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There are some funny scenes in the beginning and then the story becomes serious and stays that way till the end.
Chapter Thirty: Bubblicious Bubble Gum
It had been inevitable (hadn’t it been?) that the X-Men and the Brotherhood could not peacefully co-habit the mansion. After a week of brewing tension and minor altercations, the animosity had come to a boil.
By this time everyone had heard the terrible thunder storm that formed suddenly which was only now abating. They had heard the roof being torn apart and Juggarnaut and Beast’s destructive battle. Mutants swarmed into the hallway to see what was going on only to be caught in the middle of an all out fight between combatants with grudges against each other. Swept up in the anger and furor like European football fans fights broke out between all the mutants, spurring a chaotic and ruinous scene. Mutants picking fights and mutants attempting to keep the peace were almost equally matched.
Angel arrived on the fight scene dressed in pajama pants holding his favorite teddy bear, but as his lengthy wingspan was useless in a cramped, crowded hallway he made an easy target for Pyro. John was and had always been a rapscallion at heart and he took pleasure in provoking the vapid Warren. He chased Angel around, letting out small fire balls that singed the mutant’s wings. Angel had progressively less space to maneuver away from Pyro’s blasts as the hallway crowded, his large wings giving him an extra difficult time.
“It’s time to shake and bake the chicken!” Pyro called out as he chased Warren through the upstairs hallway.
“Stop right there John.” An ice blast quelled Pyro’s latest fireball. Bobby had entered the hallway and felt a responsibility to protect the docile and meek Angel.
To John, the time since he had left the mansion had served to further demonstrate the striking resemblance Bobby Drake had to the late Scott Summers. Meaning, Bobby was also a no fun tight-ass. Pyro missed the days when they had been roommates and Bobby had been more relaxed and receptive to mischief.
But that was three years ago and now the Iceman and Pyro were enemies and bitter rivals whose skills and powers matched each other’s equally. Bobby’s attempts to freeze Pyro in sheets of ice met with Pyro’s own scorching flames. They charged about using their powers and combat skills to try to best one another as Bobby’s melted ice left large puddles on the hardwood floor, while occasional flames from Pyro’s charred various parts of the hallway. (Magneto’s bill goes up as the mansion begins to go down).
This continued; the two oblivious to what was going on around them. Bobby’s attempt to rescue Angel was thwarted as he became engrossed in battling his ex-roommate. Angel had become the target of a far cleverer mutant: Professor Jeri Kojak. Kojak was a mutant one would not suspect to have an advantage in fighting situations. After all her powers were of the mind: telepathic and telechronic (manipulation of time). However, her ability to pause time and other’s perception of it was an unrivaled defense mechanism. If she saw a blow coming she could pause time, move out of the way and avoid it. No one ever landed a blow against Jeri. She was also adept at beating an opponent while time was paused, not giving her enemy even a second to fight back.
Jeri was not inclined to be sympathetic to Angel whose misguided father had been the cause of so much suffering for so many mutants when his “Cure” had caused a small war and then failed completely. Then, of course, there’s was Angel’s missing personality and formulaic angst-ridden insecurity that deeply grated on Jeri’s nerves. She took malicious glee at playing a prank on him.
She paused time with a blink of her eye and went to the kitchen. There she grabbed several packs of Bubblicious bubble gum. She slipped a stick of gum into her mouth and began chewing, while returning upstairs. After the gum was wet and well-softened she took the piece out of her mouth and put it on one of Angel’s gleaming white wings. The little piece of gum was very small compared to the long twelve foot wingspan.
Damn, this was going to take a lot of gum. Quickly Professor Kojak began chewing more and coated the wings in piece after piece. She rubbed the gum between the feathery tips sticking them together and then when she had dozens of pieces all over the wings, she pressed the two wings together, effectively gluing Angel’s wings together with pink watermelon flavored bubble gum.
Eager to see his reaction she unfroze time.
Angel, unaware his wings had been bubble-gummed together, tried to flex them only to stretch out the pink gum that was stuck to each of him wings. He could move the wings about somewhat but they were covered in bubble gum. He tried to reach around to take off whatever was holding back his wings, but he was unable to stretch his arm around enough. However, Angel ran in circles furtively for a few minutes before realizing his arms could not reach that far back. Similar to when a child gets bubble gum in their hair, it was near impossible to remove from feathers. Angel was in for a very long day cleaning it off.
Professor Kojak snickered to herself as she watched him fret. It was probably wrong to torture him so, but it felt so right. He didn’t even suspect it was her who had done it; her quiet, neat, scholarly demeanor working in her favor for once.
Jeri could hear the booms, crashes, and bangs that emanated from Beast and Juggarnaut’s fight. It was giving her a headache. Seeing the opportunity to finally reprimand her large, odorous colleague Cain Marko for breaking the TV remote control back on the Island and generally being a bother, Jeri Kojak could not resist. She froze time again with a blink of her eyes and walked over to one of the bedrooms where the Beast and Juggarnaut where ripping each other apart.
She took out a pocket watch and partially unfroze Juggarnaut so that he was slowed down. Using the pocket watch she hypnotized Juggarnaut and made him believe he was a chicken, specifically a rooster. Then she stood back, blinked to unfreeze everyone and watched the fruits of her labor.
Juggarnaut, still clad only in his Harry Potter boxers, began cawing and pecking at the ground in an extremely realistic rooster fashion. The scholarly Beast was at a loss as to what to do. When Juggarnaut moved towards him, his head bobbing in rapid motion as though to peck him with a non-existent beak, Beast punched him so hard he flew backwards, struck a window, broke through and plummeted to the lawn below. There he got up and began pawing at the ground and flapped his arms back and forth. It was the early morning, and as far as Juggarnaut knew he was a rooster, so he began to ring in the new day with an impressive rendition of “cock-a-doodle-doo”.
Beast was freed from his fight with Juggarnaut and walked back out into the hallway to see that the place had erupted into total chaos. It was a free for all and all the repressed animosity between the Brotherhood and the X-Men was finally out on the surface. Beast saw his fallen love Storm, who had been dropped by Rogue only a few minutes ago, and scooped her up in his arms. She was groggy and semi-unconscious from the zap of Rogue’s powers. Beast laid her on the bed in one of the adjacent bedrooms that he and Juggarnaut had not trashed. She rested there. Beast returned to the hallway to have a serious talk with Rogue about her irresponsible behavior, when he was confronted by the cute, young, bouncy blonde girl Catalyst.
Why did Catalyst specifically pick on the Beast so much? Maybe it was because he was a scientist like her and her counterpoint on the X-Men. Or perhaps it was because he was blue and fuzzy and endlessly sappy in his relationship with Storm. But Catalyst believed it was because he sort of resembled Kelsey Grammar.
Catalyst’s power to control the rates of reactions appeared to be a power with purely academic uses and she should have been no match for the brawny Beast. However, Catalyst was more intelligent than she looked. Using her powers she caused Beast’s hair to grow rapidly till his usual longish blue mane was hugely overgrown stretching down to his feet. His beard and side-burns grew as well until Dr. McCoy was effectively trapped by all his blue hair. He tried to fight Catalyst but could not see in front of him past all that hair to strike her.
Now Catalyst decided to stop Beast in his tracks; to this end she caused a nearby potted fern to grow rapidly and encircle Dr. McCoy’s waist and trap his arms. In a few short seconds the plant had snaked around the Doctor hundreds of times, encasing him in a leafy prison. Knowing she was safely protected from Beast’s ferocious strength, Catalyst walked fearlessly up to the mutant and tapped him on the chest with her forefinger.
“That is for borrowing my lab goggles. You never borrow someone else’s goggles, you know that.” Catalyst was not a mutant to cross lightly.
Rogue had just dropped Storm and stopped her from attacking Erik. Beast collected Storm’s fallen form and Erik still had Logan pinned to the wall using his magnetic fields. Rogue didn’t want to see Logan hurt anymore than he had already been during the fight.
All Marie had to do was look at Erik, and he stopped torturing Logan. Erik straightened out the Wolverine’s claws and used metal from the mansion’s structure to restrain the furious Logan against the wall. Magneto took in the commotion going on throughout the mansion: Brotherhood vs. X-Men. The place was in chaos and everything was being torn to pieces as fights raged, a myriad of powers unleashed to settle old grudges.
“Come with me Mystique. Let us use this distraction as best we can.” Magneto said, motioning to Mystique. She had been fighting previously with Rogue and glared at her with her saffron eyes, before descending the stairs behind Erik.
Meanwhile, Bobby and Pyro’s vicious rivalry had attracted Rogue’s attention.
“What’s happened to you John?” Bobby yelled at Pyro as he dodged an orange-red flame thrown at him.
“Nothing ‘happened’ to me. I was just having a bit of fun with Warren over there.” John motioned with his hand and all three of them turned to regard Angel who was trying to rid his wings of the distressing bubble gum. No one had expected to see Angel’s wings singed and covered in pink bubble gum. Iceman glared at Pyro who shared an astonished look with Rogue.
“You’ve become one of them: a criminal, a terrorist.” Bobby said. There was no anger in his face; it fell in disappointment and his voice broke slightly on the words. It was hard for Bobby to accept the truth that his best friend had become the enemy. Unlike Rogue, he had never had a chance to say goodbye to John. He had met him in battle at Alcatraz but the reality of his switch in allegiance was only settling in now. His best friend had become his most bitter enemy.
“Don’t call him that.” Rogue defended Pyro. To Bobby, Rogue’s betrayal was just more of the same. It made little sense to him and had shaken his world painfully. His ex-girlfriend of two years had run off to the enemy because that enemy, Magneto, a man who had tried to kill her, could touch her when no one else could. She had betrayed the Professor’s memory just to satisfy her libido.
“You’re no better than him.”
“Hey, you wanna trash talk me, fine go ahead. But lay off Marie. She did what she had to do.” Pyro said. Rogue noted he had stopped his annoying habit of flicking his lighter off and on in his hand. He held it still and did not flinch or fidget. In an instant, John had gone from acting like his usual immature self to standing up like a man. Rogue was impressed and proud of her friend.
“It’s alright John. Ah know Bobby ain’t ever gonna understand the choices I made.” Rogue stood next to Pyro, in solidarity with him.
“I know I dumped you Rogue but it was no reason to-” Bobby said but Rogue interrupted him, her voice strained with anger.
“You didn’t dump me Bobby you cheated on me. You didn’t even have the decency to break up with me. You treated me like dirt and went behind ma back with ma best friend Kitty. Now you’re dating Jubilee. Ah don’t know what to think about you. You’re not the Bobby Ah used to know.” Rogue said.
To Bobby’s credit his lips pursed and he looked strained and regretful.
“I didn’t mean for that to happen. I was confused and scared.” He turned away from Pyro’s stare. John watched him knowingly. Bobby was quick to chance the subject.
“But what happened between us doesn’t chance the fact that you ran off to join the Brotherhood.”
“Guess not.” Rogue said. She didn’t feel like arguing with him or trying to explain herself anymore. She shouldn’t have to.
“What about you John? Why did join Magneto at Alkali Lake?” Bobby had been curious why John left for over two years now. The two men stared at each other and Rogue felt like she was invading a private conversation for some reason.
“Because I believe in the Brotherhood’s ideals.” Pyro’s eyes never left Bobby’s and Rogue could tell they weren’t talking about philosophy and mutant issues. There was something going on between the lines.
“Bull shit John.” Bobby said slowly, pausing between every word, frost on his fingertips.
“Dammit, Bobby! Stop being such a dick.” Pyro broke the stare and looked away under Bobby’s intense gaze. He didn’t like what his rival was implying.
“Stop acting like a child, Pyro.” Bobby appealed to him, trying to get him to see the error of his ways. “You’re a danger to everyone. You’ve become a criminal. You blew up that medical clinic, and then you helped Magneto to kill hundreds of servicemen with flaming cars, now you’re singeing poor Angel’s wings. Don’t you have any decency?” Bobby threw at him his cold blue eyes hot with anger.
“Oh, really who’s the child? I’ve taken a stand for the side I believe in while all you seem to do Bobby is pussy-foot around with the girls at the mansion. When are you going to stop acting like a boy and start being a man?” Pyro held an open flame in the palm of his hand and a wicked gleam in his eye. His anger flared at the idea that he had joined the Brotherhood for any reason other than ideological ones. Besides, Bobby was the one living in denial.
“Don’t tell me you’re blind to what’s happening in the country? The Professor’s methods don’t work. Mutants have to fight if we’re ever going to be free from oppression and prejudice.” Pyro continued extinguishing his flames. Bobby’s arms were crossed in front of him and none of Pyro’s arguments seemed to move him. He sensed the real reason John had joined the Brotherhood had nothing to do with mutant oppression.
“You can make all the excuses you want John but what you’re doing is still murder.” Bobby intoned frostily.
“And you can date all the girls you want Bobby: Rogue, Kitty, Jubilee, but it won’t change what we both know is the truth.” John held Bobby’s gaze. Bobby sucked in a breath, his fists balled, and took a step forward, holding out one already frozen hand ready at a moment’s notice to hurl icicles at Pyro.
Pyro made no move to defend himself; instead standing confidently in place knowing that he spoke the truth and daring Bobby to try and deny it. He was sick of playing games around a fact they both knew to be true.
Rogue looked somewhat confused between the two men. Was Pyro implying what she thought he was? Could Bobby be gay? She thought back to when she had dated him but they were unable to touch because of her mutation. Bobby had never pressured her for holding hands, kissing, or sex. She remembered how he hadn’t been very eager to explore their options for sexual expression with clothes on. And then there was her short term on the Cure when she had been able to touch him and he had slipped away from her to date Kitty. Could it be her mutation wasn’t the thing that drove Bobby from her? Rather that he had never wanted a relationship where they were physically intimate because he wasn’t interested in girls that way. She watched Bobby’s reaction closely.
“That was a mistake John. An accident that was never meant to happen.” He said an icicle, long and sharp forming in his right hand.
“Call it whatever you like. It’s doesn’t change that you liked.” Pyro said. His voice steady and assured. Bobby’s face twisted in anger. He hadn’t wanted anyone to know. He had made Pyro swear never to tell… Bobby made to hurl the icicle at John who continued to stand defenseless and defiant before him.
“Throw that and Ah’ll drop ya.” Rogue said, holding up her unclad hand, though she could render him unconscious with just a thought. When she saw Bobby back down a bit she couldn’t stop herself from asking what she needed to know. “What happened between the two of you?”
Bobby doesn’t answer, his hands giving off a fog of frost as he crosses them over his chest. She turns to Pyro who is more forthcoming. He is eerily calm in a hallway of fighting mutants, as though he knew one day they would have this conversation. He had waited for a long time to see the day when Bobby would finally have to face the truth.
“Bobby and I were roommates back then, bout the time before the mansion was attacked and all that shit went down and I joined… you know. We were in our room, and Bobby had just beaten the guy who was ranked 25th nationally in Halo on X-Box online.” John paused. “Am I right Bobby?”
Surprisingly Bobby didn’t stop him; he only chimed in: “He was ranked 24th.”
“Anyway so I had watched him beat the guy and we were both celebrating and jumping around. We sorta hugged each other and then it just happened. We rubbed against each other and I reached out and touched him and he touched me. You get the picture.”
Rogue did. She wondered how far they had gone; how awkward it had been. She marveled how oblivious she had been. Never in her wildest dreams had she sensed something going on between her boyfriend and his roommate. Suddenly she understood how betrayed Bobby had felt when John had joined the Brotherhood.
“Afterward, Bobby regretted it. He felt guilty about you Rogue.” Pyro turned to her and then looked back at his dear friend. Bobby’s head was turned towards the ground; his face expressionless. He remembered that time two years ago vividly.
“And then everything went down. The mansion was attacked and we went to Bobby’s house with Wolverine.”
“And it hurt you to see Bobby with his family, because you’re an orphan.” Pyro stepped back a little. Rogue had hit very close to the mark.
“It did.” Pyro admitted.
“Some family.” Bobby scoffed his foot on the ground still not making eye contact. “When I told them I was a mutant my brother called the cops and my parents disowned me and told me never to come back.”
“After that Bobby talked to me in the X-Jet. He wasn’t ready to be both a mutant and homosexual. He told me that what we did was a mistake. That is was wrong and he didn’t feel that way about me.” Pyro’s face, so often filled with juvenile anger and rebellion seemed very old when it showed pain. “But that was a lie, wasn’t it?”
Bobby didn’t answer.
“It was a lie.” Pyro repeated. Rogue held her breath and waited for Bobby to answer. Everything was falling into place. All of Bobby’s hesitation, his treatment of her, the reason he cheated on her with Kitty. Finally she knew the missing piece of the puzzle.
“Yes.” Bobby answered and his head slowly rose. His eyes met Pyro’s and the two shared a moment. For the first time in years the tension and animosity between them melted away just as John’s flames so often melted Bobby’s ice. “So that’s why you left with Magneto on the helicopter.”
“I knew you only liked Rogue as a friend. It hurt me that you wouldn’t give us a chance. I hated to watch you live a lie. When Magneto talked to me on the X-Jet and showed me that mutants shouldn’t be ashamed of what they were… Well, it was just what I wanted to hear.”
Bobby smiled at John. They had come to an understanding. All of it was finally out in the open and both felt a weight lift off their shoulders.
Rogue felt a weight slam into her shoulders and knock her to the ground.
It was Jubilee. She and Kitty were involved in a very vicious cat fight and Jubilee had been pushed into Rogue. Kitty was winning. Jubilee leaped back off Rogue and used her fireworks to fill the hallway with smoke and sparkles.
When the smoke cleared Bobby was pulling Jubilee off Kitty.
“We need to talk.” He told her and pulled her down the hallway. He turned back over his shoulder to smile at Pyro.
“So do we. After.” John said to him as he retreated down the hallway. For a second John seemed contented and calm, then he turned around and Rogue saw a mischievous smile break out on his face. The boyish Pyro she knew was back. “But now I am going to bake some chicken.” And John shot a fireball Angel’s way.
Rogue laughed at him and felt a leg kick her.
“Hey!” It was Kitty. Kitty was in fighting stance. Adrenalin was coursing through her veins and she had just come off a fight with Jubilee. Everyone in the hallway, X-Men and Brothers alike, were fighting one another, she assumed Rogue would have a score to settle with her.
She moved to land another blow against Rogue’s shoulder. Rogue blocked her.
“If you don’t stop it, I’ll drop ya.” Rogue held up her ungloved hand in warning. She just wanted to talk to Kitty. There was a lot they needed to say to one another.
Kitty’s heart was pounding and the idea of getting her life force sucked from her by Rogue was a scary one. She reacted on instinct and her foot shot out in a scissor kick to Rogue’s midriff. Rogue recovered and pushed her mutation outward to drain Kitty.
Kitty phased and Rogue’s powers went through her without affect. Rogue could not drop her. Rogue was surprised; this was the first person other than Erik who had some immunity to her new powers. She was caught off guard when Kitty broke out her kickboxing skills and tried to jab Rogue in the shoulder. Her punch landed and Rogue stumbled backwards. She dodged and rolled out of the way of Kitty’s follow up left hook.
“Shadowcat. Kitty. Let’s just talk this out there’s no need to fight.” Kitty did not back down and Rogue caught her next punch, turned and flipped Kitty over her back. Kitty, true to her name, landed on her feet and scrambled to stomp her heel down on the instep of Rogue’s foot. Rogue let out an unhampered “Owww!” and backhanded Kitty across the face.
Kitty backed up a few paces and held her jaw in her hand. Rogue slapped pretty hard. She’d had a lot of practice. The pain of the blow brought Kitty back to her senses and her fight or flight instincts shut down.
“Ah’m not angry at you ‘bout Bobby anymore.” Rogue said when she saw that Kitty was done attacking her. Kitty was so shy and seemed to shrivel up on herself with guilt.
“No. It was Bobby’s fault for not breaking up with me before starting to hang out with you. And it turns out we’re both been made a fool of: he’s gay.” Rogue said.
“What?” Kitty’s eyes went wide. “But he dumped me for Jubilee. He’s dating her now.”
“Not for much longer. Him and Pyro.” Rogue motioned to where Bobby was consoling a freshly dumped Jubilee down the hall.
“Oh, my gosh! I am so dense. How could I not see it? He’s so good-looking he just had to be gay.” Kitty slapped herself on the forehead.
“Ah know right. Ah can’t believe we let him get between our friendship.” Rogue genuinely smiled. Now that she knew the reasons why Bobby had treated her badly, her heart had mellowed to Kitty as well. Kitty, however, still felt a lot of guilt.
“I’m really sorry about that. I- I shouldn’t have hung out with him knowing you two were still an item. I was just so excited that he liked. I’d been feeling pretty lonely and he was there for me.”
“Ah understand. It’s all so long ago and so much has changed since then.”
“Yeah,” Kitty said and twisted her shoe, surveying the fighting going on around them, before she could get the courage to turn back to Rogue. “Can we ever be friends again?”
“Ah think so. If ya don’t mind me being with the Brotherhood.”
“You’re not really with them Rogue, are you?” Kitty didn’t seem completely put out by it, but she was a hesitant.
“Ah am. But they ain’t as bad as you think. They do a lot of good stuff and they’re really helping to protect mutants with this war going on.” Rogue said.
“You weren’t there at Alcatraz. It wasn’t pretty Rogue.”
“No I wasn’t. But I was at Liberty Island. I know what Magneto can do.” Rogue said. Kitty noticed the way she shifted from the group to its leader curiously.
“You missed the fight at Alcatraz. Juggarnaut chased me through the lab facility. And Rogue he smells horrible. Like old anchovies or something.” Kitty said. Rogue laughed.
“Oh, tell me about it. Ah have to live with the guy. You should smell the laundry room after he washes those leather pants. Gross!” The two girls laughed; their friendship regrowing with every giggle.
Storm came to on a bed in the student wing. She had been knocked unconscious by Rogue’s mutation which could now zap a person from afar. Her head hurt badly as though she had been suffering from a migraine headache only moments before. When she made her way back out into the hallway the place was total chaos.
Mutants continued fighting amongst themselves; the younger students using it as an excuse to use their powers in ways that Storm had precisely forbid them from doing. The roof of the hallway had been destroyed by her hurricane strength winds. There were large gaping holes in the walls from Juggarnaut’s ramming. Furniture lay in pieces. The carpet was on fire in some places; there puddles in others. And part of the mansion’s steel structure was twisted around Logan.
Storm had to use tornado strength winds to pull Logan free. He was a bit dizzy when he landed after being spun in the tornado for several rotations. Magneto had hurt Wolverine somewhat, but his wounds were already well healed. Only his pride was still smarting from Mystique’s trick.
“Where’s Hank?” Storm asked Logan. It took him a few minutes to spot a huge blue furball entwined in a vicious looking house plant. Logan walked over and slashed his way through the plant.
“Look’s like you really did turn into a giant blue furball McCoy.” Logan chided him as he began cutting Beast’s hair and fur back down to size using his claws.
“What happened to you Hank?” Storm watched on, overly concerned for her boyfriend.
“It was that indomitable Catalyst. I may not have followed proper lab etiquette once and she took it upon herself to upbraid me.” Hank said, his fur and hair freshly cut so that he could see.
“What’s going on here?” Storm said motioning to the free-for-all going on in the hallway.
“It’s Mystique’s fault.” Logan said his teeth grating together at the memory of finding out about the cruel trick played on him.
“Figures.” Storm said. She raised her hands, her pupils rolled white and three loud thunderous claps rang out. The mutants stopped their fighting and looked up. It was Storm, the head mistress, they were caught.
“How did all this start?” She asked them. She saw Pyro extinguish a fireball in his hand quickly. She gave him that evil teacher’s gaze that said she knew exactly what he had done wrong.
Pyro turned to Rogue and whispered into her ear.
“Let me guess. Wolverine caught you and Magneto going at it like rabbits, the same way I did.”
“Something like that.” Logan said. His hearing was extra sensitive and he heard the whisper. Everyone looked expectantly at Logan to explain the situation. Logan looked at Marie and she nodded her permission. Storm turned her mean teacher gaze onto Logan to hurry him along.
“Um, well. It seems that when I thought I was romancin’ Rogue, there. I was actually romancin’ Mystique pretending to be Marie. And Rogue was with Magneto.” Logan said.
“What!?!” Huge audible collective gasp from all the X-Men.
“What do you mean ‘with’ Magneto?” Storm asked. Logan didn’t give her any hints.
“You’re doing a lot more than kiss him now.” Bobby said to her. There was still a little antagonism there and then of course there was the icky factor. She couldn’t expect Bobby to understand how attractive a man like Erik could be. Or maybe she could, Bobby was gay after all, how could he miss how handsome and refined Magneto was?
“You better believe it.” Pyro chimed in. He remembered catching them in flagrante delicto in Magneto’s office.
Rogue blushed a bit. She was both embarrassed and proud to be exposed as Erik’s lover, though she didn’t expect the X-Men to understand their relationship. Heck, she hardly understood it herself. All she knew was that Erik loved her and she loved him.
“Is this true Rogue?” Storm asked. Rogue couldn’t tell if she looked more shocked, disgusted, or incredulous.
“Yup.” Rogue said proudly. “Erik and I-” Before she could finish Erik himself appeared at the top of the stairs, Mystique behind him. They had been trying to use the fight as a distraction to steal Charles Xavier’s Cerebro files and the information on all known mutants.
“Quick. There’s no time. We are about to be under attack.” As if to underscore Magneto’s point the whistling sound of a bond was heard followed by a thunderous explosion. Everyone ran to the windows to look outside.
There advancing around the perimeter of the estate grounds was the U.S. Armed Forces. They had encircled the mansion with troops and had two helicopters as air support. One of them had dropped an anti-personal bomb on the Brotherhood’s Black Hawk Helicopter that was parked on the lawn.
The X-Men and the Brotherhood were under attack.
Notes: What did you think of Catalyst’s and Professor Kojak’s powers? Kinda fun right?
I decided to introduce my side theme of Bobby and Pyro’s relationship here. I hope everyone doesn’t mind that I’ve made them gay. It was the only way I could justify Bobby being such a dick to both Rogue and Kitty in the movie. Isn’t it obvious how badly he treats poor Rogue by emotionally cheating on her and then Kitty by leading her on? Then of course there’s that great rivalry between Pyro and Bobby. There’s got to be more to that friendship than meets the eye.
Tell me what you think.
Okay so what is the US army doing at the X-mansion? They’re firing at the mutants so there will a fight coming. How can the mutants battle such an overpowering force? Will they be captured? Find out in the next installment of Healing. Go to Chapter 31


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India’s manufacturing and agricultural productivity needs serious attention right now. Yet, remarkably, prominent Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) candidates have said precious little about it on their campaign trails.
It is even more remarkable that Indians might vote these candidates into office despite knowing so little about their views. Political parties have assumed that India’s geopolitical future can grow rosier through urbanisation, exports, skills, and industry booms (after all, this is what the IT sector seemed to represent). However, what the candidates are not saying about India’s future is worth attention.
The political parties are staunchly advocating a largely single economic mantra to distinguish their parties. But for a country where agricultural and industrial diversification and improving skills are crucial for livelihoods and social equity, these single visions are unrealistic.
In addition, despite the frequent allusion to village life and history, they have increasingly emphasised urbanisation and cities.
Finally, most of these parties are referring to manufacturing in a country where it simply does not play the same role as it plays now in China or played in the U.S. or Europe.
The parties, national and regional, have much to do. The Modi Model alludes to a single approach. Ironically, even the national Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s Sitaram Yechury, a Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) MP, who has argued that grassroots sensitivity is needed, has somewhat ruined the effect by arguing that the unifying vision of his party can counter those of the Congress or BJP.
The regional parties too appear to have missed an opportunity to emphasise their proximity to grassroots economic problems and the need for diversity.
So why should we reject single economic visions? Diversity is necessary for more than geographic and cultural variety as it has distinct organisational features. After all, it will not be national or regional governments as employers, but the private sector that will generate the most jobs. And whether public or private sector-induced, the informal economy and non-manufacturing jobs will form the majority of India’s employment for the near future. Urbanisation and manufacturing don’t necessarily go hand in hand. Even India’s largest metropolises are vastly different from each other, and so too are the non-metros. That in itself showcases an enormous economic diversity. Whether a call to an ‘India Shining’ or a Modi Model, India clearly needs some attention to diversity.
Gujarat is an example of such diversity and of one of the more urbanised and industrialised states of India. The proponents of the Modi Model have lost an important chance to claim its relevance outside Gujarat. Indeed, if there is a model at all for Gujarat, it is a complex, diverse one: that entrepreneurs, the rural White Revolution, the Green revolutions, new technological advances, and urban industrial investment, have all helped move the state forward. Perhaps even Mr. Modi has helped too. It does seem that all parties are missing the obvious history lesson that Gujarat demonstrates for the rest of India: that a variety of economic options exist, that they are geographically diverse, and economic policy must respond to this variation. With smaller states such as Karnataka and Orissa still larger than most European economies, why depend on a single economic vision?
In no other election since Independence has there been as crucial a crossroads for decentralised economic plans. Yet, no national party or regional party candidate has specified a clear agenda on how to grow and adapt Indian economic policies to its villages, cities and towns on these principles. Greenfield development plans such as the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) to create industry agglomeration and high capacity freight transportation facilities are no hopeful strategy when the fortunes of tens of thousands of villagers and town residents are to be overwritten without much consultation. A more prescient approach would be to require economic, physical infrastructure and spatial plans to meet a minimum threshold on employment, skills, education, environmental standards, mobility, health, and housing criteria.
These would reflect industrial and economic policies as far more than real estate speculation and closed-door land deals. It might help us recall that industrial futures in most of the world have been premised on industrial diversification and deepening, built in multiple decades not months, and certainly not by land-use alone. If we are attentive to history, we might envision industrial freight as a public works project (even with private partners) with long-term vision on technological capabilities, vocational training and education; on sanitation, roads that connect much smaller villages and towns; and with an open dialogue on mobility, amenities and housing. And yes, freight also includes tempos (three-wheeled trucks used for commercial transport in Asian countries), bicycles, bullock carts, wheelbarrows, and head-loading (carrying heavy goods on the head).
If ‘multi-modal’ ceases to be a trendy term and attends to actual Indian diversity in the composition of industry (large, medium, and micro), we are immediately in the realm of urgent urban needs.
In 1951 India had five cities with a population greater than one million and 41 cities of more than 100,000.
At that time most of India lived in approximately 560,000 villages . In 2011 in contrast, there were three cities with a population greater than 10 million, and 53 cities with population of one million. More than 833 million Indians now live in 660,000 villages but 377 million live in approximately 8,000 urban centres.
Whatever Rahul Gandhi or Mr. Modi may say, we do not need greenfield development of cities à la China. We must first attend to making the ones we have more dynamic and humane.
An integrated economic, spatial planning and policy framework with deep environmental and health roots must be the working backbone of the 74th Amendment and economic devolution.
The 73rd Amendment from 1992 too has assumed an economic devolution that it has unevenly delivered.
Unlike China, South Korea, Japan, or Taiwan, Indian politicians and bureaucrats have unevenly specified how decentralized industrial governance and regulatory cohesion might come about in order to allow towns and villages some semblance of sustainable growth.
All parties have been quick to point out how how technology can fix local issues. The Telegu Desam Party, a regional party in the southern state Andhra Pradesh, did so years ago (one of the key initiatives of the Chandrababu Naidu government was e-governance. Hyderabad was soon dubbed Cyderabad owing to its fast growth into a global IT hub attracting many multinational software giants); former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi began the trend for the Congress Party by mixing administration and data advances; the Unique Identification Authority of India continues it with Aadhar (the individual identification numbers being given to every Indian resident) ; the BJP assumes it in the industrial aspects of the Modi Model, and Arvind Kejriwal supporters offer it as an anti-corruption and grassroots organisation tool.
But economic governance is not e-governance It requires far more to establish an industrial and agricultural strategy for future decades, and much more to ensure that it can be tailored humanely in every state.
Neither national nor regional parties, nor state governments have offered such details or shown that they can capture do this.
Diversity is also not merely generating many plans and policies. The UPA I and UPA II governments ambitiously rolled out Missions and Plans of every sort: the Missions associated with rural employment guarantees, urban labour, health, and energy, are all steps in the right direction. But they must be debated. With some exceptions, how these Missions and Plans are to be connected and embedded in their locations remains largely unknown. For Mr. Gandhi, Mr. Modi, or for Mr. Kejriwal, and for the regional parties, the nuts and bolts of connectedness and dynamism in India’s economy remains vastly under-debated at this crucial time.
The stakes for this unique type of federalism are high as we see in Telangana’s case (Telegu-speaking people demanded their own state to be carved out of Andhra Pradesh, claiming the districts where they lived were under-developed and ignored; Parliament caved in to their demands and the new state will be created in June 2014) or that of continual education and skills challenges in India. The skew in regional water infrastructure, concentrated agricultural land holdings and indebtedness, low access to education and vocational training, uneven concentration of industry and employment opportunities, and specific cultural roots of economic diversity have been ignored for decades.
Political leaders have not done their homework for their narrow manifestos. They could have talked about how diversity is explicitly built into their plans. The National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) is a long overdue conversation.
They could have spoken about experiments all over India that are pursuing industrial and social goals : solar and wind energy, car-free urban days, biomedical and agricultural advances, water treatment facilities and toilet innovations, metering for electricity consumption, locally governed clinics, and rapid response by government.
Even now whilst so much political attention (and pollution) hovers over Delhi, Hyderabad and the large Indian metropolises, India’s small and medium towns are growing much faster. For many of their residents, the attraction of the metros is minimal. The jobs in the largest cities may be attractive, but congestion, perceived cultural degradation, unaffordable housing, inaccessible transport, sub-standard daily services, are not.
So although large-scale urbanisation is not attractive, India continues to urbanise.
It is time for a debate focused on Indian economic diversity.
Urbanisation and industrial transformation are here to stay, but their specific relationships (and there are potentially many) will define India’s future.
For China this transformation has meant mass migration, labour and land disputes, and an Eastern seaboard defined by dormitory housing, pollution, and massive special export zones.
For South Korea, a defining characteristic of the industrialisation-urbanisation link was public and private investment in skills and technology transfer agreements, long-run infrastructure plans, and substantial labour repression.
Japan has increasingly focused on transforming urban industrial investment to adapt to environmental crises, healthcare, disability and ageing. These issues pose new challenges and possible economic opportunity for its waning economic power.
Social spending can create jobs as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) has shown. However, there is much more to be done to move this from a paternalistic welfare measure to a vital economic activity.
The National Urban Livelihood Mission document introduced by UPA II holds promise. Yet to do this, the Mission must acknowledge the diverse industrial and employment landscapes that can fill in its institutional scaffolding. There are indeed many jobs to be had and many social issues to be addressed. Attending to the environment and to social services can generate both public sector and private sector livelihoods.
Creating jobs and setting up vocational institutions involves responding to the complexities of youth, caste, gender, religion, and language, a complex array of government, private sector training and apprenticing systems that have existed alongside family and kinship systems through the life of the nation. This diversity is India’s strength.
If the dominant economic paradigms are the DMIC or Special Economic Zones and other large infrastructure build-outs, India simply demonstrates that it can do civil engineering works, not economic development or industrial governing.
In a country where the greatest scams in the last few years have been deeply ingrained in industrial sectors and in UPA and Congress involvements (the coal scam, mining scams, spectrum allocation scams; and possible holes in defence technology procurement) the time has come to specify how the people will benefit from the industrial transformation in more detail and clarify how economic and decentralised plans might accomplish this.
Thus far, neither Mr. Modi nor the UPA, nor Mr. Kejriwal have offered a discussion of how the Government or industrial institutions can address technological learning, housing, transport, or environmental improvements.
If we take any lesson at all from East Asia, it is that, as a democracy, Indians have more options than those economies had, and thus much more to debate in the post-election phase.
Recognising economic diversity through the mechanisms of Government is vital. But all the main Lok Sabha candidates have yet to tell us if their vision of industrial growth is adaptable to Indian reality.
Prof. Smita Srinivas is an economic development and industrial policy scholar at Columbia University, USA. She is the Director of the Technological Change Lab (TCLab) and part of the Urban Planning faculty. Prof. Srinivas has been a senior advisor to the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) and a high-level economic and technical expert to multilateral agencies such as the OECD, ILO and UNCTAD. She has worked with NGOs and grassroots organisations including SEWA and the Mahila Samakhya Scheme, over the years. Her most recent book is Market Menagerie: Health and Development in Late Industrial States (Stanford University Press 2012). Srinivas holds a Ph.D. from MIT and pre- and post-doctoral fellowships from Harvard University.
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CICA Queensland chairman, Steve Gonano, speaks about the the opportunities and challenges facing the Queensland branch of CICA.
Gonano has been the chairman of CICA Queensland for four years and over that period he’s learnt a terrific amount about the role of CICA in the greater crane community and confirms his role as chairman has been as challenging as expected.
“In Queensland, we seem to go through a bit of a lull certainly in terms of the attendance at our meetings, they weren’t well attended, and things were probably a little bit flat. Over the last couple of years, we’ve been able to generate a more interest in the meetings and in CICA QLD in general. The committee has been a little bit more motivated and there’s definitely more momentum now around various initiatives.
“As a committee, we are definitely getting more done and the membership appears to be more engaged. For this to have happened, we tweaked the format of meetings somewhat and a major objective for this year to get more bums on seats,” he said.
In Queensland, there are a lot of crane businesses that aren’t members of CICA, and therefore unaware of what we do, or the benefits we can offer says Gonano. One major objective for this year is to target this group, make contact with them and get them involved.
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“The numbers are quite high, we estimate there are approximately 300 operations which are not involved with CICA, so it’s important we target this element of the market. There are a lot of smaller operations in and around South East Queensland. Currently we have just over 130 members in CICA QLD so there’s plenty of potential to grow our membership,” said Gonano.
“I started in the industry 24 years ago and there were probably a dozen crane companies in, and around Brisbane back then. Today, we’ve still got three or four bigger operators and there are a few reasonably sized businesses, but now, we see an increase of smaller companies running between one and five cranes.
“This is the sector of the market we are going to target and hopefully generate interest in what we are doing. It will take work, but the committee is certainly on board. If our membership is more representative, it will be good for CICA as an association. It will mean crane businesses are better informed and we will have more leverage when we approach regulators and industry groups in the construction sector,” said Gonano.
CICA QLD is facing a couple of major challenges this year, one is the number of structures on the state roads which members are either not allowed to travel over or structures that operators need to endure a lengthy permit process to obtain a ‘single trip’ permit for. These are what are called ‘do not cross’ or ‘single trip structures’.
“The Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) Queensland is now assessing structures on a continuous basis and access over these structures can be changed for operators on a bi-monthly basis. These structures are often on key routes, so cranes are forced off main roads and into suburban areas, which is an issue we are struggling to deal with.
The second major issue for operators in SEQ involves the issue of permits for crane operators to travel in the Brisbane City Council jurisdiction. As far as Gonano is concerned, this is probably going to be a big nut for CICA QLD to crack.
“The permit turnaround times from Brisbane City Council are challenging for crane owners, and I can see access to the city is going to consume a huge percentage of our time this year. Many local councils across the state have really stepped up in recent times with regard to crane access and have led the way forward when it comes to providing operators with a workable, long term permit process. We will continue to work with the BCC to achieve similar outcomes in the city.
“Access was an issue I inherited as the vice-chair and our committee came up with a plan to pay a consultant to work with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) to get councils on board with the SPV1 notice,” he said.
“When CICA started this process, NHVR had a handful of councils who had agreed to let SPV1 cranes on their roads. Within 12 months of CICA getting involved we had 36 councils on board. Now every local government in Queensland has provided some form of permit free access for these cranes. That was a massive win for crane owners in Queensland.
“The program worked so well we kept our guy on and he’s been working on getting access for four and five axle all terrain cranes and we’ve got more than 30 councils across the state that have agreed, in principle, to let us run on those council roads with only a few minor restrictions. Just to give you an idea, in my local council, which represents about 450,000 residents, we have access to run on every road bar about eight roads and structures which is excellent. It’s this type of work CICA QLD has been conducting across the state and we’ve seen councils agree to this level of access. It’s been a huge project and it’s certainly put us ahead of some of the other states in terms of access,” said Gonano.
The launch of the CICA Outrigger App has been another positive. It was an idea Gonano had a couple of years ago and he suggested CICA QLD should investigate the development of the App. The QLD committee jumped on board and were an important part of the content and testing of the product.
“Ground pressure calculations more often than not, needs to happen when the crane on a site because that when the operator determines where he will be setting the crane up. Although the formula for calculating the ground bearing pressure is taught as part of the operators assessment, it would rarely be used and in most cases forgotten.
“The App takes the formula out of a book on the shelf in the office and puts it in the hands of a crane operator on a site, on the day he’s about to set the crane up.
“It’s a simple enough idea, it’s not rocket science but to my knowledge, it’s never been done before. It gives operators the ability to do the calculations there and then, they can send these back to the office or they can give them to the client. If nothing else, it means they’ve taken every step that they can to ensure the setup of that crane is safe,” he said.
There have been around 700 downloads of the App so far and that’s across the country. There has also been some interest in the App from Canada and operators in New Zealand.
CICA QLD also managed to negotiate the lifting of the Easter and Christmas travel curfews at the end of last year.
“This is a restriction that was put in place to get cranes off the highways during the Easter and Christmas periods. The restriction was a major issue for operators that have clients with facilities based on roads and highways who wanted to perform ‘shut down’ or maintenance work over these periods. The only way we could service them would be to bring equipment to the site before the shut and leave it there, whether we used it or not, and then retrieve it after the shut when we were allowed back on the road,” said Gonano.
“We lobbied the Main Roads Department over a period of around three years, and we finally got them to fix the curfew and that’s a big win for us. New South Wales did a similar thing and had success a couple of years before us,” he said.


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ST. PAUL, Minn.—A joint committee will meet this week to make recommendations on who should be appointed to four University of Minnesota regents seats.
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Mariners familiar with the Channel Islands may have visited some of the places on the islands used in the plot of Sunken Dreams. They do exist, and anyone who wishes can easily visit them themselves. I’ve included pictures and text below to help intrepid explorers that might want to see these locations as they exist today. They may have changed a little since I last visited, but they’re all fun places to explore.
Painted Cave appears on most charts showing Santa Cruz Island (‘The Island of the Sacred Cross’). Santa Cruz is the largest of California’s Channel Islands. It is approximately 24 miles long and six miles wide, encompassing 62,000 acres of land. Painted Cave is one of the largest sea caves in the world, nearly a quarter of a mile long and 100 feet in width at its widest passage. The entrance to the cave is nearly 150 feet high. It is located near Profile Point on the lee side of the island facing the mainland (north facing) approximately three miles east of the west end. The entrance to the cave is fairly deep, but it shallows rapidly as you pass under the entrance. It’s easy to enter the cave in a kayak or a small skiff, but taking anything larger is not advised. There is a rocky shoreline at the back of the cave, and it’s usually inhabited by sea lions. Many different sea birds nest in the cliffs near the entrance, and these should not be disturbed, especially during nesting season. This area of the island is part of the Nature Conservatory, and a permit is required to land. Detailed information on regulations can be found online, or in person, by visiting the Channel Islands National Park Visitor’s Center or its website).
Painted Cave has an interesting past, and stories abound about pirates and bootleggers visiting for their own nefarious reasons. Who knows, maybe riches still exist that were buried long ago? Now that’s a thought to chew on, isn’t it?
THE WRECK OF THE WINFIELD SCOTT
The location of the Winfield Scott wreck appears on some charts of Anacapa Island. Anacapa Island is very narrow and nearly five miles long. It’s split into three small areas, with shallow shoals dividing them. These areas are known as East, Middle and West Islands. It has a total land mass of about 700 acres, and over 100 small sea caves dot its shores. The wreck is on the lee side of the Middle island facing the mainland (north facing), about ¾ of a mile from the East Island division. The wreck lies in about 10 to 20 feet of water close to shore. It no longer has a defined shape, but appears as a 50 yard “junk” field of man-made objects strewn along the bottom, like the piece of copper decking in this photograph. No collecting is allowed. Detailed information on regulations can be obtained at the National Park Visitor’s Center or its website.
The cave referred to as Lobster Cave is located inside Landing Cove on East Anacapa Island. Its entrance isn’t visible unless there is an extremely low tide. Once inside the cave, there is air on the surface all the way back to the dry beach about 50 yards under the island. There is a small natural chamber located at the end of the cave. To find the entrance to the cave, look for a large crack in the cliff about 25 yards west into the cove from the extension of Arch Rock. Warning! No one should enter any cave, wet or dry, without proper equipment and training. The cave lies within the protected natural area the island, and detailed information on regulations can be obtained at the Visitor’s Center or its website.

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Disclaimer: CNC Concepts, Inc. accepts no responsibility for the use or misuse of if you could send me a list of the benefits between using G96 instead of G Constant Surface feet spindle speeds – G96, G97, G77, G To use the following codes the OmniTurn must be equipped with a spindle control package. TwinCAT CNC Axis Commissioning G97 Deselection of constant cutting speed , selection of spindle speed (modal, default) Using the G-functions G96, G97 and G, the interpretation of the S-word (or S-strings) can be optionally changed.
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G96 however means metres per minute. So G50 keeps the machine from spinning too fast for safe cutting conditions. When a manual machinist is exposed to constant surface speed on a CNC turning center for the first time, the spindle will probably appear to be running much too fast most manual machinists cannot run at optimum spindle speeds cbc obvious safety reasons. Guess we’re all different and learn things at different times.
CNC tip: The benefits of constant surface speed
If you work exclusively in the constant surface speed mode, the spindle will always be rotating at the appropriate speed – matching the diameter the cutting tool would be cutting. You know when you face a part on g9 CNC Lathe and you hear that change in pitch?
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On a manual machine you have to compromise. Before a person can even begin to make the calculation, they must know the desired speed in sfm. Posted December 8, Could be a problem. I wasn’t clear on what to change, I thought that changing G97 had an effect on the way it works.
I know what it is, and I have always understood the concept. These wheels varied in diameter from about 6 inches to a massive 2 foot one. If an accurate speed in rpm is to be used, the person calculating the rpm must first determine the tool’s appropriate speed in surface feet per minute note that the formula is different when working in the metric mode.
I have been trying to get the guys on the floor to use G96 for these parts but they have always programmed with G If you feel you have been affected by any of the issues mentioned in this post please Contact me on You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. G96 and G97 are mutually exclusive: I figure the ROM has gone bad but the local repair shop and a Dallas based board repair shop say they can’t help me. Then I tried to enter programs manually via MDI on the control and found the whenever I try to type G96 or G97 and hit write, it reverts to the last entry.
I find it peculiar that someone asks a question and suddenly his knowledge is questioned, as if everybody here knows everything and was born knowing.
Posted December 10, I know what the G50 and and G97 are or dobut I’ve never been sure about what the G96 does. I had my own shop after that for 6 years, went to work for other shops for the last 4 years and now Im back on my own again. This also eliminates the cycle time wasting problems caused by constant surface speed just mentioned.
I had read an article sometime back in your newsletter on this subject but I cannot remember which issue it was in. In the early days I remember students saying to me the next day that they had G codes floating around in their head from dnc lessons the day before.
Login to Your Account. In this case, many programmers will calculate the appropriate speed in rpm and run the machine in rpm mode. But if you’re workholding device cannot grip with adequate force, of course, you cannot run at optimum speeds. How does someone who’s been programming for 10 years not know what constant surface speed is? But you must remember to use it and know the maximum rpm a workpiece can be rotated without vibration.
What are the benefits of constant surface speed?
Since the feedrate is tied to spindle speed, as the spindle speeds up and slows down in rpm, so will the feedrate in inches per minute. This is a surface speed. Mori Seiki Sl-1 G96 G97 missing.
To program around this problem, most programmers will temporarily switch to the rpm mode just before the rapid motion to the tool change position, using a speed in rpm that is appropriate for the next tool’s first position.
I started making molds with my dad in the mid 90s. The 1st time I programmed a lathe was when I started my own shop in 05, before that I had never programmed a lathe.
Where diameters changed, particularly when facing, it made a massive improvement to tool life and surface finish as well as speeding up the whole process. However, when you program to use G96 in Mastercam, you will see an initial G97 move at the toolchange.
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The same is true during each tool’s approach. He was so tired he slept all day.
A few cautions Out of round workpieces – If you machine a lot of castings or forgings or any other kind of workpiece that doesn’t run true in the spindleyou must be very careful with the constant surface speed mode. I’ve only programmed Haas lathes and I’ve always gotten the following code:


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The spay/neuter question came up in my animal law class the other night and I continue to ponder its many facets. Perhaps some more public wrestling is in order (I previously raised the issue here) .
If forced to make a general distinction between animal and environmental advocates on questions relating to animals, I would say that environmentalists tend to concern themselves more with species and ecosystemic integrity whereas animal advocates focus more on individual animals. If one accepts this distinction while also accepting that no animal volunteers or consents to be sterilized, then one finds oneself (or at least I do) in an ethical morass.
It seems to me that the rights perspective must acknowledge individual animals’ claims to bodily integrity. After all, rights adhere to the individual, not the collective. The fact that you have a right to vote does not mean I do, and vice versa. Causes of action arise when individual rights are trampled even when the rights of the majority remain intact.
Professor Francione maintains that since the institution of pet ownership is morally wrong, it is permissible to sterilize animals because failing to do so perpetuates the wrong of pet ownership. But I have to ask: regardless of the morality of pet ownership, do not those animals alive now have a claim to membership in the moral community? And if so, how then can their respective rights to bodily integrity be ignored?
One might respond that sacrificing individual rights for the greater good is sometimes necessary, and that may well be true. However, I remain unconvinced that those forfeiting their rights would agree that the greater good is being served. This is particularly true, for example, with feral cat colonies and the policy of trap/neuter/return (TNR). In the case of the cats, the overall goal is the eradication of the colony. That goal seems more attuned to human needs than those of the cats.
Let me state for the record that I recognize the necessity argument here. Companion animal overpopulation is a terrible problem and many animals suffer and die in shelters because of it. I am also all too aware that TNR is by far the most humane option available for feral cat management and that those who manage the colonies often go to heroic lengths to save these cats from otherwise grisly fates. Nevertheless, recognition of this reality need not preclude a full exploration of the ethics involved in the practice and I invite your thoughts as we continue this dialogue.
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How Real Madrid, Marca, Daniel Levy & Adidas announced the Gareth Bale signing
How do you announce a world record transfer?
(That’s if you believe the English version of events which places the fee for Gareth Bale at 100 million euros. In Spain, they are still claiming it was less than what Real Madrid paid for Gareth Bale.)
All the big players knew it was coming, so it gave us an intriguing look at how to announce the Gareth Bale signing from Real Madrid to Spurs.
First off, Real Madrid announced their Galactico signing with plenty of Gareth Bale shots in Wales kit.
Then came Marca, with a front page screen they must have been waiting to use for some time.
Via the Spurs social channels and official website we got a message from chairman Daniel Levy.
And, through Adidas, major players in this transfer as they sponsor both Real Madrid and Gareth Bale, we got that celebration.
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Microsoft’s new as-a-service operating system will come with a number of built-in security features like multi-factor authentication and containerization.
NASA will use its Onsight software with Microsoft's HoloLens goggles to expand the way its scientists interact with machines on Mars or collaborate in virtual workgroups.
FirstNet began discussions with agencies to see how they can best leverage the nationwide public safety network.
With the ending of mainstream support for Windows 7, it’s time for IT managers to start planning for the next operating system migration.
The Australian government’s guide aims to help agencies leverage their data assets by adopting big data and analytics tools.
Software developers often assume that open source components in their supply chain are reliable – but assumptions like were behind the Heartbleed exploit. Here are ways to lock down your open source projects.
New research adds to growing evidence that disease monitoring techniques using social media are emerging to take the place of costlier and slower traditional tools.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Information Sharing Environment released best practices for data sharing in pursuing national security threats.
College students compete to develop the best apps using Watson’s supercomputing powers to solve city problems.
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