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"BREAKING: Major Disney Vacation Club Resale Restrictions Effective January 19th\n\nAccording to Cast Members that we spoke with, there is a major change on the horizon for Disney Vacation Club resale restrictions.",
"\n\nStarting January 19th, there will effectively be two tiers of Disney Vacation Club Resorts as it relates to resale points purchased outside of Disney – Legacy Resorts and New Resorts. ",
"Legacy Resorts would be considered any of 14 existing resorts that are open now. ",
"New Resorts would be considered any of the resorts currently under construction, planned, or to be announced.",
"\n\nNow, here’s the change:\n\nStarting with any contracts submitted on or after January 19th, points purchased outside of Disney for any of the existing resortswill not be allowed to be used at any new resorts under construction; starting with Disney’s Riviera Resort. ",
"Any resale points purchased for Legacy Resorts would still be able to be used at any of the other Legacy Resorts.",
"\n\nIn addition, any points purchased outside of Disney for any new resorts,will only be valid at that resort. ",
"The representitve that we spoke with said “starting with Riviera and every resort after that, when you buy resale points you will only be able to use the points JUST at the resort you buy and RCI nothing else.”"
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"###### Article summary\n\nArticle focus\n=============\n\n- Little evidence exists concerning whether or not the legal status of abortion is related to the incidence of prenatal sex selection; Nepal provides an interesting case study.",
"\n\n- Sex ratios at birth in Nepal before and after abortion was legalised in 2002 are calculated in order to test for evidence of sex-selective abortions.",
"\n\n- This study seeks to identify characteristics of women experiencing the lowest sex ratios and thus those who are most likely to have a sex-selective abortion.",
"\n\nKey messages\n============\n\n- There is clear evidence of a substantial increase in sex selection since 2002, even though this remains strictly prohibited.",
"\n\n- The sex ratio for second and third-born children where previous births were females decreased substantially in almost all regions of Nepal, indicating the increased usage of sex-selective abortions.",
"\n\n- Women who are wealthier, better educated and living in urban areas are most likely to use prenatal sex selection.",
"\n\nStrengths and limitations of this study\n=======================================\n\n- This is the first study to show that sex-selective abortions are becoming increasingly common in Nepal at the national level.",
"\n\n- The survey data used did not allow for a more detailed geographical breakdown, which would have been useful for policymakers.",
"\n\nIntroduction {#s1}\n============\n\nSelective abortion of females has been found to occur extensively in several Asian countries. ",
"Estimates suggest that between 3.1 and 6.0 million sex-selective abortions took place in India in the 2000s.[@R1] China has a well-documented history of so-called 'missing girls' resulting from a combination of the one child policy and preference for sons, with as few as 847--877 girls born for every 1000 boys.[@R2] [@R3] Both China and India have well-established abortion services provided by national and regional governments; sex-selective abortion is illegal in both countries.[@R4] [@R5]\n\nAn interesting question is the extent to which state provision of abortion services is associated with the selective abortion of females. ",
"Assessing this using data from China and India is difficult as the provision of abortion services has increased gradually.[@R4] [@R6] However, the neighbouring country of Nepal saw an abrupt change between 2002 and 2004, which provides the opportunity to measure the impact of state provision of abortion services on sex-selective behaviour. ",
"Abortion was legalised in Nepal in 2002 and Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) services were provided by the government from 2004 onwards.[@R7] Sex determination is expressly prohibited and anyone found performing (or facilitating) an abortion on this basis can be punished with 1-year imprisonment, but otherwise the law is now liberal. ",
"Prior to 2002, unsafe abortion was the third largest cause of maternal mortality and it was not uncommon for women living in the south of the country to visit India if they wanted an abortion, though the scale of this is not known.[@R7] Studies of post-abortion care at 10 major hospitals showed that between 20% and 60% of the women admitted as obstetric and gynaecological patients were abortion complication cases.[@R8]\n\nNepal has revealed high levels of preference for sons since the World Fertility Surveys first documented the phenomenon in the 1980s.[@R9] Daughters are often considered to be an economic burden because of the dowry system and the fact that a girl will join her husband\\'s family after marriage. ",
"Sons are highly prized because they continue the family name, are deemed crucial to perform funeral rites, are likely to bring in a daughter-in-law into the family and are expected to provide support for their parents in old age.[@R10; @R11; @R12]\n\nPrior to 2002, preference for sons in Nepal was mainly evidenced through differential stopping behaviour (ie, the decision to have another child depended upon the sex composition of previous children). ",
"It has been estimated that such behaviour caused the fertility rate to be at least 6% higher and contraceptive use to be as much as 24% lower than it would otherwise have been.[@R9] [@R10] It therefore seems possible that, despite the strict prohibition of abortion on the grounds of the sex of the child, Nepalese will have taken advantage of the opportunities provided by the legalisation of abortion to influence the sex composition of their children.",
"\n\nPrevious research suggests that sex-selective abortions occur in Nepal, but the evidence is either qualitative or based on small scale data.[@R13] A study in Kathmandu recorded the sex and parity of all babies born in a single hospital during a 5-year period (2003--2007) and found that, while for first-born children the sex ratio was relatively normal at 943 females per 1000 males, the sex ratio for second order births was 847 and for higher order births it was 565.[@R14] Unfortunately, the sample sizes were too small to draw any significant conclusions. ",
"A rapid assessment of sex ratios at birth in 1991 and 2001 consistently found more male than female babies being born in a number of districts of Nepal bordering India.[@R15] A study conducted in 2007 revealed that legal sanctions against prenatal sex determination and sex-selective abortion had not stopped medical practitioners and sonographers in Nepal from providing such services.[@R16]\n\nAbnormal sex ratios can be the result of mechanisms other than sex-selective abortion: one example is through Hepatitis B, which can cause the sex ratio to be skewed towards males, though this is somewhat controversial[@R17]; there are also other biological explanations, but none of these would operate differentially across birth orders. ",
"If sex ratios vary substantially across birth orders, then the explanation for this is almost certainly the use of sex-selective abortion. ",
"In India, for example, recent research indicates that the sex ratio of first-born children has not changed significantly since 1990, while the sex ratio of second-born children where the first was female was as low as 786 in the year 2000 and has not been above 900 since 1992.[@R1] Research from China has also found that sex ratios differ by parity---in 2004--2005, the sex ratio of first-born children was 925, while for second-born children it was 699.[@R3]\n\nIt should be noted that even when sex-selective abortion is occurring, changes in its prevalence can occur for reasons related to the demand for, rather than the supply of, abortion services. ",
"Where fertility is declining rapidly, the preference for sons may be intensified since the overall desired number of children will fall faster than the desire for sons, and pressure on couples to balance the sex composition of their children may contribute to further demand for prenatal sex selection at low parities.[@R12] [@R18] Nepal has seen one of the most dramatic fertility declines in history, with the total fertility rate falling from 4.1 to 2.6 in just 10 years.[@R19]\n\nThe aim of this paper, therefore, is to examine sex ratios of births prior to and after the introduction of Comprehensive Abortion Care in 2004 to assess whether, given the religious and socioeconomic value given to sons, the legalisation of abortion and the availability of prenatal sex-determination technologies and abortion clinics were associated with a change in the proportion of male babies.",
"\n\nMethods {#s2}\n=======\n\nData {#s2a}\n----\n\nOver 40 000 women were interviewed in four rounds of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), conducted in 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011. ",
"All four surveys were nationally representative and used a two-stage stratified sampling scheme. ",
"All women were asked about their fertility and full birth histories were obtained from the 31 842 women aged 15--49; these birth histories included information on over 111 000 births. ",
"Full details of the NDHSs can be found elsewhere.[@R19; @R20; @R21; @R22]\n\nA module on induced abortion was included in the 2011 NDHS for the first time. ",
"This included questions to ascertain the prevalence of abortion as well as the reasons for it. ",
"Overall, 7.5% of pregnancies were reported to have ended in abortion in the 5 years prior to the survey. ",
"This varied substantially depending on the woman\\'s socioeconomic characteristics, with 17.5% of pregnancies ending in abortion for women in the highest wealth quintile. ",
"Of the 506 women who gave a reason for their abortion, 3.16% reported that it was owing to the child\\'s sex, but the subject area tends to have a high incidence of misreporting, so indirect methods are likely to be the best method of studying the phenomenon.[@R23]\n\nStatistical analysis {#s2b}\n--------------------\n\nIn the absence of intervention, the sex ratio at birth in human populations is essentially a biological constant with relatively little variation. ",
"For every 1000 males born, there will generally be between 950 and 975 females.[@R24] [@R25] This should not vary by birth order.",
"\n\nTo control for the fact that demand for sex-selective abortions will vary by birth order and sex of previous children, conditional sex ratios (CSRs) are used in our analysis, specifically the CSR for second-born children where the first-born was female. ",
"This sex ratio is generally held to be existent where the evidence of sex-selective abortion will be most visible, since the motivation for sex-selection will probably be at its highest; it has been used frequently to provide evidence for the widespread use of sex-selective abortion in India.[@R1] [@R23] If a woman is sufficiently motivated (or pressured) to have a son that she is prepared to have an abortion to achieve that end, it is unlikely that she will wait until a much higher parity than two or three.",
"\n\nThe sex ratios presented in this paper are the number of female births per 1000 male births, calculated as (P~f~/P~m~)×1000, where P~f~ is the proportion of total female births and P~m~ is the proportion of total male births. ",
"The sex ratios are weighted to account for the sampling scheme used in NDHS. ",
"We only included births reported to have happened within 10 years of the survey date, since extremely long recall periods tend to be less accurate, and misreporting may differ by sex of the baby. ",
"For time periods where more than one survey was available, a weighted average of the different surveys was used.",
"\n\nWealth tertiles were produced using principal components analysis; this was performed separately for urban and rural areas in order to enable us to look at the relative contribution of women at different wealth levels in diverse environments. ",
"Tertiles were used, rather than the more traditional quintiles, owing to sample size considerations.",
"\n\nAll analyses were conducted in STATA (V.12.0).",
"\n\nResults {#s3}\n=======\n\nSex ratios at birth were found to vary substantially by parity, the sex of the previous offspring and the time period during which the births occurred. [",
"Table 1](#BMJOPEN2013002612TB1){ref-type=\"table\"} shows the trends in different conditional sex ratios over the 18-year period of 1992--2010. ",
"Years were grouped as the sample sizes for single years were small. ",
"The overall sex ratio is never significantly different from the expected range of 950--975 and does not show a significant change over time; the same is true of the sex ratio of firstborn children. ",
"However, for second-born children where the first-born was female, the sex ratio shows a substantial decline after the legalisation of abortion. ",
"In 2001--2003, it was 947; in 2004--2006 (when government abortion services became available in most district headquarters and urban and semi-urban areas), it dropped to 830 and by 2007--2010, it had fallen further to just 742, despite the overall sex ratio being 933. ",
"For third-born children, where the first two children had both been female, the sex ratio was also very low at 767, compared to 892 if the first two children had both been male, or 935 if one was male and the other was female. ",
"The sex ratio for second-born children in 2007--2010 was low even for mothers whose first-born was male at 822. ",
"Of the 4521 births recorded in NDHS 2011 during 2007--2010, 1247 were second order births and just 559 (44.8%) of these were female. ",
"Assuming the biologically expected sex ratio at birth, we would have expected at least around 650 females to have been born, given the number of males.",
"\n\n###### \n\nConditional sex ratios at birth (females per 1000 males), by birth order, 1992--2010\n\n Birth order All First-born Second-born \n ------------- ----- --------------- ------------- ------ --------------- ------ ------ --------------- ------ ------ --------------- ------\n 1992--1994 975 (945 to 1007) 14963 964 (892 to 1041) 3642 1063 (949 to 1191) 1580 951 (852 to 1061) 1685\n 1995--1997 952 (920 to 985) 13050 878 (807 to 954) 3295 856 (760 to 963) 1474 967 (858 to 1090) 1439\n 1998--2000 973 (938 to 1009) 11553 920 (850 to 995) 3136 902 (799 to 1018) 1386 1021 (906 to 1150) 1340\n 2001--2003 928 (887 to 971) 7586 907 (812 to 1011) 2187 818 (688 to 969) 966 947 (810 to 1106) 968\n 2004--2006 962 (915 to 1012) 6044 975 (872 to 1090) 1864 971 (816 to 1157) 812 830 (702 to 978) 788\n 2007--2010 933 (880 to 989) 4521 1010 (907 to 1124) 1489 822 (689 to 979) 633 742 (599 to 913) 614\n\n Birth order Third-born Fourth or above \n ------------- ------------ ----------------- ----- ------ --------------- ----- ------ --------------- ------ ------ --------------- ------\n 1992--1994 811 (681 to 964) 662 1027 (864 to 1221) 719 984 (870 to 1113) 1327 963 (912 to 1016) 5348\n 1995--1997 922 (763 to 1112) 530 975 (814 to 1167) 640 1131 (995 to 1287) 1163 951 (897 to 1008) 4509\n 1998--2000 1005 (806 to 1254) 449 849 (699 to 1027) 553 954 (827 to 1099) 948 1011 (948 to 1078) 3741\n 2001--2003 933 (713 to 1218) 300 872 (689 to 1099) 392 888 (726 to 1084) 620 972 (893 to 1057) 2153\n 2004--2006 930 (650 to 1325) 198 846 (629 to 1130) 313 1041 (845 to 1282) 490 994 (900 to 1097) 1579\n 2007--2010 892 (637 to 1241) 169 767 (556 to 1046) 215 935 (707 to 1233) 372 1100 (973 to 1244) 1029\n\nIt should be noted that in 2007--2010, only 14% of all births in Nepal were second order after a firstborn girl. ",
"This explains why the overall sex ratio at birth is not greatly affected even by substantial changes in the sex ratio for this subset of births.",
"\n\nThe sex ratio for second-born children where the first was female is thought to be the strongest evidence available for sex-selective abortion, short of direct data. ",
"If this particular CSR also varies by socioeconomic characteristics, then this is even stronger evidence that sex-selective abortion is being used, since knowledge of, access to and uptake of abortion will not be equal in all parts of society. [",
"Figure 1](#BMJOPEN2013002612F1){ref-type=\"fig\"} shows how the CSR has varied over 4 NDHSs by mother\\'s education. ",
"The sex ratios shown are those related to the 5 years prior to each survey. [",
"Table 2](#BMJOPEN2013002612TB2){ref-type=\"table\"} shows the CSR and overall sex ratio prior to and post-2004 (when CAC services first became available), the percentage change in the CSR and the significance of the fall using a one-sided t test. ",
"A dramatic decline in the sex ratio is evident for those women who have at least a secondary leaving certificate or above. ",
"In the 5 years prior to NDHS 2006, the CSR for this group of women was just 653 females for every 1000 males, and NDHS 2011 showed a CSR of just 368, while the CSR was almost 50% lower after 2004 ([Figure 2)](#BMJOPEN2013002612F2){ref-type=\"fig\"}. ",
"The fall in the CSR after 2004 was significant at the 5% level for all educational groups except those with no education.",
"\n\n###### \n\nConditional sex ratios of second order births where the first-born was female and overall sex ratios, prior to and post-introduction of CAC services\n\n 1992--2003 2004--2010 Percentage fall in CSR Significance \n ----------------------- ------------ ------------ ------------------------ -------------- ------ ------ ------ ----- ------- ------\n Wealth of urban women \n Poorest 949 3963 956 952 953 1014 843 129 11.8 \n Middle 952 2789 915 772 971 749 864 139 5.6 \n Richest 943 1263 1019 480 872 279 794 57 22.1 \\*\n Wealth of rural women \n Poorest 990 13256 1074 2706 989 3642 911 544 15.2 \\*\n Middle 954 15852 939 3657 912 2845 795 538 15.3 \\*\\*\n Richest 939 8811 916 2463 897 1476 786 330 14.2 †\n Woman\\'s education \n No education 956 34496 957 8758 988 5433 895 567 6.5 \n Primary or less 998 6539 1046 1517 937 2059 969 321 7.4 \\*\n Some secondary 945 5416 958 1219 899 2598 730 440 23.8 \\*\\*\n SLC or above 991 699 1001 166 863 475 501 74 49.9 \\*\\*\n Region \n Eastern Mountain 978 2194 789 477 930 635 945 83 −19.8 \n Central Mountain 961 2330 1194 534 828 468 1011 53 15.4 \n Western Mountain 897 2953 901 591 965 863 833 101 7.5 \n Eastern Hill 1024 3310 1023 793 1002 855 792 120 22.6 †\n Central Hill 925 4056 964 1207 996 701 761 112 21.0 \n Western Hill 969 4152 997 1136 1004 809 847 118 15.0 \n Mid-western Hill 928 3485 869 737 867 945 691 99 20.5 †\n Far-western Hill 979 3356 1105 712 929 872 872 99 21.1 \n Eastern Terai 991 4557 911 1298 969 882 700 133 23.1 \\*\n Central Terai 969 5823 989 1412 980 1113 701 139 29.1 †\n Western Terai 941 3983 1023 992 964 821 1000 110 2.3 \n Mid-western Terai 921 3370 1020 844 941 852 761 119 25.4 \\*\n Far-western Terai 1001 3583 956 928 923 749 835 116 12.6 †\n\n†p\\<0.1; \\*p\\<0.05; \\*\\*p\\<0.01; \\*\\*\\*p\\<0.001.",
"\n\nCSR, conditional sex ratio.",
"\n\n{#BMJOPEN2013002612F1}\n\n{#BMJOPEN2013002612F2}\n\nFigure 2 shows the same CSR split by wealth tertile in urban and rural areas for the five year period before each NDHS. ",
"In the 2011 NDHS rural women in all wealth tertiles display lower sex ratios than would be expected, with the sex ratio in all wealth groups below 800. ",
"A wealth gradient is visible, with the richest women being least likely to have a girl, but it seems that even poorer women are finding ways of manipulating the sex composition of their children. ",
"For urban women in the 2011 NDHS, the wealth gradient is dramatic, with the poorest urban women having a higher sex ratio than rural women, but the richest urban women exhibiting the lowest sex ratio of all at just 326, indicating where sex-selective abortion is likely to be most prevalent. ",
"The fact that the CSR is lowest among richer urban women is unsurprising, as they would be expected to be able to access abortion services most easily and have the greatest knowledge about the availability of abortion services; that said, the extent of the shortfall in female births is remarkable. [",
"Table 2](#BMJOPEN2013002612TB2){ref-type=\"table\"} shows that the fall in the sex ratio was significant for all wealth groups in rural areas, but only for the richest in urban areas. ",
"Nonetheless, the CSR post-2004 was substantially less than 900 for all wealth groups of urban women.",
"\n\nThere were regional differences in the CSR and how much it changed after the legalisation of abortion. [",
"Table 2](#BMJOPEN2013002612TB2){ref-type=\"table\"} shows the conditional sex ratio for 13 subregions of Nepal for the 10 years prior to 2004 and the period post-2004. ",
"The regions are defined on the basis of altitude ('mountain', 'hill' and 'Terai' or plains) and longitude ('far western', 'western', 'mid-western', 'central' and 'eastern'). ",
"The CSR declines between the two periods in every region but one (the Eastern Mountain, where the CSR prior to 2004 was below 800). ",
"Two regions show declines which are significant at the 5% level, and six regions (accounting for around two-thirds of the population of Nepal) show declines which are significant at the 10% level. ",
"The most substantial decline was visible in the Central Terai where the CSR fell by almost 30% from 989 to 701, though both the Mid-Western Hill and the Eastern Terai had lower sex ratios after 2004. ",
"Prior to 2004, just one region had a CSR below 800 and 11 out of 13 had CSRs of over 900. ",
"In the period after abortion services became available, the CSRs of 10 regions dropped below 900, with six falling below 800 and one below 700.",
"\n\nDiscussion {#s4}\n==========\n\nThese findings suggest that since abortion was legalised in Nepal, sex-selective abortion has become more common. ",
"We have found no evidence that the natural sex ratio of births (unaffected by human intervention) is outside the normal range for human populations; in particular, the sex ratio of a firstborn does not differ significantly from the expected level of 950--975 females per 1000 males. ",
"However, for second-born children, especially where the firstborn was female, there has been a sharp (and significant) fall in the number of girls compared with boys. ",
"The sex ratio of third-born children where the first two were females has also fallen substantially in recent years, while for children of higher parities the sex ratio remains within the expected range; this may indicate a tendency for those women having more than four children not to use contraception or abortion services.[@R26] Sex ratios of births are lowest for richer, more educated women, especially in urban areas, and differ substantially by parity and the sex composition of previous children.",
"\n\nThe data we have used were collected over a course of 16 years and include over 40 000 Nepali women, but are still not sufficient to allow the identification of all the sub-populations experiencing low sex ratios. ",
"The regional estimates of sex ratios were limited to relatively large areas. ",
"Census data may yet prove fruitful for achieving a finer level of aggregation. ",
"The 2001 census indicated that no district had an abnormal population sex ratio for infants. ",
"It will be interesting to find out if almost 10 years after abortion was legalised, the infant sex ratios in any particular districts show a decline. ",
"The survey data analysed here indicate that this may well be the case, but it should be remembered that the extremely low CSRs are masked by a relatively normal overall sex ratio at birth.",
"\n\nApart from the fact that the results reported in this paper are based on a relatively small number of births, some underreporting of girls in full birth histories is a possibility. ",
"However, it seems improbable that the underreporting would be greater than average for second order and third order births, or among rich, urban or better educated women in more recent surveys.",
"\n\nAlthough we have been able to suggest that sex-selective abortion has increased in Nepal since 2004, we have not been able to enumerate the size of the problem. ",
"It is hoped that census data will allow the number of sex-selective abortions in recent years to be estimated. ",
"However, the CSR we report for second order births where the first-born was female is just 742, which is as low as the same CSRs found in India, where sex-selective abortion is known to be widespread.[@R1] [@R23] It seems likely that sex-selective abortion is becoming a more common phenomenon in Nepal, a trend which mirrors that in India and China. ",
"Recent evidence from NDHS data suggest that the proportion of pregnancies aborted increases with birth order and is higher for urban, richer and better-educated women.[@R19]\n\nThe timing and abruptness of the change in CSRs suggests that it is associated with the legalisation of abortion and the state provision of abortion services in the country. ",
"CAC services have only been available since 2004, but in some regions the CSR of second-born children where the first-born was male has fallen by well over 200 in that time. ",
"However, we do not mean to suggest a simple relationship between the introduction of CAC services and the change in CSRs. ",
"It is more likely that both demand and supply factors have been at work. ",
"The decline in fertility has increased the importance that at least one son be born among the first three children. ",
"This has intensified the demand for abortions on the grounds of the sex of the fetus. ",
"Prior to 2004, Nepali women desiring abortions had to be prepared to incur either substantial health risks (from illegal services) or costs (from going to India) or both. ",
"The effect of the introduction of CAC services in 2004 was to reduce both the risks and the costs, and hence to increase the number of abortions in Nepal. ",
"The reduction in risks/costs applied to all abortions, but since a major (and increasingly important) reason for demanding an abortion in Nepal is the sex of the fetus, there has been a rise in the number of abortions performed for this reason. ",
"It is interesting to note that the change in the CSR for second births following a firstborn girl was greatest among urban educated women, who would have been most able to afford abortions even prior to 2004. ",
"The decline in fertility has been most acute among this group; if cultural forces leading to a strong desire for at least one son had remained universal in Nepal, their demand for sex-selective abortions might have increased more rapidly than that of rural and less well-educated women.",
"\n\nClearly, there are policy implications in terms of education about the long-term social and demographic consequences of sex-selective abortion. ",
"While educating medical practitioners is one important step, previous research has shown that medical practitioners believe that if a woman wishes to have a sex-selective abortion, she can easily obtain one in India; it may also be hard for practitioners to judge a woman\\'s reasons for wanting an abortion.[@R13] [@R27] For these reasons, it is also paramount to educate wider members of the community about the illegality of sex determination tests for the sole purpose of selective abortion and the health risks associated with second trimester abortions.",
"\n\nAdvocacy and educational campaigns among groups with particularly low sex ratios will be important; literate, urban women are one target group. ",
"Those living in the Terai with easy access to the Indian border are another. ",
"It is also important to remember that the use of sex-selective abortion has risen not only because of sociocultural preferences for sons but also because girls are seen as an economic burden. ",
"Ultimately, combating sex-selective abortion will require the empowerment of women throughout Nepali society. ",
"Programmes benefiting female children would be a start; these might include maternity incentives to mothers who give birth to a girl, education scholarships and free vocational training for girls, as well as economic incentives for the parents of girls.",
"\n\nSupplementary Material\n======================\n\n###### Author\\'s manuscript\n\n###### Reviewer comments\n\nThis work was undertaken independently and there were no funding sources. ",
"The views expressed in this manuscript reflect those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of any institution. ",
"Dr Andrew \"Amos\" Channon provided the wealth indices used within this paper.",
"\n\n**Contributors:** MDF conducted the data analysis. ",
"MDF, MP and PRAH were involved in interpreting the data and writing the paper and have approved the final version. ",
"MDF is the guarantor.",
"\n\n**Funding:** This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.",
"\n\n**Competing interests:** None.",
"\n\n**Provenance and peer review:** Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.",
"\n\n**Data sharing statement:** The full datasets are available at <http://www.measuredhs.com>. ",
"Consent was not obtained for this study, but participants gave informed consent for the original survey; the presented data are anonymised and there is no risk of identification.",
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"\nWhat with Apple's transition to the Intel platform for their chip, it is obviously now possible to run their OS on a PC.",
"\nSo, with that, and my inherently cheap nature, I was wondering if it was possible to bypass the purchase of a refurbished Mac by running the iPhone SDK on a Hackintosh?",
"\nAs I am more of a hobbyist then a serious developer at present, I'd basically like to get my feet wet before fully committing to this endeavor. ",
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"\nWhether it's worth it or not really comes down to how difficult it is to get a hackintosh install (Kalyway / iATKOS) running on your PC. ",
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"If you need to run a patched kernel (e.g. you don't have an Intel Core 2 Duo chipset) things become really awkward.",
"\nYour best bet is to take a note of the hardware in your PC and do some research on the various OSX86 forums.",
"\nAssuming you get everything working the only future concern is software updates. ",
"iPhone SDKs generally require the very latest OSX update (e.g. 10.5.6), but installing updates on hackintoshes with patched kernels is a nightmare.",
"\nIf you enjoy tinkering with this type of thing and are comfortable partitioning your HDD and playing with boot flags then I'd say go for it. ",
"If not, consider picking up a used Mac-Mini on eBay/craigslist or something. ",
"If you find out that iPhone development really isn't for you then you can resell it lose practically nothing.",
"\n\nA:\n\nYes, you can, but save yourself some time and pain. ",
"\nPick up a Mac mini or an iMac.",
"\n\nA:\n\nIt's possible. ",
"But you are restricted to the choice of hardware for the hackintosh. ",
"Even if you get it right, no one can guarantee everything will work (sound, lan, etc.). ",
"If you can run the OS, you can run xcode with the SDK. ",
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"\n\nBut a new Dartmouth-led study shows that degrading satellite sensors, not soot or dust, are responsible for the apparent decline in reflectivity of inland ice across northern Greenland. ",
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"\n\nObservations suggest the Greenland Ice Sheet's albedo - or its ability to reflect the sun's energy back into the atmosphere -- has declined considerably since 2001 due to black carbon and dust from increased industrialization and forest fires across the northern hemisphere. ",
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"\n\nTwo properties dominate reflectivity in dry snow - the size of snow grains, which become larger and more absorbent as they melt, and the presence of dark impurities that absorb the sun's energy, predominantly black carbon and mineral dust, which also cause the snow to melt faster. ",
"Snow high on the Greenland Ice Sheet typically has black carbon concentrations too low to significantly affect its reflectivity, but in 2012 large wildfires in Canada and Siberia and favorable winds may have combined to trigger record surface melting of the ice sheet that year.",
"\n\nIn trying to explain the apparent decline in reflectivity, lead author Chris Polashenski, an adjunct assistant professor at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering and a research geophysicist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and his colleagues analyzed dozens of snow-pit samples from the 2012-2014 snowfalls across northern Greenland and compared them with samples from earlier years. ",
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"MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is the key instrument aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, which provide images of the Earth's surface and cloud cover every two days. ",
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"\n\nThe study's findings don't apply to the ice sheet's lower elevations, where surface melting, soot and dust result in more pronounced declines in reflectivity and where warmer temperatures may promote algae growth that further erodes reflectivity.",
"\n\n###\n\nChris Polashenski is available to comment at [email protected].",
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"“7 Benefits Of Twitter For Business” written by Mike Marko.",
"\n\nHow can Twitter help promote a business?",
"\n\nTwitter can be a bit of an enigma for those that do not use it regularly. ",
"It can be tough to understand at a glance what exactly are the benefits of Twitter for business.",
"\n\nI understand where you are at because I was there.",
"\n\nYears ago when I started marketing online I did not get Twitter. ",
"To be honest, I thought it was the dumbest thing around. ",
"Now I only regret that I had not started building it back then because it has become one of my favorite marketing platforms.",
"\n\nTwitter is a great way to help build a business using the internet. ",
"It is one of the best social media platforms if you are trying to reach a national or worldwide audience. ",
"What makes it more attractive is that users on Twitter are more active than many other social media platform and yet there are even a lot more Twitter benefits.",
"\n\nThat is why I want to take the time today and talk to you about the benefits of Twitter for business.",
"\n\nWhat Are The Benefits of Twitter For Business\n\nTwitter is a useful marketing channel for business. ",
"It is a powerful tool that will help you grow your business as part an overall online marketing strategy.",
"\n\nThere are many benefits of Twitter for business that will be useful even to small business. ",
"Here is a list of the benefits of Twitter for business:\n\n1. ",
"Twitter Allows You To Communicate With Customers\n\nTwitter is a helpful marketing tool that allows you to engage with your customers on a real time basis. ",
"You can gather relevant information to make smarter business decisions by daily active engagement and listening to what your customers are saying.",
"\n\nThrough Twitter, you can keep your customers updated with your latest business news. ",
"At the same time, posting regularly will help you keep your customers interest on your business. ",
"Just do not forget to respond quickly to any queries as that would also affect their customer service satisfaction.",
"\n\nYou can not wait for people to come look for you. ",
"You have to reach out to them as well. ",
"Businesses taking the time to reach out and get personal with their customers typically have bigger success.",
"\n\n2. ",
"Keep Updated With The Latest Trends\n\nBy searching or following tweets, you will have an idea of what trends and topics are Twitter users interested in. ",
"Twitter is in real time. ",
"That means you can search for conversations that are currently happening.",
"\n\nTwitter can tell you the hot topics of the moment. ",
"It allows you to see what Twitter users are saying about your brand, your competitors, and your product category.",
"\n\n3. ",
"Be Aware Of Your Customer Feedback\n\nCommunication is a two-way process: the same goes in business. ",
"You need to listen to your customers and not just you tweet what you want.",
"\n\nTo help your business to succeed, respond to customers feedback about your products and services. ",
"This way you will be able to know where you should work on. ",
"Once your followers see that you are making an effort to improve your business, then you will gain their respect and loyalty.",
"\n\nThese simple actions will easily increase the company’s visibility and the chance to acquire more customers. ",
"At the same time, the company would be able to understand the current needs and thoughts of the participants to further enhance their services or products.",
"\n\n4. ",
"Share Content Faster And Easier\n\nThe generation of today increasingly gets faster and easier ways to deliver content. ",
"Twitter as a social media platform ensures business contents are delivered in the shortest possible time.",
"\n\nThrough Twitter, you can share the same content to your other social media account and cross market your products and services. ",
"That means reaching out to a wider range of people and gaining more potential customers.",
"\n\n5. ",
"Increase Your Brand Awareness\n\nIf you are just starting out a business, then that is not a problem! ",
"Twitter has your back and can help you get started.",
"\n\nTweeting on Twitter helps increase your brand awareness. ",
"It can help you grow your business as it makes it easier for your customers to find and connect with you.",
"\n\nYou can start off by tweeting what your business is all about. ",
"Tweet the products and services you can offer to your customers. ",
"As you get more customers, you get more chance for your tweet to get retweeted. ",
"Your followers’ followers will see that interesting and will also end up following you and becoming potential customers.",
"\n\n6. ",
"Gain More Leads\n\nNow that people are starting to know you exist, it is time to turn visitors into leads.",
"\n\nAs in all content marketing, you will want to develop social content that speaks to your audience. ",
"This is a content that your followers will find informative, helpful and even exciting.",
"\n\nWhen you have improved things just a little bit for people, they will come back to you for more of the same. ",
"And that is your chance to qualify them as leads.",
"\n\nYou can start by creating a content that will lead your customers to interact with it. ",
"This includes promotions and contest that allows customer participation where they can get rewarded in return.",
"\n\nBeing on Twitter is not just about being social, but it is also increasing the opportunity to make more sales and grow your revenue. ",
"Twitter has proven over and over again that it is a great way to increase sales effectively.",
"\n\n7. ",
"Use Twitter To Provide Customer Service\n\nEven if you are not on social media, most of your customers expect you to be. ",
"It is undeniable that many consumers now go to social media for customer service. ",
"They expect fast response times and 24/7 support.",
"\n\nThis is a good thing if you have Twitter setup for your business. ",
"You can get notified whenever someone leaves a message. ",
"Businesses engaging in social media customer service see much bigger financial gains compared to those without.",
"\n\nIf you provide good customer service then more likely your customers will stay with you and might even recommend you to people they know.",
"\n\nFinal Thoughts About The Benefits Of Twitter for Business\n\nThere you have it! ",
"There are a lot of benefits of Twitter for business. ",
"We covered are just a few examples of the important benefits. ",
"I expect that this will help you decide to pursue Twitter as a marketing platform.",
"\n\nIf you have a business, I suggest that you start creating a Twitter business account.",
"\n\nBe sure to also read my blog about the Key Tips On Using Twitter To Market Your Business to help you really start to take advantage of Twitter for your business. ",
"And check out my Comprehensive Guide to Twitter Marketing for more tips.",
"\n\nDo feel free to tell me your own thoughts and advice in the comment section below. ",
"I would love to hear you about my article on how to convert your Twitter account to business.",
"\n\nIf you want help in building up your Twitter account, feel free to contact me and we can talk about the different services we offer.",
"\n\nAnd always remember to think before you tweet!",
"\n\nBy the way, if you need help in getting traffic to your website then feel free to contact me and we can talk about the different consulting options we offer. ",
"Or use the link below to apply for your “Results in Advance” free consultation and let us get started right away.",
"\n\nP.S. – If you like this post, feel free comment down below and/or share on Facebook.",
"\n\nHave questions and want to connect?",
"\n\nAdd me on Facebook then shoot me a message:\n\nSuggested Articles:\n\n1. ",
"How to Convert Twitter Account to Business\n\n2. ",
"Key Tips On Using Twitter To Market Your Business\n\n3. ",
"Why Use Twitter For Business?",
"\n\nAuthor: Mike Marko\n\nClick here to contact Mike\n\nwww.IMConsultantServices.com\n\nIf you want help marketing online, then check out our services at IM Consultant Services.",
"\n\nArticle: 7 Benefits Of Twitter For Business\n\nAlso published on Medium."
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"\n\nThe date for the vote has not been officially confirmed by the British Government but it is now expected to be held before the next meeting of the European Council on 13 December.",
"\n\nParliamentary arithmetic currently suggests that MPs are likely to overwhelmingly reject Theresa May's deal, with votes against from her own MPs – both eurosceptic and remain – as well as Labour, the, DUP, and the other opposition parties.",
"\n\nIt is understood that EU leaders did not discuss the meaningful vote at today’s Brussels summit where they signed off the plan.",
"\n\n“I don’t think there were any ‘what if’ questions asked to Theresa May today, quite a few were wishing her good luck,” one senior EU official said.",
"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn today branded the plan “a miserable failure of negotiation that leaves us with the worst of all worlds”.",
"\n\nEU chiefs spent the day in public trying to win support for the agreement. ",
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"Issue date: Thursday November 15, 2018. ",
"Ms McVey has resigned, saying the Brexit deal âdoes not honour the result of the referendumâ. See PA story POLITICS Brexit. ",
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"Mr Raab has resigned, saying he âcannot in good conscience support the terms proposed for our deal with the EUâ. See PA story POLITICS Brexit. ",
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"PA Cabinet ministers resign over Brexit deal Rehman Chrishti Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party Rehman Chrishti tendered his resignation letter this afternoon PA Cabinet ministers resign over Brexit deal Cabinet ministers resign over Brexit deal Anne-Marie Trevelyan Parliamentary private secretary in the Department of Education Anne-Marie Trevelyan resigned stating that she cannot support the deal Cabinet ministers resign over Brexit deal Handout image taken from the Twitter feed of @annietrev of the resignation letter addressed to Prime Minister Theresa May from Anne-Marie Trevelyan, a parliamentary private secretary in the Department for Education. ",
"PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. ",
"Issue date: Thursday November 15, 2018. ",
"Ms Trevelyan has resigned saying she cannot support the Brexit deal after negotiations âbuilt on the UK trying to appease the EUâ. See PA story POLITICS Brexit. ",
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"PA Cabinet ministers resign over Brexit deal Sam Gyimah Universities minister Sam Gyimah resigned on November 30, claiming the government's decision to pull out of the EU's Galileo satellite navigation system as a deciding factor PA Cabinet ministers resign over Brexit deal Shailesh Vara Shailesh Vara who has quit as Minister of State for Northern Ireland, saying he cannot support Theresa May's Brexit agreement, which he said \"leaves the UK in a halfway house with no time limit on when we will finally be a sovereign nation\" PA Cabinet ministers resign over Brexit deal Cabinet ministers resign over Brexit deal Suella Braverman Brexit minister Suella Braverman has resigned, stating “It is not what the British people, or my constituents, voted for in 2016.” ",
"Cabinet ministers resign over Brexit deal Ranil Jayawardena Parliamentary private secretary to the ministry of justice Ranil Jayawardena resigned as he could not back the deal \"in good conscience\"\n\nIf the government loses the vote it must consult MPs on what to do next.",
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"Description of the Related Art\nIn the gas turbine engine, in order to improve the turbine efficiency, a tendency is found in recent years to set the temperature of the combustion gas at a turbine inlet to be high. ",
"However, increase of the flame temperature tends to result in an increase of the emission of NOx and, therefore, to reduce the emission of NOx, it is necessary to suppress the increase of the flame temperature by increasing the amount of air used for combustion. ",
"Accordingly, in order to reduce the air which does not participate in combustion (cooling air), it is desired to increase the convection cooling performance of the combustion liner. ",
"The cooling structure for the combustion liner has been well known in the art, in which as shown in FIG. ",
"11, chevron shaped heat transfer enhancement ribs 52 are formed on an outer peripheral surface 51 of the combustion liner 50 in a longitudinal direction L along the direction of flow of a compressed air A from a combustor and also in a transverse direction R along the circumference of the combustion liner 2. (",
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"\nThe cooling structure has also been well known in the art, in which as shown in FIG. ",
"12, heat transfer enhancement ribs 53 extending straight towards the transverse direction R are formed on the outer peripheral surface 51 of the combustion liner 50 so as to be spaced a predetermined distance from each other. ",
"Those known cooling structures are similarly so designed and so configured that, the compressed air A then flowing can collide against the heat transfer enhancement ribs 52 or 53 to form turbulent flows that are utilized to effectively cool the outer surface 51 of the combustion liner 50.",
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"SHOESDAY TUESDAY #35: Sweet bejesus\n\nWho knew that such a beautiful pair of boots could exist? ",
"I mean come on, these bad boys look like something straight out of a Disney dream. ",
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"\nA $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (2018) - aww_dang\nhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-10-billion-experimental-city-nearly-got-built-rural-minnesota-180968617/\n======\nspankalee\nI would love to see a city like this built today, but with a little less\nemphasis on experimental and more on starting with the best practices we know\ntoday, and designing for a large scale from the outset like China does. ",
"Things\nlike being designed around pervasive rail-based mass transit, and that being\ncheaper to build when you don't have to put it in an existing city. ",
"Pedestrian\noptimized streets with much less parking than today's cities. ",
"Little-to-no\nsingle family zoning, replaced with missing-middle apartment and mixed used\nneighborhoods. ",
"Large parks. ",
"Plazas and outdoor dining. ",
"Buried utilities.",
"\nEither rooftop solar, or green roofs everywhere. ",
"Modern underground trash\ncollection. ",
"Cut-and-cover highway tunnels.",
"\n\nThere's a lot of space in Montana, Wyoming, the Dakaotas, and we'll need more\nspace for population there as we have to migrate north.",
"\n\n~~~\nheadcanon\nThe vast majority of cities are where they are for a _reason_. ",
"Usually that\nreason means proximity to some form of transportation infrastructure, whether\nthat be a river, highway, railroad, or ocean. ",
"This is true even for Las Vegas,\nwhich which some consider to be \"built in the middle of nowhere\". ",
"Any city\nwithout a solid economic reason for its existence quickly withers and dies.",
"\nSadly, Flint Michigan is an example of this, as are many now-ghost towns in\nthe far west that died after the interstate system was built in the 50s and\n60s.",
"\n\nYou can't just plop down a fully-furnished city on some unpopulated plot of\nland and expect anyone to move there. ",
"China as you say is trying this, but\nsome of these are basically ghost towns on arrival, despite the massive top-\ndown planning and investment. [",
"1]\n\nAny realistic plan for urban development reform is going to have to work with\nwhat exists currently. ",
"If you want to create a \"demonstration\" city from\nscratch, much faster and cheaper to do it virtually and simulate it.",
"\n\n1:\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiTDU8MZRYw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiTDU8MZRYw)\n\nEdit: wording\n\n~~~\nthe_reformation\nWhat's the reason for Las Vegas?",
"\n\n~~~\nreaperducer\nLas Vegas was a water stop for steam powered trains going between Los Angeles\nand Salt Lake City.",
"\n\nWhen Boulder Dam was built, the government built Boulder City to house the\nworkers. ",
"Being a government city, gambling wasn't allowed. ",
"But Vegas was just\nover the hill and filled that desire for the workers.",
"\n\nWhen the railroads switched to diesel and didn't need the water stop anymore,\nVegas was already established as a gambling destination.",
"\n\nThe spring still flows, and is part of a tiny state park in downtown Las\nVegas.",
"\n\nAnd Boulder City is still the only place in Nevada where gambling is illegal.",
"\n\n------\nshiftpgdn\nThis is remarkably similar to Walt Disney's EPCOT plan:\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_\\(concept\\))\n. ",
"I wonder what was in the water in the 60s since the Astrodome actually got\nbuilt in 1965:\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrodome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrodome)\n\n~~~\nJohnny555\nI came here to make the same comment, I'm surprised they didn't mention EPCOT\nin the article. ",
"Many people don't know that Disney's vision was for EPCOT to\nbe a real city (well, maybe \"town\" is more appropriate for 20,000 citizens),\nnot a theme park.",
"\n\n~~~\nbagacrap\ndidn't he actually build a utopian community called Paradise?",
"\n\n~~~\nJohnny555\nThe Disney company (under Eisner) did create a planned community called\nCelebration, but it didn't really follow Walt Disney's EPCOT plan. ",
"It still\nexists, but has since been sold off to a private developer, so has no real\nconnection to Disney.",
"\n\n------\nMerrill\nA more modest, but no less idealistic, example is Arcosanti north of Phoenix.",
"\nI visited it in the late '80s when it was just getting started. ",
"There was not\na lot then, but at least work continues. ",
"Paolo Soleri's visions were much more\nambitious.",
"\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti)\n[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Soleri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Soleri)\n\n~~~\nbulletsvshumans\nArcosanti was discussed recently on Hacker News here:\n[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24066193](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24066193)\n\n~~~\nMerrill\nThanks. ",
"That's a good thread.",
"\n\nI was there only part of a day. ",
"Had a day off in Phoenix, and a colleague and\nI drove to Flagstaff via Arcosanti and Sedona. ",
"Discussion on that thread gives\na lot of information about what has happened since. ",
"The book I bought in their\nstore had a lot of ideas about huge cities built as monolithic structures,\nunlike what is on the ground now.",
"\n\n------\nmc32\nLooks like there was local resistance to the project. ",
"Here's a synopsis of the\nretrospective documentary:\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbArKOxg2w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbArKOxg2w)\n\n~~~\nazdle\nIt's also available to buy DRM free:\n[https://vimeo.com/ondemand/183222](https://vimeo.com/ondemand/183222)\n\nI found it rather disappointing though. ",
"It didn't really go into any detail\nabout what it was supposed to be, just \"dude had this idea, got other people\nto sponsor some research, locals didn't like the idea, also there were funding\nproblems so it never happened\".",
"\n\n------\neof\nSame thing here in Winooski, Vermont! ",
"I don't think it would be fair to say it\n\"nearly\" got built, but it was considered!",
"\n\n[https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/18/archives/dome-may-\nshelter...](https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/18/archives/dome-may-shelter-a-\nwhole-town.html)\n\n[https://unofficialnetworks.com/2013/02/02/entire-vermont-\ntow...](https://unofficialnetworks.com/2013/02/02/entire-vermont-town-covered-\ngiant-dome/)\n\n------\nmark-r\n$10 billion in 1967 dollars? ",
"No wonder it never got built!",
"\n\n------\nrenewiltord\nHaha, when the sci-fi writers of the past imagined our Cities of the Future™\nthey never stopped to wonder about zoning. ",
"We're never going to have spires\nand shit. ",
"It would never get approved.",
"\n\n------\nGNOMES\nSurprised they would built it up North near Duluth and Park Rapids, and not\nfurther South. ",
"Imagine a city this large between the Twin Cities and Des\nMoines.",
"\n\nI am curious if the taconite mines would have blocked or endorsed this. ",
"One\none hand it's more labor in the area, on the other it's potentially unminable\nland if surrounding area prospers.",
"\n\n------\npengaru\nR.Buckminster Fuller was an interesting character. ",
"I ran across this youtube\nvideo not long ago and it kind of blew my mind not having any knowledge of him\nbeyond a vague link to the geodesic dome.",
"\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsOvE-\nReX2g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsOvE-ReX2g)\n\n------\ntomcam\nFrom the comments:\n\n> Apparently they had pretty good weed in Minnesota, even back then.",
"\n> Thankfully this never was tried, or poor people of Aitkin Co. would be stuck\n> with a huge, crumbling ghetto, at best, or an EPA superfund site. ",
"Utopianism\n> has (and will) never worked because people will never follow like sheep. ",
"One\n> will figure out a way to get more, then others will follow, Some groups will\n> rise, others will fail, Then, voilà, right back where we started. ",
"Except now\n> there's a crumbling ghetto in Aitkin County. ",
"Oh well, at least it's not\n> where the libs can see it.",
"\n\n> Fortunately the rural citizens of Minnesota were smart enough to see this,\n> They could tell that the folks who were pushing this sure as hell didn't\n> want it anywhere close they lived. \"",
"Lets foist this planning joke on some\n> poor folk that can't do anything about it.\"",
"\n\n------\nBariumBlue\nI wonder if putting a semi transparent white dome or covering over a city\ncould effectively cool it by reducing net sunlight. ",
"Kinda like permanent\nartificial clouds\n\n~~~\nentropicdrifter\nIt'd probably heat it up because of the greenhouse effect, just from the hot\nair coming from all the cars and people not being able to escape, let alone\nheat from sunlight not being cooled by breezes/convection\n\n~~~\ncogman10\nIt'd be interesting to see if there were some economies of scale for heating\ncooling.",
"\n\nFor example, I could imagine that a nuclear power plant in the center of the\ncity could provide the whole city with both heat and power at a fairly low\ncost for both.",
"\n\nOn the flip side, you might be able to do city wide geothermal cooling.",
"\n\nIt'd be an interesting experiment to say the least.",
"\n\n~~~\nNasrudith\nEurope already has utility heating. ",
"I know I first heard of it from Cities\nSkylines and my first thought was \"That sounds like a silly excuse to add\nanother utility.\" ",
"Then I looked it up and found it was a real thing. ",
"NYC has a\nsteam network which has remarkable versatile functions - in addition to\nheating, resturant dish cleaning, and humidity control.",
"\n\n~~~\nimtringued\nSilly excuse? ",
"What else are you going to do with the waste heat?",
"\n\n~~~\nentropicdrifter\nI think that part of the comment was specific to the game Cities Skylines.",
"\nLike, \"Oh they added another utility to manage... wtf is this? ",
"I haven't ever\nheard of cities doing this.\" ",
"But then they looked it up and found out it's a\nreal practice.",
"\n\n------\ntintor\nWhat was the reason for the dome over the city?",
"\n\n------\nLargoLasskhyfv\nLogan's Run!",
"\n\n------\nilaksh\nI love coming up with ideas for future cities. ",
"I have previously even hired\ndigital artists/CAD developers to help me illustrate my ideas.",
"\n\nTo me there are lots of obvious structural things that are outdated about\ncities. ",
"And it is fun to think of out-there concepts to radically change or\nmaybe improve things.",
"\n\nRecently I was in Gravity Sketch making a 3D model in VR of part of my idea.",
"\nThat 3d model looks terrible now and has only about 40% of the concepts\nincluded. ",
"Right now it is a series of connected enclosures, sort of like domes\nbut sort of not like domes.",
"\n\nBasically there will be like a grid of these enclosures that are connected by\ntwo or more levels of roadways for small autonomous cars (pods) -- most of\nwhich will be for single passengers.",
"\n\nEach megastructure is a little bit like a tree inside of an egg. ",
"Spiraling\nalong the internal edges will be roads for traversing the levels. ",
"There will\nbe something like 7 or 8 vertical levels, each of which is maybe 4 or more\nstories tall. ",
"The branches of the tree are steel holding up platforms.",
"\n\nEach main level has two sub-levels: one for infrastructure, and one for people\nand buildings. ",
"The infrastructure level contains the roadways for the\nautonomous pods, as well as things like water, electricity, sewer, networking,\nand basement/cargo reception.",
"\n\nThe main level contains multistory buildings, walking roads, and a significant\namount of space set aside for a type of permacultural-landscaping. ",
"So there\nwill be zoning requiring that space to be developed as for example food forest\nwith aquaponics built in. ",
"This will be on all levels and platforms. ",
"So in the\ncity charter or whatever is this requirement to dedicate a certain amount of\nspace to this type of agriculture which is also landscape. ",
"The idea is not to\nrealistically produce all of the food or even a great proportion of it, but to\nenable some fresh produce to be at hand and to ensure that people are\nconnected with food sources. ",
"The idea is that by making agriculture a more\nintegral part of the city, there may be more attention placed on agriculture\nby ordinary people and there may be more attention placed on making it more\nsustainable or something. ",
"Also it seems wasteful to just use landscaping for\ndecoration.",
"\n\nAnother aspect is that I would like alternating bands of facade on the egg. ",
"So\nthere will be strips of something like glass but which will permit UV B\n(required for Vitamin D production) in a double layer. ",
"And then strips of a\nthick insulated layer with an energy-harvesting sheathing that incorporates\nsolar panels and ducted wind turbines sort of embedded in tunnels in the\nsolar-cell-covered undulating surface.",
"\n\nIt seems that you would need strategies for passive and active heating and\ncooling. ",
"Such as automated shading, opening and closing ventilation, and heat\nrecovery ventilators. ",
"Etc.",
"\n\nIt would be nice if some type of glass could be used largely for central\nwalkways in order to increase the penetration of light.",
"\n\nAnyway I have a bit more that I wrote up before.",
"\n\nMulti-Level City Concept\n\nIn a high-density urban core, many skyscrapers exist in a relatively small\narea. ",
"This makes it possible to house many people and support many businesses\nin that small footprint.",
"\n\nHowever, in these areas, while most buildings may have 50 or more floors,\nthere is only a single level containing public infrastructure: the ground\nlevel, which contains all of the vehicle transportation, water, sewer,\nelectricity, and communication.",
"\n\nIn this scenario, there is actually more private infrastructure in the\nbuildings themselves than infrastructure in the public level. ",
"This is because\neach structure is a self-contained, privately designed and privately\nmaintained entity. ",
"So transportation (elevators), electricity, communication,\nwater, sewer must all be facilitated by each private structure. ",
"In addition,\neach of these is connected to the public infrastructure on only one level.",
"\n\nThis presents multiple problems.",
"\n\nProblems with Single-Level Infrastructure in Many-Level dense Urban Cores\n\nSince vehicle traffic can only move on one level, congestion can be extreme.",
"\n\nMulti-Level Public Inter-Building Public Infrastructure for Dense Urban Cores\n\nSupporting Autonomous Passenger and Cargo Delivery\n\nSuppose that there was a way to build a type of multi-level skeleton for a\ncity. ",
"So instead of a single roadway at only ground level, there were several\ndifferent roadways at different floors of a superstructure. ",
"This\nsuperstructure would be designed to support the installation of modular\nconstruction.",
"\n\nWith this system, delivery of goods by small autonomous vehicles could, for\nexample, proceed directly from the back cargo door of a restaurant on level 8,\nto your front door on level 2 a few blocks away, strictly over the public\nroadways which connect not only different buildings but also at different\nlevels. ",
"Vehicles could traverse levels over graded roadways or perhaps some\ntype of small vehicle elevator system.",
"\n\n\\---------------------------------------------\n\nAnother _totally different_ idea that I had quite awhile ago was\n[http://runvnc.github.io/tinyvillage/](http://runvnc.github.io/tinyvillage/)\n\n"
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"Correction appended below\n\nBUENOS AIRES – The bets being made on Argentina right now almost defy imagination.",
"\n\nNorwegian, the low-cost European airline, made one of the most striking ones a couple of months ago, announcing a plan to plow in no less than $4.3 billion – yes, that’s the right number – into Argentina, creating over the next few years many new international links for Buenos Aires and a string of provincial capitals. ",
"Oil and gas companies seem to be falling over themselves in the rush to get involved in the Vaca Muerta shale fields of Patagonia. ",
"And fund managers are equally enthusiastic, highlighted last June by the way they snapped up a 100-year bond – effectively lending fresh money to a country that historically has serially defaulted on its debts, and when it did so most notoriously – in 2001 – was responsible for the world’s largest-ever sovereign default.",
"\n\nThe market’s exuberance is leading to some extravagant political claims too. ",
"After last October’s successful legislative elections, when President Mauricio Macri’s Cambiemos (“Let’s Change”) coalition won 19 seats, some of the president’s supporters are already boasting that Macri is a lock to win re-election next year. ",
"Some even declare that Maria Eugenia Vidal, the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, and the country’s most popular politician in recent polling, is a shoo-in for the 2023 contest. ",
"The most bullish Macri enthusiasts are pointing to the prospect of two decades of stable pro-business government, enough perhaps to get the country back on the long-term road to prosperity that it left about the time of the first world war.",
"\n\nThese are big calls. ",
"And I’ve been writing too long about Latin America not to be a tad skeptical. ",
"I’ve seen too many false dawns in Latin America, witnessed more than once the stunning speed at which market sentiment can turn. ",
"In Argentina I watched as a close observer between 1998 and 2001 as optimism about Argentina first gave way to nagging doubts, then stumbled into stagnation and finally disintegrated into economic chaos and political crisis.",
"\n\nDuring a visit to Buenos Aires earlier this year, many Argentine friends warned me not to be taken in by all the bullish talk. ",
"They pointed to the way the country is borrowing again rather than moving decisively to balance its books and remains very dependent on inflows of capital from abroad, a dangerous vulnerability at a time when U.S. interest rates look set to rise. ",
"They worried about inflation that is still running at more than 20 percent per year. ",
"Targets adopted when Macri first came to government in 2015 have been regularly missed. ",
"Trade unions, they said, were lining up to negotiate wage increases in a way that is ominously familiar for anyone familiar with the country in the 1980s.",
"\n\n“They are doing exactly the same as liberals have done in the past and we’ll see exactly the same pendular swing back to Peronism when it breaks down,” one friend – a very sober minded public-sector lawyer – told me. ",
"Going further back in history, it is easy to see this government’s policies as the latest round in the battle between liberalism and nationalism that has dogged Argentina since the country acquired its independence from Spain at the beginning of the 19th century.",
"\n\nEven so, I think there are two reasons to believe that – to use a very dangerous term – it could be different this time. ",
"First, the government’s commitment to pragmatism is impressive. ",
"That means they may avoid some of the faulty political calculus that has wrecked similar experiments in the past. ",
"Second, there are some longer-term shifts going on in Argentine society that work in Macri’s favor. ",
"This shouldn’t be exaggerated, but it seems possible that politics could become less polarized.",
"\n\nThe caution of an engineer\n\n“Gradualism” – the Macri government’s watchword – is to some extent a tactical adjustment to circumstances. ",
"Even after the October mid-term elections, this is still a minority government that depends on support from some of its political opponents. ",
"But there is also something more strategic about this slower approach. ",
"Macri and his team know that they need to reduce imbalances and distortions – the dreaded twin fiscal and current account deficits – if they are to make the country viable, but they know that this can’t be done overnight.",
"\n\nIf they move too quickly and try to do things overnight they will trigger opposition and derail progress. ",
"By training Macri is an engineer – like the leaders of the Chinese government – and perhaps that makes him, like them, predisposed to the idea of slow steady adjustment rather than the shock treatment that was so popular in the 1990s. ",
"Moving too quickly might stress the system, producing a reaction that could block change.",
"\n\nMacri’s associates told me they are desperate to avoid the traumas that have regularly punctuated Argentine politics over the last 100 years or so.",
"\n\n“Governments that came after the populist cycle usually had to work with a huge fear and resentment incubating in society,” said Marcos Peña, the president’s 40-year-old chief of staff. “",
"Each time it was worse, each time there was a cumulative problem, more and more frustration and resentment that always gave birth to a new ever-more assertive populist leadership.”",
"\n\nMacri’s government is unashamedly pro-business. ",
"It is chipping away at state spending which in the last decade and a half has swelled to reach more than 40 percent of GDP. ",
"Fiscal policy is much more cautious than it was under the Kirchners, with the primary deficit – before debt costs – gradually falling. ",
"The administration has begun to remove the subsidies that have kept the prices of electricity, gas and public transport at artificially low levels and made it had to attract capital to these sectors.",
"\n\nBut the team is doing its best to keep potential opponents happy. ",
"Macri and his team are maintaining much of the social spending introduced under the Kirchners. ",
"Infrastructure is being prioritized. ",
"The aim is to steadily increase the size of the economy – at between 3 and 4 percent per year over the next two decades – and to create jobs. “",
"The transformation of infrastructure is non-negotiable,” said Peña, arguing that this proved a successful formula when the same team were in charge of the city of Buenos Aires between 2007 and 2015. “",
"If we don’t have roads and sewers we are not going to make growth sustainable. ",
"And everything we do is based on growth.”",
"\n\nA retreat of traditional parties\n\nGradualism might be more viable because there are signs that Argentine politics are becoming less polarized as the political establishment reacts to the successive swings between liberalism and populism.",
"\n\nBoth parties that dominated governments for the last seven decades have been much weakened. ",
"Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the former president whose preferred successor lost to Macri in 2015, retains the support of her leftist Peronist faction – now represented in the Citizen’s Unity Party. ",
"But this more ideological left-wing group has little in common with the more conservative and more pragmatic wing of the movement. ",
"Several of the 14 Peronist provincial governors have formed an alliance with Macri. ",
"Meanwhile, the Radicals, a liberal social democrat party which almost disappeared after the disasters of the 1990s, is part of the Cambiemos coalition that backs Macri. ",
"But the Republican Proposal – or PRO, Macri’s own party – is the more dominant partner.",
"\n\nAlejandro Catterburg, founder of the Políarquía consultancy who is sympathetic to the government, argues that Argentine politics is undergoing a great “mutation,” with the traditional two-party rivalries giving way to more complex patterns and alliances.",
"\n\nMaking that more likely is another shift: the entry of a new generation that sympathizes with neither of the traditional camps. “",
"Ninety percent of the people running the country at the moment were outside politics 10 to 15 years ago,” said Catterburg. ",
"This generation grew up in response to the crisis of 2001. ",
"If you ask me what’s new the first thing is that those who are running the country are new.”",
"\n\nIt is hardly surprising perhaps that the government’s leading politicians are very different in style from their predecessors, both more informal and open to international experience. “",
"When (President Raúl) Alfonsín was president leaders were proud to show that they had never left the country. ",
"Menem went (out in) to the world, (but) he was like a new tourist, travelling for the first time and didn’t really understand it,” said Peña. “",
"This is the first time in our history that a generation that has grown up with the vote” has been able to reach power.",
"\n\nYoung faces emerge\n\nTake Fernando Iglesias, a journalist and human rights activist who was recently elected to be one of PRO’s deputies in October. ",
"A former professional volleyball player and coach, he seems to be typical of the kind of people who have come into Argentine politics in the last decade and a half. ",
"Like the former British prime minister Tony Blair, Iglesias says the big division in the world today is not between left and right, but between those who favor engagement with the global economy and those who oppose it.",
"\n\n“We are seeing a growing division between nationalist populism whether it is Podemos (Spain’s far left coalition) or (Marine) Le Pen (the leader of France’s National Front). ",
"We are a convergence of Republican democratic forces which see a common threat. ",
"We are like the big German coalitions,” Iglesias said. ",
"He says that despite their left-wing rhetoric, many of Argentina’s trade unions are narrowly defensive and prepared to resort to corruption and violence to defend sectional interests. “",
"It is one of the great problems the government faces: how to dismantle these mafias.”",
"\n\nThere’s also Francisco Quintana, PRO’s 35-year-old national organizer, and a deputy in the Buenos Aires provincial assembly. ",
"Quintana said he was inspired by the Que se vayan todos (“They all must go”) movement that shook the political system in 2001-02. ",
"A student in Buenos Aires at the time, Quintana said he had “no sympathy for any party. “",
"I was just prejudiced against the old ones. ",
"I liked PRO because it was new.”",
"\n\nIn building the new organization, Quintana and his colleagues have sought to break with traditional methods – big rallies and marches, in favor of the kind of regular individual contact with voters that is typical of developed democracies. “",
"Our main adversary was neither a leader nor a party. ",
"It was resignation, and apathy and the myth that countries like ours are always governed in the same way. ",
"For the traditional parties, their main political tool was to look to the past and base their leadership on the idea of confrontation.”",
"\n\nUltimately, though, it’s the government’s caution that might make this experiment more viable. ",
"Peña sums it up. “",
"We are cautious in a way. ",
"Sometimes we look at the world’s optimism towards us as a little bit exaggerated.”",
"\n\nA previous version of this article misstated the date of Argentina’s most recent default.",
"\n\n—\n\nLapper is an independent journalist and consultant. ",
"He is an associate fellow at Chatham House in London and a former Latin America editor at the Financial Times.",
"\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR Richard Lapper is a freelance writer and consultant who specializes in Latin America. ",
"He is an associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and a member of the editorial board of Americas Quarterly. ",
"He held a number of senior positions at the Financial Times of London between 1990 and 2015 and was the newspaper’s Latin America editor between 1998 and 2008.",
"\n\nAny opinions expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect those of Americas Quarterly or its publishers."
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"\n\nTalbot did not find a clothesline pulley, as often engulfed by a tree, nor did he find staples nor nails nor a portion of a backyard fence. ",
"Rooted into Albert Street in the north end of Halifax, this tree contained none of the usual manmade intruders.",
"\n\n“There was no way any activity in the last 10 or 20 years would’ve put that in the tree,” Talbot says, noting the entire core of the trunk was a column of metal shards. “",
"It dawned on me, ‘wow, man, this is from the Halifax Explosion.’”",
"\n\nOne hundred years after the detonation, Halifax trees are notoriously impure. ",
"On Dec. 6, 1917, a French ship containing nitroglycerine and trinitrotoluene (TNT), among other explosives, collided with a Norwegian vessel in the Halifax Harbour, and many of the 2,000 victims were killed by debris. ",
"Shards of unidentified flying objects also got lodged into the city’s canopy, and today, lumber mills as far as the southern United States still don’t dare touch logs from Halifax, knowing some hidden metal artifact could wreck their machinery. ",
"By the time of the disaster’s centennial, few human survivors remain to tell their stories, but the oldest trees of Halifax were there, and they have lived to preserve a secret arboreal museum.",
"\n\n“There are maybe two, three types of trees that would survive what I would call a nuclear explosion,” says Talbot. ",
"He names poplars and possibly willows, but certainly sugar maples, as their brittle wood and fast growth heighten their “survivability.”",
"\n\n“The Germans have got us!” ",
"assumed locals who were not immediately knocked unconscious and killed. ",
"The Germans did not have them, but windows shot into eyeballs in the largest mass blinding in history; oil rained in the plum black sky; within 10 seconds a sugary refinery was ablaze, and 20,000 people were homeless, others with limbs dangling by threads of skin in injuries causing Robert Borden, soon to be re-elected prime minister,* to visit the hospital and cry.",
"\n\nHomes and infrastructure suffered damage costing $35 million at the time, and trees were among the only fixtures sturdy enough to last the blast. ",
"A piano fell through a floor; a bank vault slammed and locked a man inside to die, and as reported by Grattan O’Leary in the aftermath, “some of the smaller homes not only collapsed, they were simply blown away, and three miles of desert were created in the twinkling of an eye.”",
"\n\nA tsunami followed. ",
"The blast propelled an eight-foot wave at the peninsula. ",
"If it didn’t eliminate the remaining structures, the next day brought a blizzard.",
"\n\nRemnants were preserved in non-arboreal forms, such as one Lottie Duggan who removed pieces of glass and wood from her face and neck for the remainder of her life, according to Curse of the Narrows by Laura Mac Donald. “",
"It would start as a bump or a black spot,” writes Mac Donald, “and slowly work its way to the surface until it expelled itself.”",
"\n\nOn the south side of the clocktower of Halifax City Hall, the hands are still frozen at 35 seconds past 9:04 a.m., the time of the explosion, and the waterfront holds a slab of the anchor of the Mont-Blanc, the ship that was carrying 20 barrels of explosive material precariously strapped down by men in canvas slippers, with a captain unexperienced in transporting explosives, and without flying a red flag to signal its explosive potential. ",
"In the Halifax Harbour, the boat zigzagged in confusion with Norway’s Imo, before the two ships collided (“What the deuce are they trying to do?” ",
"wondered one eye witness who watched the ships switch from Starboard to Port. ",
"Then a bedroom bureau fell on the witness, and all was black.)",
"\n\nYet, Halifax arborists remain the unknown artifact curators. “",
"With all that metal and debris flying through the air, and with trees being soft, it just got embedded,” says David Barry, an arborist and wood worker who makes salad bowls, cutting boards and dining tables out of old Halifax trees, leaving the debris in his creations. “",
"When the saw starts to bump, you know you hit metal … You hit something and you know it’s not a nail or a screw. ",
"It’s actually something substantial.” ",
"Barry recalls a friend sawing into a lump of metal so large the wood was useless, but he instead used the findings to build a fireplace.",
"\n\nElms, oaks and other hardwood trees normally make valuable lumber, but after Hurricane Juan hit the city in 2003, the city couldn’t sell the wood, not even in the United States. ",
"Part of the problem was an infestation of brown spruce long-horned beetles in Halifax, but mills could also have their blades ruined with century-old matter.",
"\n\nWATCH: One of the Halifax Explosion’s last survivors on that fateful day\n\nAmericans know the explosion story so well because they were the first responders, especially Bostonians. “",
"News of the catastrophe had barely reached the consciousness of the outside world,” reported The Journal days later, “when Halifax was literally invaded by Americans—American doctors, American nurses, American Red Cross workers, American engineers and American architects. ",
"How they managed to get such a start on everybody else, can only be explained by an enthusiasm and a dash absolutely contemptuous of details and intolerant of delays.”",
"\n\nAs workers rebuilt Halifax, the trees had to survive the fate of being used for lumber or burned for wood during an exceptionally cold winter. ",
"The tree on Albert Street was likely one such survivor, although Talbot didn’t keep the remnants inside to verify if they were from the explosion because his brother borrowed his trailer and accidentally disposed of them at the dump. “",
"Aw man, I need that stuff,” he thought at the time. “",
"Some day, somebody’s going to ask me about this.”",
"\n\nOn contract with the Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority, Talbot only cut down the tree as a last resort because it risked falling down or falling sick to a pest. “",
"We’re not tree cutters; we’re arborists. ",
"In Europe they’d consider us surgeons—tree surgeons,” he says. ",
"When people ask him to remove a tree, he says, “I don’t want to get too emotional about this, but what gives you the right to cut down this tree that’s going to outlive you and maybe your grandkids?” ",
"He explains, “It’s part of history. ",
"It’s part of the city. ",
"It’s part of the landscape.”",
"\n\nAnd trees are part of commemorating the disaster. ",
"Each December, to say thank you for the aid after the explosion, Halifax sends Boston a Christmas tree.",
"\n\nCORRECTION, Dec. 6, 2017: This post originally stated that Robert Borden became prime minister soon after the Halifax explosion. ",
"In fact, he was reelected that year.",
"\n\nSEE: Photos of the devastation after the Halifax explosion"
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"\n\nThe society was founded in 1938 at a meeting in the Talbot Hotel in Portsmouth. ",
"Amongst its founding members were the close-up magician Lewis Ganson and the master illusionist Will Ayling, author of The Art of Illusion and Oriental Conjuring and Magic. ",
"Another early member was the engineer and illusionist Donald Stevenson who worked for the American magician William Ellsworth Robinson and created mechanical illusions in a workshop he shared with Robinson. ",
"In the 1950s, Stevenson wrote articles about his memories of Robinson for the PDMC's magazine, Top Hat, extracts of which are reproduced in The Glorious Deception: The Double Life of William Robinson.",
"\n\nThe society organizes an annual event called \"Jumbo Day\" in which magicians from around the UK gather to trade and sell magic equipment and paraphernalia and attend workshops and demonstrations. ",
"The event closes with a gala magic show in the evening. ",
"According to the PDMC, \"Jumbo Day\" is southern England's \"largest annual one-day magic event.\" ",
"Members also raise money for the Anthony Nolan Trust with \"Magic Trek\", a sponsored walk from the headquarters of the PDMC in Portsmouth to the headquarters of The Magic Circle in London, stopping off at various magic societies along the route. ",
"The first \"Magic Trek\" took place in 2009 led by PDMC member Sean Lobban dressed in a giant bunny costume accompanied by an escapologist, a juggler, a magician, and several other entertainers.",
"\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\nOfficial website\nPortsmouth & District Magic Circle Jumbo Day, 28 October 2007 reviewed by Darren Lawbuary for MagicWeek.",
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"This invention relates to a dynamoelectric machine, and more particularly, to double radial layered connector ring segments which join stator slot embedded coil sides.",
"\nLarge dynamoelectric machine designs have evolved which use stator windings of complex shape to handle the voltages and currents required by loads imposed on modern power generation systems. ",
"The large number of stator slots, the use of parallel windings in each phase, and multiple loop coils per phase necessitate the use of a complicated end connection scheme for electrically joining stator slot disposed coil sides into a stator winding. ",
"Such connection scheme conforms to a restricted space, provides rugged construction, and will also allow necessary connections between the stator coil sides.",
"\nThe present solution to this problem consists of an end basket made by weaving together diamond-shaped coil sides. ",
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"Further reductions in forces and losses incurred in the end turn regions were obtained from connecting selected top coil sides together and selected bottom coil sides together as disclosed in a copending application by K. R. Davey having Ser. ",
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"\nDisclosed herein is a dynamoelectric machine having a stator winding which includes a plurality of multiloop stator coils each loop of which constitutes two straight coil sides which run the entire length of the stator slots and extends into the end regions of the stator. ",
"The stator winding also includes a plurality of connector ring segments disposed at each axial end of the stator which electrically connect each pair of coil sides and interconnect the separate loops into coils. ",
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"A first group of connector ring segments is characterized by a relatively large radius of curvature and a second group of connector ring segments is characterized by a relatively small radius of curvature. ",
"The connector ring segments of the first group are arranged radially outside the connector ring segments of the second group.",
"\nThe connector ring segments of each group are preferably axially interspersed according to phase to reduce operational forces thereon and losses within. ",
"The preferred embodiment of the present invention has radially adjacent connector rings of different phase to further reduce forces thereon. ",
"Commonly slotted coil sides arranged in circumferentially adjacent relationship are preferably employed with the previously described double (or more) radial layer connector ring segments. ",
"To avoid interference with retaining rings which are typically used on both ends of dynamoelectric machine rotors, the portions of the coil sides which extend into the end regions are directed to a radially outer position relative to the slots and the first and second connector ring groups' radial arms extend outwardly and inwardly, respectively, therefrom. ",
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"Q:\n\nCalculate Danny allowances in 2010.",
"\n\nIn 2011, Danny received an allowance of $ 260. ",
"This amount is seeing an increase of 30% compared with the previous year. ",
"Calculate Danny allowances in 2010.",
"\nCalculation:\n= 30/100 x 260\n= 7800/100\n= 78\n= 260-78\nanswer = 183\n=> Refer to my exercise book, the answer is 200. ",
"Are my calculations wrong?",
"\n\nA:\n\nLet $x$ be the allowance from $2010$. \nThen in 2011, we have a 30% increase in allowance $x$, which we express as $0.3x$, plus (added to) the original allowance $x$, to give $0.3\\cdot x + x = 260$ allowance in 2011.",
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"New Jersey Assembly Democrats:Caride Introduces Bill to Ensure Safety & Well-Being of Children When a Parent or Primary Caregiver is Arrested\n\nFOR RELEASE CONTACT\n3/17/2014 Press office\n(609) 847-3500\n\nCaride Introduces Bill to Ensure Safety & Well-Being of Children When a Parent or Primary Caregiver is Arrested\n\nBill is similar to legislation introduced in New York following death of toddler left with abusive caregiver after his father was arrested on an unrelated charge\n\n(TRENTON) - Assemblywoman Marlene Caride (D-Bergen/Passaic) has introduced legislation to require the notification of the state's child protection and child welfare agency when a child's primary caregiver is arrested. ",
"The bill is inspired by the tragic death of 4-year-old Myls Dobson who was tortured and killed by his father's girlfriend, who was entrusted with his care after the father was arrested.",
"\n\n\"This little boy suffered a horrible, prolonged death at the hands of the person who was supposed to care for him. ",
"Why his father chose his girlfriend instead of relatives to watch over this little boy is unknown, but we know the decision was a death sentence,\" said Caride. \"",
"No child deserves this fate. ",
"This bill would help prevent another tragic death by alerting the appropriate agency when a child's parent is arrested, to ensure the whereabouts of the child is known and that he or she is safe.\"",
"\n\nCaride's bill (A-2830) would require law enforcement agencies in the state to determine if a person placed under arrest is a parent, legal guardian, or caregiver of a child. ",
"If the person is a caregiver, the law enforcement agency would have to notify the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, within the Department of Children and Families, of the child's location and the identity of the person entrusted with his or her care. ",
"If the child is not in the care of a parent or legal guardian who is not under arrest or in custody, the division would have to arrange for care of the child.",
"\n\n\"Little Myls might still be alive had his father been more selective about who to leave him with. ",
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"Oh Hey, So The No.1 Way to Break Up With Someone Is Now Via Text Message\n\nI'm not going through a breakup right now so I'm not sure why I keep writing about dump-y stuff, but hi. ",
"Here we are. ",
"I suppose I AM an expert of sorts, having been dumped countless times by an unsavory array of dudes AND having the dubious honor of dumping many men myself. ",
"Maybe this makes me a horrible person? ",
"Or maybe it just makes me 37? ",
"It DEFINITELY makes me a breakup master.",
"Anyway, a rather shocking study made its way into my inbox last week. ",
"That study, via something called Voucher Cloud, found that, among 2,712 men and women age 18-30 (all of whom had gone through a breakup in the past year), the NO.1 DUMPING METHOD was ... via text message (25 percent). ",
"The No.2 method? ",
"Social media (20 percent). ",
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"\n\nEeeegjgjgjjjjhhhhh is it just me, or is that all ... messed up? ",
"I know we live in a warped \"future is now\" era in which nobody bothers to open their mouths to emit actual sounds at each other -- we prefer to do it all, EVERYTHING, via little screens. ",
"But still! ",
"We're talking about breakups here -- love and war and the soul-pummeling death of real-world entanglements!",
"\n\nIMHO it's just outright cruel to dump someone via text message. ",
"So callous. ",
"Same goes for breaking up via social media, though to me that one's actually worse; you can't deign to call or, very least, send a damn message? ",
"Instead you announce you're done via Facebook or Insta-whatever? ",
"Cannot.",
"\n\nIn that study I mentioned, the majority of people who'd ended their relationship via text message said they did it because \"it made the process ‘less awkward.'\" ",
"And 58 percent of those who broke up with someone via email claimed they chose that method because it allowed them to \"fully explain their reasons.\" ",
"Yeah, OK.The meanest short-term breakup I've experienced was done via email. ",
"It was all thanks to a hot Brazilian man I dated for a few months in 2011-'12. ",
"We met on OKCupid; he was affectionate and romantic and 100 percent up my ass whenever we were together, but then, between dates, he'd completely disappear. ",
"It was infuriating, but when I could cajole him out of his hidey-hole, I had enough fun that I valiantly attempted to overlook the random vanishings.",
"\n\nWe became exclusive after a few months, took our dating profiles down ... aaaaaand he dumped me via email a week later. ",
"The same day he was supposed to come into San Francisco to hang out with me. (",
"Here's a SPECIAL BONUS HIGHLIGHT from his email, cuz I know you're curious: \"I'm realizing that, despite liking you and having fun when I spend time with you, I don't feel a strong connection. ... ",
"Add to it the fact that we're not getting any younger and I don't feel it's fair for any of us to invest so much time in a relation that probably won't go somewhere.\")",
"\n\nThat breakup wasn't a big deal in the overall scheme. ",
"I wasn't in love with the guy, and I thought the way he dumped me was incredibly cowardly and offensive, which only helped confirm that he wasn't the person I'd thought he was. ",
"No -- he was, in fact, a cold, unfeeling robot-man, and I felt sorry for any poor sucker he managed to convince to date him later. ",
"I responded to his truth-bomb in what felt like the best way possible: I didn't respond at all. ",
"I'm still proud of myself for that! ",
"Flagrant douchery doesn't always deserve acknowledgment.",
"\n\nStill, I'm human (haven't quite reached full robot status, myself) and thus not immune to occasionally booting people from my life in shitty ways. ",
"I try not to, obviously -- I try to get it done as gracefully as possible, in the most appropriate and respectful manner. ",
"For example, if we've been dating for a year, I'll talk to you in person. ",
"If we've been dating for a few months, I'll probably do it over the phone. ",
"If we've been kind-of sort-of seeing each other for a week or two, I might do it via text, even though I admittedly might feel a bit weird about it.",
"My preferred method (both to dump and be dumped) is over the phone. ",
"No, it's not as intimate as doing it in person, but it gives both parties a chance to air their grievances while retaining a modicum of privacy. ",
"Because who doesn't appreciate a bit of space in which to do your painful breakup business -- i.e. choking back tears, silently seething, thrusting a middle finger in the air and waving it defiantly in the general direction of the phone, etc.?"
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"For most Americans, a passport is something you dust off for an international flight.",
"\n\nFor me, and so many transgender people in this country, it is a lifeline.",
"\n\nBut ever since November 2016, we have been living with the fear that our right to passports that reflect our gender could be rescinded at any moment. ",
"Last week, unusual changes to the State Department website did little to quell our fears, when some of the language around gender marker updates on its website changed. ",
"The offensive term “sex change” was briefly used, and then deleted.",
"\n\nPassports are vital for transgender Americans because, ever since 2010–when then-Secretary Hillary Clinton approved a policy change at the State Department—we have been able to update gender markers without undergoing sex reassignment surgery first.",
"\n\nInstead, we simply have to provide a physician’s letter stating that we have received “appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition.” ",
"There’s some processing time, of course, but then, voilà—new passport.",
"\n\nCompared to many state-level policies around driver’s licenses and birth certificates, that new policy was a godsend. ",
"Many states, especially in the South, require proof of surgery in order to change an “M” on a driver’s license to an “F” or vice versa. ",
"Even more demand that anyone looking to update the gender listed on their birth certificate go under the knife first—and three states won’t even change a birth certificate after that.",
"\n\nWhen I transitioned back in 2012, I was living in Georgia. ",
"I was able to legally change my name, even if the judge seemed a little uncomfortable allowing it. (",
"His exact words, if memory serves, were that my name was now officially “whatever it says on here,” as he gestured toward the paper on his dais.) ",
"I was even able to get a new photo on my driver’s license to better reflect my appearance, which was shifting the longer I took hormones.",
"\n\nBut until I was able to undergo surgery—a goal that is financially and sometimes medically out of reach for the many transgender people who want it—I was stuck with a conspicuous “M” on my driver’s license, thanks to Georgia state law.",
"\n\nI was terrified of being pulled over and having to hand over a form of ID that had my name on it, along with a picture that looked like me, but an “M” in the sex field.",
"\n\nGoing to bars was essentially out of the question, as I didn’t want to deal with the embarrassment of having a bouncer notice the “M” while checking my birth date.",
"\n\n“ When I found out that I could update my passport with a doctor’s letter, everything changed. ",
"It came in the mail one afternoon—the first piece of official government documentation to ever acknowledge that I am a woman. ",
"And it changed everything. ”",
"\n\nMy first domestic flight, though, was by far the most anxiety-ridden experience. ",
"I had no idea how to explain my license to TSA, so I ended up slipping a note to the agent behind the podium letting him know that I was transgender, my heart pounding the whole time.",
"\n\nWhen I found out that I could update my passport with a doctor’s letter, everything changed. ",
"It came in the mail one afternoon—the first piece of official government documentation to ever acknowledge that I am a woman. ",
"And it changed everything.",
"\n\nAir travel was simple: There’s no reason you can’t use a passport to get through security for a flight from Atlanta to New York. ",
"Getting carded was fine. ",
"Sometimes a bouncer or a server would mention how rare it was to see someone use a passport as proof of age, but at least I didn’t have to out myself to a stranger in order to have a glass of wine.",
"\n\nAnd as for getting pulled over, well, I just had to watch my speed. ",
"There was no way to solve that problem until 2014, when I got my surgery in California and then went to the Department of Driver Services as soon as I convalesced and got back home. ",
"Waiting in a long line at the DMV was the perfect way to celebrate my recovery.",
"\n\nAccurate passports aren’t a mere travel accessory for transgender people; they make life easier outside of the airport, too. ",
"Which is why so many of us have been concerned for so long that the Trump administration will do something terrible to that Obama-era policy.",
"\n\nAfter all, the White House hasn’t exactly been shy about attacking transgender rights.",
"\n\nThey quickly rolled back guidance on transgender students in February 2017, effectively torpedoing the first Supreme Court case that could have pushed transgender rights forward.",
"\n\nPresident Trump has tried—and so far failed—to ban transgender troops from the military.",
"\n\nEarlier this year, we learned that the Department of Health and Human Services deleted language on its website stating that Section 1557 of the Affordable Care act protects people from discrimination on the basis of “gender identity”—a foreboding change that, as writer Rebecca Ruiz observed, could signal a reversal of federal policy on transgender health care.",
"\n\nThat flurry of anti-transgender moves has left many of us worrying that a rollback of the 2010 passport policy is a matter of when, not if.",
"\n\nBut so far, those fears have yet to materialize. ",
"Every time that anecdotal reports of transgender passport trouble crop up on social media, they turn out to be isolated issues. ",
"And then last week, with the use of “sex change” on the State Department's website, many transgender people thought it was a sign that the Big One was coming soon.",
"\n\n“ The panic that spreads through the transgender community any time there is even a whisper of someone having trouble with the State Department is very real indeed. ”",
"\n\nThe State Department told The Daily Beast that “there has been no change in policy or in the way we adjudicate passports for transgender applicants.” ",
"The website changes were confusing, but they didn’t actually represent anything concrete.",
"\n\nBut the panic that spreads through the transgender community any time there is even a whisper of someone having trouble with the State Department is very real indeed.",
"\n\nThe National Center for Transgender Equality had to reassure the community that the 2010 policy is still intact back in July, as Into reported, and they had to do it again last week after the website changes.",
"\n\nThe constant paranoia, given this administration’s recent actions, is totally understandable.",
"\n\nAfter all, if Trump wakes up one day and decides to tweet that transgender people can’t be in the army, what’s stopping him—or someone in his administration—from making it harder for us to get passports—or from going after those of us who have already updated theirs?",
"\n\n“Transgender people across the country are reasonably concerned about their rights under this administration, and the edits made by the State Department to its website were unnecessary, uninformed, and offensive,” NCTE executive director Mara Keisling told me, when asked about the constant worrying in the transgender community around our passports.",
"\n\nKeisling says that NCTE has “made it absolutely clear to the State Department that this incident caused great concern for transgender people and their families”—and it most certainly did.",
"\n\nWhen I first heard about the website changes, I was worried that one day I might not be able to renew my passport—even though I first updated my sex marker all of six years ago.",
"\n\nFriends in far more vulnerable situations—especially those who are still waiting for the physician’s letters they need to update their passports—are worried about getting it done in time. ",
"They see the update to the State Department website as a sign—an omen, really—that an anti-LGBT voice in the Trump administration has noticed the 2010 policy and perhaps marked it for revision.",
"\n\nOf course, the State Department could comfort the estimated 1.4 million transgender adults in this country by just coming out and saying that the 2010 policy isn’t going anywhere.",
"\n\nLast week—after the State Department removed some of the more egregious language on the website, and restored the previously-deleted links to medical associations—NCTE noted in a blog post that they have told the federal agency “that they must swiftly assure us all that the existing policy will remain in place, and no further language changes will be made that could further confuse and discourage applicants and providers.”",
"\n\nBut so far, no dice: “We are waiting for those assurances,” the blog post continued, “and will keep you up to date as we know more.”",
"\n\nI asked the State Department if they can officially state that the surgical requirement will not be reinstated, and that transgender people will continue to be able to change the sex markers on their passports. ",
"In response, a spokesperson sent me a reiteration of the 2010 policy, with no promises about the future.",
"\n\n“We have provided passport services to transgender individuals for many years, and have extensive instructions for such applications on our website,” the spokesperson said—but that’s something that the transgender community already knows.",
"\n\nWhat we need to know is if we’ll be able to receive passport services for many years to come. ",
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"UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,v.Daryll HORTON, Defendant-Appellant.",
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"\nSubmitted Sept. 30, 1993.Decided Oct. 27, 1993.",
"\n\nBefore POSNER, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.",
"\n\nORDER\n\n1\nDaryll Horton pleaded guilty to assaulting a postal carrier with the intent to steal U.S. mail matter in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. ",
"2114. ",
" The district judge sentenced Horton to 135 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. ",
" Horton's appointed counsel filed a motion to withdraw from the appeal on the ground that it was frivolous. ",
" See Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 744 (1967). ",
" We notified Horton of his counsel's motion and his right to respond. ",
" Circuit Rule 51(a). ",
" Horton responded by claiming that his guilty plea was involuntary, and by requesting the appointment of new counsel to argue his appeal. ",
" We find that Horton's appeal is without merit and grant counsel's motion to withdraw. ",
" For the same reasons, we deny Horton's request for new counsel and dismiss the appeal.",
"\n\n\n2\nIn the Anders brief, Horton's counsel identified one potential issue for appeal: the district judge erred during sentencing when he denied Horton a two-level reduction in the offense level for acceptance of responsibility pursuant to U.S.S.G. Sec. ",
"3E1.1. ",
" United States v. Corbin, 998 F.2d 1377 (7th Cir.1993), sets forth the applicable law:\n\n\n3\nPleading guilty to an offense does not necessarily entitle the defendant to such a reduction. ",
" A defendant accepts responsibility only if he fesses up to his actual offense. ",
" The propriety of a reduction under section 3E1.1 is thus a factual matter that the district judge is uniquely situated to resolve. ",
" We may reverse the district court's judgment on this question only if it is clearly erroneous.",
"\n\n\n4\nId. at 1388 (citations and internal quotations omitted).",
"\n\n\n5\nIn rejecting the reduction for acceptance of responsibility, the district judge considered the fact that Horton constantly changed his version of the offense, and that Horton tried to blame his cocaine addiction for his crime. ",
" The district judge stated:\n\n\n6\n[T]he Court finds--and in this connection it should be made known that the defendant isn't entitled as a matter of right that downward adjustment for acceptance of responsibility. ",
" It's within the Court's discretion to either grant or not grant it. ",
" The Court's not going to grant it because of the reasons that are outlined in the--or the facts that are outlined in the letters to the Court--the presentence report and the Defendant's appearance and demeanor and partial allocution to the Court at this juncture. ",
" That is, the response to the questions put to the Defendant by the Court.",
"\n\n\n7\n... [The Defendant's] story has changed so many times and ultimately it's concluded by the Defendant that it really wasn't the Defendant that did the crime but the impetus provided by drugs. ",
" And the Court's impression here is that there has been a constant effort at--on the part of the Defendant at misdirecting--or I shouldn't say misdirecting but directing responsibility away from himself. ",
" And so the Court doesn't view this as an appropriate time to make an adjustment for acceptance of responsibility.",
"\n\n\n8\n(Tr. ",
"8-9; see also Tr. ",
"21-23, 33-34). ",
" After reviewing the transcript of the sentencing hearing, we cannot say that the district judge clearly erred in finding that Horton did not accept responsibility for his offense. ",
" See United States v. Beserra, 967 F.2d 254, 256 (7th Cir.), ",
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"denied, 113 S.Ct. ",
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"\n\n\n9\nIn his response to the Anders brief, Horton argues that his guilty plea was involuntary. ",
" A defendant who pleads guilty waives numerous rights including the privilege against self-incrimination, the right to a jury trial, and the ability to confront witnesses. ",
" Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 242-43 (1969). ",
" Because of the importance of this waiver, Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure sets forth procedures to ensure that a guilty plea is voluntarily made. ",
" United States v. Lumpkins, 845 F.2d 1444, 1448 (7th Cir.1988). ",
" As long as the district judge complies with these procedures, a guilty plea is presumed valid. ",
" Id.\n\n\n10\nA review of the change of plea hearing transcript indicates that there is no possible merit to Horton's claim. ",
" The district judge fully complied with Rule 11. ",
" He carefully explained the charges against Horton and the rights Horton would give up by pleading guilty. ",
" He also asked about Horton's mental condition, counsel's advice, and Horton's understanding that the court was not bound by the plea agreement and could impose any sentence that was authorized by law. ",
" We find nothing in the record to indicate that Horton's plea was anything but an intelligent and voluntary waiver of his rights.",
"\n\n\n11\nIn so far as Horton blames his guilty plea on his lawyer, he may raise such a claim of ineffective assistance in a motion under 28 U.S.C. Sec. ",
"2255. ",
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"Since the Newtown shootings more than two years ago we’ve devoted a great deal of coverage to chronicling the prevalence of guns and firearms violence in the United States. ",
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"But even if you’re broadly familiar with the contours of the gun story, it’s still stunning to see just how heavily armed the US is compared to every other country on the planet. ",
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"As far as I can see this is the last time the group published a comprehensive international tabulation, though they continue to published more specific studies each year. ",
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"Official registration records can dramatically understate the number of guns in circulation.",
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"Both request types either use setInterval or setTimeout which shouldn't halt the browser. ",
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"The present invention provides novel enhancers of net photosynthesis and methods of enhancing net photosynthesis and plant growth. ",
"Due to the ever increasing need to grow crops more efficiently, the ability to increase a plant's growth rate would be of great social and economic value. ",
"An attractive biochemical target to accomplish this is the plant's ability to fix carbon dioxide by photosynthesis. ",
"The ability to enhance net photosynthesis will allow the grower to generate a plant that is faster growing and/or has increased biomass in, for example, storage products, such as starch (polysaccharides), protein or fats.",
"\nResearchers have been investigating means to boost a plant's photosynthetic rate in a variety of ways. ",
"Some examples include exposing a plant to light with the same wavelengths as sunlight (see, e.g., JP04166017); generating transgenic plants with exogenous genes involved in photosynthesis (see, e.g., WO 96/21737); application of various chemicals to increase the rate of photosynthesis (see, e.g., JP03109304, U.S. Pat. ",
"Nos. ",
"4,704,161 and 5,597,400); and applying chemicals to suppress photorespiration, resulting in an increase in the efficiency of photosynthesis (see, e.g., JP01086822, JP60115501, JP55136205, JP55036437).",
"\nHowever, prior to this invention, no enhancers of net photosynthesis have been identified. ",
"Furthermore, the present invention taps a rich, yet to date untapped source, of enhancers of net photosynthesis from microorganisms, particularly bacteria. ",
"Identification of enhancers of net photosynthesis and plant growth from microorganisms would offer many benefits. ",
"For example, the reagent, as a natural product, can be generated on a large, industrial scale using conventional techniques. ",
"This eliminates the need to structurally analyze and/or synthetically produce the bioactive component of the microbial extract. ",
"Furthermore, if the microorganism can grow in soil or can colonize plant roots, application of the microbe to the soil could be equivalent to applying the bacterial natural product or extract itself. ",
"If the genetic mechanism responsible for producing the bioactive agent is found, transgenic microorganisms can be constructed. ",
"Thus, any soil-borne or plant (e.g., root, shoot, leaf)-colonizing microorganism can be recombinantly manipulated to generate an enhancer of net photosynthesis or enhancer of plant growth.",
"\nTaxonomic labels on the most frequently used rhizobia have been in a state of flux for the past decade, but the two most important species currently are known as Sinorhizobium meliloti for alfalfa and Bradyrhizobium japonicum for soybean (Phillips and Martinez-Romero, 2000, Biological nitrogen fixation. ",
"In: Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 2nd edition, ed. ",
"J. Lederberg. ",
"Academic Press, San Diego. ",
"Vol 1: In press.) ",
"A less studied species, Sinorhizobium fredii, formerly called Rhizobium fredii, forms root nodules on both alfalfa and soybean (Hashem et al, 1997, Symbiosis 22:255-264) and thus may have outstanding commercial potential for future inoculants.",
"\nGenetic attempts to improve the competitiveness and commercial performance of rhizobia have centered on a small number of traits, including enhancement of N2-fixation capacity (Bosworth et al, 1994, Appl. ",
"Environ. ",
"Microbiol. ",
"60:3815-3832), production of antibiotics that impair competing bacteria (Kent et al, 1998, Appl. ",
"Environ. ",
"Microbiol. ",
"64:1657-1662), and the use of H2 as an energy source (Kent et al, 1998, Appl. ",
"Environ. ",
"Microbiol. ",
"64:1657-1662). ",
"Other plant-associated bacteria are claimed to promote plant growth by supplying plant hormones, rather than by reducing N2 to ammonia. ",
"Azospirillum, one genus representative of this group, has been used successfully as an agricultural inoculant throughout the world for more than 25 years (Okon and Labandera-Gonzalez, 1994, Soil Biol. ",
"Biochem. ",
"26:1591-1601). ",
"Although it is known from the literature that riboflavin synthesis can limit N2-fixation capacity in rhizobia (Pankthurst et al, 1974, Plant Physiol. ",
"53:198-205), there are no published reports on increasing the production of this compound in Rhizobiaceae bacteria. ",
"Indeed, no genes in the Rhizobiaceae have been identified as contributing to riboflavin synthesis.",
"\nThe biosynthetic pathway for riboflavin has been defined (Young, 1986, Nat. ",
"Prod. ",
"Rpt. ",
"3:395-419), and genes associated with various steps in the pathway have been characterized in Escherichia coli (Eberhardt et al, 1996, Eur. ",
"J. Biochem. ",
"242: 712-719; Richter et al, 1992, J. Bact. ",
"174:4050-4056; Richter et al, 1997, J. Bact. ",
"179:2022-2028), Bacillus subtilis (Coquard et al, 1997, Mol. ",
"Gen. Genet. ",
"254:81-84; Perkins and Pero, 1993, In: Bacillus subtilis and Other Gram-Positive Bacteria, A. L. Sonenshein et al eds. ",
"Amer. ",
"Soc. ",
"Microbiol. ",
"Washington, D.C. p. 319-325; Schott et al, 1990, J. Biol. ",
"Chem. ",
"265: 4204-4209), and several other bacteria outside the Rhizobiaceae. ",
"Commercial production of riboflavin was facilitated by expressing multiple copies of the rib operon in B. subtilis to achieve riboflavin titers of 4.5 g/liter (Stepanov et al, 1984, French patent application 3599355).",
"\nThe present invention, by providing novel enhancers of net photosynthesis and enhancers of plant growth, particularly enhancers that can be synthesized by microbes and isolated from microbial extracts, fulfills these, and other, needs."
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"歡迎光臨vale5tine3在痞客邦的小天地\n\n目前日期文章：201301 (122)\n\nIt does not substance whether it is titled a dwelling or a gur, this capitate tent built in circles a wooden framework has been undemanding for hundreds of years. ",
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"A single, upper surface affixed candent tuber of relatively low wattage, normally provided lighting.",
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"Generate links on new people's advanced ranking websites beside your singled out keyword/s deep-seated in the intermingle. ",
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"Create interesting and catchy videos, or furious ones, next to a nexus displayed in the video.",
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"1 illustrates a prior art oscilloscope input circuit. ",
"The input signal is applied through a traditional BNC connector 10 to a unity-gain buffer amplifier 12 which typically has a field effect transistor (FET) input stage. ",
"The input signal is terminated by a 1MΩ resistor to ground which provides a defined input impedance. ",
"A variable capacitor CADJ can be adjusted to trim the input capacitance. ",
"The circuit of FIG. ",
"1 can be characterized as a voltage-mode circuit because the buffer amplifier directly measures the voltage across the termination resistor.",
"\nFET amplifiers are used because of their high sensitivity and high input impedance, which is generally beneficial when attempting to measure high-frequency, low-level signals. ",
"This sensitivity, however, makes them vulnerable to transient and overload conditions. ",
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"Such signal sources may apply transients measured in kilovolts (kV), as well as other types of extended overloads, to the input circuit. ",
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"Protection circuits, however, are complicated and expensive. ",
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"The present invention relates generally to interface devices between humans and computers, and more particularly to computer interface devices that provide force feedback to the user.",
"\nComputer systems are used extensively in many different industries to implement computer controlled simulations, games, and other application programs. ",
"More particularly, these types of games and simulations are very popular with the mass market of home consumers. ",
"A computer system typically displays a visual environment to a user on a display screen or other visual output device. ",
"Users can interact with the displayed environment to play a game, experience a simulation or \"virtual reality\" environment, or otherwise influence events or images depicted on the screen. ",
"Such user interaction can be implemented through the use of a human-computer interface device, such as a joystick, \"joypad\" button controller, mouse, trackball, stylus and tablet, or the like, that is connected to the computer system controlling the displayed environment. ",
"The computer updates the simulation or game in response to the user's manipulation of an object such as a joystick handle or mouse, and provides feedback to the user utilizing the display screen and, typically, audio speakers.",
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"These types of interface devices can provide physical sensations to the user manipulating the object of the interface device. ",
"Typically, motors or other actuators are coupled to the object and are connected to the controlling computer system. ",
"The computer system can provide forces on the object in conjunction with simulation/game events by sending control signals to the actuators. ",
"The computer system can thus convey physical sensations to the user in conjunction with other supplied feedback as the user is grasping or contacting the object of the interface device. ",
"Force feedback interface devices can thus provide a whole new modality for human-computer interaction.",
"\nForce feedback input/output (I/O) devices of the prior art have concentrated on providing maximum haptic fidelity, i.e., the realism of the tactile feedback was desired to be optimized. ",
"This is because most of the force feedback devices have been targeted at the specific needs of highly industrial applications, and not a mass consumer market. ",
"To attain such realism, mass market design concerns such as low size and weight, low complexity, programming compatibility, low cost, and safety have been sacrificed in the prior art. ",
"As a result, typical force feedback interface devices include complex robotic mechanisms which require precision components and expensive actuators.",
"\nAn important concern for a force feedback interface device is communication bandwidth between the controlling computer and the interface device. ",
"To provide realistic force feedback, the complex devices of the prior art typically use high speed communication electronics that allow the controlling computer to quickly update force feedback signals to the interface device. ",
"The more quickly the controlling computer can send and receive signals to and from the interface device, the more accurately and realistically the desired forces can be applied on the interface object. ",
"In addition, using a high bandwidth communication interface, force feedback can be accurately coordinated with other supplied feedback, such as images on the video screen, and with user inputs such as movement of the object, activated buttons, etc. ",
"For example, a user can grasp and move a force feedback joystick in a simulation to control an image of a car to drive over a virtual bumpy surface displayed on a screen. ",
"The controlling computer should provide control signals to the actuators of the joystick quickly enough so that the surface feels as realistically bumpy as the designer of the simulation intended. ",
"If the control signals are too slow, a realistic feeling of bumpiness is more difficult to provide. ",
"Also, the controlling computer needs a high bandwidth communication interface to accurately coordinate the supplied forces with the visual feedback on the screen, such as the moment on the screen when the car first contacts the bumpy surface. ",
"This high speed is likewise needed to accurately coordinate supplied forces with any input from the user, for example, to steer the car in particular directions.",
"\nA problem is evident when prior art force feedback interface devices are provided to the mass consumer market. ",
"Most home computers have a built-in standard serial communication interfaces, such as an RS-232 or RS-422 interface, that may conveniently be used to connect peripherals like a force feedback interface device to the host computer. ",
"In addition, manufacturers prefer to provide peripheral devices that use these serial interfaces, since no additional hardware, such as interface cards, need to be provided with such peripherals. ",
"The manufacturing cost of the peripheral device can thus be significantly reduced. ",
"However, these standard serial communication interfaces are typically quite slow (i.e. have low bandwidth) compared to other communication interfaces. ",
"Realistic and accurate force feedback thus becomes difficult to provide by a controlling computer system to a prior art interface device connected through such a serial interface. ",
"For example, U.S. Pat. ",
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"5,184,319, by J. Kramer, describes a force feedback device that applies forces to a user's body parts. ",
"However, the Kramer device is typical of the prior art in that the host computer directly controls the actuators and directly receives the sensor data from the interface apparatus. ",
"Such a device is not suitable for a low bandwidth communication interface to achieve realistic force feedback.",
"\nAnother problem with using prior art force feedback interface devices in the mass consumer market is the wide variety of computer platforms and processing speeds that are used on different computers and on the same computer at different times. ",
"The force sensations provided to a user by a force feedback interface device may feel different to a user on different computer platforms or microprocessors, since these different computers run at different speeds. ",
"For example, the force feedback controlled by a 100 MHz computer may be much different from the force feedback controlled by a 60 MHz computer due to the different rates of processing control signals, even though these forces are intended to feel the same. ",
"In addition, the effective processing speed of one microprocessor can vary over time to provide inconsistent forces over multiple user sessions. ",
"For example, multitasking can vary or delay a microprocess,pr's management of force feedback control signals depending on other programs that are running on the microprocessor.",
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"\n\nHowever, only one hero can stop the evil Dr. Wily and save the world. ",
"He is… Angry Video Game Nerd!"
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"MIAMI, OKLA. – ",
"Undefeated super lightweight powerhouse Ivan “The Beast” Baranchyk and once-beaten Abel Ramos weighed-in on Thursday for their 10-round main event tomorrow/Friday on ShoBox: The New Generation live on SHOWTIME® (10:05 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) from Buffalo Run Casino & Resort in Miami, Okla. Photos by Stephanie Trapp.",
"\n\nThe hard-hitting Baranchyk (13-0, 10 KOs), who trains in Los Angeles and fights out of Miami, has scored 10 KOs inside of three full rounds, while the aggressive-minded Ramos (17-1-2, 12 KOs), of Casa Grande, Ariz., has knocked out three straight and promises to be the toughest test of Baranchyk’s career.",
"\n\nUndefeated former Dominican Republic Olympian Lenin Castillo (15-0-1, 10 KOs) and former national Golden Gloves champion Joseph “Mack” Williams (10-0, 7 KOs), of Far Rockaway, N.Y., meet in a matchup of undefeated light heavyweights in an eight-round featured bout.",
"\n\nIn the opening bout of the telecast, Spain’s up-and-coming unbeaten Jon “Johnfer” Fernandez (10-0, 8 KOs) takes on southpaw Ernesto Garza (7-1, 4 KOs), of Fort Hood, Texas, in an eight-round super featherweight bout.",
"\n\nTickets for the event promoted by DiBella Entertainment and Tony Holden Productions in association with Fight Promotions are priced at $35, $55 and $75 and are available at buffalorun.com and at stubwire.com.",
"\n\nOFFICIAL WEIGHTS:\n\nIvan Baranchyk: 140 Pounds\n\nAbel Ramos: 139 ½ Pounds\n\nLenin Castillo: 177 ¼ Pounds\n\nJoseph Williams: 178 ½ ounds\n\nJon Fernandez: 129 ½ Pounds\n\nErnesto Garza: 126 ¼ Pounds\n\nFINAL QUOTES:\n\nIVAN “THE BEAST” BARANCHYK:\n\n“I’m working with a new trainer (Eduard Kravtsov) at Wild Card Gym. ",
"We had some mistakes with our old team and it was time for me to move on. ",
"It was my decision to move on.",
"\n\n“We have better sparring now, a new coach, new strategy. ",
"Wild Card is a different experience. ",
"We have tough sparring, tough training. ",
"It was a good change.",
"\n\n“I’m still the same aggressive fighter; I come forward and try to stop you. ",
"We’re just working on a few new things, more combos, better defense.",
"\n\n“Ramos is my toughest opponent, but we’re ready for everything he brings. ",
"We’re ready to fight on the inside, on the outside.",
"\n\n“The game plan is to get the victory. ",
"That’s the most important\n\n“The first couple rounds are the most dangerous. ",
"We know he’s tough and experienced. ",
"We need to make it my fight, style-wise.",
"\n\n“My last two fights went the distance, but it was good to know I can go 10 rounds. ",
"It was good to get that experience.",
"\n\n“People connect with me here (in Miami, Okla.). ",
"I can’t explain it, it just works.”"
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"One of the designers who made it happen\n\nExcellent, very professional and very easy to deal with! ",
"100 % recommended! ",
"Thank you !",
"\n\n- Anonymous\n\nHow Yimfinity started their logo design journey\n\nWho are you known as?",
"\n\nPawsketeers\n\nTell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach\n\nLocal deals for pet-related products, services, and stores.",
"\n\nLogo types to explore\n\nPictorial mark\n\nWeb 2.0\n\nTo give us an idea of the overall feeling of your brand, let us know which styles you lean towards\n\nClassic\n\nModern\n\nMature\n\nYouthful\n\nFeminine\n\nMasculine\n\nPlayful\n\nSophisticated\n\nEconomical\n\nLuxurious\n\nLoud\n\nQuiet\n\nSimple\n\nComplex\n\nSubtle\n\nObvious\n\nOther notes\n\nno concrete template yet: would like to include some of the following elements:\n-perhaps a play on the three musketeers with 3 dog silhouettes and sabres\n-some pet element (paw/dog/etc)\n-some element alluding to that it is a deal site\n-ideally still keeping it simple and not too busy of a logo\n-look relatively high end but not stuffy\n\ntargeting pet owners who are generally social, 20-40 with disposable income. ",
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"All characters (C) SEGA, Archie and SP Davis 2006.",
"\nUsed without permission\n\n---\n\nThis was not the way it was supposed to end.",
"\nHe was on a gurney, but he couldn't see who was pushing him. ",
"His head was a drugged-down lump of lead on a rubber neck, he couldn't move an inch. ",
"Fluorescent lights on the ceiling marched past his vision as he floated along the hallway in a white bed. ",
"The people around him had no faces. ",
"No... they were wearing masks. ",
"Blank, white masks. ",
"Dozens of eyes stared down at him and he tried to speak but he couldn't. ",
"He wasn't even sure he was making a sound, because his ears didn't work. ",
"The world was a reel of film without a soundtrack.",
"\nThis was not the way it was supposed to end.",
"\nTo understand how he had arrived in this situation was a futile effort. ",
"He couldn't remember. ",
"His past was a blur to him as a dream becomes vague and incorporeal upon waking. ",
"The mountains... ah, but even they were slipping away into that dark abyss, now. ",
"Besides, what relevance did the past hold when his present was what it was? ",
"His quest was surely lost. ",
"He had failed his family and himself. ",
"His failure was utter and total. ",
"It didn't matter what became of him, now.",
"\nThis was not the way it was supposed to end.",
"\nNow he was in a room... a white, sterile room without windows. ",
"He watched the masked people above him as they handed various silvery instruments back and forth to one another. ",
"They were all wearing rubber gloves and blue plastic coats. ",
"He was completely paralysed, unable to do anything but watch, but nevertheless he could feel his flesh creep underneath his skin as he was lifted onto a white table, a soft pillow slipped under his head. ",
"A bright light was switched on above him.",
"\nThis was not the way it was supposed to end.",
"\nOne of the faceless strangers stood over him and held up something that glinted in the light. ",
"He knew his father had died in vain. ",
"There was no justifying his life, which had been so fleeting and pointless that he couldn't even remember it by the end. ",
"He tried to say this; he tried to announce that it didn't matter what they did with him now that his purpose had been terminated, because without his destiny he was just a sack of rotting meat in a freak's shell. ",
"But he couldn't speak. ",
"The drugs had numbed him. ",
"He could only lie in wait.",
"\nTails was awake and watching when the scalpel came down.",
"\nThis was not the way it was supposed to end; but this was how it began.",
"\n\n---\n\nINTROSPECT\n\n---\n\n10:00 am\n\nSomebody was mopping the sweat from his brow with a soft rag and speaking to him in whispers. ",
"For a few minutes, Tails Prower was five years old. ",
"His father stood by his bed and ran a gentle hand through his forelocks, breathing softly so as not to disturb him as he dozed. ",
"It was warm in his presence, and Tails knew that as long as he was near, nothing bad was going to happen. ",
"He scared away all of the monsters. ",
"Tails smiled and wrapped himself more tightly in the soft blanket.",
"\nBut Tails was not five. ",
"He was fifteen. ",
"His father was dead. ",
"Nothing could ever change this. ",
"Time does not heal all wounds, and the best we can do is learn to live with them.",
"\nHe opened his eyes and it was not his father who stood above him, smiling down at him with paternal devotion. ",
"The sky stretched from one horizon to the other through a great glass ceiling, and although the sun beat down on him, he felt cool and relaxed. ",
"Some manner of technology had neutralised its warmth; filed down nature's sharp teeth.",
"\n\"There you go,\" the figure above him said, \"How do you feel?\"",
"\nTails blinked and stared as his vision sharpened. ",
"Standing over him was a stranger, a tall avian male wearing an elaborately decorated cloak dyed with every colour of the rainbow. ",
"The only part of him that was visible beneath his flowing clothing was his head, donned with a spectacular crest of plumage dyed at the tips. ",
"He lowered his long, pointed beak and smiled warmly at Tails as he laced his hands and took a step back from the bed. ",
"His eyes were a haunting, brilliant shade of blue.",
"\n\"I feel... fine...\" Tails muttered, and sat up to take a look around. ",
"The huge room around him seemed to form the tip of a great glass obelisk. ",
"All he could see was sky amidst the sterile white of the sculpted architecture around him. ",
"He was in the middle of a tropical garden. ",
"Palm trees and ferns grew freely amidst intricately pruned hedges and succulants. ",
"He could hear a fountain somewhere. ",
"The air was a little humid. ",
"Tails noticed that the bed on which he'd been sleeping didn't belong here; he'd been carried here just so that it could be the first thing he saw upon waking. ",
"It was breathtaking.",
"\n\"I'm so glad to hear it,\" the bird said. ",
"He was soft-spoken, and radiated an atmosphere of pleasantness that put Tails at ease almost immediately. ",
"His accent was unique and exotic, subtle and elegant, a manner of speaking Tails had never heard before. \"",
"You'd been hurt quite badly, out there. ",
"Taken quite a few blows to the head, we feared that you might have acquired some lasting damage. ",
"But our doctors, they are the best.\"",
"\n\"I don't... remember much.\" ",
"Tails said.",
"\n\"You had some trouble with your memory, yes. ",
"We treated it, as well as your concussion. ",
"You've been asleep for twenty-five hours, you know.\"",
"\n\"Twenty-five hours,\" Tails repeated, and yawned. \"",
"Excuse me, but... where am I?\"",
"\n\"Oh, how rude of me!\" ",
"The colourful stranger laughed. \"",
"I beg your pardon. ",
"I am Badoru Kukku. ",
"And this is my paradise.\"",
"\nHe pronounced his name with precision and pride, placing emphasis and elongation upon the second syllable. ",
"Kukkuu. ",
"It was nearly enough to make Tails ashamed of his own pedestrian and comparitively almost ugly name.",
"\nSuddenly he remembered something. \"",
"Hey wait... I was in... I was in an operating theatre!\" ",
"He remembered the horror of the scalpel that glinted in the sterile white light, saw it again as it fell toward his abdomen. ",
"He ripped the sheets off the bed and inspected his body, clutching at handfuls of fur.",
"\n\"Oh, don't worry,\" Kukku replied with a humoured grin, \"There wasn't an operation. ",
"We just patched you up a little, dressed your wounds, tended to your bruises.\"",
"\n\"But I remember the scalpel, they cut me!\"",
"\n\"Just a nick. ",
"Just to extract a tiny sample of tissue. ",
"We took a bit of blood, too, just a thimble full. ",
"You were barely scratched, I made sure of that myself. ",
"You're a very special boy, you mean so much to me. ",
"So much to all of us. ",
"A little miracle.\"",
"\n\"I don't understand.\"",
"\n\"Oh, I will explain later. ",
"For now, there is something I want you to see. ",
"Come over here, with me.\"",
"\nTails slipped out of bed and followed Kukku to the glass wall, where they stood side by side and gazed out over the landscape. ",
"The room was much higher up than Tails even imagined. ",
"The ground was very far away, it looked as it did when he saw it from the cockpit of the Tornado. ",
"There was a great forest beneath them, though the trees looked like moss growing around fields and lakes, a great expanse of undisturbed nature spread right out to the ocean.",
"\n\"Do you like it?\" ",
"the bird asked, \"The most precious natural haven on all of Mobius, and all of it mine. ",
"And yours, too. ",
"Just look at what you've come back to. ",
"Nothing in the outside world could compare to this.\"",
"\nIndeed, Tails was awed beyond words. ",
"The view was stunning, and from this vantage point he could see for miles in all directions. \"",
"But there's more,\" Kukku announced, and he lifted some kind of remote control device, tapping at the buttons. ",
"This was answered with a low rumbling noise that echoed through the whole room.",
"\n\"What's going on?\" ",
"Tails asked, but Kukku hushed him with a smile. ",
"All at once the walls began to shift, the glass pyramid that encapsulated the room split open like a great blooming flower and slid away, leaving the two of them together with nothing between them and the blue expanse of the sky. ",
"The sun's warmth bathed over Tails, and a breeze ruffled his fur. ",
"He closed his eyes and breathed it in, the clean and pure air of the lower stratosphere. ",
"He was in the cockpit again, shearing through the clouds, looking down on the world below with its stresses and trivialities. ",
"He laughed, and threw his arms out either side of him. ",
"Tails had no fear of height; on the contrary, he was in love with height, and he stood right on the edge of the building, taking in every drop of the experience. ",
"This was unbelievable, the sensation of flight captured in a jar. ",
"It was heavenly.",
"\n\"Welcome home,\" Kukku said from behind him.",
"\nTails stood at the edge a moment longer, as though parting with an old friend, and then backed away again, shaking his head in disbelief. \"",
"This is amazing,\" he gasped.",
"\n\"Isn't it?\" ",
"Kukku pressed another button on his device and the glass walls began to ascend again. ",
"He placed the device atop an ornate pedestal, where a groove was carved for it.",
"\n\"But what do you mean when you say I'm at home?\" ",
"Tails asked.",
"\nKukku smiled warmly again, and his blue eyes sparkled. \"",
"I told you that you are a miracle,\" he said, \"I am so pleased you decided to return to us. ",
"We can verify the identities of your parents from your genetic code, you see. ",
"It is not impossible to have a child in Quarantine without our knowledge, despite what most of my colleagues would attest. ",
"Nature found a way, it seems. ",
"The miracle is that we did not even know that you existed until you came back to us.\"",
"\n\"You knew my parents,\" Tails said, realisation blooming. \"",
"I'm on the Kitsune Atole, aren't I.\"\n\"No finer place on all the planet, my boy.\"",
"\n\"I can't even remember coming here.\"",
"\n\"The genetic code can tell us absolutely anything about a person,\" Kukku said, \"Except, of course, his name. ",
"That is something that only you can tell us. ",
"Might I ask what it is that we can call you?\"",
"\n\"Tails. ",
"Tails Prower.\"",
"\nKukku laughed, truly amused. \"",
"Tails! ",
"Well now, that is certainly appropriate, isn't it! ",
"Truly a fine name. ",
"A fine name. ",
"And Prower, of course, the name of your father. ",
"I remember him, you know. ",
"He was a fine specimen of a creature, very healthy, very potent genes. ",
"I knew he had a lot of potential, and clearly I was right. ",
"I was sad when he left. ",
"I see that he hasn't returned with you... that is a pity.\"",
"\n\"He died. ",
"He was killed, I mean.\"",
"\n\"Oh... I am sorry to hear that. ",
"Very, very sorry.\" ",
"Kukku slouched his shoulders and hung his head, his long beak pointed to the ground like an arrow. \"",
"The world out there is like that. ",
"Barbaric. ",
"Primal. ",
"Untamed. ",
"So juvenile. ",
"So many people dying for so many futile reasons. ",
"Killing and dying. ",
"Not here, though. ",
"We maintain this little slice of heaven as a beacon for the world. ",
"The research that we do here, we're going to change the face of Mobius some day. ",
"Some day...\"\n\"What do you research?\"",
"\nKukku's spirit's brightened and his smile returned. ",
"He had a very contageous smile, Tails found it almost impossible to keep a straight face. \"",
"Oh, I'll tell you all about it,\" the bird said, \"Another time. ",
"After dinner, perhaps. ",
"For now there is so much to do! ",
"We weren't prepared for your arrival, but I've seen to it that you have a room fully furnished. ",
"I'll take you there now, if you would like to see it.\"",
"\n\"You've made up a room for me? ",
"You want me to stay here?\"",
"\n\"Oh, Tails... I want so much for you to stay. ",
"In fact, I'd like to try and convince you to join our family.\"",
"\nFamily. ",
"The one thing Tails had sought all of his life. ",
"The very word put a smile on his face, bedazzled as he was with the heavenly palace in the sky. ",
"He asked to see his room, and Badoru Kukku was overjoyed.",
"\n\n---\n\n11:23 am\n\n\"I don't understand why you want to do this,\" Tails said, \"Why you're showing me all this. ",
"Taking me in and healing my injuries and everything. ",
"What's so special about me?\"",
"\nBadoru Kukku was still smiling as they walked down a long spiral staircase. \"",
"Oh, you're very special indeed,\" he said, \"You validate our work, my dear. ",
"You are a beacon of hope. ",
"Your very birth is going to be an inspiration to all of our people. ",
"I cannot wait to show you off.\"",
"\n\"I still don't understand.\"",
"\n\"You will. ",
"Very soon, you will.\"",
"\nThe staircase twisted and curled down from the garden penthouse like the belltower of an old cathedral. ",
"The stone walls were a little suffocating, but it didn't look as though there was far to go. ",
"He could see a light ahead.",
"\n\"You are the future, young Tails,\" Kukku said, and Tails thought he could even hear a trace of a sob in the bird's voice. \"",
"You are the proof that mobiankind can elevate itself, that it is evolving, slowly and steadily, toward greatness. ",
"Some of my colleagues were convinced that my beloved Cremaria was an aberration, but now there can be no question.\"",
"\nThey reached the bottom of the spiral staircase, and the shock of what Tails saw almost sucked the air from his lungs.",
"\nThe stairs ended with a freefall. ",
"A circular platform that hovered above an abyss of nothing. ",
"There were no rails and no barriers. ",
"They were standing, it seemed, at the top of a huge, hollow tower. ",
"In a way it seemed half-built. ",
"The walls were packed tight with rooms, doorways opening up to nothing. ",
"There were towers within towers, great columns made of open rooms, stacked one on top of another. ",
"Hundreds of rooms, hundreds of platforms, and all of them swarming with people.",
"\nIt was a vertical city. ",
"The strangest thing about it was that there were no connecting paths, no stairways between rooms, no bridges of any kind. ",
"And the people didn't seem to care in the least, because they were all birds.",
"\nDozens of them were flying about at any given moment, flitting from doorway to doorway. ",
"In fact, it was clear that bridges and stairs would only ever serve as a hindrance. ",
"They didn't need them. ",
"These mobians had a transport much more efficient than walking. ",
"The sound of flapping wings echoed constantly throughout the building and merged into the background, just as one gets used to the sound of traffic along a busy highway.",
"\n\"Welcome to Sanctuary,\" Kukku declared, \"The beacon of the civilised world. ",
"Soon we shall be a guiding light for all of Mobius. ",
"This is my dream, Tails. ",
"This is my gift to mobiankind. ",
"And I want you to be a member of my family, my dearest child, because you are one of the first pioneers of a new age. ",
"This is why you are a miracle, Tails. ",
"You have crossed the biological schism that truly seperates us from the barbarians. ",
"You have made the greatest evolutionary leap! ",
"Flight, Tails! ",
"You have achieved flight!\"",
"\nTails watched the people of this floorless city dart to and fro from one room to another without a worry in the world, and imagined how wonderful it must be to throw off the shackles of one's planetbound prison, and truly be free. ",
"It occurred to him at this moment that this really was the home he had always sought. ",
"This was his paradise. ",
"A tear tracked its way along his snout and perched upon his nose until he sniffled it away. ",
"This was his home.",
"\n\"I'll show you to your room,\" Kukku said, \"Just follow me.\" ",
"And with that, he flicked away his robes to display his impressive wingspan, and dove from the platform, circling downward until he vanished into the flock. ",
"His robes trailed behind him like a fluttering, colourful cape.",
"\nA shiver ran down Tails' spine. ",
"He wasn't afraid of heights, but then he'd never been asked to leap into an abyss before. ",
"Kukku may not have known it, but Tails' flight didn't work the same as that of a bird. ",
"He needed a boost, and even then he only had a few moments before he would exhaust himself. ",
"If he simply walked off the edge of the platform, he'd fall to his death. ",
"If he could fly like a bird, then he wouldn't need a plane.",
"\nOne of the mobian birds flew close past him, and he felt the wind from the wings. ",
"It blew his hair back with a puff and he imagined himself flying freely as they did. ",
"They had no constraints in heaven or Mobius, they almost willed themselves to a location and they were there. ",
"They really did possess a gift that had only been half-granted to Tails, and he envied them for it. ",
"He wanted to be them, if only for a moment. ",
"If only for two.",
"\nSpreading his arms out either side of him, Tails closed his eyes and took a deep breath. ",
"He pictured the vast blue sky, scattered white clouds like cottonbuds, calm and cool. ",
"He flexed at the knees, once, twice, then leaned forward. ",
"If he was to die today, then he would die in flight and thus carry no regrets. ",
"He would die free; he would die a bird.",
"\nTails jumped, dove forward off the platform and spun his tails like the rotor of a small helicopter, just as he always did, although this time he did not ascend. ",
"He threw his arms out in front of him and launched himself in a controlled dive. ",
"His spinning tails worked somewhat like a parasail, slowing his descent as he glided through the building. ",
"He pulled to the side very quickly but only narrowly avoided a head-on collision with a brick wall. ",
"He zipped past dozens of doorways that opened into thin-air, felt the jetstream of scores of flying birds, and realised that this was a very dangerous activity. ",
"He was travelling very quickly, circling downward, and searching madly for any sign of where he was going. ",
"The tower was a honeycomb of rooms, the portals wide, somewhat elliptical, and almost identical. ",
"They streaked past his vision and he began to grow dizzy.",
"\nOnly a flash of vibrant colour brought back his bearings. ",
"Badoru Kukku's brilliant cloak, trailing behind him as he flew. ",
"Tails twisted his body and aimed his trajectory toward it, conscious that his powerful tails were getting very weary and strained at the constant spinning, twisting and curling. ",
"If they cramped up, he would freefall. ",
"It was crucial that he land very soon, on something.",
"\nKukku took a hard left in mid-air and dove, a bit of ostentatious flying that was clearly meant to impress, and vanished again into the flock. ",
"Tails tried to follow but he couldn't turn so well, and he again almost crashed. ",
"He ran along the curved wall for a few metres before pulling away and levelling off again, and just spotted Kukku darting into one of the doorways. ",
"He followed, his tails aching, and nearly fell short of the hole. ",
"He crashed inside the room, rolling a short way until he landed in a pile of soft pillows.",
"\nBadoru Kukku was laughing as Tails fought with the pillows, panting. ",
"Kukku had, of course, landed perfectly.",
"\n\"You still have some difficulty in using your talents,\" he said, \"You'll learn very quickly, here. ",
"Everyone is going to be so anxious to teach you! ",
"As will I, of course, and your sister Cremaria. ",
"All of us, one family of the air.\"",
"\nTails crawled out of the pillow pile a little cranky, a bruise already forming on his behind, but he immediately forgot his pain when he saw the room around him.",
"\nIt was beautiful.",
"\nA bed was draped in soft blue curtains of satin and silk. ",
"Upon it were cushions so soft that they looked as though they might fly away like balloons. ",
"The floor of the room was polished oak, furnished with fuzzy rugs, and the walls were an unoffensive cream-white and decorated with landscape watercolour paintings. ",
"Tails could see a large, elegant wardrobe and dressing table setting, a huge pine desk, and a window that took up almost an entire wall, looking out at the clouds and the horizon from this unbelievable vantage point.",
"\n\"My God...\" Tails muttered, \"It's gorgeous.\"",
"\n\"Yes. ",
"Oh, but my boy, this is only the surface. ",
"There is so much more for you to see and experience.\" ",
"He smiled. \"",
"But we'll speak of these things later. ",
"We have all the time in the world. ",
"I should let you settle in! ",
"Do say that you will join us for dinner, though.\"",
"\n\"This is all a little daunting.\"",
"\n\"Yes... yes, I know it must be, but do relax and make yourself at home. ",
"You are among family, now, and it is perfectly safe within our Sanctuary. ",
"I want you to feel that you are welcome here. ",
"If there is anything you need, anything at all, just press this button.\"",
"\nKukku indicated something that looked like an intercom device beside the doorway.",
"\n\"Anything at all, Tails,\" he said, \"And someone will arrive immediately to assist you. ",
"You're entitled to anything, you are after all a member of my family. ",
"My staff are paid to ensure that I and mine are comfortable. ",
"They will be happy to accomodate you.\"",
"\n\"Uh... thanks...\"\n\"I will have you collected at six so that you may join me for dinner. ",
"There are many people who are just dying to meet you, Tails, and people who you will be happy to meet. ",
"Will you be there?\"",
"\nTails' stomach was already growling a little. \"",
"Sure thing.\"",
"\n\"Oh, I'm so happy. ",
"I mean that.\" ",
"He clearly did, judging from the fireworks in his eyes. \"",
"Then I will see you at six. ",
"Feel free to explore the facility, though I do hope that you will be careful.\"",
"\nWith that, Kukku gave a little wave, turned, and flew out the open portal.",
"\nTails' attention turned once again to the room. ",
"Never in his life had he been treated to such luxury. ",
"As a child of the streets, rescued and made a Freedom Fighter, there were only a handful of times that he'd ever had a comfortable bed to sleep on, or even slept inside a proper building that didn't leak when it rained. ",
"This was nothing like he'd ever seen before. ",
"It was the kind of room he imagined a king or a prince might sleep in.",
"\nNot for the first time today, he wondered if he might be dreaming. ",
"What an obscure, surreal kind of wonderland. ",
"Tails had expected the Kitsune Atole to be a horrible place, like the bowels of the Arack Empire, some alien nightmare from which his father had sought to liberate his enslaved people. ",
"Instead he'd been granted an instant promotion to the status of some kind of royalty. ",
"Bird royalty, no less.",
"\nOf all the situations he'd found himself in over the past few years, this was immediately one of the most puzzling.",
"\nBadoru Kukku, whoever he was, had known Tails' father. ",
"Had respected him deeply, by the sound of it. ",
"The question was whether that acquaintance was in the capacity of a leader. ",
"Perhaps times had changed, perhaps somebody had already taken up Trevor's sword and changed things on this island. ",
"If that was so, then Tails didn't know what he was going to do here. ",
"The prospect actually saddened him a little. ",
"If he couldn't change anything here, then he had no way to avenge his father. ",
"No way to prove his life worthwhile.",
"\nAll of these problems were brushed somewhat under the shroud of Tails' immediate shock. ",
"The last thing he lucidly remembered was embarking upon his quest, to come here. ",
"Obviously this mission had been a success, but how much time had passed in between? ",
"He might have been wandering the globe for years before getting here. ",
"Tails looked into the ornate mirror above the dressing table, ran his eyes over his body. ",
"He didn't look any older.",
"\n(and there were memories. ",
"Deep, deep down. ",
"Just fragments, snapshots. ",
"Postcards from the past.)",
"\nThe cacophony of flapping wings outside his entrance was extremely distracting. ",
"He supposed that birds learned to get used to it, but doubted whether he ever would. ",
"Frowning, Tails approached the portal and looked out. ",
"Scores of birds flew past every minute, taking no notice of him. ",
"Flittering from one doorway to another. ",
"A lone feather drifted down in front of his face and landed at his feet.",
"\nTails found a button with his hand, and clicked it in. ",
"Immediately a tinted glass door slid across the hole and snapped shut. ",
"It cut the sound of flying birds out completely, much better than Tails had even hoped. ",
"The door and room seemed to be utterly soundproof.",
"\nHappy with his new state of relaxing seclusion, Tails sat on the side of the bed for a moment, taking another incredulous look about the room, before lying down. ",
"He had a lot of thinking to do. ",
"A lot of remembering.",
"\n\n---\n\nTrevor Prower did not shiver before the presence of the bat in the pinstripe suit, even though the bat's hand never moved from its suspicious position underneath the desk. ",
"Rain was pattering softly upon the roof of the old church, and the ceiling had sprung several leaks, none of which the residents of this den of vice ever bothered to patch up. ",
"There was an old, dirty bathtub wedged in the aisle between two pews, catching the worst of the dribble.",
"\n\"Nails, Nails the Bat,\" he said as he sliced the tip off a fat cigar. \"",
"I trust you've heard of me. ",
"This is my town, after all.\"",
"\nTrevor didn't reply. ",
"After a few moments, Nails grinned a jaw full of thin, yellow dagger-teeth and bit down on the cigar. ",
"He ignited a match on the desktop and lit the smoke. \"",
"It has come to my attention,\" he said, \"that you have repeatedly been caught thieving in my neighbourhood. ",
"I find this problematic, to say the least.\"",
"\n\"Just food,\" Trevor replied, \"To feed my child. ",
"We don't have any money, he'd starve otherwise. ",
"We're not doing anything we don't have to do.\"",
"\nThe two suits who stood either side of him, the sphinx and the crow, moved a little closer. ",
"In response, Trevor pulled Miles closer to himself.",
"\nNails just chuckled and shrugged. \"",
"Hey. ",
"Profits is profits is profits. ",
"Doesn't matter whether you're jacking sports cars or stealing cheese from the rats. ",
"Fact of the matter is your thieving hurts my bottom line.\"",
"\n\"He's only three years old, for God's sake,\" Trevor hissed.",
"\n\"Oh, really? ",
"Well gee, in that case, maybe we should all pitch in some cash. ",
"Hey, boys! ",
"What do you think? ",
"Why don't we all dig deep and get the kid a decent feed? ",
"Heck, scratch that, we'll give him three square meals a day. ",
"Set up a superannuation fund, drop a few payloads into his bank account, buy him a new wardrobe and a decent education.\"",
"\n\"Sounds like a mighty fine idea, boss,\" the cat replied, \"Kid could be the next High Justice of the Supreme Court, he could. ",
"We wanna give him every opportunity in life, especially considering how he's a little deformed retard and everything.\"",
"\n\"You don't talk about my son that way,\" Trevor snapped.",
"\n\"Yeah, Floyd,\" Nails said, \"Don't go talkin' about the kid like that, no reason for that kind of nastiness. ",
"We're all reasonable gentlemen here, are we not? ",
"Listen, all I'm saying is, that just ain't the way the world works. ",
"You can't just go around doing whatever you like, sooner or later you're going to be accountable to the people whose pockets you're emptying. ",
"Can you imagine what would happen if there were a thousand little kids whose daddies stole to support them? ",
"I'd go out of business!\"",
"\n\"How can it possibly affect you?\"",
"\n\"An example,\" Nails said, and dragged deep on his cigar. ",
"He puffed out a thick cloud of smoke that obscured his face for a moment. \"",
"Say there's a particular merchant, a fine businessman, who runs a small produce outlet in town. ",
"Now, he only wants to feed his kids too, just the same as you. ",
"He's got three little rug-biters at home who need to eat, same as yours. ",
"When you steal his wares, you deprive this businessman of his income, and he has to work a lot harder just to bring home the bacon for these three darling little angels.\" ",
"He dragged on the cigar again, and puffed the smoke out of his nose like a dragon. \"",
"Now, let's take the example a little further. ",
"Say, for example, that I have a deal arranged with this businessman. ",
"Say that the businessman agrees to filter a small percentage of his profits to me, and in return, I agree not to send the boys around to smash his spine into three pieces with a crowbar and burn his quiet little shop to the ground. ",
"It's a friendly little business arrangement of mutual benefit, everybody's happy. ",
"Say that the terms of our agreement are such that I also agree, for just a little extra, to implement my vast resources to provide this businessman and his fine family an umbrella of protection against all the scumbags in this city, not just my own. ",
"Say that I have a similar deal arranged with dozens of other upstanding business owners across town. ",
"Can you see it yet? ",
"Sure, I could go soft on you, after all you are just doing this to survive, but can you imagine what would happen if I went soft on all the poor mongrels in this city who are down on their luck? ",
"If everyone who had a kid to feed suddenly went out and started robbing my clients here and there just to make ends meet? ",
"Pretty soon all these businessmen start to wonder what it is, exactly, that they are paying me for. ",
"I start to lose a lot of income, and then I start having to do a lot of unpleasant things just to remind these businessmen what they're paying me for. ",
"Things get very messy, a lot of people wind up with hospital bills they can't afford, some wind up dead, a lot of fires start very mysteriously, and all this is further weight on my profit margin because my clients can't pay me my dues. ",
"I have a reputation in this city that's very much in my interest to uphold, and in order to do so, I'm afraid I really do have to take a hard-line stance.\"",
"\nTails wrapped his arms around his father's waist, and Trevor held his son close. \"",
"I have no quarrel with you,\" he said, \"Please. ",
"I just want to do what I can so that my son and I can survive, we've had a very difficult life.\"",
"\n\"Now hang on,\" Nails said, \"I never said I was going to let you die, I'm not that kind of monster. ",
"I have an opportunity for you, in fact, a very good opportunity that'll see that both you and your adorable spawn never have to worry about where the next meal is coming from again.\" ",
"He grinned and leaned in closer, another cloud of smoke bursting forth from every hole in his face. \"",
"Work for me,\" he hissed.",
"\n\"Work for you?\"",
"\n\"That's right! ",
"You want a job, don't you? ",
"I'm offering you one. ",
"The best thing about it is that you basically only have to do what you're already doing right now, only I tell you who you can rob, and half of what you find comes back to me. ",
"It's got security, benefits, and best of all, you'll have my protection for both yourself and your son. ",
"I'm being very generous, here, only because I like you and I feel sympathy for your plight.\"",
"\n\"You want my son to be subjected to life in the criminal underworld?\" ",
"Trevor asked, \"I don't rob people because I like it, sir, it isn't my career choice, I don't want to do it for a living. ",
"I do what I can to survive. ",
"I'm sorry, but there's a difference between what you do and what I do.\"",
"\nNails frowned at this. ",
"He sucked deep on his cigar. \"",
"If you think that, then you're a fool,\" he said, \"There is no difference, none whatsoever. ",
"I do wish we could all live in a world of roses and sunshine, but the fact is that we don't. ",
"Morality is a creation, my friend, a bleeding-heart fantasy. ",
"Let me tell you a little thing about morality. ",
"In a hard world, where only the fittest survive, there are only two kinds of people - the strong, who win, and the weak, who lose. ",
"The weak people are the ones who came up with the concept of ethics, and why? ",
"Because they're so freakin' weak that they need an excuse with which to justify their existence. ",
"I don't need ethics, my friend, because I'm a winner. ",
"The question is whether you're going to decide to be a winner as well, or whether you're going to keep being a victim and hold onto this bizarre, hypocritical notion that what you do is more ethical. ",
"We're in the exact same business, you and I. You only think you're doing it for different reasons.\"",
"\n\"I get the feeling you're not going to give me much of a choice,\" Trevor muttered.",
"\nNails' grin returned, and he stubbed out his depleted cigar in an ashtray that he kept atop the former pulpit he used as a desk. \"",
"You steal to survive,\" he said, \"If you worked for me, that wouldn't change. ",
"You'd still be stealing to survive, only it's not starvation that'll kill you. ",
"It's your choice, and in this hard world, it's very rare to come across an offer this good. ",
"I am a very generous person, you see.\"",
"\n\n---\n\n4:53 pm\n\nTails awoke to a soft rapping sound. ",
"Eyelids heavy, he glanced around and remembered where he was. ",
"The light outside was fading - midafternoon. ",
"He was shocked that he'd slept so long, but then again he had been mighty tired. ",
"Now he felt more rested than he ever had in his life, and he didn't know whether it was because of the obscenely comfortable bed, or the medical tampering of his avian hosts. ",
"Or a combination of both.",
"\nThe rapping at the door was timid, almost embarrassed, and Tails hoped that whoever was so nervous about getting his attention wouldn't mistake his inaction for irritation. ",
"In reality he was just so comfortable that it took him a little while to work up the strength to get out of bed.",
"\nWandering over to the other side of the room, he pressed the button to open the door hatch. ",
"He expected to see one of the birds on the other side, which was why he had a double-take when he saw who was standing on the precarious ledge that served as a doorstep.",
"\nA young girl, a rabbit, about a foot shorter than Tails himself, looked up at him with a large pair of hazel eyes. ",
"She was about eleven or twelve, and cloaked in a kind of elaborate frilled dress. ",
"Oddly, her ears were tied together with ribbons behind her back, like a long ponytail. ",
"She knitted her hands together over her belly in a very regal kind of posture. ",
"She smiled nervously, and tried to say something (a statement she'd clearly rehearsed) but it got caught in her throat and she just kind of murmured.",
"\n\"Oh,\" Tails said dumbly. \"",
"Hello, there. ",
"Um.\"",
"\nThe rabbit curtsied, hurriedly as though it were something she just remembered she was supposed to do a while ago. ",
"Then there was an uncomfortable moment's silence.",
"\n\"Can I help you?\" ",
"Tails asked.",
"\n\"Yes, hello,\" she said, and blushed a little. \"",
"Father sent me to meet you. ",
"I've been- I've been a little curious and he said it would be good for us to meet. ",
"If we could, I mean. ",
"If you'd like to.\"",
"\nThis was an awfully cryptic explanation, and Tails figured her ability to communicate coherently with him had a lot to do with the fact that she was clearly very timid and uncomfortable being here. ",
"He suddenly realised that she was confronting him while standing on a tiny platform over a deep drop, and if he was displeased with her he could easily give her a light push and send her to a messy death. ",
"That might have contributed to her discomfort. ",
"He invited her inside.",
"\n\"Your father sent you,\" Tails said, confused, \"I don't know your father.\"",
"\n\"He thought we should be acquainted,\" she replied, \"If you are to join our family.\"",
"\nAs she walked past him, Tails saw her from behind and noticed something very strange about her. ",
"A rabbit ordinarily had very large ears, but hers were huge. ",
"From where they sprouted from her head to the very tip, they were perhaps a metre long and more than thirty centimetres at their widest point, though that was hard to discern as they were folded over and tied together. ",
"They brushed the backs of her knees as she walked. ",
"Tails figured that they would keep her entire back warm and in the cold weather she could use them as a blanket. ",
"She brushed them aside so she could sit on the edge of his bed without sitting on her own ears.",
"\nTails frowned. \"",
"Uh, I'm sorry. ",
"Who did you say you are?\"",
"\nThe girl blushed again and looked embarrassed. \"",
"Apologies, I don't believe I did. ",
"My name is Cremaria Kukku. ",
"Though it is often shortened to just Cream. ",
"You can do that, if you like. ",
"I rather prefer it.\"",
"\nShe spoke with the same accent as the birds, and put the same exotic and precious pronunciation to the word Kukku. ",
"Folding her hands in her lap, she swung her short legs around in the air a little as they didn't touch the ground from where she sat on the bed.",
"\n\"Kukku,\" Tails repeated, \"So... your father is-\"\n\"Oh, I know what you're thinking. ",
"He is not my natural father, I was adopted as a child. ",
"But he is a wonderful father. ",
"He's doing some wonderful things.\"",
"\n\"So he tells me. ",
"This building is definitely something. ",
"I've never seen anything like it. ",
"It's a work of engineering genius! ",
"They've utilised every inch of three-dimentional space. ",
"You can't get around without flying, though.\"",
"\nLooking at the rabbit, sitting there with her hands folded neatly in her lap, a question suddenly occurred to Tails. ",
"Something that didn't quite add up. ",
"He remembered her standing on his doorstep, nothing but freefall behind her, like she'd teleported there.",
"\n\"Hey,\" he said, \"How did you get here?\"",
"\nCream giggled a little. \"",
"Same way as everybody else!\"",
"\n\"But you're a rabbit, not a bird. ",
"You can't fly.\"",
"\n\"You're a fox, and you can fly.\"",
"\nTails snorted. \"",
"Hardly. ",
"I mean, in the broadest sense of the word, I guess. ",
"But I use my tails as rotor blades. ",
"To really fly you need wings. ",
"You need to be a bird, or a bat.\"",
"\n\"I can so fly,\" Cream replied, in a mildly pouting tone that made Tails struggle to keep back a smile. \"",
"I could since I was born. ",
"It's why Father took me in, it's because I'm special. ",
"Would you like to see?\"",
"\n\"Go on, then,\" Tails replied, crossing his arms.",
"\nCream reached behind her back and started to untie the ribbon that held her ears together. ",
"When they were released, she shook her head to flatten them out. ",
"Tails gasped a little, for they were even bigger than he had suspected, and suddenly he had some idea of how she might have flown here. ",
"The idea was bizarre, ridiculous, but perhaps no moreso than a two-tailed fox helicopter. ",
"Cream's ears spread out either side of her like a couple of bedsheets attached to her head, and Tails could see that they were thick and very muscular around the edges, but nothing more than a thin membrane in the centre. ",
"She raised them under their own power and flexed them in the air, while her hands remained folded neatly in her lap.",
"\nIt was one of the strangest things Tails had ever seen.",
"\nDropping down from her perch on his bed, Cream suddenly flapped her ears like a bat's wings and lifted instantly off the ground. ",
"Her earspan was immense, and the massive things must have been heavy, but the little girl managed them effortlessly. ",
"She flew around the ceiling for a little while, bumping light fittings and knocking things off high shelves, before dropping down to land. ",
"The wind her ears generated on landing almost knocked Tails over backwards, but she handled herself as expertly as a bird who had been born to fly. ",
"Satisfied, she tied her ears back again while Tails choked on his own words.",
"\n\"That's incredible!\"",
"\nCream looked very proud of herself. ",
"A little too proud, as though she'd just won an award. ",
"Badoru Kukku was evidently quite vocal about the value of his young daughter's talent, and she was overjoyed that Tails was impressed.",
"\n\"I do hope that you'll decide to stay,\" she said, \"And I hope that we can be friends. ",
"Father and his staff are so good to me, but it does get lonesome. ",
"I had a friend once but he left and never came back. ",
"And it'd be good to have somebody else like me around. ",
"Somebody special.",
"\"Why not? ",
"Tails thought, This is my homeland, after all. ",
"They treat me like royalty here. ",
"It's not like I have anywhere else to go.",
"\n\"This is all very sudden,\" he said, \"I'm not even sure how I got here. ",
"I can't just decide to live here without knowing where here is.\"",
"\n\"But you might, if you spent some time here?\" ",
"Cream asked, hopefully. \"",
"It really is the perfect place to live. ",
"We have everything that you could ever need. ",
"And we're so far from the nastiness of the world up here. ",
"So far from war and famine and disease.\"",
"\n\"It sure is beautiful.\"",
"\nCream nodded, and smiled. \"",
"Come. ",
"Father was hoping that you could join us for dinner. ",
"The Armada are very anxious to meet you.\"",
"\n\"The Armada?\"",
"\n\"Father's elite council. ",
"I'll take you to the dining room.\"",
"\n\"Oh... okay.\" ",
"Tails started to walk toward the door, but Cream started giggling. ",
"He frowned and turned to her, confused. \"",
"What is it?\"",
"\n\"You can't go like that!\"",
"\n\"Like what?\"",
"\n\"You're naked!\"",
"\nTails looked down at himself. ",
"He didn't wear clothing, he never had. ",
"Occasionally in the winter he'd thrown on a shirt, but his fur alone provided a great deal of warmth. ",
"He couldn't understand why it would be a problem.",
"\n\"So what?\" ",
"he asked, \"I'm not cold.\"",
"\nCream giggled again and Tails started to grow modest about his body. ",
"He found himself trying to hide one of his tails from view, as he often did around strangers, but it was just habitual. ",
"He didn't know why he should feel modest around a rabbit with ears the size of wings, or what right she had to laugh at him.",
"\n\"You can't get around like that,\" she said, \"It's uncivilised. ",
"That's what comes from living out in Terra Nullius.\"",
"\n\"Living where?\"",
"\n\"The untamed lands. ",
"The wilderness. ",
"Come, Father said there's some clothes here for you.\"",
"\nEmbarrassed, Tails went with her to the wardrobe to investigate. ",
"They looked through the items that had been left for him, but to his dismay, they were just a bunch of very retro-looking and old fashioned suits. ",
"Tails had never slipped on a pair of pants, let alone a suit, and these were hardly his preferred style. ",
"He hoped the pants wouldn't fit him so that he would have an excuse not to wear them, but they were specially tailored for mobians with large tails, and even with two such appendages, the pants fit him like a charm. ",
"His tails poked out a neat hole in the back. ",
"The top half was next, and even though he struggled to figure out how to tie up his tie, he still avoided looking into the mirror. ",
"If he looked even half as ridiculous as he felt, then the shock wouldn't be worth it.",
"\nCream helped him with his tie and his shoes, and combed his hair. ",
"It dawned on him that she was enjoying this immensely, and wondered whether there were any other children in this whole complex for her to play with. ",
"Tails had grown up without the company of other children and had missed out on a real childhood, so he knew the pain. ",
"This youngster needed friends, other little girls to play dress-up and braid each other's hair and relish the few years of true innocence that she had. ",
"Already they had her speaking and acting like a thirty-year-old, and she was barely in the double-digits.",
"\n\"You look great!\" ",
"she declared.",
"\n\"Sure,\" Tails murmured, \"I feel like I can barely move.\" ",
"He didn't understand the purpose of the tie, why anybody would want to choke himself in the name of fashion. ",
"He squirmed like a five-year-old in the suit and couldn't wait to get out of it. ",
"Cream was overjoyed, and took him to the open door.",
"\n\"Wait a second,\" he said, looking out into the open tower as birds flew back and forth, their flapping wings echoing throughout the building. ",
"He looked up to where his view ended in darkness, the ceiling too high to see, and then looked down to the same vision. ",
"Like a bottomless pit. ",
"He didn't fear heights, but then he liked to at least be able to see what was below him. \"",
"Are we going up there?\"",
"\n\"Yes.\"",
"\n\"That's going to be a problem. ",
"My ability... it isn't true flight, I can only get about a dozen feet before my tails cramp up and I descend. ",
"Even getting down here was difficult. ",
"I'm not sure I can get around in this place.\"",
"\n\"Take my hand,\" Cream replied, and she held it out.",
"\n\"Huh?\"",
"\n\"Take it.\"",
"\nHe did so, and she squeezed back tightly. \"",
"Now,\" she said, \"On the count of three, jump into the air with me, and do your thing. ",
"Okay?\"",
"\nTails didn't know exactly why, but he trusted the young rabbit. ",
"More than being a little girl, she was a girl in which Tails saw a version of himself. ",
"At her age, he had still been engaged in a struggle to discover what he was, and why. ",
"Nails the Bat had never missed an opportunity to remind him that he was a freak, even though his abilities were paramount to Nails' interest in keeping him around. ",
"He had lived among adults through his entire childhood and wrestled with the curse and blessing of his mutation. ",
"It defined him, it swallowed his entire identity. ",
"His tails were who he was, he even adopted them as his name. ",
"Miles Prower could have been anybody, but Tails... say that, and everyone knew who you were talking about. ",
"And he feared that Cremaria Kukku was living under the same curse. ",
"After all, it seemed they had both been adopted purely for the fact that they could use their random deformities for the purpose of flight.",
"\nHow often did her father remind her that her ears were her identity?",
"\n\"One. ",
"Two. ",
"Three!\"",
"\nTails jumped, and Cream did the same. ",
"For a moment they seemed suspended in midair, beyond gravity, beyond time. ",
"Tails closed his eyes and spread his arms out. ",
"He leaned forward and spun his tails in the motion that had become second nature to him over the years. ",
"This was different, though. ",
"He didn't just bounce high into the air and drift down again as he always did. ",
"This time he rose quickly, and rose, and rose, and rose. ",
"He opened his eyes and saw that he was still holding onto Cremaria's hand, and she was flying through her own power. ",
"She bore the weight of him with her powerful winglike ears, and he found that he wasn't cramping up or growing tired.",
"Holy smokes, he thought, I'm flying. ",
"I'm really, actually flying. ",
"Like a bird.",
"\nTails hadn't felt a rush like this since the day he first realised he could use his tails for propulsion. ",
"For the first time he was experiencing true flight, without the aid of machines. ",
"This felt to right to him, so natural that for a moment he wasn't sure how he could ever bear to walk again.",
"\nHe laughed as they flew together, every bit as able as the birds who circled around and past them in this glorified aviary, and he felt the wind rush through his hair as never before. ",
"Oh how he wished more then ever that he hadn't been forced to wear this heavy suit, so that he could experience this feeling through his fur and over his body. ",
"Together they swooped and glided and ascended, showing off to one another, and Tails felt like a child again. ",
"This moment stripped away his responsibilities and pressures. ",
"Nothing existed apart from him, Cream, and the air around them, in his hair, in his lungs, under his arms and through his spinning tails. ",
"He lived for this moment. ",
"It was over too soon, for after only a few minutes they landed on solid ground.",
"\nThe moment Tails' feet touched down, he was greeted with an enthusiastic round of applause.",
"\n\n---\n\n5:31 pm\n\nAbout twenty birds, all in white suits and red or blue ties, stood at the entrance of a great hall and applauded Tails as he and Cream set down. ",
"Tails, shocked, didn't know what to say or do. ",
"He just stood and smiled uneasily, waiting for the fuss to die down.",
"\nBadoru Kukku led the greeting party, and after a while he approached Tails with a broad smile and his arms spread out to either side. ",
"He knelt down in front of Tails, put his hands on the fox's shoulders, and planted a kiss on both of his cheeks (insofar as it was possible to kiss with a beak). ",
"Tails was embarrassed by the affection and stood (probably rather rudely, he figured) with his arms by his sides.",
"\nAfter gushing over Tails for a moment, Kukku turned to his adopted daughter, giving her a hug and a kiss on the forehead. ",
"He then stood and turned to the audience of white-suited birds.",
"\n\"Behold!\" ",
"he announced, \"After nearly four decades, the results that we have all anticipated. ",
"These two mammalian youths flew here under their own power. ",
"They survive competently within an environment constructed specifically for avian capabilities. ",
"These children are the future, gentlemen. ",
"They represent the final phase. ",
"Our project is nearing completion.\"",
"\nTails didn't understand what any of this meant, but it was met with another fierce round of applause from the audience. ",
"Kukku took his hand, and Cream's, and led the two of them through the crowd toward the hall, where two long tables were set up with glasses and cutlery. ",
"Again, Tails was blown away by the elaborate beauty of it all. ",
"For most of his life he'd been a homeless kid, sleeping in an abandoned church and stealing to survive, completely unaware that he was considered something like royalty on a far-away island. ",
"It was so ironic that it hurt.",
"\nWhile he was being led toward the tables, people were touching him, as though they didn't believe that he really existed. ",
"Somebody ran their hand along one of his tails, and he didn't like it. ",
"He wrapped them both around his waist and walked a little faster.",
"\nSomebody grabbed him by the arm, but with force. ",
"He turned around to come face to face with a bird who, unlike the others, was dressed all in black. ",
"His feathers were as black as his suit, which was adorned with a bright red tie, and a tall crest of black plumage sprouted from his head. ",
"Also unlike the others, he didn't seem happy to see Tails. ",
"In fact he looked downright sour.",
"\n(and you've seen this one before, buckaroo)\n(overdr-)\n\"You are not one of us,\" the bird hissed at Tails, \"It would do you good to remember that, yes. ",
"Do you very good indeed, savage.\"",
"\nHe relinquished Tails' arm and vanished into the crowd of gawkers. ",
"Tails searched for him, trying to figure out why he had seemed so very familiar, but Kukku took him by the hand again and guided him away.",
"\n\"Take a seat, my boy,\" he said, \"You sit with me, at the head of the table. ",
"You are our special guest.\"",
"\nTails, grunting with discomfort in his suit, sat upon a chair that was too high for him, and tried to keep his eyes from rolling out of his head when he saw the silverware in front of him. ",
"He restrained his old instinct to slip one of the forks away when nobody was looking. ",
"If these were still the old days in Station Square, it probably would have fed him for a month.",
"\n(you need never go back to that, miles, never again)\n\"So tell us,\" one of the birds said, and Tails tore his attention away from the cutlery. \"",
"What is it like, out there?\"",
"\n\"Out where?\" ",
"Tails asked.",
"\n\"Terra Nullius! ",
"The untamed wilderness, the rough lands. ",
"Badoru has told us that you've lived most of your life in the world beyond. ",
"However did you survive it on your own?\"",
"\n\"Clearly his evolution provided him an advantage,\" another bird said, \"He would naturally be elevated above the riff-raff. ",
"A god among mobians.\"",
"\n\"Actually, um-\" Tails stammered, but held his tongue. ",
"He didn't feel like telling these people that he'd lived his life on the streets. ",
"How embarrassing, given the extravagance of his current treatment. ",
"What if they discovered his past and changed their minds about him? ",
"What if they thought he was scum, and swept him outside with the garbage? ",
"He looked at the loving expression on Badoru Kukku's face and cleared his throat.",
"\n\"Well, it's hard,\" he said, \"But I survived. ",
"That's all you can do, you know, just... just survive.\"",
"\n\"But you came back to us,\" someone else said, \"That proves everything that we have theorised! ",
"The epoch that all things tend toward! ",
"Your superiority has drawn you to seek others like yourself. ",
"You've returned to the pinnacle of civilisation.\"",
"\nTo Tails, it sounded like these people might have been speaking a foreign language. ",
"He just smiled and nodded and allowed these strangers to fawn over him while he enjoyed the perks of their attention. ",
"He glanced at Cream and she winked at him.",
"\nTails and Cream were the only people here without beaks and feathers. ",
"The birds around the table were all dressed in white, but there were others, all of them standing and all dressed in black, who appeared to be guards or police. ",
"They stood by the doorways, mostly. ",
"One of them was staring at him - the same bird who had grabbed him earlier and issued a stern warning. ",
"The one with the black crest, who Tails found eerily familiar.",
"\nIt wasn't long before dinner was served. ",
"It was the best meal Tails had ever eaten. ",
"A feast fit for royalty, and indeed that was what he felt like. ",
"The birds, the group Cream had referred to as the Armada, ate heartily and with great mirth, chatting and laughing and playing like brothers and sisters at the world's largest family dinner table. ",
"There seemed no bad blood between any of them. ",
"A family indeed. ",
"One huge family, of which Tails had been invited to become a part. ",
"He ate heartily and in good company, but even so he was cautious. ",
"He didn't want to drip anything on his suit, or slurp his food, or do anything in a manner that might reveal his less than privileged upbringing. ",
"And while he ate, he tucked one of his tails under his body, out of sight.",
"\nAfter dinner, as the guests began to disperse, Kukku and his adopted daughter pulled Tails aside to speak with him.",
"\n\"I would like to show you something. ",
"Follow me.\"",
"\nOnce again, Tails took hold of Cream's hand, and the three of them together - bird, fox and rabbit - flew upward and away. ",
"Once again, Tails settled into the sensation of true, uninhibited flight. ",
"He was already picking it up as second nature (or first), ducking and weaving and ascending in time with his guides, and with every bit as much skill. ",
"It seemed that his entire life had served only as a practice for this.",
"\nThis is what he had been born for. ",
"This was his reason to live.",
"\nThe three of them landed in a room that looked like it might have been a research laboratory. ",
"Kukku flicked on the lights, and revealed dozens of computers, hooked up to strange and expensive-looking equipment, lights and dials blinking in the dimness. ",
"Sickly liquid sat stagnant in glass vials. ",
"Rows and rows of little clear boxes covered a circular table in the center, and what was inside each one, Tails couldn't even hazard a guess.",
"\n\"I have sensed that you are confused,\" Kukku said, \"About what we do here. ",
"About your place in our sanctuary.\"",
"\n\"You keep calling me a miracle,\" Tails replied, inspecting the laboratory with great interest. \"",
"I guess I have trouble understanding why. ",
"It has something to do with my tails, right? ",
"Because I can fly... like you.\"",
"\n\"Ah yes, but there is so much more, young Tails, so much more for you to understand. ",
"For you to fully appreciate the work that we do here... You need to comprehend the science that drives us, the true nature of the world as it is. ",
"You need to know why your birth is a great victory for us, and not just for us but for the entire world, all the people of Mobius. ",
"You are a gift, Tails. ",
"You are the future.\"",
"\n\"Father, you do like to carry on,\" Cream said, giggling.",
"\n\"Oh!\" ",
"Kukku exclaimed, \"There I go, rabbiting on again, eh?\" ",
"He winked at Cream, who shrank a little and blushed. ",
"The bird strode across the lab with great purpose on his long, bean-thin legs, raising one winged hand and pointing to a poster on the wall. ",
"The poster had images of four mobians standing side by side, arranged like anatomy diagrams. ",
"From left to right; a spider, an iguana, a fox not unlike Tails, and a bird.",
"\n\"All mobians are not born equal,\" Kukku explained, \"There are four distinct groups of anthric mobian in the world. ",
"As you see here - The arthropodians, the reptilians, the mammalians and the avians.\" ",
"He pointed to each image. \"",
"While members of each of these groups typically share similar characteristics, there are vast differences between groups. ",
"And nobody can interbreed across groups. ",
"For example, while a mammalian couple of differing race, let's say a squirrel and a hedgehog, have the ability to produce children together, it would be impossible for a mammalian to breed with, for example, a reptilian. ",
"Do you understand?\"",
"\n\"Sure.\"",
"\n\"Do you know why?\"",
"\nTails thought about it. ",
"He didn't have the same aptitude for biology as he did with physics. \"",
"Not really.\"",
"\n\"Well you see,\" Kukku continued, \"Like our zoic counterparts, we mobians are subject to a force of nature known as natural selection. ",
"In any closed biological system, such as Mobius, organisms will tend toward more efficient, more successful forms, through random mutations and such. ",
"Given enough time. ",
"The weaker, less efficient, inferior models die away due to competition with more successful organisms.\"",
"\n\"Okay.\"",
"\n\"Say for example a herd of animals live in a field and eat the leaves that hang low off the tree branches. ",
"Some of the animals are born taller than others, and can reach higher branches. ",
"Eventually the herd grows too large, and they eat away all the leaves on the lower branches. ",
"With no food, the shorter animals all die, but the taller ones survive because they can reach food that the others can not. ",
"Natural selection. ",
"Nature picks out the better creatures while the others fall behind. ",
"This simple, automatic process has given us the vast diversity of life that we see all around us.\" ",
"Kukku dramatically spread his arms as wide as he could, and his wings draped down like curtains.",
"\n\"Sure,\" Tails replied. ",
"Made sense. ",
"He scratched the back of his neck in the spot where his suit was chafing him.",
"\n\"Mobiankind is subject to the same forces. ",
"The same diversity. ",
"The same rhythm. ",
"Evolve and purge. ",
"Evolve and purge. ",
"Evolve. ",
"Purge. ",
"Each of these four groups of mobian have evolved from one another. ",
"Each is more successful in civilisation than the former. ",
"The arthropodians have been here the longest... brutish people, just bugs with brains, really. ",
"Violent and uncouth. ",
"The world will fare much better to be rid of them.\"",
"\nTails thought about the Arack Empire, and was inclined to agree.",
"\n\"The reptilians,\" Kukku continued, \"Evolved directly. ",
"And the mammalians in turn from them. ",
"And finally, at the top of the evolutionary chain, the avians. ",
"Birds, such as myself and my colleagues. ",
"We are the newest mobians, recipient to the greatest gift that nature has ever bestowed upon mobiankind, the gift that enables us the greatest advantage over all other civilisations around the world.\"",
"\n\"Flight...\" Tails muttered aloud.",
"\n\"Flight,\" Kukku confirmed, \"The one gift that enables us to eliminate from neccessity all manner of transportation technologies, from planes to bridges. ",
"We are true masters of this planet, able to reach any place on the ground or above it. ",
"Here in our Babylon, in our Sanctuary, we have created the closest thing to a perfect society anywhere on Mobius. ",
"And we would like nothing more than to spread our utopia across every inch of the planet, tame the wild lands of war and poverty and misery. ",
"This is my dream, Tails, it always has been. ",
"A wonderful, civilised world.\"",
"\n\"How are you going to do that?\" ",
"Tails asked, \"I mean, this is a natural process, right? ",
"What's all this going to do?\" ",
"He motioned around the lab.",
"\n\"Ah, but you see, when you understand the process, as we do, then the process can be assisted. ",
"By science.\" ",
"Kukku stood behind Cream and rested a tender, fatherly hand upon her head. ",
"The girl smiled.",
"\n\"The reason,\" he said, \"that the four mobian groups cannot interbreed is because nature is preparing them for a purge. ",
"The biological schism is widening, isolating the inferior groups from the gene pool. ",
"The arthropodians... the reptilians... they will all vanish eventually, will probably wipe themselves out in war. ",
"They are too primal, barbaric, beyond hope. ",
"But the mammalians... people like you, Tails, and Cremaria, you can be saved from this fate. ",
"That is our mission here. ",
"To evolve the world. ",
"To help the untamed world evolve beyond its inadequacies and achieve true civilised harmony. ",
"A new age... brothers and sisters of the sky.\"",
"\n\"Wait a second...\" The penny dropped in Tails' mind. ",
"He saw the equipment laid out around the lab, the samples in the clear boxes, the glass vials, the diagrams covering the walls. ",
"He looked down at his hands... his arms, down his body... his twin tails... \"You did this? ",
"You did this deliberately? ",
"You made me this way?\"",
"\n\"Not entirely,\" Kukku replied, \"Your success, and that of Cremaria, was serendipitous. ",
"Nature found a way. ",
"But it found a way through us. ",
"Genetic science is extremely complex and rarely predictable. ",
"There are many unexpected successes... and failures. ",
"But we have made advancements beyond anything that anybody else on the planet has ever imagined.\"",
"\n\"You're engineering birds out of foxes and rabbits.\"",
"\n\"We are doing precisely what nature intended. ",
"We are creating evolution. ",
"Enabling everybody to share the benefits of superior genetics. ",
"You two, my beloved children, you are the first. ",
"The proof that we have almost achieved our goals, our dream. ",
"Soon we will raise an entire generation of children bestowed with our gift, and the untamed world will share in the fruits of true civilisation.\"",
"\nA tear trailed its way down Badoru Kukku's cheek. ",
"He wrapped an arm around Cremaria, who returned his embrace with a mirthful grin. ",
"Tails, hands trembling, took a step back from them.",
"\n\n---\n\n8:42 pm\n\nSo many things became clear to Tails as he lay in the luxurious bed that the birds had provided him and pondered. ",
"The mysteries of his life were falling into place like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle.",
"\nThe Armada were meddling in genetics. ",
"They seemed to have been doing it for some time. ",
"When Tails' uncle Tyler had come to New Knothole, he had spoken of a place where the ruling class were using genetics to alter people's appearance. ",
"It was now clear that he had been speaking of the Armada, these warm-hearted avian scientists and their esteemed gentleman leader Badoru Kukku. ",
"They had given Tails his namesakes, not to make a freak of him but to try to elevate him, make him better. ",
"These were the people that Tails had come here to stop. ",
"Tyler and Tails' father had called them evil, and Tails had imagined a brutal tyranny not unlike Robotropolis during Robotnik's reign, a horrible and twisted autocracy of suffering. ",
"What he'd found instead was a place of peace. ",
"A group of idealists with some strange ideas, but none of them hateful.",
"\nHad his father been wrong about these people? ",
"Misjudged their intentions? ",
"The answer to that question didn't lie here, in Sanctuary, the avian utopia. ",
"Tails knew there was only one way to see this from his father's perspective.",
"\nHe had to go outside.",
"\nCremaria Kukku, eleven or twelve, bird by proxy, must also have been tampered with. ",
"Somewhat more successfully than Tails. ",
"It seemed that the Armada's strange vision to attach wings to creatures not otherwise built for them was coming closer and closer to fruition. ",
"Using her ears, she could fly every bit as well as a bird\n(or a bat, his mind whispered amid a vision of Nails' snarling maw)\nbut it was not God or nature who had assured her this skill. ",
"She had been built for a purpose, in much the same way as Sonic the Hedgehog had originally been designed to fulfil a schematic. ",
"The same way, apparently, as Tails himself had been designed.",
"\nWhat an eerie parallel.",
"\nHe looked at Cream, who was sitting on his floor with her ears wrapped around herself and staring back up at him with more respect and admiration than he would expect from someone who just met him.",
"\n\"Cream,\" he said, \"There must be people around here. ",
"Not birds... mammalians, like you and me. ",
"The people your father conducts his... research on. ",
"Where are they?\"",
"\n\"You mean Quarantine. ",
"The little town in the valley under this tower.\"",
"\n\"A town. ",
"Have you ever been there?\"",
"\n\"Sure, I go there all the time.\"",
"\n\"And they're... happy?\"",
"\nCream looked a little confused. \"",
"Why wouldn't they be?\"",
"\n\"Some people might not like having their genes tampered with.\"",
"\n\"Father is doing a great deal of good for them,\" Cream retorted, \"They are very lucky. ",
"We are very lucky. ",
"They all know this. ",
"They are treated very, very well.\" ",
"She looked as though she was starting to get a little offended, so Tails didn't push the issue.",
"\n\"I'd like to go there,\" he said.",
"\n\"Father and I are visiting Quarantine tomorrow,\" she replied, \"I am sure that he would love for you to join us. ",
"He is very proud of them. ",
"He loves showing off and talking to you about his work, it makes him very happy. ",
"He says it's exciting to talk with somebody who is intelligent enough to understand and appreciate the work.\"",
"\nCream spoke of her father in a glowing, almost worshipful tone. ",
"Her love for him made Tails ache inside. ",
"It was the same love that he had felt for his own father. ",
"The love that he had come to feel for Sonic. ",
"Now that he had nobody, Tails' love was at a loose end. ",
"Was it possible that he might come to feel the same love for this saintly feathered scientist as Cream did? ",
"He never doubted the filial love that the two of them shared, even despite the vast racial chasm between them. ",
"And he didn't doubt the love that Kukku had for him, even though they had never met before today. ",
"The bird was willing to take him in as a son, rescue him from his pain in the same way as Sonic had, asking nothing in return.",
"\nBut he was his father's enemy. ",
"This was the problem, the paradox. ",
"His father's enemy had taken him in as a son, and this could only lead to a powerful conflict. ",
"Tails could already feel it welling up inside him. ",
"So strong was his sense of duty to avenge his father that living here would be almost an act of treason for which he didn't know if he could forgive himself. ",
"But such was his need for what Kukku offered him that to reject it, to go back to the life he had before, would be a betrayal against himself. ",
"To turn his back on the only place in the world where he might not feel and be treated like a freak... he didn't know if he could forgive himself for that, either.",
"\n\"Do you remember your real parents?\" ",
"he asked Cream. \"",
"I mean, before you came here.\"",
"\nThe little rabbit closed her eyes and her head drooped a little. \"",
"I remember my mother,\" she said, \"Just a little bit. ",
"Pictures. ",
"Broken images. ",
"She is smiling at me.\"",
"\n\"What happened to her?\"",
"\n\"I'm not sure.\" ",
"She shook her head. \"",
"She got sick. ",
"I don't remember, I was very young. ",
"I remember that I loved her very much. ",
"Father tells me that she must have been a saint, because she made a little miracle. ",
"That's what saints do. ",
"Make miracles.\" ",
"A small tear tracked its way down her cheek and came to a rest under her chin.",
"\n\"But life is good here, right?\" ",
"Tails asked, \"I mean, these people, the Armada... they treat you well?\"",
"\n\"They love me. ",
"I love them. ",
"Most of them. ",
"It is a little difficult, though, knowing... I am different, I know that, even though they treat me like one of them, I know I'm not really. ",
"When there is nobody else like you around, it can be hard. ",
"I did have a friend, once, he was just a little broken robot. ",
"I called him Tock. ",
"He kept me company. ",
"But he went away a little while ago, and I haven't had anybody... until now.\" ",
"She looked up at Tails and beamed.",
"\n\"Wow,\" Tails replied, \"You could easily have just described my life.\" ",
"He sighed and sat up in bed. \"",
"I know how it feels. ",
"After my Dad left... it was like there was nobody in the whole world who could have known what it was like to be me. ",
"My whole life I've been called a freak. ",
"I had a friend, too, and he showed me that I was worth something, that there was more to me than just some kid mutant. ",
"He went away too... that's kinda why I'm here.\"",
"\n\"Tell me about him?\"",
"\n\"He was a good person. ",
"One of the last truly good people, I think. ",
"You would have liked him. ",
"He was a real hero, to the core. ",
"The best friend I've ever had... really the only true friend I've had, but I couldn't ever have had a better one. ",
"He was an... an inspiration, I think you could say. ",
"That's why I'm here. ",
"It's for my father's honour, really, but I wouldn't have any idea what honour was if it hadn't been for Sonic. ",
"I still can't believe he's gone.\"",
"\n\"What happened to him?\"",
"\nTails sighed again. \"",
"Your Dad said it best, I think. ",
"It's a cruel world out there. ",
"It just doesn't make sense. ",
"After all, he's been through so much, he's fought monsters and gods and empires and come away without a scratch... but something got to him. ",
"He was taken in the night, in the rain. ",
"The world just opened up and swallowed him. ",
"I never saw him again.\"",
"\nTrying hard to keep strong in front of the little girl who looked up to him, Tails choked back a sob in the face of the images that came rushing back to him. ",
"Tyler Prower, his uncle, had been host to the horrid beast who had taken the life of his father... and then returned years later to take Sonic, as well. ",
"In this way, Tails was as haunted by Nightmare as Tyler. ",
"For this realisation, Tails knew that, although he didn't blame Tyler for Nightmare's actions, he could not stay with his uncle. ",
"The monster inside him would continue to kill everyone in his life that he cared about.",
"\nCream just frowned a little at his explanation, as though it didn't satisfy her. ",
"It would have to do, though, because Tails didn't intend to delve much further into the story behind Sonic's death. ",
"It was too painful.",
"\nThe girl said, \"Are you sure that your friend died?\"",
"\n\"Yeah,\" Tails replied, \"He's gone. ",
"It kills me to know it, but...\"\n\"You said you never saw him again. ",
"Perhaps he is still out there, somewhere?\"",
"\nCream's innocent optimism and persistance started to irritate Tails a little, particularly as she was giving voice to a fantasy that Tails already held deep within himself. ",
"The fantasy that Sonic was still alive. ",
"After all, what evidence did he truly have that the hedgehog was dead?",
"\nTyler had tearfully admitted to both Trevor's demise and Sonic's, one night on the road between the Great Forest and Catilina city. ",
"It was something that Princess Sally had evidently already known for some time, but kept to herself. ",
"Sonic had stepped out into the rain one full moon night, stepped into Nightmare's domain, and disappeared.",
"\nYet there was no body. ",
"No remains. ",
"Could Nightmare really have consumed him whole? ",
"Spines and all? ",
"Without evidence, all there was were the suspicions of a fox who had no memory or knowledge of the acts committed by the beast inside. ",
"Guesswork at best.",
"\nBut what other explanation was there for Sonic's disappearance? ",
"If he wasn't dead, then where was he? ",
"Tails just couldn't hang on to false dreams, artificial hopes.",
"\n\"Wish in one hand, crap in the other,\" he mumbled.",
"\n\"Sorry, what did you say?\"",
"\n\"Nothing.\" ",
"He shook his head. \"",
"I should probably try to get some sleep. ",
"It's been a long day.\"",
"\n\"Yes. ",
"It has.\" ",
"Cream smiled at him again. ",
"Mature before her time, the little girl occasionally showed a sign that there was indeed a child in there somewhere. ",
"Tails smiled back.",
"\n\"So I can come with you tomorrow? ",
"Into Quarantine?\"",
"\n\"I do hope so. ",
"It's wonderful there.\"",
"\n\n---\n\nAfter you rob enough people, you lose the ability to quite recognise them as people. ",
"At first it's a deliberate process. ",
"It just makes it easier to do what you have to do if you don't have to carry around the weight of guilt. ",
"You desensitise yourself, tell yourself that these people are not like you. ",
"They don't know your life. ",
"They have never been as low as you, nor will they ever be. ",
"What you steal from them can feed you for a week, and they'll think it nothing but a mild inconvenience.",
"\nThey don't care about you, you say, so you don't care about them.",
"\nThis was how Trevor Prower lived with himself day to day. ",
"In Station Square, there was one law, and that was the law of the jungle. ",
"There was a food chain in this city. ",
"These people who walked the streets as calm as cattle, as mindless as herds of buffalo, they were the prey. ",
"Faceless, unfeeling herbivores. ",
"Trevor was not the predator, however; No, no. ",
"He was a scavenger, a parasite, feeding upon carrion and the dead excess of live beasts. ",
"As much as he could rationalise his lifestyle, he could never think of himself as being anything greater than the layer of scum that coated the streets of this city, and that weighed on him like a bag of bricks.",
"\nIt was Nails who was the predator. ",
"Nails, with his casinos. ",
"Nails, with his puppet strings. ",
"Nails, with his cronies. ",
"Nails, with his guns. ",
"Trevor fed on these people's excess, but Nails swallowed them whole and spat out their chewed bones for the vultures. ",
"In Station Square, no matter who you were, no matter what your role in life, everybody was accountable to the king of the jungle. ",
"One way or another, everybody answered to Nails the Bat.",
"\nTails observed this all with great interest. ",
"His father's transformation into a professional criminal happened so gradually that only the mind of a child could perceive the subtle change. ",
"Trevor Prower, once a struggling vagrant of great moral fiber, whose foray into the carnal depths of the criminal underworld once brought him great pain, embarrassment and suffering, had begun to change. ",
"He began to cool and harden like molten lava. ",
"Not that he ever enjoyed his work, not in the way that Nails did, but he did go through a kind of numbing. ",
"In the same way that a meatworker must harden his gut against the violence of his occupation, working errands for Nails was hardening Trevor's heart. ",
"Soon he was simply going through the motions, doing what had to be done. ",
"Gradually, it began to seem less like a temporary job to make ends meet and more like a career. ",
"A rut.",
"\nTails was never a part of his father's lifestyle at first. ",
"Trevor Prower, still a very moral individual at heart, loathed the idea of his son watching him engage in criminal acts, learning from it, emulating it. ",
"It was less his own shame than it was his fear that Tails would spend his life a lackey for Nails the Bat. ",
"But at the same time, there were very few options on the table. ",
"He could join Trevor in his daily business or he could stay in the company of Nails' thugs, and on the list of potential babysitters, a ragtag group of bandits and thieves probably weren't the most eligable candidates.",
"\nTrevor's policy regarding Tails changed abruptly one occasion, when he discovered that Carson Crow and Floyd Tabs had been teaching his son how to play poker. ",
"He decided that, if his son was going to get an education, he'd get it from his father and not a bunch of gangsters. ",
"And what he learned was going to be of better value than gambling and deception. ",
"After that, Tails stayed with him at almost all times.",
"\nTrevor's job originally consisted of robbery and petty crimes, but as his favour with Nails increased, the gangster allowed him to climb the ladder within his exclusive family. ",
"More important jobs came with enhanced benefits, greater security and better pay. ",
"The trade-off was that they were more deviant, malicious and dangerous. ",
"But Nails was an expert at managing staff and breaking their spirits. ",
"He might have been a psychologist, had he not decided the criminal underworld to be more lucrative. ",
"He always knew exactly which strings to pull to make people do what he wanted them to do.",
"\nTrevor was promoted eventually to a position for which Nails provided him a car and a gun. ",
"All that Tails knew about his father's job was that he drove around all day and sometimes at night, visiting houses and docks and bridges and creepy old alleyways. ",
"Tails would get in the car with Dad in the morning and they would drive to one location after another, and just park. ",
"Trevor would get out and leave Tails alone for anywhere from ten minutes to an hour. ",
"Then he would return, get back into the car, and they would drive to somewhere else. ",
"Trevor didn't tell his son exactly what he did for a living. ",
"Tails only asked once, to which his father replied only that he was like a mailman, but that he collected things instead of delivering them, and that was good enough.",
"\nTails received most of his education in the passenger side of that rusty old car. ",
"His father would visit the library and borrow out dozens of books at a time for him to read while he waited. ",
"Books on every subject imaginable. ",
"Tails took in everything, but one topic that interested him more than anything else was aviation. ",
"He became fascinated with planes. ",
"Tails began to request that his father get him more information on every aspect of them, from different kinds of planes to their schematics, planes through history, famous pilots, how to fly them, novels about them. ",
"Trevor preferred his son to try to engage in something that had more relevance to life, but Tails was persistant and unyielding. ",
"He bargained for it. ",
"And Trevor, who was coming to realise that his son was almost a prodigy when it came to learning and retaining knowledge, didn't want to stifle Tails' persuit of information. ",
"He got his son what he wanted.",
"\nTails' fascination only intensified over time. ",
"Trevor began to take his son to visit the airport in his spare time, and they sat for hours just watching planes take off and land. ",
"Tails became obsessed with a desire to fly, himself, but his father always told him no. ",
"Perhaps one day, but not now.",
"\nFor Tails, that was not a good enough answer. ",
"If he couldn't fly in a real plane, he decided, he would build his own. ",
"So began his mission to learn how to fly. ",
"Using a knowledge of aviation physics that he learned in books and manuals, he made a great many attempts, using boxes and discarded materials, to invent his own flying machines. ",
"While all of his experiments turned out to be spectacular failures, Trevor propogated his son's persuit of knowledge as well as he was able.",
"\nThe summer when Tails saw his first helicopter, and discovered that the secret of his own flight was in his tails, was one of the happiest days of his youth. ",
"It was as though he'd found some hidden buried treasure, the key for which he'd held around his neck since birth. ",
"His father had never been prouder of him.",
"\nThat was the last day that Tails had seen his father truly happy.",
"\n\n---\n\n7:12 am\n\nTails found Badoru Kukku in a lavish, spacious penthouse that was apparently his office. ",
"The walls were lined with vines and classical works of art. ",
"Marble statues of mobians, all of them avian, stood lifeless about the place, so many that one could almost be tricked into believing there was a whole crowd in this vacant room. ",
"Tails didn't recognise any of them, though they were evidently significant enough to Kukku for him to have their likenesses immortalised.",
"\nThe bird himself stood at the far window, a silhouette against the light from outside.",
"\n\"The beauty of the world is vanishing,\" he said aloud, without turning around, as Tails approached. \"",
"A work of art so delicate that it has been meticulously designed over millions of years, atom by atom, gene by gene. ",
"Gentle erosion and slow evolution.\" ",
"He shook his head sadly. \"",
"It has been estimated that a thousand species become extinct every day as a direct result of mobian activities. ",
"There has been no greater extinction since the dawn of time, when the planet Mobius was a still-cooling ball of volcanic rock, churning seas and undying storms. ",
"Such a disasterous waste. ",
"A travesty, a holocaust. ",
"Do you know why it is happening?\"",
"\n\"I'm not sure,\" Tails replied, and joined him at the window, looking out at the green world below the tower. ",
"He squirmed uncomfortably in the suit he was wearing. ",
"Tails had dressed himself this morning, partly out of a desire to impress his hosts, but just as much out of his own need. ",
"For some reason, for the first time in his life, he felt indecent when he was naked. ",
"His own body offended him, embarrassed him, and he felt it was the only decent thing to do to cover it up. ",
"It was the civilised way to behave.",
"\n\"Because mobiankind is still in its infancy,\" Kukku said, \"Like a child breaks all his toys because he doesn't know how to handle them responsibly. ",
"See that below?\"",
"\nTauls looked down and saw a small village at the base of the tower. ",
"Undoubtedly the mammalian villa that Cream had called Quarantine.",
"\n\"That is how they build,\" Kukku continued, \"They take up space, they expand across the face of the world, they spread out. ",
"For comfort. ",
"Habitats are destroyed to accomodate them. ",
"So many things must die for so few of them to live. ",
"They are fickle, Tails. ",
"Young. ",
"They do not understand. ",
"But we... The ability to fly grants us the power to live in harmony with this.\" ",
"He spread his arms, from horizon to horizon. ",
"Their altitude gave a brilliant, unobstructed view of the island. \"",
"This place... you call it the Kitsune Atole, but we call it Babylon. ",
"Named for a legendary place without war, without prejudice or hate, without destruction or unnecessary death. ",
"A utopia, a harmony world. ",
"It is attainable, my dear Tails! ",
"By rising above nature and all of its chaos, we develop the ability to protect it! ",
"We are the custodians of the planet, my boy, we have evolved this way. ",
"It is our duty.\" ",
"He turned to Tails with a smile wide across his pointed beak. \"",
"My dear Cremaria has informed me that you wish to join us on our excursion today. ",
"To see for yourself the wonderous work that we are doing for our unenlightened brothers and sisters.\"",
"\n\"Yeah,\" Tails replied, \"I'd like to see. ",
"Biology's always been my weakest science, and, well, I'd like to start learning a bit about this process.\" ",
"After a short consideration, he added: \"I mean, if I'm going to be a part of it.\"",
"\nKukku's face brightened even more. ",
"Tails had said exactly the right thing.",
"\n\"My boy,\" the bird sighed, \"You cannot know how overjoyed I am to hear you say that. ",
"It fills my heart with happiness. ",
"This morning we will go down into Quarantine together, as father and son, and I will show you the wonders of all that we have accomplished - that we are accomplishing, day by day. ",
"Come with me.\"",
"\nHand in hand, Tails and the bird who would be his surrogate father flew through the avian complex as though they were two parts of the same being. ",
"Instilled with this new freedom, Tails allowed himself to wonder who could really be considered his true father. ",
"What was it that defined a father? ",
"Kukku loved him unconditionally, wanted only the best life for him, and could provide that life. ",
"Trevor had cast him into a life of crime under the employ of a brutal, loveless gangster, and left him abandoned. ",
"Trevor Prower and Badoru Kukku, enemies. ",
"Both had provided Tails with love and DNA. ",
"His fox half and his bird half - which seemed more real? ",
"Which seemed more pure?",
"\nTogether they landed in what appeared to be a machines factory, and dozens of avian engineers were hard at work drilling and soldering and sawing toward an unknown goal. ",
"Tails and Kukku were met by three scientists and half a dozen birds in military uniforms, one of whom was the crested stranger who had shown Tails such disgust at dinner the previous night. ",
"He didn't look any happier this morning. ",
"Cream was here, as well, and she bid Tails a good morning and gave him a shy hug.",
"\n\"Tails,\" Kukku said, \"I don't know whether you have been properly acquainted with the captain of my guard, Lieutenant Overdraw.\"",
"\nThe word Overdraw stabbed Tails in the center of his mind when he heard it. ",
"He recognised it, knew it well, but had no idea why. ",
"The name symbolised danger to him, a warning. ",
"He wasn't at all surprised when Kukku indicated the bearer of that name - the tall, black bird in the dark khaki suit, emblems emblazoned upon his shoulders and a crest of black fingerlike feathers upon his head. ",
"He scowled down at Tails but said nothing. ",
"He didn't have to, because his voice echoed through the fox's head like a ghostly broadcast.",
"\n(You are so far below us that we tread you beneath our feet, yes?)",
"\nHe tried to ignore the Lieutenant, who was certainly doing his best to ignore Tails in return.",
"\nTails followed the entourage through the factory to a deeper corridor, but his interest was captured by the activity here, being more in his element as an engineer. ",
"He looked about the factory with excited curiosity, trying to work out what they were making and whether he could do it any better. ",
"As they passed through, Tails spotted a dim warehouse visible through a pane of glass, and what he saw inside made his stomach do a somersault. ",
"He broke away from the group to get a better look.",
"\n\"That's mine!\" ",
"he exclaimed, pressing against the glass. \"",
"That's my plane! ",
"Oh man, what's happened to it?\"",
"\nThe Tornado lay inside the warehouse, damaged but unmistakably recognisable. ",
"For Tails, it was almost like seeing his own child beat up and lying in a hospital bed. ",
"He had no idea how this had happened. ",
"Did this have something to do with why he couldn't remember coming here?",
"\n\"Ah yes.\" ",
"The voice of Kukku behind him. ",
"The bird sounded a little disgusted as he placed one feathered hand on Tails' shoulder. \"",
"Your flying machine. ",
"An interesting contraption. ",
"So primitive. ",
"The product of the flightless world of uncivilised Mobius trying to better itself. ",
"You can see how they try to evolve themselves artificially using machines... but the machines crash and kill their masters. ",
"You are lucky to be alive, my boy, trying to manipulate that thing to serve your whim. ",
"In the world that I perceive for the future, there will be no need for machines such as these.\"",
"\n\"Don't wreck it,\" Tails pleaded, \"Please don't wreck my Tornado! ",
"I've built most of it myself, it means more to me than-\"\n\"It is nothing but a toy, here in Babylon,\" Kukku interjected, \"But I decided to keep it intact. ",
"For you, Tails. ",
"Primitive as it is, it is a testament to your evolution. ",
"To build and control a machine such as this... you are a genius, my child. ",
"And that is the avian in you.\" ",
"Tails looked up at him, and he smiled. \"",
"Look!\" ",
"he said, \"My engineers have even been repairing it for you. ",
"It was in much worse a state than this where you left it.\"",
"\nTails tore himself away from the sight of his damaged plane to continue on with the group. ",
"He followed them to what appeared to be the lobby of the complex, the gateway between Sanctuary and Babylon, between science and nature. ",
"A wide arena that opened out to a sprawling, beautiful garden at the base of the great tower. ",
"It was stunning, and Tails was taken aback by it. ",
"It seemed that everything he saw of the Armada's accomplishments, every new scene, was twice as amazing as the last. ",
"Indeed, if anybody on Mobius was capable of building a utopia, then surely it was these people. ",
"Tails had never seen beauty such as this.",
"\n\"Believe me, Tails, when I say that your arrival, along with my dear Cremaria's coming of age, has injected a new vigour into this project,\" Kukku said. \"",
"I do believe that we are reaching the final stages. ",
"The magnitude of our successes... the culmination of everything we have worked toward for so many years, decades. ",
"Soon we will celebrate a great and terrific victory, my boy, with you by my side.\"",
"\nTails looked out into the open world and saw the path laid out before him. ",
"Standing tall, up ahead, like a monolith. ",
"The gates to Quarantine. ",
"His birthplace. ",
"The place where he had been conceived, and within which lay the secrets to his entire existence.",
"\nLike a pioneer, lost for years in the wilderness, Miles 'Tails' Prower slouched home.",
"\n\n---\n\n8:30 am\n\nTails didn't know what to expect from Quarantine. ",
"The village's purpose, indeed its very name, might have suggested a ghetto, a kind of prison or concentration camp, where people were packed into slums and cells for easy access, waiting in abject misery for their overlords to conduct their invasive scientific experiments. ",
"That was certainly the impression given to Tails through Tyler's description of the place.",
"\nStrangely, nothing could have been further from the truth.",
"\nQuarantine was a quiet and homely little village, neatly maintained and instilled with a kind of relaxing holiday atmosphere. ",
"A friendly little country community, the likes of which those who had worked hard all their lives were inclined to retire to. ",
"It was truly heartwarming.",
"\nKukku and his entourage were met at the entrance by a convoy of citizens from within the village, a group of mammalian mobians who were all dressed in strangely old-fashioned clothing. ",
"In fact, everything about this village seemed old-fashioned, from the clothing to the old style cottages and decor. ",
"It felt a little bit like he'd stepped back in time.",
"\nKukku was shaking hands with a wolf who looked to be on the far side of middle-aged. ",
"The wolf was wearing a brown suit and tie, and a small set of bifocal spectacles sat on his snout. ",
"He and Kukku seemed to be quite well acquainted.",
"\nLieutenant Overdraw leaned over and whispered something in Kukku's ear. ",
"Kukku waved his hand in dismissal, and Overdraw appeared aggrivated but said nothing.",
"\n\"Who is that?\" ",
"Tails asked Cream, speaking of the smartly dressed wolf.",
"\n\"That is Alain Bristol,\" she replied, \"Head of the community. ",
"He has been here for a long time.\"",
"\n\"I see that you've brought Cremaria!\" ",
"exclaimed Alain Bristol, and as he approached, a confused expression crept onto his face. \"",
"And... another child?\"",
"\nOverdraw darted forward, rather menacingly, and thrust something that looked like a metal baton in front of the wolf's stride. \"",
"Watch yourself,\" he hissed, \"Advance no further, approach not what your hands are too filthy to touch, yes?\"",
"\n\"Apologies, sir,\" Bristol replied, and shrank back.",
"\n\"Overdraw, please,\" Kukku snapped. \"",
"Alain, this is Tails. ",
"He is living with the rest of us in Sanctuary. ",
"We are very proud of him, he is blessed with the same skills as Cremaria.\"",
"\n\"How wonderful!\" ",
"Bristol gushed, \"Such good news!\"",
"\n\"Tails,\" Kukku said, \"Do follow. ",
"We will go into town and observe what the miracle of science is achieving.\"",
"\nThere were a few other villagers standing around, all of them staring at him, and all of them seemed wary to keep their distance. ",
"Tails noticed one in particular, whose face seemed vaguely familiar. ",
"It was a raccoon, his lower jaw obscured by a bushy black moustache that covered his lips like a hairy shroud.",
"\n(you've been here before, buckaroo, you just wound down and forgot it all, these people)\n\"Tails?\"",
"\n\"Right,\" the fox said, shaking his head, \"Let's go.\"",
"\nThe village of Quarantine was a queer little oasis indeed. ",
"Its cobblestone streets were lined with cottages that might have been made of gingerbread, and people were wandering back and forth all dressed in frilly white dresses and smart brown corduroy suits. ",
"When they saw Kukku and his entourage passing through the town, they all froze, and Tails couldn't quite tell whether it was awe or fear that would make them react in such a fashion. ",
"Surely not fear. ",
"The tall, elegant, smiling figure of Badoru Kukku inspired many emotions, but fear was not one of them.",
"\nLieutenant Overdraw, on the other hand...\nTails tried to be pleasant and smile at the villagers he passed by, but they all stared back at him with equal parts confusion and apprehension. ",
"It was almost as though these people knew something of him already. ",
"They recognised him, and he didn't know why.",
"\nThe strangeness of this town did not end here. ",
"As he wandered through it, Tails noticed more and more things that made him feel slightly uneasy. ",
"Like the fact that there seemed to be no shops in this village, no doctors, no police, no cafes, none of the public amenities that one would usually find in a town... but there were libraries. ",
"So many libraries. ",
"Almost like the only thing to do here on a lazy weekend was to pick up a book and read it. ",
"Not that weekends would have any meaning here in Quarantine - that in itself was faulty logic. ",
"Because, without any amenities, without any shops or cafes or services of any kind, then what could these people possibly do for work?",
"\nAnd then there was the people themselves. ",
"The more Tails looked at them, the more he developed the unpleasant notion that there was something quite wrong with them. ",
"The way they walked, and the way they looked. ",
"Slightly too skinny, with bulges in the wrong places, slightly hunched over. ",
"They all carried a proud, swaggering gait with a mild limp or lurch. ",
"Some had too much skin attached to their necks that hung down in flaps, like they had lost too much weight too fast. ",
"Their eyes were too big, their mouths too small. ",
"In fact, if not for the fact that there were so many distinct races of mobian represented here, Tails might have come to the conclusion that they were all related. ",
"He turned to the left and saw two squirrel women in pink dresses with large bonnets, ribbons hanging down and blowing in the breeze like jellyfish tentacles. ",
"They turned their heads to see him - oddly small heads on necks that were too long and thin, and one of them whispered something to the other and pointed to him. ",
"Her fingers were far too long, spindly, with a nail at the end that curled down like a claw...\n\"I do love to visit here,\" Cream said all at once, tearing his attention away. \"",
"Wouldn't it be marvellous if the entire world were like this? ",
"It's so peaceful.\"",
"\n\"It's cute,\" Tails replied, though a light shiver was travelling up and down his back.",
"\n\"Is there anywhere like this in Terra Nullius?\"",
"\nTails thought about Knothole village, the Freedom Fighters' stronghold, and what a haven it had been. ",
"But it had also been a constant danger, with military always patrolling the borders. ",
"Everybody had always been too edgy, too on guard, to truly enjoy life. ",
"There was the threat of open war every minute of every day, the threat of sudden death, utter elimination. ",
"No such threat existed here. ",
"These people were very well protected, and had no enemies besides.",
"\nTails' gut churned a little as he thought about his old friends, left behind some time ago. ",
"How did they fare? ",
"For a moment he envisioned them desperately fighting off a maurauding army of Arack soldiers, falling and dying one by one by the Empire's weapons...\nHe shook away the thought. ",
"No, he couldn't get hung up on that. ",
"Not now. ",
"Their quest was not his, their troubles none of his concern. ",
"His place was, always had been, here.",
"\n\"Probably not,\" he said, and looking at this queer out-of-fashion little town with its oddly contorted folk, he figured that was probably true. \"",
"I don't think there's anywhere quite like this out there at all.\"",
"\nThey approached a building that was much larger than most of the other buildings around town, and shaped differently. ",
"Kukku stopped by a window and turned to Tails, who looked through it, putting his hands either side of his head to block out the sunlight.",
"\nHe saw a large, spacious room in which rows of children were sitting and facing away from him. ",
"An adult, avian, stood at the front and was lecturing to them, saying things that Tails couldn't quite hear.",
"\n\"It's a school,\" he said.",
"\n\"There is more to civilisation than good genetics,\" Kukku explained, \"We provide our youngsters the best education, give them every opportunity to learn the intricacies of this fascinating world. ",
"We teach in every subject - literacy, mathematics and the sciences, history, geography, music and the arts, biology-\"Yes, I bet you focus specifically on that one, Tails thought, I bet you take great care in explaining to them their natural inferiority.",
"\n\"-for it is knowledge that is the key to a truly advanced society. ",
"These children have a natural predisposition to learning, their brains are genetically more efficient. ",
"They are smarter! ",
"As smart as an avian! ",
"This is the same gift that we have also given to you, my dear Tails.",
"\"As smart as an avian, Tails thought, That puts the phrase bird-brained in a whole new light.",
"\nOne of the children in the classroom rose his hand to answer a question. ",
"Tails frowned and squinted at the child, whose species he couldn't quite discern from behind. ",
"But it had to be a bat, of course. ",
"There was no other possibility. ",
"Or so he thought, until another child, who was clearly a badger, rose his hand also. ",
"Something was very wrong, here.",
"\n\"There's something strange...\" Tails said, \"Something strange about... what's that? ",
"Under their arms, what is that?\"",
"\n\"The future,\" Kukku replied, and he kneeled down beside Tails to bring himself closer to the fox's level. \"",
"One of our greatest successes. ",
"Alteration Seventy-Six.\"",
"\n\"But they-\"\n\"I think that there is somebody I'd like you to meet,\" Kukku said.",
"\n\n---\n\n9:02 am\n\nWhen Tails had once asked his haunted uncle Tyler about his irregular appearance, Tyler had consoled him.",
"\n\"Kid,\" he'd said, \"You could have a hundred and ten tails sticking out of your butt and it wouldn't make a lick of difference to me. ",
"You're still my boy, and you're beautiful.\"",
"\nTyler had been pretending to be Tails' true father at the time. ",
"But Tails imagined that his real father would have said the same, should he have lived to be asked. ",
"It was a powerful sentiment, and an important one for a parent to express. ",
"Because in this superficial world, looks were important. ",
"Irregularity, bumps in the wrong places or shapes that weren't entirely usual, uniqueness, was not a virtue. ",
"People were frightened by difference. ",
"It disturbed and revolted them. ",
"It carried with it unappealing connotations, unpleasant assumptions. ",
"There was no room in the world for a fox with two tails. ",
"For those who he loved, who he trusted, to make clear to him that his unusual appearance did not disgust them, did not in fact matter at all, that was important. ",
"That was powerful.",
"\nAnd so Tails, looking down at the infant lying before him, could only hope and pray that this boy's parents made every effort to express this to him as soon and as sincerely as possible.",
"\nThe baby was half-wrapped in a thick dark shawl, held tenderly in his mother's portly embrace. ",
"She leaned over a little so that Tails could have a good look. ",
"A raccoon family - Mummy, Daddy, and baby made three. ",
"She smiled warmly as she showed off her newborn child, and her husband, with his carbon-copy smile, stood over her with a hand around her shoulders. ",
"He was the same raccoon that Tails had seen earlier, the one who seemed so familiar to him, but he wasn't occupied with that peculiarity right now.",
"\nThe baby was content. ",
"He bore the curious expression of a baby, his eyes wide and glaring (though were they a little too wide?) ",
"and sucking hard on the pacifier in his tiny mouth (though was it a little too tiny?) ",
"while he reached out to grab Tails' nose, as though picking a cherry off its branch. ",
"Tails could only stare at that arm as the child reached, his fingers too long, too thin...\nIt wasn't really a shawl that the baby was wrapped in.",
"\n\"Alteration Seventy-Six,\" Badoru Kukku explained in a soft voice, \"is the result of many years of gruelling research and experimentation. ",
"A carefully engineered set of chromosomes that adds a specific set of information to the genetic code. ",
"Since we fully decoded the mobian genome a number of years ago, we have been able to develop a method of manufacturing specific protein strings - additional chromosome pairs which effectively expand upon the blueprint already provided within the DNA.\"",
"\n\"You're adding to them,\" Tails clarified, \"Creating limbs that people wouldn't otherwise have. ",
"Building upon their design.\"",
"\n\"There has been a lot of experimentation. ",
"A lot of research. ",
"Many mistakes, many surprises. ",
"Genetic science is... extremely complicated. ",
"But we have finally made the advances that have begun to crack the deepest, most intricate secrets. ",
"The secrets behind the genesis of life itself. ",
"Now it is more a matter of refining the design.\"",
"\nKukku reached out and lightly grasped the baby's hand and stretched it out while his mother cooed over him. ",
"The baby laughed as though tickled.",
"\n\"This is very exciting for us,\" Kukku said. \"",
"Every child who has been conceived in Quarantine over the last thirteen years has been given Alteration Seventy-Six. ",
"A very carefully designed gene sequence. ",
"As you can see, the alterations are not a perfect success, but they are closer than ever before. ",
"When these children grow up, they will breed together, and by that time we will have further refined our gene sequence. ",
"Their children might very well be the children of the revolution. ",
"A truly evolved race, saved from the tyranny of natural selection.\"",
"\n\"You gave a raccoon wings,\" Tails murmured.",
"\nThe baby giggled, and stretched out both of his arms. ",
"The huge membranous flaps that ran from his spindly wrists down to his waist stretched out wide either side of him. ",
"He flapped them like he was a true bird.",
"\n\"He cannot fly,\" Kukku lamented, \"None of them can. ",
"But their children... Tails, you and your sister prove it possible. ",
"A future for all of us, a future in the sky. ",
"In paradise. ",
"It is not just a fantasy, it is a reality. ",
"And it is imminent.\"",
"\n\n---\n\n9:20 am\n\nBadoru Kukku and his associates took great interest in the health of the winged raccoon child, and stayed for quite a while in the family's home, performing an extensive medical check-up. ",
"Tails found it almost impossible to tear his attention away. ",
"He'd never imagined anything like this. ",
"Biological upgrades, manufactured genetics, it all seemed like science fiction. ",
"And why did it seem that there was something sinister about all of this?",
"\nTails believed that he had seen evil in his life. ",
"True evil. ",
"But the people who he considered to fit this criteria always followed a standard set of behaviours, of ideologies. ",
"Nails, the gangster who had enslaved him in years of squalour, had been an unfathomably self-driven person. ",
"There wasn't an inch of him that cared for anybody besides himself, and he enjoyed flexing his power to the detriment, even the demise, of others. ",
"Later, Tails became acquainted with the megalomaniac Ivo Robotnik, whose actions stemmed from some kind of profound apathy. ",
"Sonic had once explained to him that some people do what they do because they are angry, upset or disturbed, whereas Robotnik did what he did because he was bored. ",
"And that was, truly, evil. ",
"But what he felt now, a sense of unease bordering almost on horror, made no sense to him. ",
"The actions of the Armada were not selfish or sadistic, they did not desire to inflict pain on suffering on anybody. ",
"Their intentions seemed to come from a genuine desire to help, and the villagers of Quarantine were entirely compliant. ",
"Tails even saw the sense in it, though the methods may have seemed alien and bizarre. ",
"He didn't think he knew anybody who wouldn't appreciate the ability to fly, should it be granted to them.",
"\nYet his father had seen something abhorrent in all of this. ",
"Had in fact been so horrified that he opted to escape, to take his son away from this little utopia and force him instead into a life of crime in a far away city. ",
"Right now, Tails was feeling so puzzled as to his father's motives that he was almost angry. ",
"The life he had here, in the paradise they called Babylon, was pristine. ",
"Here, nobody looked down at him for his appearance. ",
"Nobody thought him stupid or strange or dirty. ",
"He was considered something of a prince, superior, not inferior. ",
"And he would have given anything to have spent his youth here, with these people, instead of the streets of Station Square, with Nails the Bat, being jeered and spat at by the public. ",
"Anything.",
"\nWhy did Trevor Prower make the decision that he made?",
"\nCream, the flying rabbit, seemed forlorn. ",
"Tails found her sitting in an antique-looking chair and watching the team of scientists perform their medical observations on the baby and his mother. ",
"Tails sat down beside her.",
"\n\"You were right,\" he said, \"This place really is something. ",
"I can't believe half the stuff I've seen and heard today.\"",
"\n\"Father is doing some wonderful work,\" she replied, flatly.",
"\n\"Something's troubling you.\"",
"\nShe turned to look at him for the first time, and forced a smile. \"",
"Oh, not really. ",
"It's just... sometimes I wonder what it would have been like.\"",
"\n\"What?\"",
"\n\"That.\" ",
"She pointed, and Tails turned to look. ",
"The mother, smiling, cradling her infant child in her arms. ",
"A genuine, powerful bond of love. ",
"The child cooed and grasped his mother's nose with one altered hand. ",
"His digits were webbed like fins.",
"\n\"Having a mother,\" Tails said. ",
"It was a desire that he himself rarely felt. ",
"Every role model in his entire life had been male, and as such he tended toward an almost misogynistic disrespect for female authority. ",
"It was an aspect of his personality that often caused him strife with Sally Acorn, for obvious reasons. ",
"For years he'd mourned and searched for his father, but what of his mother?",
"\n\"I know her name,\" Cream said, speaking of her own. \"",
"Vanilla Rae. ",
"Is that not a lovely name? ",
"If she were still here, I think I would prefer to call her by her name, rather than Mother. ",
"Such a lovely name.\"",
"\nTails wasn't sure he liked the name as much as Cream did, but her lamentations about her mother gave Tails an idea that, for some reason, still hadn't occurred to him. ",
"He fretted and puzzled over the motives of his father, but who alive would know them as well as his own mother? ",
"Melissa Prower was her name. ",
"According to Tyler, she had stayed here when he, Trevor and Tails had fled the island. ",
"She, and another uncle named Yared, if he remembered right. ",
"He did have family here, somewhere. ",
"A family who were to be rescued when Trevor returned as promised. ",
"Maybe he could find them, and maybe they could shed some light on this mystery. ",
"Tails had come here to fulfil his father's promise to rescue his people, but so far he hadn't found anybody who needed to be rescued.",
"\n\"Mr Kukku?\" ",
"he said.",
"\nBadoru Kukku turned around quite startled. \"",
"Mister! ",
"Oh, how ridiculous!\"",
"\nTails had a good idea that Kukku wanted him to say father, as Cream did. ",
"But he wasn't quite ready to do that, at least not yet. ",
"Though he questioned his real father's judgements, he wasn't yet prepared to commit that ultimate treason.",
"\n\"I was wondering if I could take a walk around.\"",
"\n\"Oh, absolutely, absolutely! ",
"Go and explore, acquaint yourself with our little paradise! ",
"No dangers outside these walls, dear Tails. ",
"This is not like the wild lands that you're accustomed to.\"",
"\nTails turned to Cream. \"",
"Wanna come with?\"",
"\nThe girl shook her head with a smile. \"",
"I think I shall stay a while.\"",
"\nHe nodded and left her to her thoughts. ",
"He knew as well as anybody else that, sometimes, all a person has are their fantasies.",
"\n\n---\n\n\"Wait a minute, there, Trev,\" Nails said as Trevor led his son toward the car. ",
"The fox turned around to the bat who stood in the doorway of his old church, smoking on a cigar and leaning against the crumbling frame.",
"\n\"What is it, Nails?\"",
"\n\"Wanted to discuss something with you. ",
"Your boy, namely.\"",
"\n\"What about him?\"",
"\nNails smiled and sucked on the cigar. \"",
"You take him out a lot. ",
"He gets to see a lot of the job, yeah?\"",
"\n\"No sir, I don't subject him to any of that.\"",
"\n\"Well, maybe you should.\" ",
"He feigned thoughtfulness. \"",
"You know, the kid's smart. ",
"Got a lot between the ears.\" ",
"He tapped his own head with one finger. \"",
"If he wants, I can give him a few errands of his own. ",
"Even earn himself some pocket-money for it.\"",
"\nTails' eyes lit up. \"",
"Can I, Dad?\"",
"\n\"No,\" Trevor stressed, and his son looked forlorn.",
"\n\"Aw, come on, Pop,\" the bat said, \"You see? ",
"He wants to! ",
"I bet he'd make a great apprentice. ",
"I bet he'd take to the job real quick. ",
"He's got a lot of pep, your kid. ",
"A lot of spark. ",
"Ain't that right, kid?\"",
"\nHe smiled like a candy salesman. ",
"Tails liked his Dad's boss. ",
"The others weren't always very nice, but Mr Nails was always friendly and accomodating, even though his father always warned to stay away from him.",
"\n\"You don't need my son working for you,\" Trevor said with a venom he rarely used when talking to Nails. \"",
"You've got me, you don't need him.\"",
"\nThe bat's smile faded a little. \"",
"Watch it,\" he warned. ",
"That was all Nails ever needed to say, and it was all he meant. ",
"Just watch it. ",
"Like putting a backtalking child back in line. ",
"After that, he puffed on his cigar again and his smile returned. \"",
"Now, come on, Trev. ",
"Be reasonable. ",
"I've heard some things on the grapevine lately. ",
"I've heard your son has some skills.\"",
"\nTrevor frowned. \"",
"Skills?\"",
"\n\"Yeah, like, I've heard he can pull off some pretty amazing tricks with those two floor-sweepers of his.\"",
"\n\"I can fly!\" ",
"Tails exclaimed, while balancing on one leg for reasons only a child would know. ",
"His father told him to hush.",
"\n\"Wowsers!\" ",
"Nails replied, \"Hey, you know who else can do that?\"",
"\nTails shook his head. ",
"Nails grinned like a crocodile and pointed both of his thumbs toward himself. ",
"The boy gasped. \"",
"No way!\"",
"\n\"Yes, way. ",
"Completely self-taught. ",
"You know, it really helps a lot, in this line of work. ",
"You can do very well. ",
"I can teach you some tricks, if you're interested.\"",
"\n\"That's enough,\" Trevor said, and ushered his son toward the car. \"",
"Thanks, but no thanks.\"",
"\n\"Just consider it! ",
"That's all I ask! ",
"The offer is always available.\"",
"\nTrevor drove for fifteen minutes in silence, and Tails recognised and feared the expression on his face. ",
"It was the face he wore when he was furious. ",
"When Tails was in some deep trouble, his father's face hardened into this mask of bitter disapproval, and said nothing, even when Tails tried to speak. ",
"He looked that way now, and Tails, anxiety and confusion rising in his six-year-old gut, tried to read his father's thoughts through his eyes.",
"\n\"Dad?\" ",
"he asked, \"Are you mad at me?\"",
"\nHis father said nothing. ",
"He just drove in silence for a while. ",
"When they arrived at one of Trevor's locations, he parked, turned the engine off, and sat quietly for a couple of moments. ",
"Then he turned to his son and spoke in a low, very firm, tone:\n\"Miles. ",
"I want you to promise me something. ",
"Stay away from Nails. ",
"If he speaks to you, if he says anything at all, don't you pay attention to him. ",
"Don't you listen to a word he says. ",
"Have I made myself clear?\"",
"\n\"Yes, Dad.\"",
"\n\n---\n\n10:00 am\n\nTails wondered what he would say if he was to meet his mother here. ",
"He wondered what she would say to him. ",
"Would she be happy to see him, or would she reject him? ",
"Why hadn't she joined Trevor and Tyler when they first fled this place? ",
"Was it because she had no interest in her son's future, or just because she didn't want to leave this place? ",
"This place where nobody ever had to work, where all their food, shelter and comforts were provided for, and where the only price for paradise was to allow your children to be engineered into birds, or as close to them as biology would allow.",
"\nThe school in Quarantine had been excused for recess, and Tails watched the children play in the cobblestone streets. ",
"Mammalians, all of them, the group or subspecies of mobian that the Armada considered to be the highest evolved, save for the avians. ",
"He saw all types; raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, wolves, hedgehogs, cats, all named for the zoic counterpart that they resembled, all playing together and laughing, the innocent fun of a childhood without burden and responsibility. ",
"Different races, all united as family by the muscular flaps hanging under their arms, their webbed fingers, their large, bright eyes and narrow mouths. ",
"Tails couldn't see any foxes among them, or any other evidence that he might have relatives still living here, which disheartened him a little.",
"\nSeveral of the children were taking turns trying to fly, flapping their arms as hard as they could manage, squinting their eyes shut with the effort, then collapsing in exhaustion. ",
"They seemed to know that if any of them had this ability they would gain favour with the Armada, be adopted into Sanctuary and live as they did. ",
"But their bodies were still too heavy, their wings rudimentary and ineffective. ",
"Like baby birds trying to leave the nest, they flapped until they wore themselves out, but they just didn't have the potential. ",
"The next generation might indeed be a different story.",
"\n\"Pssst, Tails!\"",
"\nHis name, spoken from behind him, so faint that it might have been his imagination. ",
"Tails turned around and at first saw nothing, just one of those adorable cottages surrounded by a hedge and a row of trees. ",
"But then, movement. ",
"There was somebody standing in the yard, in the shade of one of the trees. ",
"He was obscured by shadow, but Tails could have sworn that it was a tall orange fox standing there, motioning for him to approach. ",
"A fox, just like him. ",
"Somebody who knew his name, knew who he was.",
"\nHis family was here, after all! ",
"After all this time!",
"\nTails hurried to meet the stranger, but the other fox turned and fled around a corner.",
"\n\"Wait up!\" ",
"Tails called, \"Wait! ",
"It's me, Tails! ",
"It's Miles!\"",
"\nHe ran around the cottage and looked about for the other fox, who seemed to have vanished. ",
"Why had he called to Tails and then hidden from him? ",
"Or was Tails supposed to know something that he didn't?",
"\n\"Psst!\"",
"\nBehind another cottage, in the next yard. ",
"Tails saw the stranger, his orange fox-tail curled around the side of the building, standing close to the corner as he waved. ",
"Tails leaped over a white picket fence, but the fox had already fled again.",
"\n\"What is this, a game?\" ",
"He ran around another building, jumped a hedge and another fence, and found himself in a field at the edge of town. ",
"Somebody had planted some gardens and trees, here, in order to make a park. ",
"The trees shaded the ground just enough that this would be a pleasant place to spend an evening or a whole day, to read or take a nap or just walk about. ",
"There were benches, a stone path and a little lake with ducks. ",
"Nobody else was here, though. ",
"Presumably, everybody was in town, making a fuss about the Armada's visit. ",
"He was alone with nature, and the stranger who had beckoned him was nowhere to be found.",
"\nJust as he was about to return to Quarantine, he heard a branch snap behind him and turned, the hairs on his back bristling. ",
"There was the stranger, standing under a tree, staring at him, not a part of him moving except for his tail, slowly curling and uncurling itself. ",
"His face was still obscured by darkness.",
"\n\"Hey,\" Tails said, and approached the figure slowly, \"It's me, Tails. ",
"Do you know me? ",
"Do you- Do you know my mother?\" ",
"He frowned. \"",
"Yared?\"",
"\nWhen he got close enough to see the stranger's eyes, he froze. ",
"His hands trembled, and he tried to back away but his feet forgot how to move. ",
"He'd made a mistake. ",
"Those cold eyes did not belong to the family he sought. ",
"That growling, foaming mouth. ",
"This fox was feral.",
"\nTails gulped. \"",
"You-\"\nBefore he'd uttered so much as a full syllable, the fox launched at him. ",
"With a wet, barking roar, the stranger clamped his jaws around Tails' throat, scratched at him and threw him to the ground. ",
"Tails fought to get up, but a heavy foot landed in his gut and winded him. ",
"He was dragged to his feet by the scruff of his neck, and thrown up against a tree hard enough to knock him senseless, the urgency of attack combined by the inability to fight his attacker sending him into a desperate panic. ",
"He thrashed and kicked like a drowning infant, but he was held fast, held by the neck, so hard that it almost choked him.",
"\n\"Remember me?\" ",
"the monster barked in his face, so close that he inhaled a glob of the feral's putrid spit, making him cough and hack. ",
"He writhed and scratched at the attacker, horrified that what was holding him against the tree, choking the life out of him, was not a hand, but a claw, something brown and scaly and strong as iron, a talon, a gnarled, hairless talon.",
"\n\"Do! ",
"You! ",
"Remember?\" ",
"the beast roared again, and Tails\n(trust Dalziel)\nhad an idea that he did remember, though he couldn't figure out how or from when or where, just a splinter embedded in his mind, something he'd repressed.",
"\nHe screamed: \"I remember! ",
"I rem-\"\nBut the assailant punched him in the gut, winding him again, and released his throat so that he could curl up in the grass and weep.",
"\n\"Retard,\" the other fox spat, dismissive, and waited a moment for Tails to collect himself.",
"\nTails, bleeding and trembling, looked up at the feral who had attacked him. ",
"He knew this mobian, like a pigeon knows its way home. ",
"It seemed like instinct, like a predator will stay away from anything that glows a certain colour. ",
"Knowledge his unconscious had learned and retained even after his conscious forgot.",
"\nDalziel. ",
"Pronounced Dee-ell, but spelled with a 'Z'. ",
"He loomed over Tails in the tatters of his unwashed clothing, one arm corrupted after the elbow in a crooked and scarred tree-branch claw. ",
"He scowled with a fury the likes of which Tails knew nothing.",
"\n\"Get up,\" he commanded, and fearing another brutalising, Tails complied.",
"\nDalziel looked him over, like a store owner inspecting some shoddy merchandise. \"",
"You ain't got a whole lot going for you, do you, kid? ",
"Still, there's something about you these hamsters want, and that's good enough for me. ",
"Listen up, there's two ways we can do this: The easy way, or... well, I gotta be honest with you. ",
"You should choose the easy way.\"",
"\nTails stared at that awful three-fingered branch that passed for this guy's right arm, and decided that the easy way was probably indeed his best option. ",
"He looked around for anybody who might be able to help him, but they were all gone, all congregating around the village.",
"\n\"Ain't no hamsters around here, retard,\" said Dalziel, as though he knew what Tails was thinking. ",
"The boy's shoulders slumped. \"",
"What are you going to do to me?\"",
"\n\"You're going to come with me, that's what. ",
"And you're gonna come now, or else I'll knock you to an inch of your life and drag you.\"",
"\n\"I'll go. ",
"Whatever, just... take it easy. ",
"I'll go.\"",
"\nAnd he did. ",
"Dalziel, his good hand clasping Tails by the collar of his ruffled suit, led him at a brisk pace through the empty park all the way to the other side. ",
"When the landscaped gardens and cobblestone paths came to an end, they kept walking through the sparse shade of the scattered oak trees beyond. ",
"When the trees ended and nothing was left but rolling green hills, still they walked. ",
"Tails looked back to see how far they were from Quarantine, but Dalziel yanked him forward.",
"\n\"How far are we going?\" ",
"Tails pleaded.",
"\n\"Every time you whine,\" Dalziel replied, \"Every time you whinge, or mope, or cry, or complain, I'll break one of your bones. ",
"And I get to pick which one. ",
"You feeling lucky, kid?\"",
"\nAfter about twenty minutes of walking, they finally reached something new. ",
"It was a fence. ",
"A very tall, wire-mesh fence covered in barbs, and at the top, maybe forty feet up, were loops of razor-wire. ",
"A fence that nobody was supposed to get past.",
"Why would anybody be so desperate to leave this place that they would need a fence like this? ",
"Tails wondered, but the answer came to him almost as soon as he'd asked it. ",
"His father had been so desperate, for reasons that still eluded him.",
"\nDalziel was searching for something, and cursing under his breath. ",
"They walked along the length of the fence, and Tails' kidnapper was watching the base of it very closely, breaking every so often to cast a worried glance back toward Quarantine.",
"\nTails was watching the village, too, hoping that any moment the Armada's military would rush over that hill with loaded weapons. ",
"He'd even be happy to see Lieutenant Overdraw, right now.",
"\nEventually Dalziel found what he was looking for. ",
"A spot at the base of the fence where the wire had come apart, making a concealed hole just big enough to squeeze through.",
"\n\"There,\" he said, and with one hard thrust he threw Tails to the ground. \"",
"Crawl through it.\"",
"\nTails did as he was instructed, grasping at the soft, muddy ground and crawling through the hole. ",
"The jagged wire dragged along the back of his suit and he heard it rip, but it didn't matter that much because he figured the mud and grass stains had ruined it anyway. ",
"When he reached the other side, he removed the torn jacket and dropped it by the fence. ",
"He did the same with his tie, loosening the collar to grant himself a little more comfort. ",
"He didn't remove all of his clothes, though - he didn't want to be naked. ",
"Even out here, in the wilderness. ",
"It was uncouth. ",
"Uncivilised.",
"\nEven Dalziel dressed himself, albeit his clothing was threadbare and filthy, tattered, falling apart at the seams. ",
"He still chose to retain that much dignity. ",
"As Tails pondered this, Dalziel was trying to drag himself through the fence-hole, grunting and cursing. ",
"It was barely big enough for him, and if not for the fact that he'd clearly squeezed through it once before, Tails would have doubted he could at all. ",
"He was about half-way through when his tattered shirt got snagged on the wire, and he got stuck.",
"\nIt was now that Tails' stiff legs broke, and before he had time to consider the thought, he turned tail and ran. ",
"Dalziel shouted after him, but he had youth on his side, and this was one party he wasn't sticking around for. ",
"Whatever this feral intended to do with him, it probably wasn't any more pleasant than the experience had already been so far. ",
"Tails put his head down and sprinted toward a copse of trees at the edge of a forest. ",
"He was going to be fine. ",
"All he had to do was stay hidden, make his way back to Sanctuary, to the Armada and to the warm arms of Badoru Kukku. ",
"He would be safe there, he would-\nTails collided face-first with something so hard that it put his lights out for a moment, threw him upside down and put him on his backside. ",
"Stars swarmed through his head. ",
"He opened his eyes to see what he'd run into, but his vision was blurred and there was blood in his eyes. ",
"He brought his hands to his face, waited for his brain to stop spinning around, and then looked again.",
"\nA massive wolf was staring down at him, snarling. ",
"Another feral, but this one appeared much further gone. ",
"His pelt was spotted with mange, his eyes were haunting and crazed, and saliva foamed from his mouth as he growled. ",
"But he was smiling, too. ",
"A sadistic grin. ",
"And in his claws he was holding a thick tree branch, with a patch of red on it. ",
"Tails brought his hands up to his nose, and found that it was leaking blood like a faucet.",
"\nThe wolf dragged him roughly to his feet, and held him in place. ",
"Dalziel was storming toward them, murder in his eyes.",
"\nSometimes, when you know that pain is coming, you can brace yourself for it and it won't be quite as bad as it could be. ",
"Tails closed his eyes and tried to do that now.",
"\n\"Thanks Dale,\" Dalziel said, and brought his knee up into Tails' gut.",
"\nTails, winded for the third time, buckled over in the wolf's grasp and just tried not to throw up. ",
"Dalziel grabbed his chin with the talon-hand and lifted his head to see the fox's eyes.",
"\n\"We've been through this before,\" he said, \"Maybe you remember, and maybe you don't, but either way, we've been here before. ",
"What you need to understand is that we've got no problem with hurting you. ",
"This isn't Quarantine, this isn't the hamster cage. ",
"There's no rules out here, no mercy or forgiveness, no niceness, no pity. ",
"You're back in the wild now, kid. ",
"And believe me. ",
"It is a jungle out here. ",
"So wise up and get used to it.\" ",
"He pulled Tails closer, and spat \"Buckaroo.\"",
"\n\n---\n\n1:23 pm\n\nIt was amazing how much Tails missed the good life after living it for only a day. ",
"Fifteen years had rolled by, divided between the streets of Station Square and the Freedom Fighters in the forest, living a nomadic life in between. ",
"Nothing had been easy or comfortable about Tails' life, but having been a part of Sanctuary for just one day had changed things. ",
"He looked down at the filthy, stained shirt he was wearing and lamented. ",
"Sitting on the rocks on the forest floor bothered him in ways it never had before, he couldn't make himself comfortable. ",
"There were no cushions, no pillows. ",
"The world was so rancid and filled with dirt.",
"\nBadoru Kukku had been right. ",
"The world was a pile of crud. ",
"The wild lands outside of Babylon were full of hate and bitterness, war and deceit, violence and sadism. ",
"People like Nails the Bat, Ivo Robotnik, Dalziel and Dale. ",
"Barbaric, uncivilised and filthy. ",
"Terra Nullius, a world without soul. ",
"Perhaps it would be better if nature's selective hand really did sweep down and purge it all. ",
"Prepare a new beginning. ",
"Those who were truly worthy, truly evolved, could live here in paradise, while the unclean masses choked in a squalour of their own creation.",
"\nTails tucked the base of his shirt back into his trousers and frowned at his kidnappers, who sat eating like the beasts they were. ",
"They were devouring the rotting scraps of some unidentifiable former meal, the loud noise of their chewing and slurping and slobbering and crunching echoing through his skull. ",
"His nose throbbed and his head ached. ",
"His breathing was shallow from the beating that his gut had endured. ",
"He only wanted to go back home to Sanctuary.",
"\n\"Hungry?\" ",
"Dalziel snarled.",
"\n\"No,\" Tails replied, bitterly. ",
"With his nose busted, the word came out: Doh.",
"\n\"Yeah, well good. ",
"You're not getting any.\"",
"\n\"Who are you people? ",
"What do you want with me?\"",
"\n\"Didn't I tell you no whining?\"",
"\nTails' lower lip trembled and he hugged his knees. ",
"But a part of him went through a transformation, there and then. ",
"Fifteen years, the filthy world's punching bag. ",
"He'd been a victim through all of his life, a hollow shell to beat with a stick until he cracked. ",
"Nails' little puppet, turned Freedom Fighter for a cause he had no real attachment to, and now beaten and tortured for no real reason by a couple of feral mutants. ",
"Whenever anybody loomed over him with a fist or a finger or a gun cocked, stared down at him and told him to be silent, be still, do this or do that, his lower lip had trembled, he'd hugged his knees, and he'd said he was sorry. ",
"He always backed down, shrank away from pain, allowed himself to be used and abused at the leisure of any scoundrel or beast who saw fit to have their way with him.",
"\nBut not anymore. ",
"It was at this moment that Tails decided he was done being the victim. ",
"He was better than these people. ",
"He'd evolved. ",
"There was no excuse in allowing them to break him down, he was the superior one, he had inherited authority over the beasts of the world, he was so far above them that he trampled them under his feet. ",
"They hated because they feared and because they envied. ",
"He only took their abuse because he allowed it.",
"\n\"Do it,\" he spat.",
"\nDalziel stopped chewing and looked up at him. ",
"With a mouth full of food, he said \"Excuse me?\"",
"\n\"Go ahead,\" Tails said, louder. \"",
"Beat me. ",
"If you think that you can put me through any worse pain than I'm already in, then let's see you try it. ",
"Thrash me to death. ",
"Whatever you think that will prove, or if you just get a natural thrill out of it, be my guest. ",
"I deserve to know what you intend to do with me, why you've dragged me out here and decided to beat the stuffing out of me, you cowardly, filthy, failures at life.\"",
"\nFor a moment, the silence hung heavy through the forest, and Tails expected that the two ferals would just march over to him and pummel him with rocks until he resembled raw chicken stuffing. ",
"At least that would end this, and he would die having stood up for himself. ",
"He was so sick of this forsaken life that it would be somewhat of a blessing to just end it on a relative high note.",
"\nBut Dalziel just snorted and went back to eating. \"",
"Where'd you get so cocky, retard?\"",
"\n\"You can stop calling me that,\" Tails said. ",
"But really, the insult just rolled off his back, now that he knew his unusual traits actually set him above these people rather than below.",
"\n\"Sure, retard,\" Dalziel replied, smiled, and then resumed eating loudly. ",
"Tails figured this was the end of a short and pointless conversation, so he lay back on the rocks to rest his newly re-injured body. ",
"But then Dalziel began to speak again.",
"\n\"They promised us reincorporation.\"",
"\n\"What did you say?\" ",
"Tails asked, raising his head.",
"\n\"Reincorporation, means they said they were gonna toss us back into the hamster cage. ",
"All we had to do was deliver you to them. ",
"Something about you really took their fancy, you see. ",
"But they lied. ",
"We took you right to them, didn't even beat you up too bad, and they didn't give us a thing. ",
"Didn't even thank us. ",
"Shoulda known they'd never let us back inside. ",
"Bad genes and all.\"",
"\n\"I don't remember this,\" Tails said.",
"\n\"Of course you don't, you had a problem with your noggin. ",
"Seems to be all fixed up now, though. ",
"I guess I hit you hard enough that it fixed you good and proper. ",
"Amazing, you can fix anything if you give it a good whack.\"",
"\n\"None of this explains why you're doing this to me.\"",
"\nDalziel laughed. \"",
"What are you, completely brain-dead? ",
"Cause and effect, kid. ",
"They broke their end of the bargain, so we're breaking ours. ",
"Tit for tat. ",
"Karma.\"",
"\n\"We're on an island, you know. ",
"Not a very big one, either. ",
"They will find me.\"",
"\nDalziel took another bite of his rotting meal. \"",
"If they come, then we'll kill you. ",
"Make them watch.\"",
"\n\"Then they might kill you.\"",
"\n\"So what? ",
"Let them! ",
"Take a look around, have a good look. ",
"Life stinks. ",
"How bad do you think we wanna hang around here every day eating garbage for breakfast, lunch and dinner? ",
"At least we'll die knowing that we got our own back, that we'd shown an Armada brat what life is really like out here. ",
"It'll be good to die knowing we struck a blow against them, make them know the pain of watching someone kill their family.\"",
"\nHow morbid, the barbarian's desire to hurt, to maim and to kill, at any and all costs. ",
"He remembered the thrall of the criminal life, how it had captured his father, and how Trevor had reconciled his lifestyle, silenced his moral objections, by reminding himself that those who lived more privelaged lives were evil, and deserved to be robbed, to be hurt. ",
"A mentality that Tails now recognised as flawed and poisonous.",
"\n\"That's revolting,\" Tails spat, \"The only thing you think about is how you can best hurt someone. ",
"How can you be so cruel? ",
"Because your life isn't as comfortable as theirs? ",
"They're good people, why can't you just leave them alone?\"",
"\nDalziel and Dale both laughed at this, his reprimand just a big joke to them.",
"\n\"Oh man,\" Dalziel snorted, \"You really do sound like one of them. ",
"An exile who talks like a hamster. ",
"Let me tell you, kid, that never lasts long. ",
"You break outta that mindset pretty quick.\"",
"\n\"What mindset? ",
"Common sense? ",
"Peacemongering?\"",
"\n\"You know what? ",
"I think you ought to come with me. ",
"There's something you should see.\"",
"\n\"Why should I go anywhere with you? ",
"What could you possibly show me that I'll give a darn about?\"",
"\n\"Easy there, retard. ",
"I'm just gonna give you an education, that's all. ",
"Who's the Bad Guy, one-oh-one. ",
"I'm not saying you'll give a darn, but if you really want to know where we're coming from on this, then here's your chance to find out.\"",
"\nTails figured that it couldn't hurt. ",
"At least they weren't beating him anymore. ",
"So he went with Dalziel, who led him through the forest to a cliff that overlooked the valley where Quarantine lay. ",
"He pointed to the village, an oasis in an otherwise unspoiled wilderness. ",
"From here they could see the little town and its surrounding parkland, encapsulated within a wide wire fence, all lying at the base of the twin towers of Sanctuary. ",
"The white towers, one taller than the other, were cylindrical and very thin, but the shortest was perhaps a hundred storeys tall, the other another fifty. ",
"Kukku was right, they took up very little room but had an awful lot of space - if you could fly.",
"\n\"Take a look at your good people,\" Dalziel spat, \"Take a good, hard look.\"",
"\n\"All I see is a village. ",
"A peaceful little village where nobody fights or hurts each other, and where everybody has everything they could ever want.\"",
"\n\"You really are an idiot,\" the feral said, \"Don't look at them. ",
"Look at them!\"",
"\nTails followed his gaze downward, beyond the white spires of Sanctuary and the rose-gardens of the village below; beyond the razor fence that gave Quarantine its name.",
"\nThere were people milling about outside the fence. ",
"More ferals. ",
"They were scrounging, foraging for garbage, like animals, grazing. ",
"There was a marked difference between these people and the residents on the other side of the wire. ",
"None of these people looked healthy, none of them content. ",
"If Quarantine was the height of civilisation, as the Armada defined it, then these people lived on the exact opposite side of the spectrum. ",
"Two mobians, Tails saw, were fighting over a scrap, and they barked and snarled at each other like rabid wolves. ",
"There were perhaps half a dozen of the pitiful creatures.",
"\n\"Who are they?\" ",
"Tails asked.",
"\n\"They're us,\" Dalziel replied, \"We're the exiles. ",
"We're what happens when someone pees in the gene pool. ",
"And why do you think we don't get to live in paradise with the rest of the dumb old hamsters?\"",
"\n\"You're too wild,\" Tails replied, \"Too uncivilised. ",
"Look at that, they're so feral, almost zoic. ",
"Unrestrained violence. ",
"You'd just make it like the rest of the world.\"",
"\n\"Wow, quick answer. ",
"That sounded almost rehearsed. ",
"Just like an Armada-trained seal. ",
"Can you jump through hoops, too? ",
"How about you just shut up and pay attention.\"",
"\n\"I'm listening.\"",
"\n\"We're all born animals. ",
"It's no different for you or me or any of the people in that cage. ",
"You don't get thrown out of Quarantine because you're too wild, you get thrown out because of this.\" ",
"He held up his right arm, the thin, gnarled talon. \"",
"Don't buy into their propaganda, kid, don't think that they're infallable. ",
"They make mistakes, a lot of mistakes. ",
"We're the mistakes.\"",
"\nTails squinted to see the exiles more clearly. ",
"Indeed, they weren't just unhealthy. ",
"Beneath the tattered clothes, the filth and the mange, these mobians were all malformed. ",
"Too many limbs or too few, heads too big for their bodies, legs too short or too crooked, eyes too close together or too far apart. ",
"The people of Quarantine looked strange for their physical traits, but they weren't typically so unusual that you would call them deformed. ",
"These poor souls, on the other hand, had been dealt a very bad hand at birth.",
"\n\"They like to keep the gene pool clean inside the cage,\" Dalziel said, \"Don't want anyone polluting their little experiment. ",
"That's why, if you're born a little weird, you got too many arms or one eye or tentacles, you get marked for removal. ",
"No appeal, no argument, just a one way ticket to foraging garbage for the rest of whatever life they allow you to have. ",
"It don't matter who you are. ",
"You know my mate Dale, back there? ",
"You know who his father is? ",
"Alain Bristol, their supposed leader, that's who. ",
"Dale Bristol, that was his name. ",
"Just Dale, now. ",
"It don't matter who you are.\" ",
"He turned to Tails, the gleam of hatred and madness in his eyes. \"",
"Don't you see? ",
"They made us this way. ",
"They banish us, then punish us, for the way we look. ",
"Now that you're one of us, tell me what you think of your beloved Armada.\"",
"\nTails watched the pitiful, deformed people at the base of the hill make themselves into beasts, fighting over scraps of rotting garbage with their hooked postures, clawed hands and horrid growths, and suddenly everything clicked into place for him. ",
"His father's fear, his quest and promise. ",
"Badoru Kukku's words ran through his head again:It is not impossible to have a child in Quarantine without our knowledge, despite what most of my colleagues would attest. ",
"Nature found a way, it seems. ",
"The miracle is that we did not even know that you existed until you came back to us.",
"\nHe had been a part of the Armada's project to breed a higher evolution of mobian, but he hadn't been expected. ",
"His father would have known about the policy of removing those who displayed defective traits. ",
"He and Tails' mother would have good reason to fear that their child would be marked for exile. ",
"And of course, when the child had been born, with two tails hooked to his rear end...\n\"Don't get all narky because I'm calling you names,\" Dalziel said with a wry grin, \"I don't mean anything nasty by it. ",
"You see... we're all retards here, Tails. ",
"Every one of us. ",
"Welcome to the family.\"",
"\n\n---\n\n2:15 pm\n\n\"Have fun?\" ",
"growled Dale, the feral wolf, with a smirk on his face. ",
"Tails didn't reply, he just sat on the rocks and held his nose with his eyes closed. ",
"It had started bleeding again, staining a red racing strip down the centre of his shirt.",
"\n\"We had an enlightening little chat regarding the nature of his life from now until forever,\" Dalziel said, \"Taught him a thing or two about his heroes up in the tower. ",
"Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but he would'a figured it all out pretty soon anyway.\"",
"\nTails sighed. ",
"It seemed that Babylon wasn't quite a paradise after all. ",
"At least not for those who the Armada deemed to be genetically inferior. ",
"If Dalziel's story could be trusted, then Kukku and his scientists' hospitality extended only toward the people who fit a set genetic criteria. ",
"It made a kind of sense even still; it fit with the same theory of evolution that Kukku had espoused, that the genetically superior mobians would naturally rise up while the weaker ones would be swept under the rug. ",
"But Tails hadn't seen the coldness of the theory until now, hadn't seen the real unemotive science behind what was being done. ",
"He only saw warmth in these people, kindness and affability. ",
"But here was the other side of the story. ",
"Here was what his father had seen, that which he himself had been blind to.",
"\n\"It's called eugenics, if you're wondering,\" Dalziel muttered.",
"\nTails lifted his head again. \"",
"Hm?\"",
"\n\"Eugenics. ",
"My Pop taught me that, before I was exiled. ",
"They gave us a lot of books in the hamster cage, and he made good use of them. ",
"He told me it's basically like maintaining a swimming pool. ",
"You pour in the chemicals, keep the water clean, scoop out all the leaves and the other muck that forms on top of the water. ",
"At least, that's the way they see it. ",
"I guess it makes sense if you believe a person can be garbage to be scooped out.\"",
"\nThe Armada were breeding a super-race of evolved mobians, but only according to their patented definition of evolution. ",
"For the others, those who didn't fit the mould, they were forced to endure horrifying disfigurements, foraging for food scraps, as the Armada didn't want to waste any resources maintaining these genetic failures.",
"\nTheir society may have been paradise, but it was also cold, sterile and soulless. ",
"Science without empathy.",
"\n\"Why do you call them hamsters?\" ",
"Tails asked.",
"\nDalziel snorted. \"",
"Hamsters. ",
"Guinea pigs. ",
"Lab rats. ",
"Take your pick. ",
"You know, they built that fence to keep us out, but it's also there to keep them in. ",
"It's a cage. ",
"They should put a great big plastic wheel right in the middle to complete the picture.\"",
"\n\"But you want to get back in.\"",
"\n\"'Course we do. ",
"Know why? ",
"'Cause it feels good to beat the system. ",
"Law of nature, survival of the fittest. ",
"Don't you think that we're all just a big happy family out here, we exiles, 'cause we're not. ",
"Survival of the fittest. ",
"I'd step over the corpse of every single one of these losers for another chance at the cage. ",
"In the cage, there's food. ",
"Shelter. ",
"Clean water. ",
"Protection. ",
"Ladies.\" ",
"On that last note, he and Dale grinned at each other.",
"\nTails saw now how his father slipped so easily into a hatred of the rich. ",
"He'd come to see them in the same light as the Armada. ",
"A system that privelaged a few while remaining apathetic about those who didn't fit a criteria. ",
"In Station Square, the criteria was financial rather than genetic, but the results were the same. ",
"Like these exiles, Trevor had hated the elite - but would have given just about anything to be a part of it.",
"\nNo honour among theives - or exiles.",
"\nTails looked over the pitiful beings who had snatched him, confused about how to feel about them. ",
"It was easier to think of them as scum, brutes whose life away from society had whittled their souls to dust, but it seemed that the story was more complicated, the situation more complex. ",
"They had kidnapped him, beaten him senseless, broken his nose, openly admitted that they intended to kill him for revenge against another enemy. ",
"He did not have the friendship or allegience of these people. ",
"But the Armada... what of them? ",
"Something was far from right about their activities on this island. ",
"Tails was growing disillusioned about their nobility, though until now he'd been enraptured with the idea of genetic and social betterment, what Kukku had called evolution and Dalziel had called eugenics. ",
"This was not a utopia after all - perfection came with a price, and somebody had to pay it.",
"\nDalziel, such a hateful creature, haggard and malnourished, crude and violent, didn't seem much more empathetic to anyone than the Armada were toward him and the other exiles, but then again, the former had been sired and raised by the latter. ",
"Tails didn't know much about Dale, the other, for the wolf spoke and did very little, but he imagined they shared the same worldview and mentality. ",
"There was nobody here to teach him what to believe, how to think. ",
"All that was left for Tails was to return to the mystery that was his father - try to figure out his reasons, and what exactly he had promised, and to whom.",
"\n\"My mother,\" he said, \"I've been looking for my mother. ",
"You used to live in Quarantine, right? ",
"Would you know anything about-\"\n\"Mother,\" Dalziel spat, \"Good luck with that, she's probably dead.\"",
"\nTails frowned. \"",
"How could you possibly know that? ",
"You just made that up.\"",
"\n\"Maybe I did, retard! ",
"Just to make you feel even more like crap. ",
"It's funny to me. ",
"But, then again, maybe I didn't!\"",
"\n\"Forget I said anything,\" Tails said, shaking his head.",
"\n\"Why, do you miss your Mummy? ",
"Wish she was here to tuck you in, patch you up, take you away from these nasty bullies? ",
"Losing Mummy just happens to be a fact of life around here... and in there.\"",
"\n\"Oh yeah?\" ",
"Tails growled, losing patience with the smug kidnappers who seemed to enjoy his pain so much, \"And why is that?\"",
"\n\"Think about it, kid. ",
"Think with your head, not your butt. ",
"Do you see any women in exile?\"",
"\n\"I don't know, I haven't been here that long.\"",
"\n\"Well there ain't. ",
"Chicks don't get exiled. ",
"Know why? ",
"'Cause they breed. ",
"They don't want that. ",
"They don't want a bunch of retards and rejects out here having kids and screwing up paradise. ",
"If you're a chick and you get tagged, they don't send you out here. ",
"They send you down a long tunnel with a bright light at the end of it.\"",
"\nTails stared at him for a long time, trying to work out if Dalziel was lying just to cause him pain.",
"\n\"The chicks, they're the core of the project,\" Dalziel said, \"They're what make the whole thing work, what keeps the big plastic wheel spinning in the hamster cage. ",
"The birds, they tag 'em like dairy cows. ",
"Got tracking devices in 'em, so the birds know exactly where they are, who they're with, and if, heaven forbid, they ever get out of the cage. ",
"Gotta keep strict checks on the women. ",
"Keep an eye on them, especially when they start having kids. ",
"A mother who gives birth to rejects is bad news. ",
"Means there's something wrong with her. ",
"They got no use for someone who keeps spitting out kids with too many bits and pieces. ",
"They have a word for it, they call it corrupted. ",
"That's a breeder that produces bad stock. ",
"Corrupted. ",
"Polluting the gene pool. ",
"Gotta get rid of it. ",
"Gotta remove it.\"",
"\nTails didn't want to hear any more, but he had to. ",
"The horror of this was inconceivable, he imagined dozens of women, kids' mothers, being lined up outside a killing pen designed for cattle. ",
"The children being taken away and the mothers removed for the crime of inferior genetics. ",
"But there was more, an even greater horror building in Tails' mind, a terrible realisation.",
"\n\"You said they're tagged. ",
"What did you mean, like with computers? ",
"They can trace them?\"",
"\nDalziel grinned again and nodded. \"",
"Yep.\"",
"\n\"They know exactly where all the women are?\"",
"\n\"All part of the grand plan, kid.\"",
"\nThat was the answer to everything. ",
"Tails' father, his escape from the island and his promise to return. ",
"One mobian's desperate effort to save his family, the agonizing decisions he had to make. ",
"Tails trembled, held his head in both hands just to stop them from shaking. ",
"This was too much to bear.",
"\n\"If you're out here,\" Dalziel said, \"then your mother is probably dead. ",
"Corrupted. ",
"Removed. ",
"Like I said, fact of life out here. ",
"Mine's dead, Dale's is dead, and yours too.\"",
"\n\n---\n\n3:35 pm\n\nIt was nothing more than luck that Tails noticed the face sticking out of the dirt.",
"\nFor an hour he sat in the exiles' camp, lamenting about all that he had learned today. ",
"He knew now why the Armada had been his father's enemy, and hated himself for having been seduced by their philosophy. ",
"He'd lived in their tower, spoken to them, walked through the grounds of Quarantine and viewed the results of their project first hand, and yet he hadn't seen it. ",
"He'd been in the belly but couldn't see the beast. ",
"As Sonic might have said, he couldn't see the forest for the trees.",
"\nHe'd had to spend some time out here, in the dirt with a broken nose, to see it. ",
"Because, up until now, he'd been seeing it through their eyes.",
"\nThe face was staring up at him without expression, and Tails had been looking at it for quite a while before he actually noticed it. ",
"Something buried with the rest of the junk in this makeshift campsite, something Dale and Dalziel had found and brought back here, probably only to decide it was useless and discard it. ",
"The face of a doll or a little statue. ",
"It was caked with dirt and half-buried. ",
"Tails might have left it there to rot, if not for the strange sensation that he'd seen it before.",
"\n(And why not? ",
"You knew these other guys, the moment you saw them. ",
"Knew their names, even before they told them to you. ",
"You've got a lot of lost time to account for, buckaroo.)",
"\nHe leaned over to dig the thing out. ",
"It was some kind of toy, perhaps, or a model. ",
"Something made of metal that looked like a little gold pig, with a key sticking out of the back of it. ",
"His mind throbbed with familiarity, he knew the contours of it, the weight of it. ",
"Like Déjà vu, but ongoing. ",
"It urged him to reach for the key on the back of the thing, to give it a few hard twists.",
"\n\"Come on,\" Dalziel said, \"We're moving.\"",
"\nTails took his hand off the key and pocketed the toy. ",
"Though he couldn't imagine what good it would be to him, he couldn't stand to leave it behind. ",
"Perhaps later it would help him to remember something.",
"\n\"Where are we going?\"",
"\n\"We're going!\" ",
"Dalziel barked, \"You gonna co-operate, or are we gonna have to beat some more of the stuffing out of you?\" ",
"He seemed anxious for some reason, as though something was making him feel uneasy. ",
"He was craning his neck to see the sky. ",
"So Tails followed, figuring Dalziel would just find something else to break if he didn't.",
"\n\"Hurry up,\" the feral fox was urging, \"I heard them. ",
"They know we're here, we have to-\"\nIf Tails' hearing was any more astute then he might have heard a sound behind him, a quiet thump like something of little mass dropping softly in the leaves. ",
"As it was, nobody did hear it. ",
"Nobody knew anything until it was on them.",
"\nIt happened very quickly. ",
"Tails was grabbed roughly by one of his tails and yanked backward, so hard that he fell onto his back and rolled. ",
"Somebody screamed \"Halt!\", ",
"then there was a horrid snarl and the shriek of attack. ",
"Tails dragged himself back to his feet, in time to see a fierce skirmish. ",
"Dale was mauling somebody. ",
"His victim was shrieking and flailing as they rolled together, locked in battle. ",
"Then there was a loud zap, like an electrical discharge, and Tails smelled the scent of something burning in the air. ",
"Dale yelped like a wounded animal, and Tails realised he wasn't attacking anymore, but spasming. ",
"The massive wolf fled from the battle, with a limp, and kept running until he was out of sight.",
"\nThe other fighter rose to his feet like a great black shadow lifting off the ground and becoming whole. ",
"A dark cape that wasn't a cape flapped in the air.",
"\nLieutenant Overdraw folded his mighty wings, craned his neck and turned toward Tails.",
"\nBut then he was grabbed again from behind, a strong arm wrapping around his waist and another around his neck, and Tails saw to his horror that the hand near his neck was holding a knife to it.",
"\n\"Don't you come any closer or I'll do it I swear!\" ",
"Dalziel's voice barked.",
"\n\"Exiles,\" Overdraw hissed, his voice dripping with contempt, \"Beasts. ",
"Animals. ",
"Put down the knife, yes? ",
"Put down your primitive little tool. ",
"There is no contest here.\"",
"\n\"I'll kill him,\" Dalziel said, and Tails was afraid that he was entirely sincere. ",
"Hadn't he said earlier that he would do it if he was cornered? ",
"He'd slash Tails open and face the consequences gladly. ",
"Tails squirmed, his heart thudding heavy in his chest.",
"\nOverdraw stood a few feet ahead, his eyes flitting between Tails and his captor, entirely unconcerned. \"",
"Oh please,\" he said, \"That is a threat, yes? ",
"I am not bothered. ",
"In fact, I urge you to do it, yes. ",
"He has been a problem for me, this one. ",
"Why would you think that I care about the fate of this... animal?\"",
"\n\"You don't care about anything,\" Dalziel growled, \"Anybody. ",
"You send us all out here to rot.\"",
"\n\"And rot is what you shall do, yes? ",
"The sooner, the better.\" ",
"Overdraw lifted a gun and aimed it, showing no sign of concern that he might hit the wrong target. ",
"Tails' anxiety increased as he wondered which one of them was the right target.",
"\n\"I will shoot through him to hit you, yes.\"",
"\nTails squeezed his eyes shut and waited for the shot, but somebody grabbed Dalziel's arm away from him. ",
"He leaped away as soon as he was able, and turned to see that there were a full dozen of the military agents here, and several of them were wrestling with the screaming and cursing exile. ",
"Tails rubbed his neck in the place where the knife would have slashed it apart, and gulped. \"",
"Thank you.\"",
"\n\"Thank me?\" ",
"Overdraw asked. \"",
"You worm. ",
"You deserve nothing.\"",
"\nTails looked up at the dark-clad Lieutenant, and found that the gun was still cocked. ",
"Overdraw was pointing it at his head.",
"\n\"What- what are you-\"\n\"Funny that we should find you wallowing in the filth with the rest of these animals, yes?\" ",
"Overdraw said, \"You can train a beast to sit at a table and dress in mobian clothes, yes, but you can not make him a person. ",
"Sooner or later he will run away to be with the rest of his kind. ",
"Roll in the filth together.\"",
"\n\"I didn't run away!\" ",
"Tails shrieked, \"These people kidnapped me! ",
"Do you see my nose? ",
"Do you?\" ",
"His injury made the word come out sounding like doze.",
"\n\"Yes, yes, yes,\" Overdraw said, clearly his favourite word, \"But they can smell their own kind, yes? ",
"They know an animal. ",
"I know an animal. ",
"But some, they do not, yes? ",
"Some, they think that if you flap your ears or spin your tails and fly like a real person, then you are a real person. ",
"It is a madness, yes? ",
"An infatuation with a fantasy. ",
"I am sick of hearing it, sick of smelling your stench through the towers of Sanctuary. ",
"Turning our paradise into a zoo. ",
"You are a curiosity, a biological marvel, nothing more. ",
"Yes.\"",
"\n\"So what, you're just going to shoot me? ",
"What's Kukku going to think about that?\"",
"\nOverdraw smirked. \"",
"We were sent to recover you, yes. ",
"From the clutches of these... beasts. ",
"But if the beasts were to kill you first, then what am I to do about that? ",
"The killing blow could be his or mine, but who would tell the difference, yes?\"",
"\n\"Your scientists can build chromosomes out of dead matter, I think it's likely they'd know a bullet from the Lieutenant's gun when they saw it,\" Tails said.",
"\n\"Interesting. ",
"The talking beast can reason, yes? ",
"And if I were to pick up a rock instead? ",
"Beat you with it like an animal would? ",
"What then, talking beast?\"",
"\n\"Then I guess you'd prove what a big brave bird you are, beating a dumb harmless animal to death with a rock.\"",
"\nOverdraw frowned, and Tails wondered if he really would. ",
"But the bird smiled again, and lowered the gun. \"",
"Maybe some day you will get yourself stuck out here again, yes? ",
"And you will stay out here. ",
"Eating insects and bathing in dirt. ",
"As you should.\"",
"\nTails became aware of an audible whirring that seemed to bathe the entire forest in sound. ",
"He hadn't a clue what it could have been, but it seemed to drive Dalziel crazy. ",
"He roared and gnashed his jaws, thrashed his limbs as four black-uniformed soldiers tried to hold him down.",
"\n\"Kill me!\" ",
"he shrieked, \"Just kill me, you cowards! ",
"End this here!\"",
"\n\"Why should we want to do that, yes?\" ",
"Overdraw asked, \"There are so many more possibilities for a specimen such as yourself in Babylon. ",
"Oh yes, possibilities abound.\"",
"\nThe whirring seemed to come from above, and Tails looked up to discern what it was. ",
"It was the kind of sound that resonated in a person's bones, made the entire body vibrate at its core. ",
"What he saw swimming in the air above, the thing that made such a sound, didn't make any sense to him. ",
"Not only did it not resemble any kind of machine he'd ever seen before, but he couldn't even figure out whether it was alive.",
"\nWhat descended from above was something vaguely resembling an ocean squid, except that it was black and had far too many tentacles. ",
"And, of course, it was in the sky rather than the water. ",
"The beast or machine or whatever it was spun in a clockwise circle with dozens of tendril-like appendages swimming around it. ",
"The body of the thing was an enormous bulb, upon which five bright strobe lights were arranged in a pentagon, mounted on a seperate disc that spun in the opposite direction to the rest of the contraption. ",
"As it descended, the tentacles shredded the canopy, forming a neat hole in the trees through which it passed. ",
"Tails feared what would happen when it reached him, but Lieutenant Overdraw didn't seem concerned. ",
"In fact, this all seemed like routine to him. ",
"To Tails, it was like witnessing a UFO.",
"\nWhen the machine or monster or whatever it was dropped to a height of around six feet above their heads, emitting a whirr that Tails thought would rip him to shreds and a gale from its spinning tentacles like the wind from a helicopter's rotor blades, it stopped and hovered there. ",
"Tails had to shield his eyes from the lights. ",
"Dalziel was screaming and thrashing harder than ever.",
"\nOverdraw said something, but Tails didn't hear it. ",
"The monster-machine's lights faded and the dome split open like a flower in bloom, its petals expanding outward until it blocked out the sun, and the thing began to descend again, dropping down like the mouth of a hungry beast.",
"\n\n---\n\nTails liked life with his father, but that life began to go downhill the day his father cried.",
"\nIt was the one and only time that Tails had ever seen it happen, and the impact on him was immense. ",
"He himself cried lots of times, of course, being a child, but he thought his father beyond such displays of emotion. ",
"His father was a pillar of strength, a superhero, immortal. ",
"When that broke down, Tails' sense of security shattered beneath him like a mountain washed into the sea.",
"\nIt happened one day when Trevor was at work and Tails was sitting in the car as usual, reading a flight manual that he'd found in the garbage outside the airport. ",
"By this time he knew about as much about planes as anybody, though he'd never really been close to one. ",
"He read that manual over and over again, until he just about knew it word for word.",
"\nHe'd been reading so intently that he was startled when his father opened the car door and collapsed in the driver's seat. ",
"He'd been away for quite a while, maybe an hour, one of his longer jobs, doing whatever he did inside a rather homely looking suburban house. ",
"Now he just sat and stared out the windscreen. ",
"Tails thought he'd seen something that caught his interest, but all he could see out there was the road. ",
"A row of houses with rusty wire fences and neatly trimmed green lawns. ",
"A sprinkler, going hiss-hiss-hiss-hiss.",
"\n\"Dad?\" ",
"Tails asked.",
"\nTrevor said nothing. ",
"He looked tired. ",
"In fact, he looked weary, exhausted. ",
"He slammed the car door closed, silencing that sprinkler, and just sat and stared.",
"\nIt was then that Tails noticed something amiss. ",
"His father's clothes were ruffled. ",
"And they were stained red.",
"\n\"Dad?\" ",
"he tried again.",
"\nTrevor lifted his hands and turned his palms upward, and just stared down at them. ",
"Tails could see that they were covered in red. ",
"He didn't want to believe it was what it looked like.",
"\n\"Dad, what happened?\"",
"\nHis father still didn't reply, but his face broke. ",
"It just shrivelled up, as though somebody had clamped his hand in a vise. ",
"He pounded fiercely on the steering wheel for a moment, and then planted his face on top of it and cried.",
"\nTails never learned what exactly his father did when he visited those houses, apartments, docks, warehouses, shops. ",
"But whatever he did, whatever his job entailed, it broke him the day he came back to the car covered in blood. ",
"What truly frightened Tails was the fact that the blood clearly was not his own.",
"\nThat was the last time Trevor took his son to work with him. ",
"From that moment onward, Tails stayed in the old church where Nails and his gang operated. ",
"He became much better acquainted with the characters who came here to help the bat handle his business. ",
"Like suave, sophisticated Floyd Tabs, the grinning sphinx, who knew how to do magic with playing cards. ",
"And the foul-mouthed but outrageously hilarious Carson Crow, who entertained him with excellent impressions of famous people. ",
"Once, after a news interview about a shuttle launch in Mobitropolis, Carson held a handful of broom bristles to his beak and did an impression of the Science Minister so good that it had Tails rolling on the floor in hysterics.",
"\nBut most of all, he liked Nails. ",
"The bat in the pinstripe suit knew that Tails had sworn an oath to his father, but it wasn't long before he had the boy talking. ",
"He was, after all, very good at breaking people. ",
"Always a master manipulator. ",
"He treated Tails to a lot of things his father never let him do - like the time he offered Tails a puff of that thick brown tube he was always sucking on. ",
"The smoke tasted good, except the time he inhaled accidentally and went into a coughing fit, much to Nails' amusement.",
"\nNails began to speak to him about his future, and if he would like to follow in his father's footsteps. ",
"His Dad did some very important work, he said, and he was very good at what he did, but Tails would be even better. ",
"Because Tails was a little rocket. ",
"He had skills that most other people didn't have. ",
"He appealed to the boy's sense of importance - after all, his tails had made him feel like a freak. ",
"Nails didn't make him feel like that. ",
"With Nails, he felt like his tails made him something special, something powerful.",
"\nAfter all, he and Nails shared a bond. ",
"They both knew what it meant to be able to fly. ",
"And that, in some way, made them kindred.",
"\nIt was about a month after Trevor returned to the car with blood on his hands that he woke Tails up in the middle of the night. ",
"The boy sat up in bed to listen to the silhouette of his father whisper to him.",
"\nTrevor asked him if he remembered Tyler.",
"\nTails only vaguely remembered his Uncle Tyler. ",
"He was very young the last time he saw him. ",
"Uncle Tyler was a lot of fun, but he couldn't live with them for some reason he couldn't remember, or never knew.",
"\nHis father told him now that Tyler was coming back. ",
"And, a couple of nights from now, they were both going to meet with him, and the three of them would go away together. ",
"Away from this place, far away. ",
"They were going to have a better life, the life they had always wanted. ",
"But he wasn't allowed to tell anybody. ",
"Anybody at all.",
"\nTails was sad to know that he was going to leave his newest friends, and asked why he wasn't allowed to say goodbye. ",
"His father simply said that he just wasn't, and made him promise, which he did.",
"\nIt was somewhat sad, yes, but exciting also. ",
"Because his father had always promised him that this day would come, that they would go away together and travel. ",
"See the world. ",
"Live.",
"\nTrevor told his son he loved him, and Tails returned the sentiment. ",
"They hugged, and Trevor's silhouette stood up and left the room, closing the door quietly behind him.",
"\nTails, grinning, rolled over and tried to go back to sleep. ",
"He knew he wouldn't be able to, however. ",
"He was too excited, thinking about the adventures that the three of them were going to have together. ",
"Life was going to be great, from now on. ",
"Life was going to be just peachy.",
"\nTails never saw his father again.",
"\n\n---\n\n5:15 pm\n\nThe tropical garden at the top of Sanctuary's highest tower had filled Tails' head with the most beautiful scents, the first time he had woken up here. ",
"This time he smelled nothing, his snout encapsulated inside some kind of thick glove, splinted and padded and soaked in something. ",
"His nose tingled constantly as though he needed to sneeze, but he never did, couldn't even when he tried.",
"\nBadoru Kukku was dressing a wound on his forehead with some kind of stinging disinfectant when Tails awoke, and the bird appeared glum, sighing and shaking his head.",
"\n\"Those wretched exiles,\" he muttered, \"I am so sorry, Tails. ",
"So, so sorry.\"",
"\nTails tried to speak but found that there was nothing he could say. ",
"The warmth of the mobian who he had recently come to think of as a kind of surrogate father was romantic and alluring, but there were more issues to consider now.",
"\nHad Badoru Kukku killed Tails' mother?",
"\n\"The treatment we have given you will rebuild the cartilage in your nose,\" Kukku said, and then after a pause, \"So fragile. ",
"You know that we can build a beak for you. ",
"Just say the word, my boy. ",
"We have the technology to upgrade your body as though it were a machine. ",
"Organ donations are unnecessary in Babylon, we can grow anything from nothing. ",
"We only need a sample, just a drop of blood, a flake of skin.\"",
"\nTails imagined himself with a beak, but couldn't crack a smile. ",
"There was something more morbid than comical about it. ",
"Walking around this citadel of science and death wearing a beak like a mask. ",
"One final betrayal against his father, wearing the symbol of the enemy on his face, covering up the snout that people had told him gave him the spitting image of Trevor Prower.",
"\n\"Thank goodness you thought to drop your jacket by the fence,\" Kukku said, \"Or else we may never have found the hole that horrid beast slipped through. ",
"Such a smart boy. ",
"Thanks to you, nobody else need be concerned about those from the outside infecting our paradise.",
"\"No problem, Tails thought, knowing that he hadn't actually dropped his jacket for that purpose at all, but he'd never corrected anybody who had mistakenly overestimated his intelligence. ",
"That was something he had learned from Sonic - what most called ego, but Sonic had preferred to call it a healthy dose of pride.",
"\n\"I just feel... terrible,\" the bird said, \"I fear your trust in me may have been wounded by this experience, but I assure you... we never take advantage of the lessons that we learn. ",
"Every mistake is a lesson, and we never make the same mistake twice, Tails.\" ",
"He shook his head. \"",
"Now you see the truth in what I have told you. ",
"The world outside these walls is a brutal one, full of such unrestrained hate and violence.",
"\"The world within these walls seems not much better, Tails thought.",
"\nKukku smiled. \"",
"Experiences like these, they only strengthen my resolve, you know. ",
"More than ever I dream of a world where beasts like that do not exist, and where we can all live in safety.",
"\"But what of beasts like you? ",
"Tails wondered, Who would really be safe then?",
"\n\n---\n\n6:32 pm\n\nSonic the Hedgehog had sought to liberate Tails from a life from which, at first, he did not believe he needed to be liberated. ",
"Nails the Bat was a harsh master, but he kept Tails alive, and that was something he knew he could count on, if only because it hadn't been in Nails' interest to get rid of him. ",
"He couldn't have made the same guarantee about Sonic and the dangerous, insecure alternative he offered. ",
"And Tails had seen nothing wrong with his lifestyle, after all. ",
"Because the forest always was so much harder to see with all those trees in the way.",
"\nNow Tails found himself in the position that Sonic had been in, all those years ago. ",
"He looked into Cremaria Kukku's wide, hazel eyes as the rabbit stared back into his, and he knew that she would never believe that there was anything untoward about the Armada's project. ",
"At least not if he, an interloper from the wild lands of Terra Nullius, was the one trying to convince her. ",
"Still, he had to try... didn't he? ",
"Was it not his responsibility, his moral obligation, to save this girl from the life that she was being raised into?",
"\nThe children sat together in Tails' room in the tower, Tails healing in his bandages and Cream with dire concern written into her face. ",
"She looked over the bandages and held his hand tenderly.",
"\n\"I cannot believe this has happened,\" she said, \"The exiles are such beasts, I do not know why Father doesn't just drive away the lot of them. ",
"I'm very glad that you are safe now!\"",
"\n\"Cream,\" he said, \"There's something I need to speak to you about. ",
"Some questions I need to ask you.\" ",
"He hesitated, then added \"You're not going to like it very much.\"",
"\n\"Of course. ",
"Anything.\"",
"\n\"Well, I...\"\nTails tried to figure out where he was going to begin. ",
"He wasn't even sure how much of Kukku's eugenics program she was intimately familiar with. ",
"Did she know how they selected those who were worthy to live in Quarantine? ",
"Did she know what was done to those who weren't? ",
"As he struggled with his words, he became aware of an uncomfortable bulge in his pocket. ",
"He fished around with his hand and pulled out something familiar - the dirty little statuette he'd picked up in the forest. ",
"A piece of junk. ",
"He had no idea why he'd kept it.",
"\nCream's reaction to it, though, was shocking. ",
"Her eyes locked on it like a child whose parents just offered her an ice cream. ",
"Her hands flew to her cheeks and her jaw dropped. ",
"Tails wondered for a second whether what he held was some kind of bomb.",
"\n\"You found him!\" ",
"Cream just about screamed.",
"\n\"I found what?\"",
"\nShe pointed at the toy. \"",
"It's Tock! ",
"You found Tock!\"",
"\n(Officially I'm known as Forty-Seven-K, but a good friend of mine always called me Tock. ",
"You can too!)",
"\n\"Why is that familiar?\" ",
"Tails asked, \"I know this, somehow. ",
"I've seen this before. ",
"What is it?\"",
"\n\"Turn the key!\" ",
"Cream exclaimed, \"Turn the key and wind him up!\"",
"\nTails clutched the little key tentatively, as though turning it might make the little thing come alive and bite his fingers off. ",
"Somehow he knew it wasn't dangerous, but his fear was inherent in the fact that he didn't know why he knew the things he did.",
"\nCautiously, he gave the key a few good cranks, then set the contraption down on the floor. ",
"He wasn't sure that the thing would even work, considering the state it was in when he found it, but lo and behold, the little key started to turn of its own accord, with a quiet ticking. ",
"The toy's lightbulb eyes flickered and then lit up, it snapped its hinged jaw a few times, and clambered in a tiny circle on its stubby little legs. ",
"Then, to Tails' surprise, it spoke in a tinny high-pitched voice.",
"\n\"Remote Robot serial forty-seven-k reporting,\" it said, \"Whoooooo! ",
"Feels good to be back, I can tell you that! ",
"Checking internal systems, please hold... status report: internal systems are crap. ",
"All systems therefore normal.\"",
"\n\"Tock!\" ",
"Cream exclaimed.",
"\nThe tiny robot turned around, hobbling on its little metal legs, and looked up at her. ",
"Its eyes flickered, blinked on and off, and it seemed to wobble around with excitement, or at least it displayed this as well as it was able.",
"\n\"Creampie!\"",
"\nThe robot leaped into her lap, and she laughed in glee. ",
"Tails was taken aback, if not just a little alarmed. ",
"Creampie? ",
"Oh, good lord.",
"\n\"Buckaroo!\" ",
"the robot exclaimed, and Tails realised it was referring to him. ",
"With a metallic clatter, its legs retracted into its body, and something poked out of the top at the same time. ",
"This revealed itself to be a tiny set of rotor blades, which immediately began spinning like crazy, and the robot launched itself out of Cream's lap and started buzzing about his head like an enormous beetle.",
"\n\"I'm glad you're here!\" ",
"it announced, \"I have a message for you! ",
"An urgent message! ",
"Now, if only I could remember what it was. ",
"Oh yes! ",
"Buckaroo! ",
"You've gotta be careful, those two guys you're hanging out with are bad news! ",
"They're leading you into an ambush! ",
"They want the reward for your- Wait a second. ",
"Where the heck am I?\"",
"\n\"I do remember you,\" Tails realised, \"Tock... We've met before. ",
"You helped me.\"",
"\n\"That's all I've been trying to do!\" ",
"it replied, \"You help me and I'll help you! ",
"You've been winding down, good buddy.\"",
"\n\"I don't wind down anymore. ",
"I got that fixed.\"",
"\n\"Well, that makes one of us! ",
"Ha-ha!\"",
"\n\"But wait... you two know each other?\"",
"\nTails had never seen Cream smiling so much. ",
"Her premature adulthood stripped away instantly by just one dirty little toy.",
"\n\"Oh, me and Creampie go way back, way back,\" Tock the robot said.",
"\n\"He was my best friend,\" Cream added, \"When there was nobody else like me and life was lonely, Tock would be there to cheer me up. ",
"Oh, Tails! ",
"You tricked me!\"",
"\n\"I did?\"",
"\n\"Yes, when you said you had something I wasn't going to like. ",
"This is the best present anyone has ever... Oh Tails, thank you!\" ",
"Cream leaped up and wrapped her arms around him in a hug. ",
"Taken by surprise, Tails returned the embrace somewhat hesitantly. ",
"He realised that, curiously, she was also hugging him with her ears. ",
"The huge winglike appendages warmed him like a blanket.",
"\n\"Right,\" he said, and forced a laugh. \"",
"I got you good.\" ",
"He figured that the reunion between the girl and her lost friend was probably not the best time to bring up the subject of violence and matricide. ",
"Looking at her now, Tails could believe that this was the happiest she had been in a long time.",
"\nHappiness, it seemed, real happiness, was a rare thing in paradise. ",
"In the absence of pain, a person is wont to forget exactly what pleasure is.",
"\n\n---\n\n9:20 pm\n\nSleep did not come easy to Tails, that night.",
"\nThe itching of his face as his nose repaired itself under the bandages was one thing, but the itching in his mind was leagues worse. ",
"So many people wanted him to believe so many different things, but the truth always eluded him, so much so that he didn't know who he could trust.",
"You could trust Sonic, if he were here, his mind told him, None of these people you know from a bar of soap, but Sonic would have the answers.",
"\nBut Sonic wasn't here. ",
"He could be anywhere or nowhere, but he wasn't here. ",
"Still, though his common sense told him that Sonic was dead and gone, what he had realised over the course of his time on the Kitsune Atole was that he'd never really lost faith that Sonic was alive somewhere. ",
"That faith was always there, in the back of his mind. ",
"He could crap in one hand and wish in the other and no matter which hand filled up first, he believed Sonic to be alive out there somewhere. ",
"Nuts to you, Nails.",
"\nHope, faith, wishful thinking or blind optimism though it may have been, Tails closed his eyes and offered a prayer to his missing friend, somewhere out there, over the ocean and far away. ",
"Whatever he was doing, it must have been important. ",
"Though he wished that he was there to help Sonic through his hard times, he assured the hedgehog that his own task was important as well, and promised that he wouldn't let Sonic down.",
"\nWith this established, Tails' thoughts turned to his own problems and how he was to resolve them. ",
"What would Sonic do?He would look for the answers. ",
"He would find the truth.",
"\nAnd that was what must be done.",
"\nTails opened the door to his room and peered out into the interior of the tower. ",
"It was dark and quiet, with minimal lighting. ",
"One thing that Tails found odd about the avians was how much they slept. ",
"There would be very few people awake in here by now, even though the night was still fairly young. ",
"There were no night owls; only early birds.",
"\nClosing his eyes, Tails dropped into the darkness.",
"\nHe spun his tails and fell into a circling pattern, hugging the walls of the tower, passing hundreds of closed doorways, the small rooms in which the birds roosted and the labs in which they worked. ",
"What was housed in these labs, Tails shuddered to imagine. ",
"Things that defied and defiled nature, the meddlings of apprentice gods. ",
"This was a project that had been underway for some decades, probably started by Badoru Kukku's own father or ancestors, with a huge amount of resources behind it. ",
"If Tails was to decide that these people had to be stopped, how could he possibly achieve that? ",
"He couldn't stand up against the Armada. ",
"He couldn't bring down their towers or destroy their research. ",
"He could bring down the Quarantine fence, at least temporarily, but the people wouldn't want to leave. ",
"They had everything they wanted. ",
"Like Tails himself, back in Station Square all those years ago, escape was not an option. ",
"One could not escape with nowhere to go. ",
"If anything, opening the fence would leave them vulnerable to attacks by the vengeful and bloodthirsty exiles beyond it, and that was not something he wanted.",
"\nHe'd come here to fulfil his father's promise to free the Kitsunes from the Armada, but now that he was here, he realised that he had no idea how. ",
"At this point, his mission was a stalemate. ",
"But if action was beyond him, then the least he could do was seek out the truth. ",
"It was all he had.",
"\nHe landed in the machines factory near the base of the tower, and though the lights had all been switched off, his eyes had grown accustomed to the dark.",
"\nHe liked this place; of everywhere else in this pristine wonderland of riches and luxury, this was the place that felt the most like home. ",
"Dust and scraps littered work benches, in front of shelves packed with debris and machine components. ",
"A mechanic's dreamworld. ",
"Tails passed the silent workbenches and machines with his eyes fogging up. ",
"He remembered Rotor's workshop and all that he had taught Tails about mechanics and metalwork, and remembered that he hadn't even said goodbye to the jovial walrus. ",
"In his haste to get out of New Knothole, fuelled by emotion, he hadn't thought to say a single word to those who he truly cared about. ",
"He doubted he'd ever even said thanks for all that the Freedom Fighters had done for him.",
"You're still a brat, he thought, Even after all this time, you're the same little thankless brat that Sonic brought back from Station Square. ",
"His lower lip trembled and he hardened his face to stop from crying. ",
"No more weakness, Tails, you're not the victim anymore. ",
"And if you give yourself the chance, you can make this all better.",
"\nHe stopped in front of a tall window and placed one hand on the glass as he stared through. ",
"Hiding on the other side, encapsulated in shadow, was the Tornado. ",
"The little plane that had taken him and Sonic on so many adventures over the years. ",
"The Armada had repaired it, good as new. ",
"They had even repainted it. ",
"For some reason, Tails felt a surge of anger for this fact. ",
"He was furious at these people for taking him in, providing for him, treating him like one of them. ",
"After what they had done, he would rather be out there with the exiles, eating dirt.",
"\nHe stood in the silence for a long time, just he and his plane, thinking. ",
"He'd been standing so long that a sudden shout from behind him almost scared him inside-out.",
"\n\"Hey retard!\"",
"\nTails spun around, his back flat against the wall, as the shout echoed throughout the empty factory. ",
"He searched madly for the source of it, sure that he'd been cornered by the exiles, and that they were going to rend him limb from limb, this time with nobody around to save him.",
"\n\"Over here! ",
"Gettin' warmer, now. ",
"Here, you idiot, man you are a retard.\"",
"\nThen he saw it.",
"\nDalziel was locked up in an animal cage in the corner of the factory. ",
"He gripped the bars with both hands, grinning that snide, toothy grin, and staring at Tails with the fires of hatred in his eyes.",
"\n\"What's life like on the outside?\" ",
"he asked, \"Must be nice to live among the lords and masters, huh? ",
"Free as a bird, so to speak?\"",
"\n\"Dalziel,\" Tails gasped, \"What are you doing here?\"",
"\n\"Well, I kinda don't really know,\" he spat, \"Lots of surprises in my future. ",
"My oh my, I shudder to think about the experiments they have in store for me. ",
"Always handy to have another guinea pig around the place. ",
"You really delivered, they must be proud of you.\"",
"\nAnother voice, speaking from elsewhere: \"Aaah, put a sock in it, you foghorn.\"",
"\nSomething climbed out of a pile of debris on one of the workbenches, something with two little yellow lights on the front. ",
"With a whirring, ticking sound it took off and flew toward Tails.",
"\n\"Tock,\" he sighed, \"It's more crowded in here than I thought. ",
"What are you doing here?\"",
"\n\"I don't sleep, Buckaroo,\" the clockwork robot replied, \"Might as well explore. ",
"Thought I might find myself a girlfriend down here.\"",
"\n\"What if you wind down again?\"",
"\n\"Won't happen! ",
"I'm all fixed up!\" ",
"The robot spun a loop in mid-air, as though to prove his health. \"",
"Cream-puff gave me a replacement spring. ",
"This baby'll last days!\"",
"\n\"Must be a relief.\"",
"\n\"Happy happy days, everybody,\" Dalziel snarled.",
"\nTock whizzed over to the exile's cage and hovered in front of his face. \"",
"Grumble all you want, nastypants, you got what was coming to you!\"",
"\n\"You weren't so cocky when I smashed you in half with that rock, small-fry,\" the exile snarled through clenched teeth.",
"\n\"Last rock you'll ever pick up, nasty,\" the robot said, and let out a little digital whine that might have been its equivalent of blowing a raspberry. ",
"Then he returned to Tails.",
"\n\"So, we know why I'm here,\" he said, \"And we know why nasty over there is here, but the remaining question is... what's your story, Buckaroo?\"",
"\n\"I'm looking for answers,\" Tails said, \"Just some things I need to know.\"",
"\n\"Things like what?\"",
"\nTails sighed, and looked around the dark factory. \"",
"Answers,\" he said, \"If I could just find some kind of... files. ",
"Records. ",
"Information that the Armada might keep on the people of Quarantine. ",
"My parents...\"\n\"Well, I probably shouldn't tell you this,\" Tock said, \"But since you did help me out so much, bring me in from the wilderness and all that...\"\n\"What is it?\"",
"\n\"Well... follow me!\"",
"\nThe robot zipped down a corridor, and Tails followed. ",
"Running past darkened halls and shrouded doorways, his only guide the light from the little robot's eyes. ",
"They hurried through the sleeping complex for some time, before Tock finally ducked into a room through an unspectacular portal, above which was printed the word:ENGINE\n\"What is this?\" ",
"Tails asked, squinting in the darkness. \"",
"Engine? ",
"What kind of engine?\"",
"\n\"Analytical engine,\" Tock replied, and the little robot hit a switch on the wall that fired up the lights. ",
"Tails gasped as the darkness was chased away.",
"\nHundreds of computer terminals were laid out before him. ",
"Thousands, perhaps. ",
"Monitors lined the walls; small ones, huge ones, wide ones and tall ones. ",
"Many were scrolling through data, numbers and pixellated dots swimming across screens. ",
"The buzzing and clicking of hard drives, the flashing green light of the blinking numbers.",
"\n\"What is this place?\" ",
"he gasped.",
"\n\"This game takes a lot of data, Buckaroo. ",
"A thousand monkeys and a thousand typewriters, and all that.\" ",
"He buzzed over the sea of technology, his rotor blades whirring. \"",
"This is where they unlocked the mobian genome! ",
"Thousands and millions and billions of terabytes of data, just counting genes, measuring chromosomes. ",
"Simulation programs run hypothetical gene sequences in simulated organisms and crunch the results. ",
"This is where it all happens, Buckaroo, and of course, the files are all here. ",
"Records on every mobian who's ever set foot in Quarantine or out of it. ",
"It's all here.\"",
"\nTails, feeling overwhelmed, sat down at the nearest terminal and stared at the blinking cursor.",
"\n\"How do I get into it?\"",
"\nTock landed on the desk next to him and retracted his propellor. \"",
"Well, you know, I really shouldn't be telling you this, Buckaroo. ",
"I don't think the bosses are going to be real impressed.\"",
"\n\"Please, Tock. ",
"This is important. ",
"This might be the most important moment of my life. ",
"The truth about my parents is in here.\" ",
"He felt the tears begin to well up again, and this time he thought that, if they came, he would just let them flow. \"",
"I have to know, Tock. ",
"I have to know.\"",
"\n\"Well... okay, Buckaroo. ",
"Now listen carefully.\"",
"\nThe robot told him what he needed to know to break into the Armada's records, and soon he was faced with a simple prompt:\n\nENTER QUERY\n\nTails took a deep breath and typed:\n\nPROWER TREVOR\n\nHis finger hovered over the enter key, but he couldn't make it work. ",
"His hand weakened, his arm numbed. ",
"A cold sweat broke out on his forehead. ",
"Were these things that he really wanted to know? ",
"He knew that the truth could be more painful than the angst of mystery. ",
"Tock, the clockwork robot, looked up at him with his lightbulb-eyes dimmed.",
"\n\"Go ahead, Buckaroo,\" he said, \"If you need this, go ahead.\"",
"\nAnd he did need it. ",
"Fear aside, panic notwithstanding, all his life he had needed this. ",
"Since Nails had puffed on that cigar and told him matter-of-factly that his father was dead. ",
"Since Sonic had rescued him from a life of crime and misery. ",
"Since Tyler had wept and told him of his past, of Trevor's promise, and of his own demons. ",
"Tails needed to know.",
"\nHe hit the key, took a deep, trembling breath, and held it.",
"\nThe computer churned out its response:\n\nThe profile was followed by a large amount of technical information that Tails couldn't understand, detailing his father's genetic code and other things pertaining to the Armada's project. ",
"He stared at it for a long time, feeling as though he had just stumbled upon his father's headstone. ",
"Scrolling down, he found a photograph of Trevor, as he had looked shortly before he left the island, and ran his fingers over the screen as though he could hold it in his hands.",
"That's my father. ",
"There he is.",
"\nIt was the first he'd seen of Trevor since the last time he'd seen him in the flesh back in Station Square. ",
"He let his breath out and mourned for a moment, squeezing his temples with his trembling hands.",
"\n\"You okay, Buckaroo?\"",
"\n\"Yeah,\" he said, \"Memories. ",
"You underestimate the power of a photograph, sometimes.\"",
"\nHe returned to the profile and read over it again. ",
"Strange was the line that read SPAWN: 1. ",
"The date attached to the screen noted that this profile hadn't been updated for twelve years - not since Trevor and he had left the island. ",
"Kukku had told Tails that his existance had been unknown to the Armada until now. ",
"So if spawn referred to Trevor's offspring, then he'd already had one recorded before Tails had been born.",
"That explains a lot, when you consider his motives. ",
"It'd happened to him before.",
"\n\"This isn't the hardest part,\" he said, \"That's still to come.\"",
"\n\"Well hurry up,\" Tock replied.",
"\nTails took another deep breath, and typed another query:\n\nPROWER YARED\n\nBut the computer returned:\n\nRECORD NOT FOUND\n\nOf course, you idiot, he told himself, Yared was your mother's brother. ",
"His name wasn't Prower.",
"\n\"Okay, time to stop procrastinating,\" he said aloud, \"Let's get this over with.\"",
"\nHe typed. ",
"Hit enter. ",
"Another profile. ",
"Tails felt his heart land in his shoe.",
"\n\nTails clenched his fists as he read the final line, over and over again. ",
"His breath rasped and his heart thudded. ",
"Every time he read it he hoped that it would turn out not to be true, a glitch on the screen or in his brain.",
"\n\nSUBJECT TERMINATED\n\n\"No!\" ",
"he screamed, and his voice echoed through the empty hall.",
"\n\"Buckaroo-?\"",
"\n\"No! ",
"No!\"",
"\nHe pounded on the keyboard, another query:\n\nHe input more queries, throwing names into the computer almost as fast as it could process them. ",
"His fingers punched the keys so hard that he could just about have broken them.",
"\nOn a whim, he typed one final name. ",
"What the computer told him now sent him over the edge.",
"\n\nSUBJECT TERMINATED\n\nTails' eyes ran furiously over each new set of information. ",
"His mother, terminated. ",
"One uncle exiled, and another possessed. ",
"His entire family had been snatched away by these people, scattered into the wind, put down like animals.",
"\n\"No!\" ",
"he screamed again, and leaped to his feet. \"",
"No, no, no!\" ",
"He beat his fists on the desk as his face and eyes turned red.",
"\n\"Buckaroo, you-\"\nTails ignored the robot, his hands covering his face, shaking his head. ",
"He stumbled backward, grabbed the keyboard and started beating it against the desk.",
"\nTock took off with his rotor blades and hovered away from Tails, as though fearing the fox might take a swipe at him, which was entirely likely. ",
"Plastic keys were flying off the keyboard in a hail. ",
"At last, Tails let out another scream, and put the keyboard through the computer screen.",
"\nIn a shower of sparks and noise, the computer imploded, flames licking its chassis.",
"\n\"I'm outta here!\" ",
"Tock exclaimed, and zipped away. ",
"Tails took no notice. ",
"Tears streaming down his face, fifteen years of pain finally exploded from his small body, and these computers, the purveyors of the news he had never wanted to hear, were to absorb every pound of his wrath.",
"\nTails ripped monitors out of the wall, cords sparking and snapping, and smashed them against each other, again and again, until they were unrecognisable as anything but scrap. ",
"He cut his hands on the glass. ",
"He kicked the hard drives over and stomped them into twisted fragments.",
"\nRows and rows of monitors, each of them displaying the same flickering information:\n\nSUBJECT TERMINATED\n\nSUBJECT TERMINATED\n\nSUBJECT TERMINATED\n\nTails picked up a chair and began smashing every screen that he could see. ",
"He reached into the smoldering ruins and pulled out handfuls of wires, ripped out hard drives with his bare, bleeding hands and smashed them against the floor, stomping on their remains.",
"\n\"No!\"",
"\nNails the Bat cackled through a cloud of smoke. \"",
"Afraid so, kid. ",
"Your Dad? ",
"He was a spineless freak, just like you. ",
"And he got what was coming to him. ",
"Mummy, too. ",
"Heck, your whole stinkin' family, the whole circus-sideshow lot of them. ",
"If you said they were deadbeats, you'd be half right.\"",
"\nTails saw Nails' face in one of the monitors, laughing and smoking. ",
"He found a heavy metal bar, and swung it over his head as he cried out. ",
"The image in the computer exploded when the guts of the monitor burst out, sparks and debris littering the floor. ",
"He bashed it again and again, then moved onto the next, in which he saw Dalziel's mangy visage.",
"\n\"Calm down, retard,\" he said, \"What do you think you're gonna achieve? ",
"You can't change anything, you're just a weak little freak like the rest of us. ",
"Useless. ",
"Stupid. ",
"Face it, your parents sacrificed themselves for the sake of a dumb little retard who's about as useful as screen doors on a submarine. ",
"There's nothing you can do, nothing. ",
"You've failed everybody.\"",
"\nHe smashed it. ",
"The plastic casing tore apart in halves as the metal bar sliced through it, the glass bursting outward. ",
"Sparks and wires. ",
"He moved on again, and through the next monitor peered Lieutenant Overdraw, his eyes aflame with hatred.",
"\n\"You can train a beast to sit at a table and dress in mobian clothes, yes, but you can not make him a person. ",
"You are only animals, yes? ",
"We will put you down like animals, yes?\"",
"\n\"You don't have the right!\" ",
"Tails screamed, and beat the monitor into shrapnel. ",
"He swung the bar like a bat, taking out rows of screens at a time, silencing them all. ",
"Blood from his hands ran down the bar and dripped on the ground. ",
"His nose bled again and soaked the bandage over his head. ",
"He dropped the bar and grabbed his ears, crushing them in his hands, and dropped to his knees in the wreckage.",
"\nHe looked up and saw his fathers lined up before him. ",
"All of them. ",
"All of those who had, throughout his life, either claimed the title or won it through deed. ",
"Nails, scowling and smoking his cigar in a crisp, dark pinstripe suit. ",
"Sonic, wry grin, standing proud with his chest puffed out and his hands on his hips, winking. ",
"Flightless Joe, the tall crane wearing oil-spattered denim overalls and smiling warmly. ",
"Rotor the Walrus, holding a spanner with one hand and scratching his head, feigning modesty. ",
"Badoru Kukku, the lord of abominations, beckoning to him from his flowing, colourful robes. ",
"Tyler, the full moon reflected in his eyes, smiling on the surface but crying inside, where a beast lurked under his skin.",
"\nAnd standing over him, alive and well, was Trevor Prower, the one who had given him life. ",
"He offered Tails a hand, and smiled that fatherly smile.",
"\nTails looked up at his father with his eyes red with tears, and he let them flow. ",
"Fifteen years of tears, he let them flow.",
"\n\"Dad,\" he sobbed, \"I'm sorry. ",
"I'm so sorry.\"",
"\nAnd Trevor shook his head.",
"\n\"Miles. ",
"My son. ",
"This is not your burden.\"",
"\n\"I failed everyone, Dad. ",
"Everyone's gone.\"",
"\n\"Our lives were given so that yours may not be, Miles. ",
"We don't need you to avenge us. ",
"We only want you to live.\"",
"\n\"Everyone who cared about me is dead.\"",
"\n\"Not everyone. ",
"There are people out there who care about you, and you care about them. ",
"Their cause is yours, now. ",
"Their mission. ",
"Not mine. ",
"This is not your burden.\"",
"\nTails wiped away his tears and took his father's hand.",
"\n\"I love you, Dad.\"",
"\n\"I love you too, Miles. ",
"I'm so proud of you, boy.\"",
"\nAnd with a strength not shared by the dead he pulled his son to his feet.",
"\n\n---\n\n10:00 pm\n\nWhen Cream found Tails, he was sitting alone with his head between his legs, in one of Sanctuary's grand halls. ",
"She descended from the tower's dark inverted abyss, landing softly on her slippered feet. ",
"She wore a slip over a pair of pink pyjama bottoms printed with a pattern of bird wings. ",
"Behind her, the little robot named Tock hovered on his rotor blades, lighting the way with his lightbulb eyes.",
"\n\"There he is,\" he said, \"Poor kid, he's done himself in.\"",
"\nThey could not see the devastation that Tails had caused in the computer room; he had fled from that graveyard of memories. ",
"When Cream ran to him, put arm around his shoulder, he looked up at him with hid face soaked with tears and his eyes red and bloodshot from crying them. ",
"He put his hand over hers and held her close.",
"\n\"Tock fetched me,\" she said softly, \"Oh Tails, what is wrong? ",
"What is the matter?\" ",
"She put a hand under his chin and raised his head, ran the other down his cheek. \"",
"You are bleeding.\"",
"\n\"Cream,\" he said, \"I need to ask you-\"\n\"Anything, Tails.\"",
"\n\"Can you- Can you take me flying?\"",
"\n\"Tails-\"\n\"Just one more time. ",
"I need to.\"",
"\nThough the rabbit couldn't quite understand Tails' motives, she looked into his eyes and could see that he was serious. ",
"And what did it really matter? ",
"She loved him like a brother. ",
"He might have been the only one in the world who had shared her unique pain. ",
"If she could do something for him, she would.",
"\nAnd so she took his hand in hers, and turned back toward the tower's core.",
"\n\"No,\" Tails said, \"Not up there. ",
"Outside.\"",
"\n\"You kids are loopy,\" Tock said, \"Completely nuts.\"",
"\n\"We'll be back soon,\" Cream told him, \"Wait for us.\"",
"\nThe night air had a cold bite to it, as it rushed through Tails' fur. ",
"It blew away his pain. ",
"Hand in hand, the fox and the rabbit soared high above the ground, neither of them born to be confined to the tyranny of gravity.",
"\nTails loved to look down and see the forest so far below him. ",
"The trees, their roots clinging deep to the bedrock, they knew nothing about the freedom of flight. ",
"True flight, a secret held by birds, but which the birds had decided to share. ",
"He was unrestrained, unshackled. ",
"His burdens had been lifted from him, and now he was released from their weight. ",
"He felt as though he could rise forever.",
"\nThey flew around the tower, corkscrewed upward, higher and higher until they were almost in the stratosphere. ",
"It was the highest Tails had ever been without a plane, and maybe even with one. ",
"He told her so, and she declared likewise. ",
"Still, neither one admitted any fear, for neither had anything to fear from the sky. ",
"That was a fear for ground-dwellers, but not for them.",
"\nThey passed over the mighty obelisk, the Armada's Sanctuary, peering down through the clouds at the dark glass pyramid at its top, which housed Badoru Kukku's private garden. ",
"Together they skimmed over the upper atmosphere of the world, looked out over the expanse of clouds beneath them, soared over it as conquerors, as masters. ",
"The air was thin up here, and if Tails looked up he could see the blanket of stars unobstructed, more stars than he had ever imagined existed. ",
"There was an infinity out there. ",
"He marvelled at the enormity of it all as they descended back toward Mobius.",
"\nTails and Cream circled the Kitsune Atole, peering out over its flawless beaches. ",
"Beautiful, untainted forests met the glittering, clear ocean, buffered by a rim of fine white sand. ",
"The Armada were right to call this place Babylon, after a forgotten paradise where nature and beauty reigned supreme, uncorrupted and free. ",
"This could indeed be a paradise... if not for the people who called it so.",
"\nAs Tails looked out over this world of beauty, he gave himself to the sky. ",
"Pledged his soul eternal. ",
"To be one with the rushing wind, the bite of the cold and the freedom of release. ",
"He was released. ",
"He was free. ",
"He was whole.",
"\n\n---\n\n10:37 pm\n\n\"There are things you need to know, Cream,\" he said, \"Things that you're not going to want to accept, but you have to hear them.\"",
"\n\"I trust you, Tails.\"",
"\nTheir feet dangled in the open air as they sat side by side on the cold tile. ",
"The village of Quarantine had an old-fashioned bell tower, the highest point in town, and they sat atop its sloped roof to watch over the quiet cottages. ",
"Tails looked at her and sighed, wondering where he could possibly begin. ",
"Hitting an innocent child with something like this was an almost wretched thing to do. ",
"But far more wretched would be to let her remain ignorant. ",
"This concerned her as well, for better or worse. ",
"If she stayed with the Armada, he would respect her decision. ",
"But she had to know.",
"\n\"I was born here,\" he said, \"In Quarantine. ",
"You know that already. ",
"I was born in secret, my parents didn't want anybody to know I existed.\"",
"\n\"How strange. ",
"Why should they want that?\"",
"\nTails took a deep breath and looked down at the village. ",
"He wondered which of these cottages he had been born inside. ",
"Pictured his mother, dressing in loose-fitting clothes, deliberately gaining weight quickly in a desperate bid to hide her conspicuous secret.",
"\n\"Cream... do you know who the exiles are?\"",
"\n\"Beasts,\" she said, \"Horrid people, wild folk.\"",
"\n\"But do you know where they come from?\"",
"\n\"Father has to remove them from Quarantine because they are too wild. ",
"He calls them throwbacks. ",
"They are not evolved, like the rest.\"",
"\n\"Well, I guess in a way that's true. ",
"Every so often somebody is born in Quarantine who looks a little strange, and those people have to be taken away before they have children of their own.\"",
"\n\"Of course, or else they would pollute Father's project.\"",
"\n\"But they can't choose the way they look, can they? ",
"They can't change who they are.\"",
"\nCream shook her head. \"",
"I have asked Father these questions. ",
"I asked him once why he cannot simply cure the exiles, teach them how to be civilised so that they can live like the rest. ",
"He told me that it is beyond our power. ",
"They are how they are, and though it is sad, the best that we can do is help those who we can.\"",
"\n\"My mother and father,\" Tails said, \"They had a child who was different somehow. ",
"A son. ",
"The Armada put him into exile. ",
"A brother, who was sent away before I knew him. ",
"Before I was born.\"",
"\nCream looked up at him. \"",
"I'm sorry,\" she said.",
"\nHe nodded. \"",
"They didn't want him to be taken, but it was the law. ",
"So when my mother knew that she was pregnant again, they already knew the risks.\"",
"\n\"They could still have asked for help. ",
"Father, he only wants to help people.\"",
"\n\"They just couldn't bear the thought that they were going to lose another child. ",
"It must have been incredibly difficult, but they hid the fact that I was there, right to the end. ",
"Then, when I was born, and they saw that I was different...\"\n\"But you aren't a throwback! ",
"You're one of Father's successes, like me!\"",
"\nTails shook his head. \"",
"My parents couldn't have known that. ",
"The Armada probably wouldn't have, either. ",
"I didn't know I could fly until I was six years old. ",
"Until then, I was just a freak baby with two tails. ",
"I would have been exiled, and my parents knew it. ",
"Both my Mum and my Dad had brothers exiled, and their first son was too much to bear. ",
"They couldn't lose me as well.\"",
"\n\"Oh, Tails! ",
"I am sorry!\"",
"\n\"Don't be sorry, I- I'm not fishing for sympathy, I'm just telling you this because it's what I know. ",
"And what you should know.\"",
"\n\"Okay.\"",
"\n\"Your father... his people... it's taken them a long time to learn what they know now. ",
"There's been a lot of experiments, a lot of trials, probably thousands over the years. ",
"They did all sorts of things to all sorts of people in order to learn about genetics. ",
"How to... change people. ",
"My uncle, Tyler, he was one of their experiments. ",
"They implanted him with some kind of monster. ",
"But they mustn't have been happy with the result, because he was sent into exile as well.\"",
"\n\"Now that sounds silly!\"",
"\n\"Not silly,\" Tails snapped, \"The thing in him hurt people. ",
"Killed them. ",
"It might have killed my best friend.\"",
"\n\"Oh... sorry.\"",
"\n\"No, I'm- I'm sorry, listen, it's-\" He frowned and looked over the town again. ",
"He pictured the story as he told it, overlaying the events over the empty village, making them vivid. ",
"Making them clear. \"",
"My Dad must have been in contact with my uncles, even though they were in exile. ",
"I guess they set dates to speak through the fence, when nobody was watching. ",
"I know because it was my uncles who helped him to escape.\"",
"\n\"Escape Quarantine?\"",
"\n\"Yes. ",
"Tyler, the one with the monster in him, he did it somehow. ",
"I'm not sure how they organised it, but somehow they used Nightmare - the monster - to help break us out. ",
"My Dad and I. They found a boat, or made one, and used it to get away from the island. ",
"It was a huge plan, it must have been very difficult to organise, but they did it all. ",
"Just for me. ",
"To save me.\"",
"\n\"You make it sound like a prison!\" ",
"Cream exclaimed, \"They're not prisoners.\"",
"\n\"They have a barbed-wire fence around them.\"",
"\n\"To keep the exiles out!\"",
"\n\"Only the three of us left,\" he continued, \"My father, Uncle Tyler, and me. ",
"My mother didn't come, and my uncle Yared stayed behind so she wouldn't be alone. ",
"At first I thought that she'd preferred to stay in Quarantine, that she'd given me up, maybe because she didn't want me. ",
"But now I know... she stayed because she couldn't come with us.\"",
"\n\"Why not?\"",
"\n\"It's because of who she was. ",
"A female, a breeder. ",
"Your father and his people tagged her somehow so that they could always know where she was. ",
"If she'd escaped with us... the Armada could have tracked us down, wherever we went. ",
"She knew that I'd never be safe, so she gave me a chance... She basically sacrificed herself for me.\"",
"\nCream didn't look impressed. ",
"She was giving him a cock-eyed look and growing more flustered. ",
"Tails wasn't surprised. ",
"Nobody wants to hear these things about the people close to them. ",
"He imagined how he would feel if somebody told him that his own father was a liar and a villain. ",
"It wasn't easy, but if she would only listen to the end, then she would see...\n\"You're saying some very silly things!\" ",
"she exclaimed, \"Sacrifice? ",
"Is it a sacrifice to stay and live in paradise? ",
"You sound like it was a rescue! ",
"But how can it be a rescue if they took you to Terra Nullius? ",
"How can you be rescued from a good place and taken somewhere bad? ",
"It sounds like you're all mixed up-\"\n\"Please, Cream, let me finish-\"\n\"You're just confused. ",
"Father would-\"\n\"Cream. ",
"You have to hear the end of this. ",
"There's something you need to know, but I have to tell you this first.\"",
"\n\"Fine, then.\"",
"\n\"It was a sacrifice because my mother knew that something was going to happen to her. ",
"Because she was corrupted, Cream. ",
"She'd had two children and they were both wrong. ",
"What you call throwbacks. ",
"Your father doesn't tolerate women who just breed exiles, they just pollute the gene pool, but he won't send women into exile, either.\"",
"\n\"What are you trying to say?\"",
"\n\"I'm saying they-\" The pain began to well up again, but he bit down and pushed it back. ",
"He had to finish. ",
"For her sake, he had to finish. \"",
"They killed my mother, Cream. ",
"They just took her out of the equation, along with anyone else who doesn't fit, who doesn't help this stupid, ridiculous project. ",
"My uncle Yared, he stayed behind to look out for her, but they killed him too. ",
"I don't know why, probably because he helped us escape, or maybe he tried to stop them getting to my Mum. ",
"They took everyone, Cream, my whole family, anyone who didn't get off this island. ",
"But it's not just me, that's what I'm talking about. ",
"This is just the way it works, they're doing it all the time, to lots of people-\"\n\"You're lying!\" ",
"Cream shrieked, and she threw her hands to the sides of her head, as though she had any hope of blocking her enormous ears. \"",
"Why would you say things like this? ",
"You're trying to tell me lies!\"",
"\n\"Please, Cream, I have to finish-\"\n\"Why would you say this, why?\"",
"\n\"-you have to know-\"\n\"No!\" ",
"The rabbit stood up and stomped her foot. \"",
"I don't want to hear it! ",
"I thought you were my friend.\"",
"\n\"I am, Cream-\"\n\"No, you're just being mean and making up things to upset me. ",
"Well, I don't want to know about it anymore.\"",
"\n\"Please!\"",
"\nBut the girl had made up her mind. ",
"On the verge of tears, she leaped off the bell tower and spread her ears, gliding and then flying away. ",
"She headed back toward Sanctuary.",
"\n\"You have to hear this, Cream, please!\" ",
"The fox spun his tails and took off after her. ",
"But he knew already what was going to happen. ",
"He soared for twenty meters before a fierce cramp hit his tails and he began to descend. ",
"The girl in the pink pyjamas flew out of his vision as he fell into a steep dive and hit the ground with a thump.",
"\n\n---\n\nNails' office was full of smoke when Tails had entered, as it so often was. ",
"He'd come to ask where his father was. ",
"Usually Trevor was up early in the morning to say goodbye to his son before work, but this morning he broke tradition for the very first time. ",
"When Tails had gone to check on him, he had found his father already gone. ",
"Nowhere to be found.",
"\nNails was sitting in the dark in his office, a silhouette but for the red point of light that was the fire at the end of his cigar. ",
"It glowed redder every now and then when he sucked on it, and the shadow let out a billow of black smoke.",
"\nSomething didn't seem right, today. ",
"Something wasn't comfortable. ",
"Nails wasn't his usual chummy, hospitable self. ",
"He just ignored Tails' question, sucking on that cigar, blowing out smoke with a hiss of breeze. ",
"Something seemed cold.",
"\nTails repeated the question, and was met with more silence. ",
"Now he grew very uncomfortable, and more than a little afraid. ",
"Nails broke the silence at last.",
"\n\"Forget it, kid.\" ",
"The words were flat. ",
"Frigid. \"",
"Got a bit of bad news for you, I'm afraid. ",
"He's gone. ",
"They both are. ",
"Had an argument with a bullet, and the bullet won.\"",
"\nTails always remembered how his blood had run cold at that moment. ",
"Like ice water.",
"\nThis was the reality of life, though. ",
"Tails had learned to live in the wild lands and accept all that came as part of that. ",
"The reality of life was that it ended. ",
"And sometimes, or most of the time, death didn't wait for its victims to complete their business in the world. ",
"To make good on their promises.",
"\nSometimes, it just didn't make any sense at all.",
"\n\n---\n\n7:48 pm\n\n\"...Tails...\"\nThe fox blinked his eyes open, and saw the sky. ",
"Fluffy, white clouds. ",
"Clear blue sky. ",
"No wind. ",
"A nice day for flying.",
"\n\"...Tails, my boy...\"\nHe was one his back, his tails curled around his body for warmth. ",
"He frowned and sat up. ",
"A garden... The garden at the base of the tower. ",
"He'd fallen asleep outside, couldn't bear to return to Sanctuary. ",
"As he looked around, he saw dozens of stony faces. ",
"Beaked faces. ",
"Some were suited in white and some in black. ",
"And standing over him, wearing his colourful robes, was Badoru Kukku. ",
"Tails could see Overdraw there as well, with a smug grin. ",
"Standing behind her father's legs was Cremaria Kukku, looking forlorn.",
"\n\"We may need to discuss matters,\" Kukku said, wearing the stern expression of an incensed father. ",
"It was the same expression that his own father had worn when Tails had upset him.",
"\n\"That's probably a good idea,\" Tails replied.",
"\n\"My daughter has told me a great many troubling things. ",
"It seems you've been spreading some rather venomous rumours.\"",
"\n\"Really? ",
"Any of them true?\"",
"\n\"Slander, in itself, is something I can certainly look past. ",
"All that you are hurting is my pride, after all. ",
"But my daughter... She is only twelve, and you've scared her quite badly. ",
"Then, of course, there is the matter of the substantial damage that you have done to our property.\"",
"\n\"I told her what she had to know,\" Tails spat, \"I told her what you wouldn't.\"",
"\nKukku dropped to his knees, and leaned close to him. \"",
"Tails, what is wrong? ",
"We've taken you into our home, I have taken you in as a son, given you everything you could ever need. ",
"Why would you turn against me?\"",
"\n\"You only took me in because of what I represent. ",
"Me and Cream both. ",
"You don't love us, Kukku, you love yourself. ",
"Every time your freaks flap their arms or ears or tails and fly around, you see yourself and fall in love all over again. ",
"And after what you've done to my family, I consider your hospitality an insult.\"",
"\nKukku looked like he'd been stabbed. \"",
"Why would you say these hurtful things?\"",
"\n\"Because you're a selfish, conceited, murderous old turkey!\" ",
"Tails shouted in his face, \"It's less than you deserve!\"",
"\n\"Whatever you have heard, Tails, you're confused. ",
"You don't understand.\"",
"\n\"Oh, there's no mistake.\"",
"\nTails stood up and took on a defensive stance, but he knew that he was in trouble. ",
"He was completely surrounded, and the soldiers in black had taken a few steps forward, ahead of the scientists. ",
"Many of them were holding batons and other ominous looking objects. ",
"A few had sticks with loops of wire on the end, much like what they used to capture dangerous animals.",
"\n\"I have always been concerned about this one, yes?\" ",
"Overdraw said, \"This interloper from the wild lands, he knows nothing of the civilised way to live. ",
"He comes to us naked, yes, in a mechanical flying machine. ",
"He associates with animals, invites them into our paradise. ",
"He has been nothing but trouble since he arrived.\"",
"\n\"Overdraw, I-\" Kukku looked choked up, conflicted. \"",
"Maybe it's best if you-\"\n\"He must be removed!\" ",
"Overdraw exclaimed.",
"\n\"I'm sorry, Tails. ",
"I'm starting to think that... if it's for the best, that you...\"\nThe Armada soldiers began to advance. ",
"Some of the weapons that Tails couldn't identify sparked at the end like tasers. ",
"He remembered the skirmish between Overdraw and Dale, the wolf shrieking and convulsing as though electrocuted. ",
"Tails was entirely surrounded, he saw only one chance open to him, and he took it before thinking.",
"\nBreaking suddenly into a sprint, he shoved Badoru Kukku out of the way and grabbed Cream around the waist. ",
"She screamed and thrashed against him, but he held tight, trying to look menacing and dangerous without actually hurting her.",
"\n\"No!\" ",
"Kukku shrieked, and held his hand out, \"Stop! ",
"Stop, all of you stop!\"",
"\nThe soldiers stopped advancing. ",
"Tails had to move around quickly so that he didn't have his back to any of them for long, but he knew this wouldn't work for more than a few moments. ",
"These people were trained.",
"\n\"Tails, let go!\" ",
"Cream pleaded.",
"\n\"Back off,\" he said firmly, \"Everybody back off.\"",
"\nKukku trembled in fear and nervousness, reached out to Cream even though he didn't dare approach. \"",
"You unhand my daughter!\"",
"\n\"Are you starting to find out how it feels, Kukku? ",
"When you think you might lose a member of your family? ",
"After you've torn apart so many? ",
"It's just a fact of life, for you, isn't it?\"",
"\n\"Please, you don't know what you're talking about-\"\n\"How many have you murdered over the years? ",
"What's the death toll of this insane project?\"",
"\n\"I don't murder!\" ",
"he protested, \"I don't- Murder is something done with malicious intent.\"",
"\n\"But you've killed.\"",
"\n\"Not personally!\"",
"\nKukku seemed to see the distress in his daughter's eyes when he said this. ",
"She stopped thrashing against Tails' grip and instead looked at her father with a kind of pained confusion. ",
"He raised his fingers to his temples and averted his gaze. \"",
"I've done only what is necessary,\" he said, \"Sometimes difficult decisions need to be made. ",
"I don't like it, but it's science, we must look past these things. ",
"Please understand that.\"",
"\nThe soldiers were advancing again, very slowly. ",
"Whenever Tails turned his back to one of them, the bird would take another step. ",
"Overdraw was the closest, his eyes stony as he held out his sparking rod.",
"\n\"Don't talk to me about remorse,\" Tails said, \"You had my mother killed.\"",
"\n\"Tails, please! ",
"Let us talk about this.\"",
"\n\"We're talking.\"",
"\n\"But let my daughter go!\"",
"\nTails' time was up. ",
"He was about to meet the bad end of one of those electric sticks if he didn't end this. ",
"He had a story to finish. ",
"Cream had flown away before he had a chance to finish what he had to say, but right now, with the girl squirming in his arms and the Armada advancing from every direction, he was going to be heard.",
"\n\"You killed my mother,\" he spat, \"And you killed her mother too.\"",
"\nKukku froze solid. ",
"His eyes widened and rolled about in their sockets, and his beak trembled and stammered. \"",
"Tails-\"\n\"I looked it up,\" Tails continued, \"On the computers. ",
"The file is right there. ",
"Do you remember her? ",
"Vanilla Rae. ",
"You had her killed because she wouldn't breed.\"",
"\n\"No-\"\n\"After her husband died she was useless to you. ",
"She wouldn't take another partner, she was just dead weight, using up resources. ",
"Inefficient. ",
"Uncooperative. ",
"You did her in for it, isn't that right?\"",
"\n\"No!\"",
"\n\"Tell the girl to her face, Kukku, the girl you call your daughter. ",
"I think she deserves to know that you killed her mother-\"\n\"Because she wouldn't let her go!\" ",
"Kukku screamed.",
"\nA long silence. ",
"The sound of the leaves rustling in a low breeze. ",
"The zoic birds chirped, unperturbed by their anthric masters. ",
"It was broken at last by a little girl's trembling voice.",
"\n\"-father?-\"\n\"You... you have to understand...\" Kukku stammered, \"Cremaria, you are the most important thing to ever happen to me, to my work. ",
"You are a little miracle, a prodigy, a conquest. ",
"You've breathed life into the project. ",
"It was imperative that we... learn from you. ",
"For the sake of everyone, Cremaria, for the sake of the world! ",
"Your mother... she didn't understand! ",
"I pleaded with her. ",
"I begged her. ",
"She just would not listen to reason! ",
"She wanted you all to herself. ",
"I had to do what I had to do. ",
"The woman did it to herself, she forced my hand!\"",
"\n\"Fatherrrrr!\" ",
"Cremaria cried, the end of the word drowned by tears, \"Oh Father no, Father no! ",
"No!\"",
"\n\"All for you, Cremaria, for the world, for the project! ",
"I beg you to consider what is important! ",
"All that I have taught you-\"\nSomebody swiped at Tails with one of the electric rods, and he just barely dodged it. ",
"Several others broke into a run, their rods and batons raised, and Tails braced himself to fight back. ",
"He wasn't going to be taken easily. ",
"He vaguely heard Kukku shouting at them not to shock him or else she would also be hurt, but Tails didn't think they were paying much attention, now. ",
"Overdraw was their Lieutenant, and Overdraw was leading the advance.",
"\nBut that's when they took off.",
"\nBefore Tails even understood what was happening, he was leaving the ground behind. ",
"Although he was heavier than Cream, and he wasn't bearing their weight with his tails, the little girl was carrying the both of them on the burden of her winglike ears. ",
"He grasped her waist so that she would not run, but now it was so that he would not fall. ",
"She was saving him, although she had nothing to fear from the Armada, and although it must have caused her immense pain and tremendous effort to do so. ",
"Tails didn't understand why, but he didn't take it for granted. ",
"He spun his tails and the two of them soared away.",
"\n\"Thank you,\" he whispered in her ear.",
"\nCream was crying uncontrollably, and through her sobs she said \"We can't get away.\"",
"\nIt was true. ",
"Overdraw and his soldiers could fly much better than a fox and a rabbit. ",
"There was one possibility, but typically, it was risky.",
"\n\"Cream, we have to turn around,\" he said, \"We have to return to the tower.\"",
"\n\"They'll catch us!\"",
"\n\"You have to trust me. ",
"Please, Cream. ",
"I've never lied to you. ",
"We can make it.\"",
"\n\"Back to the tower?\"",
"\n\"Back to the tower.\"",
"\nThey performed a wide mid-air loop and flew back the other way. ",
"Overdraw and the Armada army were indeed in hot persuit, a flock of blackbirds with their heads down and their wings beating in regulated unison. ",
"Tails and Cream flew over them as they passed below, and headed back toward the towers of Sanctuary.",
"\n\"We have to go inside,\" Tails said.",
"\n\"We'll be trapped!\"",
"\n\"Trust me.\"",
"\nAnd she did. ",
"He wasn't sure why, but she did. ",
"Tails positioned himself behind her and spun his tails vertical rather than horizontal, in the way he often did when he was running, for extra propulsion. ",
"The strange machine that they made together looked something like a living plane, rabbit ears for wings and fox tails for props, and it worked. ",
"Their flight sped up twofold, and they rocketed toward the tower. ",
"Later, Tails couldn't remember whether he'd been whooping out loud, or just in his head.",
"\nBehind them, the Armada peeled off, looped around like a fleet of battle jets, and came back the other way. ",
"Overdraw was in the lead, and Tails thought he could see the hate in his eyes even from here.",
"\nAs they dipped out of the sky to enter the tower, they passed over the beautiful garden at its foot. ",
"The last that Tails ever saw of Badoru Kukku was now, as the bird sat in this garden with his head shrouded in his wings. ",
"He looked ashamed, but Tails wondered if he really was. ",
"He wished that he could ask. ",
"He wanted to believe that Kukku was repenting, that in some abstract way he really had fulfilled his father's promise to free the people of this island, but deep down he knew it wasn't to be. ",
"His visit here would change nothing.",
"\n(this is not your burden)\nExcept that it had changed something. ",
"For the first time in his life, Tails could genuinely forgive himself.",
"\n\n---\n\n8:15 am\n\nThey shot through the halls and catacombs of Kukku's Sanctuary faster than either had ever flown, and Tails knew that in a way they really were siblings. ",
"They just fit together, and with Cream he felt unstoppable.",
"\n\"Where are we going?\" ",
"Cream asked, growing urgency in her voice.",
"\nIt was the factory they needed to seek. ",
"The machine shop, where the Armada kept their scraps and from where they built their paradise... and where they kept the biplane that they had repaired for him. ",
"The piece of technology at which they snubbed their beaks and that they regarded as hopelessly inferior - the machine that was going to thwart them. ",
"For Tails yearned to see the feathered jerks try to keep up with his Tornado.",
"\nWhen they arrived in the shop and tried to land, they almost crashed on their faces for the speed they were travelling, but Tails managed to stabilise his flight partner and they landed without incident. ",
"He turned to run toward the warehouse where his plane was stored, when he heard a barking voice behind him that shocked him to a standstill.",
"\n\"Hey retard!\"",
"\nHe turned and saw Dalziel. ",
"Still grinning, still caged. ",
"He gripped the bars with one hand and one clawed talon, and scowled, his yellow and rotting teeth dripping on the concrete. \"",
"In a hurry?\"",
"\n\"I-\"\n\"Tails, we have to be quick! ",
"They're coming!\" ",
"Cream exclaimed.",
"\nHe started toward the warehouse again, stopped, looked back at Dalziel, then trembled like he was trying to move in two directions at once.",
"\n\"What's wrong?\" ",
"Cream asked.",
"\nTails recalled being used as a punching bag for no real reason, having his nose broken, being kicked in the gut and slapped around, and tried to convince himself that Dalziel had everything coming to him. ",
"But he wasn't Nails the Bat, nor was he Badoru Kukku. ",
"He was his father's son.",
"\n\"I have to let him out,\" he said, and ran to Dalziel's cage.",
"\n\"What- what are you doing?\" ",
"the feral snarled, \"You're gonna let me out?\"",
"\n\"It's locked,\" Tails whined, as though this should be a revelation, and rattled the door with both hands.",
"\n\"No, really?\" ",
"Dalziel barked, \"Wouldn't have guessed.\"",
"\n\"Tock!\" ",
"Cream came running up, holding a familiar gold-plated robot in her palm.",
"\nTails looked at it. \"",
"What's that gonna do?\"",
"\n\"Tock's got a master key! ",
"He was a surveillance droid! ",
"He can open all the locks!\" ",
"She cranked his key several times, and the little robot came to life.",
"\n\"Aw, I was having a great dream!\" ",
"he complained, \"No, that's a lie.\"",
"\n\"Quick, Tock! ",
"You have to open the cage!\"",
"\nThe robot turned to the cage, looked at Dalziel, then turned back to Cream.",
"\n\"You're telling a joke.\"",
"\n\"It's no joke!\" ",
"Tails said, \"Hurry up, we don't have much time!\"",
"\nTock's eyes flickered and the end of a key poked out of his face, where his nose might have been. ",
"Cream held him up to the keyhole, and he went to work, muttering all the while.",
"\n\"Quick, Tock!\" ",
"he mimicked, \"Jump into that jar of acid! ",
"Oh, hurry Tock! ",
"Fly into that aircraft engine! ",
"We don't have much time!\"",
"\nThe lock clicked, and the cage door swung open.",
"\n\"Good!\" ",
"Tails exclaimed, \"Now let's go! ",
"We have to get back to the-\"\nDalziel struck him on the back of the head, and he went down on his stomach. ",
"The girl screamed as the feral cackled and kicked Tails twice in the side while he was down.",
"\n\"Stupid!\" ",
"he roared, \"Stupid, stupid little freak!\"",
"\nHe glanced toward the hall that led out of the complex, his eyes aglow with the fires of the wild and the insane. ",
"He laughed, and kicked Tails once more for good measure, before he turned tail and ran down the hall.",
"\n\"Dalziel, no!\" ",
"Tails gasped.",
"\n\"So long, suckers!\" ",
"the feral fox yelled back, \"You'll never take me alive! ",
"You'll never, ever, ever take Dalziel Prower alive!\"",
"\nAnd with that, he was gone, only the residue of his voice lagging behind.",
"\nCream tried to help Tails to his feet, but he'd gone wooden. ",
"Paralysed.",
"\n\"Prower.\" ",
"He mouthed the word.",
"\n(they had a child in exile)\n(a brother, sent away before I knew him)\n\"Tails, come on!\"",
"\n\"But I- I have to-\"\n\"Let him go!\"",
"\n\"He's-\"\n\"You have to let him go!\"",
"\nPainstakingly, he ripped himself back to the now. ",
"She was right. ",
"This was something else that was not his burden. ",
"If he had known earlier, then perhaps... but now was now, and there was no time left.",
"\n\"Hey Buckaroo,\" Tock said, \"Would this be a bad time to ask just what the heck is going on?\"",
"\n\"Yes,\" Tails replied.",
"\n\"Oh. ",
"Okiedokie.\"",
"\n\"Tock, we need to get into the warehouse. ",
"Can you help us?\"",
"\n\"Not a lock I can't open!\" ",
"His propellor emerged from behind his key, and the little robot flew away toward the warehouse door. ",
"Tails turned to Cream, her hazel eyes wide with fear.",
"\n\"Cream, they won't punish you. ",
"It's me they want. ",
"They think I've kidnapped you, they don't know you've helped me. ",
"Your life can be the same as before, with your father-\"\n\"My father?\" ",
"She spat the word out like it tasted bad. \"",
"I want my mother.\"",
"\nTails remembered the night that Sonic had taken him out of Station Square, rescued him from the employment of Nails the Bat. ",
"He remembered it as clearly as if it had happened yesterday, except now, in his mind, he was Sonic and Cream was him. ",
"He remembered exactly what Sonic had said to him, all those years ago; that he'd known a group of friendly people who could take him in and give him a good life, if he'd be willing to go. ",
"Now Tails looked into Cream's teary hazel eyes, into her wounded, weeping soul, and made for her the same offer.",
"\n\"Come with me,\" he said, barely above a whisper, and held out his hand.",
"\nCream wiped her tears away and nodded. ",
"She took his hand, and they ran toward the warehouse as the door swung open.",
"\n\"Open sesame!\" ",
"Tock exclaimed, \"Anything else I can do for you folks?\"",
"\n\"Come on, Tock!\" ",
"Cream called, \"We're leaving!\"",
"\n\"Leaving via what? ",
"The magic warehouse portal to the dusty storeroom dimension?\"",
"\nTails climbed over the wing of the Tornado and turned to offer Cream a hand, but she just flew over him to land in the back seat. ",
"Tails climbed into the pilot seat and allowed himself just a moment to run his hand over the plane's surface while he fired up the controls. ",
"Tock landed in Cream's lap with a digital squeal as the props fired up.",
"\n\"There better be an in-flight movie,\" he said.",
"\n\"There better be a window,\" Tails added, looking up, \"Or else we're going nowhere.\"",
"\nThere was a window, and with some luck it would be wide enough to fly through without damage. ",
"Tails didn't waste time considering the alternative, considering it was the only option available.",
"\n\"Here we go! ",
"Hold on!\"",
"\nHe heard the storm of feathers and wings as the Armada army arrived in the machine shop, and the Tornado began to roll. ",
"Tails bit his lip and squeezed the flight stick as they picked up speed. \"",
"Come on, come on, come on...\"\nThe Tornado took off just in time to avert a crash into the wall on the other side, and they rocketed toward the glass window, daylight shining through from outside.",
"\n\"Cream, duck and shield your eyes!\"",
"\nThey both did, and the Tornado, itself protected by dozens of powerful upgrades that Tails had installed over the years, smashed through the window, showering them both in glass. ",
"Tails shook his head and roared with laughter.",
"\n\"Do you do that often?\" ",
"Cream asked.",
"\nTails nodded. \"",
"Pretty often, yeah.\"",
"\n\"What exactly do you do for a living?\"",
"\n\"You'll see! ",
"Now, hold on to your stuff!\"",
"\n\"Yes, hold on to me!\" ",
"Tock exclaimed.",
"\nThe Tornado banked steeply and they turned to fly back over Quarantine. ",
"Tails bid it farewell, the cottages, the cobblestone streets, the lake and its ducks. ",
"The towers of Sanctuary passed by their left, and he waved to them as well. \"",
"So long, Babylon!\"",
"\n\"Tails! ",
"Look out!\"",
"\nHe looked ahead again just in time to see something big rise from beneath them and fly in a collision course with the Tornado. ",
"It was the bizarre black squid-thing, its tentacles trailing behind it as it rocketed ominously toward them, the hatch on the front that resembled a mouth gaping wide open.",
"\nTails pulled up hard, and the squid clamped its mouth shut on thin air as they flew over it in a barrel roll. ",
"But the squid was surprisingly aerodynamic, and it followed easily. ",
"They banked again, tried to get it off their tail.",
"\n\"We have to lose this thing,\" Tails said through clenched teeth. ",
"He cracked his knuckles, leaned forward in his seat, and grabbed the control stick. \"",
"Hold on.\"",
"\nHe used every flight trick he'd ever mastered to shake the beast machine off his tail, but it followed as though there were an invisible rope between them. ",
"Tails couldn't even figure out how the thing flew; it really did resemble a sea creature, swimming through the air. ",
"It opened its mouth and took another snap at them, which the plane narrowly avoided again.",
"\nJust when Tails didn't think it could get any worse, he heard a loud bang to his right, and the whole plane shuddered. ",
"He looked and saw a row of tiny holes along the Tornado's side.",
"\n\"Oh no...\"\nThe Armada army fell upon them, flying in formation, and each bird appeared to have a machine gun mounted on his back. ",
"Tails looked at them, looked at the squid, and gritted his teeth. \"",
"This makes things more interesting.\"",
"\nLieutenant Overdraw rose from somewhere below, and flew beside Tails, his face hardened in a scowl.",
"\n\"You think you will get away in your stupid-looking contraption, yes?\"",
"\n\"Yeah, as a matter of fact I do,\" Tails replied.",
"\n\"You can not beat us in the sky, wretched animal,\" the Lieutenant growled, \"The sky belongs to us! ",
"It is our birthright, yes? ",
"You challenge the Armada in their own element?\"",
"\n\"Oh, I know how to fly, bird-brain.\"",
"\n\"Hah! ",
"You know nothing. ",
"Hand over the rabbit now or you will go down in flames. ",
"This will be your only warning.\"",
"\n\"Shoot us down and we'll both be killed. ",
"You call that a rescue?\"",
"\n\"Ah, but we have had this conversation before, yes? ",
"I am not particularly fond of stinky rabbits and filthy vermin scampering about my home. ",
"If you were to decide to sacrifice yourselves I would lose no sleep, yes?\"",
"\n\"Well, then. ",
"Eat my slipstream, Lieutenant.\"",
"\nHe banked the Tornado hard, and Overdraw was blown into a flurry of feathers. ",
"He squawked and dropped out of the sky.",
"\nThe rest of the Armada opened fire, and now Tails had their bullets to contend with. ",
"He rolled and dipped, banked and spun in a spectacular display of aeronautics. ",
"The birds knew how to fly, it was in their blood, but Tails knew he could do better. ",
"Because he knew that nobody owned the sky. ",
"You could use it, but you were never its master. ",
"You could only befriend the sky, tame it, caress it, love it. ",
"Fall in love with it. ",
"Tails knew he could do better, because the Armada tried to whip the sky into submission, to dominate and control it. ",
"But Tails was in love with it.",
"\n\"What are you gonna do?\" ",
"Cream squealed.",
"\n\"I'm gonna teach these birds how to fly,\" he replied, and banked the Tornado again.",
"\nThe giant squid-machine snapped at them from the left as it rolled past, and Tails grit his teeth as he pulled away from it and turned to fly back toward the Armada - a black arrow-shaped formation of birds, with Overdraw at its head. ",
"He flew directly toward them, and could see them train their guns on him.",
"\n\"Uh, Tails?\" ",
"Cream stammered from the back seat.",
"\n\"Hold on.\" ",
"He looked around to check the position of the squid, then turned to the Armada. ",
"He leaned forward and stared directly into Overdraw's piercing eyes.",
"\n\"Tails, they'll shoot us!\"",
"\n\"Hold on.\"",
"\nIn a moment he would be in range of their guns, but he didn't bank away. ",
"He held his position, kept his eyes locked on the Lieutenant's. ",
"He turned to check on the squid again, checked his left and his right, then back to Overdraw. ",
"The bird was shouting something, either to Tails or his troops, but he couldn't hear it.",
"\nThe guns were trained. ",
"Cream hid her face in her hands. ",
"Tails gripped the flight stick and cried out something incomprehensible as the squid closed in on them from behind and opened its gaping mouth... Overdraw shouted his command and the Armada opened fire... and at the very last moment, the Tornado banked.",
"\nWhat happened next was a marvel of harmonic unison. ",
"As the Tornado pulled away, the squid-machine following behind it clamped down, but it missed the plane. ",
"Instead it was Overdraw who flew, shrieking, straight into the beast's closing mouth. ",
"A muffled clang from inside the thing and a cloud of black feathers were all that remained of the Lieutenant.",
"\nAt the very same moment, as the squid-thing flew over the formation of birds, the hail of bullets from the Armada shot it out of the sky.",
"\nA massive explosion billowed behind the Tornado as Tails rolled and banked it away from the catastrophe. ",
"The birds peeled out and degenerated into a confused mess without their commander, and Tails took advantage of the chaos to make an escape over the ocean.",
"\nCream and Tock cheered from the back seat, and Tails tried to muffle his excited giggles and set a course with his instruments. ",
"He looked back as the Kitsune Atole vanished behind him, swallowed by sea and the horizon.",
"\n\"Man, I'm glad I don't wear pants!\" ",
"Tock exclaimed, \"And that I can't crap!\"",
"\n\"Tails?\" ",
"Cream said.",
"\n\"Yes, Cream?\"",
"\n\"Do not ever do that again.\"",
"\n\n---\n\n10:00 am\n\nThey called it the Forbidden Zone, but this was a good day to fly it. ",
"The sky was clear and the wind was steady and calm. ",
"A great day to fly.",
"\nCream had asked where they were going, and Tails hadn't needed to consider it. ",
"He knew the answer as though there had never been any question.",
"\n\"We're going home,\" he said, \"A village in the forest called New Knothole.\"",
"\n\"That is a very strange name for a village.\"",
"\n\"Yeah, I guess it is.\"",
"\n\"Is it as nice as Quarantine?\"",
"\n\"No.\"",
"\nCream nodded. \"",
"Good.\"",
"\nTails flew straight on toward the mainland of Westerica, navigating the familiar waters of his homeland. ",
"He'd flown over this water many times before, practicing his favourite hobby, doing barrel rolls and flips, just flying alone with the one he loved - the sky. ",
"His soulmate.",
"\nAnd as the coast came into view, a tear formed in his eye and he wondered why he would ever want to leave the Freedom Fighters. ",
"Because freedom was only an illusion if there was no home to slouch back to at the end of the day, pointless if there was nobody to love and to love him in return. ",
"And there would be no freedom at all, without people to fight for it.",
"\nHe'd declared that their mission was not his own. ",
"And yet it was. ",
"Because the mission of the people he cared for was his mission. ",
"He'd searched the world for his father, for catharsis, and yet he'd left his real family behind in persuit of a quest, a promise he neither made nor understood.",
"\nAs it was, his father's last gift to him was to help him see what was important.",
"\nBlood was thicker than water indeed, and Tails had spent enough time away from his family. ",
"As the big, beautiful blue sky marked his path, Tails Prower set his sights on home. ",
"And this was the way it was supposed to end.",
"\n\n---\n\nMiles Prower, or Tails as he liked to be called, skipped along the curb while his father walked beside him in the street. ",
"It was a fine day, the sky blue and beautiful with funny white pillows of cloud.",
"\n\"I like it here!\" ",
"the little fox declared, \"But Station Square is a stupid name for a city!\"",
"\n\"Well, I like it here too, Miles. ",
"And I guess it's not so silly once you get used to it.\"",
"\n\"It's not as nice as our old home.\"",
"\n\"No. ",
"No, it isn't. ",
"Thank goodness.\"",
"\n\"Dad, look what I can do.\"",
"\n\"That's very clever, Miles.\"",
"\n\"Dad, what are we gonna do?\"",
"\nHis father sighed. \"",
"Well, I guess first of all I have to look for a job.\"",
"\n\"Dad, you're not watching me.\"",
"\n\"Yes I am. ",
"Very clever.\"",
"\n\"Dad, why have you gotta look for a job?\"",
"\n\"Well, because that's how the world works. ",
"I need to-\"\n\"You didn't need a job on that dumb island. ",
"It was dumb there. ",
"It was boring, and it was dumb.\"",
"\n\"Things are different here, Miles. ",
"We'll have to try to fit in. ",
"You know, you'll have to look for work too, some day.\"",
"\n\"No way!\"",
"\n\"Yes way. ",
"You'll find something you like to do, and you'll want to do it all the time.\"",
"\n\"I already know what I'm gonna do when I grow up.\"",
"\n\"Oh yeah? ",
"What's that?\"",
"\n\"I'm gonna be a freedom fighter! ",
"Just like you!\"",
"\nHis father smiled. \"",
"Oh, fighting for freedom is a tough job, Miles.\"",
"\n\"I don't care! ",
"I'm gonna be a freedom fighter! ",
"Or a fireman.\"",
"\nHis father ruffled his hair. \"",
"I have a feeling you're going to do just fine.\"",
"\n\"Dad, you messed up my hair. ",
"Are we there yet?\"",
"\n\"Soon.\"",
"\n\"This is gonna be fun, Dad.\"",
"\n\"You know, I think you're right, kiddo. ",
"I think we're going to be all right.\"",
"\n\nThe author would like to thank you for your continued support. ",
"Your review has been posted."
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"The primary component in the solution is HCA (hydroxycitric acid). ",
"This short article opinions the most effective fat decline supplements that you can buy – Sitio web de Sollernet.",
"\n\nWhere by Is Gargcinia Cambogia Acquired From?",
"\n\nThe product or service is extracted from Garcinia Cambogia, a green fruit that resembles a little pumpkin. ",
"This fruit has been useful for many years in India, parts of Asia and parts of Africa for taste and cooking. ",
"People in sure areas of Malaysia consume garcinia cambogia ahead of getting meals that will help with excess weight decline given that the fruit has urge for food suppressing features.",
"\n\nRecommended Dosage\n\nThese dietary supplements can be found in the marketplace in tablet, capsule, powder, extract and in some cases snack bar kind. ",
"Pure garcinia cambogia is normally standardized to contain about 60% of HCA. ",
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"Suppresses foodstuff cravings and urge for food\n\nSeveral scientific tests demonstrate that garcinia cambogia aids in suppressing your appetite which subsequently allows you regulate your bodyweight. ",
"Even better, it does not have any caffeine, as is the scenario with most diet plan health supplements available.",
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"The present invention relates to a semiconductor package that is most widely used to package semiconductor chips, and more particularly, to a semiconductor package by which an improved heat dissipation efficiency required due to an increase in the power consumption of a semiconductor chip can be obtained, the speed of a high frequency semiconductor chip can be increased, and improvement of the characteristics and stability of the qualities of semiconductor chips used in RF products can be achieved.",
"\nIn general, a semiconductor package is formed by providing a semiconductor chip such as a single device, an integrated circuit device, and a hybrid circuit device, in which various electronic circuits are formed and electric wiring is made, with terminals constructed by a lead frame or the like for transmitting signals to a main board, and by subsequently molding the semiconductor chip in molding materials or the like, in order to protect the semiconductor chip from various external environments including dust, moisture, and electrical and mechanical loads and to optimize and maximize the performance of the semiconductor chip. ",
"At this time, the lead frame means a structure that serves as leads for connecting input/output pads on the semiconductor chip and electrical circuits formed in the main board, as well as a support for fixing the semiconductor package to the main board.",
"\nPackages for packaging the semiconductor chip can be classified into those of using plastic material and those of using ceramic material.",
"\nFIG. ",
"1 illustrates an internal structure of a conventional semiconductor package using plastic material. ",
"A process of fabricating the semiconductor package shown in FIG. ",
"1 will be described below:\n(1) In a semiconductor chip attaching step, a semiconductor chip 130 is attached to a die paddle 110 of a lead frame by means of an adhesive 180;\n(2) In a wiring step, bond pads 120 on the semiconductor chip 130 and inner leads 150 of the lead frame are connected by fine gold wires 170;\n(3) In a molding step, the semiconductor chip 130 and the fine gold wires 170 are overmolded with an epoxy molding compound 140 in order to protect them; and\n(4) In a lead forming step, outer I/O terminals 160 of a semiconductor package obtained after completion of the molding step are trimmed and formed to form out leads.",
"\nFIG. ",
"2 illustrates an internal structure of a conventional semiconductor package using ceramic material. ",
"A process of fabricating the semiconductor package shown in FIG. ",
"2 will be described below:\n(1) In a semiconductor chip attaching step, a semiconductor chip 230 is attached to a ceramic body 290 having a cavity 292 by means of an adhesive 280;\n(2) In a wiring step, bond pads 220 on the semiconductor chip 230 and inner leads 250 of the ceramic body 290 are connected by fine gold wires 270; and\n(3) In a sealing step, the cavity of the ceramic body is sealed with a metallic lid 291 in order to protect the semiconductor chip 230 and the fine gold wires 270.",
"\nFIG. ",
"3 shows a conventional semiconductor package in which the internal structure is modified in order to improve the heat dissipation efficiency of the semiconductor package using plastic material as shown in FIG. ",
"1. ",
"A process of fabricating the semiconductor package shown in FIG. ",
"3 will be described below:\n(1) In a down-set step, a die paddle 310 of a lead frame is deeply downset;\n(2) In a semiconductor chip attaching step, a semiconductor chip 330 is attached to the die paddle 310 by means of an adhesive 380;\n(3) In a wiring step, bond pads 320 on the semiconductor chip 330 and inner leads 350 of the lead frame are connected by fine gold wires 370;\n(4) In a molding step, the semiconductor chip 330 and the fine gold wires 370 are overmolded with an epoxy molding compound 340 in order to protect them; and\n(5) In an out lead forming step, outer I/O terminals 360 of a semiconductor package obtained after completion of the molding step are trimmed and formed to form the out leads.",
"\nFIG. ",
"4 shows another conventional semiconductor package in which the internal structure is modified in order to improve the heat dissipation efficiency of the semiconductor package using plastic material. ",
"A process of fabricating the semiconductor package shown in FIG. ",
"4 will be described below:\n(1) In a heat slug forming step, an additional heat slug 495 instead of a die paddle of a lead frame is attached to the lead frame;\n(2) In a semiconductor chip attaching step, a semiconductor chip 430 is attached to the heat slug 495 in the lead frame by means of an adhesive 480;\n(3) In a wiring step, bond pads 420 on the semiconductor chip 430 and inner leads 450 of the lead frame are connected by fine gold wires 470;\n(4) In a molding step, the semiconductor chip 430 and the fine gold wires 470 are overmolded with an epoxy molding compound 440 in order to protect them; and\n(5) In an out lead forming step, outer I/O terminals 460 of a semiconductor package obtained after completion of the molding step are trimmed and formed to form the out leads.",
"\nHowever, in a case where these conventional semiconductor packages are used to package a semiconductor chip having high power consumption, there is a problem in that heat generated in the semiconductor chip cannot be efficiently dissipated to the exterior thereof.",
"\nFurther, in a case where the die paddle to which the semiconductor chip is attached is exposed or the heat slug attached to serve the function of the die paddle is exposed, the package is repeatedly expanded and contracted due to the heat generated from the semiconductor chip, which causes warpage of the package due to unbalance of upper and lower structures of the material constructing the package. ",
"Accordingly, there is a problem that minute delamination is formed between the exposed die paddle or heat slug and the molding material, the reliability of package is deteriorated in the long run due to infiltration of moisture and the like.",
"\nThe present invention is conceived to solve the aforementioned problems in the prior art. ",
"An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor package with a heat-radiating canopy molded thereon and a method of fabricating the same, by which efficient heat dissipation required due to an increase in the power consumption of a semiconductor chip can be obtained, a smooth operation thereof can be made in a high frequency band to increase the speed of the semiconductor chip, and improvement of the characteristics and stability of the qualities of semiconductor chips used in RF products can be achieved.",
"\nAccording to the present invention, there is provided a heat dissipation type semiconductor package including a die paddle, a semiconductor chip mounted on the die paddle and a lead frame, comprising: a plurality of wires electrically connecting bond pads formed on the semiconductor chip and inner leads in the lead frame; a heat-radiating canopy attached to a top surface of the semiconductor chip; and a molding material surrounding all of the die paddle, the semiconductor chip, the inner leads and a bottom surface of the heat-radiating canopy; wherein the top surface of the heat-radiating canopy is is exposed to the exterior, and a portion of the bottom surface of the heat-radiating canopy being in contact with the semiconductor chip is recessed.",
"\nAccording to the present invention, there is also provided a heat dissipation type semiconductor package including a substrate, a die paddle formed on the substrate, a semiconductor chip mounted on the die paddle, and inner leads attached to the substrate and serving as electrical contacts, comprising: a plurality of wires electrically connecting bond pads formed on the semiconductor chip and the inner leads; a heat-radiating canopy attached to a top surface of the semiconductor chip; a molding material surrounding all of the die paddle, the semiconductor chip, the inner lead and a bottom surface of the heat-radiating canopy; and solder balls mounted on a bottom surface of the substrate and serving as electrical inputs/outputs; wherein the top surface of the heat-radiating canopy is exposed to the exterior, and a portion of the surface of the heat-radiating canopy being in contact with the semiconductor chip is recessed.",
"\nAccording to the present invention, there is also provided a method of fabricating a heat dissipation type semiconductor package, comprising the steps of: attaching a semiconductor chip to a die paddle of a lead frame of a semiconductor package; connecting bond pads on the semiconductor chip and inner leads in the lead frame by means of wires; attaching a heat-radiating canopy to a top surface of the semiconductor chip; performing a molding in such a manner that a top surface of the heat-radiating canopy is exposed to the exterior; and trimming and forming out leads in the semiconductor package obtained after completion of the molding so as to form I/O terminals of the semiconductor package.",
"\nAccording to the present invention, there is also provided a method of fabricating a heat dissipation type semiconductor package, comprising the steps of: forming a die paddle and inner leads on a substrate; attaching a semiconductor chip to the die paddle; connecting bond pads on the semiconductor chip and the inner leads by means of wires; attaching a heat-radiating canopy to a top surface of the semiconductor chip by means of an adhesive; performing a molding in such a manner that a top surface of the heat-radiating canopy is exposed to the exterior; and forming solder balls on a bottom surface of the semiconductor package after completion of the molding step.",
"\nMore preferably, the semiconductor chip attaching step comprises a step of attaching the semiconductor chip by means of an adhesive and then curing the adhesive using an electric oven or a heater block.",
"\nMore preferably, the wires are made of any one of gold, copper, aluminum, and an arbitrary combination thereof.",
"\nMore preferably, a central portion of the heat-radiating canopy is recessed so that a portion of the beat-radiating canopy, which is located above the top surface of the semiconductor chip, is in contact with the semiconductor chip and the remaining portions of the heat-radiating canopy are not in contact with the semiconductor chip.",
"\nMore preferably, when the heat-radiating canopy is attached to the top surface of the semiconductor chip, the heat-radiating canopy is caused to be in contact with an active area of the semiconductor chip.",
"\nMore preferably, the heat-radiating canopy is made of a material selected from a group consisting of thermal conductive materials, electrically conductive materials and an arbitrary combination thereof.",
"\nMore preferably, the heat-radiating canopy has a round shape or a polygonal shape depending on the shape of the semiconductor package.",
"\nMore preferably, an edge of the heat-radiating canopy is curved toward a bottom surface of the semiconductor package.",
"\nMore preferably, an edge of the heat-radiating canopy is formed with a portion protruding toward a bottom surface of the semiconductor package.",
"\nMore preferably, the heat-radiating canopy attaching step comprises a step of attaching the heat-radiating canopy to the top surface of the semiconductor chip by means of an adhesive and then curing the adhesive using an electric oven or a heater block.",
"\nMore preferably, the adhesive is selected from a group consisting of thermo-plastic adhesive epoxy, thermo-set adhesive epoxy, thermal conductive epoxy, electrically conductive epoxy, an adhesive tape, and an arbitrary combination thereof.",
"\nMore preferably, a plurality of projections are formed on the exposed surface of the heat-radiating canopy.",
"\nMore preferably, an external heat slug is attached to the exposed surface of the heat-radiating canopy.",
"\nMore preferably, a post-mold curing process is performed by using an electric oven, after the molding step.",
"\nMore preferably, the exposed surface of the heat-radiating canopy is polished or defleshed.",
"\nMore preferably, the out leads or the exposed surface of the heat-radiating canopy are plated."
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"A Kind\n\nf Library\n\n\"I always thought paradise would be a kind of library.\" ",
"Jorge Luis Borges\n\nMenu\n\nCategory Archives: escapism\n\nI stumbled across a poem by my hero Mary Oliver yesterday, and it’s an interesting place to begin as I think of my summer, and though it wasn’t in my mind yet, these lines encompass the theme of the past two months:\n\nit is a serious thing /just to be alive /on this fresh morning /in the broken world.",
"\n\n{my people}\n\nWhen I teach reading, I tell students to pay attention to the actions of the characters–that they often speak deeply into what’s really going on or what they really need. ",
"I booked a ticket to leave New York City the day after school got out. ",
"That is exactly where I was mentally and what I needed. ",
"To go home and breathe. ",
"And, of course, to laugh, eat grilled food, and drink wine.",
"\n\nIn July I realized that sometimes simply reading to escape is necessary–I disappeared into more than a dozen books and didn’t write about a single one. ",
"In a more physical sense, after spending ten days on my parents’ porch, I felt trapped just thinking about my Brooklyn apartment and its lack of one, so I threw caution {the potential $125 fine} to the wind and turned our fire escape into a porch. ",
"This mainly involved taking a beach chair out the kitchen window, staring down squirrels, ignoring the jackhammers in the front of the building, and breathing through my mouth to avoid the sour dishwashing air from the restaurant below. ",
"BUT. ",
"It was outdoor space and I happily spent almost every morning reading nonfiction on it: Long Life by Mary Oliver, The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits, The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit, and Looking at Mindfulness by Christophe Andre.",
"\n\n{my “porch”}\n\nThe threads I began to see in these books was the value of pausing to create meaning from the world around me. ",
"I often pause to create meaning from the books I’m reading, but it was like I needed the fiction to remain an escape and to start reflecting on, interpreting, and being more. ",
"So, I unintentionally took a writing sabbatical and found myself joining my husband in making art on our coffee table, pursuing meditation, and learning how to play chess (and, let’s be real, watching Major Crimes and two seasons of The Americans). ",
"I got to the beach and to the woods with a dear friend. ",
"I wandered the city with Daniel.",
"\n\nInterestingly, on one of my last July mornings on the porch (August brought a week intensive class at Columbia, traveling, and now beginning to think about the school year), I found myself looking at the vine-y plants that migrated from the fence below, up the walls of my building and around the fire escape and saw that in order to climb, they shoot out these tiny arms which wrap themselves around anything nearby. ",
"I realized that my time in July was just that: reaching for the truths to sustain my spirit. ",
"Here are some of the ones that stayed with me:\n\n“Where have these moments of reflection gone in our modern lives? ",
"Certainly not to the radio or television that we turn on as soon as we get home, or the screens that enslave us. ",
"Rather than being ways of ‘taking our minds off things,’ these actions, particularly when they become reflexes, stop our minds being rooted–the exact opposite of what reflection is all about.” (",
"Looking at Mindfulness, page 93)\n\n“We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or to hate, to see or to be blind. ",
"Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. ",
"The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and hear silence, to name them, and then to become the storyteller.” (",
"The Faraway Nearby, page 4)\n\n“[The earth’s] intonations are our best tonics, if we would take them. ",
"For the universe is full of radiant suggestion. ",
"For whatever reason, the heart cannot separate the world’s appearance and actions from morality and valor, and the power of every idea is intensified, if not actually created, by its expression in substance. ",
"Over and over in the butterfly we see the idea of transcendence. ",
"In the forest we see not the inert but the aspiring. ",
"In water that departs forever and forever returns, we experience eternity.” (",
"Long Life, page 25)\n\nIt always seems to comes back to Mary Oliver: that though the world is broken, it is certainly beautiful. ",
"And there is meaning to be made.",
"\n\nThis morning, I read last week’s the Modern Love column in the New York Times and it was one of the most beautiful essays I’ve read in a long time. ",
"It is about a mother with an aching teenage daughter, and how she starts putting poems in her shoes from authors (including Mary Oliver, my favorite) who have “been in pain before and struggled to find hope” and put it into words.",
"\n\nThis season-semester has been one that feels long and difficult mostly because I signed up for too many graduate school classes at a time where my daily work feels its most challenging. ",
"And because, winter. ",
"But I was reminded this week of the difference a good story can make when I read Fox, basically the most poignant picture book ever made, by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks to my 8th graders. ",
"They were anxiously, nervously, crazily awaiting the arrival of their high school admittance letters (which are shamefully delivered to school and not home), but we took a period to read this story aloud, talk about developing themes, and in turn talk about life, of course. ",
"It was incredible how silent and absorbed and responsive they were to this story about a dog with a missing eye and a bird with a burnt wing.",
"\n\nLast night a dear friend and I were discussing the paralyzing feeling of working with teenagers whose lives feel harder than anything we can imagine (she helps run a mentoring program), and knowing that there’s not a formula or behavior pattern we can teach them that can fix all that’s on their plate. ",
"We started thinking of what we can really offer, and I found myself basically reciting Fox to her as we talked over tacos. ",
"As my students and I discussed this week, it’s a story of friendship and loyalty, of betrayal and shame, of hope and the courage to face what lies ahead. ",
"And as we escaped into the story, our class discussions landed on some beautiful truths about processing hardship, facing mistakes, and building friendships that are rooted for storms. ",
"And my friend and I, avid readers with bleeding hearts, were reminded again of the power of story and words.",
"\n\nI’ll end with one of the poems referenced in the Modern Love essay, Wild Geese, one that I happened to listen to Mary Oliver read and discuss in a podcast last week. ",
"In what feels like a dreadfully long winter, today I am grateful for writers who remind us we are not alone.",
"\n\nI recently read a novel that could be described as a collection of somewhat interwoven short stories called Blueprints for Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell. ",
"I was drawn to this book because it seeks to explore the moment’s that shape women’s identity as women. ",
"In hindsight, I wish I had read it slowly, as there wasn’t an overall character arc for each character, but a few snapshots of their lives.",
"\n\nThis summer I read Everything Beautiful Began Afterby Simon Van Booy and fell in love with his rich, poetic style of prose. ",
"While on a walk through the West Village I found a collection of his short stories called The Secret Lives of People in Love and began making my way through them. ",
"What I’ve learned, though, is that for me, short stories for me are best read slowly and sporadically. ",
"If I read them as a novel, I don’t take the time to stop and think about what the author is trying to say in each one or mull over the small details that speak into human existence.",
"\n\nOne thing I’ve been thinking about recently is that I am more grounded as a person when I’m letting my reading wash over my mind and impact the way I’m looking at the world. ",
"I read through the first 13 of Van Booy’s 19 stories so quickly that my brain didn’t have time to consider the weight of lines like: “Without memory, he thought, man would be invincible.” ",
"One of the reason’s I bought Schappell’s book was because I wanted to think about how the female identity is formed–especially as I am teaching girls at such a critical developmental stage and stocking my library with books that they will be reading and thinking about.",
"\n\nThis is not to say that all of my reading is deep and reflective. ",
"The other book I’m in the middle of is The Snowman, a thriller by Jo Nesbo, which has been a distractive force and an escape from life this week. ",
"Sometimes I need reading for that just as much as the kind that makes me stop and look at life differently. ",
"But, for now it is time to slow down. ",
"It is time to breathe deeply and reflect, especially in the midst of the devastation of my city and surrounding ones post-hurricane. ",
"The roots that my reading deepens can then be taken out into the world, to be on the look out for small moments of poetry and to develop an eye that is sensitive to the human story happening all around me.",
"\n\n(Note: This post quotes heavily from the book. ",
"It was the only way I could process through it. ",
"And it’s rather long. ",
"I have some opinions about the narrative being so inner-thought heavy that the reader doesn’t have to infer, but those are neither here nor there for the purposes of this post.)",
"\n\nFillory had yet to give Quentin the surcease from unhappiness he was counting on, and he was damned if he was leaving before he got what he wanted. ",
"Relief was out there, he knew it, he just needed to get deeper in…He had to jump the tracks, get out of his Earth-story, which wasn’t going so well, and into the Fillory-story, where the upside was infinitely higher (304).",
"\n\nThe Magicians by Lev Grossman is a coming of age story that begins when Quentin Coldwater, brilliant and bored, is a senior in high school in Brooklyn. ",
"He has never left behind his Fillory books–a series Grossman made up, very similar to Narnia, and deeply believes without irony that if only he could find his way into a land like Fillory that life would make sense. “",
"He’d spent too long being disappointed by the world–he’d spent so many years pining for something like this, some proof that the real world wasn’t the only world, and coping with the evidence that it in fact was, ” (37). ",
"His existence is defined by his longing for Fillory and all that it represents: wholeness, beauty, peace, fulfillment, adventure. ",
"One day, though, Quentin unexpectedly finds himself walking through a garden and onto the campus of Brakebills, a college in the Hudson River Valley for magical training, and not visible to the non magical eye.",
"\n\nWhen Quentin arrives at this school that does indeed exist on Earth and not in Fillory, a professor tells him: “Most people are blind to magic. ",
"They move through a blank and empty world. ",
"They’re bored with their lives, and there’s nothing they can do about it. ",
"They’re eaten alive by longing, and they’re dead before they’re alive (88). ",
"For Quentin, this makes sense, because they haven’t been able to step through to the magic. ",
"The twist of expectation here, though, is that Quentin’s experiences with the magical realm are disappointing, and he finds himself struggling with the same kinds of things: “This was the kind of disaster Quentin thought he’d left behind the day he walked into that garden in Brooklyn. ",
"Things like this didn’t happen in Fillory: there was conflict, and even violence, but it was always heroic and ennobling, and anybody really good and important who bought it along way came back to life at the end of the book. ",
"Now there was a rip in the corner of his perfect world, and fear and sadness were pouring in like freezing filthy water through a busted dam,” (148).",
"\n\nAs it would turn out, one of his magical friends finds that not only does Fillory actually exist (even among the magicians, they see Fillory as a children’s story), but he’s found a way to get in. ",
"Quentin remained convinced that life would finally become ok: “He was in Fillory. ",
"There was no question about it now. ",
"And now that he was here it would finally be all right,” (288). ",
"And I suppose that this is how it goes for most adventures: the initial thrill and newness of a move, a new job, a new relationship can make one think that life will be different. ",
"And, of course in the book there is a feeling of true adventure for a while, but ultimately Quentin has to face the same existentialism that has plagued him all along: “Why now, when it was actually happening, did the seductions of Fillory feel so crude and unwanted? ",
"He thought he left this feeling behind long ago in Brooklyn, or at least at Brakebills. ",
"How far did he have to run? ",
"If Fillory failed him he would have nothing left! ",
"A wave of frustration and panic surged through him,” (311).",
"\n\nThe Magicians could be described as a grown up’s Narnia or Harry Potter–it turned the magical into the ordinary and made the concept of fighting evil much more postmodern, and in turn, depressing. ",
"The characters at the end just settle for a different brand of discontent. ",
"There is not one clear foe or one clean answer in which to rest and find peace.",
"\n\nI don’t want to be so jaded or realistic that there isn’t room for magic–or at least hope. ",
"Reading Quentin’s story, I was surprised how much I related to parts of his mental journey. ",
"At this point in the story, one would think that something would happen to re-instill Quentin’s hope in magic, but it takes a turn for pretty stark realism: He should have stayed in Brooklyn, in the real world. ",
"He should have nursed his depression and his grudge against the world from the relative safety of mundane reality…Sure you can live out your dreams, but it’ll only turn you into a monster. ",
"Better to stay home and do card tricks in your bedroom instead…The trick was just not wanting anything. ",
"That was power. ",
"That was courage: the courage not to live anyone or hope for anything. ",
"The funny thing was how easy everything got, when nothing mattered (382-383).",
"\n\nOne of the professors at Brakebills seemed to be describe coming of age: “Magical thinking: that’s what Freud called it. ",
"Once we learn otherwise we cease to be children. ",
"The separation of word and thing is the essential fact on which our adult lives are founded,” (216).",
"\n\nAnd yet, C.S. Lewis, author of the Narnia series, pressed into the longing: “The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing–to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from…Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? ",
"The longing for home? ",
"For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.” ",
"Readers and thinkers have to wonder if there is a space in the world for magic–and could the longing point to something real? ",
"Lewis, in his non-fiction writings on his Christian faith, explained that the longing was for Heaven and that life once again became magical for him when he realized that the longing was not in vain, but that it as was made him alive. ",
"Grossman’s book seems to be a critique of the Narnia-like longings. ",
"I can’t decide if Grossman himself would find Quentin a pathetic character in the hopes he had for magical lands. ",
"The bleakness of who Quentin becomes at the near-end of the story suggests that intellectual, passionless realism is the best way to cope with the disappointments of the world.",
"\n\nAnd yet. ",
"There are some universal truths woven into the story: love, sacrifice, human fallenness and the pain of longing.",
"\n\nNew York City Schools take a February break the week of President’s Day. ",
"Obviously, this is a huge perk of my job. ",
"I didn’t plan anything, really, for the week and it turned out perfectly: hiking upstate twice (once by train, once by car, both poetic in their own ways) with great, old friends, pancakes at Maggie’s Krooked Cafe (the best pancakes in the world that I usually only get once a year in the fall), an amazing driving soundtrack, baking a Guinness cake with Bailey’s icing, making dinner for one of my best friends who happened to be in town for work, finally getting to Tom’s for brunch. ",
"Sigh. ",
"And, of course, a lot of time reading.",
"\n\n{a February Friday, on vacation, midday}\n\nI spent a the past few days getting lost in A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cosse, which turned out to be the best vacation book ever, meaning it was a sheer joy to read–though not what I would call saccharine. ",
"It is about a man and woman who meet by chance in a French mountain town, discover their mutual passion for literature and open a bookstore in Paris that only sells good novels. ",
"This book was thoroughly readable and a celebration of literature as art, igniting passion in all those involved. ",
"I felt as though the characters were my friends and I am left with the sadness that their story has ended. ",
"I will leave you with this, from page 279:\n\n“We want books that cost their authors a great deal, books where you can feel the years of work, the backache, the writer’s block, the author’s panic at the thought that he might be lost: his discouragement, his courage, his anguish, his stubbornness, the risk of failure that he has taken. ",
"We want splendid books, books that immerse us in the splendor of reality and keep us there; books that prove to us that love is at work in the world right next to evil, right up against it, at times indistinctly, and that it will always be, just the way that suffering will always ravage hearts. ",
"We want good novels.”"
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"\n\n“This is the first time that any court will compare what the prisoners are saying about the torturous methods with what the military is saying,” said Clive Stafford Smith, director of London-based human rights group Reprieve and the legal counsel in the case.",
"\n\nStafford Smith is representing Emad Abdullah Hassan in his filing against President Barack Obama. ",
"Hassan is a 34-year-old Yemeni national who, Stafford Smith said, has mounted a “continuous hunger strike” since 2007.",
"\n\nStafford Smith said that in a meeting at Guantánamo Bay earlier this month, Hassan recounted how staff strapped him to what he called a “torture chair” and force-fed him through large tubes, shoved into and pulled out of his nostrils before and after each feeding.",
"\n\nStafford Smith said Hassan told him that the chair was often still covered in blood and feces from previous inmates who suffered from hemorrhoids and diarrhea.",
"\n\nDuring the forced feedings, Hassan told Stafford Smith, inmates are given food supplements — some of which have reportedly led to pancreatitis — as well as anti-constipation medicines and over half a gallon of water. ",
"Stafford Smith said this cocktail is generally administered in 20 to 30 minutes.",
"\n\nIf the inmate vomits, the whole process is repeated, according to Stafford Smith’s report of Hassan’s account.",
"\n\nHassan reportedly told prison officials he had sinus problems in his right nostril but feeding tubes were forced in through that nostril anyway.",
"\n\nHe also told Stafford Smith that in response to nausea due to the forced feedings, he was forced to take Reglan, a drug that, Stafford Smith said, “made him feel crazy.”",
"\n\nWhile on the drug, Hassan “would sit on his bed, legs folded, thinking that he was talking to the nurse, but he actually found that he was talking to himself,” Stafford Smith said in his declaration, which is being filed in District Court in Washington, D.C.\n\nOther alleged measures to dissuade hunger strikers included barring hunger strikers from participating in communal prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.",
"\n\nStafford Smith said in his court filing that the last time he met his client, Hassan — who is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 119 pounds before his incarceration — weighed 85 pounds and was in “very bad” health. ",
"At one point, during a previous hunger strike, Hassan’s weight reportedly dropped to 78 pounds.",
"\n\n“This motion invokes this court’s habeas jurisdiction to do something about the festering wound of human rights violations that the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay has become,” reads Stafford Smith’s motion for a preliminary injunction.",
"\n\nHis filing to challenge alleged force-feeding practices at Guantánamo on behalf of Hassan was launched against Obama as the chief defendant.",
"\n\nObama, Stafford Smith says, is “ultimately responsible for the detention.” ",
"Advocates such as Stafford Smith say Obama has made little progress on his longstanding pledge to close the military detention facility. ",
"The U.S. secretary of defense and the commander of Guantánamo have also been mentioned in the lawsuit.",
"\n\n“I have written to the Obama administration. ",
"The key is whether they recognize that if they are serious about closing Guantánamo, that is all that these men are asking for,” Stafford Smith said.",
"\n\nThe White House told Al Jazeera that despite Obama’s being listed as the principle defendant in the case, the Defense Department should answer questions regarding the treatment of Guantánamo detainees.",
"\n\n“The Department of Defense has responsibility for the health, welfare and humane treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and I would refer you to them for further questions about the specifics of their policies and procedures,” said White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden.",
"\n\nA Defense Department representative said that since the lawsuit involves the president, he is unable to address the issue. “",
"We surely don’t comment on issues mentioning the president,” Lt. ",
"Col. ",
"Todd Breasseale told Al Jazeera.",
"\n\nBut he did say that whatever information Stafford Smith has on practices at Guantánamo are from biased sources. “",
"Both the detainee and Reprieve have a specific agenda. ",
"That agenda may not comport with the truth or reality,” Breasseale said.",
"\n\nStafford Smith says he hopes that the legal challenge will force the military to respond to allegations like Hassan’s, revealing its version of practices previously kept a secret from the public.",
"\n\n“We have asked for a preliminary injunction, which puts time schedules in place that are quite short — around 20 days normally,” Stafford Smith said.",
"\n\nA Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals decision in Aamer v. Obama, handed down last month, ruled that federal judges have the jurisdiction to rule on Guantánamo force-feeding cases, which Stafford Smith has said opens the way for courts to decide on the legal action introduced Tuesday.",
"\n\nHassan, originally handed over to the United States by Pakistani authorities under suspicions of conspiracy with armed groups, was cleared for release in 2009, meaning that the U.S. military no longer found him to be a threat."
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"14 Books (I Already Own) To Read in 2014\n\nHere’s another list (and you’ll be seeing lists a lot this month) from me. ",
"14 books I own that I absolutely want to get read in the coming year. ",
"Whether it happens or not is up to my capricious nature and time but intentions mean something, right? ",
"Right.",
"\n\n1. ",
"Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn\nWhile I didn’t love her first novel, it engaged me on an intellectual level and I appreciated that. ",
"I like books that make you think and I want to read something else by her to see if she can do it again. ",
"Make me think, that is!2. ",
"Deathless – Catherynne V. Valente\nI just want to read this one. ",
"I have three of Valente’s book (including this one) and I’m probably going to get more so I may as well start reading her work. ",
"Eh?3. ",
"Bitter Greens – Kate Forsyth\nI know this has been on my reading lists for a long time but I swear (really, I do!), ",
"it’s going to happen in 2014.4. ",
"Snakes and Ropes – Jess Richards\nSee number 3. ",
"I’ll get this read soon!5. ",
"The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman\nI have a signed copy! ",
"How can I not have read it still?6. ",
"The Golem and the Jinni – Helene Wecker\nThis one has been recommended to be enough times that I will actually read it now.7. ",
"Fan Girl – Rainbow Rowell\nI figure I should join the party.",
"\n\n8. ",
"My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk\nI’ve been meaning to read this forever. ",
"I will definitely do it this coming year. ",
"IA.9. ",
"The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami\nI usually read two Murakami novels a year. ",
"Usually because they are substantial enough to keep me thinking and pondering an entire year. ",
"This will be the first one.10. ",
"Dance, Dance, Dance – Haruki Murakami\nThis is the second one.11. ",
"I Sweet the Sun Off Rooftops – Hanan Al-Shaykh\nWith a title like that, I’m positive I’m going to enjoy this collection.12. ",
"Girl in Translation – Jean Kwok\nA grimmer book than I am used to but I want to read it because the title intrigues me.13. ",
"The Summer of the Ubume – Natsuhiko Kyogoku\nA Japanese murder mystery. ",
"Woot.14. ",
"Anna Dressed in Blood – Kendare Blake\nSeriously. ",
"I should just get on with it and read it already.",
"\n\nPost navigation\n\n16 thoughts on “14 Books (I Already Own) To Read in 2014”\n\nI Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops is probably my favorite short story collection. ",
"Hanan was a guest lecturer in a lit & writing class I took in college in 1997 (!!!) ",
"and she was so sharp and charming and wonderful that I’ve read everything she’s written since (except her new collection, which isn’t available here yet), and it sent me down a years-long rabbit hole of acquiring and reading loads of Middle Eastern women’s lit. ",
"I highly, highly, highly recommend her stuff.",
"\n\nI set myself a bunch of goals at the beginning of the year and didn’t really accomplish much because I end up reading whatever I’m in the mood for. ",
"A bunch of the books you listed are on my TBR: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Golem and the Jinni, Girl in Translation and Anna Dressed in Blood. ",
"There are so many books that I need to get to this coming year!",
"\n\nMy name is Nafiza and I am a bibliophile. ",
"I am a book blogger based in Vancouver, Canada. ",
"I have an MA in Children's Literature from the University of British Columbia. ",
"Check out the information page for more.",
"\n\nAll reviews here are my own unless stated otherwise so if you want to use them, the polite thing to do would be to drop me a line.",
"\n\nHere you will find a bit of everything so settle back and enjoy. ",
"Maybe I'll make you smile.",
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"Dartmoor campers rescued overnight in 'extreme' weather Published duration 29 September 2019\n\nimage caption The man and woman were found south of Bellever in Dartmoor National Park\n\nTwo people and a dog on a camping trip had to be rescued after becoming bogged down in \"extremely poor\" weather.",
"\n\nThe pair, in their late 20s, did not know where they were within Dartmoor National Park when they rang for help just after 02:00 BST, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said.",
"\n\nThey were found at 06:30 on moorland near Laughter Hole, suffering from slight hypothermia.",
"\n\nPoor network signal had made it difficult to pinpoint their location.",
"\n\nIan Lowcock, one of the search managers for Dartmoor Search and Rescue, said two search parties were sent on to the moor and worked with police, the fire service and the ambulance service's hazardous area response team.",
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"But we agreed that there was a lot to dig into for this movie so we’re stepping up to the challenge to figure out what’s really going on here.",
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"Proposed Flood Gates May Impact North Shore\n\nThe Army Corps of Engineers has been tasked with producing a feasibility study on how to best protect the greater New York City area from flooding, a reaction to Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and sea-level rise caused by climate change. ",
"The New York-New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study is expected to be finished by March 2021 and a decision on the best plan to move forward by the Army Corps of Engineers is expected by July 2022.",
"\n\nSea Gates\n\nAn interim report was released by the Army Corps in February that proposes five alternatives, including one that involves putting a sea gate in the East River near the Throgs Neck Bridge that could affect the North Shore of Long Island. ",
"The sea gate or storm surge barrier would be in the water, from the sea floor to well above sea-level, and span the whole width of the river. ",
"The gate would be left open to allow boating and fish migration and would only be closed when a potential storm was approaching the area.",
"\n\nIn the interim report, Alternative 1 involves no action at all by the Army Corps. ",
"Alternative 2 involves two sea gates, Sandy Hook-Breezy Point Barrier and the Throgs Neck Barrier, costing an estimated $118 billion and taking approximately 25 years to build. ",
"The Army Corps’ net cost-benefit analysis is $57 billion for this project.",
"\n\nAlternative 3A has the Throgs Neck Barrier and the Verrazano Narrows Barrier, Arthur Kill Barrier, Pelham Barrier and the Jamaica Bay Barrier costing an estimated $47.1 billion and taking about 18 years to construct. ",
"The net cost-benefit analysss is $124 billion.",
"\n\nAlternative 3B would not include the Throgs Neck Barrier, but have the Jamaica Bay Barrier, Pelham Barrier, Arthur Kill Barrier, Kill Van Kull Barrier, Newtown Creek Barrier, Gowanus Canal Barrier and shoreline-based measures to NJ Upper Bay/Hudson River, NYC West Side and East Harlem costing a total of $43 billion with construction lasting nine years. ",
"The net cost-benefit analysis is $117.8 billion.",
"\n\nAlternative 4 contains the Jamaica Bay Barrier, Pelham Barrier, Newtown Creek Barrier, Gowanus Canal Barrier, Hackensack River Barrier and shoreline-based measures to NJ Upper Bay/Hudson River, NYC west side and East Harlem at the cost of $32 billion with a build time of nine years. ",
"The net cost-benefit analysis is $116.6 billion.",
"\n\nAlternative 5 has no barriers and only perimeter solutions, including shoreline-based measures to NJ Upper Bay/Hudson River, NYC west side, East Harlem, Newtown Creek and Gowanus Canal and is also the cheapest option at $14.8 billion and built in nine years. ",
"The net cost-benefit analysis is $33.8 billion.",
"\n\n“One of the alternatives is to do all on-shore measures and to combine them with some natural systems,” Save The Sound director Tracy Brown said. “",
"That’s Alternative 5 in their proposal and that is the one that shows raising the shoreline and doing shoreline hardening in areas that are hardest hit by storm surges. ",
"Also using natural strategies like oyster reefs or artificial reefs offshore to break waves and reduce the wave strength before it reaches the coast. ",
"We think that is the smartest way to go.”",
"\n\nBrown and others are worried about the potential deflection and induced flooding into Long Island Sound communities when the Throgs Neck Barrier would be closed for a potential storm.",
"\n\n“The main question is what happens to the parts that are not protected,” said NYU Sociology Doctoral student Malcolm Araos. “",
"What happens to the rest of Long Island that is not within the barriers? ",
"I would like to know more about the decision to how they decide to protect one area and not the other. ",
"I can imagine that being a very controversial thing that the Army Corps of Engineers would be worried about.”",
"\n\nIn 2004, Stony Brook University Marine and Atmospheric Sciences professor Malcolm J. Bowman authored a report titled “Hydrologic Feasibility of Storm Surge Barriers to Protect the Metropolitan New York—New Jersey Region” where he simulated the effects of a storm surge with a barrier near the Throgs Neck Bridge. ",
"Using data from Hurricane Floyd, a tropical storm when it hit the area, the report found that a barrier would have increased sea level by one foot on the North Shore. ",
"In 2013, the American Society of Engineers published a similar study that involved a Category 4 hurricane and found it would increase the sea-level by two feet outside the barrier.",
"\n\nIn a Long Island Sound Study Science and Technical Advisory Committee meeting on Feb. 15, Bowman stated the need for barriers. ",
"Referring to the Sandy Hook-Breezy Point and Throgs Neck barriers, he concluded that they are necessary for storm surge protection and the Throgs Neck barrier may also improve water quality in the Long Island Sound. ",
"He also said that the design of the barrier should minimize obstructions to river and tidal flows during calm weather to allow adequate flushing of the East River. ",
"Bowman could not be reached for comment.",
"\n\nIn the same meeting, Physical Oceanographer and Research Assistant Professor Phillip Orton of Stevens Institute of Technology used modeling to show the effects of the barriers. ",
"His simulations found stronger tidal currents and mixing near the barrier gate openings, widespread reductions in tidal range, currents and mixing through the rest of the estuary, increased stratification in the estuary due to the stronger stratification and estuarine circulation and more pronounced changes during spring tides than neap tides. ",
"Orton could not be reached for comment.",
"\n\nAraos has been studying the response to catastrophic storms by municipalities. ",
"The barriers can be a short-term option, but he is looking at what could be effective in the long-term.",
"\n\n“Whatever you think about these scientific predictions of sea-level rise, if you think it is man-made or not, through geologic times in like 100 years that sea-level rise is going to eventually overcome those barriers,” Araos said. “",
"For a very long-term view, no matter how tall you build those barriers, eventually, you will need to come up with a different solution.”",
"\n\nGreat Neck Area News\n\nABOUT US\n\nSince 1908, Great Neck Record has served the communities of Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, Kensington, Kings Point, Lake Success, Russell Gardens, Saddle Rock, Thomaston and the unincorporated areas as a source for local news and community events.",
"\n\nMeet the Editor\n\nMike Adams is the editor for the Great Neck Record. ",
"He grew up in Kings Park out in Suffolk County, graduating from the town’s high school before a college path that wound through NYU, Suffolk County Community College and finally Stony Brook University. ",
"He previously served as a reporter for The Smithtown News and The Northport Observer, and as an editor for The Statesman.",
"\n\nWhen he’s not working, Mike enjoys reading, fishing and hanging out with his pet rabbit, Phillip 🐰, who he loves more than life itself. ",
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"\n\nView\n\nDiscuss\n\nShare\n\nWe've improved Slashdot's video section; now you can view our video interviews, product close-ups and site visits with all the usual Slashdot options to comment, share, etc. ",
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"\n\nmikejuk writes \"Atari is offering up to $100,000 in a contest for a new version of Pong, the classic game that launched video games 40 years ago, for the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. ",
"The judges for the contest include Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, who came up with the original idea for Pong. ",
"So, what does a 21st century Pong look like? ",
"How does it play? ",
"And what role does touch have in this, the simplest of games?\"",
"\n\nitwbennett writes \"Microsoft dropped a bomb yesterday: they won't be showing new hardware this year or 'anytime soon.' ",
"Microsoft told Kotaku that '2012 is all about Xbox 360.' ",
"Meanwhile, Bloomberg's mysterious sources are saying that Microsoft 'may show the successor to its Xbox 360 in June 2013 at the E3 conference and put it on sale that same year.' ",
"This would 'be a fast journey from announcement to launch,' says Peter Smith, 'but it'd mean we'd still get a new Xbox for holiday 2013, which is about the earliest anyone has expected it to arrive anyway.'\"",
"\n\nbednarz writes \"The Smithsonian's 'Art of Video Games' exhibition opens today. ",
"To kick it off, they're holding a three-day festival with panel discussions, live action gaming, and crafting activities. '",
"Video games allow us as human beings to explore our dreams, our fears, our thoughts, our morals, and engage with each other in a way that no other medium allows us to. ",
"I find that inspiring and beautiful, and I am so happy to be alive during this time. ",
"We are going to experience, I think, one of the greatest surges of artistic intent in human history, and I believe that the majority of it will come through video games,' said Chris Melissinos, former Sun exec and guest curator of the new exhibition.\"",
"\n\nIn this video, Brian Alspach tells you how Gamestar Mechanic helps turn kids from game players into game authors, which helps them learn a lot about programming and how computers work in easy steps while having a good time. ",
"If you're a parent, you'll especially want to read this page on their site, which will help reassure you that these folks know what they're doing, and might even (hint hint) give you the idea of suggesting that your local school should subscribe to Gamestar Mechanic, which several thousand schools already do. ",
"The price varies between free and $6 per month, which is a great deal for something that can engage children for many hours every day -- and just might keep a parent or grandparent interested, too.",
"\n\nAn anonymous reader writes \"Computer scientists at the University of Colorado and the Stevens Institute of Technology have shown that gamers that play with friends play better. ",
"The study used the blockbuster FPS Halo: Reach as a testbed, and combined ground truth data on friendships from an anonymous survey with data about the multiplayer competitions extracted using the Reach Stats API. ",
"They found that the more friends you have on your team, the more assists, the fewer betrayals, the more you score, and the greater the probability your team wins, and that this 'friends for the win' effect goes above and beyond the benefits of playing with skilled strangers. (",
"They also show that older gamers are statistically better than younger players, contrary to popular opinion.) ",
"Study lead Prof. Aaron Clauset, writing on his blog, says that friends 'may be able to effectively anticipate or adapt to each others' actions or strategies without an explicit need for verbal (and thus time consuming) communication or coordination,' and 'these effects may be fairly universal, and not merely limited to the traditional domains like sports and war, where practicing together has a long tradition.'\"",
"\n\nitwbennett writes \"If you drew the short straw among your Minecraft-playing friends and ended up running the game server, this news is for you. ",
"A YCombinator-funded startup called Minefold will handle all the server admin tasks for just $5 a month. '",
"Minefold isn't the first firm to offer servers dedicated to game hosting (see for example gameservers.com) but as far as I know they're the first to structure things so each player pays his own way,' writes Peter Smith. '",
"In other words, if I want to set up a Call of Duty 4 server at Gameservers I can, but it'll cost me (for example) $15.95/month for a 16 player server. ",
"So I pay Gameservers and I get my buddies all to send me a few bucks to defray the costs. ",
"It's a messy system. ",
"Using the Minefold model, everyone would pay $5/month to play wherever they want. ",
"On my server today, on someone else's server tomorrow and on their own server the day after that.'\"",
"\n\nIntrepid correspondent Timothy Lord writes, \"I talked at SXSW with Kari Hale of League For Gamers, an organization started just a few months ago by Red 5 Studios founder CEO Mark Kern. (",
"Kern was also team lead for World of Warcraft.) ",
"League for Gamers shares some of the goals of groups like the EFF and EPIC, but — as you might guess from the name — is tightly focused on the world of gaming. ",
"The group owes its existence to SOPA; the money used to start it up had initially been budgeted for Red 5 Studios' appearance at the most recent E3, but E3 sponsor's Entertainment Software Association's support for SOPA led Kern to withdraw from the show. ",
"Kari gave a quick rundown of the origins of the League, what it hopes to accomplish, and what sorts of efforts it's so far undertaken.\"",
"\n\nhypnosec writes \"While you might have often heard that PC gaming is dying — detractors have been claiming this for over a decade — one developer has a different take: that consoles are the ones on the way out. ",
"In a 26-minute presentation at GDC — available now as a slideshow with a voice-over — Ben Cousins, who heads mobile/tablet game maker ngmoco, uses statistics of electronic and gaming purchases, along with market shares of developers and publishers from just a few years ago, to come to some surprising conclusions. ",
"The old guard, including the three big console manufacturers — Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft — are losing out when compared with the new generation of gaming platform developers: Facebook, Apple and Google. ",
"With the new companies, the size of the audience is vastly increased because of their focus on tablets, mobile and browser-based gaming.\"",
"\n\ndonniebaseball23 writes \"Game budgets continue to rise with each successive console generation, and with the Wii U launching later this year, the industry is on the cusp of yet another costly transition. ",
"Publishers have been regularly charging $60 for games this generation, but that model simply cannot survive, Nexon America CEO Daniel Kim said in an interview. '",
"I think at some point the console makers have to make a decision about how closed or open they're going to be to the different models that are going to be emerging,' Kim remarked. '",
"Today it's free-to-play, and I'm convinced that that one is going to continue to flourish and expand into other genres and other categories, but there may be something else completely and entirely different that comes out that again changes the industry.' ",
"He cautioned, 'If your mind is just set on keeping the current model of buy a game for $60, play for 40 hours, buy another game for $60, play for 40 hours, that model I think is eventually going to change. ",
"It's going to have to change.'\"",
"\n\nNew submitter 0111 1110 writes \"Attempting to emulate Double Fine's success to fund another currently dead genre of computer game, Brian Fargo of Interplay fame has started a kickstarter project for a sequel to Wasteland, his1988 post-apocalyptic RPG which inspired Fallout. ",
"It will be turn-based and party-based, with a top-down perspective and 2D graphics. ",
"Fargo has managed to attract many of the original developers, such as Alan Pavlish and Mike Stackpole, as well as Jason Anderson, who was a designer for Fallout, and Mark Morgan, who did the music for Planescape: Torment and both of the original Fallout games. ",
"Fargo's goal has been set at $900,000. ",
"Anything above that will be used for additional game content. ",
"At $1.5 million he will offer an OS X version. ",
"An interview with Fargo by Rock, Paper, Shotgun provides some additional insight into what he and his group are planning, as does a video interview with Matt Barton.\"",
"\n\nmask.of.sanity writes \"Sony Entertainment Network is rebuilding its information security posture to defend against hacktivism. ",
"It includes a security operations center that serves as a nerve center collating information on everything from staff phone calls, to CCTV, to PlayStation gamers. ",
"If it is successful, the counter intelligence-based system will be deployed across the entire company. '",
"At Sony, we are modifying our programs to deal less with state-sponsored [attacks] and more with socially-motivated hackers. ",
"It will be different,' said Chief Security Officer Brett Wahlin.\"",
"\n\nadeelarshad82 writes \"The 1980s were huge for RPGs. ",
"This genre was one of the most defining game forms in the computer gaming world. ",
"A recently published article strolls down the memory lane to look back at classic computer games that both defined and extended the definition of the RPG in the 1980s. ",
"The roundup includes some obvious ones like Ultima and The Bard's Tale, and others which you may never have heard of.\"",
"\n\nAn anonymous reader writes \"Double Fine Adventure, the crowd-funded adventure game from Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert (of Monkey Island fame), just crossed the $2.5 million mark in funding on Kickstarter. ",
"So far, about 73,000 enthusiastic backers have contributed an average of $35 dollars each, with 3 extravagant backers going as far as to contribute $10,000 (earning them a lunch with Schafer and Gilbert, among other goodies). ",
"The total sum is over 6 times the amount Schafer and Gilbert were initially hoping to raise ($400,000). ",
"Schafer released a few pictures showing what he's doing with all the money. ",
"The project has received attention in mainstream media (sort of), with NPR's Morning Edition covering the story.\"",
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"\n\nLOS ANGELES (CNN) —\n\nAnother day, another controversial Kanye West tweet.",
"\n\nThis time, it was a fairly innocuous one that simply read “Day 3.”",
"\n\nThe issue, however, was the picture accompanying it, which showed the file-sharing site Pirate Bay as one of the open tabs on the rapper’s browser.",
"\n\nThe site is reportedly one of the places where his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” has been pirated hundreds of thousands of times. ",
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"\n\nOf course, Twitter users took note of Yeezy’s apparent presence on the site.",
"\n\nMusic producer Deadmau5 tweeted, “What the f**k @kanyewest … Can’t afford serum? ",
"D**k.” ",
"Serum is a synthesizer software used to make music, and the producer later, jokingly, offered to start a Kickstarter campaign to raise the few hundred dollars needed to purchase it.",
"\n\nWest’s tweet also shows a site offering “The 50 best VST/AU plugin synths in the world today.” ",
"So it would seem that West, who has access to some of the best technology in the world, has a lot in common with music hobbyists: He too may head to Google when looking for inspiration."
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"However, complete radiological resolution is seen only in three-fourths of the laparoscopic group and a quarter of those treated via endoscopy. ",
"Diathermy ablation of the lining and/or prolonged double J stenting has not altered this outcome. ",
"The robotic approach is superior to the other two techniques as the leak can be clearly identified and securely suture ligated. ",
"We believe that this is the third published report of the successful closure of a calyceal diverticulum in a child using robotic assistance. ",
"A ten-year-old boy presented with severe pain in the right flank and a palpable renal swelling. ",
"Retrograde injection of contrast outlined a large exophytic calyceal diverticulum (type 2) in the lower pole. ",
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"Q:\n\nHow would Germany increase its military size beyond 370,000 personnel?",
"\n\nA followup question from this answer.",
"\nGermany is currently bound by the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany from 1990. ",
"It, among other things, prevents Germany from having over 370,000 military personal. ",
"From my cursory look at the treaty I do not see any way for Germany to renegotiate or leave this treaty. ",
"\nIf Germany wanted legally to increase or remove this limit, how would they go about doing this? ",
"\nJapan, for example, has similar restrictions, but those are written into their constitution. ",
"Japan has the ability to amend their constitution to expand their military capabilities. ",
"Germany doesn't seem to have this option.",
"\nHow would Germany go about having over 370,000 military personnel? ",
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"They just intentionally downsized their military to 180,000 soldiers in the past decades when they first reduced and then completely suspended conscription. ",
"And now that the Bundeswehr was reformed into a pure volunteer army, it has trouble getting onto its current nominal manpower, despite aggressive recruitment campaigns. ",
"In a country like Germany, with low unemployment, high education standards, low patriotism and a generally pacifist mentality among the population, the military is just not an attractive employer.",
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"But two of the original signatories, the GDR and the Soviet Union, don't exist anymore. ",
"The GDR was completely integrated into the FRG, so modern Germany could represent both signatories. ",
"The successor of the Soviet Union is the Russian Federation. ",
"So that leaves us with these signatories:\n\nGermany\nFrance\nUnited Kingdom\nUnited States\nRussia\n\nThe first four are all NATO partners, close allies and would not really have a geopolitical interest in keeping the German army small. ",
"But Russia could have an interest in keeping European military forces weak.",
"\nIf Russia refuses to agree to an amendment to the two-plus-four agreement, then there is still the option of just ignoring that agreement and doing it anyway. ",
"International politics is anarchy. ",
"Agreements are just as powerful as those who want to enforce them. ",
"Russia could interpret that as an act of aggression. ",
"They could interpret the situation as saying that the two-plus-four agreement is broken, therefore the German reunification is void, World War II is now technically on again and thus they now have a claim on East Germany. ",
"They could decide that it justifies armed intervention into western Europe, but if Russia would go so far as to start a full-blown war with the NATO over this is pure speculation.",
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"\n\nIntroduction {#sec005}\n============\n\nHuman Papillomavirus (HPV) is a DNA virus with the ability to infect epithelial cells or mucous membranes in humans \\[[@pone.0184540.ref001]\\]. ",
"Over 100 genotypes have been identified, and worldwide it is considered the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) \\[[@pone.0184540.ref002]\\]. ",
"Some HPV genotypes are considered low-risk (e.g. HPV-6 and 11), and others high-risk (e.g. HPV-16 and 18) \\[[@pone.0184540.ref003]\\]. ",
"The low-risk genotypes are known for causing skin warts and mucosal papilloma in the anogenital region \\[[@pone.0184540.ref003]\\]. ",
"HPV 6 and 11 account for over 90% of genital warts \\[[@pone.0184540.ref004]\\]. ",
"High-risk HPV genotypes are oncogenic, and HPV 16, 18, 31, 33, 45 are most commonly associated with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia \\[CIN\\], carcinoma in situ and invasive cancers \\[[@pone.0184540.ref005]\\]. ",
"It is the persistence of an oncogenic genotype (e.g. HPV 16, 18, 31, 33, 35 45, 51, 52, 58) that is strongly linked to pre-cancer \\[[@pone.0184540.ref002]\\]. ",
"The most common areas affected by high-risk HPV genotypes are cervix, anus, penis, vagina, vulva, and oropharynx \\[[@pone.0184540.ref006]\\]. ",
"HPV DNA is found in 99.7% of cervical carcinomas, with 70% of them containing HPV 16 or 18 \\[[@pone.0184540.ref002]\\].",
"\n\nWorldwide, cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women between 15 and 44 years of age \\[[@pone.0184540.ref007]\\]. ",
"HPV is estimated to cause over 527,000 incident cases of cervical cancer and over 265,000 deaths worldwide, with 84% of the cases occurring in less developed regions \\[[@pone.0184540.ref007]\\]. ",
"In Puerto Rico, cancer was the second leading cause of death by 2010 \\[[@pone.0184540.ref008]\\], and cervical cancer accounts for 3.9% of all cancer deaths \\[[@pone.0184540.ref009]\\].",
"\n\nOn the other hand, genital warts are the leading STI in the United States (US), particularly among young adults \\[[@pone.0184540.ref010]\\]. ",
"As genital warts in Puerto Rico are underreported, incidence data likely underestimate the true occurrence \\[[@pone.0184540.ref011]\\]. ",
"Although the prevalence of genital warts is not high, and they are not fatal, they can have a significant psychological burden and result in high healthcare costs \\[[@pone.0184540.ref004]\\].",
"\n\nResearch in the US, Mexico, United Kingdom, Colombia, and Italy has documented the economic impact of HPV-related morbidities and the cost effectiveness that HPV vaccination could have in these populations \\[[@pone.0184540.ref012]--[@pone.0184540.ref017]\\]. ",
"It is documented by Seto and colleagues that the inclusion of boys in the vaccination program is more cost-effective than girls only. ",
"However, the authors note that due to a absence of agreement on the proper thresholds for cost effectiveness, comparison of results across studies with regard to boys' vaccination was limited \\[[@pone.0184540.ref018]\\].",
"\n\nThe importance of HPV in the etiology of cervical cancer and other HPV-related morbidities and the needs for preventive measures gave rise to the development of HPV vaccines \\[[@pone.0184540.ref019]\\]. ",
"At present, there are three vaccines approved by the FDA to prevent HPV-related diseases. ",
"GARDASIL, approved in 2006, is a quadrivalent (HPV4) vaccine that provides efficacy against two high-risk HPV genotypes, HPV 16 and 18, as well as two low-risk HPV genotypes, HPV 6 and 11, and is expected to prevent 70% of cervical cancers. ",
"It is indicated for females and males 9 to 26 years old \\[[@pone.0184540.ref020]\\]. ",
"CERVARIX, approved in 2009, is a bivalent (HPV2) vaccine against HPV-16 and HPV-18, indicated for females aged 9 to 25 years old \\[[@pone.0184540.ref021]\\]. ",
"More recently, in 2014, the Food and Drug Administration approved GARDASIL-9 (HPV9) that includes five additional oncogenic genotypes (31, 33, 45, 52, and 58) to the original four genotypes in Gardasil (6, 11, 16, and 18) and is indicated for females 9 to 26 years of age and males 9 to 15 years of age \\[[@pone.0184540.ref022]\\]. ",
"The HPV9 vaccine will increase prevention of cervical cancer to 90%. ",
"\\[[@pone.0184540.ref023]\\]. ",
"Even though the vaccination program can begin at age 9, the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) suggests a vaccination regimen with HPV2 or HPV4 for females ages 11 or 12 and HPV4 for males. ",
"GARDASIL-9 has been included to the routine vaccination recommendations for 11 and 12 years old. ",
"In the US, all HPV vaccines are recommended in a three-dose schedule \\[[@pone.0184540.ref024]\\]. ",
"Although the vaccines have been proven to be effective against the above-mentioned HPV types, these vaccines do not replace the pap smear screening test, and women are still recommended to be tested \\[[@pone.0184540.ref020]--[@pone.0184540.ref022], [@pone.0184540.ref024]\\].",
"\n\nIn spite of the existence and approval of HPV vaccines, vaccination rates are low. ",
"In Puerto Rico, data from the 2014 National Immunization Survey--Teenshow that HPV-vaccination coverage rates for the 3 dose-schedule were estimated at 49.9% of females and 23.7% of males ages 13--17; this estimate is higher than for the US, where 39.7% of females and 21.6% of males of the same ages have completed the vaccination regimen \\[[@pone.0184540.ref025]\\]. ",
"Nonetheless, all these estimates are well below the 2020 goal of 80% established for girls \\[[@pone.0184540.ref026]\\]. ",
"Improving the vaccination rates would not only protect the person who receives the vaccine but would also help to reduce HPV disease incidence through herd immunity. ",
"This has been documented in Australia where, incidence of genital warts declined in both young women and heterosexuals after a vaccination program was introduced \\[[@pone.0184540.ref027], [@pone.0184540.ref028]\\].",
"\n\nData on the public health and economic consequences of HPV vaccination in Puerto Rico is of great relevance to guide public policy and other prevention and control efforts for HPV related disease. ",
"It is imperative to compare the costs and benefits of introducing a vaccination plan along with the current screening program versus screening only (no-vaccination) plan, taking into consideration different vaccination coverage rates. ",
"Therefore, the aim of this analysis was to adapt a previously published economic model to evaluate the health and economic impacts in Puerto Rico of implementing an HPV4 vaccination strategy for females and males, 11--15 years of age, under different vaccination scenarios compared to a no-vaccination strategy. ",
"In addition, to estimate the HPV4 vaccine potential effect on HPV associated diseases and cervical cancer mortality, and to evaluate HPV4 vaccination cost-effectiveness utilizing a variety of vaccination scenarios from Puerto Rico's healthcare point of view. ",
"This is one of the few instances where the model has been adapted to demonstrate the potential impact of increasing vaccination rates on the prevention of HPV-related disease.",
"\n\nMethods {#sec006}\n=======\n\nA previously published transmission dynamic model \\[[@pone.0184540.ref029]--[@pone.0184540.ref031]\\] for HPV genotypes 6, 11, 16, 18 was adapted to Puerto Rico. ",
"The model is an age-structured mathematical model that incorporates: 1) a demographic model describing birth, aging, and death, 2) a behavioral model describing sexual mixing patterns, and 3) HPV infection and disease models describing transmission and disease occurrences. ",
"The model shows the vaccine direct and indirect effects (herd immunity). ",
"Although three types of HPV mathematical models have been reported in the literature (cohort, population dynamic, and hybrid), only the population dynamic model can account for both the direct and indirect (i.e., herd immunity effects) benefits of vaccination in the population \\[[@pone.0184540.ref029]\\]. ",
"The model that was used in this adaptation was calibrated and validated by the developers in three steps \\[[@pone.0184540.ref030]\\]. ",
"First, they established the face validity of the model by consulting with experts on assumptions regarding the natural history of HPV infection and disease and vaccine characteristics. ",
"Second, the predictive validity of the model was evaluated by comparing model results to epidemiologic data reported in the literature. ",
"They evaluated the model predictions against the following outcomes: HPV prevalence; genital wart incidence; RRP incidence; CIN 1, 2, 3 incidences; and incidences of cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, penile, head/neck cancer and death due to each of these cancers. ",
"Model prediction generally fell within the range of values reported in the literature. ",
"Finally, they assessed the convergent validity of the model by comparing estimates of the cost-effectiveness of HPV vaccination with those of several previously published studies. ",
"The range of ICER estimates from these studies overlapped many of the ranges of estimates reported in their results. ",
"Qualitatively their findings were also similar to previous studies for adolescent female HPV vaccination they reviewed. ",
"\\[[@pone.0184540.ref030]\\] Furthermore, a more recent systematic review and meta-analysis of model predictions of the long-term population-level effectiveness of vaccination against HPV 16, 18, 6, and 11 infection in women and men, to examine the variability in predicted herd effects, incremental benefit of vaccinating boys, and potential for HPV-vaccine-type elimination found that the population-level predictions were concordant across different transmission-dynamic mathematical models \\[[@pone.0184540.ref032]\\].",
"\n\nA literature review was performed to attain the model parameter values, which included demographic, sexual behavior and screening variables. ",
"Population estimates came from the U.S. Census Bureau \\[[@pone.0184540.ref033]\\] and screening information (% of females receiving at least 1 pap every 3 years and cervical cancer screening rates by age) were obtained from the Puerto Rico Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) \\[[@pone.0184540.ref034]\\]. ",
"Sexual behavior (Mean number of sexual partners) was assessed from population-based studies in Puerto Rico \\[[@pone.0184540.ref035],[@pone.0184540.ref036]\\], and information on cervical cancer incidence as well as cervical cancer and all-cause mortality came from the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry \\[[@pone.0184540.ref037], [@pone.0184540.ref038]\\]. ",
"Some model inputs, such as genital warts prevalence and attributable risk, were estimates based on the assumed rate of genital warts infection transmission from previous model reports \\[[@pone.0184540.ref013]\\]. ",
"Direct medical costs for HPV-related diseases were estimated from private insurance claims data (using ICD 9 and CPT codes); therefore, the perspective of the analysis is that of the private sector.",
"The model compared three gender neutral vaccination scenarios and cervical cancer screening against cervical cancer screening alone (no-vaccination) for three doses of HPV4 vaccine among individuals aged 11--15 years old in Puerto Rico:\n\n1. ",
" 34% for females and 13% for males (34%F/13%M)\n\n2. ",
" 50% for females and 40% for males (50%F/40%M)\n\n3. ",
" 80% for female and 64% for male (80%F/64%M)\n\nThe model assumed the following vaccine degree of protection:\n\nAgainst transient infection for females (any time DNA detection): HPV16: 76.0%; HPV18: 96.3%; HPV6: 76.1%; HPV11: 76.1%\n\n- Against persistent infection for females: HPV16: 98.8%; HPV18: 98.4%\n\n- Against individual diseases: ○CIN: HPV16: 97.9%; HPV18: 100%; HPV6: 100%; HPV11: 100%○Genital warts for females: HPV6: 98.9%; HPV11: 100%○Genital warts for males: HPV6: 84.3%; HPV11: 90.9%\n\nFurthermore, the model assumed a lifelong protection and that the subjects adhered to the full three-dose vaccination regimen.",
"\n\nResults {#sec007}\n=======\n\nThe estimated HPV 6/11-related incidences of genital warts among females and males over a 100 year timespan, grouped by vaccination strategy, are shown in Figs [1](#pone.0184540.g001){ref-type=\"fig\"} and [2](#pone.0184540.g002){ref-type=\"fig\"}, respectively. ",
"For females, the baseline annual incidence of HPV 6/11-related incidence of genital warts is 1,001 per 100,000 people, with screening, and no vaccination ([Fig 1](#pone.0184540.g001){ref-type=\"fig\"}). ",
"With the 34%F/13%M vaccination scenario, the model predicts a reduction in incidence to 898 cases per 100,000 people after 15 years. ",
"Increasing the vaccination coverage to 50%F/40%M would further reduce the incidence at 15 years to 751 per 100,000 people, while for the 80% F/64%M scenario it would reach the lowest incidence rate of all scenarios of 399 per 100,000 people after 15 years. ",
"For males, the baseline annual incidence of HPV 6/11-related incidence of genital warts was 1,193 per 100,000 people with screening, and no vaccination ([Fig 2](#pone.0184540.g002){ref-type=\"fig\"}). ",
"As shown, the reduction of genital warts incidence among males occurs faster than among females. ",
"With the 34%F/13%M vaccination scenario for females and males, reductions in incidence rates peak at 10 years (1,115 per 100,000). ",
"Increasing the vaccination coverage to 50%F/40%M for females and males will decrease the incidence rate to 966 per 100,000 people. ",
"In the 80%F/64%M vaccination scenario, the incidence rate would be further reduced to 630 per 100,000 people.",
"\n\n{#pone.0184540.g001}\n\n{#pone.0184540.g002}\n\n[Fig 3](#pone.0184540.g003){ref-type=\"fig\"} shows the estimated HPV 16/18-related incidence of CIN 2/3 among females over 100 years, by vaccination strategy. ",
"With screening only, the annual incidence of HPV 16/18-related CIN 2/3 is 193 per 100,000 females. ",
"The model projects dramatic reductions of CIN2/3 at 20, 40 and 60 years as vaccination coverage increases. ",
"The incidence per 100,000 females at 20 years in the 34%F/13%M scenario is 173, at 40 years is 158, and at 60 years is 154. ",
"With the vaccination scenarios of 50%F/40%M and 80%F/64%M, the incidence rate for CIN2/3 is 149 and 100 at 20 years, 116 and 39 at 40 years, and 107 and 21 at 60 years, respectively.",
"\n\n{#pone.0184540.g003}\n\n[Fig 4](#pone.0184540.g004){ref-type=\"fig\"} shows the estimated HPV 16/18-related incidences of cervical cancer among females over a 100 year time horizon, by vaccination scenario. ",
"Since cervical cancer has a slow progression, the effects of the vaccination strategies in the decline of the incidences take more time than with other HPV-related diseases. ",
"The model predicts an annual incidence of 7.2 per 100,000 people with screening, and no vaccination. ",
"With the current vaccination percentage of 34%F/13%M in 20 years it would present a slight reduction in incidence rate to 6.2 per 100,000, in 40 years to 6.1 per 100,000, and in 60 years to 5.8 per 100,000. ",
"If the vaccination coverage was increased to 50%F/40%M, the incidence rate would decrease to 6.2 per 100,000 in 20 years, 4.8 per 100,000 in 40 years, and 4.2 per 100,000 in 60 years. ",
"If the 80%F/64%M vaccination coverage were achieved, in the first 20 years the cervical cancer incidence rate would be dramatically reduced to 5.0 per 100,000, followed by a reduction to 2.4 per 100,000 in 40 years, and 1.1 per 100,000 in 60 years.",
"\n\n{#pone.0184540.g004}\n\n[Fig 5](#pone.0184540.g005){ref-type=\"fig\"} shows the estimated HPV 16/18-related cervical cancer deaths among females over a 100 year time horizon, by vaccination scenario. ",
"The model predicts an annual death rate of HPV 16/18-related cervical cancer of 1.4 with screening, and no vaccination. ",
"With the current vaccination percentage of 34%F/13%M, in 20 years it would present a small reduction to 1.4 per 100,000, in 60 years to 1.1 per 100,000 and then it would continue steady over the next 40 years. ",
"If the vaccination percentage were to increase to 50%F/40%M, the death rate will present a reduction to 1.3 per 100,000 in 20 years, at 60 years it would go to 0.8 per 100,000 and at 100 years it would be around 0.8 per 100,000. ",
"If the 80%F/64%M vaccination coverage was achieved, on the first 20 years the cervical cancer death rate will dramatically be reduced to 1.2 per 100,000, and in 60 years to 0.3 per 100,000.",
"\n\n{#pone.0184540.g005}\n\nMeanwhile, [Table 1](#pone.0184540.t001){ref-type=\"table\"} shows the estimated cumulative HPV genotypes 6, 11, 16, 18-related disease incidence costs avoided at the population level, grouped by vaccination scenario. ",
"If the 34%F/13%M vaccination scenario is considered, the estimated costs avoided for genital warts for females and males go from \\$8.6 million and \\$8.1 million, respectively, in 25 years to \\$14.3 million and \\$13.4 million, respectively, in 50 years. ",
"The CIN1 estimated cost reduction under this vaccination coverage scenario more than doubles, from \\$841,749 in 25 years to nearly \\$2 million in 50 years. ",
"Meanwhile, in CIN2/3 we see a cost reduction of \\$4.8 million in 25 years and of \\$13.4 million in 50 years. ",
"The cervical cancer presents an estimated cost reduction of \\$1.2 million in the first 25 years and \\$4.3 million in 50 years. ",
"Under the 34%F/13%M vaccination scenario, all these disease costs sum up to a total direct cost avoidance of \\$23.7 million in 25 years and \\$47.4 million in 50 years.",
"\n\n10.1371/journal.pone.0184540.t001\n\n###### Estimated cumulative incidence costs avoided since HPV4 vaccination program started, by vaccination scenario.",
"\n\n![](",
"pone.0184540.t001){#pone.0184540.t001g}\n\n HPV Disease Vaccination Scenario (34% Female/13% Male) Vaccination Scenario (50% Female/40% Male) Vaccination Scenario (80% Female/64% Male) \n -------------------------- -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- -------------------------- ------------------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ -------------------------- ------------------------\n Genital warts-female \\$8,671,954 \\$14,257,263 \\$18,123,487 Genital warts-female \\$8,671,954 \\$14,257,263 \\$18,123,487 Genital warts-female \\$8,671,954\n Genital warts-male \\$8,108,461 \\$13,440,910 \\$17,091,889 Genital warts-male \\$8,108,461 \\$13,440,910 \\$17,091,889 Genital warts-male \\$8,108,461\n CIN1 \\$841,749 \\$1,975,720 \\$2,863,853 CIN1 \\$841,749 \\$1,975,720 \\$2,863,853 CIN1 \\$841,749\n CIN2/3 \\$4,830,393 \\$13,375,935 \\$20,551,689 CIN2/3 \\$4,830,393 \\$13,375,935 \\$20,551,689 CIN2/3 \\$4,830,393\n Cervical cancer \\$1,215,209 \\$4,347,953 \\$7,539,668 Cervical cancer \\$1,215,209 \\$4,347,953 \\$7,539,668 Cervical cancer \\$1,215,209\n ***Total Direct Costs*** ***\\$23*,*667*,*766*** ***\\$47*,*397*,*781*** ***\\$66*,*170*,*586*** ***Total Direct Costs*** ***\\$23*,*667*,*766*** ***\\$47*,*397*,*781*** ***\\$66*,*170*,*586*** ***Total Direct Costs*** ***\\$23*,*667*,*766***\n\nIn the 50%F/40%M vaccination scenario, the estimated total direct cost avoided would be nearly \\$38 million in 25 years and \\$71.4 million in 50 years. ",
"The estimated costs avoided for genital warts in females goes from almost \\$13 million in 25 years to \\$20.6 million in 50 years; whereas in males it would be \\$16.2 million in 25 years and \\$26.6 million in 50 years. ",
"For CIN1, the estimated costs avoided in this scenario would be \\$1.2 million in 25 years and \\$2.6 million in 50 years. ",
"The estimated costs avoided for CIN2/3 would be \\$6 million in 25 years and \\$16.3 million in 50 years. ",
"For cervical cancer we see an estimated cost decrease of \\$1.5 million in the first 25 years and \\$5.3 million in 50 years.",
"\n\nFinally, under a broader vaccination scenario of 80%F/64%M, the estimated total direct costs avoided would be nearly \\$90 million in 25 years and \\$162 million in 50 years. ",
"The estimated cost avoided for genital warts in females goes from \\$31.7 million in 25 years to \\$51.2 million in 50 years; whereas in males it goes from \\$38 million in 25 years to \\$62.7 million in 50 years. ",
"The CIN1 estimated cost reduction under this vaccination scenario is \\$2.7 million in 25 years and \\$5.8 million in 50 years. ",
"The CIN2/3 analysis shows an estimated cost reduction of \\$13 million in 25 years and \\$32.3 million in 50 years. ",
"Direct costs attributable to cervical cancer would have an estimated decrease of \\$3.4 million in 25 years and \\$10.5 million in 50 years.",
"\n\n[Table 2](#pone.0184540.t002){ref-type=\"table\"} presents the results of cost-effectiveness analysis of vaccination strategies. ",
"In Puerto Rico, increased vaccination uptake of females and males aged 11--15 year old with a HPV4 vaccine can reduce incidence and deaths from HPV-related conditions and related costs. ",
"For the 80%F/64%M uptake scenario, the study resulted in an ICER of \\$1,960 per QALY. ",
"The 80%F/64%M ICER is estimated to dominate over the alternative scenarios of no vaccination, 34%F/13%M vaccination and 50%F/40%M vaccination.",
"\n\n10.1371/journal.pone.0184540.t002\n\n###### Cost-effectiveness analysis of HPV vaccination scenarios.",
"\n\n![](",
"pone.0184540.t002){#pone.0184540.t002g}\n\n Discounted Total Incremental \n ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ --------------- ------- ---------- --------------------\n **Puerto Rico F+M 11--15 years no-vaccination scenario** **703.53** **26.805 54** **-** **-** **-**\n Puerto Rico F+M 11--15 years vaccination scenario: 34% F/13% M 716.82 26.808 47 13.29 0.002 93 strongly dominated\n Puerto Rico F+M 11--15 years vaccination scenario:50%F/40%M 728.26 26.812 71 24.73 0.007 16 strongly dominated\n Puerto Rico F+M 11--15 years vaccination scenario:80%F/60%M 736.01 26.822 12 32.49 0.016 57 1 960\n\nF = Female; M = Male\n\n\\*Cost rounded to 0.01.",
"\n\n^**†**^ QALYs rounded to 0.00001.",
"\n\n^‡^ Cost/QALY rounded to 1.",
"\n\nDiscussion {#sec008}\n==========\n\nConsistent with previously conducted HPV vaccination health economic analyses, our data suggests that an HPV4 vaccination program can result in important public health and economic benefits in reducing HPV-related diseases over screening only, in the absence of vaccination. ",
"Additionally, increasing the vaccination coverage in females and males would greatly decrease HPV-related morbidity and mortality, resulting in greater HPV-related disease total direct cost avoidance in Puerto Rico. ",
"Although increasing vaccination rates would be expected to result in better outcomes, the model adaptation provides the means to estimate the magnitude of disease avoidance across the different scenarios within the modelled timeframe, hence providing additional information for the need to increase vaccination rates in a timely fashion.",
"\n\nAs the coverage rate increases, faster reductions in HPV-related disease incidences and costs are observed. ",
"At the 80%F/64%M vaccination coverage, the model shows that the vaccine program is cost-effective under the established threshold of \\$50,000 per QALY. ",
"The ICER of \\$1,960 per QALY is also consistent with the WHO \\[[@pone.0184540.ref039]\\] threshold that is three times less than the GDP per capita \\[[@pone.0184540.ref038]\\], which for Puerto Rico was estimated at \\$28,325 in 2013 \\[[@pone.0184540.ref040]\\].",
"\n\nGiven that cervical cancers have a more prolonged natural history, the greatest reductions in disease incidence within the first 25 years of the introduction of HPV4 are estimated to derive from the prevention of HPV 6/11- related genital warts. ",
"Real-world evidence of the impact of gender-neutral HPV vaccination has shown that, although the focus in some countries has been towards cervical cancer prevention among females, in others, the burden of HPV-associated cancers in comparable in males and females. ",
"All men have a high burden of HPV-associated diseases, a problem that is increased in industrialized countries but that could be diminished if they were immunized as well \\[[@pone.0184540.ref027]\\].",
"\n\nAustralia's post-licensure monitor studies showed the first signs of a quadrivalent vaccine impact by reporting a sharp decrease in additional diagnoses of genital warts in young females within two years after vaccine, and a smaller decrease in new genital warts cases in young heterosexual men, suggesting indirect protection through herd immunity. ",
"Hariri has reported that emerging data from countries with high vaccination coverages, such as Denmark and Sweden, and those with lower coverages, such as the United States, Germany, and New Zealand, further strengthen the evidence of direct and indirect impacts of the HPV4 vaccine \\[[@pone.0184540.ref006]\\]. ",
"A systematic literature review done by Mariani, et al. ",
"confirms this finding \\[[@pone.0184540.ref041]\\]. ",
"As mentioned earlier, in Puerto Rico, increasing vaccination coverage from 34%F/13%M to 80%F/64%M can potentially decrease direct costs in 100 years by nearly 50%. ",
"Fifty-six percent of the reduction in direct costs would be attributed to the decline of the incidence of genital warts.",
"\n\nAmong study limitations is the exclusion of health benefits and cost offsets associated with other HPV related-diseases which may be a consequence of HPV 6, 11, 16 and 18 infections, whose inclusion may show an improvement on HPV4 cost-effectiveness. ",
"Also, only direct medical costs were included in the analysis, HPV associated labor productivity loss was not included, which represented for the US an estimate of \\$1 billion in cervical cancer \\[[@pone.0184540.ref042]\\].",
"\n\nIn Puerto Rico, labor productivity loss due to cancer deaths in 2004 was estimated to be around \\$64 million \\[[@pone.0184540.ref043]\\]. ",
"Even when the inclusion within the cost/QALY estimations of labor productivity loss is not endorsed by the US Panel on cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine \\[[@pone.0184540.ref044]\\], it can provide a better understanding of the economic impact of health interventions.",
"\n\nAnother limitation of the study is that data on the age-specific incidences of genital warts are under-reported in Puerto Rico, leading to inaccuracies in the model estimations. ",
"We therefore calibrated the model based on the annual age-specific incidences of genital warts in the US. ",
"In addition, data pertaining to the costs of follow-up care for incident episodes of HPV-related disease, including genital warts, were not publicly available. ",
"Therefore, these costs were estimated based on claims analysis from a private health insurance company (using ICD 9 and CPT codes). ",
"More accurate estimations of these costs represent an area for future research.",
"\n\nConclusions and implications for health policy {#sec009}\n==============================================\n\nHPV vaccination is covered by health insurance plans for females and males in Puerto Rico; however vaccination uptake is still suboptimal. ",
"Results show that increasing the vaccination coverage can lead to a reduction in the incidence and costs of HPV-related morbidity in Puerto Rico. ",
"Although these effects will not be seen immediately for cancer due to its natural history, the impact on anogenital warts would be observed faster. ",
"Notwithstanding, it is important to foster direct attention to the importance of the vaccination and in order to be fully protected, completing the vaccination schedule. ",
"As stated before, in Puerto Rico local legislation requires insurance companies to cover the vaccine but the vaccination itself is not mandatory according to the local vaccination list. ",
"Public health advocates and decision-makers can use the results of this model adaptation to develop strategies to increase vaccination rates in order to potentially avoid additional healthcare expenditures associated with HPV-related disease. ",
"Furthermore, this analysis should be used as a basis for future, more in depth analyses that further explore the burden of HPV-related diseases and the positive impacts that vaccination programs can have on them. ",
"That way the government can adopt a properly informed position regarding HPV vaccination. ",
"Our study supports putting in effect HPV4 vaccination for the prevention of HPV-related pre-cancerous lesions, cancers and genital warts in Puerto Rico. ",
"Continued surveillance of HPV-related conditions will help evaluate the long-term impact of vaccination and guide public health efforts.",
"\n\nSupporting information {#sec010}\n======================\n\n###### Web-model inputs.",
"\n\n(XLSX)\n\n###### \n\nClick here for additional data file.",
"\n\n###### Modeled health-economics results.",
"\n\n(PPTX)\n\n###### \n\nClick here for additional data file.",
"\n\n[^1]: **Competing Interests:**We have the following interests. ",
"Financial support was provided by Merck & Co. AK and MP are employees of Merck & Co. and were responsible for running the economic model using the inputs provided by the Principal Investigator and her team and for data analysis. ",
"AL is a consultant for Merck & Co. and was responsible for data analysis. ",
"HAM and CMG are employees of MSD (IA) Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., and were responsible for overseeing the project from the sponsor's side, the decision to publish and the preparation of the manuscript. ",
"APO institution received a grant from Merck to conduct the proposed work under a collaborative contract agreement. ",
"Andreas Lauschke provided consulting services under contract. ",
"He is not a Merck employee and his company had no role in funding the study. ",
"There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. ",
"This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.",
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"Blogaversary: Top 10 Tips for New Book Bloggers\n\nTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish. ",
"It’s on hiatus until August, but I’m going back through some of the older topics while I’m waiting. ",
"This week (today, actually) is my 1 year anniversary of this blog! ",
"Yay! ",
"I thought since it was my Blogaversary, I’d go ahead and share my top 10 tips for new book bloggers. ",
"I still don’t really feel like I know what I’m doing, but these are things that have helped me this year, so I hope they’ll help someone else!",
"\n\n1. ",
"Read other blogs!",
"\n\nReading other blogs is super awesomely helpful in a lot of ways. ",
"It can give you ideas about things like structure of your blog & is also a great way to get yourself involved in the community. ",
"Commenting on and following other blogs also helps because it makes the whole experience interactive (and can help potential followers find your blog, too!).",
"\n\n2. ",
"Write about what you want to write about.",
"\n\nStarting out, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to write about. ",
"A year in, I’m still not sure most of the time. ",
"When writing a book blog, reviews and weekly events are great places to start. ",
"This directory on Bookshelf Fantasies is a great place to start, but you’ll also pick up on events from reading other people’s blogs (see Tip 1). ",
"A lot of advice I saw for new bloggers was about not making your blog too meme-heavy etc., ",
"but I honestly say if you want to start out doing all weekly memes, then that’s your decision! ",
"If you’re trying too hard to make your blog what other people say it should be, then it’s not going to be as much fun. ",
"I had a healthy balance of reviews & memes for most of my 1st year, and I’ve really only started branching out into discussion posts more recently. ",
"Your blog, your journey!",
"\n\n3. ",
"eARCS are wonderful if you want advance copies.",
"\n\nI love Netgalley. ",
"I’ve also recently started branching into Edelweiss. ",
"I was so afraid that I would never get eARCs because my blog was small or brand new, but I got books very early on in my blogging life that I absolutely adored. ",
"My biggest advice would be to be a little bit picky about what you request and only request what you absolutely know you’ll read. ",
"My strategy at first was to request a TON of books and think I’d only get approved for a fraction of them, but that backfired…and still does on occasion when I go on a requesting spree. ",
"Regardless, this is a great and easy option for getting advance copies electronically.",
"\n\n4. ",
"Don’t be afraid to review backlist.",
"\n\nLearning this was a huge epiphany for me. ",
"I got so jealous of all the pretty ARCs everyone had at first, but then I realized I would still attract readers when I reviewed backlist books. ",
"What I really love about reviewing back list is that it gives me a chance to highlight older releases that I don’t hear anyone talking about or referring to in the blogosphere (hello, Green Rider series, anyone?!). ",
"These reviews just as easily get conversation started with fellow bloggers, and it’s really fun to explore older titles. ",
"Your job as a blogger is to help people find books, and no one ever made it a rule that you can only review new and highly anticipated books.",
"\n\n5. ",
"Book tags are really fun!",
"\n\nUntil I started blogging, I had no idea what a book tag was. ",
"From reading other blogs (see how important this is?), ",
"I started figuring out what they were & fell in love (I need to do more!). ",
"Book tags are basically themed questions about books or you that you answer on your blog & then tag other bloggers you know (from reading their blogs!) ",
"to do them too. ",
"I was so excited the first time someone else tagged me. ",
"I’m also notoriously bad about keeping up with them, but I simply adore reading & writing them.",
"\n\n6. ",
"You control your blog.",
"\n\nI read a lot of advice posts about blogging when I was starting out and a lot of them made me feel like I had to post super frequently to gain followers. ",
"It may help you accrue followers faster…but at the same time, you do you. ",
"What I mean by this is, you post what you want, when you want, and as often as you want to or your schedule allows. ",
"I can’t say enough that trying to make your blog fit some ideal is not going to make it fun, and that’s what blogging is all about. ",
"Make it your own!",
"\n\n7. ",
"Find your voice.",
"\n\nThis is something I’m still trying to do, and I get closer every time I post, I think. ",
"As you start writing reviews and/or discussion posts, you’ll start to find a structure and writing style that fits you and your personality. ",
"I’ve found mine is very straightforward, and I’m constantly growing and tweaking it to make it better. ",
"Reading other people’s reviews has helped me too. ",
"I start to see patterns and things I like and think I’d like to try and incorporate more and start working on those things. ",
"It’s all about making your blog something you’re proud to have others read and something that sounds like you.",
"\n\n8. ",
"It’s okay to miss posts/events/weeks sometimes.",
"\n\nI’m a teacher and I run this blog as a hobby in my copious amounts of free time. ",
"Blogging can take a lot of time. ",
"The writing part doesn’t seem to take as much time as the whole finding/downloading/inserting pictures and formatting parts. ",
"Regardless, there are some weeks I don’t get to post as much. ",
"I’ve tried batch scheduling on weekends, but I don’t always get to that, either. ",
"This spring, I went a few months where I barely posted at all. ",
"Once I was ready, I jumped back in & started posting again. ",
"I’ve found a rhythm again, which will inevitably change when I go back to school in 2 weeks, but that’s okay. ",
"I’ve learned to be okay with all of these scenarios, because that’s life. ",
"The blog will still be here when I’m ready to post, and I’ll still have a community to return to.",
"\n\n9. ",
"Review what you read.",
"\n\nThat seems fairly obvious. ",
"However, I still felt the need to say it. ",
"What I’m trying to say is don’t feel like you have to post about “trendy” genres if you don’t already read them. ",
"Not a YA reader? ",
"That’s okay! ",
"Like thrillers but not fantasy? ",
"Also, totally fine! ",
"Read across all genres? ",
"Great! ",
"Review them all. ",
"Just don’t feel like you have to stick to one genre or incorporate multiple genres if they’re not in your wheelhouse. ",
"Your blog, remember?",
"\n\n10. ",
"Have fun!!!",
"\n\nThis is the most important tip of all!",
"\n\nWhat tips would you give new bloggers?? ",
"What are some things you’ve learned as a blogger?",
"\n\nI love your attitude – having fun is the most important thing, otherwise, why do it? ",
"I also love the advice about not stressing about frequency. ",
"I do this as a hobby, too, aside from work and family life and other interests. ",
"So if I miss a week, it’s okay! ",
"I’ve learned that my core group of commenters will still be there when I return with a post."
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"10 Hikes Near Philadelphia With Waterfalls and Gorgeous Views\n\nIf you're looking for new outdoor vistas, these hikes can be an ideal escape from the city.",
"\n\nIf you’re a nature-loving city dweller, any chance you get to dive into Philly’s surrounding wooded spots can be a nice reprieve from all the hustle and bustle. ",
"Even in coronavirus times, the CDC allows hiking. ",
"They recommend that you socially distance, wear a mask when you are near others, avoid large groups, and use hand sanitizer during your visit. ",
"Additionally, the guidelines suggest visiting trails that are close to your home or that don’t require you to make pit stops along the way, as doing so can contribute to the spread of the virus. ",
"If you are sick or were recently exposed to COVID-19, the CDC recommends staying home to keep yourself and others safe.",
"\n\nIf you’ve checked all the boxes and are ready to hit the trail, you’ll of course want to make your visit worthwhile. ",
"Why not go beyond the Wissahickon, and check out some places with amazing scenery, like vistas and waterfalls? ",
"Below, a list of 10 spots for gorgeous hikes near Philadelphia, shared with us by Carl Ewald, author of a hiking guide for our area and founder of Philly Run Fest.",
"\n\nWhere: Cresco, PA\n\nDrive from Philadelphia: 2 hours This moderately trafficked 3.1-mile hike is an out-and-back trail, meaning you go up the mountain and back down on the same path. ",
"Your climb and descent will feature beautiful views of the valley, which — when in bloom — is “lined with rhododendron and mountain laurel,” according to Ewald. ",
"The trail can be difficult to follow at points because it is unlabeled and crosses the creek several times, warns Ewald. ",
"However, “if you stay within sight of the creek, you are not going to miss the waterfall,” he says. ",
"Governor Dick Park in Mount Gretna Where: Manheim, PA\n\nDrive from Philadelphia: 1 hour, 20 minutes While jumping off of diving boards into a huge lake is the main attraction at Mount Gretna, there’s actually some beautiful nature-filled views that can be discovered with a little work. ",
"According to Ewald, “The cool thing about this is the original owner, who donated the land for a park, was an eccentric who loved towers and built a few on the land — but only one remains. ",
"If you are not afraid of heights and confined spaces, you can shimmy to the top on a series of ladders for some great views of the valley.” ",
"The only downside to scoring these views is that the tower is located right by the parking lot, so if you’re looking for a serious hike, you best use a map to find a trail that ends up at the tower, otherwise “the hike is pretty anticlimactic,” Ewald explains. ",
"Mount Tammany Where: Columbia, NJ\n\nDrive from Philadelphia: 1 hour, 50 minutes The Red Dot Trail is quick and steep, but the overlook panorama is worth the effort. ",
"You can see for miles, with gorgeous views of the Delaware Water Gap and Mount Minsi (note: also worth a hike; see below). ",
"After, you can return along the Blue Blaze Trail for a 3.5-mile excursion. ",
"More experienced hikers may want to combine the Mount Tammany climb with the Sunfish Pond Trail to make a big loop. ",
"Ewald says it makes for a good three- to four-hour hike that includes time on two mountains; the pond — really a big alpine lake — is at the top of Mount Mohican. ",
"View this post on Instagram A post shared by New Jersey Is Beautiful (@newjerseyisbeautiful) on Jul 11, 2017 at 2:48pm PDT\n\nRicketts Glen State Park Where: Benton, PA\n\nDrive from Philadelphia: 2 hours, 30 minutes “This is the hike that turns first-time hikers into forever hikers,” says Ewald. ",
"At 7.2 miles long, the popular Falls Trail features rocky and steep sections, but the payoff is views of 21 waterfalls of varying heights, with the tallest reaching 94 feet. ",
"Per Ewald’s suggestion, if you’re planning to make a weekend of it by camping onsite inside the park, book in advance so you don’t miss out. (",
"Though, all lodging right now is currently closed until at least June 12.)",
"\n\nKelly’s Run Nature Preserve Where: Holtwood, PA\n\nDrive from Philadelphia: 1 hour, 40 minutes Don’t be fooled by the baseball fields and picnic pavilions. ",
"What feels like a suburban park quickly becomes a serene hike — one Ewald calls a “hidden gem” — when you access the five-mile trail network that crosses the cool, shaded creek in this Lancaster County nature preserve. ",
"It includes a short but steep climb to a lookout with great views of the Susquehanna River. ",
"Just note that Kelly’s Run, being a nature preserve in Lancaster County, is currently not open to visitors who have to travel more than 15 minutes from home to visit.",
"\n\nHickory Run State Park Where: White Haven, PA\n\nDrive from Philadelphia: 1 hour, 30 minutes On the out-and-back Boulder Field Trail, about a seven-mile round trip, you’ll wind through the forest before reaching the 16-acre boulder field, a national natural landmark. ",
"Don’t hit the road the second you return to your car: Hawk Falls, a 25-foot waterfall, is just a 10-minute walk from the parking lot.",
"\n\nMount Minsi Where: Delaware Water Gap, PA\n\nDrive from Philadelphia: 2 hours Mount Minsi flanks the Delaware River from the Pennsylvania side, offering excellent vistas of Mount Tammany in Jersey. ",
"This five-miler is steep and strenuous but doable, advises Ewald, if you’re in good shape and take it slow. ",
"There are two outlooks on the way up where you’ll get good views across the water gap. ",
"At the top, where you’ll find the remnants of an old fire tower, you’ll see Mount Tammany in all its glory, stripes of exposed rock and all. ",
"Pro tip: Follow the fire road, instead of the trail, back down for a quicker and easier-to-navigate descent.",
"\n\nHawk Mountain Sanctuary Where: Kempton, PA\n\nDrive from Philadelphia: 1 hour, 30 minutes Make plans to visit this raptor sanctuary when it opens (it’s currently closed until further notice due to the coronavirus pandemic) so you can watch red-tailed hawks, ospreys, and bald eagles flocking home. ",
"You’ll also be able to complete a moderately challenging 4.7-mile hike that includes varied terrain, steep inclines, and a scramble when you reach the rocky lookout. ",
"In the meantime, check out some of their neat virtual programming here.",
"\n\nThe Pinnacle Where: Hamburg, PA\n\nDrive from Philadelphia: 1 hour, 20 minutes Though temporarily closed due to COVID-19, you must keep this trail bookmarked for when it reopens, as it features superb views of the Lehigh Valley from two vistas: Pulpit Rock and the Pinnacle. ",
"The 8.5-ish-mile hike takes about three to four hours to complete, depending on your fitness level, says Ewald, and he advises doing the route counterclockwise: “The first two to three miles to get up to the Pulpit can get steep, so this way you get the hard hiking done while you’re fresh.” ",
"From Pulpit Rock, enjoy a nice view across the valley, then follow the ridge to the Pinnacle. “",
"It’s considered one of the top vistas in this half of the state,” says Ewald. “",
"It’s just really beautiful, long views across fields and mountains.”"
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"“I am constantly pressured to do the right thing,” Feinberg said. “",
"You know, the shrimpers, the crabbers, the oystermen and the GCCF, they all say we need to do more, and that they are still at risk. ",
"On the other hand, I get correspondence from BP, saying you should not give two times, or four times. ",
"In fact they say that two times is too much, the Gulf has recovered. ",
"So I get pressure from both every side. ",
"I do what I think is right.”",
"\n\nIt’s gotta be hard to be Ken Feinberg, living in the middle like that…the fishermen saying he hasn’t done enough, the evil oil corporation who says he has done too much…so very difficult…I almost feel bad, like I should invite him down to Flanagans on St. Phillips, do my social work thing, listen, empathize…and then of course, dump my beer all over his head, kick him off the bar stool and then, standing over him, remind him how he has turned this whole “neutral arbitrator” schtick into a multimillion dollar business…the agent orange fund, the 9-11 fund…etc…and while he is going on and on about how hard it is to wear his shoes, I’d remind him how he put them on, and how they’re some of the most expensive shoes money can buy, and how the people his decisions affect have lost quite a bit more than a few hours sleep so sorry, tell it walking, tell it to the MSM who oftentimes feel content to give him a pass because he is at least paying something unlike the Road Home Program…\n\nYeah, a celebration of mediocrity…perfect.",
"\n\nOh, and Ken would just like to add:\n\nFeinberg emphasized that anyone who so wishes, can still seek interim payments from the Gulf Coast Claims facility, and not accept any final payment.",
"\n\nHey, I thought this whole oil spill deal was all kinda, you know…over.",
"\n\nAt least that’s the impression I got watching all them there sparkly British Petroleum commercials, but man, over the past two days, the news has been flying pretty serious again in the Gulf, and between you, me, the courts and the water…I think this has just begun…Maybe I just got distracted by the hockey playoffs…\n\nArchbishop Gregory Aymond got on bended knees and put his arms around two women, listened to the damage BP and the GCCF have wrought and did his best to console them. ",
"The women had come to Catholic Charities in Violet for counseling and help with their spill damage claims.",
"\n\nTurns out one of the women, Lois Neville of Violet is yet another one of those people who Ken Feinberg, BP paid administrator of the GCCF and $20 billion escrow fund is saying…well, golly gosh gee, must have slipped through the cracks…hey, mistakes get made, do you know how many claims we’ve received, we’re working as fast as we can…etc…ad nauseum.",
"\n\nFunny thing though, BP was helping her financially, but all payments stopped when Feinberg took over…and she filed for her final settlement, and well past the 90 day time limit Feinberg gave himself to present final offers, she is still waiting…\n\nIn her words from David Hammer’s article in the Times-Picayune:\n\n“I’m barely making ends meet with my savings and rental income, and I’m depressed, I’m stressed out,” Neville said. “",
"I get very angry. ",
"I hate to even watch the news because there are other people in a worse predicament than me.”",
"\n\nDepressed and stressed out…like thousands of others, yet BP has closed the coffers on funding for mental health in the Gulf Coast…maybe when they said, making things right…they meant everything but the mind.",
"\n\nAnd hey, why might Ms. Neville still be waiting for her final claim?",
"\n\nIt’s been a year since the oil spilled.",
"\n\nWell, on the GCCF front…Feinberg will tell any reporter who listens how he has paid out $3.9 billion dollars of that escrow fund…and apparently, he is quite proud of this fact…lord knows why…after all that means…he hasn’t paid out $16 billion dollars…and of that 3.9, it’s mostly quick payments…very few final offers, and even fewer interim payments…so what gives? ",
"Oh…right, right: mistakes get made, do you know how many claims we’ve received and we’re working as fast as we can…got it. ",
"Um, bullshit? ",
"Not to mention, how convenient was it for Feinberg, the day before the anniversary, the day before the press was to descend all over the Gulf Coast, to suddenly issue the largest final offer to date to Omega Protein Corp, $44.8 million dollars total. ",
"I’m sure the timing of this was coincidental, of course…Feinberg couldn’t possibly be such a cynical asshole to present this offer as some sort of distraction to the press, you know, so the coverage might be a bit more balanced as the press goes out to find the countless Lois Neville’s across the Gulf Coast, the ones seeking counseling because they are struggling not to lose everything, again, a year later…\n\nAnd speaking of unhappy people in the Gulf…well, let the lawsuits begin, and rightfully so…\n\n70,000 people have filed suit in the Gulf in a maritime law proceeding brought by rig owner Transocean, using a form that also expanded the suit to include British Petroleum. ",
"This would be on top of the 350 other suits, representing multiple parties already filed. ",
"No word on how many of these people are of the 400,000 that Feinberg and the GCCF have not paid yet, or plan not to pay, but Stephen Herman, co-lead attorney for the plaintiffs said, “I think it certainly validates the litigation effort. ",
"I also think that it confirms the sentiment out there that Feinberg and the GCCF haven’t really done a great job of giving people what they thought they were entitled to.”",
"\n\nNot to be outdone, British Petroleum filed a suit of their own, going after Cameron International, the company that made the blowout preventer that wouldn’t close. ",
"BP would like a court to rule against the company, declaring the device caused or contributed to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon. ",
"Such a ruling would help BP fight against a designation of being “grossly negligent” which if so designated would dramatically raise the amount of fines British Petroleum will have to pay under the Oil Pollution Act.",
"\n\nPerhaps Feinberg knows a judge, to help out his boss, maybe call in some favors perhaps? ",
"It’s been a while since he got a raise, and remember the reason the GCCF keeps screwing people? ",
"Right, it’s because they’re overworked…not because the GCCF is trying to coerce people into claims attached to a clause where they sign away their rights to sue BP, and not because Feinberg is trying to save BP money, and certainly not because Feinberg is just trying to keep people out of court…cause, that worked out real well…(see above).",
"\n\nOkay…well, at least…all the oil is gone. ",
"And that’s important because according to Feinberg’s methodology, all that oil has to be outta there by 2013. ",
"If not, if the Gulf isn’t back to normal by then, the entire pay-scale he is using to determine damages for claimants will be off, and not in the claimants favor…so, hey…at least BP and the Coast Guard, they got that one right…oh, what?",
"\n\n“Mike Robichaux is a local doctor who has seen up to 60 patients in recent weeks with a mysterious sickness that some attribute to BP’s oil spill. ",
"Dr. Robichaux has been making house calls because many of the “stoic” workers don’t want others to know that they are sick. ",
"Yet, Dr. Robichaux tells the AFP, “Ninety percent of them are getting worse… Nobody has a clue as to what it is.”",
"\n\nReuters reports that the U.S. National Institutes of Health has launched a ten-year study on the health of 55,000 oil spill clean-up workers and volunteers. ",
"Perhaps it will take ten years to get an answer for Dr. Robichaux.",
"\n\nNot everyone blames the oil spill for the health problems plaguing Gulf cleanup workers. ",
"Namely, BP does not blame the BP oil spill for the health problems plaguing Gulf cleanup workers. ",
"In a BP comment to the AFP, the company wrote, “Illness and injury reports were tracked and documented during the response, and the medical data indicate they did not differ appreciably from what would be expected among a workforce of this size under normal circumstances.”",
"\n\nAs for compensating sick workers, this would fall under state law and “must be supported by acceptable medical evidence.” ",
"Are the 415 Louisianans suffering from respiratory tract infections, nausea, and headaches evidence enough?”",
"\n\nOh, and as mentioned before…it ain’t just the physical body having problems…a study funded by the National Science Foundation has found that mental health difficulties are likely to linger on the Gulf Coast for the following decade. ",
"According to the study, two factors that could cause stresses to persist are delays in compensation for spill damages by the claims process, and possible slow recovery of fishing resources and the fishing industry.",
"\n\nFeinberg, Dudley…your ears burning?",
"\n\nOkay…my bad on all this everybody…I promise to stop watching so much hockey. ",
"It really would appear this thing is far from over…that few are doing well in the Gulf at all\n\nIn fact…it would appear the only people really doing well these days are British Petroleum…once again paying stock dividends and issuing bonuses to the elite within its company, and Ken Feinberg,who’s sitting on a helluva nice raise from his British Petroleum puppet masters. ",
"Yeah, Ken may be taking a lot of criticism these days, but from everything I read, it doesn’t appear to be affecting his psyche at all, in fact he refers to himself as “Bloodied, but unbowed.” ",
"And that’s a good thing too, because whereas some of you lightweights out there might want your guy in charge of helping hundreds of thousands of people recover from this catastraphuk to brag about such things as fairness, compassion, generosity and empathy….I like my arbitrator of a compensation fund to talk like he’s trying out for the WWE, you know, to be a bad-ass who don’t take no crap from some fishing type guys and business people who’ve never been to New York.",
"\n\nNope…not going well at all:\n\nCleanup workers are getting sick, depression is running rampant and suicides are up across the Gulf Coast. ",
"There’s still oil out there while BP continues to scale back cleanup. ",
"BP is reneging on financial promises to help with the oyster beds while helping their stockbrokers and executives to more money. ",
"The health of the Gulf continues to be debated. ",
"Dolphins are dying. ",
"Fish have sores. ",
"There are dead zones on the Gulf seafloor. ",
"Allegations exist that BP is trying to taint the science by influencing the research. ",
"A year after the Deepwater Horizon blew up, no laws have been passed by Congress to help ensure it doesn’t happen again while experts maintain it very well could happen again. ",
"The NOAA, EPA and FDA all claim the seafood from the Gulf is safe to eat, and they finally opened the last fishing area but the country isn’t buying it: what the government says, or the seafood – which leaves the industry far from recovered. ",
"Too many people are waiting for Feinberg to do his fucking job…homes are being lost, jobs haven’t come back and businesses continue to go bankrupt.",
"\n\nAnd the President?",
"\n\nWell, he said some words and stuff, but ah…who cares, or believes that guy anymore…\n\nJust wanted to send a quick note of congratulations to G, and her husband. ",
"They got in touch with me sometime ago about their claims, expressing their frustrations with investigations by the GCCF, disgust with the length of time it was taking…79 days to get a quick payment? ",
"And an overall disappointment with BP and Feinberg for the damages, the stalling, the runaround and the lies.",
"\n\nWell, they got paid today, so I just wanted to say congratulations to them and a continuing best of luck to everybody who’s still waiting. ",
"Like G. and her husband, may all eventually have the good fortune to finally be done with the GCCF and their miserly ways…\n\nOn Thursday morning, Ken Feinberg brought adjusters from his Gulf Coast Claims Facility in Washington DC down to Gulfport, Alabama to meet one on one with a group of business owners and discuss their claims in person. ",
"When the meetings were over, Feinberg said “Alabama’s been a sore point, this area has been an area where there’s been a good deal of constructive criticism leveled at the GCCF.”",
"\n\nNo, Ken, not just in Alabama.",
"\n\nThese complaints are also blasting away in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.",
"\n\nWhat appears to have made the difference in Alabama is, believe it or not, the politicians. ",
"This four-hour meeting in Gulfport came at the urging of Alabama’s senators, Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions. ",
"It is also probable the cause was helped by the writings of the Alabama Press Register, and the Governor, Bob Riley’s evisceration of the claims process as “extortion.”",
"\n\nSo where are Jindal, Landrieu and Vitter in Louisiana? ",
"Where are Crist, LeMieux and Nelson in Florida? ",
"Where are Barbour, Cochran and Wicker in Mississippi? ",
"Where are Perry, Cornyn and Hutchison in Texas?",
"\n\nMost importantly, why the hell is it even necessary that all this pressure must be exerted to get face time with Feinberg in the first place? ",
"Isn’t this his job, to be equitable and fair, to ensure that everyone gets what they deserve?",
"\n\nFeinberg said he was giving special attention to Alabama business owners because of the high concentration of unhappy claimants there.",
"\n\nJust in Alabama? ",
"Is he even paying attention?",
"\n\nAs Chris Nelson, a vice president at Bon Secour Fisheries who was present for the meeting put it, “I’ve yet to bump into anyone in the seafood industry, whether they’re from Texas or Florida, that seems satisfied with the program, either he’s not hearing from these guys, or he’s misinterpreting what they’re saying.”",
"\n\nPerhaps Bobby Jindal for one, should stop spending so much time on the (non)campaign trail, and along with fixing the Louisiana budget start making some noise in favor of its businesses and people.",
"\n\nApparently, politicians are the only ones who can get Feinberg’s attention."
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"\n\nADVERTISEMENT\n\nThe report found that the rate was set despite serious objections from those involved in the planning of the event.",
"\n\n“Please take into consideration that when this is audited it will become public knowledge,” wrote Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a New York City-based event planner who suggested that an appropriate rate be closer to $85,000 per day according to the report.",
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"Rising over 800 ft above the valley floor, these unique dual razorback ridgelines are a feature many come to Nelson Rocks, West Virginia to experience first hand!",
"\n\nNelson Rocks, in the North Fork Valley of West Virginia, is located just 10 miles south of the famous trad climbing area of Seneca Rocks. ",
"This unique rock formation is comprised of two razorback “Fin” ridgelines of Tuscarora Quartzite rock. ",
"Climbing at Nelson Rocks can date as far back as the rock climbing found at Seneca Rocks. ",
"During World War II, the 10th Mountain Division of the United States Army trained & climbed on these very rock formations in preparation for their assaults of the mountains of Italy.",
"\n\nThe term “Via Ferrata” is Italian for “Iron Road” and is used to describe a type of climbing consisting of metal rungs and cables permanently affixed to rock, thereby offering an easy means of ascending the cliffs on which they’ve been installed.",
"\n\nThe equipment and gear used for climbing the via ferrata is similar to the gear used in other forms of rock climbing. ",
"A harness, helmet and locking carabiners (for example) are used just as you would in sport climbing. ",
"You clip in as you climb up the route. ",
"The major difference in climbing the via ferrata at Nelson Rocks, as compared to other forms of climbing, is that there is no rope. ",
"Instead, the climber clips into and uses the steel cables permanently affixed to the rock throughout the length of the entire climb.",
"\n\nAfter introductions to our guides, gear instruction & tutorial, we got our equipment and made our way up the hill to the base of the cliffs.",
"\n\nThe metal rungs stick out about 4 to 6 inches from the rock and are spaced roughly half a body length apart from each other. ",
"Depending on the section of the cliff you are climbing, the steel cable runs anywhere between 4 feet and 15 feet in length.",
"\n\nTwo locking carabiners on separate slings are attached to your harness (like a personal anchor system). ",
"Both locking carabiners are to be secured to the steel cable at all times. ",
"As you climb up the metal rungs and come to the next bolted section of the steel cable, you take one locking carabiner, un-clip it from your current section of cable, and then clip into the next section of steel cable on the other side of the fixed bolt. ",
"There is also a safety turn-lock gate carabiner attached to your harness. ",
"If you need to take a rest, simply clip this carabiner to one of the metal rungs and hang out. ",
"Remember, this is in addition to having both locking carabiners attached to the cable.",
"\n\n***Always make sure that at least one locking carabiner is clipped to the cable at any given point before un-clipping and moving the other carabiner forward. ",
"Do not move forward unless both carabiners are clipped to the steel cable***\n\nThe via ferrata at Nelson Rocks has a beautiful “window” notch in the cliff that you get to climb through and around to get to the opposite side of the first fin. ",
"After you climb through it, make sure to take a look back at the view of Spruce Knob in the distance.",
"\n\nAs you make your way up the inside section of the fins, take a minute to hang out and enjoy the surrounding views! ",
"You’ll notice the guides hanging out, making sure everyone is doing okay, enjoying themselves and following proper safety procedures throughout the climb.",
"\n\nThe term “Razorback” & “Fin” becomes apparent once you cross through the notch and into the inside section of two ridgelines. ",
"When you look up, you will notice the massive headwall that towers 300 feet over the bridge crossing. ",
"At this point, you realize you are about to experience the true “meat & potatoes” part of the day!",
"\n\nWhen you make it to the bridge, definitely take a minute to have a drink of water from your hydroflask, eat a shot block and take a break. ",
"This is the part of the trip where most folks discover they have a fear of heights and suffer from sweaty palms.",
"\n\nThe bridge spans roughly 150 ft across and takes you over the gap and valley floor located 200+ ft below. ",
"If you are afraid of heights and have made it this far, I applaud you! ",
"Take the bridge slowly. ",
"Each wooden plank is roughly a foot apart and will require you to look down as you make each step. ",
"You are clipped into the steel cable, but the bridge swings if you move too fast.",
"\n\n**TIP- Let the person in front of you make it 3/4 of the way across the bridge before beginning to walk across. ",
"This will greatly reduce the amount of movement & vibration on the bridge** Once you cross the bridge and make your way up to the base of the headwall, you get an amazing prospective 50-75 feet above of what you just accomplished!",
"\n\nAt the base of the headwall you are given the option to go up an additional 60+ feet to the top or to sit this part out. ",
"It is a vertical climb with a 10 foot section which is slightly overhung, making it the most challenging climb of the day! ",
"If you have made it this far climbing the via ferrata, I highly recommend taking it all the way to the top!",
"\n\nThe feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment when you reach the top is only paralleled by the amazing views you get by sitting on top of this massive fin!",
"\n\nThe headwall stands 300 ft above the bridge crossing, 500 ft above the ground and 800 ft from the creek at the bottom of the gap. ",
"This view gives you an incredible perspective to the size and formation of the Nelson Rocks!",
"\n\nOnce you are done hanging out on the top of the headwall you climb back down and traverse the rock formation for another several hundred feet, before hiking your way back out and down to the main building.",
"\n\nIf you are looking for an awesome spot to camp during your stay in the area, 10 miles up the road is the Seneca Shadows Campground (Seneca Rocks, WV). ",
"This campground is very well maintained and offers bath houses with flush toilets (in addition to pit toilets), as well as tent pads and a fire ring for each campsite. ",
"The location of the campground offers amazing views of the Seneca Rocks, especially during sunset.",
"\n\nMy girlfriend discovered this place when searching for via ferratas and realized this is only one of three found on the east coast (which surprised us both). ",
"The others are located in Torrent Falls in Red River Gorge, KY and at Smugg’s Resort in Smuggler’s Notch, VT (after further research, this one is more of a zip-line & rappelling course). ",
"Regardless, the area along with rock formations looked super cool so we decided to come down, check it out and make a weekend of it!",
"\n\nNelson Rocks is privately owned and operated by Endless Horizons, a company based out of Harrisonburg VA. ",
"Rock climbing & the via ferrata at Nelson Rocks is only accessible via guided tours through the company’s subsidiary – NRocks Outdoor Adventure.",
"\n\nThe staff at Nelson Rocks was very nice and well-trained. ",
"I even had a conversation with one guide about his experience climbing Epinephrine in Red Rock. ",
"The equipment was in good shape, considering the traffic it sees, which made me very happy (I am a bit neurotic when it comes to maintaining gear).",
"\n\n*Last Note & Tip- The area in and around Seneca has no cell service! ",
"The Nelson Rocks welcome center is the only spot in the area where we were able to find free wifi!* ",
"If you use google maps like I do for a GPS, make sure to connect here for your directions back home – otherwise you are going to drive blind for 80+ miles (like I did).",
"\n\nDid you like this article & want to support Time to Climb?",
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"Field of the Invention\nDisclosed herein are soybean polymorphisms, nucleic acid molecules related to such polymorphisms and methods of using such polymorphisms and molecules as molecular markers, e.g. in genotyping.",
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"Related Art\nPolymorphisms are useful as molecular markers, also termed genetic markers, for genotyping-related applications in the agriculture field, e.g. in plant genetic studies and commercial breeding. ",
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"Molecular marker alleles (an “allele” is an alternative sequence at a locus) are used to identify plants that contain a desired genotype at multiple loci, and that are expected to transfer the desired genotype, along with a desired phenotype to their progeny. ",
"Molecular marker alleles can be used to identify plants that contain the desired genotype at one marker locus, several loci, or a haplotype, and that would be expected to transfer the desired genotype, along with a desired phenotype to their progeny.",
"\nThe highly conserved nature of DNA, combined with the rare occurrences of stable polymorphisms, provide molecular markers which can be both predictable and discerning of different genotypes. ",
"Among the classes of existing molecular markers are a variety of polymorphisms indicating genetic variation including restriction-fragment-length polymorphisms (RFLPs), amplified fragment-length polymorphisms (AFLPs), simple sequence repeats (SSRs), single feature polymorphisms (SFPs), single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and insertion/deletion polymorphisms (Indels).",
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"SNPs are particularly useful as molecular markers because they are more stable than other polymorphisms and are abundant in plant genomes (Bi et al. ",
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"Because the number of molecular markers for a plant species is limited, the discovery of additional molecular markers is critical for genotyping applications including marker-trait association studies, gene mapping, gene discovery, marker-assisted selection and marker-assisted breeding. ",
"The discovery and identification of polymorphisms for use as molecular markers requires a substantial sequencing and bioinformatics effort, requiring large scale sequencing from two or more evolutionarily diverged lines or populations.",
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"\n\nThe Stand Up To Racism event, scheduled to begin in central London at 12:00GMT on Saturday, will see campaigners and activists calling out institutional racism against migrants and ethnic minorities.",
"\n\nDemonstrations are expected to spread across the UK and European Union, with marches planned in Cardiff and Glasgow, as well as Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam and Athens, coinciding with the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Racism and Discrimination.",
"\n\nThe event comes after Mark Rowley, who recently retired as the Metropolitan Police's counterterrorism chief, warned that the far right poses an \"organised and significant\" threat to the country, as he revealed four far-right \"terrorist\" plots had been foiled since the beginning of the year.",
"\n\nAccording to Hope not Hate, Britain should brace itself for more far-right violence, claiming that 28 people were arrested or convicted for far-right inspired \"terrorist\" offences in 2017.",
"\n\nThese include Darren Osborne, a white Briton who was sentenced to at least 43 years in prison after killing one person and injuring 12 as he drove a van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers outside a mosque in Finsbury Park in June.",
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"\n\nA year earlier, in 2016, far-right gunman Thomas Alexander Mair killed Jo Cox, a Labour MP. ",
"Mair said he saw Cox, who was anti-Brexit, as a \"traitor to white people\".",
"\n\nBrexit effect\n\nAccording to a UN report, \"divisive, anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric\" during the EU referendum campaign triggered a surge in hate crimes following Britain's June 2016 vote to quit the bloc.",
"\n\nThe year between 2016 and 2017 saw the largest percentage increase in hate crimes since 2011 to 2012, with the number of reported offences rising to 80,393. ",
"The majority of those offences - 78 percent - were racially motivated.",
"\n\nWhen one commits an act of terror, not all white people are seen as suspects. ",
"This is where we need to understand the differences in how Islamists and the far right are treated. ",
"Aaron Winter, professor\n\n\"[It is] no coincidence that at a time when we have Brexit and increased mainstream xenophobia, the far right is emboldened,\" Aaron Winter, professor at the University of East London and member of the university's terrorism and extremist centre, told Al Jazeera.",
"\n\n\"An increase in the far right and hate crime has been linked to the environment and atmosphere around Brexit, which has normalised and mainstreamed Islamophobia and racism in the media and by politicians.\"",
"\n\nWinter said this has an effect on policy-making, paving the way for widely reported cases where \"people get stopped at the borders and treated as though they don't belong to the country\".",
"\n\nHe accused the government of having \"double standards\" as \"homegrown far-right extremists are treated much differently from Islamists\".",
"\n\nHe explained that the far right enjoys significant media attention and is able to infiltrate the political landscape.",
"\n\n\"Also, when one commits an act of terror, not all white people are seen as suspects. ",
"This is where we need to understand the differences in how Islamists and the far right are treated, but also where the double standards are.\"",
"\n\nWhile Hope not Hate claims membership of far-right organisations in the UK is at its lowest in 20 years, an online presence is growing.",
"\n\nLabour MEP and Chair of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, Claude Moraes, is expected to address protesters at Saturday's march.",
"\n\nHe told Al Jazeera: \"[The] significant threat of neo-Nazi and far-right terrorism in the UK [means it is now] thoroughly on the radar of British authorities.\"",
"\n\nMoraes said the threat stems from a \"very strong populist wave based on anti-Muslim, anti-refugee rhetoric and an increasingly anti-Semitic one\", coupled with \"hardcore trends of the far right\".",
"\n\nEurope has recently witnessed far-right parties such as the Freedom Party in Austria, France's National Rally - formerly known as the National front - and AfD in Germany gain popularity.",
"\n\n\"The huge development of the far right actually being in government now is an existential threat to the EU, people of colour and minorities, but is also disruptive to EU societies because it creates divisions between people,\" said Moraes."
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"+ h = 4*z. ",
"Let g = k - -11. ",
"What is the remainder when 33 is divided by g?",
"\n9\nLet x = -241 + 372. ",
"Let y(j) = j**3 - 16*j**2 + 81*j - 90. ",
"What is the remainder when x is divided by y(8)?",
"\n39\nLet t(m) = -m + 2 + 0*m + 0*m + 0*m. ",
"Let i be t(1). ",
"Let g = 20 + i. Calculate the remainder when g is divided by 6.",
"\n3\nLet b(z) = -z**3 - 6*z**2 - 7*z - 3. ",
"Let n be b(-5). ",
"Suppose -98 = -0*c - n*c. ",
"Suppose -135 = -23*a + c*a. ",
"What is the remainder when 50 is divided by a?",
"\n5\nSuppose -2*o - 7*o = -54. ",
"Suppose -3*f - o*f = -459. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 301 is divided by f.\n46\nLet u = 1233 + -1208. ",
"Calculate the remainder when (-4)/(-6) + 217/3 is divided by u.\n23\nLet h be (-6)/15 + 168/20. ",
"Let a be (-2 - h/6)*27/(-15). ",
"Suppose -2*k + 5*q = -14, -a*q = k - 5*q. ",
"Calculate the remainder when k is divided by 2.",
"\n0\nSuppose -74 = 26*s - 1010. ",
"Let j be -3 + 175 + (1 - 3). ",
"Let l = j + -27. ",
"Calculate the remainder when l is divided by s.\n35\nLet r be (1/2)/(5/(-10))*-178. ",
"Let o = -164 + r. What is the remainder when 40 is divided by o?",
"\n12\nLet o(f) = f**3 + 3*f**2 - 4*f - 6. ",
"Let a be o(-3). ",
"Suppose -a*u - 7*u + 208 = 0. ",
"Calculate the remainder when u is divided by 9.",
"\n7\nSuppose -4*q - 748 = -6148. ",
"Suppose 0 = -15*j - 10*j + q. Calculate the remainder when j is divided by (-14)/(-7) + (-13)/(-1).",
"\n9\nLet p(h) = 438*h + 22365. ",
"Suppose 0 = -2*t + 201 + 9. ",
"What is the remainder when t is divided by p(-51)?",
"\n24\nSuppose o - 5*y = 15, -o + y + 3 = -0*y. ",
"Suppose m - 20 - 5 = o. Calculate the remainder when (29784/16)/17*(-2)/(-3) is divided by m.\n23\nSuppose -51 = -3*l + 3*n + 18, -n = l - 31. ",
"Let p = 267 + -263. ",
"Let c(j) = 6*j**2 + 7*j - 44. ",
"Calculate the remainder when c(p) is divided by l.\n26\nLet r(s) = 6*s - 1. ",
"Let y = 242 - 245. ",
"What is the remainder when r(1) is divided by -82*y/78 - 20/130?",
"\n2\nSuppose 2 = n - 3, 5*p + n - 165 = 0. ",
"Suppose -a = -135 + p. Calculate the remainder when a is divided by 53.",
"\n50\nLet m(f) = 5*f + 21. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 20/(-8) + (-261)/(-6) is divided by m(0).",
"\n20\nSuppose -2*m - 3*m + 7638 = m. What is the remainder when m is divided by 67?",
"\n0\nSuppose 0 = 5*o - h - 26, 0*h + 14 = -o + 5*h. ",
"Suppose 9*m + o = 12*m. ",
"Suppose 1 = -m*w + 71. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 137 is divided by w.\n32\nSuppose -11*u + 10*u = 1, 4*u = -7*v + 8823. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 2523 is divided by v.\n1\nLet l = 8229 + -8111. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 1666 is divided by l.\n14\nLet n = 2985 + -1942. ",
"What is the remainder when n is divided by 11?",
"\n9\nSuppose -6*m + 72 = 2*v, 13*v - m = 14*v - 22. ",
"What is the remainder when 4318 is divided by v?",
"\n13\nLet b(a) = -2*a**2 - 12*a + 3. ",
"Let n be b(-6). ",
"Let m(i) = n*i**2 + 0*i**2 + 2*i**2 + 3*i**3 - 3 - 7*i**2. ",
"What is the remainder when 37 is divided by m(2)?",
"\n11\nLet f = 713 + -469. ",
"Let j(t) = 6*t + 11. ",
"What is the remainder when f is divided by j(5)?",
"\n39\nLet q(d) = 4*d**2 - 39*d - 8. ",
"Let l be q(10). ",
"Let g(j) = 8*j**3 + 2*j**2 - 4*j + 11. ",
"Calculate the remainder when g(l) is divided by 27.",
"\n21\nSuppose 2*j + 4*y - 81 = -67, -j + 5*y = -119. ",
"Let s = 20 - 13. ",
"Let q = -1 + s. What is the remainder when j is divided by q?",
"\n3\nLet l be ((-15)/6)/((-15)/12). ",
"Suppose -l*z = 4*a - 328, 3*a + a = 4*z + 304. ",
"Let h = 81 - a. What is the remainder when 2 is divided by h?",
"\n0\nSuppose 0 = -15*a + 112 - 7. ",
"Let s(h) = 18*h**2 + 12*h - 14. ",
"Let d be s(a). ",
"What is the remainder when (d/(-16))/((-1)/2 + 0) is divided by 20?",
"\n19\nCalculate the remainder when (0 - -1) + (-4)/(-44) + 107190/55 is divided by 16.",
"\n14\nSuppose q + 2*n = -0*n + 8, 0 = -q + 5*n - 20. ",
"Suppose -5*v + 2*l + 165 = q, -3 = 4*l - 23. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 123 is divided by v.\n18\nSuppose 120*a = 17*a + 10506. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 193 is divided by a.\n91\nLet b(x) = 32*x + 77 - 10 + 29*x - 60*x. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 176 is divided by b(-44).",
"\n15\nCalculate the remainder when (-308461)/(-94) + (-3)/2 is divided by 183.",
"\n169\nSuppose -6062*g + 6155*g = 392646. ",
"What is the remainder when g is divided by 41?",
"\n40\nLet v(m) be the third derivative of 7*m**5/60 + 7*m**4/24 - 5*m**3/6 - 43*m**2. ",
"Calculate the remainder when v(-5) is divided by 17.",
"\n16\nLet f = -52 + 67. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 78 is divided by f/(-3) - 52/(-2).",
"\n15\nLet y = 1606 - 1604. ",
"What is the remainder when 208 is divided by y?",
"\n0\nSuppose -2*y = 2*b - 44, -4*b - 48 = -4*y + 48. ",
"Suppose -2*k + 33 = -3. ",
"Suppose -358 = -k*j - 124. ",
"Calculate the remainder when y is divided by j.\n10\nLet u(d) = -61*d + 692. ",
"Calculate the remainder when u(7) is divided by 9.",
"\n4\nLet t(h) = -h**3 + 12*h**2 + 31*h - 499. ",
"Suppose 5*p = -3*r + 135 + 90, -4*p + 187 = r. What is the remainder when p is divided by t(8)?",
"\n3\nLet n(k) = -6*k + 7 + 18*k + 8*k**2 - 4*k - 11*k. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 164 is divided by n(2).",
"\n32\nLet r be 0/(-2*(-3)/(-2) + 2). ",
"Suppose -2*w - 2*n + 22 = 0, -4*w - 5*n + 48 + r = 0. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 10 is divided by w.\n3\nLet k(t) = -8*t**2 + 14*t + 12. ",
"Let y be k(8). ",
"What is the remainder when (-3 + -1)*7275/y is divided by 39?",
"\n36\nSuppose -6*v + 324 = -2*a - v, -5*a - 810 = 2*v. ",
"Let f = -143 - a. What is the remainder when 71 is divided by f?",
"\n14\nSuppose 17*b - 49*b + 1408 = 0. ",
"Suppose -3*x + 2*r = -0*r - 1185, 4*x + 5*r = 1557. ",
"Calculate the remainder when x is divided by b.\n41\nSuppose 0 = 78*c + 26870 - 121612 - 4318. ",
"Calculate the remainder when c is divided by 7.",
"\n3\nSuppose -2*t + 4*b - 658 = -7*t, -3*b = -2*t + 277. ",
"What is the remainder when 434 is divided by t?",
"\n32\nLet c(g) = 3*g**2 + 32*g - 266. ",
"Calculate the remainder when c(17) is divided by 32.",
"\n25\nWhat is the remainder when 2 + (-24)/14 - 1536/(-14) is divided by ((-5852)/(-210) - 0) + 4/30?",
"\n26\nSuppose 272*y = 275*y - 9. ",
"Suppose 0 = y*w + 4*u - 295, 3*u = 5*w - 600 + 147. ",
"Calculate the remainder when w is divided by 6.",
"\n3\nLet y(u) = u**3 - 9*u**2 + 2*u - 4. ",
"Let b be ((-128)/(-6))/((-28)/84). ",
"What is the remainder when (172/(-6))/(10 - b/(-6)) is divided by y(9)?",
"\n1\nSuppose 3*k + 226 + 155 = 0. ",
"Suppose 4*p + 34 = -4*u - 334, -u + 5*p - 110 = 0. ",
"Let f = u - k. What is the remainder when f is divided by 14?",
"\n4\nSuppose 52 = 5*h + 2*k, 0*h + 2*h - 2*k = 18. ",
"Suppose 0 = h*o - 323 - 7. ",
"Let s(q) = q**2 - q - 2. ",
"What is the remainder when o is divided by s(-4)?",
"\n15\nSuppose -6*k + k - 3*g + 752 = 0, 3*k + 2*g - 451 = 0. ",
"What is the remainder when k is divided by 147?",
"\n4\nLet w = 67 - -88. ",
"Calculate the remainder when w is divided by ((-5025)/(-60) - 35)/((-10)/(-16)).",
"\n77\nSuppose -4*x + 3 = -3*n, 4*x + 4*n - 11 - 13 = 0. ",
"Suppose v - x*d + 0*d = 64, -4*v + 216 = -4*d. ",
"What is the remainder when 129 is divided by v?",
"\n31\nSuppose 198 = -2*m + 3*m - b, -196 = -m + 3*b. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 4/(12/15) + m is divided by 35.",
"\n29\nSuppose -2*b - 1809 = 7*b. ",
"Let p = -62 - b. Calculate the remainder when p is divided by 29.",
"\n23\nSuppose -9*a = 44*a - 48707. ",
"What is the remainder when a is divided by 184?",
"\n183\nSuppose 4*u = -4*v + 740, -5*u - 5*v + 4*v + 909 = 0. ",
"Let s = -136 + u. What is the remainder when s is divided by 8?",
"\n5\nLet z = -1390 - -1419. ",
"Calculate the remainder when 8988 is divided by z.\n27\nCalculate the remainder when (-6908)/(-55)*10/4 - (-5 + 1) is divided by 29.",
"\n28\nLet f(t) = 19 - 2*t + 233*t**2 - 115*t**2 - 11*t - 119*t**2. ",
"What is the remainder when 23 is divided by f(-13)?",
"\n4\nSuppose -212 + 4 = 16*n. ",
"What is the remainder when ((-2)/(-5))/(n/(-3120)) is divided by 49?",
"\n47\nWhat is the remainder when 490 is divided by ((-42)/(-15))/(791/68930)?",
"\n2\nLet r(j) = -j**2 - 5*j + 6. ",
"Let b be r(-6). ",
"Calculate the remainder when (b + 1)/(9/36) is divided by 14/12 - (-75)/90.",
"\n0\nLet a(x) = -x**3 + 10*x**2 - x - 28. ",
"Let f be 2*((-2)/10)/((-14)/175). ",
"Suppose -l = -14 - 2. ",
"What is the remainder when a(f) is divided by l?",
"\n12\nLet z = 531 + -369. ",
"Suppose 13*b = z + 59. ",
"What is the remainder when 33 is divided by b?",
"\n16\nLet j = 25840 - 25782. ",
"Suppose -4*r = -5*m + 1437, -2*m + 293 = -m + 2*r. ",
"Calculate the remainder when m is divided by j.\n57\nWhat is the remainder when -10 + 12 - (-129 + 1) is divided by (-8)/(-10)*(-357*10/(-60) - 2)?",
"\n38\nSuppose 6*n - 190 = 1700. ",
"Suppose -3*y = 3*u - n, 4*y + 4*u - 408 = 3*u. ",
"Let j = 113 - y. Calculate the remainder when 45 is divided by j.\n9\nLet d = -143 + 146. ",
"Suppose -7*o - 24 = -66. ",
"Suppose -o*k = -k + j - 48, 2*j = -k + 6. ",
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