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Integrity Test… be honest yo

This test only has one question, but it’s a very important one. Please don’t answer it without giving it some serious thought. By giving an honest answer you will be able to test where you stand morally.

The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation, where you will have to make a decision one way or the other. Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.

Please scroll down slowly and consider each line – this is important for the test to work accurately.

You’re in Florida… In Miami, to be exact… There is great chaos going on around you, caused by a hurricane and severe floods… There are huge masses of water all over you… You are a CNN photographer and you are in the middle of this great disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless.

You’re trying to shoot very impressive photos. There are houses and people floating around you, disappearing into the water. Nature is showing all its destroying power and is ripping everything away with it.

Suddenly you see a man in the water, he is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken away by the masses of water and mud. You move closer. Somehow the man looks familiar.

Suddenly you know who it is – it’s George W. Bush!

At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him away… forever. You have two options. You can save him or you can take the best photo of your life. So you can save the life of George W. Bush, or you can shoot a Pulitzer prize winning photo. A unique photo displaying the death of one of the world’s most powerful men.

And here’s the question (please give an honest answer)

Would you select color film, or go with the simplicity of classic black and white?

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  1. Josh says:

    If I was a real reporter, acting the way they do, I’d be asking the same question if it was a small baby girl getting washed away. I’d choose colour, to see all her agony in it’s tragedy, and if I needed to I could grayscale it later.


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[openskills-dev] DevCon 2005 - Starts Tomorrow

Bruce Badger bbadger at openskills.com
Sun Jun 19 03:16:53 BST 2005

First, let me assure you that there is a DevCon "thing" this year.  It's
a pin (badge) again, and it's a very nice one too!  If you come along to
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or at any informal meeting where we cover the DevCon agenda, you can
have a pin.  The list of events will grow as I travel and get things set
up.  If you live near one of the places I'll be visiting, let me know
and I'll try to meet up.

The closing event of the DevCon is the 2005 OpenSkills AGM.  So, if
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I hope to see you soon.

All the best,
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Michael McCarthy m.mccarthy at psy.uq.edu.au
Tue Jan 8 11:56:58 EST 2002

Has anyone else experienced problems with spam_assassin_is_spam() on
messages with large attachments?

Currently running Solaris 8, sendmail 8.11.6,  mimedefang 2.3-BETA-1 and
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filter_begin is just as per David's sample code :

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The smtp server returns a "please try again later" error to the client ..

Anyone have any clues on how to fix this? Running spamassassin from the
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Catrice Las Vegas Collection [Eyeshadow + Liner]

Dear readers,

Today I was really surprised to stumble upon a new Catrice makeup collection at the university health shop - one that I haven't heard of and hadn't seen any reviews of.

It's the Catrice 'Welcome to Las Vegas' collection.

I though is it possible that it's so new that I've heard nothing about it? So I've just arrived back home and I've googled it, and guess what? This collection has been out since November 2011. I don't know how it ended up being on sale now in Malta? Any of you know if it was for sale back in 2011? Maybe they had a surplus of stock? Boq.

Anyway, a couple of things caught my eye which I got; the eyeshadow quad and the liner;

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Second item I got was this black liquid eyeliner full of gold shimmer in it, called 'Drama Queen'. Don't know how many times I'll use this (if any) but it just grabbed my attention.

It is lovely, even though in the swatch pic it looks more green than black. It has a stiff pointy applicator which  is how I like my liquid liners to be.

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Adirondack Brook Trout Ponds
« on: September 10, 2017, 02:52:15 PM »
Back in my younger days... (Early 80's) There was a reclaimed Brook Trout pond on the back side of Fourth Lake, called Quiver Pond. It sits alongside of Shore Drive, which runs between Old Forge, and Inlet. The first few times we fished it was with crawlers & spin rods from shore. We did good! Catching about a dozen between us, in the evening, then taking them back to camp and cooking them over the fire...

My Dad was a Die Hard, Trout Fisherman, though never a Fly fisherman. Knowing my uncle kept a fly rod in his camper, I took 2 of my rods up to camp one late Sept weekend. My trusty 8'6" 7wt Cortland rod & Rimfly reel, and a 7' 5wt Eagle Claw "Sweetheart" rod & old Martin 65 reel.

After arriving at camp that night, around the fire, my uncle, Dad, and I made plans to take my Jon boat to the pond the next morning. My uncle and I had our fly rods, but my Dad insisted on bringing his old Zebco pole... (Unknown to him, I left the can of crawlers hid behind a tree when we left, lol) When we got to the pond, and unloaded the boat, he couldn't find the can? To say he was upset, would be a HUGE understatement!!! I think he shortly realized he was dupped, saying "I guess I'll use one of these fly poles"...

We spent the day drifting tandem streamer rigs. A Royal Coachman, trailed by a Mickey Finn. We caught dozens of Brookies that day!!! Each of us keeping 5, for our "evening snack"! (Btw, in those days, the limit was 10 trout. However, we never kept more than we could eat that day) My Dad had a blast that day!!! Although he never did become a Fly Fisherman...

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Re: Adirondack Brook Trout Ponds
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2017, 10:53:30 PM »
Good thing you caught trout or you'd have had to walk home!

Great telling of a great trip.
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The project began when Hajjar and Zarin began writing music for film trailers and realized that they had created a sound that needed life outside of that medium. After a few phone calls, they added Van Leeuwen and set to work on music for an EP, but they still needed a vocalist. After hearing what the guys were doing, Mastodon's bassist-singer Troy Sanders flew to Los Angeles and met with the trio to write and record vocals, thus completing the new band.

Hajjar tells Rolling Stone, "When thinking of singers, a few came to mind, but Troy Sanders' voice and presence kept on coming up in conversations. Both Troys had always talked about doing something together, so it was an easy connection. Sanders flew in and tracked some demos to the finished music, and it went from there."

Sanders says, "The vibe from day one was, and has been, very therapeutic and refreshing for me. The chemistry was immediate. I can only dedicate myself to something that rewards me purely, and we are all in this for the right reasons."

Hajjar goes on to add, "The thought behind this band is to combine what most of us know from many years of being in touring/recording entities and our love of scoring. Mike and I have had the privilege of being part of some amazing movie trailer campaigns and scored the game Splinter Cell: Blacklist together as well. Our goal is to be able to do more of this within this project."

Gone Is Gone will play their first show at the Dragonfly in Los Angeles on April 27, with tickets going on sale this Friday (April 15) at 10AM PT via Ticketmaster. After the show, the next step is to issue their debut EP, which is expected this summer via the band's own imprint via Rise Records and BMG.

The band has chosen a song called "Violescent" to be the lead single, and a portion of the song can be heard in the player above. As you can hear, it starts heavy on the bass and drums before the guitars turn it into a more driving rocker.

As for the future, Hajjar says he envisions Gone Is Gone as a band that can live even when the members are off doing other things. "The goal is to compose remotely, if needed, on film, trailers or anything else that comes up. It feels good to know that all of this music will see the light of day soon."

Stay tuned for more from Gone Is Gone.

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Getting together with the family means that a lot of the time we need to have a similar interest in something. Well, we have started to become a very techy family! There’s something about it, we all love learning about new devices and learning how to use them together. We all get super excited when we actually get them figured out and the joy in everyone’s face when we watch it in action! Sharing it together is literally the cherry on top of a morning full of memories made on Christmas Day.

It’s super fun and interesting what is available to us now from the Fitbit fitness tracker to a Google Max that you literally just ask it to play anything and it will. We’ve come a long way since I was little and everyday I’m impressed with the Techy options for the family.

These devices can help in our everyday and every age. From Owens age to Drew we all eventually end up sharing each device with each other and they can be used in so many different ways! Getting used the proper amount that all these gadgets are made for. If you love tech gifts as much as we do then you will enjoy this list. I’m honestly not one for setting up to many I leave that for Drew and Owen. But surprisingly I was able to set the Google Max up on my own and it was way easier than I thought it would be. One thing I love about these new pieces, made for an easy set-up.

We had the perfect opportunity to test out some of TELUS gift guide picks at home all found here…  ! The three of us have rounded up our favourites and how each of us use the same piece for our everyday!

Thankfully no one minds sharing!

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1. Fitbit Alta. When we first spotted this device we kind of had a feeling it would be a perfect fit for Drew. With his crazy shift work schedule, we were so interested in seeing his results for his heart rate, calories.. And most importantly tracking his sleep! He works ever changing night shift and sleeps whenever he can grab the chance. He was able to set this up with his phone which can track his sleep patterns restlessness & how long he actually sleeps for. It’s nice knowing and that we can have an idea of what’s going on for him everyday!

2. Belkin Charging Pad Sooo charging things in our home is constant!! Please tell me I’m not alone here. This charging pad suites everyone but most importantly for Owen. It charges wireless or corded. It can travel with you for when your in a pinch! Light and easy to move. Perfect stocking stuffer for anyone and a great price.. find it here

3. Google Home Max Well it feels like all four of us have taken claim of this. Even Ella tries to do “Hey, Google..” If you haven’t tried or seen it, I would totally add it to your wish list. At first I wasn’t sure but once programmed I was in shock. Google home is setup to ask it any question play the best sounding music I’ve ever heard. You can set this up to your phone, Netflix etc. The possibilities are endless with this Max. Simply say Hey Google.. and ask a question play a song and it just does it’s thing!!

4. Beats Headphones We are a very busy family, literally always on the go and lots of driving. Winter we love to ski/snowboard so the beats have found a nice home with all of us. We each use it separate for different things. Boys on the hill, me for my walks & when we want to watch something without bothering the person next to us. The sound quality lives up to its name and highly recommend getting these, they’re the best like we’ve been told! It comes with a cord or can be wireless as well!

To find the full list of these and more from TELUS Holiday Gifts follow the link here … Perfect for gift ideas and even putting some on your own Holiday wish list!!

{Disclosure this post was sponsored post as part of an collaboration program, however all opinions are my own}

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Etsy update,

I've added a few new items to the Etsy shop, they are...

Fantastic Mr Fox, using that lovely Marvel comic print I talked about last time,

some cotton reel pincushions, using the same fabric,

and three more pincushions using a sewing pattern print as I'm always getting a steady trickle of emails enquiring about these so thought it would be a good idea to sew a little batch.

All are on Etsy now

Primroses Attic said...

I love your Mr. Fox and your pin cushions are so cute.

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Those pincushions are so enchanting–absolutely lovely!

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Hallo,liebe Grüße aus Deutschland ...du machst wunderschöne Sachen.Ich bin sehr beeindruckt...ganz ganz toll. Ein schönes Wochenende wünscht Susi

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I meant to put a little note, but was so excited that I purchased it without! I've been following your blog for as long as I can remember and everything you make. As an American that has lived in North Yorkshire as a young mum, when I see your work it is so nostalgic. I can hardly wait for my fox to come. We live in the country and I see foxes all the time, so it will be so fun to have on my fireplace mantle! Thanks for being so creative, I love your stuff!

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Beautiful creations! I love each of them! ^_^


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This is web based, created using HTML5 and JavaScript. All instruction are given on the entry page. Please enjoy :-)

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callidus says ...
Apr 27, 2014 @ 7:46pm

Just to be completely clear, the music used in this entry was not created by me, it is royalty free music and credited accordingly.

ccglp says ...
Apr 27, 2014 @ 8:31pm

I like this game, but I don't like the F5 reset system :P

rainybyte says ...
Apr 27, 2014 @ 10:01pm

Also needs a mute option.
Probably won't play it until this 2-3 hour long playlist is over. If at all.

callidus says ...
Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:04am

Thanks for the comments :-)
ccglp, yeah F5 was a bit lazy, but I was running out of time :-P

rainbyte, humm I could add a mute

NeiloGD says ...
Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:47am

Nice and addictive, simple to get the hang of. Got a good strategy going sticking as close to the centre as possible. Seemed to get squished often when respawning though if I fell into a hole :(

Kimau says ...
Apr 28, 2014 @ 12:17pm

Simple and fun, are the other players AI or other players?
Wanted to drill the other players into pieces :P
Music suited but a mute would be nice :)

hbocao says ...
Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:49am

Very addictive! Are the other cars players or AI? Good job, man!

Kuchalu says ...
Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:42pm

Love the music, the game is actually quite difficult.

FrozenCow says ...
Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:46pm

I like the concept and it looks really nice. The start could've been handled better (the arm comes by rather quickly).

Marcellus says ...
Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:47pm

Sorry but this game can't be in the 48h compo as you used something you didn't create.

Also this game looks great but I couldn't see the score anywhere. Maybe you should resize the screen a bit for laptop users.

chagroo says ...
Apr 30, 2014 @ 4:10pm

Had fun playing this and has the potential to be quite addictive. After a while I had a winning strategy by sticking to the center (because if you stick to the center you are pretty safe and can easily prevent getting squashed). Making it harder to use the center might make the game more challenging. Also the music and artwork is quite nice.

javifugitivo says ...
Apr 30, 2014 @ 4:32pm

The game has good graphics, but the control and the difficult need some polishing, keep working ;-)

LandoSystems says ...
Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:16pm

Fun little game, got crushed so many times....

meszka says ...
Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:29pm

Nice graphics :) Seeing the other cars made me think it could be fun as a multiplayer game, though right now there isn't a huge motivation to be aggressive towards the others.

pancakecity says ...
May 1, 2014 @ 3:45pm

I like your use of texture for the graphics. Pretty fun driving game!

pbsds says ...
May 5, 2014 @ 8:25am

Like the idea, but it gets repetitive too quickly in my opinion. Adding upgrades, other things to collect(boosts? shields?) and different levels should spice this up!

eskivor says ...
May 5, 2014 @ 9:18am

Nice but a little bit difficult

TeamFlare says ...
May 5, 2014 @ 11:28am

Wow, this was a taff challenge for me^^ But I really had fun and tried it several times (I got a bit better a after a while \o/). Awesome little game :)

SnoringFrog says ...
May 7, 2014 @ 5:08am

Pretty cool game. It would be awesome if it had multiplayer. However, dying at the very beginning seems almost inevitable, which is annoying. I managed to get a high score of 37. ^_^

voxel says ...
May 17, 2014 @ 8:47pm

Fun game with a surprising amount of replayability. Quite a few options tactically. A pity that you used borrowed music in a compo entry though :(. Still, fun

SK16Games says ...
May 19, 2014 @ 9:52pm

Cool game :)

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It’s amazing how ship personnel believe, because you and they joke around a few times, that you’re going to let them get away with infractions. In this case, however, it’s me who’s about to get away with a major violation, so I just nod and wave him on.

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The cat appears, nonchalantly jumps onto the co-captain chair and licks his anus.

Soon I’m sailing free in Lao Zone, the least inhabited area of Earth mapped universe. One could float here for years without meeting an inhabited planet, moon, ship, or debris. This is the place to unwind, think and recover or possibly the opposite, check out.

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I set my stuns and for back up, the Rikshatan morph blade I keep in my boot. Whoever is out there probably knows this ship better than I do, every nook and cranny.

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She ignores me while opening and shutting drawers, slamming pans around. In a few minutes, onions are sizzling on the fancy looking stove. She behaves as though I’m not there, so I park myself at the table. The aroma of food drives me crazy.

But she plops down only one plate of mystery meat with the onions.“I don’t get any?” I whine.

She ignores me and shovels it in. As she lifts her arm, her sleeve rides up to reveal a row of symbols on her wrist. My gasp causes her head to pop up, her fork in midair.

“Nothing,” I say, then change my mind. Why am I allowing a pip-squeak teenager to intimidate me?“That tattoo on your wrist.”

She stands up and slams both hands on the table, sending the fork clanging to the floor.“You mind your own business, you hear?” she yells, then runs from the room. I dart for the corridor, but she’s gone. Since she abandoned her food, what the hell, I eat it.

Back in Control, I worry. God only knows what she could be doing out there, sabotaging in ways too numerous to count. I run scan and locate her in one of the apartments, not moving, possibly lying on a bed. I decide to let her be for now.

Unless I’m mistaken, that tattoo is the mark of the Galodea, an organization like twentieth century Nazis melded with Cosa Nostra. Purity of humans is their obsession and if you happen to carry even a tiny percentage of Ferv or Rikshatan DNA, they may visit in the dark of night and your landlord will wonder why you disappeared before paying your rent. Within a short time, you’ll be someone’s personal property on any of the worlds where such activity is tolerated. A Galodea slave is tattooed the day of its capture, using an ink that their technology can detect from quite a distance and escape is nearly impossible. Should the impossible happen, woe to the slave who escapes and to anyone who facilitates that escape.

My guts turn to gurgling lava.

I pass a shaky half hour, visualizing myself on one of Galodea’s rumored torture racks till I’m startled by “music” that sounds like cattle being sliced to shreds in a clanging, threshing machine. Frantically, I search the puters for sound control and turn everything off, but it continues. Nothing for it but to chase it physically. Not hard – she’s back in the galley stuffing her face while bobbing to the mind murdering racket.

“TURN THAT OFF!” I bellow.

Deliberately, she continues to chew. I slam my fist on the table, causing her bowl and utensils to clatter.“Either do it or I’ll cut off your food and water!”

She makes a face, snaps her fingers and the horror stops.

“What the hell was that?”

She shrugs.“Musico.”

“Where is the damned thing?”

She reaches around to pull something from a back pocket then hands it to me. It looks like a grape.

“Where’d you get this?”

“Frank,” she says. “You know, the guy who actually owns this ship.”

My hand shoots out and grabs her wrist, hard. Before she can fight me, I have her sleeve yanked up and the tattoo exposed.

“Explain this,” I growl, more terrified than angry.

She jerks away, intending to run, but I have my stun on her. “It’s set to low. Won’t kill you, just hurt like hell.”

“You wouldn’t,” she says, and to her amazement and my regret, I blast her. She slams back against the wall, slides down and curls up in a ball, rolling about yelping. I feel like I kicked a puppy.

I help her to her feet. She’s too weak to fight and indeed, leans against me. Depositing her back in her chair, I sit and try again.

“Since you’re endangering my life, you’re going to explain. How did you get that tattoo and how did you escape?”

Her head is wobbly, but she manages to speak.“Frank promised me,” she says, so low I can hardly hear.

“Promised you what?”

“That he knew someone who’d get it off, that the guy’s a genius and no one will be able to tell after.”

“How did it get on there in the first place?”

She turns away, but the fight in her is gone. “They had me from the beginning.”

It takes a moment for that to sink in.“You mean…you were a lot baby?They bought you before…”

She nods. Lot babies, for the sheltered among you, are fertilized embryos black-market labs sell in batches. Those who need a cheap workforce of children are eager to buy. The punishment for engaging is such activities is death, unless you’re involved in high end organized crime. In which case, you get away with anything you please.

I put away the stun.“All right, so you were raised in a Galodea den. How is that done exactly?”

She breathes heavily, rubbing her arms, trying to recover.“I don’t remember anything till I was three. They had ‘mother’ slaves take care of us. Some were decent, some weren’t. They’d been lot babies themselves. By the time we were eight or nine, we were harvesting spode, then as we got older with better fine motor control, we graduated to working in the refining mills. By the time I was fifteen, Earth Count, I was foreman of my section.

“How old are you now?”

“Did you ever get to go anywhere? What about education?”

“Education consists of what we need to know. Math, physics, technical stuff, obviously how to read. Two languages, Anglo and Galactic Mandarin. How to cook and keep yourself and belongings clean. Travel?One of the plant owner’s sons, Nigel de Galodea, decided he wanted me. He forced himself on me several times, then occasionally took me away for business trips on other moons and once on Koglan IV.I got to see what free people do. I made up my mind.”

“Made up your mind?”

“Yeah. That I would escape or die. I didn’t care which.”

“I heard that escape is impossible.”

“You heard wrong. Many have escaped, many have been caught. And then either killed or brain dulled.”

“And the people they were caught with?”

She doesn’t answer. My intake of breath is shaggy. The only thing good we have going is where we currently are in space. But we can’t stay here forever. I could eject her. Her demise would be quick.

“Please don’t kill me,” she says softly. Her eyes are lustrous like you only see in the very young, their whites still milky blue.

“How did you know I was thinking that?”

She looks off to the side and instantly I know she is part Ferv. But the Galodea would never purchase lot fetuses with that in them.“You read my mind,” I say. “How did this happen?”

“I’m not sure,” she says.

“They wouldn’t knowingly buy a batch of hybrids.”

“You’re right. They’d never let hybrid slaves work in their spode plants. Captured hybrids are for mining and hard labor; they work them to early deaths. Because,” she says smirking, “we can read their evil minds.”

“What I cannot understand is how the whole batch of you keep it hidden or who made the batch in the first place.”

“I’ve heard,” she says, “that there are those who secretly mock the Galodea. Infiltration, so to speak.”

“A sorry way to do it, at the expense of so many miserable lives.”

“But don’t you see,” she says, smiling for the first time. “It is the thing most feared by Galodea masters, it’s why they hate hybrids! You know, don’t you, that when they capture known hybrids and enslave them, they do something to their minds so they’re no longer telepathic?Somehow, I guess by the time we lot babies developed telepathy, usually around age eight, we knew to keep our mouths shut. I was able to mind read Frank when I first saw him on Koglan IV. It was how I made my escape.”

“What did you read in Frank?”

“He was with a sex robo, pretending to have a conversation. I don’t understand why men bother talking to a sex machine. Do they imagine the robo cares what they think?Anyway, he’d been watching me. Somehow he knew what I was, knew what Nigel was. Frank has been around.

“When we passed near him, he was thinking: That bastard, I’d like to ram a rod into both ends till they meet in the middle. His eyes focused on me and that was when he had the thought that he knew someone who could remove the tattoo.”

“How did you know,” I ask, “that he’d be willing to risk-”

“Somehow he knew I’m hybrid. A while later, he said in his mind, ‘Dock 515, tonight 2300, password RODINIANGEST.’My problem then was how to get there.”

“Wait a minute. How would he project to you?Can I do that?”

She is silent for a long moment.“Maybe he was just thinking it for me and I just happened to be near enough to read.”She seemed a little evasive.

“So, how did you make your escape?”

She shudders. “Nigel de Galodea, like most arrogant assholes, has an addiction. His problem is spriol, very high grade, elite spode. I guess it’s hard to be a Galodea prince with access to anything you want and not get sucked in.”

“Never heard of the stuff,” I say. I tried spode once, decades ago. The experience was not negative, yet not positive enough to attract me a second time. Alcohol is better for my personal oblivions.

“Not too many people have. But he wanted some and there wasn’t any on Koglan IV.I knew how to make a version of it from spode. He jumped at the chance, got me everything I needed. I wouldn’t let him watch and he was so eager, so desperate, he let me boss him around. I cooked it strength and half. Could have done double and killed him, but controlled myself. A Galodea family avenging a murder is not something you want on your tail.

“He took forever to get blazed, but obviously, I made it out. Frank let me in and we were off and down a wormhole sooner than it takes me to smoke a v-stick. Our plan was to drop off his cargo at Titon Station, then he’d take me to that guy he knows who’d rid me of the tattoo.”

She gave me a look that could shrivel your organs. “But now he’s back there freakin’ out about his ship and you, you idiot, you messed up whatever future I was gonna have!”

My God, she’s right. Then something occurs to me. “We’ve only been gone a few hours. Frank is probably just mellow enough by now to see some girls for a romp and may not even notice anything wrong for another hour or so. Maybe more if he nods off after.”

“He told me he wasn’t going to drink this time. Chances are, he’s already called in cops. They’ll be crawling all over the place. The dirty bastards will send me right back to Galodea since most of them are in its pocket!”Her eyes are filled with stark terror.

“Look, even though you probably think I dislike you, that’s not true. I admire your spunk. The thing is, I don’t relish being killed for all this.”

Funny, but just a few hours ago, I wouldn’t have cared of someone blasted my head off, but now….well…I feel an old longing when I look at the girl and I’m not referring to sex.

“I’m wondering,” I say, “why Frank would risk his own life to free you. Something’s not adding up.”

She doesn’t look at me.

I grab her arm and shake her.“Listen, I don’t need to read minds here. Frank is a hybrid, isn’t he?Somehow he hides it, has all this time. You didn’t just read his mind, he projected to you!”

She shrugs.

“Tell me you haven’t suspected it.”

“He never said,” she replies.

“How far away can you read me? Across the room?On the other side of the ship?A hop, skip and a ship away?”

“I don’t know, across the room.”

“I see. Not on the other side of the ship then?”

“Probably not.”

“And if you’re in a place with a bunch of people around, you hear them all at the same time?”

“Sort of, but if you want to hear just one, you can concentrate on that one.”

“And can you project to someone?”

“How far?”

“I don’t know, farther.”

Much farther?”

“And to receive it, the target would have to be telepathic?”

“I guess so.”

“So how far away was Frank from you when he sent his message about being at Dock 515?”

She hesitates.“I see what you mean.”

“Now I understand why he was so sympathetic and knew where to get rid of those tattoos. Maybe he won’t be so quick to call on the cops, not with his own hidden background, the shady cargo he sometimes hauls and the fact that you never know which cop is in Galodea’s pocket. What we need is a way to contact him without you sticking out like a sore thumb.”She’s all big eyes now, street sass gone.

“Any booze on this heap?”

She gets up, opens a drawer and pulls out a bottle of Mars-Dunberry Scotch and pours me a double.“I need to think,” I tell her. “Can you send a message while protected by benidium?”

“I don’t know,” she says. “Listen, gotta remind you, I wasn’t hiding in that bay just to avoid the life scanners, but because Galodea could pick up my tattoo in well traveled space.”

“To get close enough for you to even hope to project, it’s not just you we have to hide, it’s the entire ship.” Something occurs to me. “We could conceal ourselves behind one of Saturn’s moons reasonably close to Titon. There’d be the jump from the worm hole exit to that moon and during that we could be detected. Is it humanly possibly for the Galodea to check all points at all times? You didn’t live in the benidium bay the whole time you’ve been in this ship…..”

“I’ll take the chance if you will,” she says.

I don’t stop to breathe because if I do, I could change my mind.“Get into that bay,” I order and she runs like hell.

In Control, I set the coordinates for Wormhole III return, then for the fastest jump possible, considering the abilities of Nuts & Bolts. The cat, as if he understands the seriousness of the situation, hunkers under my seat. My hands are slippery with sweat. Not a religious man, I mutter a prayer and signal Go. This is it.

In a matter of twenty soul wrenching minutes, Hyperion’s spongy looking surface is 32,000 km from my drenched face. The cat, now cleaning his left paw seems ignorant of his close call with the Reaper. Not that we’re safe now.

I shakily signal Linya.“You okay?”

Oddly, her little voice warms my heart.“Yeah,” she says. “We’re there already?”

“We are. It’s time for you to see how far you can project and if the benidium stops you. Do your thing, hybrid.”

“’Kay,” she says, voice tinier still.

There is a long silence while my guts make dangerous gurgles. Not now, please, not now. Finally, she speaks.

“Got him,” she says.“He knows we’re here. Give me our coordinates to send so he can get here in a shuttle. It’ll take a while though,” she says.

I do, my relief intense. But it’s short lived.

We’re being approached by an unidentified ship, second class.“DON’T LEAVE THAT ROOM!” I bark at her.“Somebody’s coming.”

She doesn’t reply and I feel a panic that completely dwarfs my former one.

They signal and full of dread, I open communications. A smirky face fills the screen.

“You have no clearance to be in this area,” he opens.“We’re coming aboard.”

Though practically blind with terror, I manage to blurt, “Who are you?”

“Never mind. Maybe we’re Policia. Don’t try anything. Our weapons can reduce your ship to oatmeal.”

They’re not the police. The police would know Nuts & Bolts is not “my ship.”That means they’re probably Galodea. Linya and I are good as dead – after they torture us for days first.

I should have familiarized myself with the ship’s defense, but then I haven’t been in it all that long without distraction and didn’t expect to need weapons in Lao Zone. They lock onto the airlock and, though practically pissing myself, I walk to meet them.

There are two – one wiry and and covered in scars and the other tall and beefy.“Strip,” they order.

This is it. They’ll probably blast off my penis for the pleasure of it. Instead they tie and gag me, leaving me heaped on the floor in a humiliating posture. As I wait for them to return and finish me off, my life runs past. I think about my kids I never see, about what they’ll probably put Linya through, about what will happen to her if she survives. What’s the point of it all if life just turns out like this?

For what feels like eons, they clang around the ship. Then I hear a couple of thuds and their ship pressing off. What the -?Here I am, a naked trussed pig till Linya finds me, if she’s still there. Not that I relish her seeing me like this. I’ve soiled myself too.

Suddenly, she is behind me.“How do I get these off?” she says, referring to my bindings.“They’re metal.”She removes the gag.

“Find a stun; they took mine. Look in Control, galley, anywhere.”

Ages pass before she returns.“They took stuff, drawers are open all over, but I found this.”She holds it in front of my face. It’s a large work stun, but will have to do.

“Set it low and try not to hit me.”

I feel heat, but she manages and the bindings fall off. She hands me the stun and I do my ankles.“For crying out loud, let me clean myself up.”

“Don’t worry,Nigel shit himself when he was wasted all the time.”

“Just the same,” I tell her. “But before I go do that, how did you keep away from them?”

“Frank thinks of everything,” she says.“Inside that bay, there’s a little door to another compartment. That’s benidium lined too and big enough for me to curl up in. When the door’s shut, you can’t tell unless you know it’s there.”

“I suppose,” I say, “that’s where he stores his really illegal cargo. Thank God. Now get back in that bay!”

She obeys while I clean up and return to Control. Frank has signaled he’s halfway to us.

“So who were those abominations?” I transmit to Linya.“Not Galodea – we’re still here.”

“They work for a small crime boss. I read their little pea brains. Robbery is their game, mainly drug cargo. Wasn’t any on here so they left. They took some of Frank’s things. Bastards.”

It occurs to me Frank probably wants to kill me, but I’m too exhausted to care.

Linya says, “What am I going to do after the tattoo is off?I can’t stay with Frank.”

She sounds so small and scared and it’s then I know what I want.

Soon Frank’s shuttle is clamping to the airlock and his voice booms, “Open, you son of a bitch!”

“He’s here,” I inform Linya.

I open the airlock and in a matter of minutes, he bursts into Control, Linya dangerously out and behind him.

“Let me handle this,” she says, giving me a hard look.

“Don’t hurt him, Frank. He knows everything, more than you can guess. He’s sorry he took your ship.”

Frank peers around her in order to shoot me the evil eye.

“Tell him you’re sorry, Phil,” she says.

“Sorry, Frank,” I say in the manner of a twelve year old forced by his mother.“I was desperate. Wasn’t thinking clearly.”

“I could freakin’ kill you,” he says.

There’s a long, embarrassing moment. I say, “After she’s clean, what are your plans for her?”

He looks surprised, like he hasn’t given it any thought.“Uh, I dunno.”

She looks at me.

I find myself stuttering.“Well, uh…”

“Yeah?” says Frank impatiently.

“She can stay with me if she likes. I’ll say she’s my niece, maybe later adopt her. They have a decent secondary school on the station, beamed in classes, occasional visiting professors.”

“I’m probably really behind,” she says tentatively. But the fact that she notes this pleases me.

Frank shrugs.“Up to you, kid,” he says.

I can’t believe I have done/said this, but it’s exactly what I want. More so what I need.

“You’re pretty old,” she observes.

“But not dead yet.”

She gives me a long stare, not at all sassy, then nods.

I head to the station in the shuttle while Frank, with Linya stashed back in the bay, heads out to where he won’t say. I claim to administration that I’d been sick as a dog, delirious even. They deduct from my pay and issue me a warning.

Takes Frank and Linya two months before they return with Linya’s arm clean. He hands her over, safe and sound. I hire a remedial tutor and she’s catching up quick. In a bit, she’ll start university. They transmit from every university on Earth and Mars, she can take her pick.

This time, I’m doing my best not to screw up as a parent. I’m not the least bit bored anymore.

A bit about the author:

Margaret Karmazin’s credits include 130 stories published in literary and national magazines, including Rosebud, Chrysalis Reader, North Atlantic Review, Pennsylvania Review and Wild Violet. Her stories in The MacGuffin, Eureka Literary Magazine, Licking River Review and Words of Wisdom were nominated for Pushcart awards and her story, “The Manly Thing,” was nominated for the 2010 Million Writers Award. She has stories included in STILL GOING STRONG, TEN TWISTED TALES, MOTA 9, ZERO GRAVITY, COVER OF DARKNESS and CIRCLING URANUS and a novel, REPLACING FIONA, published by Visit author page