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The beast of thunder that soars through the skies riding on thunderclouds. It has been feared since ancient times for bringing harm to both men and animals. The true form of the great beast, the nue, in "The Tale of Heike" is said to be this raijū.

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Raijū are powerful, high-ranking monsters that have been feared by humans since ancient times. Seen as the physical embodiment of lightning and thunder, these beings have complete mastery over all forms of electricity, and use it as their main form of offense. They are also able to move as fast as lightning anywhere electricity can flow, making them virtually uncatchable. They are also very physically powerful, and can withstand large amounts of damage, including that which would incapacitate or kill any lower-ranking monster.

Though their precise ranking relative to other monsters is left unclear, given the levels of energy that they can reach, such as that seen with Raika, it is possible that as whole, their ranking level is more of a spectrum than a specific classification. This fact is something that is shared with other monsters, such as the Yasha and more notably the most common type of monster, the Monstrels. Like those other species, their power levels would vary, ranging from moderate to higher levels, even reaching those that are usually enjoyed by S-Class monsters.

Known RaijūEdit

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    Ackkkkkkkkkkkk! I killed my 3rd electric skillet in 45 yrs! Actually, that's probably not a bad track record. I like the Farberware ones, as they last quite a long time. But I couldn't find one. So I got a stainless steel one that resembled it, from Williams Sonoma. It lasted maybe only about 3 or 4 years.

    I put the pork chops, seasoned, in the pan. An hour later I checked on it and it was still cold. So I transferred the meat to my fast/slow electric cooking pot. Braised the meat and put one chop on each side. Then I added brown rice down the middle, also half a handful of uncooked macaroni twists (to use it up), a chopped tomato, some yellow bell pepper, some peas, and craisins.
    This is simmering for the rice to cook.

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Excessive masturbation is a misuse of sexual power

It is fairly common for young boys and, less frequently, for young girls to masturbate (handle or rub their sex organs). Long-term involvement may become an emotional problem. Depression, low self-esteem, confusion about sexuality, guilt, shamefulness and sexual problems such as erectile disability are observed among people resorting to excessive and prolonged masturbation.

Masturbation is not a physical abnormality, however, excessive masturbation is wrong, because it is a misuse of sexual powers and frequent masturbation with excessive and vigorous behavior (handling) may lead to weakening of tissues in the blood veins, which manifests as *erectile* dysfunction, do not give excessive stress on the penile structure by bending or subjecting it to excessive friction by lying on the stomach. Such condition can potentially create damages to veins in the penis.

Masturbation is the process of bringing about a voluntary excitement of the sexual centers following generally by the discharge of semen, through some method other than normal sexual intercourse. In other words, "Masturbation" means ejaculation of semen by hand. There are various devices resorted to for the purpose, but because of the hand to practice it, it is widely known as "HAND PRACTICE". This habit is also known as "Self-Abuse" since it is done by one’s own self by his own hand.

There are exceptions when masturbation is also done by someone else that is... one engages one’s own wife for this act and rather prefers it even to normal coitus. This sort of device is found among those who are accustomed to hard friction and this habit is formed since childhood and therefore they cannot derive much thrill and pleasure from normal coitus. The other common device is to lie down on the abdomen and rubbing the penis against the pillow or the bed as if performing the sexual intercourse and to discharge semen with thrill and pleasure.

There is hardly any young man who does not masturbate at one time or the other. The self-abuse is the prime cause of various sexual disorders and it is one of the earliest abuses when a boy engages himself in this evil act. Masturbation has serious consequences since it drains the young men of his vital forces and in many cases, it causes impotency if it is over-indulged. Therefore, parents are advised to keep a watch on their children against all possible factors which can tempt their children to masturbate.

Following are some of the causes which incite young men to undertake this evil practice:

The main cause is bad company, where children hear and discuss sexual topics and in the bad society, they themselves engaged in masturbation collectively without any shame. This is the very first and wrong step which leads to many bad practices to play with the immature sexual organs at the very tender age. Since this evil act gives intense pleasure, they keep on doing quite regularly without knowing the adverse effects of the masturbation in the future to come. If this practice is overdone, it ruins the matrimonial lives due to impotency.

Secondly, house servants also invite young boys to this vice by playing with their sexual organs. Thus, parents should keep an open eye and they should not allow their children for longer hours to be with their domestic servants in seclusion. Furthermore, sending their boys to distant schools along with their young children, without any supervision, may also lead to similar consequences since servants can caress the children if they find lonely road or place. Further, young children should also not be carried on cycles in front of the servants or in a car beside the driver.

Not only domestic servants, but even young friends or relatives should be relied upon. Therefore, children should not be allowed to sleep on a common bed along with the relatives or friends as some of them may pollute the children or young boys.

It has also been found that in many instances, the young ones are taught the first sexual lesson by the maid-servants. Thus, boys should not be allowed to be with maid-servants in seclusion or to lie in the same bed.

The parents, in the best interest of the boy’s future, they should also take guard to avoid his boy to lying in the same bed with other young ladies who are separated from their husbands since it has also been noticed on several occasions that such ladies due to their ungratified sexual desire, they lure the boy to spoil him.

Furthermore, sleeping more than one child in the same bed should also be avoided, since they may handle one another’s male organ. Once they are habitual of this, they would like to masturbate in seclusion places like the bathroom, latrine or in lonely places.

The parents should also take care not to indulge themselves in intercourse where the children are present since it is one of the prime causes of this evil as the children imitate their parents out of their curiosity.

Another cause which invites the boy to masturbate is the uncleanness of the genital organ since the collection of smegma in the pit of glens leads to sexual excitement in several cases. Therefore, daily cleanliness of the genital is needed.

The other cause of masturbation is rectal worms. The worms cause irritation to the anus and consequently, it gives rise to the erection of the penis. In such circumstances, boy handles his penis which gives intense pleasure to masturbate and later it forms the habit of masturbation.

Over and above, following are also the causes to excite sexual organs to masturbate:

Chronic Constipation.

Excessive use of sour foods.

Excessive use of stimulating diets such as meat, eggs, tea, etc.

Seeing of sexual and love scenes in T. V., cinemas.

Reading of romantic literature, novels, etc.

Talking about sexual problems with young ladies in seclusion.

There is no exact age is fixed to begin this abuse since long before the attainment of teenage years, boys have been found involved in this practice.

Once the habit of masturbation becomes the part and parcel of life, among young bachelor boy it may also route to prostitution, which invites terrible venereal diseases.

Some of the after-effects of masturbation are:

Eyesight becomes dim

Premature Ejaculation.

Dizziness and loss of memory.

A continuous headache and backache.

Palpitation of heart on slightest exertion.

Unable to perform any heavy physical or mental work.

Extreme loss of semen makes us loose immunity of our body

Unani physician believes “The semen is the main energy source of a male body”

AIDS is a disease which close downs the resistant power of our body and if a AIDS patients get infected with simple cold… it can be developed into the serious problem of pneumonia…because the AIDS patient do not have the immune power to fight against simple cold germs

Likewise extreme masturbation results loss of semen in a great level and which can have an effect on immune power so such persons can transform into a museum of diseases with profound weakness.

Too much of self-pleasuring can have major ill effects on your health.

Let us learn more about it.

1. Too much masturbation leads to addiction, It disturbs the Dopamine level in the brain. As such masturbation is not bad for health but too much of it can lead to never ending needs.

2. It Kills your interest in everyday activities, It kills your creativity and imaginations.

3. It leads to a decrease in Testosterone levels, It's a vital hormone for a man and too much self-pleasuring can drastically affect the health.

4. Excessive self-pleasuring can make you look older than your age, No one wants to look older especially if it's not due to the passage of time.

5. Excessive masturbation can make you act immature, It affects the cognition abilities of the brain, hence you act childish.

6. Frequent masturbation can increase the chances of you falling sick, It weakens your immune system.

7. It may even lead to your death, utiliseYeah, it's the worst that can happen to you if you are obsessed with self-pleasuring. A 23-year-old Chinese died under similar circumstances.

8. Too much self-pleasuring can reduce your sperm count, Couples who wish to get pregnant should not masturbate.

9. Masturbation is one of the major causes of erectile dysfunction, This may result in an unhappy sex life.

To remain strong… a structure needs to be reinforced cement and similarly to retain energy in our body throughout the life, we should not utilize this energy excessively and we must preserve it to maintain our sexual prowess and by this method, we can enjoy healthy sexual life till our end.

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I just found out I've been awarded an iPOD for the beta challenge! Amazing, when I received that June (yep, June already, time just flies when you're having fun) issue of the MySQL newsletter, I decided to try and do something.

As I recall, people were being teased to participate by promising them stuff like coffee mugs, T-shirts....Wich immediatly deepened my breath, and made my heart go BOOM,BOOM,BOOM as you might reckon!

Seriously, what convinced me to download the 5.0.7 release, was Arjen Lentz's "call to arms" to evaluate MySQL 5: a be-real, no-nonsense and to-the-point kind of appeal to test the new release of that well known open source rdbms, and this time, it was harbouring all kinds of enterprise grade features: stored procedures, views, triggers. At least, those were the features that I recall being mentioned repeatedly, let's say, the stuff that lets developers and programmers write more code.

Now, those that read some of the entries in blog probably wouldn't 've guessed it, but I hate writing code. I like to think about code, I just don't like writing it. Being an IT-consultant, database developer and information analyst, this attitude poses a problem, as people sure as hell expect me to deliver code, at least some of the time. Some while ago, I found ways of partially solving the paradox, by having as much of my code being generated for me, giving me more time to just think of what kind of could should be generated in the first place.

Now, to generate code, you need a solid source of information that you can use to drive the generation process. From the practice of generating code, I was already knowledgable about the INFORMATION_SCHEMA standard. So, when I noticed that MySQL was going to go along that road as well, I just had to check it out. Apart from offering a platform for wich you could code, this was also going to be a platform for wich I could go and build code generators too! So that's how I came about drawing that diagram, mainly to get myself acquainted with MySQL's implementation of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA standard.

And you bet, I want to get acquainted, because the way I see it, with this release, MySQL has taken a major step towards the direction of leading RDBMS vendors, at least feature-wise (at least One Of these vendOrs seems tO think sO tOO). I really think it's a mistake to, like I see too many of my colleagues do, keep ignoring MySQL as a product that you can do serious business with. I mean business as in: adding value for my customers, making Real Money with it etc.

Once I had the diagram, I thought, c'mon, let's share that stuff. Since then, I've had some valuable feedback on the diagram from Carsten Segieth and Mike Lischke, wich I think is great. I have already commited myself to maintaining it and keeping it up to date, and I'm going to recreate it in MySQL Workbench real soon. And Andrew Gilfrin's given me an opportunity to publish a code generator based on the mysql information_schema on his site. And now, there's this award. It may not be the coffee mug I hoped for, but I guess an iPOD's nice too ;-D. Terrific, I love it!

So, thanks Carsten and Mike, thanks Andrew and thank you very much Arjen. And of course, thanks to MySQL AB for developing this great product, and making it accessible to so many people. MySQL Rocks!

(walks of the stand, flowers in one hand, iPod in the other, almost bursting in to tears...whoops, I better quit this post)

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It’s pretty typical: when couples combine their households, they divide up household duties and chores. But dividing financial responsibilities early can be unhealthy for couples later

Segregating financial responsibility can, in extreme cases, be an indicator of bigger problems in a relationship.

If one partner is using control of the couple’s money to control or exploit the other, this economic abuse is one form of domestic abuse.

The adage goes that couples fight most about money, but few people realize that money is a common tool of abusers, occurring in nearly 100 percent of domestic violence cases, according to research by the Center for Financial Security.

Money can be used by abusers to control, exploit or sabotage their partners.

By retaining exclusive control of joint accounts, denying a partner access to debit or credit cards or otherwise restricting information or access, victims are forced to rely on the abuser.

Abusers can also exploit their partners, running up debt on joint accounts, or stealing the victim’s identity to access their assets or credit.

Abusers can also sabotage their partners’ ability to gain financial independence, using intimidation or harassment to prevent partners from working.

According the National Network to End Domestic Violence, lack of financial independence and financial literacy are often significant barriers to leaving an abusive situation.

Without access to financial resources, or the means to become financially independent, those in abusive relationships face an uphill battle in leaving abusive partners.

Economic abuse is one aspect of financial literacy that shouldn’t be overlooked by consumer reporters seeking to help their audiences learn to be financially secure.

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Egypt: There Goes the Army; There Goes the Free Media

By Barry Rubin

So can you write “Arab Spring,” "free elections," "democracy in Egypt," and such things 100 times? This just might be somewhat in contradiction to the fact that:

Muslim Brotherhood President al-Mursi has just removed the commanding generals of the Egyptian military. Does he have a right to do this? Who knows. There's no constitution but they have two choices: fight or surrender. I fear they will surrender. That means all we were told about not having to worry because the generals would restrain the Brotherhood was false. Moreover, the idea that the army, and hence the government, may fear to act lest they lose U.S. aid will also be false. Mursi has also removed a constitutional decree regarding parliament. He is now the democratically elected dictator of Egypt.

Behind the scenes note: Would Mursi dared have done this if he thought Obama would come down on him like a ton of bricks? Would the army give up if they thought America was behind it? No on both counts.

Muslim Brotherhood President al-Mursi has also  just named the editors of the top Egyptian newspaper and other media outlets. They are state-owned, you know, and there are a half-dozen good little independent newspapers.
But one of them, al-Destour (ironically meaning "The Constitution"),  has just had a full issue seized on charges of “fueling sedition” and “harming the president through phrases and wording punishable by law.” We know this through a report in the Middle East News Agency, the state-owned monopoly.

And what was the inflammatory report? That the Brotherhood was going to seize power and that liberals and the army should join together to stop the country from being turned into an Islamist regime.

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Nov 21, 2016: EXOTIC ANIMALS - A scammer out of "Bartow, FL" (spelled wrong) with a 213 area code (which a Los Angeles area code, not Florida) made several posts today offering exotic animals like African Grey Parrots, Persian kittens and puppies for free or very low prices. The scammer offered to ship these animals via Delta or Continental Airlines. By the way Continental Airlines ceased operations in 2012 so that is another clue the post was a fraud. There are no parrots or kittens or puppies. The scam is intended to get you to send money in advance to cover the cost of shipping the non-existant animals. Please do not be fooled. Do not start a transaction and send money for anything you cannot personally verify. Please only buy or sell locally with people you can meet in the community to buy and sell items you can see and touch.

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A student guide to TIFF

[C]ontrary to popular belief, September is the most wonderful times of the year. There’s fall fashion, cooler temperatures, seasonal Starbucks drinks, and of course, the Toronto International Film Festival. The festival always brings an air of excitement to the city, with anticipation for both the glitz and glam of the stars, as well as and the world-class movies that are screened each year.

Although film festival season may be a time to celebrate, lets face it – as students in September, we’re flat broke. Textbooks, reloading your OneCard for Tim Horton’s runs, and buying a new Ryerson hoodie has cleared your wallet out quicker than you can say Eggerton, meaning a limited amount of cash to spend on attending the festival.

But fear not, fellow broke students, for the Folio has got some tips on the best, budget-friendly ways to enjoy the 10 days of TIFF madness without breaking the bank.

Sign up for a TIFF Student Membership

For $45 dollars, you can sign up for a TIFF Student Membership. Not only does this mean you get wicked offers all year around – including savings on restaurants, theatres, Argos tickets and hotels – you get the advanced opportunity to purchase TIFF ticket packages. Who doesn’t enjoy priority access? Members get to pick up their tickets in a special area with virtually no line-up, meaning you won’t have to skip a lecture to camp out on King Street just to grab your movie tickets. Compared to the regular $99 basic membership price, and considering the time it’ll ultimately save you, the student membership and its year of rewards is worth skipping a couple coffee runs to afford.

Regular screenings, Docs, and Mavericks

If you’re simply at the festival to stalk celebrities, you may not be aware that the mass majority of attendees are actually at the film festival for, well, the films. In total, 366 movies are screening at TIFF this year. Regular screening, meaning no red carpet, run for $23.50 per ticket, but if you’re under 25 you can snag a ticket for a very manageable $17. The school year’s just starting up for students, and regular screenings are often much simpler to schedule class time around compared to the mid-day and evening red carpet galas during the first two weeks of the semester. They’ll also be much easier to purchase tickets to, so your stress levels won’t be through the roof before your first class has even begun. Twenty-two documentaries are as well scheduled to screen, if you’re looking for other alternatives to the jam-packed premium screenings, and the TIFF Mavericks series, which features filmmakers and actors, is a great way to pick up insider information from your favourite film icon while picking the brains of some of the leaders in the industry, although those usually do sell-out.

Love the entire atmosphere of the festival? Why not volunteer! Although the opportunity is now closed for this year’s festival, volunteering at TIFF is a simple and free way to get access to all the excitement. A volunteer position may just be helping organize pre-screening lineups, but it can also potentially entail seating Michael Fassbender during his movie screening – and maybe even falling in love (we make no promises). You don’t get paid, but you do get a free TIFF ticket voucher with every volunteer session, that can be redeemed for film screenings and special exhibit admission throughout the year. Check out the TIFF website in the summer for next year’s volunteer opportunity, grab a couple of friends, and get involved in the festival.

Plan a Ryerson Stakeout

Simply excited for TIFF to gawk at the rich and famous? That’s okay too. One of the best and easiest ways to hunt down a celebrity is right at our own Ryerson Theatre. The theater is home to many premium screenings, with the actors and directors in attendance. So rather than making the trek down to Roy Thompson Hall, students can simply walk over right after class to secure a spot in red carpet pandemonium, and make it back in time for their next tutorial. And if you do have the extra time, but can’t afford the $28.25 Under 25 premium ticket price, red carpet gazing is free, fun, and can often earn you an autograph or a few quick words with a starlet.

The other great thing about the Ryerson Theatre is the red carpet isn’t the largest, but still extends much further than the ones at the Elgin or Princess of Wales. That means celebrities often don’t mind going back and forth from the media side to the screaming fans opposite and covering a large amount of land. That’s not to say everyone will stop, but out of all the red carpet locations, this one’s convenient for students and one of the best of the entire festival.


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Two models appear in the entrance of the room. One is wearing all black and sports a vest with a row of plastic buckles down the front. The other, wears all white and has a plush blindingly white sweater on. Heels click in unison on the old hardwood floor of the Interior Design Building. The models walk hand in hand. Their expressions are hard. Unaffected. Stoic.

STOIC was the name and theme of Thursday night’s runway show and photo exhibit hosted by the School of Fashion. The event showcased the work of third-year fashion design and fashion communications students.

“Stoicism is a school of philosophy from 300 B.C. that portrayed people to be emotionless,” explained Cathy Nguyen, producer of the show. “That’s the most powerful thing you can do—show no emotion.”

Initially, STOIC was supposed to be an all menswear show.

“Stoicism is generally considered a masculine term,” said Nguyen. “We thought it would be much more powerful to explore stoicism and use a mixture of male and female models and unisex garments.”

Third-year fashion design student Willis Chan addressed the theme of stoicism by contradicting it with garments that exhibited both pain and pleasure.

He gestures to the model standing beside him:  “There’s pleasure—it’s beautiful, aesthetically,” he said.  She’s wearing a white, neoprene dress with intricate cut outs of clear plastic that reveal her bare skin underneath. “But the pain of the dress is that you can’t wear it in an everyday setting. You can’t sit in it. It’s restricting.”

Luxe sportswear, monochromatic colours and androgyny were all recurring themes in the show. Despite featuring work by seven different designers, the show looked like it came from one collection. Models wore dark smoky eyes and slicked back wet-look hair. When they walked down the runway, spectators saw that all models had their hands tied behind their backs with twine.

“The twining [of the hands] is a theatrical component of stoicism used to emphasize [the idea of being] in pain but showing no emotion,” Nguyen said.

She likens this to the lives of models in the industry.

“Models every day are under scrutiny by their media, their friends, and their peers,” she said. “[They face criticisms like] ‘Are you too skinny? Are you too fat?’ and they endure it and are still powerful people who choose that career. They are stoic in their way as well.

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60 Minutes May 1

This weekend Nine has four stories all with different topics.

We all know what it’s like to have a bad night’s sleep, tossing and turning for hours and facing the next day tired and cranky. Well imagine the nightmare of waking up but never getting back to sleep ever again. That’s the cruel reality for a handful of families throughout the world. Fatal Familial Insomnia is an extremely rare and debilitating brain disease with no treatment and no cure. It steals your sleep, your mind, your motor skills and ultimately your life. For Queensland brother and sister, Hayley and Lachlan Webb, this terrifying disease could strike at any time – a family curse that they are determined to break.

Reporter: Karl Stefanovic

Producers: Ali Smith, Jo Townsend

Matt Stone and Trey Parker have made a fortune out of offending everyone. For nearly two decades this wicked comedy duo has been writing and voicing the controversial cartoon South Park. Along the way they’ve poked fun at just about every celebrity and minority there is. Their latest comedic assault is on stage – a highly successful Broadway show called The Book of Mormon, which, as the name suggests, has the Mormon religion well and truly in its sights. Like everything Matt and Trey do, nothing and no-one is off limits.

This duo has made a career out of offending people…so consider yourself warned.

Reporter: Michael Usher

Producer: Phil Goyen

Of all the animals on earth, the bonobo is one of our closest genetic relatives. No wonder then, they could teach us humans a thing or two. Closely related to the chimpanzee, the bonobo is the rarest and most intelligent of the great apes, a peace loving primate a million miles from its violent chimp cousin. Bonobos are caring and compassionate – females rule the roost, aggression is rare and life involves plenty of fun and copious amounts of sex. But as you’ll see in our report, the bonobo lives in only one place in the world – the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa – which is why it’s the least understood ape on the planet.

Reporter: Anderson Cooper

Producers: Michael Gavshon, David M. Levine

The mental and physical challenges have been immense, but 18 months on from the shark attack that took his left arm, right hand and very nearly his life, Sean Pollard is showing us all the meaning of the word inspiration. Sean was savagely mauled by, not one, but two great white sharks as he surfed on a remote beach at Esperance in Western Australia. We first met him soon after the attack, as he set out on the long road to reclaim his life. Now, with a new bionic hand, Sean is making remarkable progress and in the process he is proving to us all that anything is possible.

Reporter: Michael Usher

Producer: Garry McNab

 8:30pm Sunday on Nine


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It took me weeks to figure out why I am almost always somewhat disappointed by fresh, hot apple cider.  Months, even.  I greedily snap up jugs of the stuff as soon as it shows up in our grocery store.  One jug lives in the fridge (sometimes a depressingly short life, truth be told) while its backup dancers keep a juicy vigil over the rest of the dry storage in the laundry room.  It’s not that I don’t end up drinking it; I can polish off a half gallon during an episode of House if I put my mind to it.  I just prefer it cold.

And yet I want to love it as a hot beverage.  Is there anything more intrinsically blessed with your mind’s perfect image of fall?  Hot apple cider screams fall and winter, the very words on a page conjure images of orchard donuts and bales of hay, or Dickensian Christmas scenes with cherry-cheeked children scampering around a cozy living room in their socks while the dog barks with joy.  Right?

So every year, I approach my first mug of hot cider with unforgivably poetic expectations.  Like, over the top.  The kind that would make Norman Rockwell roll his eyes and say “girl, pull yourself together and drink the damned apple juice.”  And every year I am slightly disappointed.  Every year, that is, until this one.

My friend Josh was kind enough to share his favorite wassail recipe on his blog, and at the very mention I knew what was missing from my cider.  I didn’t want hot cider at all.  When fall clicks its heels on my doorstep and ushers a biting crispness into the air, I want wassail.  The sweet acidity of the orange juice and lemon juice bring something lively to the cup. And oh, the spices.  As they mull together with each other, the juices, the maple syrup, they reach the perfect storm of spicy complexity that I’ve been missing in all those mugs of plain hot cider.  Beautiful.

It’s a rather Christmassy drink, I’ll give you that.  But I maintain that it’s never too late to indulge yourself in something so wonderful.  Enjoy yourself; it’s a brand new year.

Wintry Wassail

Adapted from The Expatriate Minister

If you’re concerned about the spice dregs, put the cloves in a tea strainer or tie them in a bit of cheesecloth. For the nutmeg, freshly grated is best, but ground will also work. If you choose ground, use slightly less.

2 lemons
4 cups orange juice
4 2” sticks of cinnamon
2 T whole cloves
2 T ground allspice
¼ t grated nutmeg
¾ cup maple syrup
2 quarts apple cider

  • Juice the lemons
  • Simmer the lemon juice, orange juice, spices, and maple syrup
  • Boil the cider
  • Combine the juices and bring back to a boil

Juice the lemons and skim for seeds. Combine the juice with the orange juice, cinnamon sticks, cloves, allspice, nutmeg, and maple syrup in a large pot. Bring to a gentle boil over medium-high heat, reduce to medium-low, and simmer for 20 minutes.

15 minutes into the simmer, bring the cider to a boil in another pot. Pour into the spiced orange juice and bring the entire mixture back to a gentle boil. Stir well before removing the cinnamon sticks and cloves. Ladle into mugs and serve with a shake of ground cinnamon.

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The Revolution is Not Over, Yet I Yearn for the Days in Tahrir

I photograph to process. Experiencing one's first revolution is no small thing. Overwhelmed, overjoyed, scared, constantly negotiating "safety" as the very real threats bumped up against the strong desires to not miss out on any moment, this was extraordinary living. Looking through the camera lens allowed me to be there, and yet to step away. To experience the intensity from the borderlands, a familiar perspective for me, as I sought to explain the merits of solidarity to many of my fellow inhabitants of the Republic of Tahrir, when they questioned my presence. I told them that none of us would be free, until we were all free. That I would fight for their battles, on the side of what I believed to be right - and I would hope, that when I was fighting elsewhere, when I struggled to survive, to have a voice and to live freely, that I would find other allies around me, ready to fight with me.

Each day in Tahrir was different - each moment felt necessary to document, yet not quite ready to be defined. I know the revolution is not over. Every day battles are still being fought, whether on the streets, in the military tribunals, through press conferences, or in meetings as new civil society and political organizations are formed and reinvigorated. But those first three weeks were magic and Tahrir was at the heart of it. Each day in Tahrir was different. No one knew quite what to expect but everyone dreamt big, pushing their own boundaries of possibility. It was like a chorus, suddenly realizing the magnificent sound of their own voices in unison, looking at photographs of themselves with wonder.

It felt like everyone had been sleepwalking, and suddenly all were simultaneously awakened… looking at each other and themselves in new and exciting ways. People struggling with the opportunity to reimagine their country (and their place in it) and rebuild in that vision, while coming to terms with the fact that many powerful factions of the old regime are still in place, determined to hold on to their power at any cost. There were demands made, victories celebrated, harrowing setbacks, peaceful expression, violence between many different groups, generous acts of kindness from strangers, thoughtfulness and strategies, impulses of the mob, creative capitalism and rampant commercialization of the revolution.

It was a fluid, organic and very human experiment - one not bound by any particular principle or ideology and therefore unable to be led by any individual or organization - hard to contain or describe with accuracy, but bursting with fascinating contradiction and glorious originality. Tahrir was a temporal fully functioning community, built on self expression and self-reliance, functioning through active participation by all, creating a vision to carry back with you to inspire everyday life.

These images of those days are at once an homage and reminder of what was precious, undefined, yet so extraordinary - and at the same time, what we constantly seek, what we have to continue to aspire to as we do the very real work of revolution. There is infinite possibility and yet seemingly insurmountable obstacles at every turn. When we remember Tahrir, we are reminded of how dreams unfolded before our eyes, how we all worked together to better understand each other and find a common path forward. How important it was to be seen and be heard, but also to listen to each other and witness the beauty of your neighbor, your countryman, your new friend.

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Run-Away Pursued From Nebraska City To Plattsmouth

NEBRASKA CITY – A pursuit out of Nebraska City Tuesday afternoon ended along Highway 75 north of Church Road, where several people were taken into custody.

A Nebraska City woman had called police saying her daughter was on the way from Omaha to take her car without permission. Police were told the girl was a run-away.

When police attempted to make contact with the girl, a pursuit began.

It was picked up by an Otoe County sheriff’s deputy and later by Cass County deputies.

The vehicle drove through the Highway 75 ditch and the occupants exited.

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Sandy Tufts Vickrey was born and raised in Winters, CA. She attended San Diego State University and Sacramento State University. She received her BA and a secondary teaching credential from Sacramento State. Sandy taught for three yeas at Winters Middle School and four years at Winters High School, retiring from teaching in 1989. Later that year, she started her career in Real Estate and became a realtor. In 1994 she bought the Realty World franchise in Winters, Realty World – Camelot Winters, Inc.
Sandy and her husband John have been enjoying going to Tahoe to vacation with their three children over the years. They and their three children have enjoyed skiing and snowboarding in the winter and boating in the summer. Their oldest son, Chad and lives and works at Tahoe with his daughter.  Their middle child, Jack, graduated from Penn State in May of 2008.   From 2008 to 2013 he lived in the Monterey area and was employed in the agricultural sales field.  In the summer of 2013 Jack decided to move back to Winters and work with his father in the family walnut farming business. Their youngest, daughter Devon, has attended American River Junior College , Sierra Nevada College and graduated from Portland State University 2013 where she earned her degree in Social Science with a minor in real estate finance.  Devon received her real estate Broker's License in March 2014.
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A Public Works permit is an important part of protecting the public while work is being done in the public right of way.  It assures that proper and adequate notice is given to the general public that an obstruction is ahead.  It also assures that any work being performed is inspected and meets the minimum City standards.  A permit also prompts coordination amongst public agencies to protect public facilities, such as stormdrains, water, sewer from damage, and to avoid conflicting work in the public right of way.
Types of Permits:

Encroachment Permits
Any work performed in the public right of way requires an encroachment permit. Read more...

Transportation Permits
Authorizes the permit holder to transport oversized and/or overweight vehicles, at one time, from one point to another, within City limits. Read more...

Other Permits:

Grading Permits

C.3 Permits

City Hall Hours: Monday thru Thursday, 7:30am-6:00pm; open during lunch time.
With the exception of the San Pablo Senior Center, Public Works Maintenance & Operations/Corporation Yard, and Police Patrol Services; Youth & Recreation Services will be open Fridays with limited services.

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For questions and submittals:
City of San Pablo City Hall - Building 3
Public Works Department - Engineering Division
13831 San Pablo Ave. | San Pablo CA 94806
Tel: (510) 215-3060 | Fax: (510) 215-3013


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Download E-books Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Birds by J. Eduardo P. W. Bicudo (2010-05-01) PDF

By J. Eduardo P. W. Bicudo;William A. Buttemer;Mark A. Chappell

Birds have colonized nearly each terrestrial habitat on the earth - from the poles to the tropics, and from deserts to excessive mountain tops. Ecological and Environmental body structure of Birds makes a speciality of our present figuring out of the original physiological features of birds which are of specific curiosity to ornithologists, but additionally have a much broader organic relevance.

An introductory bankruptcy covers the elemental avian physique plan and their still-enigmatic evolutionary background. the focal point then shifts to a attention of the fundamental elements of that almost all basic of avian attributes: the facility to fly. The emphasis this is on feather evolution and improvement, flight energetics and aerodynamics, migration, and as a counterpoint, the curious secondary evolution of flightlessness that has happened in different lineages. This units the degree for next chapters, which current particular physiological subject matters inside of a strongly ecological and environmental framework. those comprise fuel trade, thermal and osmotic stability, 'classical' lifestyles heritage parameters (male and feminine reproductive expenditures, parental care and funding in offspring, and fecundity as opposed to sturdiness tradeoffs), feeding and digestive body structure, diversifications to tough environments (high altitude, deserts, marine habitats, cold), and neural specializations (notably these vital in foraging, long-distance navigation, and tune production).

Throughout the ebook classical reports are built-in with the newest examine findings. a number of very important and exciting questions look ahead to extra paintings, and the booklet concludes with a dialogue of equipment (emphasizing state-of-the-art technology), techniques, and destiny examine instructions.

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Download E-books Partial Order in Environmental Sciences and Chemistry PDF

By Sherif El-Basil (auth.), Dr. Rainer Brüggemann, Prof. Dr. Lars Carlsen (eds.)

Partial Order? - by no means heard of it!
This remark might be heard not more, while the broadness of this mathematical inspiration has been defined. Many across the world well known authors support the reader in knowing what partial order is and the place, why and the way this idea can be utilized. considering that all of the authors have instructing event, partial order is defined step-by-step. Mathematical formalism is shunned so far as ever attainable. The e-book starts with a few fundamentals, considers functions in several fields and ends with a few historic notes.
After examining this publication, the remark should still develop into: Partial order! - the place is the subsequent book?

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Download E-books By Egbert Boeker - Environmental Physics: Sustainable Energy and Climate Change (3rd Edition) (2011-10-04) [Paperback] PDF

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This completely revised and up-to-date 3rd variation specializes in the usage of sustainable strength and mitigating weather swap, serving as an creation to physics within the context of societal difficulties. A distinguishing function of the textual content is the dialogue of spectroscopy and spectroscopic equipment as a very important potential to quantitatively examine and computer screen the of our environment, the standards picking weather switch, and all elements of strength conversion. This textbook should be important to scholars in physics and similar matters, and supplementary fabrics can be found on a better half website.Content:
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Download E-books Wood in Our Future: Proceedings of a Symposium : Environmental Implications of Wood As a Raw Material for Industrial Use PDF

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The USA produces 25 in line with cent of the world's wooden output, and wooden helps an immense section of the U.S. business base. timber supply fiber, resins, oils, pulp, foodstuff, paper, prescribed drugs, gasoline, many items utilized in domestic development, and diverse different items. using wooden as a uncooked fabric needs to think of construction efficiencies and traditional source conservation in addition to effective, ecocnomic use of good wooden, its residues, and by-products. to higher verify using wooden as a uncooked fabric, the U.S. division of Agriculture's woodland provider requested the nationwide examine Council's Board on Agriculture to collect specialists to study the analytical ideas used to keep on with the life-cycle of wooden construction - from tree to product - and examine the environmental affects. This ensuing publication offers a base of present wisdom, picking out what info are missing, the place destiny efforts could be targeted, and what's recognized concerning the methodologies used to evaluate environmental affects. The e-book additionally specializes in nationwide and overseas efforts to improve built-in environmental, fiscal, and effort accounting methodologies.

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This article addresses the typical unfavourable conception of polymer fabrics at the setting with a radical research of what quite happens whilst and academia collaborate to discover environmental options. The ebook examines the environmental and social results of polymer fabrics and explains equipment of quantifying environmental functionality. With an emphasis at the value of schooling, the authors pressure the significance of know-how and task in negating polymers' environmental influence.

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Download E-books Analytical Techniques in Environmental Chemistry 2: Proceedings of the Second International Congress, Barcelona, Spain, November 1981: 2nd (Pergamon series on environmental science) PDF

Analytical options in Environmental Chemistry 2 makes a speciality of the institution of analytical concepts within the administration of compounds relative to their results on overall healthiness and nature. The booklet stresses that those analytical concepts are crucial with the intention to do something about the issues coming up from the usage of those compounds.
The choice comprises the contributions of authors who've always played experiences at the research of natural and inorganic pollution and tracking ideas or case histories of compounds. those items specialize in the function of analytical chemistry within the keep an eye on of compounds, really if the compounds are obvious to pose danger to future health and the surroundings. The textual content offers stories at the decision of ways those compounds can develop into toxins, that are emphasised via the experiments and laboratory methods pointed out within the publication. via examine on damaging compounds in numerous components, the booklet manages to show the diversities of ways those compounds can have an effect on the surroundings and future health. The textual content then proceeds via featuring quite a few analytical concepts which may be hired to mitigate the damaging nature of those compounds.
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Download E-books Adoption of Environmental Innovations: The Dynamics of Innovation as Interplay between Business Competence, Environmental Orientation and Network Involvement (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science) PDF

By Koos van Dijken, Giuliano Mussati, Paul Kalff, Søren Kerndrup, Bent Søndergård

How do small and medium sized corporations (SMEs) undertake environmental options? have they got the mandatory inner competence? Is any help provided through exterior events (i.e. community involvement)? What are the coverage implications? This booklet relies on vast fieldwork, performed in 4 conventional commercial sectors: offset printing, electroplating, fabric completing, and business portray. The paintings was once performed in Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and the united kingdom. Twenty company-based case reports have been analyzed and a mobilephone survey was once performed between 527 businesses. for that reason, the Innovation Triangle got here to be formulated, that is awarded right here, defining and mixing the determinants of SME innovativeness. The Innovation Triangle distinguishes 3 significant determinants of innovativeness: company competence, environmental orientation, and community involvement. The Innovation Triangle permits one to diagnose present environmental and innovation regulations, indicating which coverage measures should be potent in expanding the adoption of environmentally pleasant applied sciences, permitting environmental pursuits to be accomplished.

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Download E-books Environmental Engineering and Computer Application: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Computer Application (ICEECA 2014), Hong Kong, 25-26 December 2014 PDF

The knowledge of setting protection is a great success of people; an expression of self-awareness. even supposing the assumption of residing whereas holding the surroundings isn't really new, it hasn't ever been so generally and deeply practiced through any countries in background love it is at the present time. From the overdue 90s within the final century, the unusually quick improvement of machine technological know-how has introduced many new applied sciences that have already been utilized in numerous fields like production, army, aerospace and pharmacy. Now, one other vital field-the surroundings engineering is welcoming the advent of those applied sciences. The 2014 overseas convention on setting Engineering and laptop software (ICEECA2014) has brought together researchers in surroundings fields and in computing device fields, and encourages to locate power use for machine applied sciences in surroundings defense fields.
ICEECA2014, effectively hung on December 25–26, 2014 in Hong Kong, is a grand amassing attended by means of specialists and researchers from all over the international. The contributors at ICEECA2014 have generously shared their inspiring paintings and exchanged their cutting edge rules of the way to assist the environmental sciences enjoy the improvement of computing device know-how and vice versa. This ebook, as one of many many accomplishments for ICEECA2014, is the cooperative paintings of many folks and companies. It contains the entire papers accredited via ICEECA2014. those papers are permitted after cautious evaluate and they will turn out to be priceless  for the future.
Papers during this e-book are positioned below a number of varied chapters together with topics like environmental engineering, distant sensing, GIS and alertness, image and picture processing and computational technological know-how and application.

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My Summer Running Career

**featured image from @lululemonto If you’ve known me for a while, you’ll know that for a couple years, I had a sweet sweet love affair with running! Back in 2012 I did my first (and only) half-marathon, and I’ve done numerous other 5k and 10k races. I blogged a lot about my running, my nutrition, […]


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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Bill O' Reilly's Problem

Thanks for the question. In my opinion, Bill O' Reilly is very passionate about his political views, and there's nothing wrong with that. Well, you've heard it, he's told people to shut up multiple times, and that's his problem. He shuts people down because he has no arguments that support his political views. On a recent live interview on National Public Radio, when he was confronted with factual arguments that were against him, O' Reilly simply stormed out of the studio. The bottom line : Bill O' Reilly has no supporting arguments for his political view, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any.
I hope this will help you.
P.S. Don't take my words and use them for your homework.

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I prefer to call it erotic talk, but that is a subject for another day.)I’ll get into specific phrases you can use momentarily, but first, some guidelines to help you get your black belt from the dirty talk dojo.

Or, alternatively, according to "She got furious with me because she thought it was a personal assault, but the reality is she hated these lines as much as I did. Talking on writer Bret Easton Ellis' podcast, Pettyfer admitted they didn't get on "because Channing Tatum does not like me – and for many reasons, many being my own fault".

If you can’t wait for their in-game reveal come November, “Contest of Champions” players can already take a crack at the Grandmaster’s Challenge.Off screen they sat in awkward silence or exchanged insults.Hartnett supposedly explained: "There were times we would end up just sitting in the car when we were supposed to be doing a scene and neither of us would say anything for like an hour" and apparently the two bickered during the press tour.Imagine having to spend every day pretending to be a massive fan of someone you think is a total dick. franchise had an affectionate on-screen relationship rather like an old married couple but behind the scenes it wasn't so warm.The late Kenny Baker, who played R2, went on record several times to mention friction between them, stating in an interview with Josh Gill in 2011:"Daniels thinks he was the greatest gift to George Lucas and I was merely a nobody who operated a robot's controls and didn't contribute anything from an acting perspective."Daniels has been less vocal, though he did say to On screen they play a veteran LA homicide cop and his younger partner.“Marvel Avengers Academy” gets a massive update with five new characters straight out of Marvel Studios’ “Thor: Ragnarok”—Valkyrie, Korg, Miek, Heimdall, and Grandmaster—and one deviously devilish NPC, Hela.


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Courgette and cheddar tart

A homemade quiche is always a treat and this mixed cheese and vegetable version can’t fail to impress.

Tom Kerridge Recipes

By Tom Kerridge
From Spring Kitchen with Tom Kerridge

For the parmesan pastry

  • 200g/7oz plain flour
  • pinch salt
  • 85g/3oz cold butter, diced
  • 80g/2¾oz parmesan (or a similar hard cheese)
  • 2 free-range egg yolks
  • 1 free-range egg, beaten for egg wash

For the filling

  • 2 courgettes, cut into a large dice
  • salt
  • knob of butter
  • 1 onion, finely sliced
  • 1 red chilli, diced (leave the seeds in to add a little heat)
  • 200g/7oz cheddar, grated
  • 200ml/7fl oz double cream
  • 6 free-range egg yolks
  • 1 free-range egg
  • pinch nutmeg

To finish

  • 50g/1¾oz parmesan, grated (or a similar hard cheese)
  • 4 courgette flowers
  • rapeseed oil, to taste
  • salt and cracked black pepper

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Gifts for Him & Her Best Fashion Buys This Season

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JUST when you thought you were done with shopping for the year, the sales have suddenly emerged and destroyed that fulfilling notion. It is officially get ready to max out your credit card season. However smart online shopping habits also revealed that you could buy the biggest trends as gifts this season at a reasonable price too. With over 50 to 70% off this holiday season, the biggest brands have given in to the current seasonal demand and we are here to help you pick the best buys from all over the market. Sure you can follow Kanye’s advice on gifts’ because no one can beat him at it, as he proved once again when he gifted wife Kim Kardashian goodies from Apple, Disney, Amazon and Adidas along with stocks in each of these companies last week, but no one owns that genius thought mechanism.

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Reply to President Aquino’s hand-washing on the recent Lumad killings

(Photo from Armed Forces’ Eastern Mindanao Command PR shows Major Gen. Aurelio Baladad being conferred a lumad tribute by lumads linked to the AFP)

(This is the statement of Rural Missionaries of the Philippines Northern Mindanao Region on President Benigno Aquino III’s response to the militarization and killings in Surigao del Sur and Bukidnon and other areas in Mindanao. You can visit their website at

Instead of ordering an investigation, the president, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) gives a careless statement when he said, “There is no campaign to kill anybody in this country. There is a campaign to go after everybody who commits crimes, regardless of who they are.”

His pronouncement is both a denial of what is going on, and at the same time an accusation targeted at the victims butchered by the government forces and supporting paramilitary minions.

While the public document of the government’s Internal Peace and Security Plan, dubbed “Bayanihan,” does not have a word on the killing rampage of the AFP, the president’s statement of full support and endorsement of the Investment Defense Forces – formally the Special Civilian Armed Auxiliary (SCAA) and informally the paramilitary groups – is a standing order for the military’s guiding principle. At the core of the military’s actions is the interest to protect business firms – not the people it has sworn to protect.

If President Aquino says the campaign is to go after a person “who commits crimes” and dismisses the killings as justified actions of the military, then he is implying that those massacred and murdered by his forces were criminals. His statement is consistent with the military’s claim that they have been going after members of the New People’s Army, a statement that has been exposed to be a lie by the communities they have targeted and by the people who have seen their smears in the aftermath of their slaughter (see: Fact-Finding Mission Report on the Pangantucan Massacre).

The Alternative Learning Center for Agricultural and Livelihood Development (ALCADEV) is an award-winning educational institution that has a special curriculum on agriculture, technical and vocational skills. One of the victims of the recent spate of killings is ALCADEV’s executive director, Emerito Samarca. Malahutayong Pakigbisog Alang sa Sumusunod (MAPASU) is an organization of the Manobo community in Surigao del Sur, which has been launching campaigns based on the stand of its members – the primary need to protect their ancestral domain from investments that have long been trying to get ahold of their resources. One of those killed was the head of this organization, and the other his cousin also a member of this group. They were serving the people. Yes, serving the people does not entail killing any of the citizens. Those serving the people were the ones killed. The government killed them.

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Comic Stands: A Redtail’s Dream and Stand Still, Stay Silent by Minna Sundberg

Credit to Minna Sundberg

Webcomics have been around since the earliest days of the internet – like Bobbins, which started as an office comedy strip in 1998 and has since then morphed into a whole franchise of supernatural detective stories. Sites like Tapastic and Webtoons provide a platform for hundreds of creators, but some of the best content comes from entirely independent artists funding and producing their own websites and releasing their stories page by page every week. This way of reading comics uses the technology we have today, yes – but truthfully, webcomics should be recognised as a repurposed and updated version of comics’ earlier form – the weekly comic strip.

Two of the best comics I’ve read – webcomic or otherwise – are written by the Finnish cartoonist and illustrator Minna Sundberg. Her first, A Redtail’s Dream (aRTD) was released between the years of 2011 and 2013, whilst her second, Stand Still, Stay Silent (SSSS) started in 2015 and is still ongoing.

The best description of aRTD is a modern-day Finnish fairy-tail about a boy called Hannu and his pet dog, Ville, who fall asleep in the forest and wake to find their entire village has been dropped into the dream realm by one of the fox spirits as he was making the Aurora Borealis. To get them back, they must find the spiritual leaders of their village and convince them to lead everyone back to the real world. It’s a simple story with a simple format, which Sundberg initially envisioned as a 150 page experiment, but which became a 556 page epic instead. Though it takes place in modern day, it’s such a contained and remote setting that it could take place in any time, any place. But truthfully it’s the art that makes aRTD worth a read, which gets increasingly epic and beautiful as Hannu and Ville get deeper into the spirit world, and Sundberg grows more experienced – according to the author, each page would take her 8-10 hours to complete after she had finished her initial sketches.

Stand Still, Stay Silent at first seems nothing like its counterpart. Set 90 years in the future after the earth has been all but wiped out by disease, a rag tag team of inexperienced adventurers leaves the safety of the immune zones and journeys into the Silent World – which is filled with deformed and diseased monsters, and only mages can navigate – to try and recover some valuable Old World books. However bleak the premise might sound, it is genuinely funny and filled with lovable characters. And while it has moments of horror and tragedy, the friendly and inviting style of her art keeps you reading. Her technique has obviously developed since she started aRTD – not just in her skill, but in the composition of the pages, which are often hauntingly beautiful and original.

Yet comparisons are impossible to avoid. In both, the technological world we’re familiar with has been stripped away, and the characters journey through unfamiliar and often illogical worlds. But more importantly, both stories adapt Scandinavian mythology and insert it perfectly into a modern context. Much like the format of webcomics, Sundberg uses and repurposes the old to create something new and exciting.