The Church of the Open Bible is hosting its 12th annual 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament on September 22, 2018! The Tournament will be held in the Gym of the Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington.
Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. and games begin promptly at 10am. The tournament will probably go until about 1 - 2 p.m. Each team is guaranteed at least three games. We will have a speaker for 10 minutes after about 1 hour of play to talk from the Bible about the message of Christianity. Everyone is encouraged to stay to listen!
This is a guys' tournament for anyone 14 years or older. Anyone under the age of 18 must have a waiver signed by a parent or guardian. All others can sign their own waiver form.
Everyone is invited to watch!
Each player will pay $15 when his team registers. This covers the t-shirt and organizational costs.
Each team must have between 3 and 5 players on their roster. Only players on the roster are permitted to play.
Substitution is unlimited, but permitted only when the ball is not in play.
To begin the game, a 3-point shot will determine the right to possession.
The ball will change possession after all made baskets, no "make it, take it."
The ball will be "cleared" on EVERY change of possession. Failure to clear it will result in the loss of possession and the loss of any points resulting from that possession. Cleared means both feet and the ball behind the 3 point line.
The ball must be checked by an opposing player before it is put into play. The ball must be passed to a teammate to begin to play.
Scoring is by 1's and 2's.
Each team is allowed one 1-minute time-out.
Players call their own fouls, which results in a possession of the ball.
Any games that get out of hand will be reffed by referees.
The sides and bottom of the backboard are inbounds. The top is out of bounds.
Boundaries are the sidelines, end line, and the half court line.


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Black Friday 2018 All Tech Deals TV, phone, laptop, game console etc.
If you're looking for a great deal on a TV, phone, laptop, game console, or really any gadget, Black Friday is one of the best shopping days of the year. We'll help you sort through the noise with the best online sales from Walmart, Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and more.
Black Friday 2018 is here, meaning now is the best time to find a discount for mostly everything on your wish list. That goes for tech, too. Every big box retailer, both online and in-store, is offering door buster savings that start today, and many of the best deals will last throughout the weekend leading up to Cyber Monday.
We have collected all Black Friday deals below. We'll be updating this list as items become available or sell out.
TELIVISION
LG C8P Series 55-inch HDR UHD Smart OLED TV for $1,796.99 at B&H Photo or Newegg (normally $2,496.99)
Vizio P-Series Quantum 65-inch 4K HDR TV for $1,499.99 at Best Buy or Target(normally $2,099.99)
Vizio P-Series (55-inch) 4K HDR TV for $649.99 at Best Buy (normally $799.99)
TCL 6 Series 65-inch 4K HDR Roku TV for $899.99 at Best Buy (normally $969.99)
Sony X850F Series 65-inch 4K HDR TV for $999.99 at Best Buy (normally $1,399.99)
Samsung Q6F Series 49-inch QLED 4K HDR TV for $697.99 at Newegg (normally $1,399.99)
LG C8P Series 77-inch HDR UHD Smart OLED TV for $6,996.99 at B&H Photo (normally $8,996.99)
LG C8P Series 55-inch HDR UHD Smart OLED TV for $1,796.99 at B&H Photo or Newegg(normally $2,496.99)
LG B8P Series 65-inch HDR UHD Smart OLED TV for $2,496.99 at B&H Photo (normally $3,296.99)
P-Series Quantum 65-inch 4K HDR TV for $1,499.99 at Best Buy or Target (normally $2,099.99)
P-Series (65-inch) 4K HDR TV for $899.99 at Best Buy (normally $1,199.99)
P-Series (55-inch) 4K HDR TV for $649.99 at Best Buy (normally $799.99)
M-Series (65-inch) 4K HDR TV for $899.99 at B&H Photo (normally $999.99)
E-Series (50-inch) 4K HDR TV for $350 at Dell with $100 gift card (starts 11/22 at 3PM ET)
6 Series 65-inch 4K HDR TV for $899.99 at Best Buy (normally $969.99)
65S4 4K HDR TV for $400 at Walmart (starting 11/21 online and 11/22 in-store)
Q7F Series 65-inch QLED 4K HDR TV for $1,795 at B&H Photo (normally $3,997.99)
Q6F Series 65-inch QLED 4K HDR TV for $1,297.99 at Best Buy (normally $1,799.99)
Q6F Series 49-inch QLED 4K HDR TV for $697.99 at Newegg (normally $1,399.99)
NU8000 Series 75-inch 4K HDR TV for $1,597.99 at Best Buy (normally $2,299.99)
NU8000 Series 65-inch 4K HDR TV for $997.99 at Best Buy (normally $1,299.99)
NU8000 Series 49-inch 4K HDR TV for $597.99 at Best Buy (normally $799.99)
X850F Series 65-inch 4K HDR TV for $999.99 at Best Buy (normally $1,399.99)
55-inch 4K HDR Roku TV for $250 at Best Buy (On Black Friday and in-store only)
CONSOLE AND PC GAMING
Most Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PS4 consoles will come with a $50 GameStop gift card
Nintendo Switch bundle with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is $299 at Walmart
PS4 Slim 1TB bundle with Spider-Man is $199 (usually $299) at Best Buy, Walmart, GameStop
Xbox One S Minecraft Creators Bundle is $199 (usually $299) at Newegg, Best Buy, Walmart, GameStop
Skytek Legacy pre-built desktop w/ i7-8700K processor, RTX 2080 GPU, 16GB RAM, 250GB SSD, 1TB HDD is $1,500 (usually $1,800) at Walmart
SkyTech Gaming Shadow Mini pre-built desktop w/ Ryzen 7 2600, Radeon RX 580, 500GB SSD, and more for $619 (normally $1,000) at Walmart
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming OC for $750 (usually $830) at Newegg — it's one of the very few deals on an RTX 2080, and comes with a free copy of Battlefield V.
Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Mini for $350 (usually $400) at B&H and Newegg — comes with a free copy of Monster Hunter: World.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming ACX 2.0 for $200 after $20 mail-in rebate (usually $240-$280) at Newegg, with a free copy of Monster Hunter: World
Samsung 860 EVO 1TB for $128 (normally $178-$200) at Amazon, B&H, Newegg or Walmart
Samsung 860 EVO 2TB for $295 (normally $400) at Amazon, B&H, Newegg or Dell
Corsair Vengeance RGB 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3000 C15 desktop RAM for $125 (usually $216) at Amazon or Newegg
Steam Link wireless/wired PC to TV streaming gadget for $2.50 (usually $50) at Steam
Elgato Game Capture HD60 S recorder for $130 (normally $180) at Amazon
Blue Yeti Blackout USB microphone w/ Fallout 76 for $100 (usually $150) at Best Buy
PS Plus one-year membership will be $39.99 at Best Buy (usually $59.99)
Xbox One X bundle with Battlefield V and extra controller will be $429.99 at Best Buy (usually $499.99)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PS4, Xbox One, PC) is $27 (usually $59)
God of War (PS4) is $17 (usually $39)
Assassin's Creed Odyssey is $27 (usually $59)
Madden 19 is $27 (usually $59)
FIFA 19 is $27 (usually $59)
COD Black Ops 4 is $38 (usually $59)
NBA 2K19 is $37 (usually $59)
Far Cry 5 is $24.99 (usually $59)
OnePlus 6 is $429 (usually $529)
Pixel 3 for $649 (regularly $799) at Google Store, runs November 22nd through 25th
Pixel 3 XL for $699 (regularly $899) at Google Store, runs November 22nd through 25th
Save $400 on the Pixel 3 at Best Buy
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is $799 (usually $999) at Walmart, Samsung, Amazon
Samsung Galaxy S9 is $519 (usually $719) at Amazon, Samsung, Walmart, B&H Photo
Sony 1000XM2 wireless noise cancelling headphones are $199 at Best Buy (usually $349)
Plantronics BackBeat Go 810 for $119.99 (usually $149) at Amazon
Beats Studio 3 Wireless headphones for $279.99 (usually $349.99) at Target
Audio-Technica A & AD headphones start at $59.99 on Massdrop
Jabra Elite 65t for $119.99 (usually $169.99) at Amazon
Plantronics BackBeat Fit 3100 for $129 (usually $149.99) at Amazon
SMART SPEAKERS / DISPLAYS
Echo Dot, current-gen is $24 (usually $49.99) at Amazon
Echo Plus, current-gen is $109.99 (usually $149.99)
Echo Spot is $89.99 (usually $129.99)
Sonos One is $174.99 (usually $199.99) through Best Buy or Sonos
Sonos Beam is $349 (usually $399)
Google Home Hub is $99.99 (usually $149.99) at Best Buy, B&H Photo, or Target
Google Home Hub with $10 in Vudu credit is $99.99 at Walmart (usually $149.99)
Google Home Mini and Chromecast bundle, including $15 in Vudu credit is $45 at Walmart (usually $74)
Save $50 on every model of Microsoft Surface Go (usually starts at $349) at Microsoft Store
Acer Nitro 5 (Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, GTX 1050 Ti) is $599 (usually $799) at Best Buy
Dell Inspiron Chromebook 11 2-in-1 is $199 at Dell (usually $279)
Samsung Chromebook Plus V2 is $349 at Samsung (usually $499)
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme is $1,349 at Lenovo (usually $1,871)
Black Friday is gone hence the deals are over but still you can try your luck as companies keep listing their products for sale on time to time.
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Grand Forks shelves plan to attach public health plans to local COVID gauge
On Monday, amid a weekslong downturn in countywide COVID figures, Grand Forks City Council members voted to shelve indefinitely a plan to attach recommendations to the Grand Forks Health Officer's Dashboard, which uses county-level data and a self-assessment from Altru Health System to gauge the risk posed by the virus on a given day.
Grand Forks Public Health staff put together the more local gauge earlier this summer, patterning it after a similar one established under the North Dakota Smart Restart plan, but the numbers it spits out and the risk levels it deems the county to be in leave no guidance.
At an Aug. 31 meeting, Council members asked city administrators to begin drafting policy recommendations that would go hand in hand with the local measurement tool's assessment of the virus' threat. It was a first step toward, in effect, creating a more localized version of the state's measurement system, which recommends certain precautions for residents and businesses to follow at each threat level but, up to that point, had not left the green "low" risk designation when virus metrics rose dramatically across North Dakota. Gov. Doug Burgum has since designated Grand Forks County and several others as "moderate" risk ones.
So why the change?
"Any official action to engage with the Public Health Officer's Dashboard seemed to be leading us to a complex situation where we would have to figure out how to put it (in) lockstep with the North Dakota Smart Restart," said Council member Bret Weber, who has been one of its loudest advocates for a city-specific plan and COVID measurement tool, but also called the vote to set aside, at least for the moment, plans to develop it further. "I was less interested in forcing that issue and mainly interested in making sure that we were recognizing the value of the Public Health Officer's Dashboard."
Weber also noted that the city and state are working on more robust public education campaigns that encourage residents to wear masks and practice social distancing.
"At the moment, we want to work in a collaborative fashion with the governor, and he seems to be going in the right direction," Weber said. "So we'll see how this goes."
The state's plan recommends an escalating series of restrictions based upon the virus' spread and the public health risks it poses — less indicated risk means less stringent recommendations.
Weber said on Monday that countywide COVID figures' downward trend over the past two weeks is a reason for cautious optimism. He told the Herald he's convinced the city would continue to recognize the value and utility of the information presented by the local-level gauge.
The local gauge analyzes county-level data and spits out a number between 0 and 3 — the higher the number, the higher the risk to residents, and higher numbers push the county through different assessments of that risk. For instance: relatively few new cases, lots of testing, few positives per test and ample hospital capacity would mean a number between 0 and 0.75, which would mean the virus would pose a "low" risk.
"We are following that dashboard. It is part of what we do to make decisions, as part of recommendations, among other tools," City Administrator Todd Feland said Wednesday.
The county's score on Thursday, Sept. 17 was 1.7, which puts it in the "high risk" category.
Grand Forks' coronavirus measurement tool considers new COVID-19 cases and the number of tests completed per 100,000 residents, the percentage of tests that came back positive over the preceding seven days, the percentage change in new COVID cases and Altru's self-assessment of its ability to handle COVID patients.
Until this week, the statewide gauge used several other metrics, only some of which are the overlap with Grand Forks' or are readily available to municipal governments.
It's now reduced to three: active cases and tests completed per 10,000 residents and a 14-day average of the proportion of tests that come back positive.
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Q: Wrong icon and association app The files with extension .tex on my Mac (running Mojave) exhibit some strange behavior:
(a) When I right-click such a file and select "Open With", the first choice is the "TeXshop" app.
(b) However, when I double-click the file, the file opens in the "Texpad" app.
(c) The file icon is a "TeXshop" icon.
(d) The "Get Info" panel, under "Open With..." gives "Texpad".
Any suggestions on how this can be fixed?

A: In the "Get Info" panel, the field under "Open with:" should be a picklist, you should be able to click on the list and choose an alternate application. You should then be able to use the "Change All..." button to make that application the default for all .tex documents.

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Q: How to mock api authetication in laravel unit testing enter code hereI call service which requires authentication, for that, I Have used without middleware trait,
$user = new User([
            'id' => 1,
            'eos_id' => '832355',
            'user_name' => 'yish',
            'email_id' => 'test@test.com'
        ]);
        $this->actingAs($user, 'api');

after that when I check as auth('api')->check()  it always returns false.
EDIT
COntroller method that i want to test
public function destroy($id)
    {
        try {
            $deleted = $this->wareHouseService->deleteWareHouse($id, auth('api')->user()->getAuthIdentifier());
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            $errors = [$e->getMessage()];
            if ($e instanceof ValidationException) {
                $errors = Arr::first(array_values($e->errors()));
            }
            return (new ErrorResource(collect($errors)))
                ->response()
                ->setStatusCode(422);
        }
}

Test method
public function test_destroy_warehoue () {

    $user = new User([
            'id' => 1,
            'whr_id' => '832355',
            'user_name' => 'yish',
            'email_id' => 'test@test.com'
        ]);

        $this->actingAs($user, 'api');

    $this->mockWareHouseService->shouldReceive('destroy')
            ->with(619, auth('api')->user()->getAuthIdentifier())
            ->andReturn(true);
    $actualData = $this->mockWareHouseController->destroy(619);

}

Here auth('api')->user()->getAuthIdentifier()  is aways return null .

A: In your test method, you need to mock Auth class just like you mock your wareHouseService. When to user (after guard) is invoked it should return your user. It will be something like this;
$user = factory(User::class)->create(['id' => 2]);
Auth::shouldReceive('guard')->once()->with('api')->andReturnSelf();
Auth::shouldReceive('user')->once()->andReturn($user);


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<?php

namespace Kunstmaan\TaggingBundle\Tests\Entity;

use Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection;
use Doctrine\DBAL\Connection;
use Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms\MySQL57Platform;
use Doctrine\DBAL\Result;
use Doctrine\ORM\AbstractQuery;
use Doctrine\ORM\Configuration;
use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager;
use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping\ClassMetadata;
use Doctrine\ORM\Query\Expr;
use Doctrine\ORM\QueryBuilder;
use Kunstmaan\NodeBundle\Entity\AbstractPage;
use Kunstmaan\TaggingBundle\Entity\LazyLoadingTaggableInterface;
use Kunstmaan\TaggingBundle\Entity\Tag;
use Kunstmaan\TaggingBundle\Entity\Taggable;
use Kunstmaan\TaggingBundle\Entity\TaggableTrait;
use Kunstmaan\TaggingBundle\Entity\TagManager;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

class Query extends AbstractQuery
{
    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function getSQL()
    {
    }

    /**
     * @return Result|int
     */
    protected function _doExecute()
    {
    }

    /**
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function getResult($hydrationMode = self::HYDRATE_OBJECT)
    {
        return new ArrayCollection();
    }
}

class FakePage extends AbstractPage implements Taggable
{
    use TaggableTrait;

    public function getPossibleChildTypes()
    {
        return [];
    }

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function getTaggableId()
    {
        return 777;
    }

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function getTaggableType()
    {
        return self::class;
    }
}

class Lazy implements LazyLoadingTaggableInterface
{
    use TaggableTrait;

    private $loader;

    public function setTagLoader(\Closure $loader)
    {
        $this->loader = $loader;
    }

    public function getLoader()
    {
        return $this->loader;
    }

    public function getId()
    {
        return 5;
    }
}

class TagManagerTest extends TestCase
{
    /** @var TagManager */
    private $object;

    private $em;

    public function setUp(): void
    {
        $tag = new Tag();

        $comparison = $this->getMockBuilder(Expr\Comparison::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $expr = $this->getMockBuilder(Expr::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $expr->expects($this->any())
            ->method('eq')
            ->willReturn($comparison);

        $query = $this->getMockBuilder(Query::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $builder = $this->getMockBuilder(QueryBuilder::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $builder->expects($this->any())
            ->method('select')
            ->willReturn($builder);

        $builder->expects($this->any())
            ->method('from')
            ->willReturn($builder);

        $builder->expects($this->any())
            ->method('where')
            ->willReturn($builder);

        $builder->expects($this->any())
            ->method('expr')
            ->willReturn($expr);

        $builder->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getQuery')
            ->willReturn($query);

        $builder->expects($this->any())
            ->method('innerJoin')
            ->willReturn($builder);

        $builder->expects($this->any())
            ->method('setParameter')
            ->willReturn($builder);

        $query->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getOneOrNullResult')
            ->willReturn(new Tag());

        $query->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getResult')
            ->willReturn([]);

        $em = $this->getMockBuilder(EntityManager::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $repo = $this->getMockBuilder(EntityRepository::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $repo->expects($this->any())
            ->method('find')
            ->willReturn($tag);

        $repo->expects($this->any())
        ->method('findAll')
        ->willReturn(new ArrayCollection());

        $em->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getRepository')
            ->willReturn($repo);

        $em->expects($this->any())
            ->method('createQueryBuilder')
            ->willReturn($builder);

        $this->object = new TagManager($em);

        $this->em = $em;
    }

    public function testFindById()
    {
        $result = $this->object->findById(666);

        $this->assertInstanceOf(Tag::class, $result);
    }

    public function testFindByIdReturnsNull()
    {
        $em = $this->getMockBuilder(EntityManager::class)
        ->disableOriginalConstructor()
        ->getMock();

        $object = new TagManager($em);
        $this->assertNull($object->findById(null));
    }

    public function testFindAll()
    {
        $this->assertInstanceOf(ArrayCollection::class, $this->object->findAll());
    }

    public function testFindRelatedItems()
    {
        $meta = new ClassMetadata(Random::class);
        $meta->table = ['name' => 'test_table'];

        $connection = $this->getMockBuilder(Connection::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $connection->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getDatabasePlatform')
            ->willReturn(new MySQL57Platform());

        $this->em->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getConnection')
            ->willReturn($connection);

        $query = $this->getMockBuilder(Query::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $query->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getResult')
            ->willReturn(new ArrayCollection());

        $this->em->expects($this->any())
            ->method('createNativeQuery')
            ->willReturn($query);

        $this->em->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getClassMetadata')
            ->willReturn($meta);

        $this->em->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getClassMetadata')
            ->willReturn($meta);

        $this->object = new TagManager($this->em);

        $item = new Random();
        $results = $this->object->findRelatedItems($item, Random::class, 'en');
        $this->assertInstanceOf(ArrayCollection::class, $results);
    }

    public function testFindRelatedItemsReturnsNull()
    {
        $item = new Random();
        $results = $this->object->findRelatedItems($item, \DateTime::class, 'en');
        $this->assertNull($results);
    }

    public function testFindRelatedItemsWithAbstractPage()
    {
        $meta = new ClassMetadata(Random::class);
        $meta->table = ['name' => 'test_table'];

        $connection = $this->getMockBuilder(Connection::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $connection->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getDatabasePlatform')
            ->willReturn(new MySQL57Platform());

        $this->em->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getConnection')
            ->willReturn($connection);

        $query = $this->getMockBuilder(Query::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $query->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getResult')
            ->willReturn(new ArrayCollection());

        $this->em->expects($this->any())
            ->method('createNativeQuery')
            ->willReturn($query);

        $this->em->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getClassMetadata')
            ->willReturn($meta);

        $this->em->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getClassMetadata')
            ->willReturn($meta);

        $item = new FakePage();
        $results = $this->object->findRelatedItems($item, Random::class, 'en');
        $this->assertInstanceOf(ArrayCollection::class, $results);
    }

    public function testTagging()
    {
        $config = $this->getMockBuilder(Configuration::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $config->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getCustomHydrationMode')
            ->willReturn(null);

        $config->expects($this->any())
            ->method('addCustomHydrationMode')
            ->willReturn(null);

        $this->em->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getConfiguration')
            ->willReturn($config);

        $resource = new FakePage();
        $this->assertNull($this->object->loadTagging($resource));
    }

    public function testLoadTagging()
    {
        $config = $this->getMockBuilder(Configuration::class)
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->getMock();

        $config->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getCustomHydrationMode')
            ->willReturn(null);

        $config->expects($this->any())
            ->method('addCustomHydrationMode')
            ->willReturn(null);

        $this->em->expects($this->any())
            ->method('getConfiguration')
            ->willReturn($config);

        $resource = new Lazy();
        $this->assertNull($this->object->loadTagging($resource));
        $loader = $resource->getLoader();
        $loader($resource);
    }
}

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The conversation seemed to stall like rusty machinery after the brief exchange between the two, leaving Vala somewhat at a loss. They stood there for a couple of moments in perfect silence, before Vala decided to turn back to her classmates. This was the first time she'd ever participated in a practical class, and she didn't really know what today's lesson would entail. All she knew was that the focus rotated a lot, from individual training exercises to mass group battles.
Yet she was interrupted by Jensen, who proclaimed their departure and instantly began to walk forward. Vala hesitated again, glancing at her classmates. They'd clearly been watching the interaction between the two, and Elise waved her off with an amused smile and a shooing motion. Sighing slightly to herself with a mix of pure frustration and resignation, Vala followed after Jensen at a half-jog.
She'd already participated in a sim like this with Aemer once, but it had only been a duo pod. She began to try and trail the cables that connected Jensen's chosen pod back to the mech sim that was paired with it. However, a few feet out from the pod, the cords branched into a large central cable, running off across the floor like a road. Wincing slightly, Vala glanced around, before following the largest cable, which was connected to a mech sim.
Struggling for a few moments to figure out how to unlatch the cockpit, which had been left open the two previous times she'd used a sim, Vala finally managed to get herself inside. No one said anything, so she set about buckling herself in and getting the simulation running.
Welcome to the mobile armor division. This device simulates the function of a battlefield-ready MI-1988B. All further settings match according to the practice situation. A bioenginner has been detected in the attached pod. Please complete mech calibration. Simulation will begin once all participating pods are ready.
As the familiar sounds of the mech's engines began to vibrate around her, Vala felt a portion of her frustration sliding away as well. Regardless of the circumstances, she liked being in a mech. Having such a cooperative, obedient piece of machinery underneath her fingers somehow made everything seem so much more manageable.
Halfway through calibration, Vala heard Jensen's voice. She didn't respond until the mech's own confirmation echoed through the space. "I'm ready. Just waiting for the other sims now, I guess."
Vala hesitated for a second at Jensen's question. "Um..." She wasn't as ignorant as she'd been a week ago, and definitely not as much as when she'd just been picked up off the Wastes. Aemer's notes had given her some basic understanding of how bioengineers worked, which meant her Bioengineer Study class was actually the one she was least behind on. So Vala knew what a parasite was, and how the bioengineers used them. But Jensen's question left her momentarily stumped. "Why would you do that?"
For a second, Jensen wasn't sure his new mech driver had heard him, so he waited awkwardly, until she finally worked out enough of what she was thinking to ask him why. Jensen frowned. Yes or no, but he'd never had anyone ask him why he was asking a question. Weirder and weirder. "Um well." He said shortly, trying not to think she was just being contrary to be contrary, "Some mech drivers prefer to know as soon as I have visibility so they can get a feel for... I guess you might call it the flow of the battle, and start building their strategies before they get too close. I find partners with aggressive play styles like yours tend to be more eager, so it's a standard question I ask when I first start working with a new mech driver.... Especially one without a prior bioengineer for me to interview."
He waited through another long moment of painful silence for a response. Maybe he needed to expand his pool of mech driver types. He wasn't used to the more experienced drivers being so... quiet.
The flow of the battle?
Vala could only assume that was some lesson in her battle tactics class that she hadn't gotten to yet. Vala could definitely recognize how that would be necessary for a bioenginner. They were in the background, constantly monitoring the behavior of the squid, setting up traps and making sure that their mech driver wouldn't get overwhelmed. However, Vala wasn't even at the stage of recognizing commonly used tactics yet, let alone trying to make up her own.
Realizing that she'd been pondering for several, long moments, Vala shook her head, remembered Jensen couldn't see that, and finally spoke. "I mean, you do whatever is most comfortable for you. I wouldn't want to interfere with your... uhhh... flow."
She winced internally at that sentence, feeling the entire notion was somehwat absurd. At the very least, she was genuine in her statement. Vala couldn't help but figure that Jensen had enough on his plate having to deal with an entire battlefield full of squid without having to worry about her little needs and wants as well.
Fortunately, as though to cut through their awkwardness, the console beeped a second later. All participants confirmed ready. Simulation beginning in 3... 2... 1...
The view around her opened up, and Vala found herself inside the simulated hangar, rows and rows of mechs lined up around her. For one second, her heartbeat soared as she remembered the panic and overwhelm she'd felt as she'd marched out to battle that first day. But this wasn't real. As the mechs began to move forward at the deploy order, Vala instinctively followed along with them.
Had Jensen been standing, he rather imagined he would've fallen over. Interfere? With his flow? What the hell was she talking about? The flow of the battle was a mech driver's prerogative. Even if she was fresh and didn't have specific tactics in mind, he had figured she would have an idea of the sorts of things she wanted him to focus on, let her know about, or set up. But she was talking as though he was his own fish swimming next to her instead of acting as her eyes and ears. He was stunned into silence for long enough that the simulation began before he could fully wrap his brain around what was happening. Hell, if the mech driver in her last two battles had been anyone but Aemer, he would've been kicking himself right now for not approaching them. As much as he hated approaching Aemer for anything, he kind of was kicking himself for it anyways. How the hell was he supposed to run a battle when he had no idea what the mech driver wanted or expected from him? If she was a complete newbie, he would've laid out simple plans for her to follow, but his stock newbie plans were incredibly poorly suited to aggressive mech drivers, which was the only thing he was absolutely certain she was.
Brain spinning through a million different scenarios to compensate for his lack of knowledge on how to deal with a situation like this, he closed his eyes and activated his parasite. He had activated it early, but unlike most mech drivers who activated their parasites early to orient themselves in a hurry, he used the confusing mix of sensations to sample the general feel of the Calamar as they drew closer. This was much more useful and variable in real battles, he found, whereas sims had only a certain range of presets for how the squid were planning to interact. It was only after he rolled through this brief scan that he focused back in on his own body.
The minute he focused again, however, he found himself uneasily uncertain. His mech driver hadn't directed him to do anything so far, and didn't seem inclined to do so any time soon. At the same time, he felt quite certain she would balk at him instructing her. He took a deep breath and tried, "The Calamar are on a more feint-heavy, less aggressive preset, so precision is more going to be their game." This was honestly much more annoying and tiring for him as a bioengineer. He didn't know how other bioengineers felt about dealing with different trends in Calamar behavior, but he'd always found the fast-paced, less specific Calamar battles to require less thought to impact, especially if other bioengineers would work in tandem with him. "I will tell you if anything requires immediate attention, but would you prefer I focus on altering the timing of precision attacks and feints, or directing them towards where you can most easily access them? Normally, I'd try to allow you to deal with only one batch of squid at a time, but as a comfortable dual-wielder, I would not mind intentionally encouraging them to do pincer attacks. If you use your multi-mech comms to communicate with other mech drivers, I can coordinate with their bioengineers as well for more complex cooperative maneuvers." There had to be something something in that that she might gravitate towards. They were still some distance from the Calamar, so there was a little time to discuss, but not much. Once they got close, he was going to have to figure out this new mech driving style on the fly. What he would give right now for some extra time to think....
The mech broke past the edge of the hangar, joining the cascading flood of metal that flooded out into the battlefield. At the full sight of what awaited her, Vala couldn't help her mouth dropping slightly in awe. It was truly like she was back on the battlefield that very first day, watching the tidal wave of metal ready to collide against the incoming squid.
She allowed her mech to fall to the ground this time, unwilling to let herself be surrounded by squid on six sides when Aemer wasn't there to protect her, drawing out her dual-mode gun and ion sword. The other weapons had once again tempted her, but she'd purposefully distracted herself from their allure. One day. One of these days she'd try them all out, just to see how they felt.
That day was not today.
Rushing forward towards the squid alongside all the other virtual mechs, Vala waited for Jensen to give her some sense of what was going on around them. However, questions immediately began to pop up in Vala's head as he began to speak.
She was certain the information on the Calamar's behavior should have been useful, but it seemed to lean in to an understood combat jargon that she was still heavily lacking. Feint heavy meant they'd be trying to dodge her attacks rather than charging forward? Or did it mean they'd be suddenly changing targets after pretending to attack somewhere? And what did it mean for her if they were being precise instead of aggressive?
However, before she could even think about organizing her questions, Jensen resumed speaking.
As the words continued to tumble out of his mouth, Vala couldn't help but feel like they were transforming into the same kind of noise that was emitted by the engines of her mech.
No, that was unfair to the mech. At least she could tell what the mech was doing through the changes in the engine's pitch. Vala couldn't tell whether or not Mr. Jensen thought they were in the middle of a lecture, as much as he was throwing out strategies and possibilities and terms.
What was certain was that everything but the last few words seemed to have gotten left behind in the virtual hangar room. Desperately trying to cling to something, Vala hesitantly nodded in agreement. "I'm fine with complex maneuvers. Just… do what you do best and tell me what I need to pay attention to, okay?"
A twang of resentment shot through Jensen's brain at that ambiguous response. What he did best? What he did best?! He hadn't been called a robot because he did his own thing. Was she shutting him out on purpose. He was now quite certain she'd refused to meet him on purpose earlier. They wouldn't be in this situation if she had just contacted him earlier so they could go over plans beforehand. Or perhaps he should have reached out to her earlier, but he hadn't thought it would take her that long.
Jensen sucked in his lower lip and dug his teeth into it. Okay. He was going on no instructions, without the comfort to use previously set plans, and absolutely no confidence that his mech driver would either give him any directives in the middle nor listen to him if he tried to give her directives. He didn't have the time to wrestle a modus operandi from his partner, and he didn't have enough data to derive one himself. All he knew were three things: 1. She was an aggressive fighter who picked up things quickly and could dual-wield, 2. She'd directed him to tell her what she needed to focus on, and 3. She'd quite successfully worked with Aemer before. He may not know this girl, but he did know Aemer. Knew..... but couldn't emulate. Their styles were too different, never mind that line of thinking.
For a moment, Jensen took a deep breath, focusing on his lungs to keep him calm and sharpen his mind, and filtering out the mental images flooding in from his link with the Calamar. It was alright. There was a reason he'd skipped college to go straight into an acting bioengineer position. Theory was helpful, but only after he'd gotten a feel for how a battle actually ran. He was just starting over..... with less information here than he'd ever started with... but he had more experience now. A sudden burst of clarity hit him. There was one situation where he knew how to play without customizing to a mech driver's style. A no-designated mech driver sim. In that case, he had a lot more people to work with, but this was no longer a dire disaster just waiting to happen. He took another deep breath, and then focused back on the Calamar.
It was strange how syncing with the Calamar made him feel. They were seconds away from the clash, but he was... boundless. Limitless. Floating through the air unafraid of anyone or anything. Despite a horde of other opinions and plans clamoring for his attention, his brain was oddly clear in these moments, as though he was looking down on everything as careless as a malevolent god. From there, the simulated Calamar seemed like children to him. Chaotic, unpredictable, and sometimes dangerous, but ultimately simple. And the mech drivers and their bioengineers, pieces in a video game. Moving on some of their own will, but nothing more than tools to be used and moved at the end of the day.
His previous panic suddenly gone, he was dead silent as Vala started off with somewhat haphazard distance shooting (as most mech drivers did), and when she was almost close enough for melee combat, he spoke calmly and clearly, almost in a monotone. "To your right will pretend to attack your neighbor but go for you instead." With a second wave behind them to finish off Vala's neighbor, but that was none of her concern. That slight change in timing wouldn't be enough to finish off a fresh and experienced mech driver. "In front plans to take advantage while breaking from a boss, so shoot them as soon as the right moves. Feint forward as soon as you clear them, then pull back hard." A forward movement slightly breaking from the ranks of grounded mech drivers could draw a few groups towards them, giving the others enough breathing room to clear any that got through from that motion.
Hrm. This was a conservative plan. If he had a few more people that feint could be used as a trap instead. No matter. As soon as she started shooting the squid that had broken from their boss, he moved on. "Your left needs help. The boss can be snipershot." He remarked, casually, but also immediately followed that with, "Shoot some aerials, and the front right will bolt for what they think is a gap." It almost felt like he was losing sight of his driver specifically, and he had to resist the urge to talk as if the other mech drivers in the vicinity could hear him. How terribly restricting this was....
The communication line suddenly fell completely silent after Vala's request. For several seconds she was flustered, but everything seemed to calm down inside her a few moments later.
It was fine. This was much better than him continuing to feed her complex ideas and theories she barely understood, and her getting distracted trying to understand it all. Besides, he was surely focusing on the battle to come. They were only a few moments away from colliding with the squid now, and Vala's fingers quickly twitched, getting the mech to draw out the dual-mode gun even as it continued to sprint forward across the ground. The cabin shook slightly with every heavy step, setting up a rhythm that only felt like a heartbeat.
A rain of bullets greeted the squid, several of them fluttering down through the air, no longer able to keep themselves aloft as lead ripped them out of the sky. Vala breathed deeply, smiling, and then she was among the squid.
Only a minute later, Jensen's terse voice greeted her, warning her of an attack coming from the right. She prepped herself, sword instantly flicking into her hand, not activated. It took almost a minute from the time of his advice to the squid actually arriving, time Vala couldn't help but begrudge slightly as it distracted her attention from the battle in front of her, but the moment the squid suddenly rolled to the side and flew in her direction, the ion sword was there to rip them apart.
Still, she was easily able to work her way through his instructions, somewhat settling into the lag that followed between his advice and the moment when she actually needed to take action. It wasn't comfortable, but it was workable. However, a few minutes later, and the instructions started to come more rapidly. A lower boss fluttered to the ground a moment after Jensen's words, taken by surprise from a bullet coming in from its side. Only an instant later, bullets were arcing up through the air, creating an opening in several of the aerial squid.
The battle progressed. Vala smoothly switched back and forth from her close, personal battle with the squid to the ranged battle that followed whenever Jensen gave her a piece of advice. However, her feeling that things were going smoothly enough was gradually beginning to get disrupted by a strange, nagging thought in the back of her mind that things weren't quite right.
The squid were coming after her in chaotic waves.
Left, right, up down, strange patterns and waves, some of them squished so close to each other that Vala could hardly tell there were two squid there until one of them was reaching out to wrap its tentacles around her mech. She hopped backwards only to realize that the squid had started flanking her rear as well, circling around the battlefield to target her from behind.
She felt surrounded.
And it was strange. She knew there were far less squid here than there had been during her one-on-one sim with Aemer earlier that week. This time there was an entire battlefield full of mechs to help balance the load. And yet… and yet…
Yet she felt like she was back in the evaluation sim, fighting without a bioengineer.
Abruptly, Vala felt her blood run cold.
As the shiver ran up her spine her hands trembled slightly, causing the parry she'd been attempting with her gun to go slightly wide. One of the squid's sharp tentacles pierced into the shoulder joint of her mech, creating a sound of protesting metal. Before it could get any deeper than the surface plating, Vala bashed it away with her sword, before twisting her mech sharply on the spot. The force of the movement slammed her back into her own seat, but the mech's outspread fists bashed against the other squid that were drawing close, sending them flying away and giving her half a second of breathing room.
She was overthinking it. Wasn't she? Was Jensen… really trying to sabotage her?
Jensen's lips twisted. He didn't like this. The longer the battle went, the more it felt as though he was working with a laggy sim, like one of those stuttery robots in the old tech museum that responded to voice commands. It didn't think for itself, didn't do anything beyond keeping itself alive and responding to basic commands or nudging. Or maybe it was more like that time he'd gotten his mouth numbed for a tooth procedure. His mind was moving, but his body was dull and unresponsive. An odd thing to think, considering his partner was still showing the same speed, dexterity, and ruthless precision he'd seen from her in the earlier sim.
He sighed, seeing what looked like a basic mistake almost costing the mech its arm. She could clearly do better, maybe this was some bid to bully him because he wasn't as good as Aemer. Dull. No matter how difficult drivers wanted to be outside the sim, usually once the threat of dying - however fake - settled in, they fought the best they could. This kind of low-grade harassment to make him look bad was boring, in a way. In fact, this entire battle was boring, as if he could feel his consciousness floating aimlessly through the squid, his more analytical mind on autopilot because he couldn't do anything truly interesting. He couldn't even collect data about her properly like this.
For half a moment, he was tempted to ask her if she was really satisfied with wasting both their time like this, but he knew better than to aggravate his mech driver in the smack middle of a battle. That was something Aemer had never seemed to worry about. His mind wandered a little, and for all of a second, he could imagine her voice in his head, "You fucking son of a bitch! What are your eyes even for?! Being as slow as the turtle and blind as an unsynced squid isn't a virtue, you know!" God, did he sometimes wish he could be as shameless as her.
But he wasn't Aemer. So he kept hammering away at mini-strategies, steadily increasing the speed and complexities of the things he asked her to do, but never trying anything truly ambitious, and by the end of the battle, he felt an inner steam of frustration and irritation. Taking a long breath, Jensen cracked each knuckle one at a time, pulling back each finger after cracking that knuckle. With each finger, he felt that steam cool, and by the time he disengaged his parasite wristband and unstrapped himself, he was back to his usual, calm self.
He scrambled out, trying to make sure he'd get to his mech driver before she could leave. They needed to talk....
As the battle wore on the squid around her grew more and more unruly, and Vala's vague uncertainty about Jensen settled into a firm and frustrated conviction.
Other than acting as her eyes in the sky—at the very least, he was at least doing that—and keeping the squid's mental pressure from overwhelming her, Jensen didn't seem to be taking a single action. Vala only had the most superficial knowledge of what a bioengineer was supposed to do, but even she could guess to some extent. Organize the squid. Create openings. Guide and manipulate them so that their assigned mech's weapons would become more effective, more deadly.
He did none of that. Or, if this is what his strategies and manipulation looked like, he was more incompetent than she could ever have guessed.
Forcing herself to calm down and focus, Vala made sure her hands stayed steady, that the mech remained moving and responsive, cutting down the squid that surrounded her even as she did her best to remain responsive to Jensen's increasingly erratic bursts of information. In the moments of silence... she tried to focus on the purpose of this fight.
The College ran weekly sims for the express purpose of studying how effectively the previous week's lessons had been absorbed. Most of the battles had at least tangential relation to what they'd been learning so far. Theory and then practice; it was an effective strategy.
Assuming, of course, that Vala could remember any of it during the chaos of the battle.
Somewhere along the way, it became a little bit easier. She remembered the pressure that had rested on her during that first battle, when Aemer had told her they'd become the anchor for the entire front line. This was... nothing like that. Most of the squid hardly seemed to care about her. Even a lesser boss never bothered to come in her direction. She was nobody in this fight, just another one of the endless streams that swung swords and fired bullets.
Yet, even without that pressure, this fight was somehow so much harder than anything she'd done yet. Something burned inside her, urging her to do... something. And yet, there was nothing for her to do. Nothing but continue picking off the endless individual Calamar that surrounded her, and wait for the battle to end.
So when the squid finally began to retreat, flowing away like rushing water, Vala momentarily went limp, slumping forward in her harness. The mech automatically began to return to the hangar, and everything went dark.
She didn't want to move.
Surely there would be people watching her. Although she hadn't done poorly, Vala knew that she hadn't been able to perform to the standard she'd shown in the past. Yet would they really believe her if she told them her new bioengineer had all but abandoned her to this battlefield?
Right, because that's what he'd done. He'd abandoned her. Without word or warning, without cause at all, he'd done nothing but the absolute minimum. Would her teachers see it? How would this reflect back on her and her lessons for the coming week? Did he truly want to see her fail that bad?
Nervousness and distaste rose in her stomach, the familiar anxiety of whenever she'd confronted a situation that was outside her control in the Wastes. Yet, somehow, it also cooled her head, causing adrenaline to race through her in preparation for the imagined threat.
Before, she hadn't had anything personal against Jensen. She just hadn't appreciated what he represented. But now? Now it was personal?
Firmly unbuckling her harness, Vala opened the hatch before jumping out of her sim. Her eyes immediately found Jensen, the other man quickly hurrying towards her. Her lips pinched into a thin line, hands reflexively closing and unclosing before she tucked them away behind her back.
This wasn't the place to have an argument.
Uncertain she'd be able to keep herself cool depending on what he said, she pointedly turned away from him.
Hopefully he'd get the hint. She'd seen what he'd done. If he felt any shame at all, he'd just leave her alone.
"Hey. Stop." Jensen said, jumping forward. The look on her face, the way she turned away from him, it was now almost certain in his head that Vala Davans hated him. He wasn't sure why, or what he'd done to earn himself the world's worst mech driver, but he wasn't stupid enough not to realize when someone had a vendetta against him. She didn't look interested in stopping, and Jensen felt his heart rate rise. In battle, everything seemed to melt away into a series of simple calculations. In real life, on the other hand, sometimes it felt like he had to live his life on autopilot not to let people get to him. He wasn't sure why he was letting this angry inconsiderate girl succeed. Usually incompetence was an amusing personal failure, or a problem with a solution.
So he stopped, opened his mouth and shouted across the room, "Is it some hobby of yours to harass bioengineers or something?! What, you think geniuses should only work with other geniuses?!" He didn't get the impression that was exactly it, but her response would tell him if she was a conceited, arrogant bitch, or if she just had something against him personally.
Vala heard Jensen calling out to her to stop, and felt her stomach clench in anger and frustration. He hadn't left her alone. "I don't want to talk to you right now," she said, voice slightly strained from the tension that radiated through her, every word clearly enunciated.
Later, she'd have to do something. She couldn't just let herself be partnered
"Harass bioenginners?" Vala repeated, utterly bewildered. And then she couldn't help but flare. "Harass?!" For refusing to talk to him after what he did? How. Dare. He?
"I have spent my entire life on the Wastes," Vala began. To her own ears, her voice sounded unusually calm and distant. It didn't seem to match with the fire that was raging in her chest causing her to tremble on the spot. "And I have met some truly despicable people. But if everyone in the Cities was as bad as you, I'd be better off out there. At least then, my life won't be in the hands of a selfish asshole who isn't even willing to show the most basic courtesy of pulling his own weight."
"Pulling my own weight?" Jensen scoffed, hairs on the back of his neck raising. But he was losing his nerve a little, and had become keenly aware that everyone in the room was staring at them. His voice started shaking, and he could feel an awkward blush of embarrassment and anger crawling up his neck. "You're the one who didn't bother to tell me anything, make any plans, you just say 'oh do whatever you do,' do the bare minimum not to get killed, and I'm the one not pulling my weight? I'm the asshole for not magically reading your mind? I know bioengineers just seem like tools to you guys because our job is so easy compared to actually fighting," he lifted his fingers to make air quotes for actually fighting, but his whole body had started shaking, breath coming out in spurts, and he could feel tears building up in his eyes, "but what is it exactly you expect someone to do when- when- a shit-"
"Hey!" Angela Keerim had gotten out of her sim a few sets away, and grabbed one of Jensen's arms, since he was closer. She looked at both of them in confusion. "What's going on? Both of you calm down. Look at where you are."
Jensen looked at her as if she was an attacker. They didn't know each other, why was she touching him? The shaking got much worse, and his throat closed up so not another word would come out, but it did succeed in shutting him up.
Thankfully, she let go of him, making her way towards Vala, and speaking in a calming voice. "Hey. Are you okay? Take a deep breath. You did fine. If there's something wrong with your practice, you can work it out with your bioengineer. Or ask for a new one. This was just a practice, Vala, breathe." She tried to pat Vala on the back, almost hugging her.
A snicker came from another corner of the room, and a snide, but unidentifiable voice could be heard saying, "Oh look, the genius and robot boy are giving each other meltdowns."
"I asked you to do your job, and you did literally nothing!"
Well, there went the calm. Vala didn't even fully register that Ange had approached her until she felt an arm crossing firmly across her back. It caused her to flinch, and she took a deep, gasping breath. However, it didn't cause the hatred that was practically spewing out of her eyes to lessen.
Frankly, Vala didn't care about the people watching them. For all she cared, the entire city could watch their argument. Vala knew how to yield to circumstance. Nothing was ever easy. But if you ever let people just walk all over you, then you'd end up as nothing more than a slave. She'd never let Jensen place the blame for his lack of actions on her. She wasn't responsible for him. Yet he was the one standing there, having done nothing the whole fight, and then turning around to blame her for it.
Vala was a mech driver, not a bioengineer. And somehow he expected her to be doing his share of the work as well as her own? Why the fuck did they have partnerships then?
Still glaring at him, Vala let out a derisive, almost explosive laugh, but there was no true mirth in her, just frustration and derision. "You're the one who told me to stop. So, what? Want to keep going at it? Or do I have your permission to go now?"
Jensen's heart was hammering in his chest, his whole body shaking, face red. He felt like he was about to choke on his own hatred, but he didn't know what to say, what he could say in the face of someone like that. Slowly, he lifted his glasses and wiped the tears from his eyes. "All I wanted to do was talk. See if we could figure out a better strategy. But fine. Go. You're not worth trying to reason with." But instead of waiting to see if she'd go, he turned around and headed for the opposite door.
Angela opened her mouth to yell after him, but decided instead to keep patting Vala on the back. Technically, they still had time on their sessions, but she asked, anyways, "You want to get out of here? I can call Aemer...."
He wanted to reason? He wanted a strategy? Why the fuck hadn't he done that when they'd actually been fighting, instead of sitting there doing nothing? No, all he wanted was to look like their poor fight hadn't been his fault, and make her out to be the unreasonable one. Who knew how many times his fake-cry act had worked in the past?
Unwilling to just let him walk away with the last word, Vala laughed again, this time louder and more purposefully. "A better strategy?" she shouted after his back. "You have to do something first for a strategy to even exist, asshole."
And then he was gone, figure swallowed up by the people who had gathered up to watch the fun. Vala shot them a nasty look too. They swarmed all over her when she succeeded, and then gathered to watch and whisper when things didn't go well.
The sound of Ange's voice caused Vala to flinch. "I'm capable of getting home without Aemer," she replied reflexively, voice slightly snappish. However, an instant later, she deflated. "No, you're right. I'm sorry. Everyone's been calling me a genius but clearly it's all just her. Put me with an incompetent bioengineer and I'm utterly useless."
Angela jerked back a little at the sharp reply, but patted her again when Vala seemed a little defeated. "I wasn't trying to suggest you couldn't get home by yourself, I just thought you could use a friend. Some people just don't work very well together. That's okay. Everyone's different. A mech driver-bioengineer relationship has to be one of mutual trust and understanding. That's why people get to choose their bioengineers, and bioengineers get to refuse a mech driver they don't like being designated by them. If you can work it out, I think it's good to try. Jensen Miles has a good reputation for being really considerate of his partners. But if you still decide you can't work with him, just ask to be set up with someone different. A lot of people have worked with Aemer before without getting your reputation. The profs will accommodate you if they can."
She laughed then, "But enough of that. You look like you could use a drink. Off the books, of course." She winked. "I should get back to my own scheduled sims, but why don't I call you later and we can go somewhere?"
"I wanted to be set up with Aemer," Vala replied, still feeling somewhat let down despite Ange's reassurances. "But most people look like they just stepped in shit when they hear her name."
How could the treatment of two people be so different? She and Aemer had been through the exact same fights, yet somehow people praised Vala yet continued to revile Aemer. It was unfair.
About as unfair as having a bioengineer refuse to do anything and then blame her for it.
Despite the audience that had gathered for the shouting, most of them had now dispersed, returning to the various sims or settling down to watch and analyze other battles. Clearly, Ange was somewhat anxious to get going, lest she end up holding other people.
Vala waved her away gently. "Sounds good. You go. I'll... is it okay for me to leave?"
"It'd be kind of hard for you to participate when your bioengineer just stormed away," Ange replied with a laugh, already a few steps away. "Just rest. I'll see you Monday?"
"See you," Vala agreed, before closing her eyes, taking a slight, steadying breath. When she opened her eyes again, a few of the observers had begun approaching her, somewhat strange looks of concern on their face. The first one to approach, someone Vala couldn't recognize no matter how much she tried, hesitantly asked her if everything was alright.
Vala couldn't help but grimace, but it didn't take her long to get rid of them simply by stating that she really didn't want to talk about it right now. Her firmness seemed to convince them that she wouldn't change her mind, although a tall girl with frizzy hair at the back of the group still seemed somewhat hesitant about it all. In the end, Vala was the one who simply walked away, not bothering to look back until she was well out of the range of the gym.
Only then did Vala finally sigh, slumping against a wall until she slid down it completely, sitting with her head buried between her knees.
That... honestly couldn't have gone much worse.
The coldness of the floor sent shivers up her spine, and Vala pushed back to her feet only a few moments later. There was nothing to do about it now. Best to just go home.
Fortunately, after going to and from school for a week now, she was well familiar with the route home. Wouldn't it be just perfect if she somehow managed to get lost anyways?
Jack was home when Vala came in. It was a Friday. Ever since he'd gotten an ulcer from overwork, Aemer had declared that he wasn't allowed to so much as touch a computer Fridays to Sundays, and had strictly enforced a 10pm curfew. So, Fridays he was home, drawing designs lazily on the island countertop where they usually ate meals together, and adding to his list of fantastical features he wanted to develop someday. Or at least start people developing before he died.
He looked up when he heard the elevator doors open. It had only been a week, so he didn't have much of a grasp for Vala's schedule, but this seemed kind of early. That was Vala, right? He peered over his glasses at the entranceway, until she cleared the kitchen to his line of sight. "Welcome back." He said, smiling in that sort of awkward, but not disingenuous way he'd developed with Vala. "Did you have a good day? Aemer's in the back practice room. I'm just working on some new weapon designs...." Not that she would have any reason to care what he was doing. Raising Aemer had convinced Jack never to have his own children... he was not good at interacting with younger people outside of a professional capacity. Turning just a slight bit red, he looked back down at the drawing he was working on and added a bit of shading to one shoulder.
Wrapped up in her own thoughts, Vala didn't know Jack was there until he spoke. She twitched slightly in surprise, before offering the man her own, slightly strained smile. In all honesty, she wanted nothing more than to collapse onto the couch and bury her head in the blankets for a little while, but she couldn't quite bring herself to actually do that.
After all, Jack was her host. He'd welcomed her into his home, and continued to provide and care for her. It wouldn't sit right with her to just ignore him, no matter how much she just wanted to hide from the world for a little while.
"It... wasn't really a great day," Vala said, somewhat hesitantly. She wasn't one to complain to others, especially not when it wouldn't help fix anything, but she couldn't bring herself to lie, either.
Nor, if she was fully honest, did she really feel like seeing Aemer. The contrast between the fight she'd just finished and her last battle with Aemer still stood out in painfully stark relief. So instead, she moved over to the counter, peering absentmindedly at Jack's documents. Perhaps he'd be able to serve as a welcome distraction.
"What are you working on?"
"Oh! Uhm...." He was tempted to ask her what had happened, but he'd learned from suffering through Aemer's teenage years that if she changed the subject, don't ask until later. So he gave up trying to be a social human being, and instead actually focused on her question. "Well, this is an impractical design." He pushed the specific paper he was working on towards her, tapping on the mech in the center, though that same mech was shown from multiple angles. He could always talk shop with Aemer, but she rarely cared about the specifics. Vala seemed more amenable to listening to his mech ramblings. Maybe. Or at least, he had too little else to talk to her about to change topics, so it didn't matter either way. "It spins on a central axis to give the mech driver more of a full 360 degree rotation of movement, but," he tapped the mech's torso with the tip of his pencil, "that makes the right-left rotation harder to control and the center more vulnerable to attacks. It's equipped with lasers set in the eye sights, and a 360 degree squid sensor to allow mech drivers to see where squid are on a map with little red dots instead of relying solely on their forward sight screens and their bioengineers. I developed wide angle squid sensors when Aemer was 15, it was... kind of a birthday present to her, really, but the government hasn't approved my developing a 360 degree sensor, because the sensors are really expensive and don't seem worth it to them." He sighed, running his fingers through the ends of his hair. "And laser sights are just for fun, they're not really practical. Would require unnecessary machinery to be in the head, where the majority of the machinery already needs to be."
He stopped talking, realizing he must be boring the girl. "Sorry, I get a little carried away." He said, sheepishly.


Cranston, Rhode Island, September 18, 2018– Garden City Center continues to evolve its dining selection to give customers even more delicious choices. New food destinations are planned for Garden City Center with the announced additions of Chaska Indian cuisine and Australian-inspired café Sydney Garden City. Both have planned openings for the winter of 2019.
From the restaurant group responsible for Kabob and Curry, Rasoi and Rasa comes new restaurant Chaska. This restaurant promises opportunities to eat, drink and socialize over flavorful Indian cuisine. Enjoy freshly baked Naan, chicken tikka masala, lamb kebab and vegetarian options including spiced curry dishes. Chaska will be located next to Bistro 22.
Australian-inspired café Sydney Garden City will offer sophisticated, healthy ingredients. Much like its sister location Sydney-Providence, the all-day café will serve up its famed avocado toast, an array of baked goods, a selection of Illy coffee drinks, loose teas and on-tap Kombucha. Sydney Garden City will be located adjacent to Anthropologie.
Garden City Center also invites customers to stop by the Courtyard, located near Bistro 22 for live jazz on Friday night's in September- a perfect way to start the weekend. The sounds of jazz music can be heard from 6pm to 8pm on September 14th, 21st and 28th.
Tropical Smoothie Café will open on Saturday, Sept. 29th in the newly constructed retail space between Newport Creamery and Bank of America. Garden City's newest restaurant additions will both open in the coming weeks. Popular local chain sports bar and neighborhood restaurant Tavern in the Square is scheduled for a Fall opening. Legal Sea Bar, a Legal Sea Foods concept, offering casual seafood-centric dining and an outdoor patio, is planned to open this fall.
About Garden City Center: Located on Route 2 in Cranston, Garden City Center has 500,000 square feet of retail and office space. It was one of the first centers of its kind in the country and generations have fond memories of GCC shopping excursions. The center is currently home to 60+ shops, services, and eateries including L.L. Bean, J. Crew, Sephora, Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, The Container Store, Avvio, Bistro 22, Whole Foods Market and more.


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£260m fund to increase use of technology in hospitals
Government announces moneypot to roll out electronic health records and e-Prescribing solutions
The fund will help the NHS to become paperless by 2018
A £260m fund has been announced to encourage greater use of technology in hospitals.
The cash comes after the publication of the Francis Report into the failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, which called on the NHS to make better use of technology to improve safe, effective care.
If we are to improve patient safety then we must allow the NHS to have access to the best tools available and this fund will help them achieve that
Last year at least 11 people died in the NHS because they were given the wrong prescriptions. This fund will be used to increase the use of technology that will help stop drugs being prescribed incorrectly because patients' notes have been lost.
Errors in prescriptions are present in as many as 8% of hospital prescriptions and studies have shown that the use of technology can cut these errors by half.
The fund will also help protect patients by ensuring that doctors and nurses are able to access accurate details about the care of individuals, and it will make a patient's journey through different parts of the NHS much safer because their electronic record will follow them wherever they go.
Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said: "This fund will allow doctors and nurses to make the NHS safer by harnessing the very latest technology.
"In many places right now a paramedic picking up a frail elderly woman who has had a fall will not always know she has dementia because he or she cannot access her notes. Or a doctor is prescribing the wrong drugs because they don't know what drugs their patient is already on.
"If we are to improve patient safety then we must allow the NHS to have access to the best tools available and this fund will help them achieve that."
This new fund will help patients get better and safer care by giving clinicians access to the right information when they need it most
The fund will be used by hospitals to replace outdated paper-based systems for patient notes and prescriptions, and is a critical stepping-stone in helping the NHS go digital by 2018.
It will be primarily used for 'electronic prescribing' - which means computer-generated prescriptions sent by doctors directly to pharmacies linked to barcodes unique to each patient. This kind of technology plays a huge part in cutting errors and improving safety.
Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information within NHS England, said: "We are delighted to be working with the NHS, Department of Health colleagues and frontline NHS staff to ensure that this fund enables the NHS to make substantial progress towards routine use of high-quality data at the point of care."
The fund will also be used for creating electronic systems, linked to patient records, that talk to each other right across hospitals. These will be similar to the solution already used at St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust, which has all of its patient records accessible online for doctors and nurses at the click of a mouse. Another example is the system at the New Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where an online 'portal' allows patients to view and update their own medical records so doctors can get instant, real-time updates.
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England, said: "This new fund will help patients get better and safer care by giving clinicians access to the right information when they need it most.
Expanding the use of electronic prescribing of medications in hospitals will help improve safety, save lives and save taxpayers' money
"Supporting hospitals to replace outdated paper systems for notes and prescriptions will help relieve patients' frustration at having to repeat their medical and medication history over and over again, often in the same hospital, because their records aren't available.
"Expanding the use of electronic prescribing of medications in hospitals will help improve safety, save lives and save taxpayers' money."
NHS hospitals can bid for the money to fund projects, but in order to be eligible, they must demonstrate that the interventions will lead to better, safer care.
Technology suppliers have reacted positively to the news, but say the groundwork needs to be done to support the rollout of the technologies.
Mark Curtis, chief client officer at digital services expert, Fjord, said: "The new electronic system for the NHS is poised to address patient needs in a way that paper cannot, but it's not as simple as just 'going digital' as doctors are increasingly disconnected with electronic health records (EHRs).
Currently EHRs are not optimised to help doctors get a quick and accurate overview of patients' health patterns and the NHS would do well to take a design-led approach to the digitisation of its system, building in feedback from doctors in order to make the service more usable and ultimately to aid the delivery of healthcare across the UK.
"Reports show that medication errors are not uncommon and with so much data now available, it's no surprise that doctors are caught in a deluge of information. Through clear visual representation of complex data, this information can be understood and digested more easily, cutting down on human error."
The announcement of funding appears to have come at the right time, after recent research by Accenture revealed that the proportion of trusts routinely using electronic tools such as e-Billing and e-Scheduling to reduce administrative burden dropped from 36% in 2011 to 29% last year.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
St Helens and Knowlsey Hospitals NHS Trust
NHS funding bill enters Parliament
Specialist unit will lead NHS digital revolution
Special report: Healthcare construction outlook for 2019 - meet the top players
NHS guidelines on mobile messaging 'are flawed', expert claims
Prime secures permission for new specialist hospital in Birmingham
NHS gets funding green light for new buildings, wards and beds
NHS staff punished for using WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other apps
Health Business Awards winners are announced
Government publishes plans to improve data protection and security
Ageing pagers costing NHS hospitals millions, report reveals
Hospital transforms life-changing maxillofacial surgeries with 3D printing
St Helens reduces patient mortality risk with digital fluid balance project
Intouch with Health and DrDoctor partner to support NHS
St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals further improves document management
St Helens makes patient safety advances with electronic early warning system


Summer is for Art Shows!
Join us at Art Shows and Events all around Northeast Ohio!
Check out our Calendar and Facebook for dates and locations! Art Shows have the best Gifts!!
Closing our door in Chagrin Falls, but opening new ones!
It is with gratitude and a little sadness, we announce some exciting changes for Artifacts.
We will be closing our doors here in Chagrin Falls and evolving into a company without walls. Although we have loved being in the community of Chagrin Falls, we are taking the company in a different direction.
Artifacts Gift Studio will continue hosting both private and public painting parties as well as corporate events at many different venues and studios on the road. We will be expanding our gift items available through our Etsy site and we will be participating in local and not-so-local 🙂 Art Shows.
All the events and dates will be published on our website, www.artifactsgiftstudio.com. You can follow our evolution on Facebook and Instagram as well.
Our doors will be open until February 11th and we are selling EVERYTHING at great sale prices, including a few select furniture and fixture items! Come and check it out!
Open Tuesday – Friday 10-6 and Saturday 10-5.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season so far. We have been very busy creating special gifts. There is still a little time left if we can help you with something extra-special, but don't delay! Come and see us soon!
From our little corner of the world in Chagrin Falls, the leaves are falling, the pumpkins have rolled and the trick-or-treaters have collected their candy. It's time now to turn our thoughts to the next couple of months and think about traditions, food, family and celebrations. We can help you discover thoughtful gifts for your family and friends.
Join us on Saturday, November 12th at 1:00 to meet our wonderful ornament artist JoAnn Heestand. JoAnn can create a beautiful and thoughtful ornament from a photo. Bring her a photo of a special house and she can paint it on an ornament in a winter scene. You can add a family name too for a truly special gift. She only takes a limited number of orders to be sure they are ready for the holidays, so don't miss out. Call us for more information. If you are interested in an ornament, but can't make it here on the 12th, we can make arrangements if you can email us a photo. Ornaments are $40 or $45 depending on size.
Starting Tuesday, November 15th, we will be all decorated with Holiday gift ideas! We are bringing in a collection of ceramic, wood and glass ornaments that you can personalize. We can add a name or date or something special. Come in early for the best selection. We will also have many glassware gifts and ceramic giftware items that you could also customize for holiday gift giving. Lots of hand-painted gifts as well.
So inspired by the colors and beauty of fall.
Let us create something for you to celebrate this season.


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Stanley Lewis
@ Sidecar our space next door
October 22 - December 3, 2016
Selected WorksThumbnailsBack
Westport Train Station, 2013
Kitchen Interior with Dartboard, 2008
Pen and ink on paper, 2016
View of Garden from New Studio Window, Winter, 2016
Pencil and ink on paper
McLean Gardens, Washington D.C., c. 1990
Looking Out Window, Snow and Grill, 2008
View from Karen's Balcony, c. 2000
8 3/8 x 12 1/8 inches
Kitchen Interior, February 18, 2009
Ballpoint pen on paper
Interior, Kitchen, Christmas, c. 1995
Opening Reception: Saturday October 22nd, 4 - 7PM
The greatness of jazz is making so much perfection and beauty from a relatively simple song. With landscapes, the perfection is there already. Then you try to come up with a recognizable tune. My brief encounters with John Cage in college gave me the idea that everything in my sight is good and helpful – accept everything.
~Stanley Lewis
Betty Cuningham Gallery is pleased to open an exhibition of the Works on Paper by Stanley Lewis in SIDECAR (the Gallery's next-door space). This will be the artist's second show with the Gallery and will run concurrently with Stanley Lewis: The Way Things Are, Works from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation at the New York Studio School (October 3 – November 13, 2016). The artist will be present for an opening reception in SIDECAR on Saturday October 22, from 4 -7 PM.
The Gallery exhibition will include ten works on paper, all drawn on site: his backyard, the train station, his studio or the kitchen. Each is a modest feat endowed with time-consuming labor and incredible ambition. Stanley admits, "It almost kills me!"
The proposition for Lewis is that all painting is abstract. A problem solver by his own admission, Lewis works for years on a drawing attempting to grasp the detail - "the little things" - while holding on to the surface of the drawing. In the current exhibition, the works on paper reveal his cut-and-assemble process that results in his bas-relief, bumpy drawings.
Stanley Lewis was born in Somerville, NJ in 1941. He received a BA from Wesleyan University in 1963 and an MFA from Yale University in 1967 as a Danforth Fellow. Throughout his career, Lewis has held posts as teacher and critic at various institutions including Kansas City Art Institute, Smith College, and American University. In 2005, Lewis received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2015 he received an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work can be found in numerous public collections including the National Academy Museum, New York, NY; Hollins University Gallery, Roanoke, VA; the Collections of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN; and the Watkins Collection at American University, Washington, DC, among others. In 2007, the Katzen Art Center at American University, Washington, DC hosted a retrospective of the artist's work. Lewis lives and works in Leeds, MA.
Paintings and Works on Paper May 12 - July 1, 2022
Visions and Revisions: Stanley Lewis at NYSS & Betty Cuningham
Submitted by Margaret McCann on November 8, 2016.
Convoluted landscapes and interiors and the threshold between them, Stanley Lewis's carefully investigated drawings stun. The larger show at NYSS also includes several paintings that track Impressionist perceptual color-light, while tonality in Lewis's drawings, emanating from lines that amass into textures, approaches expressionism. Lewis follows Giacometti's emotive inroads with more pleasure than doubt, his searching stabilized both by perspectival logic and moments of detail. Closely viewed, vision opens toward the experiential fields of Abstract Expressionism.
The Annual 2014: Redefining Tradition.
Stanley Lewis to receive the "2014 National Academy Award for Exccellence"
Artist Stanley Lewis has won the "2014 National Academy Award for Excellence", due to his participation in the Academy's "Annual 2014: Redefining Tradition." A comprehensive showcase of contemporary art and architecture which features work by National Academicians and artists alike.
One-Two Punch
A great review of Stanley Lewis by Art Critical ; David Carbone
Current exhibit of Stanley Lewis reviewed by ArtCrtical.
"Stanley Lewis's work is the obverse of what one might think of as a downtown aesthetic. His paintings and drawings, now on view at Betty Cuningham's new Lower East Side home, carry a real one-two punch. Here are deliberately..." - David Carbone


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Q: Can't run serverless. Getting path and `No such file or directory` in output I'm on Windows 8.
I installed serverless framework with yarn.
yarn add global serverless
running serverless command in Git Bash outputs this wierd path
/bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/../../../../../Users/tempuser/AppData/Local/Yarn/Data/global/node_modules/.bin/serverless: No such file or directory
Tried to fix it:
removed node_modules, installed again. Does not help.
Does anyone know how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.


Anyone buy from DR Gun Supply?
Looking at picking up a Leupold scope and they have great prices, but the site looks a bit sketchy and was wondering if they are legit or not?
Re: Anyone buy from DR Gun Supply?
On the other hand, SWFA has a deal right now, $10 off $100, $20 off $200, $30 off $300 until Monday I believe.
I purchased a couple of guns from them a while back and had some issues with the FFL paperwork. However to their credit they did handle it in a timely manner and everything was resolved. However it was super sketchy and the paperwork stuff resulted in a pissed off FFL dealer and a delay in my firearms pickup. If it's a super good deal I might consider it but I avoided them with my last firearm purchase and decided to pay $20 more somewhere else in order to avoid the hassle. Keep in mind the scope will not be coming from DR gun supply but some other business. That was my only experience and it wasn't terrible but wasn't great either.
Which scope you looking at? Dont know anyone that is a veteran or LEO? Pretty big discounts.
There are a few other random sites in the high $700s and then most are $900 or more.
Thats a really good price. $679 is what I was shown.
Got the scope last night. DR Gun drop ships them from a wholesaler and the transaction went smooth.
which reticle did you go with? I am trying to decide. The duplex looks a little thick from what I can see on their website. Thought about doing the TMOA but that looks a little busy. Wish they still offered the windplex.
I went with the boring old duplex. It's mounted and I'll have my first chance to shoot it tomorrow. In the garage, it looked pretty thin but we'll see. I do like the construction and fit & feel. Eye relief is more than I expected and it's nice to have a compact, light scope back on the rifle.
Boring is good sometimes. Did you look at their website and compare to what you got as far as how thick the reticle looks online. Might be one of those not to scale things.
I'll try to take a cell phone pic, but between the forecast tomorrow and my skills, don't hold your breath. It is much lighter than this one in person.
Yeah that is the one I was looking at and thought it was too much. Good to know. Might just go with that one and save another 150 over the TMOA.
Here is a lame pic, 100 yard target at 15x. It was much clearer in person, the phone was not cooperating.
Thanks that will work just fine. Not nearly as thick as the online duplex pic.
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Tips for planning a wedding.
I will never ever forget planning my wedding, the night he proposed we had a date, I always wanted a Sept wedding but when he proposed in Jan, I thought May would be a nice month, so it was May. I figured out my bridal party, colors etc all that night.
It's ok that I am ready for hockey to be done, I always get frustrated this time of year because my team is usually out and I have no idea who to be cheering for.
Some days I have thoughts that I would like to share and get advice etc but the minute I share things on Facebook- someone is calling me and asking me what is wrong.. etc..
There don't always have to be some thing "wrong". I am female after all and we have thoughts and feelings and there do not have to be a reason with it.
Like yesterday I was feeling so down because my daddy got bad news from the Dr, so I posted this on Facebook " Home feels so far away today, especially when the news is upsetting" immediately my phone lit up like a Christmas tree on Christmas eve because the nosy people just had to know... drives me crazy. If I wanted to share why I felt down I would have posted what was wrong.. then they call my parents and tell them I am sad and feeling down and this in turn gets them down.. so from now on, my thoughts and feelings will only be shared on here.
To me it is not a waste of time to match up socks when I do laundry, my daughter will try to wear them as mismatched as well and I refuse to let her do it.
Does this bug anyone else?
Thank you for always believing in me and for putting a smile on my face. Right from the first day that we met and till this very moment, I have never regretted marrying you.
You gave me everything, more than I deserve to have, to make this life more meaningful. Thank you for inspiring, encouraging, and comforting me. Thank you for always finding joy in making me happy. I love you.
Here's wishing you a very happy birthday and many more blissful years to come!
Recently Brooke went on a school trip and we needed some sort of Label that would mark her things apart from everyone else's.
I was browsing and came across Mabel's Labels . I did some research on them and I reached out to customer service for more info and what an amazing customer service team they have, they answered all questions I had in a timely manner and in just a few days I had received a full travel pack.
Not only "travel labels", they have phone skins, sports labels, birthday party label packs, anything you need you can get and you customize to suit what you want.
I will be purchasing some household labels very soon.
Here are some samples from the website, i did not want to show my address so here are some samples.
Our Starter Label Pack is an ideal introduction to the Mabel's product family. This collection of durable, waterproof labels is an ideal way to help your kids get organized. Use it alone or to complement our other label combo packs.
You'll love these party favor ideas as much as the celebrity moms who inspired them! Perfect for birthday party loot bags, these label gift packs make great personalized party favors and add a special touch to presents for only $5 per child.
Additional sets can be added in multiples of 2 for $10.
Express shipping is recommended for this product.
They come with so many labels, what a great deal. Check them out, they are peel and stick and they last, my daughters has not come off at all, and even now they are on.
I am taking a Break!
Be back on May 22nd!
I am feeling like blogging is a chore and this is not what I wanted it to be, I want it to be fun and exciting and give you good content so that you will want to come back again and again.
Hang tight, be back in a few days.
Building and training skills require a lot of hard work and dedication. Even if you have the most gifted body, without the motivation to reach a certain goal, you will inevitably fail. As the saying goes, "no pain, no gain," one must maintain a high level of focus and determination in order to achieve their goals, especially when training the body. While the process may seem slow and repetitive, as long as one is dedicated, he will surely definitely reap the fruits of his hard work eventually.
Fortunately, through the passing of time and the emergence of experts and professionals who study the development of body, many kinds of skill-building exercises have been created and perfected to specifically train and develop certain skill sets. If you want to focus on developing your speed and coordination then here are the top 5 skill-building exercises that will surely make your training more efficient.
Agility ladders are one of the most effective and famous exercises that develop coordination and speed. In fact, even the most famous top athletes train with different variations of the agility ladder. It is very simple and can be done without the help of a coach or a helper. Furthermore, it also doesn't exhaust the athlete. Thus, after doing agility ladder drills, one can quickly train their other skills or transition to heavier routines.
One of the most basic agility ladder drills is the hopscotch drill. To do the hopscotch drill, one needs to stand with both feet hip-width apart outside the agility ladder. He then must lift and hop into the next box and land on one foot and then hop into the next box with both feet. The same routine would be done in the next set of ladder boxes except that the athlete must land on the other foot.
Testing reaction time is also a very good way to develop overall quickness. One of the most basic drills is by asking a friend or a coach to throw a ball behind you and time how quick you react and retrieve the ball back. Also, with this kind of drill, you would be able to train the coordination of your eyes and your feet.
Synchronization drills are the most effective routines to develop overall balance, coordination, and endurance. Basic drills include swinging and clapping of arms together while doing skipping routines or running with high knees while making circles with one arm. There are many other additional variations. With these drills, you will also be able to test your mental focus and toughness, aside from the body.
Running sprints is, of course, a very effective way to develop and increase your speed. And with accelerating sprints, you would be able to achieve faster and better results. The drill is done by setting specific distance points in which you would have to increase your running speed. The gradual increase in running speed helps you develop control of your body and its reaction aside from increasing your acceleration and speed.
One of the simplest and basic forms of exercise, yet one of the most effective and widely-used is the jump rope. With jump rope routines, you are able to train your coordination, balance, and overall endurance. Also, training your muscles and joints will increase your speed and agility in the long run.
Ultimately, even with the help of the above exercise routines, you should always remember to pair exercise with a healthy diet and lifestyle. Without the right balance of these aspects, you will surely be just running around in circles and won't be able to improve.
Today marks 15 years since we said I do.
15 years of waking up to you every morning, going to bed with you every night, falling asleep in your arms.
sharing my secrets, fears, and beliefs with, praying with, attending church with.
You are my best friend and my love. Thank you for these few days away with just you and I and our dreams.
As we celebrate 15 years married today (soon to be 19 years together), I'm reminded of the vows we took so many years ago. Our lives were simpler then, but while it's much more interesting now – it's comforting to know that the last 15 years I have grown as a woman, a wife and mother with you by my side. We have never had a dull moment and sometimes we don't get to rest as much as we would like, but the challenges we've had are a great reminder of how far we have come and a celebration of our journey together.
As I write this letter, I can't help but think where my life would be if we had made a different choice 19 years ago. Our situations would be different, our lives on various paths. It's hard to fathom and I realize that while I may ponder the thought, my life without you would never be the same… and it was God's choice that our paths would cross and meet once again bringing us to this point in time. Everything happens for a reason, and God's reason was that we were to be together.
Through all of our trials and challenges, I am always reminded of our love. You are my strength, my equal and my biggest supporter. I am who I am today and who I strive to be because of you. No matter what our future holds, I'm proud to have you by my side as I walk into the unknown and face whatever it is that comes my way – head on.
I love you for an eternity, for always and forever!
I have a wedding this summer and I was shopping for a strapless bra so when I came across Thirdlove I knew it was what I wanted to purchase.
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Dr Arvandi was born in Iran where he also studied and qualified as Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1989. While living in Germany Dr Arvandi successfully passed national dental exams and gained experience working in private dental clinics.
In 2005 he was granted a full licence to practice Dentistry in Germany.
In 2006 he completed postgraduate diploma in periodontology at Bern University and attended several courses in periodontology and Implantology in Germany and other European countries.
Dr Arvandi has completed one-to-one Implant course at Sheffield University with leading specialists in Implant Surgery in 2011.
Certificate in Module 1,2 .3 Mastership programme in laser dentistry from Aachen university in Germany 2015.