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"God don't like ugly!"
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Hello everyone!!!
I'll first acknowledge how long it's been since my last update...things have been - well - crazy. Not necessarily a 'bad' kind of crazy - but perhaps the crazy that instead keeps me from being able to sit down and say that I've actually had time to process it all. Sometimes it takes me time to even WANT to process some of it, so that delays me even more.
The post-Oompa headache (that pounding sensation at my temples that I experience whenever my mother takes herself and her drama and goes HOME) has subsided and I'm finally able to sit in reflection. Sometimes her visits are 'meh,' and sometimes they leave my brain feeling like the aftermath of a tornado. Like, this past visit to our house for the holiday, for example.
To start - my mother is 'preoccupied' these days. Earlier last week, she found out that my youngest sister's husband has been cheating. My mother, of course, was the first person my sister told; so now, naturally, everyone knows. I was the first one Mom told - followed by the "please don't tell anybody." Why? Because my brother in law is 'embarrassed.' He's the uncle that my kids ABSOLUTELY adore, the one son-in-law that my mother used to be able to boast about, the one daughter who had a husband that was 'a good one.' He was the one up on the proverbial pedestal, but now that has come toppling down. Now, Mom's illusion of the 'perfect' couple has been shattered - and you'd think my brother-in-law cheated on my mother instead of my sister. It's all about Mom, don't you know? It's always about her - because she has to be involved in the things that she has nothing to do with, she has to have a say in everything. Apparently now that it's been revealed that my brother-in-law was cheating with someone at work - she's looking up potential alternative jobs for him - jobs elsewhere.
Yes, there's a lot wrong with that picture, if you ask me...but, this is not my business any more or less than it is hers - so...moving on.
At any rate, she came here for Easter - although I'm sure it was begrudgingly; we all know that she wanted to be at my sister's side. My sister had standing plans to go to her in-laws' for the holiday - (I should mention that she is being supported 100% by my brother-in-law's parents - they are absolutely FURIOUS with him for shaming their 'respectable' family - and are backing her completely - even if it means letting him shack up in his old bedroom because my sister kicked him out) - and upon finding out about her husband's infidelity, wasn't sure if she wanted to go to his family's for the holiday. Oompa, whose plans were to be here with us, put herself on standby - if my sister decided to not go to her in-laws', then Oompa would be spending Easter with her, instead. My sister, Oompa claims is 'needy,' (she is, she calls Oompa for EVERYTHING) and she didn't want her to be alone.
As it turns out, my sister DID go to the in-laws'....my lying, cheating brother-in-law has a lot of reparations to make; even so, there's no guarantee they'll be able to re-establish trust. Even I know though, that this is something they have to work out. Just them. This is something that has to be figured out by the two of them alone, and without the influence of my mother, or of his parents. Maybe there's a marriage counselor involved, but that's it. This is something that NO ONE can fix, other than the main players - her and him. That's IT. ANY sensible person knows that!!
Oompa, of course, doesn't understand this. She spent a good portion of the weekend (while she was here) bitching about how shocked she was to hear about the marital problems they were having, not to mention looking up job openings for my brother-in-law ('he has to get away from that skank!!!') and calling around to inquire....she even called my sister every few hours to see how she was doing, probably hoping my sister would say she wanted her to go home and be with her. She didn't. So, although my mother stayed from all day Friday until early Monday morning, I could tell she really wasn't wanting to be here - she was physically present, but mentally, she was elsewhere.
At one point, I had to say to my mother, "She'll (my sister) be fine. She's a big girl. There's nothing you can do."
OK, so...we're now all aware of Oompa's mindset...overall, she was NOT focused on visiting or enjoying time with any of us or even on the holiday. In hindsight, it would have made more sense for her to have not come at all.
On Easter morning, she went to church at one of the local Catholic parishes around where we live. I managed to sleep in. I got up a few minutes before she came back from Easter mass. While I was still 'waking up,' she got a call from her brother - (yes, the same piece-of-shit I've mentioned in previous blog entries, the same one she wanted me to greet at the family gathering last month!) - and when I came into the kitchen, she was in the middle of that phone call. He had called to wish her a Happy Easter and I'd walked in during the tail end of their conversation. When she hung up, she sighed, shook her head, and got back to preparing this (god-awful) pie she had decided to bake for our Easter dessert later on.
"That was your uncle," she said while mixing pie ingredients, "He's not doing well." And then, like one of those old-fashioned Italian grannies, she shook the wooden spoon she was using in the general direction of my face, and said, "Not that you care. And God don't like ugly!"
I blinked at her. Honestly, I was at a loss for words. At that moment, I'm 'hearing' the thoughts in my head. She's not okay right now. She's NOT calling ME ugly...she's just overwhelmed with EVERYTHING ELSE, and doesn't know what she's saying....yeah, that's it...right??? That's what's happening here?
I guess I must have shrugged, too. She went on, "THAT was why I wanted you to say hello to him at your nephew's birthday party. It very quite possibly could have been your FINAL hello!"
Okay, that's it. I couldn't bite my tongue any further.
"He's been dead to me for years, already." I told her with one of my famous nonchalant shrugs. I'd already suspected that was her reason for wanting me to say hello to him - so he could die thinking everything was peachy keen between him and the niece he'd been so estranged from for almost two decades? That a 'hello' would somehow 'fix' this??? Hah. Little did she know that I was fully prepared to do a happy dance whenever she would confirm to me that he'd soon be meeting his end. It just didn't seem to be the right time to express my overwhelming joy over this man soon being reduced to nothing but a pile of shit, maggots and formaldehyde.
"STILL." She said, spoon still waving, "I taught you girls to have respect!"
"Yes, you did." I agreed, "And I have respect for those who deserve it."
She went back to preparing her pie. My stepfather was sitting at the kitchen table at the time of this dialogue/exchange and was mumbling. This is his 'normal,' though. He either mumbles or he screams. And I'm not even sure WHAT he was mumbling about. But all of a sudden, my mother whips her head around and (almost TOO) quickly snaps for him to 'shut up.'
She went on to say to her husband, "You don't know what you're talking about! That's not it, it has to do with my mother and the inheritance, she's mad at him because of that....not because of...you need to shut up! Just SHUT UP!!!!" (And all of this was accompanied with the wide, wild eyes and facial expression that just added exclamation points to her words.)
He mumbled again - but these words were haunting; "that's just what she tells you."
I don't know what it was that he said (mumbled) to make her so snappy, but he's certainly right about that - what I tell her is what I've been sticking to for all of these years that I've chosen to eliminate her brother from my life.
Now here's where I hate my hearing loss the most - I wasn't going to ask him to repeat himself and to inquire as to what he'd said to make my mother so agitated. By now, she'd had her outburst and he'd ceased his mumbling and I'm shit out of luck - no one else was there to 'hear' him for me - and when it was being said, ALL I could focus on was my mother's reaction. I know that reaction all too well - it's the same one she puts on when she is trying to 'prevent' information from being given out or trying to say, 'it's time to nix this conversation' with her eyes.
What gives, Ma? Why are you so angry? Why are you so anxious for your husband to 'shut up?' What are you afraid your husband is going to 'remind' me of??
Truthfully, I've not been giving too much thought to 'things' lately. I've been trying to focus on going back to school, sticking to the 'important' things going on in my life currently - THIS is not something I want in my forefront, or anywhere near it at the moment. My suspicions of childhood CSA is something there's no resolution to - not now. Not until perhaps, my disgusting uncle finally DOES drop dead. He's been expected to die before - and I've learned that unfortunately, this putrid asshole has more lives than all five of my cats combined - he's cheated death before, it'd be premature to celebrate his departure now - no, this will have to wait until that call finally DOES come. THEN, I'll deal with whatever feelings should pop up, be they good ones or not-so-favorable ones. Even so, I don't know HOW I'm going to approach this subject. What I DO know, though, is she won't be involved when and if I do.
In the meantime, and even though this is not a priority, I'm finding it increasingly disturbing that my mother, someone I am supposed to look up to, someone I'm supposed to be proud of, instead disgusts me. Lately, I'm just appalled even more on how she STILL continues to invalidate me by demanding respect for someone who doesn't deserve it. Oh, and now that it's even more clear she will go to great lengths to 'silence' anyone else with differing opinions on why I don't want this man in my life, more or less alive.
And last, but not least, she'll make ANY situation about HER - whether it's about me or one of her other daughters, she'll find a way to flip it and make it HER problem. I hate to admit to so, but she truly has an unhealthy obsession with feeling needed, feeling wanted. She can't just let people deal with things in the way they want or need to; she can't resist the urge to insert herself into the situation and to make herself involved. Instead of just being there as a support, she has to make herself a PART of the problem!
I dunno about you, but this all makes my mother a VERY difficult person to enjoy being around. Sadly, all I can think about is how she's looking uglier by the day.
You're right, Mom. "God don't like ugly."
Go say that in front of a fucking mirror, maybe it'll sink in.
- Capulet


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Mainframe Disinvestment Rue and Recovery: A European Bank's "Account"
For companies in today's digital economy, there's an emerging paradox of mainframe disinvestment contrasted by the need for increased mainframe development. As technologies of engagement flourish and access mainframe data millions of times daily, companies are reversing their neglect of the mainframe and working hard to reinstitute the talent and knowledge needed to leverage the platform as the backbone of their success.
As a mainframe software vendor, we can point to many customer case studies following this narrative, where companies have used modernized tools to get their mainframe development back on track. The following story conveys how dangerous mainframe disinvestment is, and how exciting it can be to reinvest.
What Happens When Companies Neglect Mainframe Development?
One of our customers, a large European bank, faced a daunting IT management challenge. As many mainframe-backed enterprises have done over the years, the bank stopped developing new mainframe applications as experts retired. The bank overlooked its mainframe skills shortage and let its mainframe development staff shrink around 30 percent.
Customers more often began accessing data on the bank's mainframe via distributed, web and mobile applications, increasing the bank's mainframe development needs. But with a downsized staff, the bank didn't have the manpower to support a heavier workload.
Additionally, without its previous stock of mainframe expertise, the bank's smaller development team was less experienced in modifying unfamiliar, poorly-documented COBOL applications. This fanned the flames for developers already struggling to identify coding and performance issues even within more familiar, albeit complex and co-dependent, applications and databases.
Because customers had come to expect shorter time-to-benefit, the bank couldn't risk being too slow to modify mainframe applications that enhanced customers' mobile experiences, or too slow to develop new capabilities for its staff. But in test/QA, developers' lack of familiarity with the bank's mainframe applications made discerning code-change impacts complicated and tedious. The bank needed its mainframe test/QA to quickly and accurately diagnose, fix and test problematic code.
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To leverage the untapped capabilities of its mainframe and remain a top competitor in an aggressive financial services industry, the bank adopted modernized tools that give developers the ability to visualize application relationships, runtime behaviors, problems in programming logic flows and code change impacts—and reducing issue-resolution time from hours to minutes.
A single interface unifying mainframe and non-mainframe development with access to visualization made it easier for developers to transition between mainframe and non-mainframe environments, and enabled Java/x86 developers to understand unfamiliar applications left behind by mainframe veterans.
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Many Words For Miracle
What are the synonyms for miracle?
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BRENDAN RODGERS has fired a warning to Leigh Griffiths and reminded the striker he is NOT on holiday.
The 28-year-old Scotland international checked into rehab last month after the Celtic manager admitted the player had "ongoing issues".
However, images emerged of the troubled forward attending a race meeting at Newcastle at the weekend which prompted Griffiths to take to social media to hit back at claims he suffers from either a gambling or drug addiction.
He has been left behind for professional treatment while his team-mates attend the winter training camp in Dubai and Rodgers said: "Leigh was off on grounds of his health, so the club are supporting him with that.
"I've nothing much more to say on it until I, one, speak to Leigh and two, see something. But that will not be until I get back.
"I just need to see where it is all at because he is not on holiday. I think it's one where I will take a deep breath and look at it.
"It's very important he understands why he is off and why he has been given the time off and why he has to maximise that time in terms of getting better.
"That's about getting specialist help and lying low and focusing on the simple things in your life that will allow you to be better.
"I haven't spoken to him yet. A designated person at the club is dealing with everything with regards to Leigh and I will pick that up when I get back."
UP IN THE AIR…Leigh Griffiths juggles with the ball.
There is no timescale for Griffiths to return to action and the Parkhead gaffer, speaking after the treble signing of Vakoun Issouf Bayo, Timothy Weah and Oliver Burke to boost his attacking options, warned the prolific hitman the club can only help him if he wants to help himself.
Rodgers added: "Ultimately, he is a Celtic player and the club are paying him a lot of money.
"But, in these instances, you have to support the player. Money doesn't count for anything if the player isn't in good health.
"We need to support him, which the club is doing amazingly. But there is also a responsibility for Leigh Griffiths.
"Players who have dealt with any types of issues, it's admitting that responsibility and knowing where you are at, really.
"It's the only way you have to move forward, really. It is important, if you have these issues – there are ways in which to deal with it."
CQN reported on Sunday Griffiths' angry reaction to the newspaper pictures which appeared to show him drinking and gambling in Newcastle.
He put out a statement saying: "I am off work due to my mental health state. NOT GAMBLING, DRUGS, or any other issue that has been written about me since December.
"The stories, the tweets, the lies that come out people's mouth is laughable, but I suppose if they're talking about me, they are leaving someone else alone."


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Do Something to Take Care of You! Taking care of your loved-one is stressful, so what are you going to do about it?
No matter how you look at it, taking care of an aging parent or spouse leads to worry, fear, and grief especially if you're facing realities of dying. Those are a few of the emotions you, the family caregiver experience in the journey.
Emotions will cover a spectrum from sadness, anger, resentment, confusion and disappointment and some feelings just seem to come out of nowhere; or, from the strife of your patient/loved one not doing what the doctor told them, or other family members not stepping up to help that makes you burst out and lash out in anger.
What are you doing to take care of yourself? These emotions will keep piling on, so what are you going to DO about it?
In our blog When Did You Realize You're A Caregiver we give you five action steps for you to do right away.
A sixth step is to watch for signs of stress within yourself. Living in a state of constant stress or intense stress leads to illness. Review the check list of signs of stress and the symptoms they cause: http://caretocaregiver.org/are-you-experiencing-signs-of-stress/
The ticking time-bombs of stress are: feeling angry, irritable, frustrated, anxious, overwhelmed, can't think or concentrate, hard to complete sentences, burnt-out, can't sleep, pacing/nervous, forgetting, can't remember things, too tired to do anything.
What do you now? You Do something! Taking action to take care of you is productive and positive thing to do.
Here are a few ideas:
- Listen to podcasts that are educational, spiritual, and lead you to positive thinking. You might need ear buds, with one bud in your ear and the other ear open to listen for your loved one.
- Pray. Even if you don't know what to pray for, just say "please help me God, help me".
- Journal – write down what you're thinking and feeling. If you are too tired to think, just write that, "I'm too tired to think". Get your pen moving on paper. It's doing something. Now challenge yourself to write one word in your journal that is positive. Any word will do. Draw or doodle too.
- Draw or color on one of those new adult coloring pages. Here's one online: https://www.thebalance.com/free-printable-coloring-pages-for-adults-1358144
- Find a neighbor or friend who can sit with your loved-one while you get your hair cut, go for a walk, go out to lunch, get a pedicure.
- Get some talk therapy just for you. Private, focused on you. You'll have to do some research for a psychologist in your area.
- Check out an App-for-that mental therapy at Ginger.IO where you can connect with a coach (a human) right away by downloading the App.
If you got inspired by at least of one these action items, you're heading in the right direction. Go DO it!
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5584?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12580289#action_12580289 ] Mikhail Fursov commented on HARMONY-5584: ----------------------------------------- >Can we just increase the timeout then? It's possible to create an option for the test system: customizable timeout for every test. But this is not the easiest way. Did you check -XX:jit.arg.time=on output? It's possible that some optimizations do too much checking in debug mode and this is the reason. We can easily move such checking under some special option and solve the problem. I just want to mention that the condition of the patch to be integrated: there are tests failed. BTW #define MAX_INLINE_GROWTH_FACTOR_PROF 1000 passes regression testing in debug mode in my environment. Is this value enough? > [drlvm][jit][opt][performance] Inliner heuristics improvements: hotness and instance initializer bonuses > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HARMONY-5584 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5584 > Project: Harmony > Issue Type: Improvement > Environment: all > Reporter: Aleksey Shipilev > Assignee: Mikhail Fursov > Attachments: H5584-inliner-heuristics.patch > > > During the profiling of Scimark2 [1] it was found that inliner misses the inline opportunities for monte_carlo. > This is the code for hottest method: > public static final double integrate(int Num_samples) > { > Random R = new Random(SEED); > int under_curve = 0; > for (int count=0; count<Num_samples; count++) > { > double x= R.nextDouble(); > double y= R.nextDouble(); > if ( x*x + y*y <= 1.0) > under_curve ++; > > } > return ((double) under_curve / Num_samples) * 4.0; > } > Problems are: > 1. nextDouble is not inlined > 2. nextDouble is internally synchronized > Attached patch solves these two problems: > 1. fixing hotness bonus calculation. This is the issue Random.nextDouble() hit on: this method called in hot cycle and missing inline opportunity due to glitch in scaling function, which should be more additive rather than multiplicative. > 2. introducing instance initializer bonus. This helps to inline constructor with all corresponding methods to help scalar replacement with scalarizing of R (and eliminating synchronization too). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Richard "Aukcoo" Fowler - R.I.P.
by D.W. Walker
Richard "Aukcoo" Fowler (1948-2016)
Abridged from an up-coming book by D.W. Walker, ""The Ink Boom: 100 Years of Expat Writers in Iquitos, Peru.
In the lost jungle city of Iquitos, Peru, colorful eccentrics are as thick on the ground as poisonous snakes. To stand above the canopy among such a strange crowd requires a towering personality, and Richard ''Aukcoo'' Fowler had it right up to the moment he died.
Fowler was from Adelaide, Florida, a 101st Airborne Division veteran who served two terms during the Vietnam War. There is some question about medals, but there is no question about his bravery or loyalty. Nor is there any question about his hard drinking, gun-toting, gung-ho and nutty public outbursts. Many people found him scary. He was also funny, a tender-hearted tough guy who stood up for his friends even when they begged him to sit down and cool off somewhat.
Fowler came to the Amazon jungle in 1994 where he worked as a jungle guide and naturalist, leading people into the deepest wilds, sometimes to their dismay. Most reviews were enthusiastic, no one died, and during his time in the jungle Fowler brought at least five babies to the world as a mid-wife, or as he put it, a certified rescue paramedic. (
See pics of one jungle birth, click here
) He met and married a Peruvian girl, Delicia, and together they raised her twin daughters.
There is some discussion about Fowler"s arrest record, with one man claiming, ''That's not a rap sheet, that's the best C.V. I've ever seen.''
Beyond Fowler"s drunken bravado lay a Hemminwayesque figure, the raging, pistol-waving craziness sometimes obscuring his softer side. To Fowler"s credit he never killed any of my friends.
Joe Boatwright, a 6 foot 2 inch oilman dressed in blue jeans and alligator hide cowboy boots said, ""He scared me. I"m not ashamed to admit it. He scared me."" Ed Lily, a part-time resident from the other Virginia, said, ""He reminded me of a man I knew who died and went straight to hell."" Another said, ""I"m surprised he died. I always thought he"d kill someone.""
Within hours of the news of Fowler"s death rumors spread that he had been murdered. Bill Grimes, owner of Dawn on the Amazon restaurant, said, "
Richard wouldn"t have liked it if anyone thought there was a man tough enough to murder him. He always claimed he could beat any three men.""
However, Richard ""Aukoo"" Fowler couldn"t beat death. His cremation at Garden of Eden Cemetery was attended by his family and many of his friends in early March, 2016.
His original website
Custom Wilderness Adventures
A Poem Richard wrote in 1974
Seven Days of Survival
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Web Page copyright 2016 The Iquitos Times
Picture of Richard Fowler copyright 2006 by Eddie Calderon
Obituary copyright 2016 by D.W. Walker
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I have thought of buying a medal hanger to hang my slowly expanding medal collection for a long time. However, the price of the hanger ($40-$50+), always stop me from checking out my cart.
One day, I was shopping at IKEA and saw their door hanger.
Now, a nice looking medal hanger looks like this:
I would love to (and still want to) have this medal hanger, but I thought that the IKEA one looks like a good alternative to this. Firstly and most importantly, I will need not drill a hole into my wall (mom would hate this). Secondly, look at the price, it's $4.90!
Costing $4.90 and weighing 0.59kg, I think it is a yes for me!
Like all IKEA products, I assembled it myself. Assembly is easy enough, so no worries here.
I placed the IKEA hanger at the front of the door, not the back of it, so that I can see the medals.
And, tada, my medals from 2016 looking shiny.
There are only 6 knobs to hang the medals but I think a little stacking should do no harm. I can always place my most memorable and newest medal at the front. A door frame should be able to hold up to 2 IKEA hangers so you can always buy another one if need be.


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I'm 27 weeks pregnant and both of my parents now know I'm pregnant. My mom made me feel good and was happy for me but my dad doesn't want me living in the house and called me stupid. He asked me why I even think of going to college and that my life is over. He said a lot of hurtful things and I feel like a failure. Did anyone else experience this? Did your parents eventually come around?
I got pregnant at 17 and was in the same situation as you. My mom was very happy always talked to my baby. Have her kisses but at first she was stressed and mad because she wanted me to finish school first,get married and have kids then you know what every parent want but she came around soon after and was very happy. My dad on the other hand was the same as your dad said I shouldn't go to school no more that a pregnant girl couldn't go to school that it was stupid. He said he wanted my boyfriend to go the next day and that I would be leaving with him. I did move in with my boyfriend and his family at 4 months pregnant. But before I moved in and he meet my boyfriend for the first time he came a day earlier and we talked to since my family was there to talk to him and make him understand. I had my babygirl 2 weeks ago it will be 3 weeks Friday and my dad loves her like no other. Everyone in my family loves her. You won't believe what a baby can do to people. My brother didn't want to see me at all and when she was born he went to see her. And now talks to me. My dad was there when I gave birth. I had her at night and my mom was holding my hand my dad then told her to sit down and he was by my side holding my hand and asking if I was ok. My mom told me that he felt bad when I was in back contractions because I was yelling and he didn't want to see me in pain. I thought he did so I could learn my lesson but no. Don't worry ones that baby is here his going to fall in love and forget about being mad at you.
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hot platinum-wire, which would otherwise give a continuous or complete spectrum, was passed through a flame of weak aqueous alcohol in which common salt was dissolved.
A still more striking proof of the same fact was shown in an ingenious experiment by Professor Roscoe in his lecture at the Royal Institution (partially frustrated, however, by an unfortunate breakage). A piece of sodium was placed in a glass tube exhausted of air, and then heated until the tube was filled with pure sodium vapour. When viewed by pure yellow sodium light this tube appeared nearly opaque, while by all ordinary light it was perfectly transparent !
But how are the conditions of these experiments fulfilled by the sun? Kirchhoff makes the very reasonable assumption, that the central solid and fluid mass of the sun gives off light rays of every character, such as would produce a continuous and complete spectrum, like that of incandescent platinum, but that the sun's atmosphere contains the gaseous elements which absorb certain definite rays, and produce Fraunhofer's lines. By these processes of experiment and inductive reasoning, Kirchhoff has already proved that the sun's atmosphere contains, amongst other substances, sodium, iron, magnesium, chromium, and nickel, but that lithium is not present in any appreciable quantity.
Indeed it wants little cool reasoning to be convinced of these statements when we see the spectra of the sun and of one of these elements side by side. Thus Professor Roscoe, in his lecture, eloquently described the indelible impression made on his mind by the splendid spectacle of the coincidence of the bright lines of the iron spectrum with a part of the dark solar lines:
"In the lower half of the field of the telescope were at least seventy brilliant iron lines, of various colours, and of all degrees of intensity and of breadth ; whilst in the upper half of the field the solar spectrum, cut up, as it were, by hundreds of dark lines, exhibited its steady light. Situated exactly above each of the seventy bright lines was a dark solar line. These lines did not only coincide with a degree of sharpness and precision perfectly marvellous, but the intensity and breadth of each bright line was so accurately preserved in its dark representative, that the truth of the assertion that iron was contained in the sun flashed upon the mind at once." In the whole range of the sciences there will scarcely be found an experiment so intrinsically beautiful in itself, or so pregnant with interesting information, as this. By the aid of such experiments the chemist will not always grovel on the earth. Light has now become his servant, and will bring him telegraphic information from every part of space.
The present occasion is not quite the first on which our thoughts have been raised to the chemical composition of as
tronomical bodies. The aerolites which occasionally fall upon the earth's surface from the unknown regions of space have been found to contain in greater or less quantity many of the terrestrial elements, such as iron, nickel, manganese, chromium, cobalt, aluminium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, silicon, sulphur, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. No new element unknown to us here has been found in these aerolites; but at the same time no combination of elements, such as the aerolites almost invariably present, has ever been met with among the plutonic or sedimentary rocks of our planet. Light itself has previously been made to yield some slight information by observations as to its state of polarization.
It is very uncertain to what extent we may be able, by observing the spectra of the stars, to determine their chemical composition. A statement of Sir J. Herschel bears closely on this matter, and is not very encouraging. He says :*
"Nothing short of a separate and independent estimation of the total amount of the red, yellow, and the blue rays in the spectrum of each star would suffice for the resolution of the problem of astrometry in the strictness of its numerical acceptation ; and this the actual state of optical science leaves us destitute of the means even of attempting with the slightest prospect of success."
But in spite of this we entertain no doubt that every principal star will, in the course of time, be analysed by spectrum observation, and that Bunsen will then be one of the chief founders of the Chemistry of the Universe, as he is already the chief contributor to the chemical geology of our own globe. In thus speaking we are not making random generalisations, but have facts to warrant what we say. Fraunhofer did not neglect the spectra of the stars, and has given us nearly the whole of the information we possess about them. In the spectrum of Sirius he observed no fixed lines within the orange and yellow spaces, but in the green there was a very strong streak, and two other very strong ones in the blue. The star Castor gave a spectrum exactly like that of Sirius, the streak in the green being in the very same place. The spectrum of Pollux contained, besides many other weak lines, a line corresponding to that of D in the solar spectrum. The line D was also seen in the spectra of the stars Capella, Betalgeus, and Procyon.t But observations of this nature are surrounded with difficulties such as even Fraunhofer, with his incomparable prisms and lenses, could scarcely overcome.
The interest of this subject is immensely increased if we consider that the colours of the fixed stars appear even to the naked
* Results of Astronomical Observations at the Cape of Good Hope, p. 304. † Brewster's Edinburgh Journal of Science, vol. viii. p. 7.
eye exceedingly various, pointing no doubt to great differences of chemical composition. Several astronomers, especially Sir J. Herschel, Admiral Smyth, Sestini, and Struve, have devoted much attention to this subject. Admiral Smyth states,* as the general results of the surveys made, that of 2540 stars, the yellow stars are about half the total number, and equally distributed; the white stars are one-fifth, in scattered portions; and the orange rather more than one-fifth. The red or the blue are rare from the Pole to 30° of north declination; the blue then become numerous (=+) to the equator, especially from right ascension 18 hours to 20 hours, and the red abound from 0° to 30° south declination and right ascension 16 to 20 hours. Sir J. Herschel gives a list of insulated stars of a red colour almost as deep as that of blood, and gives many interesting details concerning particoloured double or multiple stars. He believes, however, that no green or blue star (of any decided hue) has been noticed unassociated with a companion brighter than itself.
A solitary observation of the spectrum of a coloured star, & Herculis, is recorded by Brewster, who, for this purpose, applied a fine prism of rock-salt to Sir James South's great achromatic refractor. He found there was one defective band in the red space, and two or more in the blue space, so that the orange colour of the star arose from the greater defect of the blue than of the red rays. I
There can be little doubt that the predominance of yellow light in the heavens is due to the wide extension and powerful light-producing quality of sodium, especially as the spectra of Pollux, Capella, Betalgeus, and Procyon prove that this element exists in these stars. In Sirius and Castor we may assume that at least very little sodium exists. We shall be much interested to learn what elements produce the blood-red and the bluecoloured light of certain stars. What if we should be enabled to map out, however imperfectly, the whole of apparent space of the heavens into regions of the metals, regions of the alkalies, regions of the alkaline earths! How astounding if we should prove the existence of globes composed of little else than copper, silver, gold, or platinum, just as there is some reason for thinking that our own system is chiefly composed of iron! We may even discover elsewhere elements unknown in these parts of space. All the sciences have their own peculiar beauties and delights; but there is nothing which raises such intense wonder within us as astronomy in its descriptive and chemical branches. The wildest fables of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, so far from being foolish in their extravagance, will appear weak and commonplace for the very opposite reason, when we come to read such descriptions of the physical constitution of the sun and stars as may, before very long, be expected. Just at the present time, the scientific world is awaiting the publication, not only of further researches by Kirchhoff and Bunsen, but of the result of the Astronomer Royal's expedition to Spain at the late solar eclipse. Hence it is only common prudence to avoid mere speculation on these subjects.
* Ædes Hartwellianæ, p. 291. + Outlines of Astronomy, 4th ed., p. 580.
Prof. Swan appears recently to have made observations on this subject. In the Phil. Mag. [4), vol. ii. p. 448, he describes a method of measuring the planetary or stellar spectra by a prism and common sextant.
All discoveries concerning the spectrum have a very important bearing upon molecular philosophy. The definite rays in the spectrum of an element inform us most precisely of the vibrations of which the elementary atoms are capable. A complicated spectrum must indicate that the elementary atom is itself a compound of many simpler atoms; a suspicion of which fact has long been familiar to chemists, from the simple relation holding between the equivalent weights of several series of elements. Already some coincidences may be observed, which are probably more than accidental. Sodium, which has nearly the most simple spectrum possible, is likewise distinguished by the fact that all its salts are soluble, so that its determination by ordinary analysis is difficult. Again, iron, which has an extremely complicated spectrum, has the most extensive family relations with the other elements. At the present time, mathematicians, electricians, opticians, chemists, and even physiologists, are united in one immense confederation, irrespective of nation or of language, for the purpose of solving the great remaining problem of natural science,—that of the molecular constitution of matter, and the mutual relations of the physical forces. If we consider the intense concentration of the highest ability and the most unremitting labour upon this subject in every branch, which this century has witnessed for the first time in the history of mankind, we cannot think that the solution is far distant. The second great step in our knowledge of the world will then have been made, comparable in importance and difficulty to the discovery of the differential calculus and the law of universal gravitation, achieved, however, by a whole army of thinkers and workers, not by a single intellect.
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tion on the Study of Ecclesiastical History. By Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, and Canon of Christ Church. London,
Murray; Oxford, Parker. 1861. MARKED sympathy with the Eastern Church and Greek theology is no unprecedented phenomenon in our English Establishment. At an early period of our religious history predilection was expressed by different parties in a very decided way for the Latin or for the Greek Fathers. The first Reformers, and the great Puritan party, which inherited their principles, were strongly imbued with the spirit of Augustine's theology, and looked with comparative disfavour on the milder theories of Basil and Chrysostom. We are told that Bishop Cox, a high Calvinist, was sorely displeased at finding Queen Elizabeth one day intent on certain Greek Fathers. But reaction against Puritanism, and increasing devotion to Greek learning, -which had revived in Europe at the outbreak of the Reformation, and worked along with it as a powerful ingredient in the ensuing form of civilisation,-produced in England, before the close of the sixteenth century, an unequivocal transference of sympathy among the leading Churchmen from Augustine and his followers to the great doctors of the Eastern Church. Anglicanism was at once catholic and anti-papal. Repelled as strongly by the Puritans as by the Romanists, our Church sought relief to her unappeasable yearning in the spirit of a communion which was older than both. This tendency is traceable as early as Jewell.* It assumed a more rigid and authoritative tone, as the controversy deepened, in Andrewes and Laud. Its influence on Jeremy Taylor is unmistakable. The margin of his pages is filled with citations from the Greek preachers of the fourth century. When the Church was overthrown, the same theology, made dearer by contrast with the ascendant Calvinism, comforted the hearts of the dispossessed clergy under the enforced silence of their obscure retreats. The fruits of this were visible at the Restoration. From the first, the Liturgy had been enriched from Greek sources; and in the interval of persecution, the attachment of its adherents had strengthened for the old formularies, which expressed the devotion of the primitive Church before
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Superhero Bits: James Gunn Gets His Own Funko POP, The Avengers 4 Going to the 1960s & More
Posted on Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 by Ethan Anderton
What scene will The Avengers 4 have that takes place in the 1960s? How can you get your hands on the Funko POP Vinyl figure of Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn? Why didn't Wonder Woman have a post-credits scene? What does director Matthew Vaughn want to do with Superman if he directs a Man of Steel sequel? Could Crossbones come back to the MCU after all? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits.
If Hot Wheels and Justice League are your jam, then this trailer for the brand new DC Comics-themed cars is for you.
The working title for Shazam while shooting is "Franklin," likely inspired by Benjamin Franklin and lightning bolts.
— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) September 16, 2017
Suicide Squad director David Ayer posted this photo recently, perhaps teasing continued involvement in the DCEU?
Doctor Strange will be part of Marvel's Day at Sea in Disney's Cruise Line, showing off his mastery of mystic arts.
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There were two questions that I've listed below that I've had troubles on. I got an answer in both, but both of them weren't correct.
For the first question, they list the answer to be D and then for the second they list the answer as A.
Determine the net ionic equation for the reaction between $\ce{HNO3}$ and $\ce{Mg(OH)2}$.
a. $\ce{2H+(aq) + (OH)2^{2-}(aq) -> H2(OH)2(aq) }$
b. $\ce{2HNO3(aq) + Mg(OH)2(aq) -> Mg(NO3)2(aq) + 2H2O(l) }$
c. $\ce{Mg2+(aq) + 2NO3 (aq) -> Mg(NO3)2(s) }$
d. $\ce{H+(aq) + OH(aq) -> H2O(l) }$
e. $\ce{Mg+(aq) + NO3 (aq) -> MgNO3(s) }$
Determine the number of ions that are present in $38.8~\mathrm{mL}$ of $0.113~\mathrm{M}$ $\ce{(NH4)2CO3. }$
a. $7.92\cdot 10^{21}~\text{ions }$
b. $2.64\cdot 10^{21}~\text{ions }$
c. $2.07\cdot 10^{23}~\text{ions }$
d. $6.20\cdot 10^{23}~\text{ions }$
e. $1.32\cdot 10^{23}~\text{ions }$
For the first question, the work that I did was $\ce{2 H+ + 2NO3- +Mg(OH)2 -> 2H2O + Mg+2 + 2NO3-}$. The problem that I have in this problem is why the $\ce{Mg(OH)2}$ splits up. I don't get it because the things you split up are the things that are aqueous or soluble. $\ce{Mg(OH)2}$ isn't soluble so I listed it as a solid and thought that you wouldn't break it down. All I need to know is why I have to break the $\ce{Mg}$ and the $\ce{OH2}$ down because it isn't soluble.
For the second, I got an answer of $2.64\cdot 10^{21}~\text{ions}$ but the review said it was A. I set it up as $.113~\mathrm{M} = \text{moles} / 0.0388~\mathrm{L}$ and then multiplied $.113$ by $0.0388$ and then multiplied that amount by $6.022\cdot 10^{23}~\text{ions}$ which got me the answer B.


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The Jets produced only 100 yards of total offense in their 23-0 loss to the Broncos on Sunday. It was a season low in yards and the second-lowest offensive output in franchise history.
It was a surprisingly poor output from the offense given quarterback Josh McCown was having a strong season and the two wide receivers, Robby Anderson and Jermaine Kearse, were coming off back-to-back 100-yard games.
The lack of adjustments seemed to be the major problem for the Jets on Sunday, something that surprised Kearse.
When asked why the Jets didn't make adjustments in the second half, Kearse said, "I would like to think that would be the plan," Kearse tied his career low with one catch for 4 yards.
Kearse said the Broncos employed a safety deep to prevent the one-on-one coverage Anderson had been getting in previous games. The Broncos also used an extra cornerback to shade close to either Anderson or Kearse, making it harder for McCown to complete passes. Kearse called it a type of "bracket coverage" that gave the offense fits.
Of course, the Broncos start talented corners Chris Harris Jr. and Aqib Talib, who made it difficult to get the passing game going. The running attack was slowed when Elijah McGuire went down with an ankle injury on the first carry of the game. The Jets were down to two running backs, Matt Forte, who is playing with a balky right knee, and Bilal Powell.
McCown faced too much pressure from the Broncos' front and was knocked down five times and sacked four times.
The lack of adjustments given the coverages the Jets offense saw was disappointing.
"No flow, we got stuck in third-and-long situations," Kearse said. "We had [six] first downs. On third down, you get into those long down and distances, it's hard to convert and you start getting three and outs and it's an uphill battle from there."
What was also upsetting was Todd Bowles' lack of confidence in the offense.
Toward the end of the first half, instead of using some timeouts when on defense to give his offense the ball back with about a minute to play, Bowles elected to let the clock run out. Bowles' team took a knee with 32 seconds left in the first half.
Bowles said McCown was nicked up on a previous series and given his team was getting the ball to start the second half, taking a knee made sense to Bowles.
"At the rate we were playing," Bowles said, 'we needed to go in and regroup."
It didn't get better in the second half as McCown went down for good with a broken hand in the third quarter. The offense didn't improve with Bryce Petty.
Petty completed just one pass in the second half and finished his outing 2-for-9 for 14 yards. Again, Bowles had an opportunity to let his third-year quarterback direct the offense down the field. But in the last two minutes of the game, the Jets ran three run plays with Powell, who gained only 1 yard.
Bowles said he didn't see the need to run any more pass plays given the struggles of his offense.
After watching the tape on Monday, Bowles' opinion didn't change about the offense or where he wanted to go with it.
"They beat us," he said. "They had a good game plan. They made way more plays than we made and we had a bad outing. We have to go back to the drawing board."
Notes & quotes: McCown officially was placed on IR . . . The Jets moved running back Akeem Judd from the practice squad to the active roster. The team also signed RB Jahad Thomas and QB Joel Stave to the practice squad.


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Egoistic vs. altruistic beamforming in multicell systems with feedback and back-haul delays
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, October 2013:253
Base station cooperation is an attractive technique to increase the spectral efficiency of multi-cell systems. One of the challenges in multi-cell systems is obtaining accurate channel state information (CSI) at the base station. One source of CSI inaccuracy is the delay incurred in obtaining CSI and exchanging it among base stations. The presence of delay is inevitable when CSI is exchanged over the back-haul. In addition, CSI is commonly obtained using limited feedback techniques which further contribute to its inaccuracy. In this paper, we re-visit the comparison between competitive (egoistic) and cooperative (altruistic) beamforming strategies in the presence of imperfect CSI. The impact of CSI inaccuracy due to delay and finite codebook size on the achieved sum rate is analyzed. Closed-form expressions for a lower bound and a first-order approximation of the average sum rates achieved by these beamforming strategies are derived. Using the closed-form expressions, a mode switching criterion is proposed to switch between competitive and cooperative beamforming based on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), delay, Doppler frequency and codebook size. It is shown that competitive beamforming is preferred in the limit of low SNR irrespective of the quality of CSI, while cooperative beamforming is preferred only at high SNR and low Doppler frequencies, confirming that base station cooperation is not always advantageous.
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Performing (for) Survival: Theatre, Crisis, Extremity
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Luxury Sussex hotel and country club Ashdown Park has welcomed two new team members to its in-house events department. Marking an exciting time for the hotel, which boasts an impressive year-round events calendar, both Alex Pickles and Claire Hierons will contribute to and grow the hotel's stellar reputation for world-class corporate and leisure events.
With a passion for events that began while studying for a degree in International Event Management, Alex Pickles joins the team at Ashdown Park in the position of events coordinator. She has a wealth of experience in the hospitality events industry having held event management roles at South Lodge Hotel, Crowne Plaza at London Gatwick and most recently Hilton Brighton Metropole.
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Joining the events team with Alex is fellow events coordinator Claire Hierons. After completing her degree in fashion journalism Claire was accepted onto the Harrods Graduate Scheme. From there, Claire worked her way up to managing the PR for childrenswear which is where she discovered her passion for events.
After making her move into hospitality, Claire worked her way up to events manager at the Richmond Hill Hotel in London before joining the Ashdown Park team, where she says: "I am excited for my future career here and as a property within the Elite Hotel Group, which is renowned for developing its employees, I look forward to what the next chapter here at this prestigious venue will bring me."
Ben Booker, general manager of Ashdown Park Hotel said of the new appointments: "We are thrilled to welcome both Alex and Claire to our fantastic events team at Ashdown Park. As a hotel, our reputation for managing and delivering exceptional events is of paramount importance to us and I know that both the new events coordinators will develop and nurture that reputation and bring new business to the hotel."
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Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel have an ally in Russia. When it comes to Washington (and Tel Aviv's) penchant for calling foul on the Iranian nuclear deal, the two largest economies in the eurozone can count on Vladimir Putin to stand in their corner.
Putin reiterated Russia's position that the Iranian nuclear deal made by former president Barack Obama is "of paramount importance for ensuring international stability and security" and must be "strictly observed by all parties," the Kommersant business daily reported on Tuesday.
Putin reportedly discussed the Iranian nuclear power deal with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who just hours before had come out with his own intelligence agency's report alleging evidence that the Islamic Republic was indeed enriching uranium for military use and not just for energy use. The report said that Israel initiated the call.
Netanyahu accused Iran of lying about developing nuclear weapons yesterday, with the link masters over at the Drudge Report showing a picture of "Bibi" -- as the Israeli Prime Minister is known -- standing by what looks like a large slide slow presentation with the words "Iran lied" in bold type. The S&P 500 fell another half a percent on the news. Netanyahu claims Israeli has roughly 100,000 documents showing Iran's breach of contract. Washington immediately gave the documents its blessing of authenticity.
Trump, who has been hawkish on Iran since day one, said he "was right" about Iran all along.
"In seven years, the term of this deal will come to an end, and Iran will have the right to move on and create nuclear weapons," Trump said of the Obama deal, adding that the dissolution of the nuclear deal might also benefit the North Korea nuclear disarmament talks. North Korea was said to be developing a nuclear weapon but did not have one at this time. Iran also does not have a nuclear weapon, though Israeli's document claim they are in the process of making one, or have the capability to do so.
Big picture investors watching the imbroglio unfold are hopeful that Israel's allegations became part of a Saudi Arabia-Israel joint effort to pressure Iran, something we have seen in the South Korea-China dealings with sanctioned North Korea.
Putin counts Iran as one of its biggest allies in the Middle East.
Trump threatened to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal last week unless an additional agreement was passed this month. The Israeli discovery will be used to apply more pressure on Tehran to renegotiate the nuclear power deal. Merkel and Macron both want a peaceful settlement in Iran. France is particularly interested because its oil giant Total has significant investments there. Trump seems to be saying that a new nuclear deal with Iran will be made with European mediators, likely one of them being France or Germany. Russia was not yet invited to the table.
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Parents are always at the top who shower deep love and care in our life. They are the world to us, and we should be thankful for such supportive parents. We can also celebrate their special days with unique gifts and cakes. If you are living in the distant place, then you can even order birthday cakes online and gifts for your caring parents. It will help to give them a perfect celebration from your side. Following are the best gifts ideas to provide some fantastic moments to your parents on their special days.
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on their wedding anniversary. Select their beautiful pictures to attach on the customized gifts. It is the best idea to reminisce about the past events on this day. Try to make the gifts by selecting a family picture to give them unforgettable moments of the day.
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Canadian all-female metal band KITTIE has set "Kittie: Origins/Evolutions" as the title of its upcoming career-spanning documentary. Director Rob McCallum states in a new Facebook video update (see below): "This is going to be somewhat of a two-part documentary. The first part will be 'Origins' and it will look at the first ten years of the band's history. And the second part will be 'Evolutions' and it will take a look at the second half of the band's history so far. So you can see the ten-and-ten split really kind of makes sense."
He added: "When we had the first cut done, it was about, I think, four hours long, of the whole thing. And I'm, like, 'There's no way that we can do this justice by squeezing it into a ninety-minute timeline.
"How long is the final each bit going to be for the film? That's still up in the air. We still have some shooting to do. But I would guess that each part on its own would probably be about eighty minutes… maybe seventy-eight to eighty-five… somewhere in there. I don't wanna handcuff myself to a certain time, because we're still really sorting out the dynamics and logistics of it."
The six-minute update also includes a clip from the rough cut of "Kittie: Origins/Evolutions" was in which former KITTIE guitarist Fallon Bowman discusses her introduction to the band, with commentary from the band's founding guitarist/vocalist Morgan Lander and drummer Mercedes Lander.
Morgan Lander told Songfacts about how the idea to do a documentary at this point came up: "The idea for the documentary has been in the works for the last couple of years. I believe we started to discuss it towards the end of 2013 and going into the beginning of 2014. Mercedes was really the one who pushed the idea and thought it was a really great way to celebrate our upcoming 20th anniversary, so we decided to plan and get everything together for that. Initially, we had reached out to a number of different people to try to have them direct. The documentary has actually changed hands over the last little while, but I'm really quite happy with the direction that Rob McCallum has brought it. We're really excited about everything. It's been in the works for a number of years, and only now starting to come to fruition. It's taken a long time, having to reach out to past members and get them on board to discuss things and negotiate and describe what the idea is. But it's all for a good cause. 20 years is a long time to say that you have done something that you love."
Asked if seeing some of the old footage inspired the band to work on new material, Morgan said: "It certainly has rekindled the love that we have had for the band, and reminded us how exciting of a time being in the band was — and still is. It's been a really interesting experience, looking back, and seeing all that footage, and being like, 'Wow! Did we really do all that? Did we really say that? Did we really go all these places?' Memory can only be stretched so far, and it just so happens that it's quite convenient that we did record a lot of stuff, too. So we're certainly jumping back into the KITTIE pool — I know that sounds ridiculous. [Laughs] And sort of getting our toes wet with toying with the idea of doing new music and perhaps a new album."
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Here it is! An update from director Rob McCallum about the progress of the doc, answering some of your questions, and an exclusive first look! #Kittie #documentary #firstlookPosted by Kittie on Wednesday, March 2, 2016
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Will sneaking and stealing float your boat? Do you want to get a license to kill? Embrace your dark side throughout the Elder Scrolls Online's Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration and gather additional material to develop your Nascent Indrik mount as you enter.
The ESO Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood Celebration will begin on Thursday, March 7th at 10 am Eastern Time and finish on Monday, March 18, at the identical time EDT. Please note that an hour will likely be stolen from you though you happen to be robbing the Tamriel citizens when Daylight Savings begins on March 10.
During the occasion, you might be awarded a double bonus for defeating World and Delve bosses. You will also buy ESO Gold and get a double Defiled Whiskers drops from the bosses within the Maw of Lorkhaj. Typical crafting nodes (not Survey Report nodes) will also produce twice the harvest sources.
For anyone who is operating really hard to create a Nascent Indrik, you can get two tickets for the occasion every day by completing the Sacrament of your Dark Brotherhood and also a Heist for the Thieves Guild. Sacraments is going to be unlocked by finishing the quest "A Lesson in Silence" following reaching Rank 2 inside the Dark Brotherhood. To perform a Heist you have to have reached Rank 3 in the Thieves Guild and completed "The Extended Game" quest.
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