagers don't seem to bother about cultivating anything.
If you think reaching Tuting is an arduous adventure, think again. Reaching anywhere in Arunachal Pradesh is equally challenging. You need oodles of patience and a sense of timelessness to get anywhere in this state. It took us two days to reach Yingkiong from Dibrugarh. First, we had to take a country boat across the meandering Brahmaputra from Bogibeel Ghat on the outskirts of Dibrugarh to the other side — this is the only means of transportation if you discount the weekly helicopter service which we availed on our way back.
For now, our vehicle had to drive on two planks placed between the boat and the sandy river beach at a rather steep incline. Only an expert driver can manoeuvre the wheels of the vehicle on these foot-wide planks to climb the boat and stop in time so as to not go overboard!
The boat takes an-hour-and-a-half to reach the other side of the bank from where it is a two-hour ride to Pasighat, the headquarters of East Siang district. The Brahmaputra of the plains is now Siang of the hills and the original source of the mighty male river that floods the plains of Assam every year. It is joined by Lohit and other rivers that course through the Assam plains to make up the massive Brahmaputra.
We stayed at Pasighat that night and embarked upon another 10-hour nerve-wracking ride through a non-existent but spectacular Mariang Road, running all the way along the Siang River, and finally reached Yingkiong by late evening. Yingkiong is a one-yak village with a produce market that has nothing more than a few stringy beans and plump bananas. We wandered through this street looking for woollens since it was much colder than we had anticipated. But all one got here were things from Ludhiana at Louis Vuitton prices! We chose what we wanted to buy under the light of a kerosene lamp.
From Dibrugarh, it takes three days to reach Tuting, a village spread out in a lush green valley surrounded by a chain of verdant mountains. This is the home of Memba and Khamba tribes, all Buddhists. The only place to stay is the circuit house. There is a gorgeous new Buddhist monastery being built by the Taiwanese, but without access roads, one wonders whether this gompa will remain a hidden jewel.
Gelling, the last village, with a population of about a hundred people, on the Indo-Tibetan border, bang on the McMahon Line, is a further 20-odd kilometres from Tuting. Most of the road is motorable, provided the steel radials of your sturdy SUV are supplemented by your own steely nerves. We trudge up the last kilometre since the road stops short of the village. The Siang glides sensuously past the McMahon Line into Indian territory, a ribbon of molten silver, glinting in the morning sunshine. All the travails of our arduous journey evaporate with the morning mist.


George V, then King of England, declared Remembrance Day in 1919, one year after the signing of the armistice on November 11 that officially ended World War I. The original intent was to commemorate throughout the British Commonwealth the sacrifices made by civilians and members of the armed forces.
A mere 20 years after Remembrance Day was created, much was forgotten and the horrific conflict of World War II began. Canada joined the Allied war effort in 1939, one week after Britain did, and stuck it out until the end in 1945.
Over time, the spotlight of Remembrance Day has been on the battlefield. Other than the private pain of those who have had loved ones hurt or killed in war, remembering the home front, as King George intended, has pretty much been overshadowed.
So here, to ameliorate that, is a wee peek at life, namely the food end of things, during the second great war. Our main guides are two sources I promise you we can trust who've been there, done that, namely my mom and dad, along with a little booklet my mom still has.
Called Fifty Nifty Years of Cooking with Gas, 1923-1973 , it was published by the Blue Flame Kitchen, the home service department of Alberta's natural gas company. Aimed at housewives on farms and in small towns, as most Canadians were during the war, as well as those in cities, it neatly reflects what the home front faced during the war, a nation of people who had lived through the depression of the Dirty 30s by surviving on their gardens, their wits and a good measure of Canada's wilderness - hunting and fishing - and had learned to "make do or do without."
Like Britain, Canada issued food rations during WWII for staples such as butter, meat, sugar and coffee, and for other necessities like gasoline and soap, to direct supplies to the war effort and lessen the need for shipping. Canada alone had 1.1 million people to feed in the armed forces, and Britain had quickly learned during the first great war that the enemy would restrict food supplies by shelling ships.
"A coupon book was given to each member of the family," recalls my mom. "That way if you had six children to feed you automatically got more food. If there were only two of you, you didn't need so much."
Many of the war years' recipes in the booklet reflect the restricted supply of goods. For instance, thimble cookies, small simple cookies made by pressing down in the middle of the cookie with a thimble, or your thumb, to create a hollow for homemade jam, were made with 1/4 c. of brown sugar, 1/2 c. shortening, 1 egg, 1 c. of flour and 1 tsp. of baking powder - that's it.


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Madore's bounceback a positive early sign for Vermont
By Jim Connelly
Three games into the season, things have played out pretty much according to expectations for the Vermont Catamounts. If the team knew there would be a challenge entering the season, it would be goal scoring.
Still, at 0-1-2, the Cats' record is hardly as bad as it may look. A 5-3 loss to Denver to open the season was the only downfall. Responding the following night to tie a talented Pioneers team and then earning another tie last weekend against a feisty Merrimack club leaves coach Kevin Sneddon feeling pretty good about his squad.
"I love them," Sneddon said when asked what he thinks of his club thus far. "We knew we had some challenges going into this season, losing some goal scoring up front. We've shown some great signs in every game we've played. We've had a ton to work on."
Vermont goaltender Rob Madore found that mental offseason rest was as important as physical rest (photo: Melissa Wade).
The biggest positive thus far has to be the play of goaltender Rob Madore. Sneddon was confident heading into the season that his junior netminder would be back to freshman form when he led the team to the Frozen Four. A year ago, Madore had a bit of a sophomore slump, but solid offseason progress has Sneddon ultra-confident in his netminder.
"We're built from the net out with Madore playing really well for us," Sneddon said. "He had great numbers and carried our team to the Frozen Four as a freshman and he made some mistakes in how he prepared for the second season."
Sneddon said that Madore was by far too attached to getting better. He recounted the story of the day after returning from the Frozen Four two seasons ago when he found Madore in the weight room.
"He's the hardest working goaltender we have, but mental rest is as important as physical rest," Sneddon said. "Long seasons when you're carrying the ball, you have to take some time off."
Sneddon said that this past offseason Madore took more time away from the ice to refresh his mental state, something that was obvious when he returned to training camp.
"In seeing him take more time away from the game, he seems like his old self," Sneddon said.
Getting his goaltending house in order, though, is only part of Sneddon's challenge. Having lost a major part of its offensive punch of the last two seasons, Sneddon's club is challenged to score goals.
One partial highlight was Wahsontilo Stacey, who recorded a hat trick — all three of Vermont's goals — in the season opener versus Denver. That night, though, he blocked a shot and, though dressed, he was far below 100 percent for the last two games, according to Sneddon. He will be back ready to go, though, this weekend, Sneddon said.
Stacey's return could help the Vermont power play, something that needs to get going to spur the offense. The Catamounts have scored just once in 14 tries with the man advantage this season — that one goal coming off Stacey's stick. Still, Sneddon isn't discouraged by numbers as he feels the club is getting the right opportunities with the man advantage.
"I thought our power play did some great things against Merrimack and created scoring chances," Sneddon said. "You're worried about guys taking shots and not trying to make the fancy play, puck possession and things like that. We saw all that last week. If we keep doing these things, [power-play goals] will take care of themselves."
This weekend, the Catamounts will face a stiff challenge against a Maine team that swept then-No. 2 North Dakota last weekend, using the power play to ignite the offense.
"We've got them red hot," Sneddon said. "They're extremely dangerous offensively."
Particularly with the man advantage, which means Vermont will need to remain disciplined to keep the Black Bears' chances on the power play to a minimum.
"We talk about discipline every week, regardless the opponent," Sneddon said. "We have to be one of the least penalized teams in the country out of the gate. We know if you're going to take a penalty, make sure it's a good penalty, one that you had to take."
With all these ties, watch for the S-word
A rash of ties that has been mentioned by my colleague, Dave Hendrickson, over the past week has at least one coach bringing up that oftentimes taboo word.
That's right, we're talking about shootouts.
Vermont's Sneddon is one who says he favor the shootout, and that was before his club twice skated to deadlocks in its first three games.
"I've always been a fan of solving ties," Sneddon said. "I'd like to match the NHL — four-on-four and then a shootout. I know there isn't a majority in college hockey that feels that way. There is so much at stake nowadays and there are so many teams playing well defensively that goals are at a premium. We see a lot of one-goal games."
Oh, and a lot of ties, Kevin. Plenty of ties.
This writer joins Sneddon in the minority that would like to see college hockey replicate the NHL. The four-on-four overtime certainly creates more offense and thus more excitement for the fans. And the shootout is a skill that should never decide, say, a championship (hello, in-season tournaments) but is a great mechanism for adding entertainment to the often tedious (I'll stop short of saying boring) regular season.
The opportunity to add a point similar to the NHL, in my opinion, works. Teams that have skilled players who can score breakaway goals can benefit from it. (Anyone who remembers Northeastern in the early 1990s remembers their success when Hockey East initially experimented with the shootout — I believe it was a perfect 10-0!) And no matter what, the fans go home feeling like there was an exciting conclusion to the game rather than leave with the, "I just sat here for three hours and no one won" feeling that ties create.
I think it's still far away from Hockey East and even farther away from being something that is used across the NCAA (and would count when considering NCAA berths). But, like Sneddon, I'm a fan of solving ties.
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Senior Writer Jim Connelly is a senior writer and has been with USCHO.com since 1999. He is based in Boston and regularly covers Hockey East. He began with USCHO.com as the correspondent covering the MAAC, which nowadays is known as Atlantic Hockey. Each week during the season, he writes "Tuesday Morning Quarterback."

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On Tuesday, the civil case brought by Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., parents of Michael Brown, was settled. Brown was shot and killed by Office Darren Wilson in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. Wilson was not indicted for Brown's murder, and the case sparked nationwide protests against police violence and institutional racism in police departments everywhere.
In April 2015, McSpadden and Brown Sr. filed a wrongful death suit against the city of Ferguson, former police chief Thomas Jackson and Wilson, according to The Washington Post. NPR reports that the suit stated Wilson "unjustifiably shot and killed" Michael Brown and that he used "an unnecessary and unreasonable" amount of force. The lawsuit has been settled and approved by U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber. However, the settlement amount has been sealed.
Disclosure of the terms of the settlement agreement could jeopardize the safety of individuals involved in this matter, whether as witnesses, parties, or investigators. The public policy to consider records open is outweighed by the adverse impact to Plaintiffs," he wrote.
The publication said an insider estimated the amount as being close to $3 million divided between them.


I'm far from the first to note that we're living through the longue durée of higher education change. This passage by Oakley struck me because it seems like we could replace certain historical reference points like the religious wars with the upheaval occasioned by terrorism and the internet. Other concerns like low enrollments and "declining intellectual vitality" resonate as being the same issues we think about today. Of course, early modern universities were not the same as colleges and universities in North America today. But it seems like this evidence from the more distant past is yet another reason not to panic about a "crisis" in low humanities enrollments.
From_ Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition (_New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), 21.


Lythraceae J.St.-Hil., Expos. Fam. Nat. 2: 175. 1805.
Notes: The traditional intrafamilial classification is rejected on morphological and molecular grounds in favour of two super-clades yet to be formally circumscribed (Graham et al., 2005 and Stevens, 2016).
J.St.-Hil. 1805. Exposition des Familles Naturelles 2: 175. 2: 175.
Pigg, K.B. & DeVore, M.L. 2005. Shirleya grahamae gen. et sp. nov. (Lythraceae), Lagerstroemia-like fruits from the middle Miocene Yakima Canyon flora, central Washington State, USA. American Journal of Botany 92(2): 242–251. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.2.242 Reference page.
Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. (web site) Reference page. List of Genera in LYTHRACEAE.
For more multimedia, look at Lythraceae on Wikimedia Commons.


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