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HCA to pay $162M for broken promises in merger deal

Foundation alleged HCA didn't provide capital improvements, charitable care

The nation's largest for-profit hospital chain, Hospital Corp. of America, will have to pay a nonprofit foundation $162 million and undergo audits of charitable care levels after breaking agreements to purchase hospitals in the Kansas City area.

A Missouri judge yesterday ruled in favor of Health Care Foundation (HCF) of Greater Kansas City--one of two foundations set up after the Tennessee-based for-profit health system bought Health Midwest's 11 nonprofit hospitals in 2002. The acquisition was the largest transfer of nonprofit hospital assets to a for-profit entity in the United States, according to The Kansas City Star.

Because Health West's hospitals were nonprofits, the sales' net proceeds went to creating HCF, as well as Reach Healthcare Foundation. The Reach foundation, however, did not participate in HCF's lawsuit and will not receive any of the award, The Kansas City Star reported.

When HCA bought Health Midwest, it agreed to $450 million in capital improvements over five years, The New York Times reported. It also agreed to maintain the levels of care for poor patients for 10 years.

In 2009, HCF filed suit, saying HCA had failed to make those repairs and didn't deliver on charitable care levels.

According to Judge John Torrence's decision, "The annual reports include multiple instances of double counting, where the same alleged capital expenditures and/or commitments were erroneously recorded twice."

HCA said it met its obligation to spend money on the hospital facilities; it built two new hospitals--Centerpoint and Lee's Summit medical centers--instead of making the repairs.

The judge awarded HCF an immediate $161 million, plus attorneys' fees, according to a HCF statement.

Torrence also ruled that a court-appointed accountant will determine whether HCA actually provided the level of charitable care that the health system said it would.

HCA told the NYT the case is "rare" and that it maintains positive relationships with the community. HCA says it plans to appeal.

HCA has been in the public eye, as of late. Last year, the health system revealed it was under investigation for inappropriately billing Medicare for unnecessary cardiology procedures. HCA also settled kickback allegations for $16.5 million.

For more information:
- read the Kansas City Star article
- see the NYT article
- here's the Health Care Foundation article

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Roach Surprised at Manny Pacquiao’s Conditioning for Marquez Fight

Written By Fighthits on Saturday, September 24, 2011 | 12:51 AM

source: Alex Groberman | Opposing Views

The dynamic duo is back at it again.

Freddie Roach has never really gotten his due credit for ensuring that Manny Pacquiao’s career stayed on course. Sure, folks mention the famed trainer in passing while marveling over his star fighter, but not nearly as much as they should.

Without a doubt, Roach is one of the all-time greats at what he does, though. Sans him, Pacquiao would have never made the necessary adjustments after his second bout versus Juan Manuel Marquez -- that elongated his career and made him arguably the best pound-for-pounder in the sport today -- without his trainer’s guidance.

Recently, Pacquiao and Roach reunited in Manila to train for their third and final bout against Marquez, with whom the pair has quite the storied history. By now, after all of these years, you would expect for their sessions to be more or less be fairly standard. That, each one would know what to expect from the other leading up to any given fight.

According to Digital Journal, though, Pacquiao still has it in him to surprise his trainer.

“I didn’t expect him to be in this condition. I thought that like in our previous camp here, we will be starting again from the scratch,” Arum said. “Well, I was told that he begun working out two weeks before our original plan. And I think that was good.”

Pacquiao, obviously is taking the coming bout seriously, even if nobody really considers Marquez to be a legitimate threat to his crown anymore. While awaiting Roach, the Filipino champion trained with his conditioning coach Alex Ariza -- who had his own choice words about Marquez -- and assistant trainers Buboy Fernandez and Nonoy Neri.

All signs point to Pacquiao being on track to put the exclamation mark on his feud versus Marquez once and for all on November 12.

This so-called rivalry between Pacquiao and Marquez stretches back many years and veiled insults. The first time they clashed, the pair ended up fighting to a highly controversial draw which, in all fairness, Pacquiao should have won. The second time around, Pacquiao won – however many pundits maintain that Marquez deserved the victory.

Now, theoretically, they’re going to answer the question of who is better once and for all. Of course, many years have passed since their initial meeting and while Pacquiao has aged well -- thanks to Roach’s guidance -- Marquez’s decline has followed a fairly standard course.

Nevertheless, Pacquiao obviously isn’t willing to take any short cuts this time around, even if his victory is all but guaranteed at this point. Not even the murmurs of a potential mega fight between him and Sergio Martinez appear to be throwing him off his game.

It’s been suggested in the past that the only way Marquez would have even a slight chance of upsetting his opponent in November is if Pacquiao was distracted.

So much for that faint hope.
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London, (ANI): Kelly Brook has posed as Audrey Hepburn while re-enacting a scene from Breakfast At Tiffany's' for Sky Movies' Christmas schedule.

Complete with pearls and cigarette holder, Brook did full justice to Hepburn from the classic 60s romantic-comedy. However, she didn't quite get it right while playing Harrison Ford as a whip-wielding Indiana Jones.

The 29-year-old model became a raider of the lost dressing-up box to become Dr Jones as she promoted Sky Movies' Christmas schedule. The schedule is allowing viewers to choose their favourite festive flicks for the channel to screen this year.

Brook has even donned a blonde bob while spinning on an Alpine meadow as Julie Andrews in 'The Sound of Music'. Film fans can vote for their ultimate Christmas Day line-up to watch in high-definition on the Sky Movies Christmas Channel HD including The Dark Knight, Shrek and Back to the Future.

''I'm voting for Breakfast at Tiffany's to be included in the Christmas Day line-up, as I'd get everyone round to watch it. Being transformed into the glamorous Holly Golightly was fabulous," the Telegraph quoted Brook as saying.

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Sony Pictures has officially roped in actor Chris Hemsworth for its upcoming movie Shadow Runner, which is a black ops game. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is based on an original idea from Hossein Amini, who is one of the writers of Snow White and the Huntsman.

The plot details of Shadow Runner are yet to be revealed by the studio. But The Hollywood Reporter claims that it involves elite commandos. The Sony's latest movie will be produced by Tripp Vinson and Beau Flynn. And Hannah Minghella, Rachel O'Connor and Adam Milano will oversee the project.

However, Chris Hemsworth is best known for his excellent performance in the movie Thor. His movie The Avengers is slated to release in next summer. He has already worked with Tripp Vinson and Beau Flynn for the film Red Dawn. Currently, he is busy with the shooting of the film Snow White and the Huntsman.

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Mammootty's movie Pattanathil Bhootham will hit the theatres on the 14th of May. The movie directed by Johny Antony was earlier scheduled to release on 30th April. But due to the extensive graphic and animation work the movie has been delayed. Mammootty will seen in a double role where he acts as a bike stuntman and a ghost in this hilarious movie.

Pattanathil Bhootham will have Kavya Madhavan playing Mammootty's leading lady. This is the first time Kavya will be Mammootty's heroine in spite of having done six movies with him. In fact Kavya had finised the shooting of the movie before her marriage. The movie also stars Jagathy Sreekumar, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Salim Kumar.

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Kane's final days are spent at the decaying Xanadu. He is seen in old age, sitting on a lounge chair by his pool. Then, he is pushed along and wheeled forward in a wheelchair, seen by a concealed camera peeping through a cross-barred fence [This referenced a famous shot in a newsreel called Munitions, showing a hidden camera view of an 85-year old arms czar Sir Basil Zaharoff getting wheeled to his train]:

...Alone in his never-finished, already decaying pleasure palace, aloof, seldom visited, never photographed, an emperor of new strength continued to direct his failing empire, varyingly attempted to sway as he once did the destinies of a nation that had ceased to listen to him, ceased to trust him. Then last week, as it must to all men, death came to Charles Foster Kane.

A moving electric sign wraps around the exterior of a New York building - this is the famed Times Square electronic news ticker. As it travels, it spells out the words:

The News on the March newsreel film abruptly ends, distorting the final moments of sound.

In the smoky projection room following the screening of the newsreel, the reporters are seen as sinister shadows striking up matches in the dark, with streams of light coming from the projection booth. [Both Joseph Cotten and future star Alan Ladd are momentarily visible in the shadowy scene.] The newsreel producer-editor Rawlston (Philip Van Zandt) is unsatisfied, speaking to the assembled group of reporters about the difficulty of getting seventy years of a man's life into a newsreel. He is disappointed because the empty newsreel doesn't have an angle and they are literally 'in the dark':

It isn't enough to tell us what a man did. You've got to tell us who he was.

Rawlston and the other reporters [viewed as anonymous, faceless individuals to 'mock' Henry Luce's staff of editors and journalists] then call to mind Kane's last word, searching for more beyond his public life, and trying to distinguish how he was different. Although Kane's character is elusive (e.g., he's an idealistic philanthropist and a materialistic egotist, and both "loved and hated"), his story is typically American: a rapid rise to fame and wealth, and a lonely decline in his failing years in his private residence - with a quick (inside joke) reference to Hearst included:

Maybe he told us all about himself on his deathbed...Yeah, maybe he didn't...All we saw on that screen was a big American...One of the biggest...But how is he any different from Ford? Or Hearst for that matter? Or John Doe...I'll tell ya, it comes from a man's dying words...What were they?...You don't read the papers...When Charles Foster Kane died, he said just one word -...Rosebud, just that one word, but who is she...What was it?...Here's a man that could have been president, who was as loved and hated and as talked about as any man in our time. But when he comes to die, he's got something on his mind called 'Rosebud.' Now what does that mean?...A racehorse he bet on once...Yeah, that didn't come in...All right, but what was the race?

While the newsreel is held up for one to two weeks, cinema newsreel reporter Jerry Thompson (William Alland) is sent out to discover the meaning of Kane's last word: "Rosebud," possibly a simple secret to Kane's mysterious, complex life. [The character of Thompson is never clearly visible or identified - he is always viewed in backlit silhouette, or from behind.] He is assigned to contact and interview as many of Kane's friends and associates as possible, who knew him over a two week period:

Get in touch with everybody that ever knew him, oh, knew him well...that manager of his, uh (snaps his fingers) - Bernstein - his second wife - she's still living...Susan Alexander Kane...She's running a nightclub in Atlantic City...See em all. Get in touch with everybody that ever worked for him, whoever loved him, whoever hated his guts. I don't mean go through the city directory, of course...Rosebud, dead or alive. It will probably turn out to be a very simple thing.

The structure of the film is not told as a traditional chronological story. Over a two week period, Thompson gathers information from four of Kane's associates and from some posthumous memoirs of Kane's ex-guardian. In a series of interlocked, semi-overlapping flashbacks and tightly-woven, personal vignettes, each of Kane's closest associates gives a different, slightly prejudiced, contradictory and inconsistent account of the Kane they knew, revealing different facets of a single personality:

  • legal guardian and bank manager Thatcher (written memoirs)
  • deferential personal manager/business partner Bernstein
  • best friend Leland
  • ex-wife Susan, Kane's second wife
  • Raymond, the butler

The film essentially asks, 'how do we interpret a life?' - similar to the question filmviewers ask about Citizen Kane, 'how can we understand this film?'

Each of the five sources from which the dogged reporter receives his information serve to introduce six separate sections of the remainder of the film. The sections are not structured chronologically, yet they progressively follow the memories of Kane's life in logical stages. At the conclusion of the non-traditional, non-linear narrative, it is concluded that none of them know the implications or meaning of the word 'Rosebud' - a possible clue to the meaning of his life.

First Interview with Kane's ex-wife Susan Kane:

(1) In a striking movement after Rawlston's last words ("...a very simple thing"), the camera first views a close-up billboard picture of a provocative blonde woman - punctuated by a flash of lightning and thunderclap during a pouring thunderstorm. It then swoops up to the building's flashing neon sign announcing the tawdry woman's El Rancho floor show performance:

Floor Show
Twice Nightly

Then, in a startling, prying movement (a spectacular crane shot), the subjective camera breaks through the sign and into the broken skylight on the building's roof and then moves down to a table inside the El Rancho Nightclub. [The nightclub roof and skylight is only a model, while the interior of the nightclub is a real film set.]

Underneath the skylight in an enclosed space, there's a seedy Atlantic City cabaret below, where showgirl Susan Alexander Kane (Dorothy Comingore) sits with her head bowed drunkenly on her arms resting on the table. A lone, sordid figure, she appears lost in her memories. She is drinking heavily by herself and very uncooperative. Thompson makes an attempt to interview her, but she will not talk to him in his first visit:

Susan: Who told you you could sit down?
Thompson: I thought maybe we could have a talk together.
Susan: Well, think again. Why don't you people leave me alone? I'm minding my own business. You mind yours...Get out of here. Get out! (hysterically)

The head nightclub waiter/captain John (Gus Schilling) brings her a mixed drink and then attempts to soften the rebuke and explain her mourning: "She just won't talk to nobody, Mr. Thompson...She'll snap out of it. Why, 'til he died, she'd just as soon talk about Mr. Kane as about anybody." After calling in to Rawlston on the phone (in a phone booth) to tell his chief that the second Mrs. Kane "won't talk," Thompson asks the waiter whether Mrs. Kane ever mentioned 'Rosebud.' After pocketing a bill to make him talk, the waiter remarks that he had asked her the same question when Kane's death hit the papers, and she responded: "She never heard of Rosebud." The scene fades quickly to black.

[Thompson speaks to Susan Kane a second time later in the film.]

The Memoirs of Walter Parks Thatcher, Kane's Legal Guardian and Bank Manager:

(2) With a stale, flat sounding note (emphasizing the headwaiter's previous comment), the camera shoots up at a statue of the late Walter Parks Thatcher, a J. P. Morgan-like figure and Kane's Wall Street financier and guardian. [This second scene, like the one just before it, is introduced by a representation or image of the character - previously a flimsy billboard of Susan, now a solid marble statue of Thatcher.] The statue's base is inscribed with the words:

The camera pans down the statue and 'wipes' into the austere Walter Parks Thatcher Memorial Library in Philadelphia, where Thompson visits. [The statue is, in fact, only a drawing. From there, the camera invisibly 'wipes' into the next image - the set of the library.]

At a desk, a mannish, stern and severe-looking librarian instructs him about the restricted use of Thatcher's unpublished memoirs. The sound of Thompson's footsteps echo through the marble halls of the mausoleum-like building as he is led to one of the reading room vaults (resembling a bank vault). Shafts of dusty sunlight pierce the room, as in the earlier projection room. A guard removes one of the revered volumes - a diary - and bears it in his arms toward Thompson. There, sitting at a long table, Thompson is confined to inspecting pp. 83-142, the pertinent parts of Thatcher's manuscripts-diaries-journals. He is also told that he must leave at 4:40 pm sharp. The door closes shut on the face of the subjective camera (imprisoning it and Thompson himself). Then a dissolve moves beyond the door and moves to peer over Thompson's shoulder at the pages of the book.

Thatcher's words in the memoirs are viewed in gigantic, handwritten black script on the white page in a camera pan from left to right:

I first encountered Mr. Kane in 1871.

The white margin of the page suddenly becomes a blank white page - and then dissolves into a snowy scene - a 'living memory' of what exists on the page. It's a surprising flashback to young eight-year-old Charles' (Buddy Swan) boyhood and humble beginnings on a farm in Little Salem, Colorado. Outside in a long shot, young Charles is sledding alone on a hillside in the snow. He throws a snowball at the sign on the top of the rustic wooden building - the snowball smashes against the letters that read "MRS. KANE'S BOARDING HOUSE." (His mother Mary (Agnes Moorehead), proprietress of the lonely, run-down, wooden boarding house, becomes unexpectedly wealthy when seemingly worthless mining stock certificates given her by a poor prospector/boarder in lieu of payment make her the sole owner of one of the world's great gold mines, the Colorado Lode.)

Just before being sent away, in one of the memorable deep-focus shots of the film in the famous boarding house scene, the camera moves from outside and pulls back through the window of the rural boarding house where his mother (on the left) admonishes him not to catch cold: "Be careful, Charles, pull your muffler round your neck, Charles." The camera tracks back as she turns, and states: "I'll sign those papers now, Mr. Thatcher," and then walks the length of the wood-paneled parlor with Thatcher into the adjoining room. She moves to the center of the frame, obscuring the view of the window (and her son). [If one watches carefully, the camera moves right through where the table is located in the room, before coming to rest. Later, when the camera follows and tracks Mrs. Kane back to the window after she has signed the legal papers, it appears that she walks 'through' where the table was positioned.]

Inside the cabin, the camera remains stationary at the table where they negotiate Charles' future. With Kane's rustic, "uneducated" father anxiously haranguing them on the left of the frame (complaining: "You people seem to forget that I'm the boy's father...I don't hold with signing my boy away to any bank as guardeen..."), well-dressed Thatcher officiously sits next to Mrs. Kane on the right (in close-up) as she signs legal papers to appoint Thatcher as Charles' guardian. The boy can be seen as a tiny figure (and heard yelling "The Union forever!") playing with his sled in the snow through the distant window in the center of the frame. The boy's stern, emotionally-controlled mother gives her child up and signs the papers.

She appoints the banking firm of Thatcher and Company to manage all her financial interests, to administer her estate, and to act as trustees of the fortune and guardian of her son. Mr. and Mrs. Kane will each be given $50,000 a year - the rest of the fortune will be placed in a trust fund for Charles until he reaches maturity at age 25, at which time he would come into complete possession.

Rather than remaining there, Charles is traumatically uprooted from his mother - a scene wrought with Oedipal meaning. His subsequent life is forever influenced by this separation and void in his life. Outside, the boy is in front and center in the frame next to his mother, with Mr. Thatcher, his new legal guardian and surrogate father, half-obscured behind Mrs. Kane. Mr. Kane is far in the background (insignificantly positioned). Thatcher attempts to shake the boy's hand:

Why, we're going to have some fine times together, really we are, Charles. Now, shall we shake hands? (Charles pulls back) Oh, come, come, come, I'm not as frightening as all that, am I? Now, what do you say? Let's shake.

Upset and reluctant to leave, the bratty boy violently rams Thatcher with his sled and then is struck by his father. He glares knowingly at Thatcher, aware that he is being taken away from his innocent childhood and mother - sent east to be cultured, educated and raised under Thatcher's stern guidance. After he has departed, the camera shot dissolves to a long-held closeup of Charles' abandoned sled on a snowbank - it is gradually covered by a cold snowfall - a preserved (and buried) symbol of vanished innocence, loss and purity. Significantly, the name of the sled - Rosebud - is completely obscured - although it is symbolic of the 'cold' life where Charles will be taken. A train whistle is heard leaving town, symbolic of his unhappy transfer to Chicago.

[The scene in the glass paperweight is of a cottage in a snowstorm, strikingly similar to Mrs. Kane's Boarding House of Charles' youth.]

Through a quick-cut edit/dissolve from the white snow scene to white wrapping paper in a Victorian-style Christmas celebration scene, Charles opens a present in front of his guardian's Christmas tree - it is a replacement sled for the one left behind. [This sled is named "Crusader" and is emblazoned with a decorative helmet of a medieval knight. It is NOT the same sled that burns in the furnace at the film's conclusion - the "Rosebud" sled embossed with a rose.] Thatcher wishes the young Kane "Merry Christmas..." The young boy snarls back: "Merry Christmas," obviously unsatisfied by the present and making life miserable for Thatcher. Thatcher continues his sentence decades later (in a "lightning mix" - two scenes connected by the soundtrack but not by the visual images) "...and a happy New Year" just before his protege's 25th birthday. [This filmic technique is also called a 'flash-forward' in time.]

Having reached legal maturity, and with the proper background and training to manage his acquired wealth, the full estate becomes his and he acquires control. Thatcher dictates a memo to that effect: "...may I again remind you that your twenty-fifth birthday which is now approaching marks your complete independence from the firm of Thatcher and Company as well as the assumption by you of full responsibility for the world's sixth-largest private fortune."

In a memorable scene, Kane responds in a manner counter to Thatcher's wishes, interested in taking charge of only one small part of his holdings:

Sorry but I'm not interested in gold mines, oil wells, shipping or real estate...One item on your list intrigues me, the New York Inquirer, a little newspaper I understand we acquired in a foreclosure proceeding. Please don't sell it. I'm coming back to America to take charge. I think it would be fun to run a newspaper. I think it would be fun to run a newspaper. Grrr.

Soon, Kane uses the paper to attack trusts, Thatcher and others among America's financial elite. Headlines of the Inquirer blare out the expose in a montage of early Inquirer newspaper headlines: "TRACTION TRUST EXPOSED," "TRACTION TRUST BLEEDS PUBLIC WHITE," and "TRACTION TRUST SMASHED BY INQUIRER." Other social causes are heralded by the paper: "LANDLORDS REFUSE TO CLEAR SLUMS!!," and "INQUIRER WINS SLUM FIGHT." The paper also attacks capitalistic Wall Street itself: "WALL STREET BACKS COPPER SWINDLE!!" and "COPPER ROBBERS INDICTED!"

Thatcher is enraged and indignantly confronts the young publisher in the Inquirer office about his newspaper's criticism of banks, privilege and corruption. Kane is seated at his desk facing the camera and sipping coffee as Thatcher stands over him with his back to the camera asking: "Is that really your idea of how to run a newspaper?" Arrogantly but with a soft-spoken voice, Kane replies:

I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher. I just try everything I can think of.

Thatcher explodes at him, accusing him of following a radical policy at the paper of concocting stories: "You know perfectly well there's not the slightest proof that this Armada is off the Jersey coast." Kane is informed by his assistant Bernstein (Everett Sloane) that a correspondent named Wheeler in Cuba has sent a communique: "Girls delightful in Cuba stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery but don't feel right spending your money stop. There is no war in Cuba. Signed, Wheeler." Kane calmly tells his assistant to answer the war correspondent [a dictation that echoes one of William Randolph Heart's most famous quotes in the yellow press to artist Frederic Remington regarding the 1896 Spanish-American War]: "...you provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war."

Soon, Thatcher sits down and Kane explains how he is really "two people" - he is both a major stockholder in the Public Transit (he owns "eighty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty-four shares of Public Transit Preferred"), a trust he is attacking, and also the dutiful publisher of a newspaper representing the interests of the public against the trust. Kane stands up by the end of the scene, towering over Thatcher, explaining:

The trouble is, you don't realize you're talking to two people. As Charles Foster Kane, who has 82,634 shares of Public Transit Preferred. You see, I do have a general idea of my holdings. I sympathize with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be run out of town. A committee should be formed to boycott him. You may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of $1,000 dollars. On the other hand, I am the publisher of the Inquirer! As such, it's my duty - and I'll let you in on a little secret, it's also my pleasure - to see to it that decent, hard-working people in this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates just because - they haven't anybody to look after their interests.

Thatcher reminds Kane that his philanthropic paper enterprise is losing a million dollars a year. Kane blithely jokes that "at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place - in sixty years."

The next scene is "in the winter of year 1929" (at the start of the Great Depression after the Crash), much earlier than the predicted year for the demise of the paper. [The year is seen in an enlarged script, black on blinding white, as the camera pans from left to right over a handwritten sentence in a document.] Kane's general business manager Bernstein reads a typed statement regarding the newspaper - Kane "relinquishes all control thereof...and agrees to abandon all claims..." In the scene once composed, Thatcher sits to the left, with Bernstein on the right, while Kane forms the apex of the three in the shot. [Welles introduces each character in the scene one by one. First, only Bernstein is in the scene, then Thatcher is added - when Bernstein lowers his paper, and then Kane walks into the scene from the right.]

Emphasizing his ignominious fall and subsequent dependency, Kane interrupts the reading while walking away into the distant background in the middle of the shot - to stand before what first appears to be a normal-sized window. He acknowledges that the paper is bankrupt by saying, "which means we're bust." In a deep-focus, depth-of-field shot that fools the eye about the size and scale of the window in view, Kane stands under the huge, high window with his back to the proceedings in his cavernous office - his diminished size symbolizes his great loss. [The shot recalls another scene earlier in the film, when young Kane is in the distance in the outdoor snow, and his mother signs an agreement with Thatcher inside their cabin.]

Thatcher takes over much of Kane's power and control of his newspaper holdings in the name of the bank. Thatcher criticizes Kane's methods: "You never made a single investment, always used money to..." Giving himself an honest appraisal, Kane finishes the sentence while he signs the papers to give away his newspapers:

...to buy things. Buy things. My mother should have chosen a less reliable banker. Well, I always gagged on that silver spoon.

[This is Kane's first of only two mentions of his own mother in the film.] Then, he congratulates himself in a remark directed at Bernstein: "You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man...I think I did pretty well under the circumstances." But it is Thatcher who responds: "What would you like to have been?" Kane shows his contempt for Thatcher in his brooding answer, implying that he has turned into something like Thatcher himself: "Everything you hate!"

The scene returns to the Thatcher library, where Thompson is told that his time is up for the day. The attendant asks if he has found what he was looking for in his "very rare privilege" at the library. Thompson, of course, replies that he has not, and then impulsively and playfully asks her: "You're not Rosebud, are you?"

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It was such a small wish...

It's been nearly a year since the Jewel Seeds fell to Equestria and changed the lives of Twilight and her friends. The Time-Space Administratrion Bureau is officially opening talks with Equestria, and Twilight's new human friends are returning.

The joyous occasion is interrupted, however, by the appearance of a new threat; a set of mysterious mages armed with powerful Devices and daunting magical prowess. Who are these mysterious people that call themselves the Wolkenritter? Who do they serve?

Twilight and her friends, both old and new, are once more forced into conflict. This time, however, Equestria's future may very well hang in the balance.

This is a sequel to Magical Pony Lyrical Twilight. Please read that story before beginning this one. You can find the story here.

Magical Pony Lyrical Twilight by PurpleProse is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

First Published
29th Feb 2012
Last Modified
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It's finally here! :pinkiehappy:

Great chapter!

I honestly wonder if Vita is going to make it out of this one- Her odds are -significantly- worse than the last time she tried this... Or at least, the last time "a" Vita tried this. Multilinear timeline mechanics don't exactly make for easy word choices. :P

So happy to see this started up-- Waiting for more already!

Chapter 1 is going to undergo a bit of a rewrite for the battle scene. Hold tight everypony.

This chapter has more fight in it (well awsome fight) then last chapter of the previous story xD

Keep them coming this was an awsome start :)

I am making a wild mass guess here, but could the mistress be :trixieshiftleft: ?

Or will there be some OC getting the BoD?

A canon pony, but not necessarily one that has gotten any significant screen time?

Hmm...who do we know that know that's likable, kind, and you'd feel like you want to protect, who may also secretly be ill behind the scenes? Hayate was an endearing character who gave the Wolkenritter familial feelings because she lovingly cared for all of them as if they were her sisters (and brother). They also felt protective of her because of her medical condition and confinement to a wheelchair. As I remember it they were trying to power up the book so they could cure her illness, but it's been a while since I've seen the second season so I may not be recalling properly.

The situation with Hayate created a life-or-death desire in the Wolkenritter to help her that made them, like Presea with Alicia, willing to sacrifice anyone else to protect her. If Hayate hadn't been dying the Wolkenritter would have been content to just live out their days with her and not seek pages. We'd need a similar desperate need in the MPLT Wolkenritter in order to make this believable.

Ah crap, now I've just brought up the unfortunate thought that Hayate is going to sadly die of her illness due to how you've changed events. We need an omake to correct this! :pinkiehappy: Maybe a few omakes about how life on Earth has progressed without Nanoha becoming a mage would be a nice pause between regular chapters.

Btw my brain is coming up with Derpy (Ditzy Doo). Another much more unorthodox idea is Moondancer, that pony whose birthday party is mentioned in S1E1 but promptly dropped because Twilight cut and ran.

Edit: Okay, now I have done the research and remember what was actually happening. the book was killing Hayate and the Wolkenritter were trying to fill its pages to make it stop draining her. I don't think she was in danger before she got the book.

Chapter One's fight scene has been edited.

I really wish I had more to add other than great action and well-written. :( :fluttercry: But it is!

You take far too much after our mistress, Vita. Calling it now, Trixie is the mistress of the book.

Ugh, reading about Twi's linker core being captured wasn't pleasant, but since I didn't like it when it happened to Nanoha it isn't a surprise that I didn't like it when it happened to Twilight. I was kinda hoping it wouldn't happen like that in this different setting, but it was probably necessary for the story.

Loved seeing the princess get well and truly angry at the end.

I'm really enjoying this story so far. Can't wait for the next chapter.

Will Chrono be getting the cartridge system as well in this version?

It better not be Trixie, I cant see her inspiring the kind of loyalty Hayate did.

Great chapter!  Wow, Twilight on the verge of Cutie Mark Failure syndrome.  It seems a lot more dramatic than when Nanoha's linker core got drained in Nanoha A's, and it seemed like Nanoha just rested for a while and then it was no big deal.

But, uh “Ponyville General won’t be open until dawn. Same with the Royal Hospital at Canterlot," -->  Hospitals don't normally close down for the night, what with injured people not being able to wait.

Cutie Mark Failure syndrome as caused by mental/psychological disconnect is scary enough; I hate to think of what would happen in the event of full cutie mark negation. :twilightoops:

Also, I can think of a Hand Wave (warning, TvTropes link!) for Celestia's hospital explanation: she was able to tell that Twilight's Linker Core was severely drained, and the relevant specialists for that type of malady are not the type you find on night duty at a hospital... assuming they're even common enough to be found in residency at all.

Edit made.

True enough, but Brief does have a point. Shouldn't it be a hoof-wave, though? :twilightsmile:

Dear Lord, the Wolkenritter are SCREWED. Celestia is going to be absolutely furious when she sees how much damage they did. I'm seeing that summon solar flare spell in their future.

And Luna, your sister uses magic to create nuclear blasts for her trump card*. You can't possibly have more sinister magic than that.

*A star is a constant fusion explosion. Celestia drops bits of that on people.

"And Luna, your sister uses magic to create nuclear blasts for her trump card*. You can't possibly have more sinister magic than that."

challengeaccepted.jpg :coolphoto:

So later on will the final battle take place on Earth or Equestria?

On Luna's Trump:

Three words, Kinetic Kill Vehicle.  Yes I know how the TSAB feels about Mass Weapons.

Okay, spacebatttles was down, so I was :pinkiesad2:, then I checked here and found an updated MPLT-A and I was all :raritystarry:.

Then I discovered you had Cutie Marks run through a linker core, or at least when someone drains a pony who's special talent is magic there are serious complications and they are ramped up to eleven.  Anypony facing them knowing or suspecting this effect isn't going to hold back, given this is Equestrian style Nightmare Rocket Fuel.

Leaving the Diarchs aside, we have Fate, who Twilight pulled out of a pit of despair learning Ancient Equestrian War Magic.  (The Lightning Sword of Night?)  Their big brother, Captain of the Royal Guard, Shining Armor, he of the massive Shield Haxx.  And any of the Royal Guard that knew her either from being Celestia's apprentice, or as the boss's little sister.

And we thought Chrono would be the most loose cannon in this scenario.  "How did I get to be the reasonable one here?"

This is so much win. I was pretty bummed out tonight and lo and behold you updated, now my whole day is good. Also I'm so glad that you didn't decide  to put the cartage system  in fate's and twilight's devices. Now I'm coming up with all kinds of crazy things that the princess could do to make them stronger, the possibilities are endless. Oh and I want to beat whoever got that book out, beat them within an inch of their life for what they did to twilight. :twilightangry2:

Now I have a monumental problem... I have to wait for the next chapter.:facehoof:

So is Fate, er, "stuck" as a pony?  I mean, certainly she doesn't seem to mind much and one could say that with all the bad memories associated with her human body she might well prefer to be in the form of her new-found family.  But could she be changed back into a human if it seemed like a good idea for some reason?

Yes, Fate can change back to a human if she wants to.

A pony's cutie mark is both a facet of their soul and personality, and seemingly deeply entrenched in their magical essence. To have it drained, well it's not exactly surprising that Twilight's talent extended like that as well. Must be something of a shock, to be little more than a pale, or as you say, partially erased shadow of yourself. I expect any pony, even non-unicorns could probably be drained in a similar fashion. Both AJ and Rainbow have significant potency as well, and would probably experience a similar issue. Unlike humans, all ponies are magical.

She better get better though! I don't know how much talking about 'friendship' she's going to feel up to after this.

Love the connection of the Tome with Luna, and I already see how this could play out differently than Canon. Though, if the tome was created by her, wouldn't the 'knights' be ponies? Unless they were a feature added later somehow, which seems to be the case.

Well,  I just got back from reading Elementals of Harmony, and yeah, Luna's thematics do leave her with more sinister magic. Channel the truth of the heat death of the Universe anyone? Nuclear weapons are kind of tame compared to that. Although, the whole turn peoples shadows into lethal binds she was using on the drones was pretty scary in its own way.

Sorry to double post, but I just had an scary thought. If anything like the fight with Reinforce from the final episodes happens, Celestia and Luna will actually need to use their trump cards to win. Unless the elements can destroy the darkness of the book of darkness and end the fight that way, and if Gears of Destiny is canon here that thing is at least as dangerous as Discord, there is gonna be a hell of a blast-out. And with almost everyone and everything and Equestria being magical, barriers will not stop Reinforce's city buster spells from killing civilians. The diarchs will not let happen. Problem is, Reinforce, judging from A's, is powerful enough to stand up any magical attack that isn't in the same league as their big guns.

Oh, when Luna and Celestia catch up with these Knights, horse apples gonna go down!

Great writing of Celestia, there. Pitch-perfect IMHO. I hope she can 'truly' cut loose and score some major victories/carnage. Also, poor Twilight. *Hugs*:fluttershysad:

Arrr! The alerts on this site are useless!

Good chapter.

Interesting backstory additions for Luna.

Also I feel that at some point a TSAB mechanic will see RH and or Bardiche, learn who upgraded them and make an Iron Man reference.

Hayate was being drained and dying because of the book. The Wolkenritter gang assumed that, if the book were filled, Hayate would be back to full health again, and all five of them could live a happy life together, thus why they went through any and all odds to do it. Also, if this Vita is like canon Vita, she's not mad Twilight hit her, she's mad Twilight ruined her hat. You do NOT touch Vita's hat.

I'm loving this, so much.

My money's on Scootaloo being [SPOILER]. No known parents, and she's unable to fly, despite it seeming like she should have a real knack for it. . . The curious question, regardless of who it turns out to be, is. . . How long has [SPOILER] known of Equestria's existence, and how?

Before I actually sit down to read (at last), I'd like to reserve this space, and also point out:

You REALLY should be putting full line breaks between your paragraphs.

OK, well, the spacing and tabbing makes it very hard to read, as always, but the quality is... still very solid. This one felt a little sloppier than Chapter 2 or 3 did, although it was still above and beyond the call of duty.

For the plot... I honestly can't tell if you're going with the obvious Master for the book or not. Like, it seems that it would be a waste, but at the same time, it's a very clean way to handle it. The ever-increasing reluctance of the Wolkenritter is a good sign, in my eyes, although it makes me wonder where things will go when the inevitable meeting takes place...

Regardless, it's awesome to have you back, and I'm gladly looking forward to the next update.

I do love updates for this story :twilightsmile:

Any idea how long until the next chapter?

Join the dark side Fate we serve cookies! :facehoof:

Do recall what happened when Fate first came to Ponyville? :pinkiegasp:

So Fate Testarossa-Sparkle, Sword of the Princesses (or Luna)

Twilight Sparkle, Staff of Celestia

Maybe Shining Armor gets a device to upgrade, to add the Shield to the Sparkle siblings and Equestria?

So this is before the royal wedding good to know. Make me wonder if Cadance or the changeling's will play a part in this series later on same goes for Discord.

Come on! Luna is training Fate in the ways of darkness, a Star Wars reference had to be said.

Check out Fate's first appearance in the previous fic, which was in Sugarcube Corner.  Cookies have already been employed. :pinkiehappy:

Let me rephrase my previous statement then "Join the dark side Fate, we have cupcakes (And no not those cupcales.)"

Let me rephrase my previous statement then "Join the dark side Fate, we have cupcakes (And no not those cupcales.)"

Nah, I say it would be Trixie.

Yep, the master is Trixie. Still kinda wierd that they seem more familiar with their human bodies than pony. Though, hey... they have pony bodies! Wonder how it's going to resolve, differently than it did in the series... Luna takes on Trixie too after the book is destroyed?

No way it isn't Trixie,  given Fancypants' theater and the conversation he had there.

I say go for it Rarity, even if he isn't a prince Shining Armor is a much better catch than Blueblood ever was. You never know, maybe he isn't in a relationship with Cadence yet.

Just love the Luna/Tome of the Night Sky backstory we are getting.

Trixie and Octavia are the only two ponies I can think of that would need a stage.

Anyways, I look forward to seeing if Reinforce can be saved (though I guess she probably won't have that name).  If I remember A's correctly (and it's been a while), the only reason she couldn't be saved in the anime is because the original administrator wasn't present.

I didn't think of that, but she might be saveable this time. The problem was that even though the defense program had been destroyed, the remainder of the Book was still badly corrupted, and would have generated a new defense program. Repairing the damage wasn't possible, since the original data had been erased. But if the Meister who wrote the Tome in the first place is there...

Another great chapter. Sadly, I believe it's Trixie, too. :applecry: poor pony, all she wanted to do was put on a show for Ponyville...

Great Fate/Luna, too. Love the flashbacks. So badass. :rainbowdetermined2:

Excellent as always.

Ooh, this is going to be good. Much better than what currently passes for Nanoha canon. (I swear, if FORCE isn't shut down and retconned into oblivion...)

I know, right? I'm not particularly enamored with FORCE myself... :facehoof:

now i wouldnt be surprised if a ponified card captors was made...

Great chapter will Chrono and Yuuno find out about Nightmare Moon?

To be hones I expected Scootaloo or Sweetie Belle to have the book. Trixie was a surprise.

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If you're not already familiar with the hedge fund celebrity Kyle Bass, you should be. His first claim to fame came by investing millions on the collapse of the subprime mortgage market after warning many financial executives of the impending disaster. Their response: "I hope you're wrong". Since then his keen predictions of major market events and how they'll unfold has gained him a large cult following across the financial blogosphere, not to mention countless interviews on what'll happen next.

Here are two interviews (parts 1 and 2) he gave on BNN a few days ago on the U.S., China, Japan, and Europe. Oh, he also makes a brief positive mention on Canada, which after watching this interview you may want to move to afterwards. I've transcribed the most relevant portions below. (Click images to jump to video)

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On why a coming Japan default will be greater than Greece:

“Their stock market is down 80% in nominal terms in the last 20 years; their real estate market is down 70% in the last 20 years. There has been only one thing that the Japanese people have bought domestically that hasn’t hurt them and it’s their bonds. So, again, think about the psychology of that kind of environment coupled with the fact that they now have an inexorable population decline—they have a secular population decline. So, if you have a scenario where you have a social benefits—social welfare program—that you as a government are committed to, that you’ve made promises that you know you can’t keep—by the way, Europe and America can’t keep theirs either—but, here’s the problem: Madoff failed when more people left his scheme than entering his scheme. In Japan we now have more people leaving the workforce than entering the workforce. Their population peaked a few years ago and they’ve lost about three and half million people in about four years; and, by their own accounting, they’re going to lose another twenty-seven million people in the next forty years. You have a scenario where the rubber is meeting the road. This is why more people will be dissaving than saving; and, one other point with Japan that’s very important, they spend half of their central government tax revenue on debt service alone. They spend a quarter of it on interest alone; and, to your point, their interest rates are zero and they’ve been a full zero really since 2001, and they really went to half of a percent in 1996. So when your debts are twenty times your revenue and your interest costs move at all, you have to restructure. So what’s not arguable is the fact that they have the worst on-balance sheet sovereign scenario in the world."

“So you basically think Japan is going to become Italy eventually?”

“No, I think Japan is going to be Japan and it’s going to be worse than Greece as far as the writedown is concerned. I think that if a kindergartener were to look at Japan’s balance sheet it wouldn’t take a genius to see that they have a position that is untenable—that they have a position they can’t move out of. It’s just a matter of time."

“We’re going to look back at this in two or three years from now and we’re going to say if you took the time to look at and understand their balance sheet and income statement as a country, it’s the single most obvious thing I’ve ever seen in my adult life. The reasoning I hear from the other side is we keep trying to find one or two reasons why they might be able to hang on for a while longer, and clearly that’s not an investable theme."

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“When you look at Europe, you can’t look at it through the same prism that you look at Canada, the U.S., or other countries through because through the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the U.S. and the U.K. for all intents and purposes recapitalized their banks. Europe hasn’t had the money to recapitalize its banks and they haven’t done so yet. Interestingly enough, Europe’s banks have three times as much leverage from equity to assets that the U.S. has—and Canada for that matter. So, I think it’s really important to understand, Spain—by looking at a snap shot on a piece of paper today—it looks like they might have a manageable scenario. When they recap their banks they won’t have a manageable scenario; and they have to recap their banks, and so does the rest of Europe. So, as the dominos fall, clearly the peripheral countries that are in the news so much—the PIIGS, as we like to call them—all have to, we think, restructure their obligations; and I think that is coming much sooner than others would think. That is something you must prepare for in 2012.”

“And from that perspective then, what do you think Europe ends up looking like and what might that do to corporate debt?”

“This is something that’s not talked about very often. So, first of all, let’s talk about global banking assets. There about $87 trillion—if you were to dollarize all global banking assets—there’s about $87 trillion of global bank assets of which $40 trillion reside in the Euro area. And, what does Europe look like in a post-default world, your guess is as good as mine. I can tell you it doesn’t look as it looks today. I think, clearly, there’ll be a number of members that leave the EMU. I don’t know why the EMU exists if or when you have four or five members leave. In reality, once Germany recaps its banks—it has 82% on-balance sheet sovereign debt to GDP today—and in a post-recap world, Germany will be north of a hundred and we’ll also be [the U.S.] in a very difficult scenario. Europe will look very different than it looks today. The things we need to focus on are—if you look at deposit runs—if you were a Greek or a Spaniard or a Portuguese and you have money sitting in your host country’s banks, with capital mobility today, the question is why on earth would you leave it in those banks. Why wouldn’t you set up an account in Canada or Germany or Switzerland or Norway or somewhere that might be a safer jurisdiction for your capital? So what you’ve seen, if you follow it closely, is deposits leaving the country at an annualized rate of more than 20%. This is the final move—let’s call it the final precursor—before a sovereign default and it’s happening as we speak.”

“If the European Central Bank does, as many Keynesians want it to do—if it engages in quantitative easing, if it allows a higher inflation rate to be run within Europewhat does that do to your belief? Because, then, you start essentially using inflation to give haircuts to creditors and that benefits the debtors. Doesn’t that undermine the possibility of default?”

“So, this is a belief commonly held by most central bankers and academia who, as you know, unfortunately run many of these countries. They believe that when you get to this proverbial fork in the road that there are two options you believe you have. One is default and one is deflation; and you believe those two options are mutually exclusive to one another. When you sail into the zone of insolvency, when your debts become many multiples of your revenue—and this is something we spend a lot of time thinking about—when you attempt to inflate yourself out of this problem and your debts are already more than five, six, seven times your revenue, you put yourself in this position where the inflation causes the default. So, in many of these nations inflation is not an option; and I know your show isn’t long enough but when you talk about the ECB monetizing all these debts I think that doesn’t change any of the spending, number 1, and what you've seen coming out of the Bundesbank and many places in Germany, that doesn't change the behaviors of the participants whatsoever and, in fact, it may encourage their continuing behavior of the profligacy that's riddled throughout Southern Europe. I believe the ECB knows one thing: they have to print money—whether it's the ECB or one of the 17 various central banks at the periphery—they don't have the money to recap their banks. So the question—your question should be—do they print before they default or after they default. In my opinion, they have to just print afterward because the number that they're going to have to print is so large that they all know this going in.”

On why he’s not investing in China:

"China is an enigma to me. I don't know what numbers to believe and not believe. We don't maintain positions in China. One thing I do follow is their banking sector and in the last two years China has grown their banking sector—their banking assets—by 50% of GDP two years in a row. That's analogous to the U.S. lending $14.5 trillion into our economy in two years. One thing I’m fairly certain of, if we lent $14.5 trillion into our economy in the last two years, we would grow at more than 8%. So I think it’s very important to think about China’s FX [foreign exchange] reserves that everyone points to as being the piggy-bank for the world at now roughly $3.5 trillion, but it’s important to understand that Chinese non-performing loans in their banking sector are right around 1%. Historically, they’ve been 19%. So if you have $13.5-$14 trillion call it dollars’ worth of assets in your banks and your non-performing loans go back to what’s normal in China, you can do some quick math and realize that you’re going to end up losing almost $3 trillion; and that magical pot of money that sits in China goes away. I think it’s a tenuous scenario that as non-performing loans start to rise, as we’re starting to see in the property sector in China, it could be problematic. Counterbalancing that with the fact that Chinese banking assets are now only two times their GDP, could they go to three? Could they lend another $5 trillion into their banking sector and I think the answer’s yes. I sound like a weatherman. I don’t know what China does, but we’re not invested in China.”

On the U.S.:

“It’s a disaster in the United States. It’s a scary place and watching the fiscal scenario unfold on Capitol Hill is something I’ve recently begun to just turn my T.V. off. The best way I can analogize this scenario is the Republicans and Democrats each have—to use golf—each have 100 foot puts with 20 foot break in 30 mile-an-hour winds and they look at each other across the long green and say, 'Good, good?', and we move on. 'You don’t cut my entitlements and I won’t raise your taxes and we’ll move on'; and that’s how the U.S. has dealt with this problem so far—kind of the path of least resistance.”

On Canada:

“The good news of this show is that I’m a big fan of Canada and a country with no net-debt, massive natural resources, and a central banker whom I recently met that I like very much. The only thing that Canada is going to have trouble with, in my opinion, is—there are a few things that I think are facts and maybe this is presumptuous—the Eurozone is going to have recession next year. It’s already entering one now given the severe austerity that they’re having to impose on themselves. The U.S. is not going to be able to, in my opinion, grow through a European recession, therefore, commodity prices, asset prices may come down for a brief period of time [which will hurt Canada's economy].”

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I know you're playing regarding the topic of size, but size does matter in a firearm. A very lightweight pistol will have a more harsh recoil than a heavier one. Also a heavier semi-auto would be difficult for a person of smaller stature to manipulate the slide.
I certainly [I]used[I] to agree with that statement, but the newer engineering of some guns has changed my mind about the correctness of that as a blanket statement. My wife's new 9 MM Boberg has far less recoil than any of the full sized 9 MMs I've shot. It may be the double springs or maybe the bullpup design or something else entirely.

I just switched from a Glock 36 to a Springfield Armory XDs and despite the lighter weight and smaller size, it seems to have less recoil in the form of muzzle flip. The push back is not a problem for me, so the lesser muzzle flip many be influencing me subjectively.

As a number of people have already said, "Carry what you are comfortable with." and I certainly do not disagree with that. If the extra weight all day long is not a problem for someone, I don't see what difference it makes. I opt for the lighter weight because I see it as a benefit after carrying a Colt Commander around for years. I have been going progressively lighter and smaller for years which is how I ended up with the XDs I use now. For me, it certainly makes the Summer more enjoyable and less hassle, and better armed.

I no longer find myself choosing a Freedom Arms .22 or a Seecamp .25 or .380 instead of a .45 ACP just because I can't hide my gun under my polo shirt and shorts. I no longer have to buy clothing too large to cover a gun. That is enough reason for me to go smaller and lighter. If I dressed like my son does from time to time, it might be different, but I like trim fitting clothes and that is hard on the concealed carry of 1911s and a whole lot of other guns.
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Recoil I agree with but personally I find that as auto's get smaller "lighter slides" the loss of inertia must be accounted for and is typically done with stiffer springs.

My 5" 1911 is much easier to cycle than my 4" and there both easier than my Kahr PM 9.

Little pistols = Less Slide to grab and stiffer springs...

True. I am considering a Tomcat for my wife simply for the tip up barrel. And a .32 may be at the lowest end of reliability in terms of a SD caliber, but I'd prefer it over a wheel gun for her.
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LONDON - The story coming into the track and field competition at the London Games was going to be Usain Bolt of Jamaica.

It's still Usain Bolt.

Bolt blazed to victory in the 100 meters Sunday night at Olympic Stadium in 9.63 seconds, ahead of training partner Yohan Blake (9.75) of Jamaica and Justin Gatlin of the USA (9.79).

Tyson Gay of the USA was fourth (9.80) and Ryan Bailey of the USA was fifth (9.88).

And once again Jamaica gets the better of the USA in the sprint rivalry. On Saturday night, in the women's 100, Jamaica won gold and bronze and the USA got silver.

The anticipation could hardly have been greater, for a lot of reasons.

The main question was whether we would see the Beijing Bolt again or the lesser version that had been on display this season.

In Beijing, Bolt ran three races and set three world records - 9.69 in the 100, 19.30 in the 200, plus a third world record on the Jamaican winning 4x100 relay.

The next year, at the 2009 world championships in Berlin, he lowered those marks to 9.58 in the 100 and 19.19 in the 200.

And there those records have remained.

In 2010, Bolt's fastest time was 9.82. Last year, his fastest was 9.76, and he was disqualified for a false start in the 100 meters at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea.

This season, again 9.76 is his fastest time, and he was beaten twice by Blake - in the 100 and 200, both times at the Jamaican Olympic trials.

People have wondered if he was 100% healthy. He was bothered earlier this year by a back issue which morphed into a tender hamstring.

Also, people have wondered if Bolt was worried in the blocks about false starting, unable to shake the mishap in Daegu.

He has said that's not the case, and he has shrugged off criticism of his start with a rather unusual explanation.

"We have come to the conclusion that back in the day, I was never a good starter, and I'm never going to be a great starter," Bolt said a few days before the Games, referring to himself and his coach, Glen Mills. "So I should just get past that and focus on just running. I'm not worried about the start. It's all about execution and getting it right at the end of the race."

But there was still this to wonder: what exactly is getting it right for Bolt now, at age 25, four years after electrifying the Beijing Olympics with his prancing and preening but most of all his explosive speed?

Is another 9.76 getting it right?

Does he have another 9.6 again? Or even a 9.5?

In round 1 in London Saturday, he stumbled out of the blocks - another sluggish start for the 6-5 Bolt - and lumbered to the line in 10.09 seconds.

During introductions for his semifinal heat Sunday evening, he struck a boxing pose and threw a right and a left.

Then he looked as comfortable as could be, starting pretty well, driving through the halfway point like an Olympic champion would, and then easing up at the finish with a big lead. His time - 9.87 - impressive for how easy he took the finish.

Even if Bolt's days of running 9.5 and 9.6 are over, the excitement about this race was palpable. Few experiences in sports rival the drama of eight men crouching into the blocks of an Olympic 100 meters final.

It's over in less than 10 seconds.

And when it is, heroes are celebrated, reputations have been altered and maybe even Olympic careers ended.

Gatlin, who served a four-year doping suspension after his 2004 Olympic gold in the 100, will be 34 in 2016. Gay will be 33, and he has said this will likely be his last Olympics.

In Bolt's case, his career almost certainly goes on for years. He is just 25, after all. For him, the career-arc question is about his stated goal: to be a legend.

If the Beijing Bolt was to return, that goal figured to be assured. But in the days and hours leading up to the race, it was a significant "if."

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COLUMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- Columbia County High School was on lockdown earlier Wednesday, according to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office.

Public Information Officer Mark D. Pentolino said deputies received a 911 call saying that a student had a gun at the school.

The call was later determined to be a hoax and a 16-year-old female student was taken into custody, according to CCSO Public Information Officer Murray Smith

She is being charged with disturbing the peace at a school, making false reports and misuse of 911.

She was processed at the County Detention Facility and released to a parent, according to Smith.

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