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AUGUST 3, Y108
Fishy-man had not expressly said that the mightiest of all hunters had to stay near his stupid nest. Or maybe he had. It hardly mattered, because the predator was no hatchling. He was free to traverse where he wished, regardless of what form he was forced to take. He had, for the sake of Fishy-man's place in his pack, solemnly agreed to wear the pants, even though they were uncomfortable and made no sense at all.
He'd refused anything to do with the under-the-pants pants, because that was fucking unnecessary and even more restricting. And hot. Even the pants were sticky and warm as he wandered through the human nest-of-nests, craning his marvelous head to look around as he walked.
Everything felt too big here. Or maybe he felt too small. Every time a metal monster rushed by, the great hunter bared his teeth and flinched to the side. If he were in his proper form, he would crush them in his magnificent, wondrous claws. But he was not, so he tried to avoid them.
Humans walked by now and then, and he stared at them blankly. He had asked one for their name, but apparently that was not the human way, because she had scuttled off like a spooked hatchling, leaving him befuddled and uncomfortable. Fishy-man had said that all humans did the name thing. Was it not right to know of them all, now that he was forced to be one of their pack?
Heedless, the most beautiful of all hunters veered sharply. Human paths meant nothing to him, and he was too lost in thought to remember the metal monsters. He was simply brooding as he sauntered, and it was only at the very last moment that the great predator sensed the approaching threat.
Looking at the metal monster, he bared his teeth and planted his feet on the rough ground, bracing himself as he thrust his shoulder forward, into the beast, which crumpled around him in a chaotic scream of metal.
@Toby Daye
#1 Godzilla, Jul 9, 2019
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"Goddamnit, Kevin." Toby growled into her scroll like she was about to murder someone. Mostly her agent. Kevin. Who she was currently speaking to despite how she was also currently driving. Hands free, because she wasn't a total idiot, but that didn't take away from how she was yelling into Kevin's ear. Or at least, Toby hoped she was yelling into Kevin's ear. He might have moved it away from his ear. She hoped he had had that stupid ear piece he always wore in, instead. But maybe she was a little pissed off that Kevin couldn't go after certain tabloids like she wanted. Or so he swore, up and down.
She was only a little distracted. It wasn't like Toby was a terrible driver. In fact, Toby was a pretty amazing driver. She knew how to keep an eye on where she was going even if she was also yelling. This was hardly her first time driving under pressure. She didn't have Blind Michael breathing down her neck while she was speeding under an illusion spell in downtown San Fran.
So Toby was completely surprised when some fucking idiot suddenly waltzed straight out in front of her bug. She had a decent quick reaction, slamming on her breaks in half a second. It might not have changed things but she still wasn't at fault. He wasn't near any cross walk and he had been walking out like he was on some sort of mission.
Toby then heard a crunch she hadn't been expecting. Really, she had been ready for a thud. Of his body hitting her car and then crumpling. Instead there was a crunch of her bug deciding it would rather be an accordion instead of a car. Everything came to a stop and Toby stared at her windshield like she had just been hit by a train instead of a person.
"Toby?" It was Kevin's turn to yell at her. "I'll call you back, Kevin." Toby hung up and then threw her scroll into her passenger seat. Then she was unbuckling herself and getting up, sort of glad her air bag hadn't gone off and yet worried about what that could mean in her car. Her door was open in a rush and she stepped out to start yelling at him. "ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY?!" Toby was not asking if he was alright. It was obvious that he was alright. Yelling seemed to be how to go about expressing her displeasure.
#2 Toby Daye, Jul 9, 2019
AUGUST 3, Y108
Extracting himself from the beast was not as easy as the great hunter might have expected. The impact hadn't hurt him at all, but the metal had closed in on either side, making the process of removing himself that much more arduous. He had to press some parts of the monster outward, and then awkwardly clamor over it, which he did not like at all. He hated being off the ground. It was not natural.
Eyeing the damage he had done to his challenger, the predator gave a self satisfied huff. He had not meant to kill the beast - only to scold it, perhaps, for intruding upon his space - but clearly, it was weaker than it seemed. It had tested him and it had paid a great price. Yet, to its honor, it still hissed at him softly, and even spat some steam.
"You should have used your fire." He advised, patting it once, so it could die knowing there were no angry feelings. "You fought ve-- YOU ARE FUCKING CRAZY!" He wheeled on his feet and pointed at the human who had been inside the dead beast. Eyes wide and glowering, the mighty and splendid hunter drew himself up to his full height, which was not even larger than her. It was stupid. It was all so fucking stupid.
"If you did not want your fucking beast to fucking die, maybe you should have fucking taught it not to fucking attack others who are much stronger, and glorious, and beautiful than it. This is your fucking fault! Do you not know how to control your fucking beast? Look what you fucking did to it! It dies for you! A waste! A fucking waste!"
Gasping for breath, because human speech was incredibly vexing and tiresome, the mighty predator continued to glare at her evenly. "You have a name. Tell me, so I will remember the stupid fucking members of the pack. If I had the choice, you would not fucking eat tonight for your fucking stupidity."
#3 Godzilla, Jul 10, 2019
You should have used your fire. Toby had heard that. She had caught it but it wasn't like Mr. Fucking Idiot wasn't too far away from where she was currently standing. Including catching how he patted her wreck of a car. Like it was a living creature. Which would make some sort of sense if it had been alive and not a car, but apparently some people didn't understand basics.
He yelled straight back at her and Toby growled in response. She wasn't taking anyone's shit, no matter how super powered they seemed to be. That was fine. She could have done similar. She was strong as hell, even if not as strong as some other things, and in this moment she was correct. He had been jay walking so fuck him. He went on about teaching her beast not to attack people and she just stared at him hard. Trying to figure out if he was already addled or if hitting him had done something bad to scramble his eggs, so to speak.
Stronger, glorious, and beautiful? She gave him a look over. He wasn't bad, she'd give him that, but Toby didn't have a high bar to start with. He was not glorious or beautiful in her books. Stronger than her car? Sure. "Are you fucking high right now??" It had to be drugs. Drugs would have made sense considering he was demanding her name and talking about pack members.
"Look, fucker, you're giving me your name because you were just fucking jay walking and totaled my god-damn car." She had work cars but this was her car. "You can shove your shit up your ass and you'll be paying to fix it. It's a machine, not a beast! It's not ALIVE!" She was still yelling but considering it was all justified, Toby didn't give two shits who saw or heard. Instead she moved around to stand right in front of him.
"What did you take?!" She was looking at his face and his eyes, trying to see how dilated they were. Trying to get some facts so she could call some cops and make a report. Dumbass was going to get someone killed with that kind of attitude.
#4 Toby Daye, Jul 11, 2019
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Initially he looked testy. Then, after a pause, the mighty hunter simply appeared confused as he looked down at his feet. Was he high? He knew more than ever now that height was relative. He had been high indeed before, but not anymore. Then again, there was a hill nearby, which he had scaled mightily. Maybe they were high. "As fucking high as you, obviously." He finally rumbled mutinously. That seemed like the smartest reply.
Her wailing was extremely annoying, but the most splendid of all predators kept his jaws shut and his eyes narrowed. He did not know this human pack. Not yet. He was an outsider who lacked the size and superiority to take command, and this yowling bitch was clearly an alpha among them. She would be admirable in other circumstances. "I do not--" The proud beast grimaced as she yelled over him, babbling with words he didn't even understand. "Fuck off. Do you always talk so fucking much? Fuck you!" He yelled before he could think better of it.
Paying was something the glorious hunter understood. Fishy-man had explained, and had even shared his wealth. Reaching into his pants-hole, the predator pulled out the sparkly, wonderful coins that the humans treasured muchly.
Reining his expression into something less hostile, understanding in his own way that this bitch alpha was right, the great and noble hunter extended his wealth. "I took this from Fishy-man, your pack mate, who is good and powerful. I hope it will heal your... car to its glory. It fought well, for a flimsy thing."
And thus did the fantastic predator bequeath to the bitch a grand total of forty-eight cents, along with four copper buttons.
She wasn't fucking high! No way in hell would Toby get high. She hadn't do that shit in decades and it was a place she wouldn't go back to. Hitting rock bottom hadn't broken her and nothing would be worse than losing Gilly. Of course, Toby had no clue he was literally speaking. They were of a similar height. Toby had an inch or so on her boots and she was already tall to begin with.
Did she always talk this much? "Fuck you, asshole." Apparently buttons had been hit. Toby was far more assertive than she had been before. Despite her recent, near death experience, she still felt leagues stronger than she had been before. Her aura, her confidence in that department had only gotten worse. Not that she thought she was strong per say, just that she would survive and she could do a whole hell of a lot of damage before she hit dirt. Still morbid, if a different variation of her desperation from before.
Toby was just a harder target to kill than before. She could right more wrongs before hitting that level. Save more people. Not take shit from assholes. But then he was reaching into his pocket and Toby made herself take a calming breath. If he really was going to fix all this goddamn damage, then she could chill for five seconds to get this all worked out. She was also a whole hell of a lot more mature on that level as well. More in control of herself and her actions. Because Toby also took it seriously that she had these goddamn abilities.
Except he was insulting her car, taking about taking something from this supposed "Fishy-man", and calling "Fishy-man" her fucking pack mate? Pure confusion flashed across her face. Her hand had come up in a wooden, automatic gesture. Freezing mid-air with her fingers almost awkwardly cupped. Toby was so goddamn confused that her mind didn't know how to make her hand react fast enough to get away from what he gave her. Pocket change.
Goddamn, fucking pocket change and four fucking copper buttons.
"Did you hit your head a lot in life?" He was dumb as a fucking bag of rocks. That's what this was. But not in a way that made any goddamn sense to her. All it did was confuse her to no end because he seemed to believe what he was fucking saying. That her car had fought him and lost. That it should have used its fire. "It's not alive. It is a machine." Maybe he was just an asshole from a different time period with some freaky ass strength. Didn't mean he was off any hooks but she toned herself down about five paces despite wanting to beat his face in.
Then she pointed to where he had been walking. "You're not supposed to walk here. You're gunna fucking hurt someone keeping that shit up." She was durable, other people not so much. Fucker.
"Fuck you, bitch!" He shot back hostilely, puffing up with open indignation, teeth bared in immediate response to the stupid whelp's confidence. Though the mightiest of all hunters was a stranger to this pack, and knew that he ought to at least try to be respectful to the alphas he encountered, this stupid bitch was making it very hard to swallow his pride. He wanted to assert himself, and prove his superiority, but that was not the human way. Fishy-man had been very, very clear about that. If the proud beast wanted to become one of the pack - and he did, because the alternative was utter isolation - then he had to obey their way.
He raised a hand to touch his head, which was glorious and perfect. He liked the fur. It was growing on him, and it was very soothing to pet, but that wasn't the point right now. "I have fought many battles, and my head has been hit many times. But I have always been stronger and more magnificent!" The great predator boasted proudly. She was alpha, so surely she would appreciate that he had won many fights in his long, long, long lifetime. "I will rip the beating heart out of my challengers, and eat them. They know my dominance. I am most powerful. Your... your machine knows this." He patted it again, then hesitated, looking somewhat unsettled.
It wasn't alive at all. That was... "Machine... means dead? It is a corpse, then? You control... a corpse?" His expression didn't reflect judgement or disgust, though he couldn't deny that it wasn't his idea of honor to do such a thing. He knelt beside the car and squinted at it, running a hand over its crumpled shell. Most marvelous and beautiful eyes flicked over to the alpha bitch as she dared to scold him.
But, he took it on the chin, and glanced away in a very rare show of submission, because she had already proven that he did not know what he thought he did. Fishy-man, the most perfect hunter had been able to argue over and beat down. This one was new, and she managed to catch him off his guard. Her words sank in deeper. "I did not want to hurt your packmates. I have to... be like them now. I thought this was the human way." The glorious predator explained uncertainly as he stood upright again. "Why not there? What is fucking wrong with there? Your... machines walk there. Why the fuck not me?"
#7 Godzilla, Jul 13, 2019 at 10:05 AM
She didn't know how to react. She didn't know what to say. She just sort of... stood there and stared directly at this man who had obvious brain damage. Someone who kept calling himself magnificent of all damn things. Toby blinked heavily, not quite understanding what was happening and still trying to wrap her mind around how someone could act like this. Simply put, it was stranger behavior than Toby had ever seen before. Which was something considering she came from a really fucked up and weird world.
Machine meant it was dead?! "No. It wasn't alive to beg-- why am I explaing this?" Even Gilly understood what a machine was and Toby just sort of kept staring at him like he was growing a third eye smack dab on his forehead. One that was completely different from his other two because fuck this shit was weird. Even after he had rambled off his last question, Toby was silent. Her illusion covered eyes searching over his face in an attempt to try and understand... but utterly failing to do so.
"This is where cars go." She pointed what they were standing on, then gestured away in a motion that suggested movement. Then she pointed to each sidewalk, with her eyes still on him. "Humanoids go there. To keep them from breaking each other on accident." Which was what had happened here. Her car had not picked a fight with him on purpose, no matter what he thought.
Was he an alien? Like from space, somewhere up there where cars weren't a thing? "Cars are expensive. This pocket change ain't gunna cut it. You were walking on its path." She finally held up her hand and gave his pocket change a bit of a shake. Forty eight cents and some buttons weren't going to fucking cut it. "What's your name so I can tell my insurance company?" Because they were going to charge him for... something or other, she was sure. "I'm going to need your contact information so we can get it fixed." Toby had a lot of money but this... this wasn't something she should have or would walk away from. He wasn't a kid. He hadn't been running in terror and he wasn't hurt. Fucker was going to get her bug fixed or he was going to be buying her a new car.
Her eyes slid back to her poor bug. Hopefully it wasn't totaled. She really loved this car. It was from home. Maybe that was why she was irritated more than anything else. Fuck.
#8 Toby Daye, Jul 13, 2019 at 9:23 PM
"Because I don't fucking know." He retorted bluntly. The great hunter would have thought that much was obvious, but despite her clear authority among her pack, he got the impression that this was not a very smart human. She obviously had some other reason for her dominance. Intelligence wasn't everything.
With very little experience to operate from, he had no way to know that she was giving him odd looks. Fishy-man had used the same expression, so the mighty beast could only assume that this was a normal human face. Kaiju rarely expressed themselves with just their head - they communicated with their great and glorious bodies, in more subtle ways. He supposed humans had to compromise, because they didn't have tails.
The predator looked between the path they were on, to the path that was for the humanoids. "Humanoids are... humans. New word, same... meaning." He drawled slowly, uncertainly. In any case, he finally realized where his fault had been. He had crossed onto a path he was not allowed upon. He was not so proud as to deny his own shortcomings, and with an angry huff the hunter stalked forward, grabbing the car by its sturdiest part. Lifting the crumpled front of the thing off the path, he hauled it off the bad path and onto the good path, rudely bouncing it up over the curb before setting it back down on the grassy knoll in front of a human nest. "Now the cars can walk." He stated proudly.
That his treasure was not enough to heal her beast was an unexpected disappointment, and the greatest of all predators wasn't sure what to do now. That was all he had taken from Fishy-man. He had thought it was a great bounty. "But it is treasure." He protested with confusion lacing his tone. What was expensive? Why did her car need so much treasure? It sparkled, and he had rubbed every coin meticulously until they glowed. That made them better.
"What is insurance company? A rival pack?" Weren't all humans of one pack, as kaiju were? They couldn't be so divided. Why would her trusted packmates not rush to an alpha's assistance? And what did she mean by contact information? Did she want to know the best ways to touch him? The hunter did not particularly like touches at all, but he supposed...
Reaching out, he grabbed her hand that was not holding his great wealth, and then forcibly placed it on the top of his head with an expression of utter bewilderment. "The fur is soft. It is a good contact." He explained blankly, awkwardly bouncing her hand against it in case she was too stupid to know what to do.
He had avoided the name question for as long as he could, but the predator realized it probably was pointless to keep skirting it. "I do not have a name in the human way. Fishy-man said that your kind knew me as Godzilla, but that is a stupid fucking name and I will rip God's heart out. I do not... I am not a comparison." He insisted boastfully, with a haughty tone. "Flying-man said kaiju is another word that the humans use, but that is not for me. It is for us. Do you understand?" She was very stupid, so she might not.
#9 Godzilla, Jul 13, 2019 at 9:50 PM
He really didn't understand any of this. She felt like she was losing IQ points trying to understand but he was as dense as a mountain. "Humans are humanoid yes, but anything that is in this general shape is-- fucking hell." Toby didn't think she knew how to explain any of this right. This was just... everything they were speaking about were basic concepts that everyone knew from a young age. Toby wasn't a great teacher, but she had a lot more patience when it came to kids. Or maybe, when she hadn't just gotten her car totaled.
'No! They're not a fucking rival pack!" Except now there was this image of two insurance companies snapping fingers and glaring at each other West Side Story style. It was ridicilous on so many levels but there it was and now Toby knew she wouldn't be able to get that image out of her mind anytime soon. Fucker.
She was bewildered to a certain degree but she drew lines at being touched. He grabbed her hand and then put it on his hair? "Hey!" Toby jerked her hand back with a decent amount of force. He was strong enough that she wouldn't hurt him, that much was clear, so she wasn't afraid to use a bit of her aura to pull away. "Do not do that shit, man!" Obviously he didn't know what he was doing but Toby was not hav-- AND THERE WENT HER CAR AGAIN!
"NO! FUCK!" What was wrong with this fucker? He had to have problems on so many levels. "Cars don't--" Toby cut off her words and just put her hands up to her temples in an attempt to stop her building headache. Godzilla? His name was... he couldn't be talking about that giant fucking lizard. This guy was human. "Who is Fishy man?" It was obvious she needed to talk to whoever Fishy-man was to get this all solved. Because wanna be Godzilla wasn't understanding her and Toby didn't know how to speak his level of idiot. Maybe Fishy Man could translate. "Who is Flying man?" They sounded like two different people. Whoever they were, Toby was going to have a conversation or three about this.
"And forty eight cents is not a treasure. It takes thousands and thousands of these to pay for that." Probably more but Toby's strong suit did not lie in any mathmatical direction. "These buttons aren't worth anything!" Titanna's tits! What was she going to have to try and explain next?!
#10 Toby Daye, Jul 13, 2019 at 11:04 PM
"You're very fucking angry, aren't you?" It was probably the pot calling the kettle black, but he really wasn't used to not being the angriest fucker in a two mile radius. The alpha bitch seemed personally offended that the mightiest of hunters did not know everything there was to know about humanity already, and, in the back of his mind, he wondered if he ought to... try and explain things. But then, she was so angry, he doubted it would make any difference. The bitch wasn't going to listen to reason.
He flinched when she shouted again, then scowled. "Well how the fuck am I supposed to fucking know that, bitch?!" He bellowed at her, unable to keep his temper under check any longer, because she was being utterly unreasonable and she wasn't making any sense, and he was fucking confused and angry and he couldn't help but let it explode outward.
He gave her a scathing look when she acted like a reactive hatchling again. "You asked for my contact information. That is the only contact I will allow." The great hunter explained as patiently as he could, and as he hauled her stupid fucking car out of the way, he didn't even bother reacting to her screeching. It was too tiresome. She was very loud.
The mighty predator turned to face her, appearing somewhat unhappy that she clearly did not recognize Fishy-man. "He is a proud and noble hunter of your pack. Strong, and smart. He lives in the ocean and on the shore, and tells me much of humanity. He lives in a nest on top of the sharp hill over the ocean." He pointed in the direction he had come from, squinting slightly. "He has a human name, but I do not know what it is. Arthur? I do not know. And Flying-man is a human who flies. He is good and strong as well. Your packmates trapped me in great, terrible, magic nets. Flying-man set me free. He is very good. Proud and strong." The mighty beast nodded firmly.
Thousands and thousands of shiny pieces of treasure sounded... impossible, and the great hunter wilted with a somewhat worried expression. He had only intended to wander the human world for a time. He'd thought that, when he returned to Fishy-man's nest, he would do so triumphantly. He would mock him for suggesting that the most splendid and beautiful of all kaiju needed a chaperone to be among humanity.
Now, it didn't feel so stupid, and he silently wished he had just waited for Fishy-man to come with him.
"I did not know..." The beast admitted, and he averted his gaze again. "This treasure is all I have."
#11 Godzilla, Jul 14, 2019 at 10:06 AM
Was she very fucking angry? Toby had actually been working on being calm lately. Trying to take control of her emotions and be a better person. All that shit that was supposed to be good for her or whatever. But then Toby got into situations like this and suddenly she hit an irritation level that was difficult to reign in. Toby did think she was pretty justified right thing. This entire fucking situation was beyond ridiculous.
"I don't want to touch you." Nice and simple, clearing communicating why that wasn't okay. No way in hell did Toby want to touch some random dude's hair. She didn't know where he had been. He went on to explain who fishy man was. Supposedly. Half of what he was saying didn't make any sense to Toby. He didn't sound like someone she had met before or could easily I.D., but she also had a feeling that this man was using weird verbiage just to throw her. Maybe. She really couldn't tell.
Arthur. At least she had a first name, though it was a common enough one. King Arthur? She knew he had been floating around for awhile. This man had some weird ass body language, never mind how he spoke, and she just stared at him before lifting her hands to run through her own hair. Apparently, today was just going to be a day of stress.
"Do you have a phone number? That's what no-- people use for contact information." She had almost spoken normal people, but Toby was trying to be... non-confrontational. To a certain degree. "Look do you know how to contact this... fishy-man Arthur? Maybe... maybe he can get this all... sorted." Hopefully fishy-man Arthur wouldn't be as bad as... whoever this fuck was. She still hadn't gotten a name but at this point, Toby was kind of giving up on any kind of normal conversation. It seemed like some sort of hopeless wish. Kaiju... Godzilla... "Wait you're... you... Godzilla? You mean that big fucking lizard by Cascade Bay?" She hooked a thumb in a random direction, though it was supposed to be towards Cascade Bay. Truth be told, Toby wouldn't have known which way South was by a long shot but... it didn't really matter. Not to her.
#12 Toby Daye, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:47 AM
The mighty hunter gave a soft huff of disbelief when she asserted that she did not want to touch him, but he didn't argue. It was her prerogative. He knew he was most wondrous and beautiful, but if she didn't want to revel in his glory, that was her own choice and the beast wouldn't press the matter. Perhaps his splendor was intimidating.
"Phone... number? Phone... Oh! Yes! Yes!" The words which Fishy-man had made him recite sprung to the majestic predator's mind all at once and he blurted them in a rush, looking quite pleased with himself. After all, he was sure that Fishy-man might have had great doubts about his ability to remember so many stupid words, but the hunter had proven him wrong.
He wasn't sure why the alpha bitch expected Fishy-man to do much. He was not, after all, the most splendid of all predator's alpha. The mighty predator did not answer to Fishy-man. He had taken his treasure, after all, and he had left on his own accord. He was not some stupid hatchling to keep to one nest. He was dominant and ferocious.
And his face broke into a relieved smile as soon as the dumb bitch, who really wasn't very smart at all, finally realized his true nature. Puffing up nobly, the predator nodded. "That big fucking lizard, yes! The biggest, and strongest. My cry is loudest. My claws are sharpest. When I do battle, the mountains shake! Yes!" He grinned savagely, then his expression tapered back into maudlin unhappiness.
"I took a sleep, and when I woke..." He thrust his hands out dismally, looking abruptly wrecked and miserable. "No claws. No tail. No fangs. Still beautiful, though. I'm very pretty." He rubbed his cheeks with a bit of a happier air.
Then, without skipping a beat, he mimicked her gesture and thumbed over his shoulder. "Ocean's that way, dumb bitch. How did you become alpha at all? Was it just your fierceness and beauty?" He wrinkled his nose.
"Two of three isn't fucking bad, I guess."
#13 Godzilla, Jul 16, 2019 at 6:02 PM
He rattled off a number and Toby pulled out her scroll to start plugging it in. With some sort of hope that Fishy Man Arthur would be able to help her out and figure out what was going on. Before she could hit dial though, he answered her question and Toby just stared. Godzilla. He was saying that he was that giant fucking lizard. He was saying he was God-fucking-zilla turned into a human.
Was she breathing? Was her mind working correctly? Did she need to clean out her ears? Was that fucking possible?! It had been a long time since something had made her think such a thing. Crazy things happening in Pandora was basically normal for Toby at this point. She had been here long enough to feel like she had adjusted to most kinds of curve balls it had for her but apparently not. Toby took a sharp breath and confirmed that she was breathing completely normal. This was not some sort of reality break of her mind or fucked up dream she hadn't woken up from. No, it was Godzilla in a human suit.
I'm very pretty. "For fuck's sake, man." She had never met someone so goddamn proud of themselves. It bordered on hysterical for her but she was certain that he was completely serious. Not a single joke to be found in there. "You--" And then in came out of his mouth. Dumb bitch. There was part of Toby's mind that stopped for a second. Stalled and tried to reason with herself. Fierce and beauty?! Alpha?
No, there had been too many lines crossed. Breaking her car from home. Talking like this. Trying to pay her in pocket change. Reaching out and touching her. Putting her hand in his hair? Dumb bitch? A back handed compliment tacked on a-- No. Fuck all that shit. "Jackass." Her lip had curled then her hand had come up. She slapped him across his face. Hard, even if it still wasn't her full aura strength. It was significantly more than she would have given anyone else but he had taken a car straight on like that. He could take it.
It wasn't a punch. That had to be a win even if she was smacking someone. That someone was an absolute asshole and if he wanted to take issue with that slap? Toby could upgrade to a punch. Straight to his fucking nuts. Or a kidney. Nuts were extreme and she knew that. Her eyes were completely flat as she looked at him afterwards, lifting her scroll and started a face call. Whoever this fishy-man Arthur was, he was about to get a fucking ear full if he was someone responsible for this.
#14 Toby Daye, Jul 16, 2019 at 8:22 PM
The greatest of all predators thought for certain that he had finally communicated with the alpha bitch. After all, she stopped her wailing and gnashing of her teeth, and seemed to regard him with appropriate awe. Bustling with pride, the mighty hunter shifted his weight, feeling self assured and confident.
And, of course, he didn't expect at all for the crazy human to hit him.
The blow itself was nothing to a beast such as himself. It barely stung, though he could tell that it was stronger than he would have expected from a human. What struck him more, and what made his expression twist into one of alarm, was that the dumb bitch had hit him at all, knowing what he was. Who he was. Surely she knew he could rend her apart, limb by limb.
As his head twisted to look at her, there was a split second of wide, blazing yellow eyes. In that moment, his teeth had grown to points, and he looked less human than before.
But then, the greatest and most splendid of all Kaiju gave a deep, bellowing laugh of delight and pride. "Yes! You are definitely an alpha! Such dominance! Your enemies must fear you!" He applauded vigorously, eyes aglow with pleasure. The beast understood now, of course, that he had spoken out of turn. He understood her blow more than her words. Words were confusing, but a strike had clear meaning: You are being offensive and you need to shut up.
In his true form, he was not immune to such treatment, though he would not have tolerated it so freely from one he did not know. Mainly only the moth would have such liberty in his natural form, to scold him for acting the hatchling. This one was like the moth, except angry and defiant. Like the moth, she lacked a certain physical strength, perhaps, but made up for it in savagery and passion.
"You are a good alpha. I should not have insulted you so. You lead your pack with pride and strength. I see that now. You are powerful."
#15 Godzilla, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:50 AM
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Hey I'm bad at decisions and need help with another poll: http://pandorarp.com/threads/oh-hey-look-elfens-doing-a-poll-again.51849/
curiousity killed....
Yang Xiao Long replied Jul 19, 2019 at 4:22 PM
eye for an eye
Anthony J. Crowley replied Jul 19, 2019 at 3:54 PM
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The term 'pinched nerve' actually refers to any condition where compression of the nerve causes a range of sensory ('feeling') and motor ('movement') related symptoms in the affected area. While a pinched nerve if often believed to affect the spinal nerves only, due to compression between parts of the spine, it can actually affect any nerve in the body. The severity of the symptoms will depend on the site that is affected, the extent of the nerve compression, movement or other aggravating factors as well as duration of the compression.
A nerve transmits electrical impulses to and from the brain usually through the main pathway, known as the spinal cord or directly to the brain and brain stem. These nerve impulses carry sensations (pressure, pain, heat) to the brain and signals from the brain causes different actions like muscle movement. Nerves are embedded within the body, surrounded by other structures like bone, muscles, tendons, ligaments and connective tissue. If any of these surrounding structures impinges on the nerve, the compression will distort the signals in the nerve. The nerve compression may occur at the nerve root or along the course of the nerve.
A bulging disc is frequently present in the neck or the lower back (Picture 1). There are several causes of bulging discs, like bad posture, spinal arthritis, trauma, lifting heavy weights, frequent bending movements at work, and so on, which lead to neck, lower back, or middle back pain. However, bad posture at work forms the most important cause of bulging discs and is treated as an occupational hazard. Injury to the soft tissues of the spine, like ligaments or muscles, may also lead to bulging discs due to abnormal movement between the affected vertebrae. Occupations or sports involved in lifting heavy weights or frequent bending movements, also cause bulging discs, but this is mostly seen after a prolonged duration of such activities. It has been evidently seen, that unaccustomed lifting of weights, causes major issues rather than regular weight-lifting by people, who are physically used to this type of activity. Thus, there is no reason for daily weight lifters (occupational or sports related) to worry about this at all.
The frightful phenomenon of getting a disc bulge just after lifting a heavy weight, is a quite rare phenomenon. In most such instances, the severe back pain, is often due to a neck spasm or back spasm. Moreover, a severe disc bulge would rather cause loss of sensation or paralysis, rather than pain. Hence, we must understand, that discs and vertebrae, have a robust spinal anatomy, and trivial injuries or circumstances are just not enough to cause damage to this structure.
Paresthesia, a common term for numbness, tingling or the "pins and needles" sensation may be caused by a number of factors and is not always due to a pinched nerve. In the case of a pinched nerves, not all of the above signs and symptoms may be present simultaneously. Symptoms of a pinched nerve may persist even after the cause of the nerve compression has been removed due to inflammation of the nerve.
Electromyography (EMG) to measure the electrical strength in muscles.
Nerve conduction study where a mild electrical shock is induced on the skin to test nerve impulses.


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"Act of God", claims Oreva Officials on Morbi Bridge Collapse
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Morbi, Oct 30 (ANI): People gather after a cable bridge collapsed in the Machchhu river, in Morbi on Sunday. Reportedly, 60 people have died during this incident. (ANI Photo)
Morbi, Gujarat: The bridge collapse incident in Gujarat's Morbi has sparked discussions amongst various sections of society about the government's role in preserving such old bridges. While the Gujarat government has declined any involvement in the bridge's renovation, it has come to the fore that the Oreva company had been given the work of renovation of the bridge that took the lives of around 135 people after it collapsed on October 30.
After this horrifying incident, 9 people were arrested among which are Oreva Company officials who were involved in the work of renovation of the bridge. In the latest hearing of the case on the court, one accused said that "act of god" was the reason behind the collapse which had sparked controversies once again.
HS Panchal, the Additional Public Prosecutor of the case said, "One of the two managers of Oreva company (that have been arrested) told the court that it is an 'Act of God'." He further stated the actual reason for the accident and said, "In the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report, the Investigating Officer (IO) said that the cable (of bridge)was rusting away. The Investigating Officer says that only flooring of the bridge was done and the cables were not changed, oiling-greasing also wasn't done."
Out of the 9 people arrested for the case, 4 have been sent to police custody and 5 have been sent to judicial custody. "Out of the 4 people who were sent to Police custody, two are managers at Oreva Co and two others did fabrication work for the bridge. The five others who were sent to judicial custody are security personnel and ticket vendors", HS Panchal said further adding, "In the report, the Investigating Officer (IO) stated that the tender process did not take place and contract was directly allotted."
Reportedly, around 135 people have lost their lives in the incident and over 100 others have suffered major injuries and are getting treatment. The rescue operation is still on and the rescue team suggests there might be more bodies in the river. They are deploying more scuba divers to carry out the search operation furthermore. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also visited the accident site yesterday and offered his condolences to the victims.

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Home Games Top Slot Games of 2019 So Far
Top Slot Games of 2019 So Far
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With so many hyper-talented game developers out there, it is difficult to pick the best new slot games for 2019. From getting inspired by cult icons to movies to sports, slot developers are busy executing their ideas to innovate the incredibly lucrative iGaming industry in 2019.
Today we're taking a look at some of the new slot titles that have been released in 2019 so far and those will be launched in the coming months.
Golden Grimoire – NetEnt
As game developers go, NetEnt is among the very best. Grimoire players are treated to moments of magic with this 5-reel, 4-row, 20-fixed line video slot.
The graphics in this game are more similiar to a video game than a slot. The theme is based around Golden Grimoire, a powerful book of spells that leads the player into a mix of mystery and magic.
This slot is a medium volatility game which means that it has a high potential for some big wins, but it pays out a little less often than some of the higher volatility games.
The creators appear in some of the glowing symbols on the walls in the game, which is very cool. This game opens a portal to a world of magic.
Keen slots players will find that it builds suspense with every single spin. This will undoubtedly be one of the best games of 2019.
Conan – NetEnt
One much-anticipated title that hasn't been launched yet this year is Conan. NetEnt has secured the rights to the Conan brand for a new video slot.
The Barbarian, who has been made famous by numerous movies, books and games, is given a makeover for slots fans. It will be a sword and sorcery themed game which will boost Detent's already world-class slot portfolio.
We don't have too much detail on this game yet, but we can be sure that the artists are having a lot of fun developing something really special here.
Arctic Valor – Microgaming
This month's brand new entry is Artic Valor. Microgaming announced recently that is moving into a long term partnership with Crazy Tooth Studio.
Arctic Valor is one of the first games launched since this announcement. The 6-reel slot game allows the players up to 4096 ways to win.
Following fierce warriors into a battle across frozen lands and blizzards, the game transports players into a uniquely icy experience. In terms of graphics, it is fantastic. We can't rave enough about it.
As avid gamblers, we've always loved to play these slot machine emulating games. A lot of online sites generally take a £5 Free No Deposit Bonus to let you test out all of your favorite new games.
The first couple of slots to launch in 2019 all seem to have something in common. We feel like mythical and magical themes are popular with game developers this season.
The standard of graphics and gameplay has been stepped up a notch compared to 2018. So we're happy with how these games are coming together. It leaves us very excited for the next bunch of slot releases in 2019.
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The CVS property in downtown East Stroudsburg should be one of the most desirable properties in the borough. But its suburban style actually hurts the community. Here are 4 steps for creating a welcoming building in an urban environment.
Posted in Featured, Local, Mixed-Use, Proposals on May 4, 2015 by wesadmin.
One of the most dangerous intersections in all of East Stroudsburg is the 5-way intersection right in the heart of downtown. Improvements to this intersection would benefit drivers, pedestrians and business owners.
Posted in Featured, Local, Proposals on March 26, 2015 by wesadmin.
Folks in the Lehigh Valley are learning about the importance of Walkability and Smart Growth through the efforts of two area bloggers.
Posted in Articles, Featured on March 13, 2015 by wesadmin.
Forcing elderly and commuting residents to clear their own sidewalk absolutely guarantees that some sections won't be clear, rendering the whole sidewalk useless. Here's a better solution.
Posted in Articles, Featured, Proposals on February 26, 2015 by wesadmin.
East Stroudsburg can't grow outwards. So if we want to increase our tax roles and strengthen our town, we must grow upward.
Posted in Featured, Local, Mixed-Use on February 22, 2015 by wesadmin.
East Stroudsburg wants to hear from you about the improvements you'd like to see in the borough. Fill out your map and send it in.
Posted in Featured, Local on February 19, 2015 by wesadmin.
The idea of walkable communities isn't some newfangled tree-huger movement. It's actually a conservative approach that says, "Let's bring our communities back to the way they used to be".
Posted in Featured, Local on January 31, 2015 by wesadmin.
When PennDOT rebuilds Exit 308 (the East Stroudsburg exit at Prospect St.) in the next few years, it will add or upgrade more than a mile of sidewalks.
Posted in ESU, Featured, Local on January 28, 2015 by wesadmin.
We plotted every sidewalk, pathway, and trail within the borough and found 34 miles of pedestrian infrastructure already in place.
Posted in Data, ESU, Featured, Local, Parks and Trails on January 26, 2015 by wesadmin.
What is a walkable community, anyway?
Posted in Articles on January 21, 2015 by wesadmin.
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Q: Designing a contacts database in SQL Server 2005 I think this is a common thing to do... you have a database server, and you want to store customer contact information in it.
You need the person's name, their address, phone, etc.
What are best practices for storing addresses and phones? Assuming OLTP...
Multiple people may have the same phone number (such as wife and husband, or mother and daughter).
Multiple people share a household.
I read this: http://sqlcat.com/sqlcat/b/whitepapers/archive/2008/09/03/best-practices-for-semantic-data-modeling-for-performance-and-scalability.aspx
And that will work fine for the specific model mentioned, but I don't see how this model can be optimized short of denormalizing.
Ex:

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*Person table = person id, first name, last name, etc...

*Address table = address id, address line 1, etc..

*Phone table = phone id, phone number, etc...

So if I designed it like that whitepaper suggests, I'd have a personid in my address table and in my phone table. However, since multiple people may share the same address, that isn't feasible. One person may have multiple addresses or even no addresses. So it seems I'll need a person -> address mapping table as well as a mapping table for the phones, otherwise I'll denormalize both of those tables and let there be some duplicates in the unusual case of two people who share the same phone / address.
Anyway, my point in asking this question is because it seems difficult to find a 'best practices' for this type of thing, yet it seems like the type of thing which would come up in just about any type of application or database.

A: Normalizing addresses and phone numbers in a one-to-many relationship where a Contact may have many related Phone or Address entities makes perfect sense.
However, there is no need to normalize addresses and phone numbers in a many-to-many relationship in a contacts database, because those are not entities you have any interest in working with by themselves, on their own merits as unique entities. In fact, I would say that in your situation, normalizing them to that level is not a good design.
If you were modeling a business in real estate, rentals, or phone service, where you cared about properties and phone numbers even when no person was associated with them, then it could make sense to model them to this level. It is more work for someone to avoid duplicate addresses and phone numbers in the many-to-many design than it is for them to just enter the address again, and there is no real benefit to avoiding these duplicates. Plus, you'll end up with duplicates anyway (at least for addresses, unless you scrub them all real-time using post office routines), so who is going to go through and match up '123 Ascot Wy #5' to '123 Ascot Way Apt 5'? What value is there in that?
The usual reason for normalizing this deep doesn't apply. Let's say that you do create a PhoneNumber table and the PersonPhoneNumber table needed for the many-to-many relationship. You have three people using the same phone number and they are all properly linked to it. Now, one of them calls you up and tells you that he is changing his phone number. Are you sure you want to change the actual PhoneNumber record and update the numbers of the other two folks at the same time? What if they aren't moving with him? Soon you will find that your data is screwed up. You may as well normalize first names to the FirstName table and last names to the LastName table! Then when "Joey" grows up and changes his name to "Joe", all the other Joeys will get an automatic upgrade. But whoops... "Joe" already exists, as does the phone number that you are changing one of the three people above to... what an awful mess.
For another thing, will you use PhoneID as a surrogate key for the phone number? But phone numbers are one of the few things that actually are good as natural keys, they almost even demand being used as natural keys. Then your Phone table becomes meaningless because it doesn't encode any additional information about that phone number. It would just be a list of phone numbers, which are already present in the referencing table. Don't use a Phone table like that. If you want to find out whether two people share the same phone number, you just join on or group by the column! In my mind it approaches silliness to have a layer of abstraction where a phone number is linked to a monotonically-increasing PhoneID.
If you read A Universal Person and Organization Model you will see the perspective that phone numbers and addresses in fact aren't entities that need modeling to the level of a many-to-many relationship--they are more like "intelligent locators" that route messages to recipients. Why on earth would you force three different people's locator (a.k.a. phone number) to be identical? The locator helps to locate the person, not the physical phone that rings. You couldn't care less about the phone or who else might answer--you only care about the fact that once answered, the person of interest could possibly be reached.

A: Normalize.
Normalize until it hurts.
Normalize again until it is excruciating.
Then tune your queries; design your indices; and measure your performance; if at that point you have no other options, denormalize the bare minimum to meet performance options.
Remember that every denormalization that speeds performance on one query, by its nature degrades performance on (almost) every operation on tat table set. Only keep the denormalizaiton if measurement actually shows a noticeable performance improvement.
Remember that the more you normalize the smaller your indices are; the more index rows sit in cache, and the faster your database performs. Yes, a lot of very small tables get created - they are permanently in cache and thus almost free to access.

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Upward Sports adds flag football
MADISON – The Upward Sports organization is accepting older youth on its rosters, and Upward Flag Football is a new option to choose.
"We are expanding to rising ninth-graders. Typically, Upward targets children in kindergarten through sixth grade, but several students have asked we create a division for older kids," local coordinator Jeff Dickerson said.
Families can register their children at upward.org. Registration must be completed online and is available through March 31; the cost is $75. Late online registration will run from April 1-30; cost is $85.
"Spots are limited, and registration can end early so please plan accordingly," Dickerson said.
Evaluations are planned for April 22 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Palmer Park. In case of inclement weather, a rain day will be held on April 29 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Palmer Park.
The season runs from mid-May through June. Practices typically are held at Palmer Park on Tuesdays at either 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. or 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Games normally are played at Palmer Park on Thursdays at 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. or 6:45 to 7:45 p.m.
Flag football players will receive a reversible jersey, flag belt, playing card wristband, car magnet and end-of-season award. Some scholarships are available.
"We are hiring high school and college students. The student must be in at least tenth grade or older (tenth grade minimum) to referee the games," Dickerson said.
Organized in 1995, Upward Sports claims its place as the world's largest supplier of Christian youth sports. Upward Sports is the only organization that offers the "360 Progression," an out-of-the-ordinary program for a total sports experience that changes as the player grows with his or her athletic journey.
The 360 Progression develops the 'total athlete' – mentally, physically, spiritually and socially – producing players who excel both on and off the field. Today, about 500,000 million players are active at 2,000-plus churches in 47 states. These churches participate in camps, clinics and leagues through Upward Sports' Recreation Division.
For details about the season and league photos from the past three years, visit fbcmadison.net/upward. To contact Dickerson, email upwardmadisonal@gmail.com.


BackstreetBoys.com reports that the second single off of the group's new album 'Never Gone' has officially been announced to be 'Just Want You To Know'. The official add date to radio is July 19th, but the official site encourages radio requests to start now. A new video will be premiering soon.
Umm… I don't really like that song. It's too much Nick for me…hahahaha… actually it sounds like the stuff Nicky did on his solo cd. Can't wait for the video though, i'm sure it will be good.
I think July 19th is a bit far away myself. I'm going to request it on my own. I think it's a good choice because it's an uptempo summer song.
Personally, I think this is a huge, HUGE mistake on the part of the Boys and their people….
ugh it's probably my least favourite song on the album…:S…there's so many other much better songs why are they releasing this one?
That's pretty bad when the 5 fans BSB has left agree that it's a bad choice for them to release a certain single.
Fans always had different opinions. Have you heard the song yet to know?
I like each song for a different reason. My favorites of the moment are…', '"I Still", "Climbing The Walls', and the last three songs on the album which includes Siberia. I really can't pick. lol. I don't think it will be a single either. I know the guys said their record company didn't like the song but the guys did so they put it on the record.
You know what's even worse?', 'The 5 fans BRITNEY had left all abandoned her once they realized what a skank whore she really is, like all the haters had been saying, upon watching her "reality" show!!! THAT'S sad…because this show was SUPPOSED to recapture the spotlight in a GOOD way, or at least stir up some more buzz about her and gain a stronger fanbase… IT DIDN'T WORK AND SHE LOST EVEN MORE THAN SHE HAD TO BEGIN WITH!!! HA HA HA!!


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Investor Relations > Company News > NetEase Games Acquires Minority Stake in Quantic Dream
NetEase Games Acquires Minority Stake in Quantic Dream
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GUANGZHOU, China, Jan. 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- NetEase Games, the online games division of NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES), one of China's largest internet companies, today announced that it has acquired a minority stake in Quantic Dream S.A. to further the development and distribution of global online games.
Quantic Dream will continue to operate independently under the direction of industry veterans David Cage and Guillaume de Fondaumière. Quantic Dream defines and leads the interactive storytelling game, a creative game genre. With 22 years of experience, this AAA studio has successfully launched several worldwide blockbusters, including Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become HumanTM. This strategic investment aims to support the studio's vision of becoming a global, multi-franchise entertainment company, and to develop advanced technologies and games for the future.
"With a strong focus on in-house development, we are constantly looking for partners that complement us in the development and creation of the next generation games," said Ethan Wang, VP of NetEase, Inc., "Quantic Dream's excellence in interactive storytelling and the valuable expertise it has built over the past two decades is exactly what we have been looking for. We are pleased to partner with Quantic Dream and we hope to create incredible game experiences for players all around the globe."
"The landscape of the gaming industry will go through major evolutions in the coming years, with new hardware to come, new business models to explore and new ways of playing to invent," said Quantic Dream CEO and Creative Director David Cage. "We want Quantic Dream to take a key role in this exciting future and having NetEase by our side as a strategic partner will allow us to expand our creative vision and develop the company to its fullest potential. NetEase understands what Quantic is about as they share our passion for high quality games and our ambitions for the studio."
"We have been impressed by NetEase's vision, their commitment to quality and innovation and their impressive track-record and know-how in crafting and operating some of the most popular games on the planet," continued Guillaume de FONDAUMIERE, Co-CEO of Quantic Dream. "Partnering with NetEase will open new opportunities for our studio and strengthen our position as pioneers and innovators."
About NetEase Games
NetEase Games is the online games division of NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES), developing and operating some of China'smost popular PC-client and mobile games. As one of the world's largest incubators of quality online game content, NetEase Games is dedicated to supporting the growth of innovative studios around the globe and growing an international presence along the way. To complement its self-developed games and world class R&D capabilities, NetEase Games also partners with other industry leaders including Blizzard Entertainment, Mojang AB (a Microsoft subsidiary) and other global game developers to operate some of the most popular international online games in China.
About Quantic Dream
Quantic Dream is a French video game studio that leads the world in interactive storytelling. Founded 22 years ago by David Cage to create AAA games based on emotion and interactive storytelling, Quantic Dream has been at the forefront of innovation in narrative, popularizing the genre of choice-dependent stories. The studio, that worked exclusively with Sony during the past 12 years, created thought-provoking games like FahrenheitTM (aka Indigo Prophecy in North America), Heavy RainTM, Beyond:Two SoulsTM, and more recently Detroit: Become HumanTM. The studio's medium-defining titles have showcased world-class talents including David Bowie, Ellen Page, Willem Dafoe, Hans Zimmer and Jesse Williams. Quantic Dream has developed proprietary technologies and original franchises since its creation, with the support of millions of gamers around the world.
For more information, please visit: http://www.quanticdream.com
NetEase Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains statements of a forward-looking nature. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these forward-looking statements by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. The accuracy of these statements may be impacted by a number of business risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated, including the risk that the market for PC-client and mobiles games in China and other countries in which NetEase Games operate may not grow as rapidly as expected or at all, the risk that NetEase Games' investments and partnerships will not generate adequate returns, the impact of governmental regulation, competition in the online game market, and other risks outlined in NetEase, Inc.'s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NetEase, Inc. does not undertake any obligation to update this forward-looking information, except as required under applicable law.
NetEase Contact:
Margaret Shi
NetEase, Inc.
Tel: (+86) 571-8985-3378
Quantic Dream Contact:
Alexa Bowers
B/HI
Alexa_bowers@bhimpact.com
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Peter is Transactions Lead, Medical Devices, based at the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center, Boston. In this role, he provides deal leadership in partnering with early stage companies across the medical device sectors.
Peter has been with J&J since a business school internship in 1990. He joined the JJIC in November 2016. His previous position was Vice President of Strategy for DePuy Synthes Orthopedics and Business Development for Codman Neuro. Prior to that, Peter held a series of VP positions in Marketing, Strategic Marketing and Business Development for Mitek Sports Medicine and Codman Neuro. He helped reposition Mitek from purely shoulder anchors to arthroscopy enabling solutions and to earlier intervention, exemplified by Orthovisc and Monovisc HA injections for OA. At Codman Neuro, he helped redefine their business by divesting the Instruments business unit and emphasizing neurovascular stroke intervention, exemplified by Micrus and Pulsar.
Before his stints in Ortho and Neuro, Peter spent the first half of his career in the Ethicon Surgery businesses, starting in Operations before going into Field Sales and into Marketing, including working in Scotland as Director of European Marketing for Ethicon.
Peter studied Chemical Engineering at Princeton on an ROTC scholarship before serving with US Army Forces in West Germany and attending Harvard Business School.


Aaron: Good evening. My blessings and love to you all. I am Aaron. I asked Barbara and Dan for a chance to tie loose ends together, as we have just one more class after tonight. Of course it's been impossible to put all the plans and intentions together into these few short weeks.
One thing we've dropped out on is The Dalai Lama's Cat, which to some extent is self-explanatory. We included that book at the beginning of the semester as a way to help keep these teaching genuine to your everyday experience. We did not have any specific reading for tonight, but next class I hope we can insert something specific from that book.
We started out with Vision is Mind practice and an introduction to the akashic field. Within the Vision is Mind practice, I think you all really understand that first pieces, Vision is Mind and Mind is Empty. After that it starts to get a little conceptual for some of you. Tonight I want to go into Emptiness is Pure Light and beyond.
Emptiness is Clear Light, Clear Light is Union. What does that mean? You live in a world of presumed dualities. When you see that everything that arises is in your mind, just a reflection of the mind, and that the mind itself is empty—that clear glass window, a bit of dirt on it, but the nature of the glass is clear, the mind is clear, awareness is clear - we begin to have a clarity: that the mind is always this clear essence.
There's an implicit duality that can arise here between light and darkness. If we say Mind is Empty, Emptiness is Clear Light, then is non-emptiness dark? Is it negative in some way? Do we use darkness as a synonym for negativity? So often you swing between, "this is good, that's bad; this is pleasant, that's unpleasant." Even your sacred scriptures talk about light and bringing in the light. But how would you know light if you never experienced darkness?
Our practice is not an attempt to keep the darkness at bay by holding onto and expand the light. You cannot expand the light, it simply is. It is everything! Our practice is an attempt to know the simultaneity of light and darkness. I say it in many ways, such as that which is aware of fear is not afraid. There's no denial of the fear, but there is also opening to that clear mind, that clear light. Knowing that which is not afraid. That which is aware of anger is not angry. Knowing that which is not anger right there with the anger.
I see this spectrum-- we've talked about this before—conditioned everyday consciousness, and supramundane consciousness. You create a duality if you think the mundane consciousness is out here and the supramundane consciousness is out there ion a horizontal line. Instead I see tem as this pole. At first we only see the mundane top of the pole, but as we go deeper and deeper we begin to access that deep still place, the Unconditioned, accessed through pure awareness. This is where instruction in pure awareness practice is helpful along with your vipassana practice.
Again, not to create a duality of pure awareness versus vipassana; simply, there is consciousness, citta. Every citta takes an object. Mundane citta takes a mundane object. Supramundane citta takes a supramundane object, including the Unconditioned itself. But mundane citta and supramundane citta are not dual. This is the practice-- I believe we did this in this class with the people tossed in small boats on the surface. There you are in conditioned everyday consciousness saying, "How can I help? All these people, their boats are tipping, the waves are big." Sink down, down, down, until you come to a stable place. Down is perhaps not the best reference point—in, into the heart. Then when you are stable in that reference point you reach up and support the boats, help lift the people to safety. There's no you doing it anymore, it's coming from pure awareness.
I know this is still conceptual for many of you, and unfortunately in 2 hours that we have here, it's hard to convey the fullness of this. I hope that many of you will be coming to the June retreat. We'll have an opportunity to practice both vipassana and pure awareness, to dialogue together about it while sitting under that beautiful catalpa tree, blossoms drifting down upon us, to really get the feeling of the akashic field, the experience of it: how you sink down into that deep still place and then move in the world from that place.
Basically that still place is not much different than the akashic field. I would not call it synonymous. But it's close enough for me to call it the same, for now. As you deepen in your experience, you'll understand the difference.
Q: I'm confused about our use of the akashic records in real-time dilemmas. Last class, just at the end, Dan spoke of his trouble with his eye, and how he was using the akashic records to find a solution to his problem, suffering with real pain for several hours, and he ignored the help <> of his wife, who was an ER nurse. This story left me with the feeling that one can get pretty off-base with all this invisible help when real practical assistance is available. Maybe others in the circle were as confused as I was.
Aaron: First, akashic record and akashic field are two very different terms. Dan did not use the term akashic record but akashic field. The akashic records, what are they? They are the record of all of your experience, written in the akasha. The common word is akasha, but the akashic records are simply an expression of your experience. The akashic field is the container. I have talked about how the elements of earth, air, fire, and water, are expressing out, and the place of akasha, or ether. The akashic field and the akasha are not synonymous. The akasha is a thing, this energy or substance within the akashic field. The akashic field is the container.
When we sink down into the akashic field, stabilize ourselves there, and then act, we are thusly able to act appropriately to both bring in the allopathic medical care that is appropriate and the energetic movement as is appropriate. We are not choosing one over the other.
What happens when we work from the akashic field-- coming back to our swimmer who has sunk down and grounded himself. There's not a self trying to fix. Dan was aware of the pain in his eye. --We have not seen the transcript. Barbara's and my apologies for that. We kept the tape going. It ended up being almost 2 hours and was too big to send to the transcriber, too big to do anything with. We are trying to understand how to send a portion of it to the transcriber. She has gotten the last portion. Now we have to figure out how to get her the first portion.
So I have not seen or read what Dan said, precisely. But as I understood it when he was speaking, there was aversion to the pain and awareness that if he acted from that place of aversion, he might heal the eye but he was not releasing the karma. He was in fact creating new karma based on aversion and fix-it. But if he sank down into the akashic field, grounded himself there, released karma, then there would be the opportunity for whatever options are appropriate to attend to the pain in the eye. It was not a life threatening suituation; he had the leisure to explore. Am I correct?
Dan: So far, so good.
Aaron: If it's an emergency, you're cut and you're in danger of bleeding to death, yes, you're going to say yes to the tourniquet, even if there's fear and a self coming through. You don't have time to mess around! If it's a pain in the eye, you can wait for a bit until mind is centered enough to attend to the pain in the eye from the akashic field and from that centered place. And as you do that, you may well choose medical intervention, or whatever is appropriate.
So, akashic field, not akashic records. And, when we work from the akashic field we are always using all the skillful means of which we are knowledgeable. But we are doing it from a place of no self, from emptiness.
Coming back to this tying up of loose ends. Mind is Empty. Emptiness is Clear Light. Inherent in that clear light is clear darkness, or jumbled darkness. It's all there together. We cannot go into the next step until we know that the clear light contains darkness as well as light.
This is how we come to the step Clear Light is Union. As long as there is a distinguishing between light and darkness, clear light cannot be union. Then you're simply digging yourself deeper into this samsaric cycle, into your karma, choosing this and pushing away that. Clear Light is Union.
And the next step, Union is Great Bliss. To come to the end of the dualistic mind is great bliss. It's as simple as that. The mind stops creating "other-than" and settles down into the truth that it's all there together. And still, some of what is expressing out, some of what you're experiencing is wholesome and some is unwholesome. Some is pleasant and some is unpleasant. There's the ability to make a clear choice. Self, ego, is not choosing. Love is choosing. I would be tempted to say light is choosing, but that leaves out darkness. The union of light and darkness is choosing.
There are teachings you might look up called Mahamudra. Google it only if it interests you to read more about it. Mahamudra is about transcending this distinction between this and that, light and other, light and darkness. Union is Great Bliss.
So the akashic field teachings give us an opportunity to practice coming to this place of unity, experiencing the space before things go off into good or bad, light or dark, pleasant or unpleasant, I want or I don't want. To rest in that deep space.
As you become more stable resting in that deep space, the whole mind that's creating differences begins,... I would not so much say it begins to dissolve as it becomes transparent. We know Vision is Mind. All of these distinctions are simply in the mind. They're not real. Now, when I say that, if we think of a place where there's terrible genocide going on in the world, we can't say, "Oh, this is wonderful. This is just another expression of the divine." Well, it is, but it's hard to embrace it and we do want to do what we can to release that horror, end the genocide.
Here is another place where the depth of your practice reveals itself. Can you look at something terrible like terrorism or genocide, note, "I will do everything in my power to combat this in the world, to release this in the world, but I will not hate it," which is just more hate. "I will not even try to fix it. I will attend to the causes of it." We're back to causes and conditions. "I will attend to the variety of conditions that give rise to this terrible situation, and also see the causes of it in myself; because if it's happening out there, it's happening in me. If there is terrorism happening out there in the world, I can see all the conditions out there, but have I attended to the conditions in myself? To any old prejudice, any unresolved fear, any separation?
This is where we come back to the importance of the non-duality of light and darkness. As long as you believe you have to get rid of that which is "dark" in the self, that which is filled with fear, hatred or anger, you're still creating separation, and you're not, as we put it in an earlier class, putting your head in the demon's mouth. The demon is still out there.
Your practice asks so much love and courage of you, to be willing to see deeply into those negative distortions in the self, to attend to them with love. It requires total honesty. The akashic field becomes a safe place to do the work.
In teacher training class today we reviewed the Path as delineated in Visuddhi Magga, (title translated as Path of Purification), which is a commentary on the sutras, the whole Path of Insights and Knowledges. It's a beautiful path. As you practice vipassana you are following that path to a large extent. Yet it is still a subtly dualistic path based on the idea that you are not yet awakened, and that if only you follow all the steps in the path correctly then someday you will be awakened. It doesn't consider the already-awakened true nature.
So we do work with that path with your vipassana practice. But this pure awareness meditation and the akashic field practice serve as balances from the linearity of the traditional Theravada path and help you to know the already-awakened, the already-radiant, right here in this moment. To sink down into the akashic field, if necessary, to stabilize in that already-awake, and then come out and heal the eye, attend to the terrorism, whatever it is.
I do not intend this to be so much an instructional talk as inspirational. I hope I've given you some clarity about why we're practicing in the ways we're practicing, why we're learning about the akashic field. Certainly it has much wider ramifications. It's very useful to look at a skinned knee, to go into the akashic field and see the knee that is not skinned, that is whole, and invite the skin to heal itself. But you're not practicing to do seemingly miraculous healing. You're practicing to truly know the non-distorted in this moment. That means when you're faced with somebody who's very angry, you truly can see the non-angry person there without denying the anger. You can respond appropriately to the anger without creating a separation. That angry person is you as well as the other. No separation.
It's only through this kind of response that your Earth is going to survive. I truly feel that. And you who are willing to practice it, to practice this non-duality of self and other, non-duality of pleasant and unpleasant, you are truly able to take it a step further in the world. Otherwise you're just balancing dualities, throwing them back and forth against each other.
The traditional Theravada path does lead to liberation, to awakening. It's a profound path. But unfortunately many people who come through that path to a deep realization experience still are a bit of a mess in the world. They really don't know how to live their lives. They've had a profound experience of the Unconditioned but they don't know how to bring it back into everyday life. So we're talking about use of the akashic field and of pure awareness as a way to keep connected, conditioned and Unconditioned, knowing the simultaneity of them.
I'd like to hear any questions. We'd like to do a little bit of talking and then we're going to play some games, our intention being to help you experience that balance. Up here on the pole, down here, up here again, down here. Feeling when you are grounded, or when you are up at the surface and losing your grounding. Feeling when you are holding the space, grounded and touching the surface. We have some balls here and we're going to play games.
First I'd like to hear any questions about what I've said. And remember I've said this is not an informational talk so much as I hope an inspirational one.
Q: Sometimes I think I'm getting really good at relaxing. Then I wonder if I'm just on the verge of falling asleep.
Aaron: Could be! I can't answer that for you, but when you note yourself feeling this way, is the state drowsy or is it relaxed? Body relaxed but mind clear, or mind sleepy? Are you present in the moment? Observe the mind's focusing ability and how your body feels.
Aaron: It sounds like this is what we call sinking mind. There's a lack of energy. Heavy. What wakes it up is to simply note "drowsy, heavy." Is it pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral? How does it feel in the body? Watch it, note it. When you call up the attention to note it, does the heaviness abate a bit? (yes) And then does it come back? (Sometimes). Maybe it's just you've woken it up from sleeping. But if it comes back, note it again.
If you go through this a third or fourth time, begin to ask yourself, what am I getting out of this heaviness? Is there something I'm avoiding? Is there some resistance to being present here? If I were not drowsy or feeling so heavy in my energy, what might I be experiencing? Sadness, alienation, confusion, some heavy emotion? Just watch it. And the watching it brings up energy.
There's so much we could talk about here. If we had two hours a night, five days a week, for twelve weeks, we still could not cover it all. Are you familiar with the Factors of Enlightenment and the hindrances? Factors of Enlightenment, not inclusive, but including energy and effort. Hindrances of anger, grasping, drowsiness, agitation, and so forth. They're given the classical title "hindrances" but really they're just reminders to be present. They're not blocking the way; your reaction to them is blocking the way. But each hindrance has an accompanying balance to it. The balance to drowsiness and low energy is attention, energy, and effort. So when we remember that and find ourselves falling asleep, we just remember, ahh, time to sit up a little, maybe open the eyes. Note more precisely. Bring in a bit more energy and effort. You're not doing it to fix the drowsiness. You're doing it because your intention is to hold balance, and to awaken.
We could spend several classes simply talking about these hindrances and factors of enlightenment. That is not our intention this semester. But it's a very valuable pursuit.
Aaron: I am delighted you're coming. We do follow a sitting and walking schedule, but except for the instruction periods and group meetings, it's all optional. If you feel you need to get up and go for a walk in the woods, or even walk down to the lake and have a swim, you can do that. It's fine to do what you need to do. You can sit under a tree and write in a journal. You can just meditate under a tree or in the meadow. One year there was a litter of baby kittens in the meadow under a log, and many people spent several days just sitting out there with the kittens. They were very tiny, very sweet, but with a fiercely protective mother so one could not get too close. People did a lot of metta with them.
The retreat is held in silence. You can't sit there with the kittens and talk to your neighbor, "Oh, aren't they cute!" It's silent. We're doing a meditation practice. But it is not just formal sitting and walking from dawn to dusk.
Q: I want to reference what Q has said. I don't want to beat this issue into the ground. But there are times when I know I sleep, and there are times when I zone out and come back extremely energized, refreshed. But I'm zoned out, I don't know what's going on around me.
Aaron: It could possibly be that you're tired and falling asleep, have a nap, and come back energized.
Q: There's an emotion I feel—sadness, grief, or whatever. Usually it's a heavy emotion.
Aaron: Perhaps you're processing that emotion, going into it, feeling the heaviness of it, and releasing it without really being fully conscious of it. But at some level it releases.
The question for me is not that you're moving into that state, but whether it seems productive or unproductive. And if it feels productive, then don't worry about it. Don't make problems where none exist! Just continue to be aware of the mind and body experiences.
Q: Often if I meditate in a group, I feel extreme heat in my body for a while. I start sweating. Then it goes away.
Aaron: Note it. Just note, hot, hot. If it's pleasant, note it as pleasant. If it's unpleasant, note it as unpleasant. Don't try to figure it out, just know the direct experience. Whatever arises is the ground for insight, for wisdom, for compassion. So, note it. If you see that it's unpleasant and then aversion arises, watch that.
You don't have to know why there's heat. If it became a problem, if you started running a 105 degree fever, we might want to inquire what's going on. But in normal circumstances you're probably bringing up a lot of energy in relationship to the group. There may be friction, the self rubbing against all the other selves at some level. The self trying to diminish itself, or trying a little too hard. The self at some level asking, "Am I doing it right? What are other people thinking? Are they looking at me?" It may not be a conscious thought but there's some movement between the self and the others in the room creating friction, energy, and bringing up heat. There's nothing to fix, just note it. As you attend to it, gradually that symptom will diminish.
Q: I find it very difficult to experience the mundane and the supramundane at the same time. In my daily life I find that those experiences happen on the cushion, and I wonder if my life is just too busy.
Aaron: This is why people come to retreats. In a retreat you have the opportunity to just sit in the meditation hall and do your vipassana practice, watching how mundane objects arise into your experience and pass away, are impermanent, are not the basis of a separate self. Then you have the opportunity to wipe tables in the dining room, and ask yourself, is there a self wiping the table? Who's wiping the table? You have the opportunity to sit outdoors under this flowering tree dropping blossoms on you and feel your complete non-separation from the tree, from the sky, from the breeze. Finally, as the days pass it starts to come together.
We can't put it together conceptually, so it's very hard to do these practices just 20 minutes a day, 4 or 5 days a week, and gain the depth that you would like to gain. So I invite you to the retreat!
Barbara: Dan was just talking about equanimity, that the more you experience it, the more the old habit can go because you can look at it without reaction.
Q: What's the difference between equanimity and resignation?
Dan: Is resignation the near enemy of equanimity? Resignation comes from avoidance, from fear, from grasping after what you want and running away from what you don't want. Equanimity is in the center, being able to be there without reacting at all. Resignation is a reaction. It's, "Oh, I have to do this again?" So one's a reaction and one is a conscious non-reaction.
Barbara: You might want to look at Dalai Lama's Cat and how it comes to equanimity with the situation of being left sometimes, with the dog coming, and the many things that happen to him. There are some very clear examples of the difference between resignation and equanimity.
Barbara: A few words summing up. Please work with what Aaron talked about in the beginning, the whole series of Vision is Mind, Mind is Empty, Emptiness is Pure Light, etc. Begin to see that with non-duality, if Emptiness is Pure Light then it's also darkness. Go to the place where the mind creates dualities. I would like you to start labeling that as it comes up in your thinking, in these next two weeks. "Ah, creating a duality." Just notice it.
What prompts creation of a duality? Does it give you more sense of safety or control? Is it just habit? Where does the dualistic thinking come from? What happens to that dualistic thought when you note it? I'd like you to come prepared to share about that. Vision is Mind, Mind is Empty, Emptiness is Clear Light, Clear Light is Union, Union is Great Bliss. When we drop away that idea of a duality, can we come to the union of good and bad, like and don't like, pleasant and unpleasant? Can we see the place where it comes together and the self drops out of it? Use your experience balancing on the ball to help you get to that.
I want this to be connected to your everyday life, so watch the real-life occurences, like being cut off by a driver talking on the cell-phone. Anger comes up. Mind is Empty. Just go through it. See how you're creating a duality between yourself and that driver. Anger coming up. Where did all that anger come from? Coming back into this place of clear light.
Keep working with it in ways that are literally practical in your life, that are touching the real things that are happening in your real life. It's not a theoretical practice. And keep coming back to the akashic field experience as you may have experienced it sitting on the ball: balanced, feet down, gravity, holding balanced, putting the hands up. Being grounded in the akashic field and reaching out into the world.
Barbara: And we don't have to judge others. We don't have to judge ourselves. What a relief! Bliss!
Dan: Let me say one more thing about union. Union to me, the big non-duality, the big dark/light, is between whatever I'm experiencing in my mind and the "I" that perceives it. That to me is the union. So Clear Light is Union. It's the merging where the perceiver becomes one with the perceived. Whatever I'm looking at, the "I" drops away. It's just there. Just looking. That's another way you can look at light vs. dark, big vs. small, all of that duality. That would be the Cliff Notes version for me.
Dan: When you're sitting, you're very safe. You're still, you're quiet, and you can see that duality easily. Walking meditation would be the next step for me. You're still silent, but you're moving, and you can see that duality in movement. It becomes a heck of a lot more difficult when you're talking to another person. Once you get to the point where you can do walking meditation or cleaning, cleaning the kitchen meditation, where you're just alone with whatever's going on and the reality in front of you, and you can make the subject and object not be relevant anymore, just doing, then you can move on into conversation.
A little baby step into conversation is—I think, I don't know, but I think what we're talking about, I've done that before, where the person you're talking to, you're both trying to do the same thing, and you're both in a meditative state, you're both mindful, you're both mostly quiet, but you are interactive. And then that helps you go to the next step, which is talking normally like we are now. Then, getting into something more contentious or difficult. Going straight from sitting meditation to trying to talk to somebody is like learning how to dribble and then going to the NBA, as far as I'm concerned. It's a big jump. But if you can take those smaller steps, it makes it easier.


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While working with ASME/ANSI Flange, the terms such as Flange Ratings, Flange Pressure Ratings, Flange Class, pressure temperature rating of flanges are quite confusing. In this article, I have tried to simplify these terms for a better understanding of young engineers.
ASME B16.5 is a standard for Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings that covers flanges sizes from NPS ½" to 24". In this standard, flanges are classified based on their pressure-temperature rating which is also known as a flange class.
Pressure- temperature rating is the maximum allowable non-shock gauge pressure at the specific temperature for given material. I know it is still confusing. Let me further break this term.
As per ASME B31.3, ratings are maximum allowable working gauge pressure at the given temperature and for applicable material and pressure class.
Piping materials such as carbon steel, stainless steel, alloy steel have different mechanical and chemical properties. The same material can handle different amount of stress at a different temperature. Based on the ability of material to handle the stresses at given temperature, ASME B31.3 has devolved the maximum allowable stress value of material at a specific temperature and listed in Table A1.
The reason behind establishing the temperature rating is to calculate the adequate wall thickness of the pipe, flange and flanged fittings so that they can withstand the stresses due to pressure and other loads.
The pressure rating is the safe working or maximum operating pressure with respect to the working temperature. It depends on materials' Stress-Strain characteristics. It is available in different Codes and Standards.
ASME B16.5 has listed the Pressure-Temperature ratings for flanges. These ratings are established by based on the prime factor of hydro testing of the flanged fittings to the bursting and by adding a factor of safety of 3.0 at the rated working pressure and ambient temperature.
ASME/ANSI B16.5 has established these temperature-pressure ratings by using Formula as given below and listed in the tabular form, for all materials at different flange ratings.
Where, PT = rated working pressure in psig for specified material at temperature T.
Pr = Pressure rating as per Class in Psig.
SI = Selected stress in Psig for specified material at Temperature T.
From the above table, you can see that a 150 lb carbon steel flange, the allowable pressure is 285 psi at 100°F, 170 psi at 500°F, and 20 psi at 1000°F. The only temperature at which the flange is rated for 150 psi is near 500°F. Higher class flanges are rated at their nominal pressure rating only at near 850°F. See the cells in yellows.
ASME has developed flange Class considering temperature and pressure rating. There are seven Class 150#, 300#, 400#, 600#, 900#, 1500# and 2500#.
Higher the flnage ratings, heavier the flange and can withstand higher pressure and temperature. When the temperature goes up, maximum allowable pressure goes down, and vice versa. See the below image comparison of 6" Class 150 and Class 2500 weldneck flange.
The pressure classes of flanges are commonly referred to in terms of "pounds" rather than "pounds per square inch." In describing the pressure class of flanges, the terms "pound" and "class" may be considered interchangeable.
What is ASME / ANSI 150 pressure rating?
How to determine a flange ratings?
Well it is very simple. Let's assume that we want to use ASTM A105 flange for our service that has a pressure rating 1,200 psig and at 500 °F.
Now refer the pressure-temperature table for carbon steel given above. Flange with 600# rating meet the requirement. You can see that Class 600# can withstand 1205 psig pressure at 500 °F. See the cell highlighted in Green.
The information listed in this article is based on my research on the topics and may not be 100% correct. Any correction is welcome.