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I expected him to pull out a gadget with blinking lights and was wondering which way to duck.
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OK, watch and remember this.
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I'm going to do it in two parts, last part first so it won't take effect.
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Remember to reverse the two parts when you actually do it.
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Stunned I watched as he made several ridiculous passes with his hands paused and nodded then did a sort of sign language stutter of some sort.
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I learned this from a skull shard rongorongo, they aren't all writing language.
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Some are just a memory device.
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Mnemonic.
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Yes.
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There's a long history of Polynesian gesture and dance language.
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He smiled and I could see his teeth in the moonlight.
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His hands were thin and huge knuckled with obvious callouses.
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I wanted to slug him, but he had the keys to the car back and I figured I'd humor him while I figured out how to get them without violating my parole.
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I didn't have much trouble duplicating his hand waving even though I hadn't paid much attention.
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I even swapped the two parts as he had asked.
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I thought he was surprised at my dexterity when his jaw dropped, but he shouted, "No!" just before everything changed.
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I was standing on a perfectly flat square of dark stone.
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For as far as I could see by a weak, gray light the stone stepped up and down making little hills and terraces and platforms.
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I seemed to be somewhere in the middle -- there was as much above as below.
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The sky was dull and featureless and overcast.
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So, the mining business is treating you pretty good, huh Charles?
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The air smelled bad in some way I can't describe, and at my feet I could see the same design from the little journal and the mound carved into the rock.
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I was in shock.
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We receive no government funding.
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The only way we can continue to provide guide dogs, at no cost, to someone who is blind or visually impaired, is through your support.
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Friends like you make it possible to give the gift of “Second Sight®”.
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“Second Sight®”
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I hope the Foundation can count on your caring donation today.
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Many people send gifts of $35, $50, or even $100 or more — whatever you are able to give to help maintain this vital service.
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And having a guide dog does make a real difference in the lives of our students.
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“Second Sight”
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It’s the special bond — of a loving and working 24 hour a day partnership.
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“As a boy in Bosnia, I walked my dog. Now my guide dog, Franklin, walks me”
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Now my guide dog, Franklin, walks me” says Sead.
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He was blinded at 15 by a Serbian missile.
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Now I believe almost anything is possible.
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Franklin has opened up a whole new world for me.
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A world I thought I would never have again.”
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As Pat explains, “Both my friends were zipping through crowds while I lagged behind, even though I was a fast cane walker.
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“Both my friends were zipping through crowds while I lagged behind, even though I was a fast cane walker. I envied their freedom and most of all, the incredible bond they both had with their guide dogs. With my Lab, Jay, I feel so wonderfully FREE!”
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I envied their freedom and most of all, the incredible bond they both had with their guide dogs.
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With my Lab, Jay, I feel so wonderfully FREE!”
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Hank says he was a good cane traveler for 17 years — but felt his freedom was curtailed particularly when traveling.
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“I had never had a pet.
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“I had never had a pet. Having Aries just makes life so much easier. For one thing, people are nicer to you. People love dogs. They can relate to him and feel they have something to talk to you about.”
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Having Aries just makes life so much easier.
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For one thing, people are nicer to you.
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People love dogs.
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371 EASIJERICHO TURNPIKE, SMITHIOWN, NEW YORK 11787-2976
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They can relate to him and feel they have something to talk to you about.”
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mothers and fathers.
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As one of our donors in the New York area told us, “Sometimes you never see the good work your money does.
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“Sometimes you never see the good work your money does. I see the results... the guide does I’ve helped sponsor dramatically improve the lives of the men and women who receive them.”
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I see the results...
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the guide does I’ve helped sponsor dramatically improve the lives of the men and women who receive them.”
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Won’t you please take the time now to send your donation to give someone the priceless gift of independence?
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RS. For more information about the Guide Dog Foundation, or to become a Guide Dog Foundation volunteer, visit our website at www.guidedog.org.
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For too many, this is a daily reality — but today you can help make a difference.
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Having a guide dog allows a blind or visually impaired individual to experience the possibilities of life, not the limitations.
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For The Blind, Inc.
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We use Labrador Retrievers, Golden Retrievers and a cross between Labs and Goldens.
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Male and female dogs are used.
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And our dogs are specially bred for temperament and physical soundness.
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Every Foundation guide dog is given free of charge to someone who is blind or visually impaired.
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We are supported entirely by donations from generous individuals, corporations and foundations.
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Me, I found a space suit, but it was statistically unlikely that I, and whomever else has followed suit (pun intended), would manage to repair our ship before the less-than-twenty-four hours are up; yes, studies have been done.
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I could have started asking questions, but I wanted to get my bearings first.
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Tonight was for observation.
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I didn't bother trying to seek out a different group of potentially more interesting people, though.
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They all looked the same: clusters of social butterflies surrounded by the less apt, the hangers-on, the circle with whom the gossip was shared.
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I wondered at the ship instead.
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All the fine food and the ornamental lighting, it had to be exorbitantly pricey to maintain.
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If the barkeep was any indication, I suspected similarly high-class robots fulfilled other positions on the ship.
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How they were all powered was a mystery—as good as the technology got, a quality robot like that was still an energy sink.
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It was the brain, mostly; the amount of information the machine had to process to be able to function at the level it did ate up a lot of resources.
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Sarah's crowd took turns taking my champagne flute to the bar to be refilled, all seemingly pleased to have a new set of ears to talk at.
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I slowly returned my attention to the conversation and was pleasantly surprised to find that it had turned to a heated analysis of a recent abstract film—done in the style of old flatscreen movies—that I had seen during off-time at Geminia Station.
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By the end of the evening, when I finally followed the slow trickle of people out of the room, a satisfying haze had settled on my mind.
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It was nice, I decided.
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This ship.
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This life.
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Did it truly matter what the ship's origin was and why Jefferson had saved me, if now, I was content?
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Fact: It's easy to fall into patterns.
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I would wake late, checking the clock on my room's lightscreen to make sure I hadn't slept through brunch.
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I would watch old films on the entertainment screens, taking mental notes for later dinnertime discussions.
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I would immerse myself in new virtual reality flicks.
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I would attend afternoon dance classes, so that when the evening dances came around (modeled after the historical social gatherings of several hundred years prior), I would be less of an embarrassment to myself.
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So, twenty-four hours.
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I told myself I should.
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I told myself that tonight, the observation period would end and I'd start puzzling out the ship's mystery.
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But I fell under the ship's sway.
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Give or take.
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Bereft of my previous familiar life, I latched onto Kishori and Ray and Zheng, and Sarah with Alexis dragged along on her arm now and then (he was mostly her favorite dancing partner; she confided to us one night that his conversational skills left something to be desired).
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About the time I was composing my last words in my head, trying not to think too much about what suffocating felt like, that's when I heard a bell.
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I smothered thoughts of friends back on Earth—this was my long-awaited vacation, my clean break and my temporary retreat; I'd try contacting those friends tomorrow.
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I continued to care little for shipwide gossip, but our discussions of films and flicks, old and new, brought out my artistic, story-loving, argumentative side, a side of me I'd tucked into a back storage compartment during my years as an engineer.
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It was a good life, if surreal.
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But I wasn't sure I wanted the dream stage to end.
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Fact: Some places are timeless.
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Days passed, weeks passed, but I couldn't tell if it had been months or years since I was rescued.
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