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__label__wiki	0.715988	0.715988	Rate My Footprint Your Daily Science Source We now know the horrifying reason sonar makes these whales beach themselves January 31, 2019 by admin 0 Comments Since the 1980s scientists have spotted a link between naval sonar systems and beaked whales seemingly killing themselves – by deliberately getting stranded on beaches. Now, researchers might have revealed the horrifying reason why. In short, the sound pulses appear to scare the whales to death, acting like a shot of adrenaline might in a The risks of advanced AI are real. We need to act before it’s too late, warn experts Artificial intelligence can play chess, drive a car and diagnose medical issues. Examples include Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, Tesla’s self-driving vehicles, and IBM’s Watson. This type of artificial intelligence is referred to as Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) – non-human systems that can perform a specific task. We encounter this type on a daily basis, and its We just got new clues about the ‘Denisovans’, ancient humans who live on in our DNA We know that some modern human genomes contain fragments of DNA from an ancient population of humans called Denisovans, the remains of which have been found at only one site, a cave in what is now Siberia. Two papers published in Nature today give us a firmer understanding of when these little-known archaic humans (hominins) Massive Study Shows the ‘Us and Them’ Division Is a Myth, Don’t Buy into It Those of us who pay even a little bit of attention to the news would probably agree that today, the world is intensely polarised. Yet despite the feeling that global conflict is all that rolls across our newsfeeds, this collective despair is a gross misreading of the situation, and it could even be perpetuating our Scientists have detected an enormous cavity growing beneath Antarctica Antarctica is not in a good place. In the space of only decades, the continent has lost trillions of tonnes of ice at alarming rates we can’t keep up with, even in places we once thought were safe. Now, a stunning new void has been revealed amidst this massive vanishing act, and it’s a big This mighty bird deserves a medal for being dad of the year The photo above is not depicting some ten-legged mutant bird as some of our Instagram commenters have suggested. It’s also not one of those hilarious birds with arms memes. He’s just one brave daddy bird hauling his four chicklings to safety. Comb-crested Jacanas (Irediparra gallinacea) are also known as lillytrotters or Jesus-birds for their ability to Black hole jets could be fueled by strange ‘negative energy’, astronomers find When a black hole is actively feeding, something strange can be observed: enormously powerful jets of plasma shoot from its poles, at velocities approaching light speed. Given the intense gravitational interactions at play, exactly how those jets form is a mystery. But now, using computer simulations, a team of physicists has hit upon an answer Scientists think they’ve finally figured out how LSD alters our consciousness Since its discovery in 1938, the drug LSD — that’s lysergic acid diethylamide — has puzzled researchers. They knew the drug had a profound effect on people, causing hallucinations and an altered state of consciousness, but they couldn’t figure out why. Now that could be changing. A research team from the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich thinks it’s figured out The difference between the sexes is written into our bones, even after cremation Long after your flesh is dust and your stories forgotten, your bones will whisper secrets about your life. Future archaeologists will wring out truths about your health, your past, and your place in society. Many of these clues can vanish if our remains are split and warped by the heat of cremation, but a new This Is What Life in -40 Degrees Actually Feels Like The fact of the matter is I don’t know exactly how cold it got at my house today. The mercury thermometer on our porch only goes down to -30 degrees Fahrenheit (-34.4 Celsius). The digital thermometer in our backyard weather station bottoms out at -40 Fahrenheit (-40 Celsius). For roughly two hours on Wednesday this Archaeologists have discovered a lost metropolis in South Africa What was once thought to be a scattering of ancient stone huts on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, has turned out to be the remnants of a thriving city, lost to history for 200 years. Beneath the dense vegetation, there isn’t much to see with the naked eye. And after three decades of careful A life-threatening ‘snow squall’ just hit the US East Coast – here’s what that means New Yorkers looking out the window this afternoon were met with a windy wall of snow. That was a “snow squall” – a sudden onset of heavy snowfall accompanied by wind gusts. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a snow-squall warning for residents of parts of New York and New England, advising them to limit travel and stay Scientists have found a way to convert human brain signals directly into speech In the first experiment of its kind, scientists have been able to translate brain signals directly into intelligible speech. It may sound like wild science fiction at first, but this feat could actually help some people with speech issues. And yes, we could also get some futuristic computer interfaces out of this. Key to the The scientific reason Yoda is wiser than Spock One of them is a little green gnome-like figure. The other is half-human, half-Vulcan. Both have pointy ears and considerable wisdom. But which is ultimately wiser? It’s a reasonable thing to wonder, perhaps even logical. After all, Yoda from Star Wars and Spock from Star Trek have come to represent the quintessential archetypes of sage It Could Take Joshua Tree National Park 300 Years to Recover From The Past 35 days Few national parks have been hit harder by the government shutdown than Joshua Tree National Park, a nearly 800,000-acre protected area in Southern California known for its rocky landscape and stunning throng of centuries-old trees. The number of people visiting the park has climbed continuously over the past several years. In 2017, it attracted about Our environment is turning these adorable birds into violent, brain-eating killers Every spring in the Netherlands, the resident great tits (Parus major) build their nests in tree cavities, hatch their young, and send a new generation of fluffy little black-and-gold featherballs into the sky. Then along comes the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca), migrating from Africa for the summer, and taking up the abandoned nests to raise Australia is so hot right now snakes are seeking refuge in the worst possible places In Australia, snakes sometimes slither into suburban backyards and homes. When the weather gets warm, they lounge in the sun. When it gets hot, they seek cool places: a wall crevice, under a refrigerator, under a barbecue grill, behind an air-conditioning unit. When it gets too hot and dry, they seek places with moisture, as An unexpected new measurement of the Universe suggests we need to update our physics For the first time, astronomers have used supermassive black holes from just after the Big Bang to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. Now, we have a bigger mystery on our hands than the answer this effort provided. It turns out the Universe is growing faster than expected. This could mean that the dark Apple just shut down FaceTime Group Calls Due to a huge Security Flaw Apple disabled its Group FaceTime feature in iPhones after multiple reports that users could initiate a FaceTime call and begin listening in on a recipient’s audio without them picking up the call or knowing they were being monitored. The bug occurred after a user initiated a FaceTime video call with another iPhone or device running Scientists invent a flexible device that converts Wi-Fi signals into electricity We can probably all agree that charging cables are just the worst, and that we’d love to have fewer of them in our lives. Now, a new invention might give us just that: engineers have developed a flexible device that harvests energy from Wi-Fi signals. And not just harvest. It can then convert it into This experiment will run for 500 years. Now, we have the very first results Normally, after running a five-year experiment, scientists might pat each other on the back in earnest recognition of having finally made it to the end of an epic, demanding research effort. But if, after five long years, you’re still less than 1 percent of the way through your actual experiment, the back-patting and champagne will have These intricately carved drums may hold a geometric secret from the time of Stonehenge Today, art and science are often seen as two wildly different pursuits. Historically, the pair are not always so easily distinguished. Ever since the Folkton Drums were first discovered 130 years ago, the three chalk cylinders have been praised for their remarkable and intricate decorations, carved more than 4,000 years ago in Britain. Now, a Astronomers have detected a curious object at the edge of our Solar System For over 70 years, scientists have been predicting the existence of a certain kind of object in the outer Solar System. Small in size, these potential bodies are thought to constitute an important early step in the planet formation process. Since these hypothetical objects are only between 1 and 10 kilometres in radius (0.6 to Nobel prize winner reportedly knew about gene-edited babies months before it was announced He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher who drew wide criticism when it emerged that he gene-edited several human babies, told an influential adviser about the work many months before it became public. Though Nobel Prize winner and University of Massachusetts professor Craig Mello admonished He that the work was unethical, according to emails obtained by the Arctic landscapes hidden for more than 40,000 years are starting to emerge Climate change is pulling back the curtain and exposing an Arctic landscape not seen by the Sun in 40,000 years or more. Baffin Island is a rocky, frozen wonderland, located in the Arctic circle between Greenland and the northern coast of Canada. With its deep fjords and ancient glaciers, it’s the perfect place to study The polar vortex is about to bring a ‘brutal’ and ‘dangerous’ cold to parts of the US The most severe outbreak of frigid arctic air in years is set to surge over the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes by the middle of next week. A large lobe of the polar vortex, the zone of frigid air winding around the North Pole, is breaking off, and temperatures will plunge as much as 40 Don’t kiss or snuggle hedgehogs, CDC researchers warn Quite a bit of news dropped on Friday, so you may have missed a hedgehog-related alert that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued early that afternoon. Those tiny, prickly, adorable mammals — which have jumped in popularity as household pets in recent years — may be carrying salmonella germs and spreading them to nearby humans, according to the World’s oldest Nobel Prize winner says his new device will give clean, cheap energy Arthur Ashkin, the world’s oldest Nobel Prize winner, favours comfort over style. When I met him in his New Jersey home, he was sporting a fleece-lined zip-up, corduroy pants, and fuzz-lined Crocs. The outfit makes sense for someone who spends a lot of time tinkering with new inventions in the basement. Ashkin, who’s 96 years Researchers say they’ve figured out why people reject science, and it’s not ignorance One of the biggest cultural shifts in recent years is the rise of fake news – where claims with no evidence behind them (e.g. the world is flat) get shared as fact alongside evidence-based, peer-reviewed findings (e.g. climate change is happening). Researchers have coined this trend the ‘anti-enlightenment movement‘, and there’s been a lot of Earth could be crushed to the size of a soccer field by particle accelerator experiments, says astronomer Martin Rees, a well-respected British cosmologist, made pretty bold statement late last year when it comes to particle accelerators: there’s a small, but real possibility of disaster. Particle accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider, shoot particles at incredibly high speeds, smash them together, and observe the fallout. These high speed collisions have helped us discover Meet the peculiar fruit that could soon become as common as a strawberry The name is not appetising: it’s called the groundcherry. It’s possible you haven’t heard of this fruit, but with some genetic tweaks, it could become a supermarket staple sooner than you think. That’s because scientists have used the groundcherry as an experimental test case to illustrate just how quickly CRISPR genome editing can speed up Scientists create liquid fuel that can store the Sun’s energy for up to 18 years No matter how abundant or renewable, solar power has a thorn in its side. There is still no cheap and efficient long-term storage for the energy that it generates. The solar industry has been snagged on this branch for a while, but in the past year alone, a series of four papers has ushered in We just got the best photo yet of the most distant object humanity’s ever visited Weeks after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made the farthest-ever visit to an object, located more than 4 billion miles from Earth, the probe beamed home an unprecedented photo. The image (below) is devoid of colour and looks somewhat fuzzy, but it represents the most detailed look yet at the object. Researchers say there are more These ‘frozen’ alligators aren’t dead, they’re displaying a creepy survival strategy The first time he saw them, on a freezing morning last January, George Howard thought the odd-shaped humps protruding from his iced-over swamp were tree stumps. But somehow that didn’t seem right. He strained his eyes. They were tree stumps with teeth? Howard panicked. He is, after all, the manager of the Swamp Park, which features an Astronomers have made a breathtaking image staring deeper into space than ever before A few years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope did something amazing: over the course of 841 orbits and hundreds of exposures, it imaged a tiny region of space in the constellation of Fornax, peeling back the layers of time by 13 billion years, to just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. It’s This daily meal plan could help us sustain 10 billion people by mid-century Feeding a global population of 10 billion – the overwhelming number we’re predicted to hit by 2050 – will be extremely difficult, but scientists say it is not impossible. A radical new diet has the potential to improve public health, save countless lives, and protect our planet for future generations, according to a huge group of researchers. Study reveals the types of human Twitter users most likely to spread fake news The notion that fake news exists in its own universe turns out to be doubly true: One universe is the realm outside truth. The other is its own seedy pocket of social media. In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, political scientists surveyed the inhabitants of this Internet pocket around the time Birds can see a ‘colour’ humans can’t. Now scientists have revealed this hidden world Birds see a very different world to the one we’re familiar with, and now we can get a hint of what that looks like thanks to a specially designed camera that simulates birdo-vision. Apart from being fascinating, the resulting images also explain why birds can navigate so accurately through dense foliage. Behavioural biologist Cynthia Tedore Exclusive: This wild paper suggests our reality is just a product of quantum mechanics A team of theoretical physicists has a mind-bending new explanation for why our Universe is the way it is, and how it emerged in all its strangeness. According to a recent paper, space-time itself – the very fabric that makes up our Universe – is nothing more than a product of quantum mechanics. And distortions in Can species evolve backwards? The strange science of ‘devolution’ Is devolution possible? Two verified experts answered this question on independent fact-checking platform Metafact.io. Both answered ‘yes’. You can read one answer below. The short answer is “yes,” but that needs to be explained, because the concept of “devolution” is very misleading and makes assumptions about evolution that simply aren’t true (it’s not a term that We may have found Earth’s oldest known rock. It was on the Moon Earth’s oldest known rock may have been found, in the last place anyone would have thought to look for it: in samples of rock from the Moon, brought back home to Earth by Apollo 14 astronauts in 1971. We’re not talking about a “Moon was once part of Earth” rock (that’s just one hypothesis for I went to the pyramids – here is the downside no one talks about There are few monuments in the world that are as iconic as the Pyramids of Giza, a necropolis that dates back nearly 5,000 years. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one of the ancient seven wonders of the world still standing and, in 2007, 100 million people voted to select it as one A 10-year-old won his science fair with the physics of why Tom Brady is a cheater Football fans in the US can be divided into three camps – those who think the Patriots victory against the Colts in the 2014/15 playoffs were given a helping hand by slightly under inflated footballs, those who don’t, and those who ask ‘OMG can’t we just get on with football?!’ Over the past few years, Scientists have figured out who is most likely to die in ‘Game of Thrones’ When you play a game of thrones, there are only two outcomes: you either win or you die. The question is, who amongst us has the iron dice stacked in their favour? If you are a male of low birth with a penchant for unwavering loyalty and an insistence on living, you will probably have your It’s 2 Minutes Left Until Apocalypse, According to the Doomsday Clock… For Now The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is keeping the Doomsday Clock set at two minutes to midnight – a metaphor for the end of the world – calling the threats against humankind “a new abnormal”. The scientists announced Thursday that the clock is stuck at 11:58, citing nuclear weapons and climate change as two existential This not-at-all-creepy new computer program lets any camera see around corners The fact we’re living in a world where surveillance is becoming more common is unlikely to be a surprise to you. But even when you’re out of sight, you might not be safely hidden: researchers have developed a computer program that lets cameras see around corners. The technique is called computational periscopy, and it works MIT has invented slightly eerie lasers that transmit whispers only you can hear New technology being developed by the MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory uses laser light to excite moisture in the air surrounding a target’s ear, causing it to quietly whisper a personal message from several metres away. “Our system can be used from some distance away to beam information directly to someone’s ear,” says MIT team leader and This ancient dead bug could change what we know about opal formation The markets of Southeast Asia are common places to find the fossils of insects, embedded in amber millions of years old. But last year, gemologist Brian Berger found something much more rare and astonishing. The piece he bought features an insect inclusion, except it’s not preserved in amber – the lithified resin of ancient trees Babies who are cuddled more seem to have their genetics altered for years afterwards Someone’s built an operating system to run after the world ends This mesmerising underwater blob is actually a huge, rare mass of squid eggs Scientists can now predict the weird behaviour of oobleck Astrophysicist who just won the Nobel Prize says we’ll never colonise exoplanets These fish can live on land and breathe air, but authorities are not impressed Intriguing study suggests humans have hidden ‘salamander-like’ ability to regrow tissue Here’s what would happen if all the ice on Earth melted overnight Police Robot on Patrol Completely Ignores Woman Trying to Summon The Police Scientists have figured out how to extract oxygen from Moon dirt Voyager mission reveals unexpected pressure at the edge of the solar system We finally have solid insight into what produces the strongest magnets in the Universe Nobel prize in physics won by scientists who changed our concept of the cosmos First-of-its-kind quantum vibration produced by shooting a laser at a diamond In a quantum first, physicists put 2,000 atoms in two places at once We just made a breakthrough on a genius concept for eco-friendly batteries New Simulation Shows Superconductivity Could Be Turned On And Off in Some Materials Copyright © 2019 by Rate My Footprint. 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__label__cc	0.552456	0.447544	Tag Archives: fair use week Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2019: Day 5 Roundup This week is Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. It is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities presented by fair use and fair dealing, celebrate successful stories, and explain these doctrines. Check out all the great posts from Day 2 of Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2019! Don’t see yours? Contact us to get yours added! You can view previous roundups here. Stay tuned for a post collecting all the highlights from the week. BYU Copyright Licensing Office: Fair Use Checklist UCI Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic: Presentation: Fair Use for Academics ACRL Presents, Webinar: “Digging for Gold with Bundles of Sticks: Copyright, Fair Use, & Text Data Mining” Canadian Alliance of Student Associations: Student explaining why fair dealing is so important for education Harvard Digital Publishing Collaborative, DigiPub, “Defining Fair Use with Kyle Courtney: What Is It and How Do We Use It?” Blog Posts/News: Archive of Our Own, “Happy Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week!” Center for Media & Social Impact, “True Tales of Fair Use: Hit Documentary Films” Elliott Harmon on EFF, “Don’t Sacrifice Fair Use to the Bots” IFLA, “Canadian Flu? The Doctor Will See You Now” Krista L. Cox on ARL Policy Notes, “Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2019: Day 4 Roundup” Kyle K. Courtney and David R. Hansen on Copyright at Harvard, “Fair Use, Innovation and Controlled Digital Lending” Micah Zeller on Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries, “Fair Use and WashU: Part 2” Smithsonian Institution Archives, “Link Love: 3/1/2019” Stan Adams on CDT blog, “Why the EU Copyright Directive is a Threat to Fair Use” UCI Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic, “IPAT Celebrates Fair Use Week” This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged fair dealing, fair dealing week, fair use, fair use week, fair use week 2019, podcasts, roundup, videos on March 4, 2019 by Krista Cox. Check out all the great posts from Day 4 of Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2019! Don’t see yours? Contact us to get yours added! You can view previous roundups here. Connecting to Collections Care Online Community, “When Copyright and Cultural Collections Converge” (includes webinar recording, slides and handouts) Wayne College, “Webinar: Copyright and Fair Use” Bonus video: This video has been around, but Professor Jack Lerner reminded me of it for Fair Use Week. “Everything is a Remix” Amber Reichert on University of Virginia Libraries News, “Fair Use: Essential for audio and video analysis in the classroom and beyond” Authors Alliance, “Fair Use Resource Roundup” Center for Media and Social Impact, “Plungers, Remix and Fair Use” David Free on ACRL Insider, “CopyTalk: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc. with Kenneth D. Crews” IFLA, “Where Fair Use and Fair Dealing is Being Fought For” Krista L. Cox on Copyright at Harvard, “Celebrating Fair Use in Films” cross-posted to ARL Policy Notes Krista L. Cox on Above the Law, “Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens . . . And a Few of my Favorite Fair Use Things We Enjoy Every Day” Marlo MacKay on The Libvine, “Fair Dealing Week 2019—Fair Dealing and Students” New Media Rights, “Fair Use Week 2019: Fair Use is an Indispensible Part of Our Economy and Culture” The Odyssey Online, “Fair Use: What it Is and Why it Needs Protecting” Rebekah Modrak on Fair Use Week Tumblr, “Miller Beer-Cam & Fair Use” Not released as a Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week resource, but Professor Matthew Sag has a new article, “The New Legal Landscape for Text Mining and Machine Learning” This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged fair dealing, fair dealing week, fair use, fair use week, fair use week 2019, roundup, videos on March 1, 2019 by Krista Cox. BYU Copyright Licensing Office: “Modicum Interview: Kerry Soper and The Far Side” Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University Chicago: “Fair Use in Teaching and Research, with Margaret Heller and Niamh McGuigan – Part 1” Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University Chicago, “Fair U se in Teaching and Research – Part 2” Ashland University, “Fair Use Week: Infographic” Center for Media and Social Impact, “Chess, Moustaches, and Fair Use” David Robinson and Amanda Wakaruk in The Hill Times, “Fair dealing is a right, not a privilege” Doug Pete, “Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week” Hallie Brodie on The Quad, “A Look at Educational Fair Dealing” Jonathan Band on The DisCo Project, “Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Google’s Petition in Oracle Case” Jonathan Band on ARL Policy Notes, “Betty Ballantine and the Manufacturing Clause” Lachlan MacLeod on The Libvine, “Fair Dealing Week 2019—Faculty and Fair Dealing“ This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged fair dealing, fair dealing week, fair use, fair use week, fair use week 2019, jonathan band, roundup, videos on February 28, 2019 by Krista Cox. Celebrating Fair Use in Films Cross posted to Copyright at Harvard Library This year, Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week immediately follows the Oscars and I definitely have movies on my mind. The Green Book (which I haven’t seen yet) was one of the nominees—and ultimately winner—of the coveted Best Picture Award, but was not without its share of critics. Like other movies dealing with race, critics said that it minimized the true extent of racism and fell into the “White Savior” trope. Just before the Academy Awards, comedian Seth Meyers released a video highlighting these criticisms parodying popular films, including Hidden Figures, The Blind Side, and The Help. Meyer’s White Savior: The Movie Trailer is a fantastic example of parody which, of course, is protected by fair use. Since Kenny Crews covered parody so well in his Day 1 post, I’ll turn to a different aspect of fair use and movies. Although films obviously create their own creative content, protectable by copyright, often these works incorporate existing content. Depending on the particular use, a filmmaker or production studio may choose to license a particular copyrighted work, but in other instances the film creator has relied on fair use. Here are some examples where fair use and films have gone hand-in-hand—both in the documentary film context as well as feature films and shows. Documentary filmmakers have relied heavily on the doctrine of fair use, which makes a lot of sense. If documentary filmmakers constantly had to rely on permission and licenses—which would also mean that a rightholder could refuse to grant permission—the result could be that these documentaries lacked proper historical references and context. In a 1996 case, the Southern District of New York refused to grant Turner Broadcasting’s motion for injunctive relief, finding that the clips of a boxing match film involving Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in a documentary about Muhammad Ali was likely a fair use. In Monster Communications, Inc. v. Turner Broadcasting Systems, the court noted that only a small portion of the total film—just 41 seconds—was taken and that the documentary used it for informational purposes. In another instance of documentary filmmaking, artist Bouchat sued over the use of the Baltimore Ravens’ logo in several videos. While a prior case held that the Baltimore Ravens had infringed the logo design by Bouchat for several years, the use in the films (and historical exhibits) was considered fair. The Fourth Circuit held in Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens that the videos at issue used the copyrighted material in a transformative way, telling the history of the Baltimore Ravens and the logos were “fleeting” in nature. And in yet another litigated case over a documentary film, National Center for Jewish Film v. Riverside Films, a district court noted that the use of film clips in Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in Darkness (about the life of a 19th century Yiddish author) was transformative because it incorporated various clips with scholarly commentary (NB: whether the films had entered the public domain was also questioned, a factor that the court weighed in favor of fair use). Again, because these clips were used in a transformative way that did not supplant the market for the original film, the court held the use to be fair. Not every fair use ends up being litigated, though. Indeed, most documentary movies probably don’t involve rightsholders claiming copyright infringement in part, thanks to the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. That Code of Best Practices, like other Codes (see: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries or the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation—two best practice statements released by ARL), relies on the consensus view of fair use best practices in the community for which it was written. The 2005 Code for Documentary Filmmakers has had a tremendous impact on the community, making it easier for filmmakers to get insurance, avoiding unnecessary licensing costs and leading to the release of films that may never have been finished otherwise. One of the successes is This Film Is Not Yet Rated about the MPAA’s rating system. While the director had initially planned to license the clips used, those licenses would have prevented him from using the material in a way that criticized the entertainment industry. While the documentary filmmaker community relies heavily on fair use there are a number of examples where fair use was invoked in feature films, as well. For example, the Oscar-winning movie Midnight in Paris, about a screenwriter, played by Owen Wilson, who travels back in time to the 1920s and hangs out with luminaries like Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Cole Porter, Salvador Dali and others was the subject of a lawsuit. In one scene, the main character paraphrases a line from novelist William Faulkner’s novel, Requiem for a Nun (the line in question is, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past”) and provided attribution back to Faulkner. Nonetheless, the Faulkner estate sued, claiming that the use of the line infringed copyright. The Northern District Court of Mississippi referenced de minimis usage (discussed a bit more below), but also conducted a full fair use analysis finding that the quote was of “miniscule” importance to Faulkner’s novel as a whole and the use in Midnight in Paris, which amounted to a mere 8 seconds of the feature-film, did not harm Faulkner’s market for his novel. To the contrary, the court questioned: “How Hollywood’s flattering and artful use of literary allusion is a point of litigation, not celebration, is beyond this court’s comprehension. The court, in its appreciation for both William Faulkner as well as the homage paid him in Woody Allen’s film, is more likely to suppose that the film indeed helped the plaintiff and the market value of Requiem if it had any effect at all.” Similarly, in the 2013 film Lovelace, based on the biography of Linda Lovelace, an actress who starred in a famous pornographic film but later became a spokesperson against pornography, the producers re-created three scenes from Deep Throat. The Southern District of New York in Arrow Productions v. The Weinstein Company ruled the use transformative because it provided “new, critical perspective” on Lovelace and would not supplant the market for the pornographic film. Courts have considered and upheld fair uses in the film context, but some have found in favor of the defendant without even needing to go through the four fair use factors. Instead, for various uses of copyrighted works in TV shows and feature films, some courts have found in favor of the use on the basis of fair use’s cousin, de minimis use. In these de minimis use cases, courts have determined that the amount used was so small and trivial, the court need not engage in a full fair use analysis. These cases have included, for example, the 2000 rom-com What Women Want, featuring Mel Gibson (involving the depiction of a pinball machine in the background); the 1995 crime thriller SE7EN, featuring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman (use of copyrighted photos appeared fleetingly and out of focus); and HBO’s TV series Vinyl which was created by Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese about a record executive in the 1970s (fleeting use of a dumpster tagged with graffiti in the background of a single scene). This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged de minimis, documentary, fair use, fair use week, fair use week 2019, films, parody on February 28, 2019 by Krista Cox. Betty Ballantine and the Manufacturing Clause This is a guest blog post by Jonathan Band, policybandwidth Fair Use Week properly celebrates a critical limitation on copyright protection that enables free expression and creativity. And at the beginning of this year, we celebrated works entering into the public domain because their copyright term (finally!) expired. The recent death of Betty Ballantine, one of the founders of Bantam Books and Ballantine Books, reminds us of another limitation that stimulated the growth of the U.S. publishing industry: the manufacturing clause. Until the United States joined the Universal Copyright Convention in 1954, the Copyright Act’s manufacturing clause protected English-language literary works only if they were printed in the United States with the copyright owners’ authorization. This allowed U.S. publishers to reprint British works that weren’t printed in the United States without paying royalties to the British authors. The importance of the manufacturing clause was underscored in the Washington Post’s obituary about Betty Ballantine, who passed away on February 12, 2019. The obituary explained how Betty Ballantine and her husband, Ian Ballantine, helped develop the market for paperback books in the United States. Prior to World War II, paperback books were primarily poorly made pulp novels. After the War, “the Ballantines took advantage of new technology in production and distribution and of a clause in copyright law discovered by Ian that waived fees on books from Britain, where high quality paperbacks were easier to find.” The clause that Ian “discovered” was the manufacturing clause, which actually was well known at the time. They founded Bantam Books, which, among other titles, published British bestsellers that had not yet been printed in the United States. In 1952, they established Ballantine Books based on the same business model. Both Bantam Books and Ballantine Books eventually became part of Penguin Random House. In other words, large divisions of a major publishing house have their roots in a limitation on copyright protection. Moreover, this limitation encouraged the growth of an important market segment: paperback books. In this instance, the manufacturing clause worked exactly as intended; it promoted the development of U.S. printers and publishers at the expense of foreign rights holders. The manufacturing clause, when adopted in 1891, actually expanded the rights of foreign authors. Prior to the clause’s adoption, foreign authors received no copyright protection in the United States. Under the manufacturing clause, foreign works received copyright protection if they were printed in the United States. This approach provided increased protection for foreign authors without harming the developing U.S. printing industry because the foreign works received protection only if they were printed on U.S. presses. Nonetheless, the manufacturing clause departed from the national treatment approach of the Berne Convention, adopted five years earlier in 1886. Although the manufacturing clause was an improvement over the previous situation of receiving no protection, foreign authors still objected to it because U.S. publishers often printed their books in the United States before they had the opportunity to authorize U.S. publication. In 1909, Congress exempted foreign language works from the manufacturing clause, but it still applied to books published in English. In 1954, in the context of joining the Universal Copyright Convention (“UCC”), Congress excluded all foreign works—even those in English–from the scope of the manufacturing clause. By then, the United States had become a major exporter of copyrighted works, and U.S. publishers would benefit from receiving protection of their works overseas under the UCC. The printing trade unions opposed the United States joining the UCC and the narrowing of the manufacturing clause. Nonetheless, until 1986, the manufacturing clause still applied to U.S. authors, meaning that U.S. authors received copyright protection only if their books were printed in the United States. The exemption of English language books from the scope of the manufacturing clause in 1954 disrupted the Ballantines’ business model. But by then, their publishing houses were well established, and they went on to publish many popular books with the authors’ permission. Balzac said that “behind every great fortune there lies a great crime.” It could be said behind every publisher lies a copyright limitation. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged copyright, fair use, fair use week, guest blog, jonathan band, limitations and exceptions, manufacturing clause on February 27, 2019 by Krista Cox. CAUT: Fair Copyright Kaleidocycle Flyer Cambridge University Libraries, Office of Scholarly Communication: Fair Dealing Fact Sheet UK Copyright Literacy: Copyright the Card Game (not a new resource; Canadian and US versions also available if you scroll down the page) Ben Franklin’s World, “Kyle Courtney, Copyright & Fair Use in Early America” Duke University Libraries, “The Importance of Fair Use: A Fair Use Week Celebration” Blog Posts: Amber Reichert on University of Virginia Library News, “Fair Use: Vital to Media Studies’ Faculty and Students Alike” Authors Alliance, “Spotlight on Publication Contracts: Fair Use and Third-Party Permissions Clauses” Brandon Butler on Copyright at Harvard Library, “Some Software-informed Thoughts on Fair Use and Licensing for Fair Use Week” cross-posted to The Taper Center for Media & Social Impact, “Green Fog, Fair Use and Creativity” Dave Rodriguez on FSU Libraries Blog, “Celebrate Fair Use Week with GIF It Up, Florida!” Greg Walters on UK Copyright Literacy, “Developing the Digital version of Copyright the Card Game – an update” IFLA, “Fair’s Fair: How Fair Use and Fair Dealing Provide a Balanced Approach” Krista L. Cox on ARL Policy Notes, “Great Resources from Past Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week Celebrations” Marlo MacKay on The Libvine, “Fair Dealing Week 2019—Fair Dealing: Myths and Facts” Nora Slonimsky on Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: Uncommon Sense, “The Public Figure Exception(s): Finding Fair Use in the Vastness of Early American IP” UC San Diego Library, “Fair Use Week 2019” University of Alabama Libraries, “College Students and Fair Use” This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged fair dealing, fair dealing week, fair use, fair use week, fair use week 2019, podcast, roundup on February 27, 2019 by Krista Cox. Great Resources from Past Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week Celebrations Over the past five years, ARL has enjoyed coordinating the international Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week celebrations. I’ve enjoyed seeing the celebration grow in number of participants across the world with great events and resources shared each year. While I always look forward to seeing what new resources each celebration brings, we shouldn’t forget about all the great infographics, videos, podcasts and other materials shared previously. Below are some of my favorite resources from past celebrations: Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week Logos and Brand Guide: Want logos for your promotional materials? Download logos for Fair Use Week and Fair Dealing Week (French version also available). ARL “Fair Use Fundamentals” ARL “Fair Use in a Day in the Life of a College Student” ARL “Fair Use Myths & Facts” ARL “Fair Use Promotes the Creation of New Knowledge” Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) “Fair Dealing in Canada Myths & Facts” Center for Media and Social Impact (CMSi) “Code of Best Practices for the Visual Arts: How to Use Copyrighted Material in Your Work” International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) “Fair Use and Fair Dealing for Libraries” Short Videos: CMSi “Fair Use Video Code: Documentary FIlmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices” Fred von Lohmann, “Fair Use and Technology” Public Knowledge, “Let Them Go: A Copyright Policy Song” Texas A&M Libraries, “Libraries & Fair Use” University of New Brunswick, “Fair Dealing 2016” University of Virginia Library, “Fair Use in Seven Words” University of Winnipeg, “Fair Dealing Week” Long Videos: Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), “Webinar: Can’t you just say Yes? Answering Copyright Questions About Fair Use for Patrons” (with Carla Myers) ACRL, “Webinar: Using Fair Use to Preserve and Share Disappearing Government Information: A Guide for Rogue Librarians” (with Lillian Rigling and Will Cross) William Fisher, Copyright X, “Lecture, Fair Use: The History of Fair Use” William Fisher, Copyright X, “Lecture, Fair Use: Fair Use Today” Podcasts/Audio: Berkman Klein Center, “How Fair Use Works in Six Minutes or Less” Radio Free Culture, “Wishing You A Happy Fair Use Week” (with Ellen Duranceau) Re:Create, “Everything About Fair Use” (with Corynne McSherry) Re:Create, “Copying is Human Nature” (with Laura Quilter) Techdirt, “Fair Use Protects Culture From Copyright, Not the Other Way Around” WOSU “Libraries Reinforce Fair Use Exception on Copyrighted Materials” (with Sandra Enimil) Comics: Kyle K. Courtney, Jackie Roche & Sarah W. Searle for Harvard University, “The Origin of U.S. Fair Use” Kyle K. Courtney and Jackie Roche for Harvard University, “Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google” Kyle K. Courtney, Jackie Roche & Sarah W. Searle for Harvard University, “Fair Use of Unpublished Works” CARL: Fair Dealing Testimonials Charles Duan, “The Creative Side of R Street” Jonathan Band, “Fair Use in the Day in the Life of a Legislative Assistant” Krista L. Cox on Above the Law, “Fair Use Week: An Interview with Peter Jaszi” MIT, “Make a Fair Use Kaleidocycle” Re:Create, “19 Reasons to be Thankful for ‘Fair Use‘” Stan Adams, Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), “I Didn’t Write This Conversation About Fair Use” Wikimedia, “Fairer than Fair: a history of fair use on Wikipedia“ This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged comics, fair dealing, fair dealing week, fair use, fair use week, fair use week 2019, infographics, podcasts, resources, videos on February 26, 2019 by Krista Cox. Infographic: How Fair Use Helps in Saving Software ALA CopyTalk Webinar, “Fair Use Week Activity Ideas and Sharing” Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2019 events Fair Dealing Week 2019 events in Canada Contest: University of Waterloo, Memes are Fair Game Petitions: Canadian Alliance of Student Associations Petition: Take action to protect fair dealing in Canada Brandon Butler on University of Virginia Library News, “Fair Use Week begins Monday, February 25” Center for Media & Social Impact, “Artistic Innovation, ‘The Clock,’ and Copyright” Chase Ollis on ACRL Insider, “Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2019 Is Coming Soon” Christina Muehlberger on University of Toronto Faculty Association, “Fair Dealing Week is (almost) here!” Christine Fruin on ATLA Newsletter “SCOOP: Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2019 – Fair Use in Online Education” Esmeralda Fisher on UH Libraries News, “Fair Use Week 2019” Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center, Northwestern Medicine “Keeping it Fair: Celebrating Fair Use Week 2019” Georgetown University Libraries, “Celebrate Fair Use Week 2019” Jennifer Zerkee on Radical Access: The SFU Scholarly Publishing Blog, “What do trade agreements have to do with copyright? The Canada-US-Mexico Agreement and fair dealing” Kathryn Vela, “Fair Use Week 2019” Katie Zimmerman, “Celebrate Fair Use Week with the MIT Libraries” Kenneth D. Crews on Copyright at Harvard Library, “Fair Use and the Growth of Creativity: Celebrating a Quarter Century,” Krista Cox on ARL Policy Notes “Infographic Shows How Fair Use Helps in Saving Software” Lachlan MacLeod on The Libvine, “Fair Dealing Week 2019—What Is Fair Dealing?” Mark A. McCutcheon on Academicalism, “#FairDealingWorks: Fair Dealing Week 2019” Meera Nair on Fair Duty, “Fair Dealing Week 2019” Micah Zeller on Washington University in St. Louis Libraries, “Fair Use and WashU” National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region, “Fair Use Week” University of Central Florida, “Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2019” University of Guelph, “Join us for Fair Dealing Week 2019” University of Lethbridge, “Fair Dealing Week” Yale University Library, “Fair Use Week” This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged fair dealing, fair dealing week, fair use, fair use week, fair use week 2019, infographic, resources, roundup on February 26, 2019 by Krista Cox. Infographic Shows How Fair Use Helps in Saving Software Cross-posted from ARL News This week is Fair Use Week, an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. It is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities presented by fair use and fair dealing, celebrate successful stories, and explain these doctrines. In conjunction with Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2019, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is releasing an infographic that illustrates how fair use helps people preserve software for teaching, learning, and research. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment, under some circumstances. The statute, numerous court decisions, and best practices provide ample guidance about when fair use applies. Fair use is widely used by journalists, researchers, and search engines—and, increasingly, by software preservationists. The “How Fair Use Helps in Saving Software” infographic is freely available as a PDF to embed on blogs and websites and to print and hand out at events. Share the link, embed the PDF on your site, print copies for your next event, and continue to support and work with your partners on promoting fair use. This new infographic continues an ARL tradition of releasing an infographic in conjunction with Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week each year since 2015: Fair Use Fundamentals (2015) Fair Use in a Day in the Life of a College Student (2016) Fair Use Myths & Facts (2017) Fair Use Promotes the Creation of New Knowledge (2018) How Fair Use Helps in Saving Software (2019) Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is an annual, international celebration coordinated by the Association of Research Libraries to promote the opportunities presented by fair use and fair dealing, highlight successful stories, and explain these doctrines. Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2019 is being observed this week, Monday, February 25, through Friday, March 1. You can participate on a single day during the week, multiple days, or the full week—publish a blog post, host an event, share resources. Visit fairuseweek.org to participate or find additional resources. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged best practices, CODE, fair dealing week, fair use, fair use week, fair use week 2019, infographic, software preservation on February 25, 2019 by Krista Cox. Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2018 Highlights Balance in the Copyright System The fifth annual Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week took place February 26–March 2, 2018, growing to 153 participating organizations—as well as numerous individuals—celebrating the important and flexible doctrines of fair use and fair dealing worldwide. This year’s event was organized by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and participants included universities, libraries, library associations, and many other organizations, such as Authors Alliance, the Center for Democracy & Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the R Street Institute, and Re:Create. Sixty ARL member institutions contributed a wide range of resources this year. Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week was observed around the globe by participants in such countries as Australia, Canada, Colombia, Greece, and the United States. Throughout the week, participants celebrated the essential limitations and exceptions to copyright that fair use and fair dealing provide, allowing the use of copyrighted materials without permission from the copyright holder under certain circumstances. While fair use and fair dealing are employed on a daily basis, Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is a time to promote and discuss opportunities presented, share successful stories, and explain these doctrines. Each day, new blog posts and other resources were produced and shared and institutions hosted a variety of live events, such as panel discussions, film screenings, button- and kaleidocycle-making stations and more. Daily roundups and additional resources are available on the Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week website. There were 90 news and blog posts, three infographics, three videos, a podcast, and more shared over the course of the week. Below are some highlights. Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2019 will take place February 25–March 1. Plan to participate! ARL released the infographic, “Fair Use Promotes the Creation of New Knowledge.” The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) released a double-sided infographic—one side pertaining to fair dealing generally and one on fair dealing and education in Canada—“Fair Dealing in Canada: Myths & Facts.” Additionally, CARL launched an expanded website and social media campaign for Fair Dealing Week; the new website includes a compelling testimonials page, highlighting the importance of fair dealing from many different sources. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) released the infographic, “Fair Use and Fair Dealing for Libraries.” Harvard University released a new comic book, this one on the Authors Guild v. Google case. Creative Commons Australia produced a Storify recap of its favorite posts on Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week. Re:Create released a new episode of its Copy This Podcast, “Copying is Human Nature,” which features Laura Quilter, copyright and information policy librarian at University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) released a recording of its webinar with Carla Myers, scholarly communication coordinator at Miami University Libraries in Ohio, “Can’t You Just Say Yes? Answering Copyright Questions about Fair Use for Patrons.” Massachusetts Institute for Technology created a printable fair use kaleidocycle with video instructions on how to create it. University of Winnipeg released a Fair Dealing Week video. University of Lethbridge posted a video about “Fair Dealing in the Classroom.” News/Blog Posts The Center for Democracy & Technology posted a clever “conversation” about fair use entirely made up of quotations from other papers, statements, court opinions and more, entitled “I Didn’t Write This Conversation about Fair Use.” R Street Institute posted, “The Creative Side of R Street,” illustrated with over a dozen GIFs. There were also several posts related to fair use and trade agreements, including one by attorney Jonathan Band; one by Sean Flynn, associate director for the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of Law; and one by Timothy Vollmer, senior manager of public policy at Creative Commons. Here’s an interview with copyright expert Peter Jaszi, which includes a question about the current work on a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation. The National Library of Medicine’s blog post covers a range of relevant fair use issues and also references the software preservation project. Aligning with ARL’s infographic theme for 2018, there were quite a few posts about fair use and user-generated content or new knowledge, including the University of San Francisco’s post on fan fiction; University of Virginia’s event on “The State of the Remix @UVA;” a post on the Copyright at Harvard Library blog featuring mash-up videos and entitled “Fair Use and User Generated Content;” Re:Create’s Creator Profile featuring Sarah Loch, a fanfiction writer; the Organization for Transformative Works discussion of the Copy Me project with two creators interested in fan works; and this post by Jonathan Band about the musical Something Rotten. The Authors Alliance posted several times during the week, including an updated Fair Use FAQ and an announcement of the print release of the guide to Fair Use for Nonfiction Authors. The Center for Media and Social Impact also had several blog posts throughout the week. In Canada, University of Toronto law professor Ariel Katz shared a draft of his forthcoming book chapter, “Debunking the Fair Use vs. Fair Dealing Myth: Have We Had Fair Use All Along?” Michael Geist, law professor at University of Ottawa, posted each day of the week. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged fair dealing, fair dealing week, fair dealing week 2018, fair use, fair use week, fair use week 2018, highlights, infographic, podcast, roundup on March 8, 2018 by Krista Cox.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406523
__label__wiki	0.635074	0.635074	Monthly – $5 a month Annual – $50 a year Exclusive Analysis Political Job Hunt Political Dictionary Electoral Vote Map You are here: Home / Polling / Nate Silver Rebuts Sam Wang Nate Silver Rebuts Sam Wang October 2, 2014 at 8:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment Exclusive to Political Wire, Nate Silver defends his critique of Sam Wang’s election forecast. It’s definitely worth reading. by Nate Silver Editor in Chief, FiveThirtyEight The most striking feature about the Senate forecasts right now is how much of a consensus there is between them. As of Thursday morning: FiveThirtyEight’s forecast had Republicans with a 59 percent chance of winning. Huffington Post put them at 58 percent. NYT was at 63 percent. Daily Kos was at 66 percent. Charlie Cook was at 60 percent. Predictwise was at 64 percent. Betting markets put them at about 67 percent. And Washington Post had them at 78 percent. The exception is Sam Wang’s model, which is alone in having Democrats favored (on Thursday AM it had Republicans with a 38 percent chance of winning the majority). So this is really about “Sam Wang vs. the World” and not “Sam Wang vs. FiveThirtyEight”. Why is Wang’s model so different than the others? Wang has often claimed that the difference arises because his model uses polls only — whereas others models use polls along with other factors (“fundamentals”) to make their forecasts. But this explanation doesn’t hold up. Among the other models that I mentioned, Huffington Post’s and Daily Kos also use polls only. They show very different results from Wang’s. So do the polls-only Real Clear Politics averages. So here’s my attempt at explanation. The short version: Wang’s forecast has Democrats ahead because it goes all the way back to June in looking at polls. The long-ish version is below. Wang’s site offers both a “snapshot” — what he says would happen in an election held today — and a “forecast” — how he assesses the Election Day odds. The snapshot has fluctuated wildly: over the past two weeks, it’s shown everything from a 93 percent chance of a Democratic win to a 76 percent chance of a Republican one. The swings have been even wilder in individual states. His snapshot currently shows the Republican Dan Sullivan with a 94 percent chance of winning the Senate seat in Alaska. Only a week ago, it had Sullivan with just a 1 percent chance. I’ve critiqued Wang’s snapshot probabilities in detail in the past. They’ve shown super overconfident results — for instance, having Sharron Angle with a 99.997 percent chance of winning the Senate seat in Nevada in 2010. This is because of a central methodological flaw: Wang estimates the uncertainty in his snapshots based on how much the polls differ from one another — and not how much they’ve differed from actual election results. In reality, polls often err in the same direction. So even if you have a number of polls that show a similar results (as they did in Nevada in 2010) there is still the potential for a big miss. This is perhaps the single most important parameter of an election model, in fact: how much do polls differ from actual results? FWIW, in elections since 1998, the standard error of Election Day polling averages has been about plus or minus 5 percentage points. Polling averages are powerful instruments, but they’re a long way from perfect. What about Wang’s “forecast” instead of his “snapshot”? Might his forecast be OK even if his snapshot has problems? Here’s the problem: Wang’s forecast is based on his snapshots. And it uses them in a strange way. In particular, his forecasts are based on an average of his past snapshots since June. Since Wang’s is a “polls only” model, this is equivalent to looking at polls back to June. Why go all the way back to June? Wang seems to have chosen the date arbitrarily. So how far back should you go? The way to answer this is by looking at the historical data. And the empirical answer is that, while you could debate about whether to go two weeks back or four weeks back or whatever else, you certainly ought not be looking at June polls when trying to forecast a race in October. If you’d applied Wang’s technique in the past, you might still have had Republicans favored to win the Senate at this point in 2012 — even though the race had clearly broken toward Democrats by that time. Or to use a presidential example, you might still have had Michael Dukakis in a highly competitive race with Bush, even though Bush was well ahead by October 1988. In football terms, it’s like asserting the Philadelphia Eagles are still favored even after the Dallas Cowboys score a touchdown to go ahead 21-17 because the Eagles had been ahead on average earlier in the game. Importantly also, a lot of the polling before Labor Day was conducted among registered voters — and those polls tend to exaggerate how well Democrats will do. If you’re only using recent polls, this assumption doesn’t matter so much anymore since almost all polls report likely voter results now. But if you’re going all the way back to June, it’s a problem. Furthermore, Wang’s model assumes the independent Greg Orman is 100 percent sure to caucus with Democrats if he wins in Kansas. That’s a strange assumption for a model that claims to make simple, neutral assumptions. The simplest assumption would be to take Orman’s word at face value, which is that he doesn’t know who he’ll caucus with in the event his choice would determine the majority (i.e. to treat his choice as 50/50). All of these things tie together: minor-seeming assumptions matter more in Wang’s model because of its tendency to underestimate the uncertainty in the outlook. Perhaps on some day a few weeks ago or a few months ago, Democrats were slightly favored in a “polls only” model if you were making certain assumptions, like using registered voter polls and treating Orman as certain to caucus with them. The race has always been pretty close. The problem is that Wang’s snapshots will take a tiny advantage and turn it into being a 90 percent favorite to win the election. And those flawed snapshots from months ago are still getting averaged into his forecasts today. 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__label__wiki	0.611714	0.611714	iPad POS iPad POS • Industry Insights • Data Insights Why The iPad Is The Most Secure POS Caitlin Stanley iOS is celebrating its ten year anniversary this year – and tech enthusiasts around the world have been commemorating Apple’s achievement in changing personal and business computing. But what has arguably been the most impressive feat is the Apple iOS security. In the ten years of its existence, there has been no serious malware. Further, studies have found that a far higher percentage of mobile malware targets Android than iOS, the software than runs Apple’s devices. Gartner analyst, Dioniso Zumerle, researches the mobile security space and identified that between Android and iOS, “the majority of enterprises still feel it is easier for them to secure their enterprise data on the iOS platform.” Despite the level of security iOS provides, many restaurants and retailers are putting their business and their customers at risk with legacy system POS or POSes running on an Android software. Revel Systems Lead Sales Engineer, Wajih Rahman comments, “Restaurants and retailers are especially susceptible to data breaches, and as a response to a recent string of high-profile breaches at major restaurant chains, the demand for security has never been greater. A major consideration for Revel choosing to run on iOS is Apple’s commitment to security. In the ten years since iOS was released, there have been no major malware.” Apple’s iOS platform was a true game-changer, as the first secure, tablet based operating system available for general consumption. This platform is a better solution for POS software than even the custom-built options of the past. What makes iOS so secure? One of the most effective ways Apple protects its software is by ensuring regular software updates. A study found that 86% of iOS devices are running the latest iOS, as opposed to Android, where only a tiny percentage of users are on the very latest Android 7.1.x update. iOS places each application (including associated preferences and data), in a discreet “sandbox” upon installation. A sandbox is a set of particular controls that limit the app’s access to files, preferences, network resources, and other potential vulnerabilities. The strict partitions between apps protect a hack of any one app from infecting the rest of the devices. For example: even if a malicious email is opened, the mail app is siloed from the POS, protecting it from infection. Entitlements in apps provide built-in protection against viruses, malware, and other hacks. Users do not have to research, purchase, and install supplemental antiviral software, as it is a default feature of all iPad applications. Other features like strict code signing and that iOS only allows one application run at a time, system protects the system from malware. Wajih goes on to say, “Revel has been able to provide users a secure system by developing a POS that leverages the inherent security of iOS, providing a platform for users to safely process payments, maintain their CRM, all while offering a set of rich access controls. Through the adherence of best practices in PCI compliance and cloud security, Revel’s POS is not only rich in features, but also an industry leader when it comes to security. This is the reason that the 65,000 terminals Revel has deployed in the last 6 years have had no breaches.” Where does Android stand? Because of Android’s open-source nature, it is particularly more vulnerable to attacks than iOS. Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates, says, “The point is because Android is basically open source, anyone can look at what’s in Android. You can’t do that with iOS.’ Whereas, “Even if a developer makes a small modification to an app running on Android, it can create a security hole,” Gold said. According to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report, malware on Android apps grew at a significant rate of 105% from 2015 to 2016. Maintain peace of mind, stay in compliance, prevent data breaches, and follow best practices with cutting-edge security features for your Point of Sale. Choose Revel Systems, the frontrunner in the POS security space, that has led the way with every security feature your business needs. Learn more about Revel Systems security features. Digital Customer Journey: A Serving of Insights Into Its Rapid Evolution New Year’s Resolutions for Business: Five Cost-Saving Strategies for 2020 Mobile Food Delivery in 2020—and Beyond! [Tips] Change Management and Your Point of Sale Insights for Surviving (and Maximizing) the Holiday Shopping Season The latest news, guides, and how-to's, straight to your inbox.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406528
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__label__wiki	0.718438	0.718438	Fans are stunned by a beloved veteran television and film actor's death at the age of 59 As Hoda Kotb packed to leave for the Olympics, she had the kind of “help” only a mother could love Patrick McMahon, February 9, 2018 10:15 pm Hoda Kotb’s precious daughter Haley Joy helped her pack for her trip to the Olympics — and if you’re a mom, you know that’s the kind of “help” that makes your day a little longer but a whole lot warmer. Kotb is joining the rest of NBC in Pyeongchang, South Korea for their coverage of the Winter Olympics, which opened this week. Before she left, Kotb had a very busy helper at her side. ❤️👶🏼. Thx to @jennabhager for the awesome hand-me-down poppy top!!!! Xxx A post shared by Hoda Kotb (@hodakotb) on Feb 9, 2018 at 6:15am PST RELATED: Hoda Kotb shares a heartwarming message about adoption nearly a year after bringing home Haley Joy Kotb posted the sweet video to Instagram earlier today, according to Entertainment Tonight. As Haley Joy throws a Team USA beanie into her bag, Kotb packs extra sweaters — she’ll need them! “Thx to @jennabhager for the awesome hand-me-down poppy top!!!! Xxx,” she wrote in the video’s caption. While the Winter Olympics are a very big deal for Kotb, we’re sure it was more than a little bittersweet to leave Haley Joy behind. After all, the pair only just celebrated the one-year anniversary of Haley Joy’s adoption last month. Haley Joy will stay with boyfriend Joel Schiffman while she’s in South Korea. She can’t get back soon enough! Just last month, the new mom reflected on the day she first adopted Haley Joy — and understood it to be the first day of the rest of her life. “That moment was the moment my heart felt at peace,” she said at the time. “I felt the most peaceful I’ve ever felt in my life right then, and every day since… I know motherhood has its trappings, but when you’ve waited as long as I have for it, you don’t think about that.” About the author: Patrick McMahon, Rare Staff Patrick is a content editor for Rare.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406542
__label__cc	0.55732	0.44268	Association of plasma bilirubin with coronary heart disease and segregation of bilirubin as a major gene trait: The NHLBI family heart study Steven Hunt, Florian Kronenberg, John H. Eckfeldt, Paul N. Hopkins, Richard H. Myers, Gerardo Heiss Decreased serum bilirubin levels have been associated with coronary heart disease (CHD). It is believed that bilirubin acts as an antioxidant, preventing formation of oxidized LDL and subsequent atherosclerosis. Serum bilirubin also segregates as a major gene, with the rarer genotype associated with elevated bilirubin levels and occurring in about 12% of the population. Using a large population-based study of random and CHD high risk families, this analysis was designed to replicate the association of lower serum bilirubin levels with early CHD (onset by age 55 for males and 65 for females) using 328 case/control samples and the major gene segregation of bilirubin levels in 555 families. There were significant differences in plasma bilirubin levels between 188 males (12.5 μmol/l) and 140 females (9.3 μmol/l, P < 0.0001). Higher serum albumin and lower HDL-C significantly correlated with higher plasma bilirubin levels in females but not males. In sex-specific logistic regression models of early CHD (148 cases and 180 controls), lower plasma bilirubin was associated with increased prevalence of CHD in males with borderline significance (odds ratio = 0.93 for a 1 μmol/l increase in bilirubin, P = 0.056) but not in females. Bilirubin was found to segregate as a major gene using all 555 families consisting of 1292 individuals, with estimates replicating those in the previously published study. The most parsimonious model was a recessive model for high bilirubin levels that occurred in about 23% of the population. The means were separated by 1.7 standard deviations and there was a significant polygenic effect (h2 = 0.33, P = 0.0009). We conclude that decreased bilirubin is mildly related to CHD in males but not in females. Because of an inverse correlation between HDL-C and bilirubin, the protective high HDL-C levels may have counteracted the CHD risk associated with lower bilirubin levels in females. The inferred major gene for bilirubin may protect against CHD, since elevated levels, rather than lower levels, were associated with this inferred gene. Published - 15 Feb 2001 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.) Segregation analysis Hunt, S., Kronenberg, F., Eckfeldt, J. H., Hopkins, P. N., Myers, R. H., & Heiss, G. (2001). Association of plasma bilirubin with coronary heart disease and segregation of bilirubin as a major gene trait: The NHLBI family heart study. Atherosclerosis, 154(3), 747-754. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9150(00)00420-2 Association of plasma bilirubin with coronary heart disease and segregation of bilirubin as a major gene trait : The NHLBI family heart study. / Hunt, Steven; Kronenberg, Florian; Eckfeldt, John H.; Hopkins, Paul N.; Myers, Richard H.; Heiss, Gerardo. In: Atherosclerosis, Vol. 154, No. 3, 15.02.2001, p. 747-754. Hunt, S, Kronenberg, F, Eckfeldt, JH, Hopkins, PN, Myers, RH & Heiss, G 2001, 'Association of plasma bilirubin with coronary heart disease and segregation of bilirubin as a major gene trait: The NHLBI family heart study', Atherosclerosis, vol. 154, no. 3, pp. 747-754. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9150(00)00420-2 Hunt S, Kronenberg F, Eckfeldt JH, Hopkins PN, Myers RH, Heiss G. Association of plasma bilirubin with coronary heart disease and segregation of bilirubin as a major gene trait: The NHLBI family heart study. Atherosclerosis. 2001 Feb 15;154(3):747-754. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9150(00)00420-2 Hunt, Steven ; Kronenberg, Florian ; Eckfeldt, John H. ; Hopkins, Paul N. ; Myers, Richard H. ; Heiss, Gerardo. / Association of plasma bilirubin with coronary heart disease and segregation of bilirubin as a major gene trait : The NHLBI family heart study. In: Atherosclerosis. 2001 ; Vol. 154, No. 3. pp. 747-754. @article{fad0dde79a76449ea53068ed649b5d03, title = "Association of plasma bilirubin with coronary heart disease and segregation of bilirubin as a major gene trait: The NHLBI family heart study", abstract = "Decreased serum bilirubin levels have been associated with coronary heart disease (CHD). It is believed that bilirubin acts as an antioxidant, preventing formation of oxidized LDL and subsequent atherosclerosis. Serum bilirubin also segregates as a major gene, with the rarer genotype associated with elevated bilirubin levels and occurring in about 12{\%} of the population. Using a large population-based study of random and CHD high risk families, this analysis was designed to replicate the association of lower serum bilirubin levels with early CHD (onset by age 55 for males and 65 for females) using 328 case/control samples and the major gene segregation of bilirubin levels in 555 families. There were significant differences in plasma bilirubin levels between 188 males (12.5 μmol/l) and 140 females (9.3 μmol/l, P < 0.0001). Higher serum albumin and lower HDL-C significantly correlated with higher plasma bilirubin levels in females but not males. In sex-specific logistic regression models of early CHD (148 cases and 180 controls), lower plasma bilirubin was associated with increased prevalence of CHD in males with borderline significance (odds ratio = 0.93 for a 1 μmol/l increase in bilirubin, P = 0.056) but not in females. 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Serum bilirubin also segregates as a major gene, with the rarer genotype associated with elevated bilirubin levels and occurring in about 12% of the population. Using a large population-based study of random and CHD high risk families, this analysis was designed to replicate the association of lower serum bilirubin levels with early CHD (onset by age 55 for males and 65 for females) using 328 case/control samples and the major gene segregation of bilirubin levels in 555 families. There were significant differences in plasma bilirubin levels between 188 males (12.5 μmol/l) and 140 females (9.3 μmol/l, P < 0.0001). Higher serum albumin and lower HDL-C significantly correlated with higher plasma bilirubin levels in females but not males. In sex-specific logistic regression models of early CHD (148 cases and 180 controls), lower plasma bilirubin was associated with increased prevalence of CHD in males with borderline significance (odds ratio = 0.93 for a 1 μmol/l increase in bilirubin, P = 0.056) but not in females. Bilirubin was found to segregate as a major gene using all 555 families consisting of 1292 individuals, with estimates replicating those in the previously published study. The most parsimonious model was a recessive model for high bilirubin levels that occurred in about 23% of the population. The means were separated by 1.7 standard deviations and there was a significant polygenic effect (h2 = 0.33, P = 0.0009). We conclude that decreased bilirubin is mildly related to CHD in males but not in females. Because of an inverse correlation between HDL-C and bilirubin, the protective high HDL-C levels may have counteracted the CHD risk associated with lower bilirubin levels in females. 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Higher serum albumin and lower HDL-C significantly correlated with higher plasma bilirubin levels in females but not males. In sex-specific logistic regression models of early CHD (148 cases and 180 controls), lower plasma bilirubin was associated with increased prevalence of CHD in males with borderline significance (odds ratio = 0.93 for a 1 μmol/l increase in bilirubin, P = 0.056) but not in females. Bilirubin was found to segregate as a major gene using all 555 families consisting of 1292 individuals, with estimates replicating those in the previously published study. The most parsimonious model was a recessive model for high bilirubin levels that occurred in about 23% of the population. The means were separated by 1.7 standard deviations and there was a significant polygenic effect (h2 = 0.33, P = 0.0009). We conclude that decreased bilirubin is mildly related to CHD in males but not in females. Because of an inverse correlation between HDL-C and bilirubin, the protective high HDL-C levels may have counteracted the CHD risk associated with lower bilirubin levels in females. The inferred major gene for bilirubin may protect against CHD, since elevated levels, rather than lower levels, were associated with this inferred gene. KW - Antioxidants KW - Atherosclerosis KW - Bilirubin KW - Coronary heart disease KW - Epidemiology KW - Genetics KW - Lipids KW - Segregation analysis JO - Atherosclerosis JF - Atherosclerosis	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406546
__label__wiki	0.744079	0.744079	REEL LIBRARIANS Librarians + Movies = Reel Love Master List of English-Language Films Short Films and Documentaries Foreign-Language Films Genres and Themes Role Call Character Types Atypical Characters Reel Substance Class I – major roles, integral Class II – major roles, non-integral Class III – minor roles Class IV – cameo roles Class V – library scenes without librarians Class VI – mistaken identity Class IV (cameo roles) The librarian(s) plays a cameo role and is seen only briefly with little or no dialogue. Spoiler Alert The following annotations may contain important plot details. The Alphabet Murders (1965): Details: Dir. Frank Tashlin. Perf. Tony Randall, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg. MGM, 1965. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Synopsis: A comedic take on Christie’s novel. Stringer Davis makes a very brief cameo in his role as Mr. Stringer, the village librarian character from the 1960s series of Jane Marple movies. Role Call: Stringer Davis as Mr. Stringer—Comic Relief (male) The Amazing Spider-Man (2012): Details: Dir. Marc Webb. Perf. Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Martin Sheen, Rhys Ifans. Columbia, 2012. Based on the Marvel comic book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Synopsis: A reboot of Spider-Man, with creator Stan Lee camping it up in a school librarian cameo. Role Call: Stan Lee as School Librarian — Comic Relief (male) Related post: First impressions: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ The Amityville Horror (1979): Details: Dir. Stuart Rosenberg. Perf. James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger. American International Pictures, 1979. Based on the book by Jay Anson. Synopsis: A horror film about a family who moves into a house with a scary past. In one scene, the father (James Brolin) goes to the public library to look up information about the house. Two older librarians at the circulation desk do not notice when he steals a book. Role Call: Two uncredited females—Spinster Librarians Related post: Amityville horrors in ‘The Amityville Horror’ and ‘Amityville II’ At First Sight (1999): Details: Dir. Irwin Winkler. Perf. Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis. MGM, 1999. Based on the true story of Shirl & Barbara Jennings, and the essay “To See and Not See” in An Anthropologist on Mars by Dr. Oliver Sacks. Synopsis: Based on a true story about a blind man (Val Kilmer) who has his eyesight restored. There’s a brief cameo from a spunky librarian friend — but no scene in any actual library. Role Call: Margo Winkler as Nancy Bender—Information Provider (female) Related post: Librarian ‘at first sight’ Autumn in New York (2000): Details: Dir. Joan Chen. Perf. Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Vera Farmiga. MGM, 2000. Synopsis: An older playboy (Richard Gere) falls in love with a young woman (Winona Ryder) who’s terminally ill, and he discovers a long-lost daughter (Vera Farmiga). In a brief scene, Gere tries to discover who Farmiga is, but the librarian on duty declines to give him her name but instead informs him that “I’ll tell her you’re here.” Librarian win for personal privacy! Role Call: Delores Mitchell as Librarian—Information Provider (female) The Avengers (1998): Details: Dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik. Perf. Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, Jim Broadbent, Fiona Shaw. Warner Bros., 1998. Based on the British TV show. Synopsis: British agents John Steed (Joseph Fiennes) and Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) unite against Sir August De Wynter (Sean Connery), who attempts to control the world by a weather machine. Steed goes to the Ministry Archives, and the archivist is… invisible! A memorable reel librarian/archivist. Role Call: Patrick Macnee as Invisible Jones—Information Provider/Comic Relief (male) Awakenings (1990): Details: Dir. Penny Marshall. Perf. Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Penelope Ann Miller. Columbia, 1990. Based on the book by Oliver Sacks. Synopsis: Based on a true story, Dr. Sayer (Robin Williams) finds a new treatment for a ward of comatose patients. Includes a short library scene in which a doctor researches diseases in order to help his patients trapped in comas. Role Call: Adam Bryant as Librarian—Information Provider (male) Baby Boom (1987): Details: Dir. Charles Shyer. Perf. Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Sam Wanamaker. United Artists, 1987. Synopsis: A comedy about a career woman (Diane Keaton) who becomes the custodian for a baby from a distant relative. It changes her life, and she goes to a local library for info on starting a small business. A young librarian is on duty at the library desk. Role Call: Uncredited female—Information Provider (female) Related post: ‘Baby Boom’ librarian Back When We Were Grownups (2004, TV movie): Details: Dir. Ron Underwood. Perf. Blythe Danner, Faye Dunaway, Peter Fonda. Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, 2004. Based on the novel by Anne Tyler. Synopsis: Rebecca (Blythe Danner) looks back over her life and rekindles a relationship with a former beau. There are a handful of library scenes, including one in a college library and two at the Baltimore County Public Library’s Central Branch. Rebecca is researching Robert E. Lee. Role Call: Lynette DuPree as Librarian—Information Provider (female) Beautiful Girls (1996): Details: Dir. Ted Demme. Perf. Matt Dillon, Timothy Hutton, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, Rosie O’Donnell, Uma Thurman, Natalie Portman. Miramax, 1996. Synopsis: A man (Timothy Hutton) revisits his small hometown for a high school reunion. A break-up scene takes place in the local public library, where a librarian can be briefly glimpsed at the front desk. Related post: Calling all the ‘beautiful girls’ Bed of Roses (1996): Details: Dir. Michael Goldenberg. Perf. Christian Slater, Mary Stuart Masterson. New Line, 1996. Synopsis: Romantic drama about a career woman (Mary Stuart Masterson) who falls in love with a florist (Christian Slater). For one date, Slater takes Masterson to the children’s reading hour at a local public library, and he introduces her to the children’s librarian. Role Call: Mary Alice as Alice—Information Provider (female) Bloomington (2010): Details: Dir. Fernanda Cardoso. Perf. Allison McAtee, Sarah Stouffer. Frontier Studios, 2010. Synopsis: Coming-of-age drama about a former child actress (Sarah Stouffer) who attends college and falls in love with a psychology professor (Allison McAtee). When she gets a chance to return to Hollywood, what will she choose? There are a couple of brief scenes in the college library, including one at the end that features a young library worker at the check-out desk. Role Call: Megan Martz as Library Attendant—Information Provider (female) Related post: In the ‘Bloomington’ stacks Brainstorm (1983): Details: Dir. Douglas Trumbull. Perf. Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson. MGM/UA, 1983. Synopsis: Brilliant researcher Michael Brace (Christopher Walken) has developed a system of recording and replaying actual experiences of people, complete with the “higher brain functions” of thoughts, emotions, senses of smell, etc. There are a few moments toward the end of the film that highlight the Tape Library and its technicians. Role Call: Jimmy Casino as Tape Library Technician — Information Provider (male); May Raymond Boss as Tape Library Woman — Information Provider (female); Clay Boss as Tape Library Man — Information Provider (male)—Information Provider (female) Related post: ‘Brainstorm’-ing Brief Encounter (1945): Details: Dir. David Lean. Perf. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard. Cineguild, 1945. Synopsis: Romantic drama about an English wife and mother (Celia Johnson) and an English husband and father (Howard), who meet one day by chance and fall in love. The woman stops by the Boots Lending Library on her weekly shopping trip, with an uncredited librarian. Role Call: Uncredited female as Miss Lewis — Information Provider (female) Related posts: A ‘brief encounter’ with a librarian ; Revisiting favorites \| ‘A brief encounter,’ Nov. 28, 2011 Cape Fear (1962): Details: Dir. J. Lee Thompson. Perf. Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen. Universal, 1962. Based on the novel by John D. MacDonald Synopsis: A lawyer’s family is terrorized by a violent man (played by Robert Mitchum). Josephine Smith is listed in IMDb.com as playing a Librarian in an uncredited role. Role Call: Josephine Smith as Librarian (uncredited)—Information Provider (female) Caroline? (1990, TV movie): Details: Dir. Joseph Sargent. Perf. Stephanie Zimbalist, Pamela Reed, George Grizzard, Patricia Neal. Hallmark Hall of Fame, 1990. Based on the book Father’s Arcane Daughter by E. L. Konigsburg. Synopsis: This Emmy-winning TV movie focuses on a mysterious woman (Stephanie Zimbalist) who claims to be a rich man’s daughter, Caroline Carmichael, long presumed to have been killed in a plane crash fourteen years earlier. Is she really Caroline? The film explores that question, but goes to some unexpected places, including the education of handicapped children. Caroline’s younger half-brother Winston goes to the public library in one scene to look up old newspaper articles about the plane crash. Role Call: Laura Whyte as Librarian — Information Provider Related post: I got your Information Provider right here, in ‘Gods and Monsters’ and ‘Caroline?’ Carrie (2002, TV movie): Details: Dir. David Carson. Perf. Angela Bettis, Patricia Clarkson, Rena Sofer, Kandyse McClure. MGM Television, 2002. Based on the novel by Stephen King. Synopsis: A TV remake of the classic 1976 film. A school librarian is seen in a few scenes set in the school library, and Carrie does some research online. Role Call: Irene Miscisco as Librarian — Information Provider Related post: Getting carried away in ‘Carrie’ (2002) City of Angels (1998): Details: Dir. Brad Silberling. Perf. Meg Ryan, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Franz. Warner Bros., 1998. Synopsis: Set in San Francisco, an angel (Nicolas Cage) becomes romantically involved with a doctor (Meg Ryan). The angels like to hang out in the San Francisco public library, and there is a short scene with a techy librarian. Role Call: Sid Hillman as Librarian—Information Provider (male) Related post: ‘City of’ librarians City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold (1994): Details: Dir. Paul Weiland. Perf. Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz, Jack Palance. Castle Rock Entertainment/Warner Home Video, 1994. Synopsis: The sequel to City Slickers (1991). There is a brief scene in a public library, where Mitch (Billy Crystal) and Phil (Daniel Stern) discover information from old newspaper articles on microfilm. They get shushed several times, by both library staff and patrons. Role Call: Helen Siff as Shushing Lady — Comic Relief; Unidentified male — Information Provider (male) Related post: A tale of seven shushes in ‘City Slickers II’ Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939): Details: Dir. Anatole Litvak. Perf. Edward G. Robinson, George Sanders, Paul Lukas. Warner Bros., 1939. Based on articles by Leon G. Turrou. Synopsis: WWII propaganda film about a G-Man (Edward G. Robinson) who investigates a Nazi spy ring in the U.S. There is a brief scene in the Periodicals Reading Room at the New York Public Library’s Central Branch, and a brief glimpse of a librarian. Role Call: Uncredited male—Information Provider (male) Related post: ‘Confessions’ of a reel librarian Criminal Law (1988): Details: Dir. Martin Campbell. Perf. Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper. MGM, 1988. Synopsis: Hotshot lawyer Ben Chase (Gary Oldman) successfully defends a client (Kevin Bacon), realizing after that his client is guilty. In one scene about a half-hour into the film, Ben visits an older professor in the law library. Everyone seems to be on familiar and friendly terms with the librarian. Role Call: Irene Kessler as Librarian Peggy — Information Provider (female) Related post: ‘Criminal Law’ librarian Dangerous Minds (1995): Details: Dir. John N. Smith. Perf. Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzunda, Courtney B. Vance. Hollywood Pictures-Buena Vista, 1995. Based on the book My Posse Don’t Do Homework by LouAnne Johnson. Synopsis: An ex-Marine (Michelle Pfeiffer) struggles to connect with her students in an inner city high school. There is at least one short scene set in the school library. Role Call: Jeff Feringa as Librarian #1; Sarah Marshall as Librarian #2—both Information Providers (female) Dream with the Fishes (1997): Details: Dir. Finn Taylor. Perf. David Arquette, Brad Hunt, Kathryn Erbe. Sony Pictures Classics, 1997. Synopsis: Nick (Brad Hunt), who is terminally ill, inspires Terry (David Arquette), a suicidal voyeur. In one scene, a man in a hospital can’t remember the names of all the seven dwarves, so he calls a local library for help. According to Martin Raish’s site, Librarians in the Movies: An Annotated Filmography, the library scene was filmed in a real medical center library. Role Call: Beth Daly as Librarian & Uncredited female—both Information Providers (female) Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999): Details: Dir. Michael Patrick Jann. Perf. Kirsten Dunst, Kirstie Alley, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney. New Line Cinema, 1999. Synopsis: A pitch-black comedy about a local beauty pageant. The plot includes murder, a huge swan float engulfed in flames, beauty pageant contestants upchucking contaminated seafood, and more! There are a couple of memorable closeups with an older librarian, who recalls her past as the beauty pageant winner in 1945. Role Call: Claudia Wilkens as Iona Hildebrandt, 1945 Winner—Comic Relief (female) Ella Enchanted (2004): Details: Dir. Tommy O’Haver. Perf. Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes. Miramax, 2004. Based on the book by Gail Carson Levine. Synopsis: The well-known Cinderella plot hinges on Ella’s gift of obedience bestowed by a fairy godmother, Lucinda (Vivica A. Fox), whom Ella is trying to find in order to release this curse of a blessing. Ella (Anne Hathaway) tries to find some record of Lucinda in the castle’s Hall of Records, where a young archives clerk (Merrina Millsapp) is most unhelpful. Role Call: Merrina Millsapp as Hall of Records Attendant—Information Provider (female) Related post: A not-so-enchanting librarian in ‘Ella Enchanted’ Ever After (1998): Details: Dir. Andy Tennant. Perf. Drew Barrymore, Dougray Scott, Anjelica Huston. 20th Century Fox, 1998. Based on the fairytale by Charles Perrault. Synopsis: Another Cinderella-inspired story, one including a first date to a monastery library with glimpses of the monastery librarians. Role Call: Uncredited males as monastery librarians / monks — Information Providers (male) Related post: ‘Ever After,’ my library Fatal Attraction (1987): Details: Dir. Adrian Lyne. Perf. Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer. Paramount, 1987. Synopsis: A lawyer (Michael Douglas) has an affair with a woman (Glenn Close), who then starts to stalk him and his family. In a short scene, Douglas confesses his troubles to a colleague in their firm’s private law library, while in the background, a law librarian shelves books from a cart. Role Call: Uncredited law librarian — Information Provider (male) Finding Forrester (2000): Details: Dir. Gus Van Sant. Perf. Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham. Columbia, 2000. Synopsis: A reclusive author (Sean Connery) becomes a mentor to a young writing prodigy (Rob Brown). The student goes to the public library to try and check out the author’s most famous work and finds out that all the copies are checked out. The director, Gus Van Sant, makes a cameo as one of the librarians! Role Call: Sophia Wu as Librarian—Information Provider (female) ; Gus Van Sant as Library Assistant (uncredited) — Information Provider (male) Related post: ‘Finding’ a reel librarian …First Do No Harm (1997, TV movie): Details: Dir. Jim Abrahams. Perf. Meryl Streep, Fred Ward, Seth Adkins, Allison Janney. ABC/Buena Vista Home Video, 1997. Synopsis: This TV movie, based on real events, details one mother’s (Meryl Streep) struggle to find a treatment for her epileptic son (Seth Adkins). Streep goes to a local public library to research epilepsy. Note: Even though the library sign clearly identifies it as a Kansas City Public Library branch, the library interiors were filmed at the Toronto Public Library (the same library seen in the TV movie Personals, which was set in California). Role Call: Barbara Stewart as Librarian—Information Provider (female); Uncredited male—Information Provider (male) The Forgotten (2004): Details: Dir. Joseph Ruben. Perf. Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Anthony Edwards. Columbia, 2004. Synopsis: Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) tries to deal with her grief over her son’s death, only to be told one day that her son never existed. In one brief library scene, Telly goes to the library to research newspaper articles about her son’s death. A young librarian recognizes that Telly is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, asks her what she needs, and helps her find newspapers on microfilm. Role Call: Katie Cooper as Library Clerk—Information Provider (female) Gods and Monsters (1998): Details: Dir. Bill Condon. Perf. Ian McKellan, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave. Lions Gate, 1998. Based on the book Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram. Synopsis: Famed horror film director James Whale (Ian McKellan) develops a friendship with his young gardener (Brendan Fraser). In a brief scene, a young librarian brings newspapers to Fraser, who looks up information about the director. Role Call: Lisa Vastine as Librarian—Information Provider (female) The Good Companions (1933): Details: Dir. Victor Saville. Perf. Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud, Mary Glynne. Gaumont British Picture Corporation, 1933. Based on the novel by J. B. Priestley. Synopsis: Three wayward souls find their way to a variety troupe called the “Dinky Doos.” (They change the name straightaway to “The Good Companions,” hence the title.) A brief library scene with the first “Shush!” from a reel librarian. Role Call: Hugh E. Wright as Librarian — Information Provider (male) Related post: The shush heard ’round the world in ‘The Good Companions’ Hidden Figures (2016): Details: Dir. Theodore Melfi. Perf. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Mahershala Ali. Fox 2000 Pictures, 2016. Based on the non-fiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly. Synopsis: A biographical film highlighting the personal and professional struggles and contributions of three African-American female mathematicians — or “computers” — at NASA during the early 1960s. Taraji P. Henson plays brilliant mathematician Katherine G. Johnson; Octavia Spencer, in an Oscar-nominated performance, plays mathematician and computer programmer Dorothy Vaughan; and Janelle Monáe plays firecracker engineer Mary Jackson. There is a brief, but pivotal, library scene in which Vaughan enters the “whites” section of the library because the “colored” section doesn’t have what she needs; a white librarian (listed in the credits as “White Librarian”) refuses her service, causing Vaughan to spirit the book out of the library. Role Call: Rhoda Griffis as White Librarian — Information Provider (female) Related post: First impressions: ‘Hidden Figures’ and its library scene High School High (1996): Details: Dir. Hart Bochner. Perf. Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Louise Fletcher, Mekhi Phifer. TriStar, 1996. Synopsis: A parody of films like Dangerous Minds, a naïve teacher (Jon Lovitz) gets a job at an urban high school. After he makes a would-be inspirational speech at the school assembly, the school librarian yells out, “You suck!” Role Call: Uncredited female—Comic Relief (female) Home by Christmas (2006, TV movie): Details: Dir. Gail Harvey. Perf. Linda Hamilton, Brenda Crichlow. Lifetime, 2006. Synopsis: After a woman gets divorced from her cheating husband, she ends up homeless. A friend urges her to go to the library for books to study for the real estate license exam. There are a few shots in a public library and a few glimpses of a reel librarian. Role Call: Donna White — Information Provider (female) Related post: ‘Home by Christmas’ librarian back to top The House on Carroll Street (1988): Details: Dir. Peter Yates. Perf. Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin. Orion, 1988. Synopsis: A young woman (Kelly McGillis), who is fired after refusing to give names to the House Un-American Activities Committee, overhears a suspicious argument in the house next door. In a brief scene, an FBI librarian runs a film projector for agent Jeff Daniels. Role Call: William Duff-Griffin as Wentworth, FBI Librarian—Information Provider (male) Related post: An FBI librarian in ‘The House on Carroll Street’ I Love Trouble (1994): Details: Dir. Charles Shyer. Perf. Nick Nolte, Julia Roberts, Saul Rubinek. Touchstone—Buena Vista, 1994. Synopsis: Rival reporters Peter and Sabrina (Nick Nolte & Julia Roberts) team up to investigate corrupt scientists at a chemical company. In one brief scene, the two look up a scientist’s obituary in a small public library. Sabrina shouts and pounds her first on a library table, and a student librarian walks by with a cart of books and shushes her. Another librarian is visible behind them at the Circulation desk, where she checks in books. Role Call: Annie Meyers-Shyer as Student Librarian and an uncredited female—both Information Providers (female) I Love You to Death (1990): Details: Dir. Lawrence Kasdan. Perf. Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, William Hurt. TriStar, 199o. Synopsis: In this black comedy, a loyal Italian-American wife, Rosalie (Liv Ullman), tries to kill her husband — several times — when she finds out that her husband, Joey (Kevin Kline), is cheating. And where does she find out about his philandering ways? In her local public library. (Sigh.) Two librarians are seen at the check-out desk. Role Call: Audrey Rapoport as Librarian and an uncredited female—both Information Providers (female) Related post: Love in the stacks in ‘I Love You to Death’ In God’s Country (2007, TV movie): Details: Dir. Kelly Rowan. Lifetime Television, 2007. Synopsis: A young mother (Kelly Rowan) living in a polygamous religious community escapes with her children, and they struggle to adjust living “on the outside.” In one brief scene, her 12-year-old daughter, Alice, goes to the school library. She asks the school librarian for a book on astronomy. Role Call: Agi Gallus as Librarian—Information Provider (female) Related post: In Dewey’s country Incident at Dark River, aka Dark River: A Father’s Revenge (1989, TV movie): Details: Dir. Michael Pressman. Perf. Mike Farrell, Tess Harper, Helen Hunt. TNT, 1989. Synopsis: The story of a father (Mike Farrell) investigating his daughter’s death, which was caused by toxic waste dumped in the river by the town’s biggest employer, the local manufacturing factory. In one brief scene, he seeks the help of a librarian at his college library. Role Call: Michaela Nelligan as Librarian — Information Provider (female) Related post: ‘Incident at Dark River’ librarian Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989): Details: Dir. Steven Spielberg. Perf. Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody. Paramount, 1989. Synopsis: The third in the series, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) sets off to find the Holy Grail with his father (Sean Connery). Indiana highlights the role of the library and research during a classroom scene within the first 15 minutes of the film. And within the first 30 minutes, he visits a local library in Venice — converted from a church — which includes a funny scene with an uncredited reel librarian. The power of the library stamp! Role Call: Uncredited male—Comic Relief (male) Related post: ‘Indiana Jones and the’ reel librarian Junior (1994): Details: Dir. Ivan Reitman. Perf. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito and Emma Thompson. Universal, 1994. Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Dr. Alex Hesse, a fertility research scientist, who becomes the test subject for his his latest fertility drug. He becomes the world’s first pregnant man! The opening scene is set in an academic library, and a librarian can be briefly glimpsed pushing a book cart. Role Call: Uncredited female — Information Provider (female) Related post: A ‘Junior’ librarian Killer Movie (2008): Details: Dir. Jeff Fisher. Perf. Paul Wesley, Kaley Cuoco, Jason London, Leighton Meester. Peace Arch Home Entertainment, 2008. Synopsis: In this film, a reality TV shoot at a small town in North Dakota turns into a murder game for a crazed-yet-cunning killer. One scene is set at the school library, and the librarian cameo lasts 4 seconds. If looks could kill? Mary Murphy plays against type as the librarian. Role Call: Mary Murphy as Librarian–Information Provider (female) / Spinster Librarian Related post: ‘Killer Movie,’ scary librarian The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001): Details: Dir. Peter Jackson. Perf. Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett. New Line Cinema, 2001. Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Synopsis: The first in a film trilogy of the well-known saga of Middle Earth, involving a hobbit’s quest to destroy a powerful ring. There is a brief scene in which an archivist shows Gandalf the Grey to the archives. Role Call: Michael Elsworth as Gondorian Archivist—Information Provider (male) Related post: My precious, my archives in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’ Mad Love (1995): Details: Dir. Antonia Bird. Perf. Chris O’Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Joan Allen. Touchstone—Buena Vista, 1995. Synopsis: Two high-schoolers Matt (Chris O’Donnell) and Casey (Drew Barrymore) fall in love and flee on a road trip after Casey’s parents check her into a mental hospital. A school librarian is visible in two short scenes. In the first, Matt spies Casey stealing a library book, and the librarian is behind the circulation desk. The librarian, pushing a cart of books in the school courtyard, later witnesses Casey set off a fire alarm; she immediately runs to another teacher and points Casey out as the culprit. The librarian only wears glasses in the library scene. Role Call: Sharon Collar as Librarian—Information Provider (female) The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005, TV movie): Details: Dir. Brent Shields. Perf. Keri Russell, Skeet Ulrich, Mare Winningham. Hallmark Hall of Fame, 2005. Based on the novel by Ann Howard Creel. Synopsis: Set during World War II, a young woman (Keri Russell) agrees to an arranged marriage with a lonely, good-hearted farmer (Skeet Ulrich) due to her impending pregnancy out of wedlock. The farmer’s not the father — they’d never met before the wedding — but he’s determined to do the best by her. This includes getting some books from the local public library (an hour away!) with the help of a friendly librarian. Role Call: Kira Bradley as Librarian—Information Provider (female) Related post: Your friendly local librarian in ‘The Magic of Ordinary Days’ The Manchurian Candidate (2004): Details: Dir. Jonathan Demme. Perf. Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Jeffrey Wright. Paramount, 2004. Based on the novel by Richard Condon. Synopsis: Major Ben Marco (Washington) investigates a company called Manchurian Global in this remake of the 1962 original film. His investigation takes him to the New York Public Library’s Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) branch. A library clerk issues him a library visitor pass. Role Call: Duana Butler as Library Clerk — Information Provider (female) Marathon Man (1976): Details: Dir. John Schlesinger. Perf. Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, Marthe Keller. Paramount, 1976. Based on the novel by William Goldman. Synopsis: A graduate history student (Dustin Hoffman) unwittingly gets involved in an international conspiracy involving former Nazi exiles and rogue spies. In an early scene set in a college library, Hoffman has a “meet cute” moment with Elsa (Marthe Keller), who turns out to be hiding secrets of her own. Role Call: Unidentified female as Librarian —Information Provider (female) Related post: Meet cute ‘marathon’ Me Before You (2016): Details: Dir. Thea Sharrock. Perf. Emilia Clark, Sam Claflin, Vanessa Kirby, Jenna Coleman. Warner Bros., 2016. Based on the novel by Jojo Moyes. Synopsis: A young woman, Lou (Emilia Clark), helps take care of a recently paralyzed man, Will (Sam Claflin). In a brief montage scene almost halfway through the film, Lou visits a public library to research activities for quadriplegics, to try and get Will out of his depression. Role Call: Uncredited female as Librarian — Information Provider (female) Related post:‘Me Before You’ (and the library, too) Mercury Rising (1998): Details: Dir. Harold Becker. Perf. Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride. Universal, 1998. Based on the novel Simple Simon by Ryne Douglas Pearson. Synopsis: Rebellious FBI agent Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis) protects an autistic boy (Miko Hughes) who can read a top-secret government code. In one scene, Art goes to the Chicago Public Library and enlists a librarian to locate and enter a private government email account. The librarian does all the work while the patron gives directions over her shoulder! Role Call: Barbara Alexander as Librarian—Information Provider (female) My Bodyguard (1980): Details: Dir. Tony Bill. Perf. Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Ruth Gordon. 20th Century Fox, 1980. Synopsis: A new kid (Chris Makepeace) hires the school outcast (Adam Baldwin) to protect him against a school bully (Matt Dillon). Makepeace tries to elude the bullies by staying in the school library, and the school librarian is visible in the background closing up. Role Call: Dorothy Scott as Librarian—Information Provider (female) The Next Three Days (2010): Details: Dir. Paul Haggis. Perf. Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson. Columbia, 1989. Synopsis: A professor (Russell Crowe) sets out to break out his wife (Elizabeth Banks) out of prison, where she’s been wrongly convicted of murder. There’s a short sequence in the early part of the film set in a college library, where Crowe searches for books on prisons. Related post: ‘The next three’ seconds Old Gringo (1989): Details: Dir. Luiz Puenzo. Perf. Jane Fonda, Jimmy Smits, Gregory Peck. Columbia, 1989. Based on the novel by Carlos Fuentes. Synopsis: A schoolteacher (Bridget Fonda) goes to Mexico to teach and gets kidnapped by General Arroyo (Jimmy Smits) and his revolutionaries. In an early scene, a librarian helps Fonda find books on the Spanish language. And in rare occurrence, the librarian gets shushed! Role Call: Laurel Lyle as Librarian—Information Provider (female) Related post: Shushing the ‘Old Gringo’ librarian Ordeal by Innocence (1984): Details: Dir. Desmond Davis. Perf. Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer, Sarah Miles, Ian McShane. London-Cannon, 1984. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Synopsis: Dr. Calgary (Donald Sutherland) returns to England and realizes he was the alibi for a man wrongly convicted and hanged for murder. He undergoes an investigation to discover the real killer. In one scene, he researches newspapers at the local library, and a librarian is visible in the background, checking out books and stamping cards. Paperback Romance, aka Lucky Break (1994): Details: Dir. Ben Lewin. Perf. Gia Carides, Anthony LaPaglia, Marshall Napier, Jacek Koman. MGM, 1994. Synopsis: Jewel thief Eddie (Anthony LaPaglia) overhears Sophie (Gia Carides) reading a romance novel she’s writing. She tries to hide that she suffers from polio, and romantic complications ensue. Sophie finds out Eddie’s work address from a librarian. Role Call: Lynda Gibson as Carol—Information Provider (female) The Pelican Brief (1993) Details: Dir. Alan J. Pakula. Perf. Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard. Warner Bros., 1993. Based on the John Grisham novel. Synopsis: Law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) does research in the Tulane Law Library and uncovers the reason behind the recent assassinations of two Supreme Court justices and unwittingly becomes a target herself. Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington), a well-known newspaper reporter in Washington D.C., joins Darby in her quest to uncover the truth. In a later scene, Gray meets up with Darby in the Georgetown Law Library, and he walks by a reel librarian pushing a cart of books. Role Call: Uncredited law librarian — Information Provider (female) Related post: Law librarian sighting in ‘The Pelican Brief’ Pickup on South Street (1953): Details: Dir. Samuel Fuller. Perf. Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Richard Kiley, Thelma Ritter. 20th Century Fox, 1953. Synopsis: This film noir classic includes a brief library scene that combines microfilm, a pickpocket, and a library clerk. Role Call: Jaye Loft-Lyn as Microfilm Library Clerk-—Information Provider (male) Related post: ‘South Street’ librarian Pretty in Pink (1986): Details: Dir. Howard Deutch. Written by John Hughes. Perf. Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer, Harry Dean Stanton, Annie Potts. Paramount, 1986. Synopsis: Classic ’80s high school drama. Andie (Molly Ringwald) likes Blane (Andrew McCarthy), while her best friend, Duckie (Jon Cryer) pines for Andie. There is a brief scene in the school library, in which Blane flirts with Andie via the school library’s computers. You can catch a brief glimpse of a school librarian in the scene. Role Call: Unlisted female as school librarian — Information Provider (female) Related post: The school library in ‘Pretty in Pink’ A Promise (2013): Details: Dir. Patrice Leconte. Perf. Richard Madden, Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman. Fidélité Films, 2013. Based on the novel by Journey Into the Past by Stefan Zweig. Synopsis: Set in 1912 in Germany, a young, hard-working man gains the trust and confidence of an older businessman — and then falls in love with the older man’s wife. There’s a very brief scene in the library in which the young man is researching resources about Mexico, and a librarian rolls by with a cart of books. Role Call: Uncredited male as librarian — Information Provider (male) Related post: ‘A promise’ to a reel librarian Rising Sun (1993): Details: Dir. Philip Kaufman. Perf. Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. 20th Century Fox, 1993. Based on the novel by Michael Crichton. Synopsis: To solve the crime of a young woman found strangled in the L.A. headquarters of a Japanese corporation, a cop, Lt. Web Smith (Wesley Snipes), partners with expert John Connor (Sean Connery). In one scene halfway through the film, Smith gets a tip that an investigator is digging up dirt on him at a newspaper library and enlisting the help of ‘Lilly the Librarian,’ glimpsed very briefly. Role Call: Uncredited female as Lilly the Librarian — Information Provider (female); Uncredited female as another newspaper librarian or assistant — Information Provider (female) Related post: Lilly the Librarian in ‘Rising Sun’ Rudy (1993): Details: Dir. David Anspaugh. Perf. Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton. TriStar, 1993. Based on a true story. Synopsis: Rudy (Sean Astin), although a below-average student with no natural athletic ability, has the determination and spirit to join the Notre Dame football team. In one short scene, the college librarian wakes Rudy up as she closes the library, and it is apparent that this is a regular occurrence. Role Call: Marie Anspaugh as Miss McKenzie—Information Provider (female) Running on Empty (1988): Details: Dir. Sidney Lumet. Perf. Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Martha Plimpton. Warner Bros., 1988. Synopsis: Two Vietnam War protestors (Christine Lahti & Judd Hirsch) have spent the last 20 years running from the FBI, but their eldest son (River Phoenix) wants a life of his own. In a short scene, Hirsch goes to a library for newspaper articles, and a librarian informs him about local newspapers on microfilm. Role Call: Justine Johnston as Librarian—Information Provider (female) Scream Blacula Scream (1973): Details: Dir. Bob Kelljan. Perf. William Marshall, Pam Grier. American International, 1973. Synopsis: In this sequel to Blacula, an ex-policeman investigates a series of suspicious deaths. The ex-policeman visits a library in one brief scene, and encounters a librarian. Role Call: Sybil Scotford as Librarian—Information Provider (female) Related post: ‘Scream’ librarian ‘scream’ Shock Treatment (1964): Details: Dir. Denis Sanders. Perf. Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowell, Lauren Bacall. 20th Century Fox, 1964. Based on the novel by Winfred Van Atta. Synopsis: Private investigator Dale Nelson (Stuart Whitman) pretends to be a schizophrenic patient to get into a mental hospital; his real motive is to locate $1 million, hidden somewhere on the grounds. An early scene shows the P.I. walking up to the Los Angeles Public Library. The next shot cuts to Dale at the library counter, and the librarian begins reading the titles, which include Psychiatry in Relation to Crime and Cases of Schizophrenia. The librarian looks at Dale, raises an eyebrow and asks, “Are you going to read all these?” Dale smirks at the librarian and snaps, “No. I’m just going to look at the pictures.” Role Call: Harold Goodwin as Library Clerk (uncredited)—Information Provider (male) A Simple Favor (2018): Details: Dir. Paul Feig. Perf. Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding. Lionsgate, 2018. Based on the novel by Darcey Bell. Synopsis: Single mother Stephanie (Anna Kendrick) befriends the mysterious Emily (Blake Lively). When Emily goes missing, Stephanie then investigates Emily’s sudden disappearance. Her investigation takes her to a public library, where she asks a librarian about finding past news articles. Role Call: Corinne Conley as Librarian—Information Provider (female) Related post: Reel librarian cameo in ‘A Simple Favor’ (2018) The Snapper (1993): Details: Dir. Stephen Frears. Perf. Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe. Miramax, 1993. Based on the novel by Roddy Doyle. Synopsis: A young Irish woman (Tina Kellegher), still living with her parents and siblings, finds out she’s pregnant. Her family and the whole town try to figure out the baby’s father. Toward the end of the film, the girl’s father (Colm Meaney) checks out a book about women and pregnancy for himself at the library, but he tells the librarian, “It’s for the wife.” Somewhere in Time (1980): Details: Dir. Jeannot Szwarc. Perf. Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright. Universal, 1980. Based on the novel by Richard Matheson. Synopsis: A time-travel romance in which a Chicago playwright (Christopher Reeve) uses self-hypnosis to go back in time and meet the love of his life (Seymour), an actress from the turn of the century. In one scene, Reeve convinces a reluctant librarian to bring him some out-of-date magazines so he can research the actress. Role Call: Noreen Walker as Librarian—Information Provider (female) Related post: ‘Somewhere’ in the library Straight Talk (1992): Details: Dir. Barnet Kellman. Perf. Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne, Michael Madsen. Hollywood Pictures, 1992. Synopsis: A woman (Dolly Parton) leaves her boyfriend (Michael Madsen) and small town to move to Chicago, where by accident, she becomes a radio host. While job-hunting, she inquires about a position at the public library, where the librarian looks down at her—and her spike heels—and slowly says, “I… don’t… think… so.” Role Call: Susan Philpot as Librarian—Comic Relief (female) Summer School (1987) Details: Dir. Carl Reiner. Perf. Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Courtney Thorne-Smith. Paramount, 1987. Synopsis: Gym teacher Freddy Shoop (Mark Harmon) gets stuck teaching remedial English in summer school. He takes the students to the library on the second day of summer school to work on book reports. Role Call: Uncredited school librarian—Information Provider (female) Related post: ‘Summer school’ in the library Threesome (1994): Details: Dir. Andrew Fleming. Perf. Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Charles. TriStar, 1994. Synopsis: Three college roommates (Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin & Josh Charles) explore their sexuality in this dramedy. In one brief scene, Boyle writhes around on a library table while Charles reads aloud a book—and an older librarian, exclaims, “Oh my!” (It is not clear whether her expression is one of disapproval or of secret excitement.) Role Call: Anna Marie O’Donnell as Lady at Library—Comic Relief (female) To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018): Details: Dir. Susan Johnson. Perf. Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, John Corbett. Netflix, 2018. Based on the novel by Jenny Han. Synopsis: Teen Lara Jean (Lana Condor) has to deal with the romantic complications that ensue after her secret love letters are exposed. There is a brief school library scene early in the film, in which Lara Jean breaks the silence rule — but it’s not the reel librarian who enforces the silence rule, but rather fellow students! Role Call: An uncredited woman as the school librarian — Information Provider (female) Related post: School library scene in ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’ Waitress! (1981): Details: Dir. Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman. Perf. Jim Harris, Carol Drake, Carol Bevar. Troma Entertainment, 1981. Synopsis: Plot follows different young women working as waitresses, including one trying to make it as an actress and another trying to make it as a writer in New York City. One short scene about a half-hour into the film takes place in the public library. Role Call: Lola Ross as Librarian — Spinster Librarian / Comic Relief (female) Related post: ‘Waitress!’ Librarian! Action! WarGames (1983): Details: Dir. John Badham. Perf. Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman. United Artists, 1983. Synopsis: David (Matthew Broderick), a computer whiz, hacks into a computer game system, accidentally starting World War III. Is it a simulation, or a real-life crisis? A library research montage reveals how David discovers the secret password into the computer system. A reel librarian is seen very briefly in this montage scene. Role Call: Uncredited female as an academic librarian — Information Provider (female) Related posts: ‘WarGames’ and research ; Revisiting favorites \| ‘WarGames’ and research, Dec. 31, 2014 With Honors (1994): Details: Dir. Alek Keshishian. Perf. Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser, Moira Kelly, Patrick Dempsey. Warner Bros., 1994. Synopsis: Uptight Harvard student Monty (Brendan Fraser) accidentally drops the only copy of his thesis down a grate, where it lands in the library’s boiler room. Monty discovers a homeless man, Simon Wilder (Joe Pesci), who holds the thesis hostage and turns Monty’s life upside down. In one scene at the Widener Library, Simon talks loudly, and a librarian tells him he can’t stay there. In another brief scene, Monty studies in the library during the Christmas holidays, and in the background, the library staff members quietly share gifts with each other. Role Call: Patricia B. Butcher as Librarian; Three uncredited females and one uncredited male—all Information Providers Related post: With or without honors 3 thoughts on “Class IV (cameo roles)” Marco Digges says: My favorite Class IV librarian is the one in “Wargames” from whom Matthew Broderick obtains information from about the creator of the war simulation computer. I think it’s brilliant that you document this stuff!! Jen @ Reel Librarians says: Thanks so much, Marco! And good tip about ‘WarGames’ — it’s on my Master List, but I haven’t rewatched it in ages. 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__label__cc	0.724799	0.275201	Crawfish Soup special1/26 Blackened catfish platter2/26 Blackened scallops3/26 Blotto Gelato4/26 MORE Blotto Gelato5/26 Mike’s homemade cornbread6/26 Fried Oysters7/26 Gumbo!8/26 Jambalaya9/26 Mike (aka “Jed”) Clampitt.10/26 Paella11/26 Po’Boys Creole & Fresh Catch12/26 The Zydeco Po’Boy13/26 Mike’s own asparagus dumpling soup.15/26 Po’Boys Muffuletta!16/26 Lobster Mac & Cheese with fresh lobster tail.17/26 Homemade Pecan Pie18/26 Fried Oyster BLT with Tasso & Brie19/26 Lunch Special – Fried Chix Po’Boy22/26 house-made biegnets23/26 Cajun Paella special24/26 Shrimp Creole25/26 Lots of fun at Po’Boys26/26 Po’Boys Creole & Fresh Catch \| Milton, DE, Other Area Reviews, Reviews, by The Rehoboth Foodie You won’t find it unless you’re looking for it. Turn west onto Rt. 16 from Coastal Highway and drive about 5 minutes. As you enter Milton, the first thing you’ll see on the right is a Dollar General sign. Make … Continue reading → Overall Food Service Noise Bathrooms Value IN: Reviews /Other Area Reviews /Milton, DE Irish Eyes (Milton) Miltonian Pizzeria & Wing House Pickles, Brats & Beer. Oh my! Po’Boys Creole & Fresh Catch by The Rehoboth Foodie / Updated on June 15, 2017 You won't find it unless you're looking for it. Turn west onto Rt. 16 from Coastal Highway and drive about 5 minutes. As you enter Milton, the first thing you'll see on the right is a Dollar General sign. Make the very next right and turn into that lot. Drive around toward the back of the building. You will be rewarded with the Po'Boys Creole & Fresh Catch restaurant. If Po'Boys were any more nondescript, it wouldn't be there at all. But don't be fooled! Chef Mike Clampitt's reincarnation of the 4-year-old tribute to New Orleans cuisine is nothing less than a slam dunk. This is not Mike's first time at bat. The classically trained chef (Johnson & Wales College of Culinary Arts graduate, no less) dreamed of owning a small eatery where he could walk back and forth between the kitchen and front of house, visit with his guests and add his personal touch to their dining experience. Though he created a stellar reputation at Baywood Greens Golf & Country Club Clubhouse restaurant (and Ballroom), that venue was certainly not conducive to the intimate connection he wanted with his diners. So when his friends and former Po'Boys owners Lee and Amy Stewart decided to move on, they were delighted to find a professional like Clampitt who shared their love for Cajun and Creole food. In fact, the starting points for many of Mike's menu items are Stewart's own recipes. UPDATE: Congratulations to chef/owner Mike Clampitt for winning both Top Chef and Food We Couldn't Live Without awards at the 2015 Top Chef of the Culinary Coast event for Meals on Wheels Lewes-Rehoboth! I was going to say, “So, to make a long story short…” but I believe that ship has sailed. Sorry, and thank you for your patience. Let's get down to business. Back in my radio broadcasting days, I spent a lot of time in New Orleans and got to know the food quite well. My initial go-to dishes are always gumbo, jambalaya, blackened redfish (or catfish) and some sort of étouffée. There is a certain way they have to taste, and any deviation from that just makes them into something else. Clampitt's Chicken and Andouille Gumbo is hands down as good as any I have had in the Crescent City. It is loaded with chicken and andouille sausage with a little rice thrown in for good measure. In fact, last week I had a cup of gumbo for dessert. (I really did: Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.) The perfectly brown roux is not at all clumpy or floury, and the generous portions of meat and veggies ensure that every silky spoonful contains a bit of everything. I whined a bit in the first article here that Mike didn't have the proper selection of hot sauces on the table, and I think he heard me. Depending on where you sit, you might encounter Crystal, Pete's, Tabasco and even Frank's Louisiana Red Hot. Feel free to walk around and mix and match (the best for Cajun food? Crystal, of course, with Tabasco a very close second). I think my new friend Riess (Po'Boys' neighbor in nearby Broadkill Beach) would agree — he grew up in Louisiana near Avery Island where Tabasco peppers are grown. Riess, let's keep on Mike to keep a good selection of sauces! Over my multiple visits, I have brought numerous people (including several restaurateurs and professional chefs) to Po'Boys Creole & Fresh Catch for the jambalaya. Everybody loves it. Reminiscent of the saffron-tinged Spanish Paella (but without the clams/oysters/octopus, etc.), this amalgam of French and Spanish culture is redolent of gumbo filé (ground up sassafras leaves used in Creole cooking). Generous portions of chicken, Andouille sausage, shrimp and the mandatory trinity (celery, peppers, onions) are happily swaddled in spicy rice plump with delicious, earthy stock. Everything in there is good, but the shrimp are the stars of the show, adding their own particular flavor to the dish. I just might get this for dessert one night. I just might. Mike's homemade cornbread6/26 Po'Boys Creole & Fresh Catch12/26 The Zydeco Po'Boy13/26 Mike's own asparagus dumpling soup.15/26 Po'Boys Muffuletta!16/26 Lunch Special – Fried Chix Po'Boy22/26 Lots of fun at Po'Boys26/26 One of Mike's long suits is obviously the art (and science) of blackening. Though many feel the traditional fish to blacken should be redfish (not really a single type of fish, but a general name for snapper, roughy, drum and even perch), Mike's choice of catfish fills the bill just fine. You can get it drizzled with Creole tomato butter or lemon-caper butter. We had both and they are equally good. So alternate. Life is short. Carpe that catfish! The properly blackened filet is accompanied by crispy fries (with a mild Cajun sprinkle) and greens. Now we have to pause here to make one thing perfectly clear. At the risk of sounding like Clampitt mails me a check every week (he doesn't), these greens are the best I have ever had. And I DO NOT LIKE greens. I have found them to be typically soggy, one-dimensionally vinegary, and often slimy with grease. The greens at Po'Boys Creole & Fresh Catch are none of those things. In fact, they are nicely firm to the tooth (but not papery), have layers of flavor gently anchored with acid, and though he flavors them with some sort of protein, they are not greasy in the least. These are the greens to which other greens come to learn how to be green-like. Speaking of sides, don't miss the cornbread. It is not that sweet/cheesy variety so popular nowadays, and the taste of the cornmeal definitely stands out not only in the flavor but also the texture. The loose, almost cakey consistency is pleasant to chew, and no meal should start (or be) without it. (Crumble it up into your gumbo. You will be transported.) This will probably get me a poison-pen email from Mike (and it wouldn't be my first from this neck of the woods!), but if you like your Cajun/Creole seafood blackened, ask them to make you an entrée portion of the Blackened Scallops appetizer. In fact that should be on the entrée menu anyway. These things are ridiculously good. It's no surprise that the chef can cook a scallop properly (cooking 101), but the combination of seasonings and the light, well-textured crust make for a perfect bite. During our visits, they were using the “dayboat” (big) scallops that stood up to the intense heat of the blackening process with nary a whimper. The ad hoc entree preparation included Parmesan Grits that were delicious. I have complained before about grits that hold their shape on the plate, but these didn't remind me of slowly drying concrete. They were softly firm, yet still creamy, brightly cheesy and quite good. Blackened Scallops, parm grits and greens. WOW. All I'm missing is a washboard, a squeezebox and a pet alligator named Bubba. Nobody's perfect, and Po'Boys' fried pickles prove that. Sadly, they are cut in rounds that are waayy too thin. This allows the pickle to begin to disintegrate and become flaccid long before the breading has a chance to brown. It all ends up as a limp little chip off of which the breading slides ignominiously. Even the act of dipping them in the accompanying sauce pulled the breading off. The pickle chunks need to be thicker (or use spears) to stand up to the fryer long enough for the coating to get firm and crispy. I like this place so much that I didn't even take a photo of them. But I have to tell you the truth or you won't come visit me here any more. (Now remember; as of this writing, Po'Boys has only been open for a couple of weeks. I hold out hope that the pickles are a work in progress. I will report back.) Want a nice appetizer? Get the Fried Oysters. They are everything you want a fried oyster to be, and only 2 — maybe 3 — Rehoboth area restaurants live up to these. And what sets Po'Boys' apart is the cornmeal-based dredge. It's firm without being bready, and makes for a great mouth feel against the smoothness of the oysters. Mike applies a similar treatment to the Cajun Calamari, again adding a firm “corny” texture to the otherwise smooth and soft squid. One of my happy places is Johnny's Po'Boys on St. Louis St. in New Orleans. Close your eyes for a moment (this made me laugh as I typed. How else could you read it?). Well, imagine this anyway: A crackly on the outside, white and yeasty on the inside French roll, still a little warm and slathered with a bracing remoulade (think thousand island with personality), stuffed to the breaking point with crispy, crunchy who-knows-what, with cool cole slaw. The Po'Boy sandwich is the poster child of Cajun street food. I used to get the fried oyster and shrimp Po'Boy there in the French Quarter. I'd make it into a Peacemaker by adding bacon. The delicate crunch of the bread as I took the first bite …excuse me for a moment…. OK, I'm back, and we're in Milton again. Not a bad thing, however, because I had the Zydeco Po'Boy last time I was there. The Zydeco is the Bluto of Po'Boy sandwiches there on Rt. 16. It's got a crabcake, fried shrimp and fried oysters. They are piled up about twice the height of the roll (so you have to eat a few with your fingers so you can even pick the thing up). If I had to whine about something, it would be the roll. Yes, it was perfectly fresh, and very nice as rolls go, but I yearned for that light French baguette crisp on the outside. Again, I suspect that the chef is feeling his way in these early days, and perhaps a more authentic baguette-style Po'Boy roll is in the offing. This is no reason to eschew Po'Boys' po'poys, however. The contents approach perfection. The Crawfish Étouffée lives up to its close cousin, the jambalaya. The main difference is that it's saucier and everything's not mixed together. The crawfish-laden roux-based sauce is served over a bed of rice. It's like eating a bunch of little lobster tails. Speaking of cousins, the special last night was none other than Paella. The traditional clams in the shell were replaced by happy little crawfish. Our dining companion ordered it without rice (really? The next time I'm in his restaurant I'm ordering a pizza with no crust!). Chops busting aside, it was delicious and very specifically Creole in its presentation. UPDATE: We actually go quite often, so consider this a “group update.” Some of the specials that stood out were the lobster mac & cheese with an actual lobster tail removed from the shell and placed atop a penne mac & cheese with a lightly crunchy panko crust. I think the description says it all. The lobster was perfectly cooked, and the combination of cheeses was amazing. My favorite Foodie-in-Waiting ordered Mike's own Asparagus Dumpling soup. It was like a cream pea soup with perfectly firm dumplings cavorting throughout. Last but not least one of Mike's specials is a traditional Muffuletta sandwich — well, as traditional as it can be without the crusty boule they use in New Orleans. But Mike's selection of Italian meats and the wonderful olive spread was as close to Canal Street as you'll get and still be on this side of the Mississippi. On with the show….. I can't leave you without talking about Blotto Gelato. A couple of local friends of Mike's make a line of handmade ice creams and sorbets. One of their latest creations is alcohol-based ice creams. Take your choice of three: Shimmy Shakin' Maple Bacon (brown sugar base with REALbacon and maple flavored whisky). It made its debut on Aug. 31, International Bacon Day! Or maybe Bourbon Milk (10X sugar ice cream with nutmeg and bourbon). Inspired by Bourbon Milk Punch and was a favorite of Ben Franklin's. (What else could make him fly a kite in the middle of an electrical storm!?!?!) Last but not least, On The Couch (a white sugar-base ice cream infused with cherries and cherry bourbon). After some of this delicious confection, you will understand how it got its name. Goodnight, ladies & gentlemen. Bring your ID, because you ain't gittin' any unless you can prove you're 21. YET ANOTHER ANNOYING UPDATE: The noise rating for Po'Boys has been improved from a 2.5 (it was terrible in there when crowded) to a solid 5. Owner/chef Mike Clampitt took the plunge and hired an extremely talented acoustics consultant to map out the right places to get rid of unnecessary echoes. If you left before because it was noisy, you're gonna love it now. Since the original version of this article was posted, Kathleen Balfont (owner of Blotto Gelato) took on the Delaware Powers-that-Be to reverse outdated laws that restricted the sale of food with low levels of alcohol. She has prevailed, and the Governor signed the bill into law at Po'Boys on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. So bring it on! Po'Boys Creole & Fresh Catch is officially located at 900 Palmer St. in Milton. This is a very informal place with a few colorful tchotchkes on the wall, mismatched tables and chairs and a storefront window. And that's all part of the charm. It's obvious after you go that it's all about the food. They are open for lunch and dinner from 11 – 9 and usually close Mondays and Tuesdays in the off-season. Always call to make sure (302) 684-0890. They have a small but interesting selection of craft brews. I suggest the Abita Grapefruit IPA (they also carry Turbo Dog) — if they are in season when you go. THE DFH Namaste is also delicious and they have an A#1 mug chiller for those who like their brew frosty. A couple of Dixies (including Blackened Voodoo!) are also there for the sipping — in those ice-cold pint glasses! Nice touch. Check out their website and menu by clicking here. Off-season Specials & Hours Specials & Moods change quickly. Always call a restaurant first. pp = per person. BOGO = buy one, get one. Bloody = bloody mary. domestics = American-made beers (e.g., Bud). imports = foreign beers (e.g., Heineken). Rails = non call-brand alcohol. Prix Fixe = one set price. Mains = entrees. Margs = margaritas. Chix = chicken. AYCE = all you can eat. Lite = Miller Lite drafts = draught beer. Early Birds = arrive before a certain time. Apps = Appetizers. bottles = beer in a bottle. à la carte = order off the menu (no prix fixe). crafts = micro/artisanal brews (e.g., Old Leghumper Lager) Rt. 16, on the right as you enter Milton from the east Open 11-9 for lunch & dinner The Rehoboth Foodie "My goal is to promote Rehoboth Beach dining while remaining honest and impartial. I don’t gush unless a place deserves it, and I don’t pull punches, either. With so many good places to eat around here, it just doesn’t make sense to waste the calories — or the money — on anything less." View all articles written by The Rehoboth Foodie DEMATTMAN says: We celebrated a friend’s birthday last night and glad we made a reservation for the 10 of us; the place was full up to closing time. I chose the paella from the nightly special board and happy I did! The creole concoction featured fresh shrimp, oysters and crawfish and was delicious! Our group ordered a lot of different items and shared almost all. We all left happy, satisfied and thankful to have such a wonderful New Orleans themed restaurant in our area. I heart NOLA. The gumbo is so tasty and as good as the many bowls I’ve had in the city…looking forward to trying the étouffée. I hear Po Boys is doing a nice po boy and that is next. My only complaint and what is needy of attention to convince me…their beignet. Fix that one and I’ll love you forever! Ellen Passman says: Having tried New Orleans food everywhere in the area, and been very disappointed, I am very excited that Po Boys is a Creole success. Foodies know that every restaurant has an occasional bad night, loyalty makes the pallet grow stronger …..and improves the venue. Po Boy’s gumbo has been my go to soup since the day they opened. Just getting back to town so I am look ing forward to digging into a bowl of Mike’s creation. Welcome to the neighborhood. The gelato selections sound awesome. Tuesday Night Supper says: We were regular visitors to Po Boys for the last couple of years. We have gone there often enough that the server recognized us-and knew our drink order before we even said it. The last time we ate dinner there, my husband and I were with another couple, and it was the same night that the Foodie was there (the night that Paella was the special). We ordered a fried catfish dinner, a blackened catfish dinner, a crab cake dinner and Paella. It took almost an hour to get our dinners. We would have left but we saw our dinners in the kitchen. When the dinners were brought out, the food was cold and no apologies were made. The food is excellent but I was extremely disappointed in the long wait. I don’t know if we will ever go back. I can understand that it may take longer than usual while new cooks get used to the kitchen, but no apologies were made Po Boys isnt open on Tuesdays! The Rehoboth Foodie says: Back then they were. Mike started closing on Tues. and Wed. shortly after Mardi Gras 2014. Mike Clampitt says: We are closed on Monday and Tuesdays all year long. Amy and Lee Stewart was closed those two days and I just kept it going. The only Tuesday that we are open is Fat Tuesday!!!! Our Tuesday Night Supper group reschedules (or used to) for Wednesdays to accommodate Po’Boys schedule. patrick corbett says: delighted to find PoBoy’s open on fat tuesday. what a great place to celebrate. Mike’s prix fixe menu wasn’t what l would have normally ordered but one has to get out of ones comfort zone on occasion. All was delish !!!Can’t wait to go for brunch Alex & Deb says: We went a few times last year. Food was OK, but it was different every time. Read your article here and went last week. DELICIOUS! You hit the nail on the head this time, foodie. We’re going back tonight. Doug Welch says: The food and service are excellent. Always have been for that matter. Been there 3 times this month. I tried the sausage and pepper po-boy on Thursday. Best po-boy I’ve ever eaten, and I’ve eaten many good ones during many visits to Biloxi, New Orleans, and other spots on the gulf coast. Their soups are so good, I just order one every time without looking at the menu. Great job MIke MJ Ostinato says: I usually get the scallop appetizer as my entree, maybe with a side of beans and rice, but glad you suggested that he make an entree version if it. I haven’t been there since Mike Clampitt took over, but now I’m going to make sure I do! MC says: I have known Mike Clampitt since his Tijuana Taxi days – he is one of the nicest and hardest working guys you’ll ever meet! And a fabulous chef! Once again Foodie, love your descriptions of everything. Can hardly wait to try Po’Boys. Wishing you great success Mike! Always Hungry says: Outside of the French Quarter, this is the only gumbo I’ve had that tastes like gumbo. The greens are exceptional, and the jambalaya doesn’t disappoint. The chef is excellent, and I’d like to go back soon to try the specials. Even if you don’t live in Milton, truly worth the drive! Rosenfelds Joining BFRG	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406553
__label__cc	0.748589	0.251411	The fitness wearables released at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked ’19 Wearables are no longer the clunky sidekicks of mobile manufacturers, but have taken their own rightful place among the mobile devices they work with. At Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2019, the South Korean mobile giant gave us a peak into what will be a part of the 2019 wearables line-up. The Samsung Galaxy Watch Active The latest in Samsung’s range of smartwatches is slimmer than the Galaxy Watch of yesteryear. It’s IP68 water-resist, with a 20mm strap and four colour options: black, blue silver and pink. The Galaxy Watch Active sports a 1.1-inch 360 x 360 resolution display, with two buttons on the side to turn it on and off. The standard heart rate monitor is still a staple of the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active, but there is no also a functionality that measures stress levels. Should it detect a spike in your heart rate, this watch will advise you to monitor your stress and will even recommend breathing exercises to help you calm down. Blood pressure levels can be monitored with the My BP Lab app, and there are auto-fitness modes for 39 different activities. It goes without saying that GPS tracking is a part of the offering here. The 230mAh battery in the watch charges wirelessly, and a dual-core Samsung Exynos 9110 with 768MB of RAM drives the device as it drives you. The Samsung Galaxy Fit and Galaxy Fit E This wearable device should excite fitness band fanatics. It’s a basic tracker, weighing only 24g, and is waterproof up to 50m. The Galaxy Fit is able to automatically track six different exercises, as well as tracking sleep, stress, steps and heart rate. The smaller Galaxy Fit E is even lighter than the Galaxy Fit at just 15g, but it has many of the same features as its sibling device. It is, however, rumoured to be much cheaper, ushering in an era of budget wearable devices from the third-largest mobile manufacturer in the world. Find a Run/Walk For Life Branch Recipes: FUTURELIFE® oats crumpets 5 tips to keep in mind when you’re sweating it out on the trails Smartcom is a South African mobile telecoms provider with an insatiable fervour for communication. Supplying ICT services to individuals and businesses, Smartcom always aims to provide innovative and honest communications solutions to South African consumers.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406557
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__label__wiki	0.734788	0.734788	Sixer’s Sub’s Doncaster Rovers Soapbox: it’s a good Friday on Wearside April 21, 2019 April 20, 2019 by malcolm The games are coming thick and fast as we get to the fag end and business end of the season. Pete Sixsmith and Deputy Editor Malcolm Dawson are sharing match reporting duties and Pete will be back for his take on the Peterborough and Portsmouth clashes, but today it is Malcolm who brings us his view of the goings on at the Stadium of Light on what turned out to be a pretty decent Good Friday. If you needed any proof of the influence of Salut! Sunderland the evidence was there to see yesterday, as we put the debacle of the previous weekend behind us. In my match report following the home defeat by Coventry City, I suggested it might be time to give Alim Ozturk, the second most forgotten man of the Sunderland squad (after Donald Love) a game and in midweek, Wrinkly Pete called upon the home support to get behind the team and make some noise. With the Dutchman recalled to the starting XI the crowd, especially in the recently renamed Roker End, produced their loudest and most sustained support of the season. While on social media Baldwin and Flanagan shouldered most of the blame for the inept defensive performance against the Sky Blues, that was far too simplistic an explanation for our first home defeat of the campaign. Though it was no surprise to see them both “rested” for the visit of Doncaster, it was other changes to the side and organisational adjustments which got us back on track. Coventry had no recognisable target man and as such moved the ball quickly, kept it on the ground and turned the two centre backs inside out. But there was precious little support for them from either midfield or on the flanks. With Grigg and Wyke both starting, Honeyman and Morgan had been told to play narrower and the width came from O’Nien and Oviedo who both started that game higher up the pitch. The central midfield pairing of Power and Leadbitter also appeared to have been given instructions to be positive going forward with the result that Baldwin and Flanagan were frequently exposed and Coventry exploited this. Yesterday, we played with a flat back four and though the full backs still supported the attack when they could, with Morgan and McGeady in wide positions, they could apply themselves more to their defensive duties. The return of Lee Cattermole also strengthened the central defensive midfield position and with just the single striker, Power and Honeyman helped to break down potential Doncaster threats at source. Decent return to the starting line up for Alim That’s not to say we were totally dominant but Ozturk and Dunne were fairly comfortable against the pony tailed John Marquis, who is more your traditional striker than those employed by Coventry, though he might have won a free kick on the edge of the box on six minutes when he was hauled to the ground. But I thought both centre backs played well and dealt with the Donny attacks efficiently in the main. There was one occasion when McLaughlin had to race off his line and throw his body in the way and another occasion when Ozturk maybe got away with a bit of holding. Donny manager Grant McCann certainly thought they should have had a penalty when, following a free kick and an almost inevitable yellow card for Lee Cattermole, Ozturk and Butler practised their moves for the upcoming series of Strictly Come Dancing and the Doncaster man went to ground. It might have been given on another day, but referee Andy Woolmer deemed it six of one and half a dozen of the other and throughout the afternoon he had refused to give a number of free kicks, mostly when Charlie Wyke had been held as well as that early one against Ozturk. But at least he was consistent. So we started off with four across the back, but that didn’t mean to say there was no attacking intent and we might have scored twice in the first thirty seconds. Attacking the North Stand for a change, both Power and Morgan had decent chances blocked. After all the pre-kick off flag waving the crowd was up for this and it was just the start we needed. But Doncaster in a rather smart blue and red change kit were soon on the counter attack and a long diagonal ball from Herbie Kane on the right wing found John Marquis running into space. It was then that the covering Ozturk impeded the Donny man while the referee waved play on. That was on five minutes and we were to go ahead immediately. George Honeyman who showed great energy all afternoon, buzzing about behind Wyke and behind the wingmen played the ball out wide to Aiden McGeady on the left wing. McGeady did what he does, rolled the ball, shimmied, beat his man and delivered a beautiful cross from the corner. Charlie another MoM type display Charlie Wyke, who nearly didn’t play as he was suffering from a migraine as kick off time approached, rose high between two defenders and nodded the ball down and back for Lewis Morgan who struck a powerful half volley inside the left hand post and halfway up the side netting from 16 yards. Exactly what was needed to settle any lingering nerves after the news that both Barnsley and Portsmouth had collected all three points. We were definitely on the front foot and with 14 minutes on the clock, Honeyman was again involved, this time on the opposite side as he fed Morgan. His deep cross was headed back by Mcgeady and with Wyke lurking the Doncaster defence hacked it away, but only to the onrushing Luke O’Nien. His powerful drive swerved towards the top corner, but there was a bit too much swerve and it went high and wide. Donny weren’t totally out of it but we were clearly on top at this point as Honeyman had a shot blocked, and both Power and Morgan had further chances. The second goal came from a corner, though only indirectly. Power played it short to McGeady, whose cross was headed away by the Rovers’ defence. It was like a bit of head tennis as at least two defenders headed it out of the box, Cattermole then headed it back towards halfway and a diving Honeyman stretched and headed it to Oviedo out wide. He in turn fed Max Power who sent a long diagonal ball towards the penalty spot. Donny keeper Marko Marosi came to punch it but in truth got nowhere near as his route to the ball was blocked by one of his own defenders and Jimmy Dunne who leapt highest of all to head it goalwards, where Charlie Wyke was on hand to ensure it found the back of the net. This was another fine display from Wyke who is showing the qualities which made him our marquee signing of the summer. Not only is he strong with two good feet and has a decent touch, but he is also by all accounts a top bloke. If only he had a bit more pace. All game the Lads had shown an intensity and a desire to win the ball and after another crunching tackle Lee Cattermole won the ball in the opposition half, fed Charlie Wyke who after playing a short pass to Aiden McGeady, who in turn found Oviedo on the overlap, continued his run into the box to get on the end of the Costa Rican’s cross, but his stooping header was gratefully clutched by the Slovakian keeper. We were well on top yet almost conceded just before the half time whistle sounded. The Roker End pre-kick off Herbie Kane nutmegged Max Power then tried to run by him. Had Power simply stood his ground and Kane run into him, I might have felt aggrieved that the free kick was given, but as it was the ex Wigan man raised his arm to block the run, dragged Kane down and I couldn’t argue with the decision. The left footed shot from full back Danny Andrew was powerfully struck and rattled the foot of the post. A couple of inches to the right and it would have bounced harmlessly out of play for a goal kick. A couple of inches to the left and it would have gone in. As it was it came straight back off the woodwork and fortunately there was a player in a red and white shirt in the right place to hook it to safety as the whistle blew. Doncaster needed to do something and half time brought a double substitution with forward Alfie May and attacking midfielder Allie Crawford, replacing Coppinger and Whiteman. My brother, watching the game on TV in the Three Horsehoes somewhere in Spain, texted me at full time to say he thought the second half had been a bit more scrappy and so it was, as Doncaster had more of the ball in our half of the pitch, but we defended resolutely and apart from the penalty shout I never really felt any apprehension, although I can never really settle when we are only two goals to the good. We had in fact almost got a third five minutes into the half when the ball broke for Oviedo who ran at pace down the left wing, cut into the penalty area and shot for goal from distance. The ball seemed to take a slight deflection off a defender and just like at the end of the first half, the ball hit the post in more or less the same place but this time, went safely behind. A goal kick was given and no-one seemed to contest the decision so maybe a trip to the opticians is in order. We had other chances, McGeady and Wyke might both have found the target, Wyke making space for himself after a lovely ball from the Irishman and producing a decent save from Marosi but it was Doncaster who arguably came closest as Dunne, misjudged a high ball and let May in behind him. Fortunately McLaughlin was alive to the situation and came rushing off his line to block the shot. There was the penalty shout when Ozturk wrapped his arm around Andy Butler but Butler was leaning into Ozturk. Some refs would have given it – this one didn’t. We had other opportunities. Wyke was sent clear in the first half but he wasn’t quite quick enough to get one on one with the keeper and eventually played it to McGeady who was closed down and late in the second half substitute Will Grigg had a decent shot saved. In truth this was a fairly comfortable win, though by no means a walk over. But once again the commitment was there from these players. Let’s hope that will stand us in good stead for the remaining four fixtures. The one refereeing decision which didn’t go our way was at the Pirelli Stadium where Portsmouth’s 94th minute winner against Burton should have been ruled out on two counts. Those two points mean that we still have the same total as next Saturday’s opponents, although we have improved our goal difference. Of course we still have Monday’s games to go but with a game in hand on Barnsley, Pompey’s visit could possibly be the defining moment of the promotion campaign but I suspect there will be a few more twists and turns to come before we head to Southend on Darth Vader’s birthday. Ha’way The Lads. Highlights of the game via safc.com Click the banner to land on the Salut! Sunderland home page If there is any copyright claim on the images used in this report, not answered by “fair comment” please let us know and we will remove or acknowledge as requested Categories Content Tags Charlie Wyke, Doncaster Rovers, Lewis Morgan, Sunderland A.F.C. 2 Comments Post navigation Sixer’s Sevens: Doncaster caught out by Sunderland Peterborough United vs Sunderland: the stakes are high 2 thoughts on “Sixer’s Sub’s Doncaster Rovers Soapbox: it’s a good Friday on Wearside” However this season ends (I tell myself I’m ready for anything… but I’m not, really), it’s been the best in a long time for sheer entertainment and excitement. I’ve been amazed by the quality of the football played in League One and the closeness of some of the teams. Shattering as it was at the time to plummet straight down through the Championship, I don’t think we’ve been short-changed one bit. I’ve said it before and I’ll no doubt say it again – huge credit to Jack Ross for leading a largely unknown squad who came in with no sense of entitlement, just an awful lot to prove. And they’ve proved it. Ha’way the lads! Excellent report – detailed and accurate. A word of thanks too for the people who organized the changes to the Roker end, which have resulted in a huge improvement of the match day atmospere.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406562
__label__cc	0.583569	0.416431	View from the Avenue: ‘what must happen before I watch Sunderland again’ September 12, 2017 September 12, 2017 by Colin Randall Paul Summerside: staying away until a certain individual departs Monsieur Salut writes: I detected little optimism in close season about our prospects for a quick return to the Premier League, Hope, yes, but we always suffer from that. I imagine you’d get pretty long odds just now on us recovering from a dismal start and getting back up. As things stand, there’s more chance of winning something playing live casino games than of the present bunch of players leading a determined charge on the top six, let alone the top two. But we can probably all agree the start to the season has been rather more dismal than most of us expected. Pete Sixsmith’s second goal update from the Stadium of Light reported the start of the exodus vs Sheffield United. And now Paul Summerside, briefly optimistic about the Simon Grayson era, has returned to the sulky gloom he experienced as Sunderland wasted everyone’s time last season (the old Jeremy Robson joke – ‘shall we just fax the points to you and save us all the trouble of staging or attending a game?’- rang true week after week). Paul has sparked a lively debate at the Salut! Sunderland Facebook group* on the correct response, as he sees it, to the terrible malaise afflicting our club. His is drastic … So here we are six games in, and the first walk out of the season. Chants of “you’re not fit to wear the shirt” and “are you watching Ellis Short?”. The response to the first statement is that they are not and, to the second one, a simple No. Squad-wise, this ramshackle bunch of players made up from last season’s nightmare, some loanees and frees, and money signings of £1.25m, is comfortably THE worst since we visited the old division 3. Board-wise, Short’s interests lie purely in reducing the club’s overall debt, so he can sell us on. Asap. No more significant money will be invested on players until this happens. We had a chance during the transfer window to attract quality, but mucked that up by losing at Barnsley, McCormack, Snodgrass, Leadbitter and Lees all deciding against joining us. I understand the walk outs, having walked out myself a number of times myself last season. Its a rant, a complaint … but unfortunately only one person is listening, Simon Grayson, and he is powerless to do anything. All down to Short. Walk outs have no effect; you’ve paid your money or bought your season ticket. The ONLY way Ellis Short can be forced out is the embarrassment of an empty stadium at kick off. Disloyal? Extreme? Necessary? I’ll leave you to decide. But I will never return to the SoL until the root of our troubles, Ellis Short, has been removed. I want the best for my club, but can no longer support the current set up. I am officially in football limbo. * Paul’s analysis is probably shared by many. Another poor result, this time against Nottingham Forest, would have a devastating effect even on the morale of those who consider themselves loyal and determined to keep the faith. But is his decision to boycott the club for as long as Short remains in charge wise, proportionate and fair? It is easy for me to question his judgement; I am in France for another few weeks and have not had to suffer any live SAFC football so far. Let us know what you think, before and after tonight’s game. And feel free to take a look at the Facebook group, which has a creditable 730 members and is open to all * And see our great buildup to SAFC vs Nottingham Forest by visiting the Salut! Sunderland home page and navigating from there One of Jake’s wonders Categories Content Tags Ellis Short, Sunderland 4 Comments Post navigation Nottingham Forest guess the score. Will it be the first win at the SOL this year? Sixer’s Sevens v Nottingham Forest: poor up front and weak at the back 4 thoughts on “View from the Avenue: ‘what must happen before I watch Sunderland again’” I don’t agree as regards a boycott Malcolm. An organised boycott is the only thing left to which we can resort. The alternative is a slow and painful dribble away of support. Let’s get this over with and have some organisation within our ranks. It would be a great morale booster too, nothing like strength in numbers. It is up to organisations such as yourselves who have the platform and the ability to generate publicity. I wasn’t dismissing the idea of a boycott Tom. What I meant was that people are drifting away in their thousands and the empty seats in the stadium are becoming increasingly visible anyway. Official attendances seem bigger than the actual numbers. Does the club count the number of clicks of the turnstile or are all season ticket holders automatically included? I got the feeling towards the end of last season that the official attendance was substantially more than the number of bums on seats. “But we can probably all agree the start to the season has been rather more dismal than most of us expected.” No I don’t agree I’m afraid. If you can be bothered to look back through my past comments since the end of last season you will see that I said a) we would be lucky to avoid relegation, b) there was more likelihood that we would do a Wigan, a Blackpool or a Portsmouth than a N”?a*e and c) our summer business left us with a League 1 squad playing in the Championship. I have been harking on for years (literally) about the way the club has been mismanaged since Short took the reins. Nothing that occurred over the summer made me think better times lay ahead. The chance to consolidate went before Big Sam was lured away. The end of that season was the time to invest, push on and build on the team spirit that brought about that great escape. Instead what happened? Nowt – sweet FA and that doesn’t stand for Football Association. In my intro to Sixer’s Sheffield United Soapbox I explained that whilst Short was in charge I could no longer bring myself to put more money into the club. I even accused myself of hypocrisy by suggesting that I’d feel differently had we been winning and playing attractive football, then I thought “Hang on! If we were playing attractive football and winning it would be because the club was being properly run” so I’m withdrawing that accusation. It may not mean much to Ellis Short and the football club if I don’t fork out for match tickets and a new away top (I’d not buy the home one anyway) but it will when thousands refuse do so. Paul sums up the way I and by the sound of it, most of the hard core of long standing followers of the club are feeling. We don’t need an organised boycott. People have already started staying away and after tonight it’ll take a few good results to tempt back the waverers. The probability is there will be more empty seats as people like Paul and me refuse to go until Short has gone. I’m glad I didn’t renew my ST as I don’t have the heartache of feeling that I’ve wasted my money like I began to do last year. Can’t fault a word or the sentiment here, or the mixed up feeling for the Club. But, its not our Club anymore it a rich mans plaything, and like so often happens when the plaything is broken it’s disregarded (see Toy Story), except this ain’t Hollywood. Reality is that the latest Club advertising stint, harking back to the days of the Northeast as an industrial powerhouse built on the hard work of the working class, is as close to reality as our current team. Little or no local players, no synergy/ identity with the support other than the meet and greet for the cash they earn. The whole thing is soulless, just look at the Premiership, where a winning team of foreigners is sufficient to keep the fans happy. It’s all pathetic but we are where we are now. How to protest in the modern game???? Stay away???, demonstrate????, Short is the archetypal absentee landlord, it difficult to get your point across to someone who is not there and doesn’t care anyway. We are at the abyss!!!!!! But I still put us down to win tonight.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406563
__label__cc	0.609383	0.390617	Skip to Content \| Skip to Nav \| SA Mental Health Commission Community Advisory Committee & Youth Advisory Group The SA Mental Health & Wellbeing Group (SAMHWG) SA Mental Health Strategic Plan Implementing the Plan – The Projects SAMHC Principles of Community Engagement Mental Wellbeing in Sport Mental Wellbeing in Sport Resources Promotion & Awareness SMS4dadsSA Anti-stigmatisation Campaign Recovering from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) I’m Still Me Commissioner Burns Medications and your Oral Health What Makes a Good Mental Health Nurse? Intelligence Bites Changing the Language & Self Care Pocket Guides Mental Health First Aid Training Mindframe Reporting Guidelines Ava Keyes: The story of the young kid who’s a family scapegoat May 29, 2019 By SA Mental Health Commission You are here: Home / Special Guest Blogger / Ava Keyes: The story of the young kid who’s a family scapegoat The story of the young kid who’s a family scapegoat SAMHC Featured Blogger: Ava Keyes* South Australian Author At first glance, writing a children’s book about a family of goats which bullies one kid may not seem related to mental health or mental illness. But there is a huge connection between mental health and family bullying/scapegoating yet it’s often invisible to the world. When I look back, my whole life experience has compelled me to write this book to advocate for the child who is the family scapegoat. Because I was the family scapegoat. So what is scapegoating? It’s the recurrent and insidious pattern of blaming and shaming and a lack of empathy and respect for the designated family scapegoat child. The scapegoat child can be rejected, excluded, blamed, picked on and constantly put down so they feel different, bewildered and abandoned. Scapegoating is not the occasional blaming or anger by a parent of a child because they’re stressed. Scapegoating is contempt and disdain that is sustained over time; it is not a ‘one off.’ There is, for example, a difference in how the parent treats the scapegoat child, compared to other people and children. Scapegoat children don’t experience unconditional love and neither are they encouraged and validated by their parents. They are devalued with putdowns like: “Is there something wrong with you?”, “Thank goodness for pharmaceuticals“, “Can’t you behave like a normal child?” or “Get over it, you’re so sensitive.” From the outside, my younger years were ideal and normal but I experienced secret, intergenerational family violence and trauma. As a child, I often felt confused by the way my family bullied me. I was called a loser, wrong, useless, crazy, a lunatic, insane, weak and told I had inherited my family’s “bad genes.” I was the one who was left at home more than my other siblings to keep my mum company. I was ignored by my mother – sometimes for several days – and then I was criticised and physically abused. I would fret about how to win her approval again. Then, one day, she would suddenly be nice and, because I loved dancing, she promised I would be taken to a Calisthenics class. I didn’t attend one class. In contrast, one sibling was encouraged and coached to follow their interests. They were given a horse and allowed to make scones and cook in the kitchen. I was punished if I tried to do any cooking. In my older years, I realise scapegoating is similar to the cycle of domestic violence and that there are simply no words for a young child to describe or make sense of the situation. In fact, people are quite accepting of different parenting styles and often they can believe that the family scapegoat child is the problem. I have seen and experienced well-meaning professional people mirror and join in, identifying the scapegoat as the problem. As a scapegoat, you get to the point where you just give up, and disappear into mental illness. Families without this pattern are different, so much stronger, healthier, there for each other, peaceful and joyful. But I do understand that people cling to this scapegoat system through fear, trauma and shame; it is the best default mechanism for survival these families know, and services are not always equipped to provide an alternative option. Some of the behaviour to look out for is a parent who shows a pattern of disrespect, rejection, irritation, enmeshment, favouritism, negative and controlling or overly worrying behaviour directed towards one particular child. The scapegoat child has emotional needs like all children. The difference is they are rejected with toxic and disapproving looks, criticism, passive-aggressive reactions and dismissive comments. During my time employed in mental health services, I felt frustrated and horrified, by the obvious damage to people from family bullying. I wanted to do something to solve this problem. If somebody had told me that this wasn’t my fault at age six or seven, it would have saved my self-esteem. My inner critic would be silenced before my anxiety became excruciating and before I had absorbed the shame thrown at me. I went looking for something to help explain family bullying and its connection to mental illness, in particular a book in child-friendly language to help the family scapegoat child. But there were no resources available and services seemed not to understand or care for these scapegoat children. This type of child abuse was silent and invisible. So I created my own book to help children realise it is not their fault. The messages in the book support their mental health and reduce the internalisation of shame and blame. I hope it prevents mental illness, intergenerational family violence and trauma. I had a lot of help from many kind people: poet Jo, the editor, publisher Little Steps, illustrator, graphic designer, my partner, friends, family, professionals who work with children, writing groups and thank you also to the seven-year-old who asked, “I don’t understand?” And I am optimistic that, in the future, there will be more understanding and knowledge about this subject and more resources, empathy and advocacy for family scapegoat children. By Ava Keyes* *Ava Keyes is a pen name used by the author to protect her privacy. Ava has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Flinders University. Her debut picture book, Scapegoat, aims to provide a valuable resource for children who experience a specific kind of family bullying – family scapegoating. 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__label__wiki	0.537631	0.537631	Scandinavian Association of Western Australia Inc. Bringing together Scandinavians in WA Scanpost Useful Contacts & Links The Scandinavian Association brings together Scandinavians living and working in Western Australia. Our great Nordic House in Thornlie, is open every Saturday 2pm – 5pm for coffee, cake and chats. We have a great Library of books, DVDs and CDs of mixed languages for members to borrow and the centre can be hired out for events. The association is open to anyone with an interest in Scandinavian culture, languages and people. Please contact us if you are interested in becoming a member or connecting with our dynamic community. The objectives of the Scandinavian Association of WA are: To promote the harmonious interrelationship between Scandinavia and Australia. To hold functions to maintain the traditions of Scandinavia, including the national days. To maintain premises for the purpose of providing social and cultural activities. Save the date — coming events June–October Social Saturday BBQ — 30 March at 5.30pm Save the date — Events in March and April Danish Christmas Church Service — Monday 17th December Children’s Christmas Party — Sunday 9 December Images shown on this site are used by permission of the copyright owners. See our Image Credits page for details.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406579
__label__cc	0.675676	0.324324	Selena Vidya You are here: Home / Blockchain / Blockchain’s Impact on Creators & Entertainment Blockchain’s Impact on Creators & Entertainment posted on 7 February, 2018 Conference: Digital Entertainment World 2018 I didn’t get a chance to spend as much time at this conference as I would have liked, but the sessions that I sat in on were 🔥. My world’s basically interesect at the corner of technology and entertainment, and Digital Entertainment World had a plethora of panels and sessions around these topics. My brain was all OMGOMGOMG ENTERTAINMENT AND TECHNOLOGY AND CRYPTOCURRENCY AND ARTISTS AND CREATORS AND… ded. The difficult thing about this conference (as it is with most) is there are sooooo many tracks running at the same time, that you always have to forego something you wanna see in order to catch something else. As such, I spent the majority of my time this year in the RightsTech side of things to hear how blockchain is effecting the entertainment industry and being utilized. First, I have to say something about CryptoKitties. If you’re not familiar with it, CryptoKitties is a game where you can basically buy and breed cats (digital assets) that have particular genetic makeups that are unique to yours. Your cat lives on the blockchain, and it’s make up is encoded in the smart contract. There’s been a ton of kitties being sold for thousands (and hundreds of thousands) of dollars because they’ve essentially picked up value as a collectible; ala what you may have seen manyyyy years ago with things like beanie babies. I won’t go into too much detail here, but the talk with the founder, Mack, was super interesting because he talked a lot about the idea of crypto collectibles and digital assets. Cryptocurrency has become a mainstream term the past year, because of the soaring prices that Bitcoin (the OG in the space) saw, even though it’s been around for many years now. I actually remember when it was first publicly discussed – my friend and old colleague Ryan were sitting in our office working on SEO stuff, when we “Bitcoin” starting hitting Reddit. It’s been a wild ride since then, but I think it’s important to note that a lot of people know what cryptocurrency is, but don’t really understand blockchain and smart contracts. It’s OK to not have all the technical knowledge in the world — as long as its broken out in a way the public can understand, it can open their eyes to a place beyond the “get rich quick” cryptocurrency hype they’ve been hearing. Now, back to your regularly scheduled program! The “Does Hollywood Need Blockchain” was an extremely interesting one, because it really shows value and purpose for a particular niche industry, but in a way that impacts the individual and not necessarily the business. The panel consisted of… Jim Helman, CTO, MovieLabs Amorette Jones, CEO, Pivotal Entertainment Steve Stewart, CEO & Co-Founder, Vezt Ron Wheeler, SVP, Content Protection and Technology Strategy, Twentieth Century Fox It’s no surprise that studios, distribution companies, retailers, labels, agents, managers, and every OTHER middle man in the entertainment industry takes a cut of what a creator or artist makes. Musicians don’t have access to their data and yet their label takes X percentage. Indie filmmakers can have exponential costs and sometimes aren’t really in control of their own vehicle. I talked about how “starving artists” are a myth, and part of me thinks (knows) that the gatekeepers don’t want artists and creators to have access to their data and direct connections to their fans, because once they start handling the business side of things, there will be a lessened need for the middle man. Blockchain can help change that, so that the majority of the power is back in the hands of the creator/artist. Some quotes/thoughts from the panel: “We need to reward others for their data. Community and creators ARE valued.” – Amorette Jones On the music side, I was really excited to hear about Vezt. I grew up around music and bands (fun fact, I tried to started a music marketing company in my late teens and was going to move to LA and manage bands) and I constantly watched how hard it was for my sister and her band, along with friend’s bands, to get music out there and continually build an audience. All that has changed in the past decade +. Vezt can essentially allow microfunding for musicians; they can set the price and put 1% of their song out there so they can actually profit. Eventually, song rights can be monetized in a way that hasn’t been possible. At some point, we can put money back in the hands of the artist by using blockchain to track royalties, so that artists aren’t waiting 8-10 months for them. There was also discussion around gatekeepers and intermediaries. If we can disintermediate and have less middlemen, there can be a stronger connection between the creator and fan. As Amorette Jones said, “Data helps with continuous feedback on what to produce. They currently don’t have direct consumer data.” “Content is king, but data is the keys to the kingdom. Creators do not have their consumer data. Vezt allows the creator to be connected to the consumer/fan.” Steve Stewart. What struck me most about the conversations on the panel were three things: The artist/creators right to consumer data. Gatekeepers often have their thumbs on artists/creators because the gatekeepers bogart data and have more insight into it than they do. Using blockchain and/or smart contracts can help for tracking purposes, auditing purposes, data purposes, and also expediting value and payment. I wish I could write more on this topic, but I ended up leaving to beat traffic (because, driving 12 miles for over an hour did not seem fun to me). What industries or sectors do you feel that blockchain and smart contract technologies can make the most impact in? Do you have any companies that you’re currently interested in? Share, if you're feelin' it: Filed Under: Blockchain Tagged With: blockchain, cryptocurrency, entertainment, smart contracts Wanna Get Coffee & Collab? Looking for a consultant, wanna brainstorm, or have a potential film project? Let's chat! Send me a Note	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406587
__label__cc	0.575659	0.424341	Nine Seven Pta + Moonunitt @ Sing Sing Kill Brewery « Poses 2 Pints @ Sing Sing Kill Brewery Tanakh Study with Rabbi David Holtz » Experimental hip hop / alternative R&B artist Nine Seven Pta and psychadelic rock outfit Moonunitt will be taking the taproom by storm to ring in the new year! Join us for a great show filled with good music, good drinks, good people and good times! No cover. Nine Seven Pta is the experimental hip hop and R&B endeavor of Ossining native Justin Thomas Ciuzio. With a music catalogue that spans many different styles and topics, mixed with his indistinguishable music video catalog, Nine Seven Pta has proven himself to be a musical act unlike any other in the local Westchester music scene. He’s ranked in over 8,000 monthly streams on Spotify and Apple Music collectively and has a multitude of songs with streaming numbers in the thousands. You can stream his debut album “Death of Cinema” and give his music videos a look below. Death of Cinema: https://song.link/album/i/1466690895 Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/justinciuzio With their beginning roots stemming from Ossining, psychedelic rock outfit Moonunitt are a New Paltz based band who have garnered a great following in both the New Paltz and Westchester music scene. Mixing classic rock inspired song structures with psychedelic elements- all while sporting an energetic live performance- Moonunitt are a band on the come up that you are gonna want to keep an eye on. Their debut album “Like a Dream” is currently in the works, but you’re able to stream their self titled EP as well as various other singles on their Bandcamp below! Bandcamp: https://www.moonunitt.bandcamp.com Alcoholic, Music, Night Out Sing Sing Kill Brewery Ossining, NY 10562 United States + Google Map http://www.singsingkillbrewery.com/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406593
__label__cc	0.542511	0.457489	29 November 2019 / SF News / Jay Barmann "We needed it!" That's what everyone is saying. And of course, yes. Let's put an end to this fire nonsense for another 10 months. But after today's reprieve, we all need to settle in for a long week of rain every day starting on Saturday. Open your Weather app (if you have an iPhone) and see for yourself. As the Bay Area's bureau of the National Weather Service tells us, strong winds and heavy rains are due by Saturday afternoon with one of those "atmospheric rivers" header our way. It's the first in a series of storms that will cover most of the week, with a break only possible on Wednesday, as the Chronicle reports. Another storm hits Thursday and will keep dumping on us through next Saturday. An atmospheric river is on the way and expected to bring strong winds and heavy rainfall to the region beginning midday tomorrow. Take a look at our forecast peak wind gusts and storm total rain (one from our local office and one from the national @NWSWPC ).#cawx pic.twitter.com/92wKuk0fLm — NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) November 29, 2019 Drew Peterson, a NWS meteorologist, tells the Chronicle that "For the average person, it's going to seem like it's raining all the time." San Francisco and Oakland are expected to see two inches of rain over the next seven days. And there's a flood watch in effect for fire-scorched parts of Sonoma County starting at 1 a.m. Saturday, with three to four inches of rain expected up there. Up in Tahoe, where some spots have gotten up to three feet of fresh snow in recent days, another foot or two is likely to fall. So, while a few weeks ago people were nervous that fire season would extend into December, the wetness has finally arrived. Here's hoping it continues, at least through February, but not like El Nino style and with plenty of sunny breaks in between. Scenes From The 2020 Women's Marches Across The Bay Area The SF Zoo Is Looking For Help Naming Their Newest Koala Mayor Breed Announces She's Added 1,065 New Shelter Beds Since 2018 Post-blackout inspections showed 218 cases of busted equipment that could have made this fire season a whole lot worse had they not been turned off. Injury Accident Causes Severe Traffic on Northbound 280 in SF A collision involving an overturned vehicle and multiple injuries has shut down all northbound lanes of 280 near the 101 split in San Francisco Friday morning. Jay Barmann Jay C. Barmann is a fiction writer and web editor who's lived in San Francisco for 19 years.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406597
__label__cc	0.573751	0.426249	29 November 2019 / SF News / Joe Kukura Post-blackout inspections showed 218 cases of busted equipment that could have made this autumn’s wildfires a lot worse. Thanksgiving week is generally a rather slow news week, but not for the bankrupt and beleaguered PG&E. On Wednesday, a bankruptcy judge shot down PG&E’s request to lop billions of dollars off its liabilities in 2017 and 2018 wildfires, and the company’s stock continued to plummet. But there are separate court proceedings underway about the utility’s forced blackouts in both early October and late October. On that front, the Chronicle reports that in a Friday court filing, PG&E admitted they’d found 218 cases of damaged equipment that all could have caused additional sparks and wildfire risk. This is particularly significant in light of the revelation that a PG&E tower “malfunctioned” at the very time and spot that the Kincade fire started. The cause of that fire is still under investigation, and the report of these 218 busted parts comes from an inventory of equipment that PG&E performed before turning shut-off power lines back on. In a statement to KTLA, PG&E said that “In 2019, there have been no fatalities and no structures destroyed in any wildfire that may have been caused by PG&E distribution lines.” That’s very artful wording — for one, it ignores PG&E’s delayed maintenance that appears to have caused the 2018 Camp Fire. On top of that, it gives PG&E the benefit of the doubt that all of the fires whose causes are still under investigation were definitely not caused by the utility. This case goes all the way back to the 2010 San Bruno explosion, for which we know that a PG&E pipeline was responsible, and the company is still on probation for it. These hearings are probationary updates now required of PG&E. (The bankruptcy case is a separate legal proceeding.) In a sense, you might say the system worked here; PG&E shut off the power lines, there was indeed faulty equipment, and post-shutoff investigations identified future possible risks. But the faulty equipment problem has been an ongoing thing with this company, as has been delaying maintenance while lavishly indulging its executives. And in all likelihood, if the company were not on probation right now, we probably would never would have been informed that the company has hundreds of busted parts and jumpers currently in use all over the state. Related: PG&E Shutoffs Hit Grocery Stores and Restaurants Hard [SFist] Image: Presidio of Monterey: DLIFLC & USAG via Flickr 61-Story Tower Designed By Salesforce Tower Architects Will Be SF's 5th Tallest Friday Morning Constitutional: Contra Costa County to Dismiss Marijuana Convictions Day Around the Bay: BART Board Unanimously Approves Ambassador Program Saturday Links: Winter Is Here Record-breaking cold (and rainy!) weather is officially upon us, an Oakland cleaning crew found a "vintage" hand grenade inside an East Bay home yesterday, there's a Christmas tree shortage this year that's causing prices to jump up, and more Saturday links. Joe Kukura	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406598
__label__wiki	0.729722	0.729722	The Assassin (2015) Drama, Foreign They say the world was slow before the Information Age, When everything was hastened into busyness and rage. Before the start of coal and steel and trains to move them round, I guess that life was slower still and much less schedule-bound. So think of how much slower life was centuries ago: Compared with now, it might seem that the world was in slo-mo. But once the novelty had worn, you’d want your time restored, ‘Cause when the world was slower, it was also very bored. MPAA rating: Not Rated (should be PG-13) I can’t remember the last movie I saw that was such a complete and excruciating waste of time. I had heard The Assassin was a slow but beautifully shot Chinese epic, but my gosh, I had no inkling as to how slow it would be. As I once described 2001: A Space Odyssey, this is the definition of artsy-fartsy: artsy because yes, there is cinematic skill on display, and fartsy because it stinks nonetheless. The Assassin’s plot, such as it is, is about a woman named Yinniang trained from a young age as an assassin, whose mentor sends her to prove her ruthlessness by killing Yinniang’s own cousin, the military governor of an autonomous province. Even if I wanted to recount the rest of the story, I don’t know that I could because it was so inscrutable. There’s talk of backstabbing loyalists to the Emperor and someone’s wife getting pregnant and an assassination attempt other than Yinniang’s, and honestly I couldn’t keep track of the convoluted mess being barely explained in front of me. One bald guy seems to be pulling strings from the shadows but is never identified; even after some soldiers barged in and shot him with arrows, I still didn’t know who he was supposed to be. On top of this narrative opacity, all the plot elements I mentioned belie the fact that very little actually happens. Seriously, this 105-minute film has less dialogue than a typical half-hour TV show, and it seems to drag out its story by padding every sentence with interminably long shots of characters staring gloomily ahead, with not enough context or effort to lend their expressions any meaningful emotion. This might be forgivable if the action scenes could make up for it, since this is supposed to be a wuxia film, but Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon this is not. The martial arts are oddly placed and very brief, often with jarringly abrupt endings. At one point, Yinniang walks through the woods, trades sword slashes with a briefly glimpsed masked woman, manages to cut off a piece of the mask, and they both walk away with no words spoken. Did the filmmakers not care how many questions scenes like that would bring up? Obviously not, since they never try to explain it. I just want to point out that I am a very patient person. I can spend hours working on a jigsaw puzzle. I’ve watched uneventful potential snoozefests like Into Great Silence, Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, The Wall, and Metropolis and typically tried to recognize the best in them. I greatly enjoyed and admired The Red Turtle, and that didn’t have any dialogue at all! But The Assassin was a complete and utter waste of my time, a film I only finished because of my personal policy to finish any movie I start, unless it’s outright offensive, which this wasn’t. After preserving some hope for the first half hour, I spent the remainder just wishing it would end already. I wanted every scene toward the end to be the last because I knew it would try for some enigmatic conclusion I wouldn’t understand anyway so why did it matter where it stopped? If I had to pick something, I suppose I appreciated the cinematography, such as some of the landscapes and a carefully composed scene shot through a transparent curtain. But trust me when I say this film is not worth your time. I’ve included the trailer below because every scene of worth is in there; just watch that instead, disregard the critical praise, and do something more interesting with your 105 minutes, like maybe watching paint dry. Best line: There were none! Rank: (Very) Dishonorable Mention VC Pick: The Red Violin (1998) Drama, Meet 'em and Move on, Mystery Where was this music before it came here To strum my emotions and tickle my ear? Where did this instrument formerly play Before it revived to distinguish this day? In hand-crafted wood, in dormancy kept, Awaiting their moment, the melodies slept Until the right hand, the right passion and skill Compelled euphony from its prison to spill. What hearts has it shattered? What lives has it blessed, As lifelong companion or transient guest? I cannot be sure of what lies in repose In the unwritten symphony it alone knows. MPAA rating: R (mainly for a couple scenes with unnecessary nudity) My VC obviously knows what I like. I had never even heard of this Canadian drama, but the way she described it piqued my interest. Indeed, it turned out to be exactly what I’d hoped, a Meet-‘Em-and-Move-On movie, my favorite unofficial subgenre in which a character’s life or journey introduces them to a parade of acquaintances and influences that typically brings their story full circle. Forrest Gump and War Horse are good examples, but whereas those follow a person or animal, The Red Violin follows the titular instrument as it passes from owner to owner through centuries, finding new meaning in the hands of each player. The Red Violin is really five stories in one, and while it’s not as potentially confusing as Cloud Atlas, the narrative does jump around a bit. In a way, it begins at the end, with the violin being put up for auction, before leaping back to its creation at the hands of an Italian master (Carlo Cecchi) in 1681. From there, the violin passes on to 18th-century Austria, 19th-century England, and Communist China. I absolutely loved the editing that wove connections between stories that share little in common other than the violin. In between each new tale, we return to the 1600s, where the violin maker’s wife receives a tarot card reading, and we revisit the auction house in 1997, where every bidder has a unique reason for wanting this particular violin. There’s a great deal of authenticity to each vignette, allowing us to grasp the time and place even without an explanatory subtitle. Each tale plays out in the language of the country—Italian, German, English, Chinese, etc.—and there aren’t many recognizable actors to call attention to themselves, Samuel L. Jackson being the only big name star. (Some may also recognize Jason Flemying, Colm Feore, and Greta Scacchi.) The music is fantastic, both the feigned violin playing itself and the compositions, both graceful and aggressive, by John Corrigliano, who won the Oscar for Best Score, and it adds even more sophistication to the elegant camerawork and production design. By the end, I wasn’t positive how I felt about The Red Violin, but my admiration for it has grown with time. I especially admire how, in its journey through history, the violin becomes a symbol of everything music can stand for: a true love, a damaging obsession, an inspiring muse, a steep cost, a science to study, a cause for persecution, a treasure worth protecting. It’s imperfectly ambitious and didn’t provoke the strong emotions I usually expect from a Meet-‘Em-and-Move-On, but it was still an engaging and epic journey, punctuated by a revelation that wasn’t exactly a twist but more of a slow realization confirmed by the end. Beautiful, sad, and passionate in equal measure, The Red Violin is proof that my VC’s tastes sometimes do match my own. Cars 3 (2017) Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Pixar, Sports The world will see you as they choose, No matter how they may deny. They see exteriors so well It takes hard work to break that shell, To prove you’re more than meets the eye And pay the greater dues. The world’s opinions can infect And sap the will to prove them wrong. You balk on whether to begin, But those who don’t will never win. To everyone such doubts belong, So prove them incorrect. I’m sure many, like me, approached Pixar’s third Cars movie with some hesitance, unsure if it was being made as a more fitting end for the series than Cars 2 or because Disney and Pixar were just trying to cash in on one of their most profitable (and least loved) franchises. While I still wasn’t sure through the first half of the movie, I’m glad to say it’s the former. Cars 3 is far more like the original than the over-the-top sequel, returning its sights to Lightning McQueen and the racing world and totally ignoring all the spy stuff of its immediate predecessor. Thankfully, Mater is once again a mere side character too. Early on, we’re treated to a montage of Lightning’s time in the sun as a racing champ. After years on top, though, he’s suddenly outclassed by newcomer Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer), and much as Lightning overshadowed the King in the first film, analysts and fans are suddenly enamored with Storm’s ascent and scientifically proven training. After pushing himself too far, Lightning faces a career crisis when his contract is sold to a new owner named Sterling (Nathan Fillion, who I’m glad is still finding work), and his future in racing comes down to raw performance and perhaps a new way to train with motivational coach Cruz Ramirez (Cristela Alonzo). I will say this felt like one of Pixar’s more uneven films, making me wonder at times whether it was more like the first or the second Cars in terms of story quality and character interactions. There were times in the first half when things just felt “off” for a Pixar film, like when Bonnie Hunt’s Sally encourages Lightning in highly generic fashion, and some of the new characters take some time to get used to them. Yet as the story develops, Cars 3 grows into a worthy conclusion for the series. It’s also a fitting farewell to two members of the original voice cast who have since died, Paul Newman as Doc Hudson and Tom Magliozzi of “Car Talk” fame as one of Lightning’s Rust-eze sponsors, both of whom are sort of resurrected via pre-recorded audio, which is underused but still touching. All of the other cast members (save for George Carlin) return as well, except for Michael Keaton as Chick Hicks, replaced by the very different-sounding Bob Peterson. Lightning’s story is all about whether he’ll give up and ride on his fame or risk damaging his reputation by striving further than he is able, a strong yet subtle conflict with real-world parallels, such as tennis player Roger Federer for example. (My VC and I love him and have debated whether he should quit while he’s ahead, yet he keeps on eking out wins.) Lightning’s main goal is to be able to choose when he quits rather than being forced out of the game as Doc was. Yet by being constantly called a “legend,” he sees that everyone considers him past his prime, and Cruz makes it very clear that she considers him old as dirt. Despite her initial presumptions, though, Cruz becomes something that Lightning has never had before, a protégé, one who has offered so much support to others through training that she’s never kept any of that confidence for herself. The fact that she is played by a Latina woman is no coincidence either, and she becomes a fine example for minority underdogs daring to be taken seriously. The dynamic between Lightning and Cruz isn’t without its bumps, but how it plays out by the end is a clever realization of both of their goals and a perfect way of bringing Lightning’s character full circle. As I said, except for maybe a couple racers, Cars 3 essentially ignores Cars 2 altogether, with not a single mention of the spy plot and even casting off key details. For instance, Cars 2 mentioned that the Piston Cup had been renamed in Doc’s honor, but here it’s the Piston Cup again. Plus, I noticed a scene in my recent viewing of Cars 2 where Lightning had product endorsements and plenty of merchandise, making me wonder why he is now so reluctant to “cash in” as a brand. Personally, I think Cars 2 was all a dream or one of Mater’s tall tales because Cars 3 stays as relatively grounded as the first film and thus is a far better continuation of its story. Despite a rocky start, Cars 3 turns out to be a superior sequel than the cash grab it might have been, raising Pixar’s animation quality even higher and providing a satisfying end to the trilogy. At least until they come up with a Cars 4. Please, Pixar, this franchise is one case where you should quit while you’re ahead. Best line: (Smokey, Doc’s former crew chief) “You’ll never be the racer you once were. You can’t turn back the clock, kid. But you can wind it up again.” Rank: List-Worthy (joining the first Cars) Opinion Battles Round 18 Favourite High School Film Posted by sgliput in Movies Don’t forget to vote for your favorite high school movie in Round 18 of Opinion Battles over at Movie Reviews 101! Plenty of good choices, but I had to pick The Breakfast Club, the quintessential ’80s high school classic. Opinion Battles Round 18 Favourite High School Film High School movies are films that we can all relate too, we all went to school and had a mix of good and bad times there, we have seen the changes as the generation have come through new technologies and styles just to fit in. with this we will see just what are the most popular High School movies. If you want to join the next round of Opinion Battles we will be take on What is your Least Favourite Book Adaptation, to enter email your choice to moviereviews101@yahoo.co.ukby Saturday 16th September 2017. Darren – Movie Reviews 101 A subject where I could easily have picked three different films, I went with the one I could just about what the most, for me 10 Things I Hate About has the most going on, we have… Action, Animation, Comedy, Family, Pixar, Sports, Thriller Imagine a world of living cars, With windshields for eyes and mouths in their grills. Now picture that some are elite racing stars, And some are so junky, they’re fit for landfills. Okay, so you got it? That’s good. Picture now One racecar is cocky and needs a good lesson. He’s stuck in a small town, which helps him somehow Find more happiness than what he had success in. You with me? All right, after that, visualize A worldwide grand prix and an evil car plot, And British car spies to take on the bad guys And a tow truck that helps doing what he ought not And maybe explosions and one car that flies. The racecar’s there too, as a mere afterthought. Wait, where are you going? No need to be cruel. It may not be perfect, but it will look cool! MPAA rating: G (PG would probably be better, since cars are actually killed in this one) Before I review Cars 3, I thought I should get to the one Pixar film I haven’t covered yet, the black sheep of the Cars franchise and Pixar in general, Cars 2. Up until 2011, it seemed that Pixar could do no wrong, which I can say as someone who still greatly enjoys the first Cars, even if it is a rip-off of Doc Hollywood. Yet the first non-Toy Story sequel in Pixar’s lineup proved to be quite the mixed bag; it remains the only Pixar movie to have a “Rotten” score of 39% on Rotten Tomatoes. It follows Lightning McQueen on a worldwide racing grand prix, which is threatened (and overshadowed) by an evil cabal of lemon cars that only British secret agents and Mater can prevent from fulfilling their heinous plot. Whereas other Pixar films utilize inspiration to tell charming and relatable stories, Cars 2 is inspiration run amok and not really in a good way. Cars established the world of sentient automobiles that has become Pixar’s biggest cash cow, and despite the outlandishness of its surface concept, the actual events of the plot were fairly down-to-earth, urging racing hotshot Lightning McQueen to slow down and enjoy the ride. By incorporating international espionage and globe-hopping plots into its world, Cars 2 is like director John Lasseter’s personal fan fiction, saying instead to speed up and enjoy the ride. The world of living cars takes a certain amount of suspension of disbelief to not ask questions like “Who builds the cars?” or “How do they do things that require hands and manual dexterity?” I was able to put such issues aside for the first film, but with James Bond-style gadgets and visits to different countries and car ethnicities, the suspension of disbelief is seriously strained here. And that’s on top of its other issues. While Lightning and all the other characters from the first film are still present (minus Paul Newman’s Doc Hudson, who is implied to have passed away), Cars 2 puts Mater front and center. I enjoyed Larry the Cable Guy’s bumpkin tow truck in the first film as another humorous member of Radiator Springs, all of whose inhabitants served as a good-natured contrast to Lightning and his crowd. Yet there’s such a thing as too much Mater, and his oblivious ineptitude grows grating when it becomes the main course, particularly as moments of mistaken identity pile up to make the British spies assume Mater is an American secret agent. I could tell Mater’s character here would be overbearing early on, when he spends the whole day with Lightning and then acts all sullen and gloomy when Lightning wants to spend some alone time with his girlfriend. Worse still is how Mater’s character is tied into the film’s message of not condemning one’s friends for who they are or wishing them to change. Such a moral could be good and worthwhile, but it just doesn’t work when applied to Mater, who consistently acts like a fool in public and causes Lightning to lose a race. When Lightning gets upset, he’s justified in being upset, yet he’s the one who eventually apologizes. The film doesn’t seem to recognize the difference between changing who you are and behaving properly in different circumstances. Mater even comes to realize how he looks to other people, but despite his feeling bad, it doesn’t really lead to any insight or change on his part. Add to all that smaller problems, like the light political jab of making “big oil” the bad guys and hailing alternative fuel as the greatest of breakthroughs. Plus, there are numerous scenes that just feel rushed and poorly written, especially toward the end, like the sudden confirmation of Mater having a “girlfriend” or Lightning totally misconstruing Mater’s warnings while simultaneously forgetting that he’s right in the middle of a race. So much negativity, but I don’t mean to bash Cars 2 like some low-rent DreamWorks movie. There’s still fantastic animation and ample imagination and humor on display, even if a lot of it consists of car-related puns. I may object to the secret agent plotline on a logical level, but it still offers some genuinely fun action sequences and eye-candy explosions. Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer are perfectly cast as the British spy cars who manage to mistake Mater for an undercover agent, and there’s cartoony amusement to be had, though the James Bond-ish elements make me hope that The Incredibles 2 works better than Cars 2 since they at least fit well into that superhero world. In conclusion, Cars 2 may not be good Pixar, but it still entertains if you don’t think about it too much. In fact, it’s probably more entertaining the less you think about it. Best line: (Finn, played by Caine) “I never properly introduced myself: Finn McMissile, British Intelligence.” (Mater) “Tow Mater, average intelligence.” Rank: Honorable Mention VC Pick: Runaway (1984) Action, Sci-fi, Thriller, VC Pick How will you know when the future has come? When robots reside in your workplace or home. How will you know where technology goes? When robots start rising right under your nose. How will you know when sci-fi meets real life? When robots can handle the kids…or a knife. How will you know if man’s made a mistake? When robots and darker intentions awake. Runaway isn’t that great a sci-fi film but it is an enjoyably watchable one, only occasionally owing that appeal to its cheesy ‘80s-ness, which seems to appeal to my VC more than to me sometimes. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, this Tom Selleck vehicle features yet another potential future where robots have become common appliances at home and work, and wouldn’t you know it, they start killing people! It’s not about vengeful A.I.’s fighting back; it’s a bit more ordinary than that, since they’ve instead been reprogrammed by a leering baddie played by Gene Simmons (yes, from KISS!), and it’s up to Selleck’s policeman Jack Ramsay and his new partner Karen (Cynthia Rhodes) to stop him. As a robot movie, Runaway has futuristic innovations both odd and pretty cool. You might question why it takes police intervention to pick up a malfunctioning pest control bot that doesn’t seem very dangerous, but then we get to marvel at the innovation of a heat-seeking missile bullet, with some first-person shots from the bullet’s point of view. To be honest, the robots are lame in design and execution, and while I’m sure they were impressive for 1984, seeing wobbly robotic spiders “sneak up” on hapless police has a distinctive B-movie quality. Even so, the machines can still be dangerous, like one murderous runaway modified to shoot a gun, the threat of a thrilling early scene slightly spoiled by the stupidity of one of its victims. One caring nanny robot also happened to remind me of the similar THX droid in the anime series/film Time of Eve. My VC has introduced me to a lot of ‘80s movies, and thanks to her, I know Crichton could direct science fiction both innovative (Westworld) and memorably tense (Coma, which was one of Selleck’s first brief film roles). Though Runaway falls a little short of his earlier work in terms of originality, it was still a fun ‘80s popcorn movie. I can’t say I was ever bored since the police investigation moves along at a brisk pace between moments of well-wrought tension. It helps too that all the actors acquit themselves fairly well, from Selleck’s likeable, afraid-of-heights lead to Simmons’ malicious villain, though Simmons didn’t help his potential acting career with a gratuitous scene literally thrown in just for a jump scare. There may not be much depth to the characters or themes, but as a diverting little thrill ride into the future, Runaway ran far enough to entertain. Best line: (Ramsay, after a wild goose chase) “Congratulations, guys, you just staked out a roll of toilet paper.” Cartoon Comparison / 2017 Blindspot Pick #9: Hear Me (2009) / A Silent Voice (2016) Posted by sgliput in Blindspot, Movies, Poetry, Reviews, Writing Animation, Anime, Cartoon Comparisons, Comedy, Drama, Foreign, Romance Whispered rumors, mocking humor, Overhearing words of spite, Talk of blame and guilt and shame, Made all the worse because they’re right— Oh, to shut such voices out, Unkindness barely out of sight. Those with ears, now let them hear, But if they can’t, do words turn rude? Is absence of respect and love The norm when barriers are viewed? Perhaps it’s best the deaf don’t hear Unkindness at such amplitude. Those who fear the scorn they hear May hide in deafness self-imposed, Just as those who never chose Their handicap can feel exposed. Yet all who rise must recognize Life’s eyes and ears should not be closed. MPAA rating for Hear Me: Not Rated (should be PG) MPAA rating for A Silent Voice: Not Rated (could be PG but probably PG-13) In honor of September being Deaf Awareness Month, I thought it appropriate to combine my monthly Blindspot Hear Me as a Cartoon Comparison with the anime film A Silent Voice, both of which are about a relationship between a boy and a young deaf girl. I thought to combine their reviews before I’d even seen them, but now that I have, the truth is that they’ve got far more differences than similarities. Hear Me is a Taiwanese romantic comedy with the unique distinction of being mostly in sign language, while A Silent Voice is a poignant tale of a bully’s emotional journey toward forgiveness, with romance staying on the back burner. (I thought they were both Japanese until I saw Hear Me was from Taiwan.) Yet both do address issues of deaf people and how others relate to them. I’ll start with my Blindspot pick Hear Me, which intrigued me when I heard it was mostly in sign language. That probably won’t please anyone who doesn’t enjoy subtitles, but it makes for some very unique conversations, some of them quite dramatic yet communicated with only hands and facial expression rather than voice. Eddie Peng (who just appeared this year in The Great Wall) plays Tian Kuo, a delivery boy for his parents’ restaurant, who meets a girl named Yang Yang (Ivy Chen) at the public pool while her sister trains for the Deaflympics. Since he knows sign language, he freely converses with her over time, and their relationship goes through some familiar highs and lows, with deafness as a potential complication for their future together. Let me just say that Hear Me has abundant charm, thanks largely to Eddie Peng, whose goofy, lovestruck antics and faces shine through even without words. There is dialogue too, in Chinese, mainly for the humorous exchanges between Tian Kuo and his bossy mother, but sign language and relative quiet are the rule rather than the exception here. The romance is also refreshingly wholesome, with the most suggestive moment just Tian Kuo seeing Yang Yang’s feet while she’s changing, which gives him a nosebleed. (It’s funny, I’ve seen that happen in anime, but this suggests that it’s something that actually happens to Asian people when they get excited.) Hear Me actually focuses on the dual relationships of Tian Kuo and Yang Yang, as well as Yang Yang and her deaf sister Xiao Peng (Yanxi Chen). After Tian Kuo offends his crush by disrespecting her meager income, his efforts to win her back may bring to mind John Cusack’s desperation in Say Anything, just instead of holding a boom box outside of her window, he dresses as a tree and gives her a coin bank shaped like a bird. Really similar, see? The humor comes from Tian Kuo’s side, while Yang Yang and her sister face more dramatic issues, like craving independence despite being deaf. Yang Yang earns all the money, while her sister focuses on competing as a swimmer, but when her performance suffers, Xiao Peng comes to regret and resent her own dependence on her sister, climaxing in an all-hand heart-to-heart between them. Hear Me makes the most of its unique sign-language dialogue, which serves the story rather than being just a gimmick. I liked how a misunderstanding was cleverly prolonged, as well as the few reminders of Yang Yang’s Christianity, since her absent father is said to be a missionary to Africa. It may not be a laugh riot, but there were definitely funny moments, especially a hilariously awkward scene where Tian Kuo’s parents sing his praises to his girlfriend. The central relationship also featured several of those heartwarmingly romantic moments that made Hear Me a pleasure to watch. Now for A Silent Voice, or as its Japanese title Koe no Katachi translates, The Shape of Voice. While it received many accolades, A Silent Voice suffered somewhat from bad timing, being released just a month after last year’s mega-hit Your Name in Japan. (Incidentally, both were nominated for Japan’s Best Animated Feature Academy Award, but neither one won. That honor went to In This Corner of the World, which I’ll get to at some point.) Whereas Hear Me was a romantic comedy with some moments of drama, A Silent Voice is much more dramatic in its young-adult setting and is bound to make sensitive viewers reach for the tissues more than once. The film starts with the carefree elementary school life of Shōya Ishida, who is dumbfounded at the arrival of a new student, a girl named Shoko Nishimiya who reveals through writing in her notebook that she cannot hear. While the other students are civil enough at first, the situation quickly devolves into bullying, led by Ishida. These scenes remind you how cruel kids can be and easily make your heart break for Nishimiya, who endures it all with quiet patience, still thinking the best of her classmates. When she finally is forced to change schools, the blame for her departure quickly falls on Ishida, and he takes her place as the class scapegoat and bully target. Fast forward several years to Ishida in high school, and his marginalization has only deepened, even making him consider suicide, until he tries to seek out Nishimiya and make amends. A Silent Voice makes the uncommon choice of first portraying its main character as a bully, the kind whose maliciousness seems normal to them but traumatic to their target. Yet the same person we dislike from the outset grows into a source of sympathy as he tries desperately to put that childish cruelty behind him. I loved the creative choice of placing X’s over the faces of his fellow classmates, marking them as people he has no chance or desire of knowing, as literal “unfriends.” These X’s become a brilliant way of visualizing Ishida’s mental state and his chances of relationships with others; when he lets his guard down, actually noticing and treating someone else as a person or vice versa, the X falls from their face and allows him a chance at a friend. The relationship between Ishida and Nishimiya is touching on multiple levels. They’re both broken people with agonizingly low self-esteems, Ishida because he considers his past offenses unforgivable, Nishimiya because she blames herself for any trouble around her and believes she somehow deserves it, always apologizing for everything. It’s amazing how easily she seems to accept Ishida after what he did, but it’s the mere effort of communicating with her that she values most. Also perceptive are their interactions with the friends they make and how they respond to the bullying: one girl still sees Nishimiya as insincere and worthy of her harassment, while another views herself as completely innocent, even though she watched Nishimiya’s persecution and did nothing. These bullying themes and Ishida himself meant much to me because I too have been on both sides; I was picked on by an older classmate for a time and I did the same myself, something I still regret despite it happening only once. Ishida doesn’t approach Nishimiya with any set goals of how to make it up to her, but he tries to build the relationships he once helped destroy, something any repentant bully would wish they could do as well. Kyoto Animation has a reputation for excellence, from the popular Haruhi Suzumiya franchise to the highly anticipated Violet Evergarden, and A Silent Voice is proof of the studio’s talents. The animation is painterly with its luminous, pastel palette, and, even if some of the artsy editing makes it unclear at first what just happened in the nonlinear storyline, it looks gorgeous throughout. The abundant use of symbolism and some ambiguous scenes (like the very first and last shots) also make it a film worth analyzing and hearing others analyze. I still consider Your Name the best anime of last year, but A Silent Voice is quite simply a beautiful film that wears its emotions on its sleeve. Anytime it threatens to dip into teen melodrama, it’s revived by a sweet moment or heart-tugging conversation. I laughed out loud twice, I actually cried “No!” at one harrowing part, and the final scene gives me tearful chills every time I see it. Going into these two movies, I really expected them both to be List Runners-Up, as so many movies I’ve seen recently have been. On its own, Hear Me probably would be a Runner-Up, but A Silent Voice earns its way onto my List and gives me an excuse to add Hear Me as a tie. Both approach their deaf subjects with great sensitivity, stressing that they are relatable people in search of the same relationships we all crave. Hear Me had far more sign language than A Silent Voice, which didn’t really bother to translate with subtitles when it was used, but both are excellent features for Deaf Awareness Month and are well worth seeing any other month, for that matter. Best line from Hear Me: (Tian Kuo’s father, of his mother) “She’s got a knife for a mouth and tofu for a heart.” Best line from A Silent Voice: (Kawai, a sort-of friend) “Everyone suffers in their life. But it’s like that for everyone, right? So you have to love the bad parts of yourself too and move forward.” Rank for both: List-Worthy (tie) September Morning (2017) Comedy, Drama, Triple A Where were you when the towers fell, When a nation was numbed by an unforeseen hell? What hollow activities padded the day, As newscasters had the same horrors to play, The same videos, the same headlines to tell? And wasn’t “tomorrow” new cause for dismay? Yet here we are, many years past the threat, Still filled with the grief that once shocked and upset. New courage since then, we’ve been forced to adopt. We all may recall the day normal life stopped, But let not the sadness cause us to forget The day it began again, day for night swapped. MPAA rating: Not Rated (should be R, for language) The last two years, I’ve commemorated the anniversary of 9/11 by watching movie re-creations, letting United 93 and World Trade Center remind me of the tragic power of that horrific day. This year, though, I had the privilege of attending a free local screening of a small independent film called September Morning, a 9/11 film that never shows the planes or the smoking towers, instead dramatizing how average Americans far from New York, specifically a group of college students, reacted to the day that changed America. Filmed over thirteen days and set completely in a small dorm room, September Morning takes place during the night of September 11 into September 12, after everyone was sick of the repeated news stories, sick of the fear and uncertainty, “tired of watching history being made.” The five college freshmen who spend that difficult night together include jocular Eric (Troy Doherty), promiscuous Lynz (Katherine C. Hughes), pessimistic Justin (Michael Grant), reserved Shelly (Taylor Rose), and vengeful ROTC cadet “Dish” Fisher (Patrick Cage II), who gather for pizza, beer, cigarettes, and conversation to distract from the oppressive melancholy that ruled the day. Each of those adjectives I assigned them are very general, as all of them fit those descriptions at some point, never coming off as stereotypes or anything less than genuine. The film doesn’t suffer one bit from its independent status, since every one of the actors is beyond reproach, with skillful direction to match from first-time writer-director Ryan Frost, who based the film off his own experiences as a freshman at the University of Richmond in September of 2001. Based on this film, I’d say every one of these talents is a name to watch, if only they would get the right notice. The banter of the newfound college friends is heartfelt and sometimes funny, though rarely in a laugh-out-loud sort of way, but the shadow of 9/11 hangs over everything. Throughout the film are discussions and even silent reminders of the events of the previous day, offering much insight into how people felt at the time. When someone suggests watching a movie, Justin objects that whatever they see will be stigmatized to remind them of this time, just as anything showing the Twin Towers bears a solemn memory. The mood changes drastically when someone mentions planes or Arabs. Shelly voices her hesitation at having a good time with friends after seeing people jump from burning buildings. There’s a debate about how people can pray and believe in God at times like this, with two characters sticking with Jesus while Justin argues for cynicism. In many ways, September Morning struck me as The Breakfast Club for a new generation, simply set in college rather than high school. The whole film is basically a five-way conversation about these young people’s joys, fears, insecurities, and anger, simply with 9/11 as the context and trigger of these volatile emotions. There’s even an antagonistic authority figure in Michael Liu’s resident assistant, who criticizes the group’s self-medicating attitude and is summarily resented. As with The Breakfast Club, it’s easy to relate to these characters, and everyone is bound to see themselves in one or several of them at some point. My main problem with September Morning is the language, with a surfeit of casual F-words surpassing anything in The Breakfast Club. In addition, the sexual conversations get uncomfortably graphic at times, even if nothing is shown. The frequent obscenities sadly make it a film I wouldn’t watch often, taking away from the otherwise impressive acting and thoughtful dialogue. (“Maybe fate is just a series of events that lead people to the same place.”) The lighthearted scenes often leaned too crude, but when the serious moments came, they rang true, particularly a brilliant exchange with the pizza delivery man (Max Gail, known to older viewers as “Wojo” on Barney Miller), whose age and experience help the young people put the traumatic day in perspective. As with Life, Animated, I actually got to take part in a Q & A after the screening, this time with writer-director Ryan Frost, and he expressed his desire to memorialize how it felt on September 11 and 12 for the average American, especially since most college students will soon be part of a generation that doesn’t even remember 9/11. Even with the unnecessary profanity, September Morning succeeds as an encapsulation of those feelings and makes a point of contrasting the anger and despair with the kindness and encouragement that 9/12 instilled in people. As I left the theater with its flag flying at half-mast yesterday, the memory of the grief was lightened by the knowledge that, as hard and complex as it is, life does go on. Best funny line: (Eric) “We’re all white people from the suburbs.” (Dish, who’s black) “Excuse me?” (Eric) “Oh, sorry, Justin’s Jewish.” Best serious line: (delivery man Don) “When you get older, you tend to remember that time to time, the world goes crazy, but it doesn’t stop.” Marooned (1969) Classics, Drama, Sci-fi, Thriller Although it looks down at mankind from the sky, And we behold it every night, The dark void of space is no friend or ally. ‘Tis death on our borders to push and defy, An ever-black vacuum that wills us to die If we from our atmosphere venture too high, Which man will endeavor despite, Despite the dread silence our fears amplify, Despite the expanses too vast for the eye. Despite all the dangers that could go awry, Mankind will dare every new height. MPAA rating: G (should be PG, for light language) This one is a special request of my mom’s. I’ve been putting off reviewing Marooned for a long time, despite my mom’s insistence, because I remember her showing it to me as a kid, and I was bored out of my skull. Since that first viewing, I’ve always viewed it as boredom incarnate. To my mind for the last several years, it’s been “Marooned = dull.” Yet she finally convinced me to give it another chance, and I must admit it’s better than I recalled, perhaps because I’ve grown in patience over the years. (Plus, I have a new standard for boring-as-heck cinema, which I’ll review soon.) It might seem that this story of a space shuttle mission gone wrong drew inspiration from the Apollo 13 incident, but surprisingly it came out shortly after Apollo 11, a year before the similar events of Apollo 13. Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, and James Franciscus play the three NASA astronauts who are stranded in their capsule (called Ironman One) when main engine failure leaves them without enough fuel to return home or to their space station. Unable to do anything but conserve oxygen and wait, the astronauts rest their hopes on Mission Control, led by Gregory Peck’s flight director Charles Keith, and a daring last-ditch rescue mission. Marooned is still rather slow in its execution, but my mom has a special connection with any movie about NASA, this included, since my grandfather worked on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions at Cape Canaveral and she also worked there during the Space Shuttle Program. In fact, she sees her dad in Gregory Peck’s administrator and, as a kid, imagined her father similarly calling the shots, though he actually played more of a background role. I too have that fondness to some extent, which helped me appreciate Marooned more than I was expecting this time. One thing that I recognized with this viewing is how Marooned has influenced other stranded-in-space films. Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 is an obvious comparison, though that had a direct historical basis, while this is fictional. I could also point, though, to the rallying of support and resources for a risky rescue that was also seen in The Martian, and the emotional farewells between the astronauts and their wives were echoed in the video goodbyes of the space crew in Deep Impact. And of course, the desperate space-walking finale bears some resemblance to the whole concept of Gravity, though Gravity’s jaw-dropping effects make the Oscar-winning effects in Marooned look pitiful. (They’re decent, but at one point, I could see a string suspending a supposedly floating object.) In a way, this climax represents the problem with Marooned: it’s meant to be tense and gripping, but the now-hokey effects and lack of music (only space sounds) make it anticlimactic and far less engaging than it was meant to be, especially when we have films like Gravity that took similar ingredients and did them better. Yet I can’t be too hard on Marooned anymore. It does feature some excellent performances, exemplified in the tearful calls between the astronauts and their wives, and Gregory Peck is in top form. Plus, that investment in the space program that must be in my blood helped me appreciate it overall, especially Keith’s impassioned defense of space travel, regardless of regrettable losses incurred, making the scrapping of our modern space program all the more disappointing. It’s still a bit dry, procedural, and overlong for my taste, but Marooned has at least moved up in my estimation, which at least should make my mom happy. Best line: (reporter) “Are the results you’ve gained worth the lives you’ve lost?” (Keith) “You’re damn right they are! You want to know what they accomplished living up there in a tin can for five months? Because of men like these, we’ve taken the first step off this little planet. A trip to the moon was just a walk around the block; we’re going to the stars, to other worlds, other civilizations. Men will be killed in this effort, just as they’re killed in cars and airplanes and bars and in bed.” The Red Turtle (2016) Posted by sgliput in Blogathon, Movies, Poetry, Reviews, Writing Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Foreign, Romance Shall I sit here all alone And wait for death to call me home? Now that I am stranded here, Have worth and meaning flown? Shall I push uphill my stone And watch it roll back down and groan And wish that life had chanced to veer Somewhere less sorrow-prone? Perhaps I’ll work myself to bone And die unloved and thus unknown, But if somebody could appear And comfort give to persevere, I’d gladly bear my daily stone With one to call my own. This review is my contribution to the Colours Blogathon hosted by Catherine of Thoughts All Sorts, focusing on all manner of movies with colorful titles. I chose The Red Turtle not only for the color in its name, but because I was curious about this feature-length silent film that earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature when Your Name didn’t. Now that I’ve seen it, I completely agree that it deserved such an honor because this story of a shipwrecked man stranded on an island is a piece of cinematic art. So many cartoons these days rely on hyperactive humor that something like The Red Turtle is an anomalous reminder that animation can offer compelling stories without jokes or even words through simple mastery of the medium, allowing silence to make it universal. The beautifully simple animation is the product of a collaboration between Dutch director Michaël Dudok de Wit, winner of the 2001 Animated Short Film Oscar for the lovely Father and Daughter, and the not-yet-defunct Studio Ghibli. I’m still surprised at Ghibli’s involvement because The Red Turtle has no resemblance to anime, except maybe in the attention to natural detail, yet I’m reminded that anime is not limited by the usual big-eyed style. The Oscar-winning short film La Maison en Petits Cubes has a European aesthetic similar to The Red Turtle, but, despite the French name, it was a Japanese production. So you could say that The Red Turtle is a best of both worlds, combining the visual imaginations of its animators in a surprisingly accessible, almost watercolor style. Silent animation is usually the realm of short films, and it must have been a risk to protract what could have been vastly shortened to a feature-length story. Those with short attention spans will likely be bored by the third raft-making attempt, but the patient should find the narrative rewarding in its ambiguity. As with Cast Away, actions speak louder than words, and the painterly animation is so superb in its simplicity that I was rarely bored. It’s all in the details, like the humorous characterization of the crabs watching the man’s efforts or the lush island greenery swaying in the breeze, and the realistic water is worth particular praise, whether serene on the horizon or violent in its outbursts. I don’t want to say much about the actual plot since it’s best experienced with the intended visuals to tell the story, but it very much fits its description as a fable, a seemingly straightforward tale that can be appreciated on its surface or on a deeper, more symbolic level. The Red Turtle itself remains something of an enigma, even as it becomes a profoundly important part of the castaway’s life, infusing the film and its ending with a bittersweet emotion that is strongly felt, if not fully understood. So, yes, The Red Turtle is absolutely Oscar-worthy and, if not for last year’s hefty competition, might well have won. Why couldn’t a film like this come out in 2006 or 2011, when Disney/Pixar wasn’t a shoo-in? I suppose I can now turn my blame on My Life as a Zucchini (the only nominee I haven’t yet seen) for Your Name’s lack of nomination last year because The Red Turtle is more than deserving. Despite its slow narrative that could have been a short film, it’s a piece of modern art that is becoming rarer and rarer in the world of feature-length animation. Best line: (the man’s only line) “Heeeeey!”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406599
__label__wiki	0.663494	0.663494	By EDD K. USMAN August 21, 2019 August 21, 2019 No Comments By EDD K. USMAN, SDN, Twitter @edd1819, Instagram @bluestar0910, Facebook: SDN — Science, Digital & Current News NEEDLESS to say, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) highly welcomes investors and partners. With just one catch: four bottom lines. The words of BARMM Interim Chief Minister Ahod Balaway “Al-Hajj Murad” Ebrahim reverberated at the Maynila Room of the historic Manila Hotel. Sustaining investors’ confidence It was the 1st Bangsamoro Global Economic Summit staged on August 19 to highlight the BARMM’s quest for peace and progress in general and in particular the much-awaited rehabilitation and reconstruction of war-ravaged Marawi City, Lanao del Sur. Ebrahim, the chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), described as “such gargantuan task” the newly-minted region’s goal to “finally address” through its economy “the decades-old problem of poverty and all its attendant effects, such as lack of easy access to and good quality education, health problems, lack of other basic services, opportunities for personal and collective growth, and widespread pessimism and distrust, especially with people in authority, the government included.” He delivered the keynote address for the summit organized by the Bangsamoro Federal Business Council, Inc. (BFBCI) and its partners. Related: NEDA Reaffirms Php70-B, Php50-B BARMM Funds with Challenges Ahead The Chief Minister of the Bangsamoro cited the important relationship between the public and private sectors in the region, saying it plays a vital role in uplifting its economy in particular and the nation in general. “I am thrilled that many private enterprises, both local and foreign, continue to show interest in investing in the region. It is a manifestation that these investors trust the success of the peace process between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation.” He expressed thanks to the investors for their support to the Mindanao process and Bangsamoro region, more so the BARMM is still in transition period. On the other hand, Ebrahim assured the Bangsamoro Government’s constant work aimed at making attractive the regional economy to local and external players, as well as being open and competitive, and be able to sustain the confidence of investors. Related: President Invited to Bangsamoro Global Economic Summit 2019 at Manila Hotel The gargantuan task before of regional government, he said, starts with the basic step of “continuing to improve the security situation in the region.” He vowed to “not stop pursuing a just and long-lasting peace in the region.” Ebrahim equated stable peace to development. “And development means a better life for our constituents.” BARMM Interim Chief Minister Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim (with cap), and Nasraili Conding (right), BFBCI president. (Photo: SDN — Science and Digital News) He is counting on investments growth in the region to not just raise its economy but also impacts through a huge positive effect the lives of people in its communities. “New business operations mean new job opportunities and employments. These employments will surely help uplift the lives of our poor and low-income communities.” The Bangsamoro Chief Minister recalled the annual block grant (Php70 billion) under the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) as well as the national government’s share over some taxes and revenues the BARMM will retain. BARMM’s four bottom lines for investments “With the increased budget for the BARMM plus our improved economic ties with local and foreign investors, I am confident that a promising future awaits the Bangsamoro people,” he said in optimism. He assured the people of Marawi, the Philippines’ only Islamic City, that one of the BARMM’s 12-point priority agenda of the Bangsamoro Government concerns its intent to contribute to the ongoing rehabilitation, and reconstruction, and recovery of Marawi. “I hope that after this summit, with our strengthened partnership with the private sector, we will be able to generate economic activities that will be very beneficial to the rehabilitation, reconstruction and recovery master plan for Marawi,” the Chief Minister said, as he called on everyone to do their share to help Marawi’s population reclaim their formal lives, morale and livelihood. On the other hand, as he recalled explaining to members of the Philippine Mining Club (PMC) on August 9 in Makati City in his message, the Bangsamoro Government has four bottom lines vis-a-vis investments. They are people, planet, profit, and purpose. People as “crucial bottom line” is the ultimate goal of the region’s economic development towards full employment, human development, and social justice. Planet, he said, refers to economic development that maintains ecological balance and ensure that the BARMM’s natural resources are preserve for the future generations. Profit, relates to businesses’ return of investment (ROI), otherwise no investor will come to the Bangsamoro and forfeits any benefits for the communities. Purpose, he considers the most important. “We want to change our situation from injustice to justice, from poverty to prosperity, from marginalization to participation. In effect, we want to change. Change is the purpose. It is a bottom line.” “Profit, yes but please include also the people, the planet and, yes, — the purpose for all of this — which is change for the good.” For Marawi, Ebrahim recalled at the summit that he already pitched for the city’s rehabilitation and reconstruction during a recent donors’ forum in Davao City. “I told the international aid organizations that Marawi must be quickly rehabilitated and reconstructed as every delay is an opportunity for violent extremism to use it for propaganda and recruitment. “Besides, immediate rehabilitation of Marawi is both right and just thing to do.” In relation with this, the Bangsamoro Chief Minister already ordered the regional government’s concerned agencies to make Marawi City and its environs a priority, particularly in the construction of houses for the internally displaced residents (IDPs). He assured that the BARMM leadership’s desire is for the IDPs to return now to their original residences. Ebrahim was obviously alluding to tens of thousands of displaced residents still unable to go back to where their houses once stood before the five months-long Battle of Marawi in middle of 2017. “But in the meantime that such is not yet possible, we want the IDPs to have decent shelters. Rest assured that I shall not stop asking the National Government, as I have already done before in our last audience with His Excellency President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, for the eventual return of the displaced residents of Marawi City.” After his delivering his message at the summit, delegates including foreign and local dignitaries and guests mobbed Ebrahim to have a selfie. (SDN) Tags: BARMM, block grant of Php70 billion yearly, four bottom lines, Interim Chief Minister Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim, MILF, Mindanao, Philippine Mining Club, regional government, SDN -- Science and Digital News By EDD K. USMAN January 19, 2020 Don't be shy, comments are welcome! Thank you. 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__label__wiki	0.546219	0.546219	2015 Evaluation Form Submissions Revision as of 09:13, 3 September 2015 by Dallasjohnson (talk \| contribs) (→‎Reported Satisfaction of Attendees) 1 Summary Report of Feedback 2 PDF Report of Survey Results 3 Reported Satisfaction of Attendees 4 Format Preference of Non-Attendees 5 Format Preference of Attendees 6 Reaction to Format 7 Preferred Start Time 8 Preferred Rounds per Day 9 Interest in a Canadian NASC Summary Report of Feedback The Championship Committee reviewed every feedback statement submitted for the 2015 NASC. Following is a summary of the feedback provided. Below this summary statement are several graphic representations of the feedback provided in key areas. The major area of dissatisfaction with the tournament was the playoff format. A small number of players reported loving or liking the format, and a slightly larger number of players was neutral with respect to the format. But the overwhelming majority of players responding reported either disliking or hating the format. Changing the format was also the most common response to the question asking "if you could change just one thing about the NASC, what would it be." Despite the hugely negative reaction to the format for the event, nearly half of attendee respondents reported a preference for a variation of a playoff style format. Slightly more than half reported a preference for returning to a non-playoff format. Non-attendee respondents reported a stronger preference for returning to the previous format, with over 63% expressing a preference for that format. Nevertheless, a significant minority of non-attendee respondents also expressed a preference for a variation of a playoff style format. The Championship Committee will review this information with the Advisory Board, and will determine whether the information provided is sufficient to make a format decision for the 2016 NASC, or whether additional polling data should be solicited from the membership. The Championship Committee will continue to address this matter with the Advisory Board, and will keep the membership abreast of planning and decisions in this matter. Other areas of the tournament were generally very well received. Respondents expressed a high degree of satisfaction with the knowledge, fairness and helpfulness of tournament staff, overwhelmingly prefer the current schedule of 7 games per day, beginning at 9:00 a.m., and were pleased with the after-hours events. Respondents also reported a high degree of satisfaction with written and verbal announcements and the speed and accuracy of issuing pairings. Room temperature was the only other issue that received mixed reviews. While many considered it too cold, one did note that they'd rather be too cold than too hot, and another mentioned that they always bring layers to SCRABBLE tournaments - not a bad idea! PDF Report of Survey Results You can download a more detailed breakdown of survey results here. NASPA 2015 Survey Results Report Reported Satisfaction of Attendees Format Preference of Non-Attendees Format Preference of Attendees Reaction to Format Preferred Start Time Preferred Rounds per Day Interest in a Canadian NASC Retrieved from "http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/wiki/index.php?title=2015_Evaluation_Form_Submissions&oldid=11126"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406604
__label__wiki	0.618477	0.618477	Topic Campus LAN SubTopic WLAN WLAN implementation -- Assess security enhancement: Step 3 Learn Step 3 of WLAN implementation; assess your security enhancement. Michael Finneran, dBrn Associates, Inc. This article is part three in a five-part series from contributor Michael Finneran. Read the first two: Step 1: Planning for capacity, not just coverage Step 2: Moving to 802.11a Critical Step 3: Assessing security enhancements AirSnort The major fix for the privacy concern will be the new 802.11i standard that will incorporate the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES); ratification is expected in mid-2004. AES was developed through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and uses an algorithm called Rijndael in honor of the two developers Vincent Rijmen and Joan Daemen. AES is a mind-numbingly complex symmetrical block cipher that offers protection far beyond WEP's RC4 and the 3DES algorithm typically used with secure tunnel VPNs. The problem is that encryption engines are hardware devices, so upgrading from WEP to AES cannot be done with a simple software upgrade. That means it is critical in selecting WLAN products today that you find devices that will be upgradeable to 802.11i. In the interim, there are a number of solutions that outperform WEP. Users can opt for the VLAN/VPN configuration where all of the WLAN access points are configured in a separate virtual LAN. To access any LAN-based resources, WLAN users must first go through an authentication server and then establish a secure tunnel connection through a firewall. In essence, WLAN users are treated like remote access users, and the VPN secure tunnel encryption is used to insure privacy over the radio link. Alternately, you could use a vendor-provided solution like those from Reefedge or Proxim. However, that weds your organization to a particular vendor-defined implementation. To stay on the path of industry-wide standards, the preferred choice would be to employ the Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). WPA incorporates three major elements: Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP): TKIP uses WEP's 40-bit key but changes the key on each packet, thereby thwarting the brute force decryption mechanism used by programs like AirSnort. Message integrity check: WLAN transmissions include a message integrity check called Michael designed to defeat "spoofed" access points that are introduced by hackers attempting to gain access to your WLAN. Extensible Authentication Protocol: WPA also employs the 802.1x Extensible Authentication Protocol that can provide mutual authentication (i.e. the network authenticates the user and the user authenticates the network) and key distribution. The biggest advantage of WPA is that it is standards-based and can be implemented with a software upgrade. The Wi-Fi Alliance Web site currently lists over 175 products that comply with WPA. One potential security threat with WPA was identified in a paper by Bob Moskowitz, Senior Technical Director of TruSecure's ICSA Labs. The weakness was apparently known by WPA's developers, and it can be addressed by selecting a more challenging passphrase to initiate the encryption key. Implemented correctly, WPA addresses all of the major deficiencies of WEP. The good news is that commercial users should be able to deploy WLANs with security features that address the concerns of all but the most paranoid. Again, it is important to recognize what's in the pipeline and insure that the products we select will not preclude the potential of incorporating stronger, standards-based options as they become available. Go on to part four in the series, Incorporating quality of service. Michael Finneran is an independent telecommunications consultant specializing in wireless networks and technologies. Besides his research and consulting activities, he writes a regular column called "Network Intelligence" for and teaches their seminars on wireless technologies and wireless LANs. He can be reached at mfinneran@att.net. Security is the most frequently cited reason that commercial users have been slow to deploy wireless LANs, but hopefully that issue will be put to bed in 2004. Indeed, the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) function defined with the original 802.11 standards had significant deficiencies. Not the least of these is the use of a static 40-bit encryption key that a hacker can crack using a free online program like . AirSnort requires a few million packets to work, but it works. Business Communications Review This was last published in July 2004 Myth vs. Reality: Cloud-Managed Wireless LAN and the Primary Access Network –SearchSecurity.com WLAN Best Practices: 10 Questions to Ask When Evaluating Solutions –SearchSecurity.com E-Guide: Wireless LAN access control: Managing users and their devices –SearchSecurity.com Ensuring an Optimal Wi-Fi Experience: Best Practices –SearchSecurity.com Dig Deeper on Wireless LAN (WLAN) How to avoid the WPA wireless security standard attack Deploying secure wireless LANs Are new wireless products supporting 802.11n any more or less secure than older 802.11a/b/g wireless Securing wireless access points: Wireless testing tools Five critical planning steps for wireless LANs, Step ... – SearchNetworking Deploying secure wireless LANs – SearchFinancialSecurity How to avoid the WPA wireless security standard attack – SearchNetworking	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406610
__label__cc	0.662909	0.337091	Topic Windows Server versions SubTopic Legacy operating systems Legacy operating systems Renaming forests: Windows Server 2003 tackles old AD problem While you still cannot change DNS and NetBIOS names in Windows 2000, you can do so in Windows Server 2003. Whether you want to, though, is an open question. Douglas Paddock, SearchWin2000.com contributor A member recently asked why he couldn't rename a forest in Windows 2000. I've always taught that two of the most important choices you will make when designing your Active Directory (AD) forest are choosing your root domain and the DNS and NetBIOS names of your forest. That's because, in Windows 2000, you cannot change either of them once you install Active Directory (and tearing down the forest and rebuilding doesn't count as a change; it's a new AD install). If you try to change the names, you will find that the option for doing so is grayed out, with a message that this computer is a domain controller, and you cannot change its name. After searching through Microsoft's Web sites, I found, in some voluminous documentation about Windows Server 2003, that while you still cannot change DNS and NetBIOS names in Windows 2000, you can do so in Windows Server 2003. Whether you want to, though, is an open question. The two documents that explain the process are called "Understanding How Domain Rename Works" and "Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing Domain Rename," and they can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx. These documents note that, while it isn't impossible to change a forest's name in Windows 2000, the constraints are "prohibitive." There are 117 pages of explanations and warnings about renaming forests and domains (Domain Rename) in a Windows Server 2003 environment, which is designed to accommodate forest and domain renaming. It's easy to see why it could be considered prohibitive to do so in an environment that was not designed to do so, such as Windows 2000. Note that "feasible" in Windows Server 2003 does not mean easy, quick or even guaranteed to succeed. With a procedure this complex, you can't underestimate the chances that something will go wrong when you analyze the risk involved and review the procedures you will need to follow when and if you decide to make the change. Let's take a look at a couple of warnings and items to consider before you determine whether renaming your Windows Server 2003 forest is worth the trouble. Domain renaming is not intended to be a routine operation. It requires a great deal of planning and must succeed on all domain controllers in your forest. If the operation fails on a domain controller and you wish to finalize the name change, you must remove the failed domain controller from the forest or domain. The time and effort required both increase dramatically as your organization grows in size and the number of domain controllers involved increases. It is much better to plan ahead and avoid the necessity of renaming a forest or domain, if at all possible. You cannot change the root domain of your forest once Active Directory is installed. You can change the root domain's NetBIOS and DNS names, but you cannot choose another domain to be the root domain. You cannot use Domain Rename if you are using Exchange 2000. You cannot use this operation to drop domains from or add domains to your forest. Your forest structure can be changed (that is, you can move domains), but you must have the same number of domains when you finish as when you started. This is not to say you cannot add or delete domains in your forest, you just can't use Domain Rename to do it. You cannot rename one domain and give another domain the first domain's old name in one operation. If you rename the domain "sales.lou.local," you cannot give another domain the name "sales.lou.local" in the same operation. You must perform two separate procedures using Domain Rename to avoid possible errors in the partitions container. Domain Rename is not designed for forest mergers or for moving domains between forests. Remember that you can now join two forests with two-way, transitive trust relationships in Windows 2003 to help accommodate corporate mergers or company reorganizations. If you want to move domains between forests, you can use Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) or a third-party tool of your choice. What you can do with domain rename You can simply rename a domain without moving it. If your company undergoes reorganization -- and your domain structure is fine, but the current domain names no longer fit your corporate structure -- you can rename a domain in place. An example might be renaming "sales.lou.local" to "usasales.lou.local." You can move domains within a tree, allowing the restructuring of a tree to reflect a corporate reorganization that makes your current domain structure unacceptable. You can move a domain so that it is now a child domain with a new parent, or you can move a child so it is on the same level as its former parent. You can rename a domain and make it the root of a new tree. This is especially useful in a growing organization where a former child domain has reached the point where it needs its own identity because of its growing popularity on the Web, for example. >>Continue on to part two, "Using Windows Server 2003's Domain Rename command" https://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/news/913775/Using-Windows-Server-2003s-Domain-Rename-command About the author: Douglas Paddock is an IT instructor at Louisville Technical Institute, in Louisville, Ky. He holds CIW Security Analyst, CIW Certified Instructor, MCSE, MCT, MCSA, A+ and N+ certifications. Who do you trust? A new direction for AD in Windows Server 2003 Who do you trust? Options for setting up forest-to-forest trusts Best Web Links on Active Directory Ask our expert a question about AD. Dig Deeper on Legacy operating systems Checking for errors after domain rename in Windows 2003 forest By: Laura Hunter Retaining user information during an Exchange Server mailbox migration By: Peter Tersteeg What's in a name? Active Directory security under the covers Active Directory: The need for AD controllers Using the capabilities of cloud to deliver AI that meets business goals –Intel Using Windows Server 2003's Domain Rename command – SearchWindowsServer Is a pristine forest a good idea? – SearchWindowsServer Improvements to the forest in Windows Server 2003 ... – SearchWindowsServer	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406612
__label__wiki	0.634959	0.634959	Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya, Inc. RENEWABLE ENERGY & APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY CREATECH MANGARITA ORGANIC FARM COMMUNITY-BASED WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (CBWRD) Most poor communities in the rural areas do not have access to water system facilities that bring water closer to their homes or to their farms to improve crop production. SIBAT’s Community-based Water Resource Development (CBWRD) seeks to develop water resources particularly those situated in far-flung areas for potable water supply and to support farm productivity through irrigation. Children and women’s burden of fetching water for long hours from distant sources are lessened and more hours are maximized for other equally productive activities. Appropriate technologies include: gravity systems, hydraulic ram pumps and solar powered water pumps. Aside from just implementing the infrastructure component, SIBAT’s CBWRD strategically aims to build the capabilities of community people to develop water resources in the areas. To do this, the program trained select community member on the fundamentals of technical survey work and basic water resource assessment design and planning. To sustain and manage their water system, they are likewise trained on basic project and finance management, leadership skills, policy development as well as technical operations and maintenance. SIBAT continues to progress open-source ELC technology for Micro-Hydro Following the installation of a pilot system last year which served the community of Gacab in Abra, SIBAT committed considerable resources to further the development… Commissioning the Pilot System of an Open Source Electronic Load Controller (ELC) After a year of development, the pilot system of an open source Electronic Load Controller (ELC) has been deployed in the indigenous people’s community of… SIBAT Attends Training in Malaysia to Help Promote the IPAM Portal Together with representatives from the Pesticide Action Network Asia & the Pacific (PANAP) and Kudumbam of India, SIBAT attends a two-day training workshop from March… Copyright © 2020 Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya, Incorporated. Designed by MK Segundo redmarks021@gmail.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406614
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__label__wiki	0.670374	0.670374	Non-canon episodes, Treehouse of Horror, Season 16 episodes, Music Composition Emmy nominated episodes Ned Flanders Episodes Mr. Burns Episodes Professor Frink Episodes Ralph episodes Crazy Cat Lady episodes TV-14 Episodes Episodes in which Maggie Speaks Dream episodes Episodes where Maggie giggles ◄ Fraudcast News All's Fair in Oven War ► ◄ Treehouse of Horror XIV Treehouse of Horror XVI ► For the continuing series of Halloween specials, see Treehouse of Horror series. FABF23 “I'll bet you blew up the town just to get out of cleaning the garage! Well, the joke's on you, because the garage made it to heaven as well!” ―Marge Simpson[src] "Treehouse of Horror XV" is the fifteenth Halloween episode and the first episode of Season 16. It had the lowest amount of viewers for a Treehouse of Horror episode in recent years at that time period, and began a slow decline. The title card This is one of several Simpsons episodes which are considered anthology episodes that features mini-stories. In a parody of Perfect Strangers, the two aliens Kang and Kodos are preparing the Simpsons for dinner for their "boss." Bart and Homer are the main course, Lisa is in a soup, and Marge and Maggie are pies. The boss comments on the delicious meal, but his stomach bursts and Bart falls out in a river of vomit. For their meal, Kang and Kodos get a hyper-galactic promotion. Bart is upset about being an orphan, but he is adopted by Kang and Kodos. Then, the theme song from Perfect Strangers plays as the Treehouse of Horror logo appears on the screen; an alien tentacle stamps the "XV" underneath which makes it read, "Treehouse of Horror XV". The Ned Zone The Ned Zone title card In a parody of "The Dead Zone", while trying to get his frisbee from the roof, Homer throws a bowling ball that hits Ned on the head. When Ned recovers in the Springfield General Hospital, he has a vision of Dr. Hibbert falling out of a window, which happens shortly afterwards when Homer asks him to get his frisbee from the window ledge, killing Dr. Hibbert. Ned realizes that he can see the deaths of people whom he touches; he saves Hans Moleman from falling down from a telephone line and has a vision of him getting chewed up by alligators. In shock, he drops Hans right into an open manhole containing the alligators, which he was standing next to. He also predicts the closing of The Rosie O'Donnell Musical musical theater, but he "didn't need special powers to see that one coming!" Later, one of his visions depicts him shooting Homer. When Homer finds out about Ned's vision, he taunts him and even gives him Chief Wiggum's gun to shoot him with. Ned refrains from shooting Homer and has another vision of Homer blowing up Springfield. Ned tries to dissuade Homer from going to work saying that he will destroy the town, and Homer promises he will never go back... "after today, because it’s Lenny's birthday, and they are serving ice cream cake". Ned rushes to the power plant to stop Homer, who for some reason is eating the cake in the plant’s control center while everyone else is eating it in the staff room, his warning is scrambled by static over the intercom, leading Homer to believe he should press the "core destruct" and "kill everyone" button, despite that obviously being a stupid thing to do. In desperation, Ned grabs a nearby security guard's gun and shoots Homer (reenacting his previous vision of shooting Homer); but in his death throes, when Homer presses the destruct button with his tongue, causing the power plant to explode and a large chunk of central Springfield is destroyed. Ned, Homer, Marge, all the Simpsons, and the garage (made it to heaven because Marge thought Homer blew up Springfield to avoid cleaning the garage) go to heaven as angels and they meet God who "proceeds to give Homer what is coming to him", which happens to be his frisbee. Four Beheadings and a Funeral Four Beheadings and a Funeral title card In a parody of From Hell, which takes place in 1890 London, women are being killed with swords in a series of unsolved murders by "The Muttonchop Murderer" (a spoof of Jack the Ripper). Scotland Yard's Inspector Wiggum challenges master detective Eliza Simpson and her assistant Dr. Bartley to follow the swords that were bought in a shop by C. Ebenezer Burns. They find them in an opium den, where he claims he lost all his wealth to opium. The next suspect in mind is Homer. The police arrest Homer and are about to hang him when Eliza finds the real killer: Inspector Wiggum, whose knife handle of the third body is covered by the smell of pie eels. Wiggum objects that many people like that pie and tries to escape in a hot air balloon, which is destroyed by the spaceship of Kang and Kodos. However, it turns out to be a dream that Ralph Wiggum was having while smoking opium in an opium den, which is still part of a dream. In the Belly of the Boss In the Belly of the Boss title card In a parody of "Fantastic Voyage", at the "Invention Expo", Professor Frink creates a machine that shrinks objects. Maggie, believing that it is a giant ball pit, crawls inside a giant pill, which is miniaturized and swallowed by Mr. Burns. After discovering Maggie's disappearance, the rest of the family agrees to be shrunk within a craft and injected into Burns' body. When Homer refuses to follow Frink's instructions, the ship gets stuck in Burns' heart. The crew puts on their swimsuits to unwedge the ship. Marge has a swimsuit that is tight around her body, until white blood cells attack it, showing her navel. The crew manages to get the ship free and are able to reach the stomach by catching a ride on a nerve impulse. They manage to save Maggie, but are forced to leave someone behind due to Maggie's extra body weight -- Homer due to him weighing more than anyone else in the family. The submarine successfully escapes. Homer returns to his original size inside Burns' skin. Even though Homer complains that he needs several holes, Burns is confident that matters will work out, and it ends with Mr. Burns and Homer leading a dance to the tune of I've Got You Under My Skin, with most of the entire cast from all three segments and the opening sequence of the episode joining in as well. The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XV Promo Treehouse of Horror XV • All's Fair in Oven War • Sleeping with the Enemy • She Used to Be My Girl • Fat Man and Little Boy • Midnight Rx • Mommie Beerest • Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass • Pranksta Rap • There's Something About Marrying • On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister • Goo Goo Gai Pan • Mobile Homer • The Seven-Beer Snitch • Future-Drama • Don't Fear the Roofer • The Heartbroke Kid • A Star is Torn • Thank God It's Doomsday • Home Away from Homer • The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star Retrieved from "https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_XV?oldid=869288"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406617
__label__wiki	0.558803	0.558803	Location: Arlington, MA Host: Mirak Automotive Owner: Mirak Automotive System Size: 540 kW Panels Installed: 1,440 Installation Date: June, 2017 Malden YMCA Medford DPW Accurounds Mirak Automotive Group The Mirak Automotive Group has served Greater Boston since 1936, and has learned a thing or two about what people want, expect and deserve from their dealership experiences during that time. The foundation of the Mirak Automotive Group is built on honesty, transparency and respect, and they’re proud of the reputation they’ve built as a customer-focused dealership. With a service center that is one of the largest in New England, featuring more than 60 service bays, Mirak was determined to demonstrate its leadership in sustainable practices, and investigated solar as part of its efforts to become a GM Certified Green Dealer. A key component to earning that recognition is a commitment to using renewable energy and pursuing energy efficiency. Partnering with Solect Energy made the process of moving to solar seamless; from the outset, with a detailed financial proposal, to the installation, where there were no disruptions in the daily operations of the dealership and service center during the installation of the 540 kW solar array. 100% reduction of electricity costs Mirak will realize significant savings from its solar installation in a number of different ways. The array was designed to cover 100% of the electricity needs of the Mirak Service Center, and also to provide additional electricity to defray energy costs at other Mirak sites. By net metering its excess production Mirak expects to substantially reduce its energy bills at at its Mirak Chevrolet and Mirak Hyundai dealerships. Net metering allows customers to receive credits for any electricity that they generate but do not use. Finally, Mirak will be able to take advantage of state and federal tax and financial incentives, including SRECs (Solar Renewable Energy Certificates), which are financial incentives based on the amount of solar energy the system generates. Plus, as a GM Certified Green Dealer, Mirak is one of only 94 Chevrolet dealerships out of about 3,000 nationwide, and one of only 129 GM dealerships out of more than 4,000 across the country that have been recognized for their commitment to sustainability.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406620
__label__wiki	0.776935	0.776935	Lyell Collection home Geological Society home GSL fellows Other member types Access for GSL Fellows Access for other member types Online First alerts Geological Society of London Publications Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis Petroleum Geology Conference Series Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society Transactions of the Geological Society of London Follow gsl on Twitter Visit gsl on Facebook Visit gsl on Youtube Visit gsl on Linkedin Previous volumeNext volume Geological Society, London, Special Publications Volume 479, 2019 Groundwater in Fractured Bedrock Environments: Managing Catchment and Subsurface Resources U. Ofterdinger, Queen's University Belfast, UK A. M. MacDonald, British Geological Survey, UK J.-C. Comte, University of Aberdeen, UK and M. E. Young, British Geological Survey, UK Licensed Free About this title - Groundwater in Fractured Bedrock Environments: Managing Catchment and Subsurface Resources Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 479, NP, 20 June 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP479 Groundwater in fractured bedrock environments: managing catchment and subsurface resources – an introduction U. Ofterdinger, A. M. MacDonald, J.-C. Comte and M. E. Young Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 479, 1-9, 30 April 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP479-2018-170 Typology of hard rock ground waters within the Lower Sassandra, a main catchment in humid tropical West Africa O. Fouché, Th. K. Yao, M.-S. Y. Oga and N. 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__label__wiki	0.78899	0.78899	Sad news: Spain’s greatest maestro has died Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, the most successful Spanish conductor of the past century – perhaps of all time – died last night in Pamplona. He was 80 years old and had been suffering from cancer. Last week, he announced his retirement. Of Austro-German parentage, Frühbeeck was a favourite of General Franco’s (as was the present King) and was known early on as the Caudillo’s Maestro. A law student, he learned to conduct military bands while serving in the Spanish Army. He proved his worth as music director with such diverse orchestras as Berlin Radio, Montreal, Vienna Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon and, latterly, Danish National. He was a much esteemed guest conductor of many US and European orchestras. He made many recordings for various labels. Discreet, well organised and unpolitical, he was never easy to pin down. ‘You have to be very careful, nice, inspiring, ‘ he told Hilary Hahn (below). Oleg Sherstiucoff says: Awful horrible news, nevertheless – Rest in Peace Maestro ! ruben greenberg says: A fine musician. Further proof that conductors don’t retire; they die. Ilya Isakovich says: He always used to address the orchestra in his coarse spanish voice as “Ladies and Yentlemen” 🙂 sdReader says: coarse russian comment? Not necessarily. More likely, just your coarse way of reading it. I have very tender memories of being under his baton in May 2006 with the Choeur et Orchestre de Paris for de Falla’s ‘La Vida Breve’… singing under his direction was an unforgettable experience. A lovely, warm man, so expressive and fluid. So deeply sorry to hear he has left us… Steven Honigberg says: Three months ago, in his final concert as conductor conducting the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, Maestro collapsed on the podium. The night before, our opening night, he was marvelous having conducted as usual, flawlessly from memory – which prompted me to go into his dressing room to tell him that he was an inspiration. This man loved music so very much. All of us whose lives he touched will miss his dignified, stately and genteel self. Julie Begun says: Leonard Slatkin says: A fine conductor and true gentleman. Orchestras loved playing for him. He could be a gentle taskmaster but always settled for nothing less than what he wanted. Truly someone who will be greatly missed. Noah Bendix-Balgley says: Very sad news. I was lucky enough to work with him in Pittsburgh just a few times. Fruhbeck was a true Maestro, the rare conductor who was universally loved and respected by musicians. His command and knowledge of the score was complete. Often he rehearsed without even opening the score. He would take the most difficult passages apart, show precisely what was really going on, and make them easy for the orchestra. And there was a great warmth to his music making. It felt like he was constantly inviting the musicians to simply make music with him. We played Scheherazade with him last fall. I will never forget how in the many instrumental solos in this piece (violin, flute, oboe, horn), he would simply turn towards you, extend his hand, and give a little smile, inviting you to join him. Alexander Hall says: My first musical memory of the Maestro was in an NPO concert in London’s Festival Hall in February 1968 during which he easily persuaded me that the strings of the then New Philharmonia were far superior to the other London orchestras of that time, in scintillating performances of Mozart 25 and Schumann 3. My last memory of him was at the LSO concert he conducted on 25 March 2012 with a typically colourful performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade. In between I had many other happy memories of him conducting big choral works and the standard orchestral repertory which he always delivered with conviction. So sad that he is no longer with us. Juliette Kang says: What a great maestro he was! His requests to the orchestra were usually framed by “Let’s agree, ladies and gentlemen, to…” Perfect wording. I feel very very lucky to have worked with him often, and wish everyone could have had the same privilege. His dedication to music was inspiring, as was his kindness and charm, and his elegant and friendly demeanor. RIP. Bliss Michelson says: I still regard his performance of “Carmina Burana” on EMI from the ’60’s as the best on record. He will be greatly missed. Andrey Boreyko says: Thank you, Maestro, for so many wonderful rehearsals, concerts, recordings! Musical world will always remember you! Tom Gossard says: Adel Sanchez says: An amazing musical icon, mentor and dear friend; a gentleman of remarkable gifts and grace. He will be missed deeply. An amazing musical icon, a great gentleman, mentor and dear friend. He will be deeply missed. Alle Menschen müssen sterben. A loss of an amazing musical icon, gentleman, mentor and dear friend. A life fully lived! He will be deeply missed. Loren Lind says: From berfore and as a member of the Philadelphia Orch., for over 40 years, Rafael’s performances were so often the BEST! Our family will miss him greatly, as will our orchestra! Robert Garbolinski says: I remember being an extra in a chorus and going on tour to Paris (St Denis) and performing Elijah and then t Rouen and performing Carmina Burana with him – happy days and performances. Israel Kastoriano says: Great conductor ,great man. I loved his huge hand movements,his “Spanish” voice, his achieving wonderful balance by just pointing his finger to the instrument the orchestra members should listen to. He was a proud patriot so that he relentlessly programmed Spanish composers . A big thank for being with us. Jane Moss says: A very sad loss indeed. Amazed that no-one has mentioned his signature Agua Brava cologne which he carried with him at all times in massive Mateus Rose type bottles and which he liberally sprinkled over himself at every orchestra break and before a concert. He was such a gentleman (in every sense of the word) on and off stage (not something which can be said about many conductors of that era, or any other…) and all of us who were there will have many great memories of his performances with the NPO / Philharmonia in the 1970’s and 1980’s. May he rest happily in peace and his memory live on.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406627
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__label__cc	0.671967	0.328033	Trending: Marketing 101 What Is Gadgets Holidays U.S. Department of Defense Must Work Harder to Include Small Business Contractors, Audit Says Published: May 25, 2018 by Michael Guta In Technology Trends 3 An audit of two Army Contracting Command centers in Redstone, Alabama and Warren, Michigan, revealed The Department of Defense (DOD) must increase its efforts in order to meet small business subcontracting goals. The DOD Inspector General Audit was carried out in three different branches. One audit was performed on the Army, and two each on the Marine Corps and the Air Force. According to the audit, small businesses may have lost opportunities because protocols were not followed which could have encouraged more small businesses to be part of the federal marketplace. Defense Contracts for Small Businesses Small businesses have been specifically included in the federal contract bidding process to both support and encourage growth in communities across the country. Head of the House Small Business Committee U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-Missouri) announced in Nov. 2017 his desire to raise the federal government’s contracting goal for small businesses to 25 percent, a two percent increase from the current 23 percent target for contracts to be awarded to small businesses today. The drive to increase the rate comes after the fed actually did manage to hit its contracting goals for 2017. In a press release addressing the results of the audit and moving forward, Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Florida), Ranking Member of the Contracting and Workforce Subcommittee, said, “The federal procurement process can be a powerful tool for stimulating growth and helping small businesses succeed. On the Small Business Committee, I’ll continue working to ensure more entrepreneurs can access the federal marketplace and win their fair share of federal work, whether that’s working directly with the U.S. government or as a subcontractor for a larger firm.” Findings of the Audit But this year, the Inspector General’s audit reported two Army Contracting Command centers failed to observe the subcontracting plans developed to insure the inclusion of small businesses. Under these plans, prime contractors must make a good-faith effort to ensure they provide small businesses with opportunities for participating in federal contract projects. The Inspector General found close to half of the contracts it examined failed to meet these requirements, a total of 23 contracts valued at around $915 million. The two locations awarded six contracts worth $330.7 million without a subcontracting plan in place — or where no subcontracting possibilities existed without a contracting officer’s consent. Another contract valued at $480.3 million didn’t have a monitoring system in place to keep track of a prime contractors’ compliance with subcontracting plans for 11 contracts. Finally, in the case of six other contracts valued at $103.7 million, small business subcontracting goals were not met and subcontractor goals were misreported. 15 Vintage Computer Ads That Show How Far We've Come 41% of Businesses Don't Train HR Staff on Employee Data Security How to Handle Cybersecurity like the Pros Michael Guta Michael Guta is a Staff Writer for Small Business Trends focusing on business systems, gadgets and other small business news. He has a background in information and communications technology coordination. The amount of red tape you have to work through go get government contracts is a huge burden. SMBs just don’t have the manpower to dedicate to it or the scale to spread the cost around. It’s a mess. Valerie Hamby I would agree with Robert Brady. Often just a RFI or Sources Sought the CO or COR will ask prospective bidders for binders worth of information. This type of situation is difficult for a SB with limited staff and resources. The government isn’t their only client or perspective client. It is setup so that a SB must choose between attending to all clients equally or catering to the government. Eileen Kent Small businesses need to understand the market based on their specific capabilities, build a plan around the agencies who buy what they sell and execute that plan by leading with capabilities and closing with set asides. This is a game. ‘Good faith effort’ means having an event reaching out to smalls and collecting capabilities statements and registering their businesses at their sites so they can fill out the forms for SBA showing they tried or made a ‘good faith effort.’ If they don’t have any piece to give out, they won’t but they’ll have an event at the travel expense of the smalls…again. Small businesses are attending events, performing capabilities briefings, downloading procurement forecasts and asking about them… but there’s always an incumbent. Smalls need to carve out new opportunities. Set asides for smalls are not as common as awards to smalls on contracts not set aside for smalls because those winners get the game. It’s all about leading with your capabilities to the project managers and end users, it’s working with the primes and getting their attention by bringing them the business if the small needs to borrow their bridge(prime’s contract with the agency.) When small business realize they need to initiate the relationship instead of fill out another registration or application, and tge ‘good faith efforts’ is just a waste of time for smalls, they’ll spend all their energy working on the agency instead of visiting small business office after small business office. 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__label__wiki	0.862011	0.862011	Sciancalepore saves Rams in MCT final Written by Mark Kitchin Published in Soccer Photos by Mark Kitchin The Rams are all smiles as they embrace and celebrate their MCT title. ROXBURY _ There were 15 seconds left in the game and Randolph goalkeeper Ellie Sciancalepore could see Kinnelon’s one last chance at tying the Morris County Tournament championship game coming straight at her. When she snatched the ball out of mid-air, the senior keeper knew the title belonged to the Rams. Top-seeded Randolph captured its 14th overall title in school history and first one outright since 2011 with a 1-0 victory over upstart Kinnelon in the title contest held at Roxbury High School on Saturday, Oct. 19. Sciancalepore made four saves, including the pressure-packed last one for the Rams. The winning goal was an own goal that occurred when a Kinnelon defender accidentally headed a Randolph cross into her own net. Goalkeeper Emily Petrucelli made four saves for Kinnelon. The 13th-seeded Colts put up a brave fight and had a chance to win right to the very last shot. "It’s a rush going up there and having that girl kind of back off so I could grab it," Sciancalepore, the game's MVP, said. "I knew it. In the bag. I just had to hold it a few seconds and punt it. There is no way they are coming back at me. It is unbelievable. It is indescribable." Randolph defender Becca D’Egidio can attest to all of the feelings all of the Rams were experiencing. "We’ve been working for this for so long," D’Egidio said. "This is a goal of ours from the beginning of the season and the seniors since our freshman year. Finally... To get it done is just so refreshing and rewarding." But it wasn’t easy. Although Kinnelon was the 13th seed, it had not lost since its bizarre 5-1 defeat against Mountain Lakes on Sept. 10 and they had a 12-game unbeaten streak going into the contest. During the first half, the Colts had their share of possessions and an occasional flurry at the net which forced the Rams to make adjustments at half. "We had to change our formation based on Kinnelon’s play," D’Egidio said. "They are a very direct team and they were just playing it long. They have pretty speedy forwards up top. It was a really big challenge for our defenders to defend. We had to change up our tactics and our formation to deal with that." The winning goal came when Randolph's Kiara Iannacone attempted a cross. It went way wide of the mark. Instead of letting it go, a Kinnelon defender put her head on it and the ball bounced wildly into the net. "It was a beautiful feeling just rushing over you (when we scored)," Sciancalepore said. " knew that we had a game ahead of us. We knew that they could come back at any time. They had their opportunities. Thank God our defense and our midfielders came back and stopped them." There was also some drama late. When a Kinnelon defender took out a Rams forward with a rough tackle, Lauren Robles got into the face of one of the referees and was red-carded. The Rams would be one player short for the final eight minutes. Fortunately for Randolph, it could tactically play back on defense and clear out some of the more dangerous threats. "I couldn’t be happier with the girls," D’Egidio said. "I told them before the game that we got the No. 1 seed for a reason. We have to go out and show everyone that we deserved to win this. We worked so hard. We spent hours watching film, hours doing extra training, coming in doing the extra stuff to give us that edge. It has rewarded us this season." Last modified onMonday, 25 November 2019 14:31 More in this category: « Sciancalepore saves Rams in MCT semifinals	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406642
__label__wiki	0.981331	0.981331	Motown battles past Chatham Written by Sandy Seegers Published in Volleyball Featured Photos by Sandy Seegers Morristown's Alli Remler recorded her 1,000 career assist on Monday, Oct. 12. CHATHAM _ Not long after Morristown setter Alli Remler got her 360th assist as a sophomore, Abby Schubiger made her plea. Most times, it was when she got together with Remler. Sometimes, it was via text. Her request? "I want to be 1,000," Schubiger said. "I better get it." On Monday, Oct. 12, Remler, now a senior, set Schubiger, one of her closest friends, in the Colonials' match against Columbia and the milestone was in the books. "I knew it was coming," Remler said. "Abby got into the rotation, I set her and she got the kill. It was simple. There was no block. She was at the center of the net and the ball went straight down." Remler, a three-year starter, boosted her assists total to 1,011 versus Columbia. She added 20 more on Thursday, Oct. 15 when Morristown prevailed, 25-21, 22-25, 25-20, over Chatham in a hard-fought match. Morristown now has two players who have attained 1,000 assists. The first was Bradley Taylor, a senior when Remler gave up cross country to join Morristown's volleyball program. "Bradley went for everything. She threw herself everywhere," Remler said. "She was always composed. Bradley was always diving." Remler, who received a golden ball and shared cupcakes with her teammates after the feat, brings much energy and all-out efforts to the position as well. She was on hand when Taylor surpassed 1,000 and it became one of her personal goals. "Alli is very serious about what she does," Colonials coach Bill Condon said. "She has relished the role a setter has - running the court and understanding the momentum of the game. Alli has been one of our leaders. She's a strong, steady player." Before running in middle school, Remler was a swimmer. Her older sister, Jen, played volleyball and everywhere her club team went so did Alli. "We traveled a lot for club," Remler recalled. "Everyone wanted me to play, too. They egged me on. I tried it. Volleyball is in the family." Besides Jen, Remler's mother, Dorothy, played the sport at Livingston High School. There was no way the younger Remler was going to return to the trails. She loved running but was a bit intimidated by the prospect of dramatically increasing her mileage. So, after Taylor graduated, Remler became the setter. She said playing club volleyball up a level as a freshman gave her confidence. There are several traits, she said, that make for a reliable, consistent setter. "You have to have a lot of trust in the passers," Remler said. "You have to move your feet, get under it. I see them before I set them. We work on communicating. I want to keep everyone up. I see everyone move across the net." Putting down the kill on Remler's 1,000th was, no doubt, a thrill for Schubiger. Schubiger, headed to Colgate to play basketball, was pleased to be a part of it. "Abby is a big hitter," said Remler, whose career high of 32 assists came against Roxbury last season. "Whenever the subject came up, she reminded me. Abby was excited. The whole team was excited and came together." By getting past the Cougars, Morristown improved to 8-9. The Colonials, on track after the graduation of five seniors, have won six of their last eight matches. They have victories over Morris Hills and Columbia and defeated third-seeded Mendham in the first round of the Morris County Tournament. In the Chatham match, the Colonials got out to a fast start in the first set. However, their serves were too long and they made too many errors in the second set. Condon was pleased with the way Morristown battled back in the third set. "Three-set matches are good for us," Condon said. "It makes the girls fight harder. They have to finish the job. We need to take out the lows and play much steadier. In the second set, they had to understand that they have a job to do and grind it out. Managing errors is important. We want to win the point not have the other team lose it." Schubiger, a middle blocker, finished with 11 kills. Kayla Bush, a junior middle blocker, had seven kills. Junior outside hitter Emma Hein contributed 11 digs. "We had a good third game and did what we had to do," Remler said. "We moved our feet better. We stuck to basic plays. As a senior, every game counts a little more. We played awesome." *PHOTO GALLERY BELOW* Last modified onFriday, 16 October 2015 06:16 Sandy Seegers Sandy will post her bio soon Latest from Sandy Seegers Montville digs deep; beats Chatham Cliff Back Invitational Crusaders thrive vs. HP in opener Pequannock ends lengthy title drought Chatham lands berth in final https://soar-nj.com/sports/volleyball/item/1163-motown-vb#sigProId9bbbdc955f More in this category: « Game raises awareness, funds Murawinski sparks Jefferson upset »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406643
__label__wiki	0.590872	0.590872	China Flexes Military Muscle in the Western Pacific as a Warning to Taiwan by Special Operations Dec 13, 2017 The Chinese continued to act more aggressively in the Pacific, the latest bellicose move by Beijing was a series of military exercises in the Western Pacific in what Chinese officials described as “island encirclement patrols” over Taiwan by their air forces. These latest drills came just a week after a spokesperson for the People’s Liberation Army said that the Chinese Air Force had recently staged drills over the Yellow and East seas near the Korean peninsula, using “routes and areas it has never flown before”. The latest moves are messages to Taiwan and to the US and South Korea that they intend on increasing their influence, far beyond their borders. Monday’s drills involved aircraft flying over the Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines, and the Miyako Strait near the Japanese island of Okinawa. Other patrols encircled Taiwan, air force spokesperson Shen Jinke said, according to a statement posted on the air force’s website. “Exercises near Taiwan are [primarily] a warning to the DPP, which always plays down Beijing’s military might, and a reminder to the Taiwanese public,” Beijing-based military expert Zhou Chenming said. “In the East China Sea, however, where China’s air defence identification zone overlaps with Japan’s, drills are more complicated and challenging, because Tokyo scrambles its fighters to [effectively] join the training, which helps the Chinese pilots to improve their combat skills,” he said. Taiwan’s Defence Minister Feng Shih-kuan said on Tuesday that the island had dispatched aircraft and ships to monitor the PLA’s exercises, but said they were not unusual and that the public should not be alarmed. Chinese actions continue to show their aggressive and confident nature in pushing their influence in the region. With the situation in North Korea bubbling, the Chinese are not limiting their attention there. And are preparing for any scenario. To read the entire article from The South China Post click here: US B-52 Bombers Fly by Chinese Contested Spratly Islands China Vows Military Action to Stop US Weapons Sale to Taiwan US Cancels August Military Drill With South Korea, Kim Visits China North Korea Promises ‘Merciless Retaliation’ to US, South Korea US Tells China They Have Experience Taking Down Small Islands US Pilots Told to Beware of China’s Use of Lasers Near Airfield in Djibouti	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406647
__label__cc	0.743335	0.256665	Steve Mentz THE BOOKFISH THALASSOLOGY, SHAKESPEARE, AND SWIMMING Humanities Commons Public Writing The sea! the sea! Sydney Swim Diary (2 of 3) November 3, 2019 by Steve Mentz With apologies to San Diego and Miami, and not having been to Rio or Cape Town, I am wondering — is it possible that any city in the world is a better swimming city than Sydney? Here’s my list of my swims during my week in the city at the end of October, with pictures from most of the spots — Prince Alfred Park Pool Sunday afternoon: Prince Alfred Park Pool. I swam in two of the three 50m outdoor public pools in the heart of the city, missing only the pool located in the Royal Botanic Gardens near Circular Quay. These pools were large and sunny, in use but not overcrowded, the water cool but not cold. My hotel was a 10 min walk to Prince Albert Pool and maybe 5 min to Victoria Park Pool. It’s the sort of local convenience I could get used to! I swam first in Victoria Park around 3 pm on Sunday, after flying down from Armidale at noon. Monday morning: Victoria Park Pool. My first morning in Sydney I leveraged residual jet lag to get to the pool by 7 am and churn out 1500m under early morning slant light. The pool was a bit crowded, but inviting. Like my fellow swimmers, I got through my morning workout pretty fast to get on with the day. Victoria Park Pool Monday afternoon: Clovelly Inlet. After a lovely and wine-filled lunch with my hosts at the Sydney Environment Instittue, I took off in the afternoon for the Eastern suburbs, the Bondi-to-Coogee cliff walk, and a ghostly encounter with my twenty-two year old self, who had lived up the hill from Coogee for three-plus months at the end of 1989 and into 1990. The cliff walk is stunning, with glittering rock pools, and subtle gradations of brown in the sandstone. During the first half of the walk, we snaked through the public art displayed by the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition. But I was there to see and to swim, and on Killian’s advice we spent a while in Clovelly Inlet, a narrow, almost pool-shaped ocean inlet, bounded by the roar of surf at one end and a narrow beach on the other. We saw a wide assortment of fish in the calm waters. Highlights included a very not-shy blue groper, named “Bluey” in the Wild Swimming guidebook, and a sting ray with sand on its back. I also enjoyed swimming right up into the edge of the surf, into washing-machine-like conditions, and then letting the swell ease my back to the calm center. Monday afternoon: Coogee Beach. At the end of the cliff walk was the crescent-shaped bay of Coogee Beach, where I’d last swum on Christmas Day 1989, drinking green and red cans of Victoria Bitter. I remember the surf being a little bigger back then, but the water felt just the same. In Coogee’s water for the first time since Christmas 1989 Tuesday morning: In advance of my big talk at 4 pm, I made sure to get a good 7 am swim at the Victoria Park Pool. Tuesday mid-day: Killing some time before my public lecture, I wandered around the Circular Quay and gawked at the Opera House in the morning. Then I took a ferry to Watson’s Bay, near the South Headland. There I ate fish & chips and swam at The Baths, a netted swimming area in the oldest fishing village in Sydney. Wed morning: It was a full day of Workshopping on Wednesday, so no time but 7 am for swimming. I did get my 1500m in at my now-habitual Victoria Park Pool. Academics in Karloo Pool Th morning: I had expected to go back to Victoria Park on my last day in town, but Astrida Neimanis helped gather together a group excursion to Karloo Pool, in the Royal National Park. (The second-oldest National Park in the world, after Yellowstone, I was told.) We met up on the 6 am train from downtwon and made it out to Heathcote Station a little after 7. We tramped down a steep trail through gum tree forest to the pool, where we took a refreshing 20 min dip in clear, cool water. Then we busted back up by way of a sweaty hike that was just in time to get everyone to their academic jobs that morning. And also time to get me on time to go catch the ferry across the harbor to Manly, for the swimming trifecta that ended my week. Th mid-day: We had planned to snorkel in the ocean marine reserve in Manly, on the northeast corner of the Harbor, but the guy who I rented my mask and gear from said with the wind the way it was, the visibility would be better in the harbor at Fairlight Beach. We took his advice. The kelp beds were full of fish, tiny bits of iridescent coral, and more sea urchins than I’ve ever seen anywhere. The highlight of the swim — which I describe in detail in my Oceanic Sydney post — was an encounter with a giant Australian cuttlefish, one of the strangest and most intriguing critters I’ve seen in the sea. I won’t soon forget him! Sea Pool at Manly Th mid-afternoon: Josh had to catch a ferry back to teach in the afternoon, so I tramped around to the ocean side and the Shelly Beach Marine Reserve on my own. The north wind had churned up the sand a bit, but I did see lots of fish above the kelp bed. Th late afternoon: My last dip of the trip was in the surf of Manly Beach, where, tired as I was, I frolicked a bit with the kids on floatie toys and tried to keep my distance from the board surfers. It’s a gorgeous beach, and reminds of an outsized version of my home waters down at the Jersey Shore. Manly has become more touristic over the decades since I’ve last been there — it sported the only Starbucks I saw on my entire trip, though Sydney is full of fantastic coffee bars — but it’s a place I’d love to bring my family. That’s eleven swims in five days, which is pretty good considering that I also fit in two professional events, meals with many of my hosts, drinks and coffee with others, and an excursion to the Sydney Fish Market. No museums, alas. Next time? I’m not yet halfway back across the Pacific as I draft this post, and I’m already starting to scheme about future trips. Steve MentzFollow Shakespearean. Ecocritic. Swimmer. Plus media forms and poetics. Professor of English at St. John's in NYC. #bluehumanities #pluralizetheanthropocene Steve Mentz@stevermentz· Post #mla2020 musings, including pre- and post-apocalyptic thoughts from session #666 Demons of #mla2020 https://stevementz.com/demons-of-mla2020/ Another gaggle of MLA nonhumans... #SAA 2020: Watery Thinking Creating Nature: May 2019 at the Folger Watery Thinking: #shax2020 seminar Audio and Video Recordings Oceanic New York #pluralizetheanthropocene Demons of #mla2020 The Decade in Bookfish Heroes of the Fourth Turning at Playwrights Horizon Oz Round Up (3 posts) Compassion and Drought in Armidale, NSW (3 of 3)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406650
__label__wiki	0.633876	0.633876	The following resources are for people seeking information or assistance applying for Federal Grants. Please contact our office for additional information or assistance. To sign up for our biweekly grants newsletter, email Grants.OpportunitiesMI11@mail.house.gov or click HERE to take our brief grant survey. USA.gov Benefits, Grants and Loans pages The following is compiled by the Congressional Research Service. Grants and Federal Domestic Assistance Guidance and key resources to help eligible grantseekers find information on federal grants, loans, and nonfinancial assistance for projects, as well as on private funding. Prepared by the Congressional Research Service for Members of Congress, updated July 2019. How Best to Find Information Key Federal Funding Sources Related Federal Sources Private and Corporate Funding Find out Who is Eligible for a Grant? 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__label__cc	0.641065	0.358935	Australian Govt. Worker Face Jail-term for Mining Crypto 21 May 2019, The Australian Federal Police (AFP) confirmed in a May 21 press release that an unnamed 33-year-old man who formerly worked as an IT contractor for the government is set to appear before the Sydney Local Court today. Charges leveled against the defendant is that he abused his position as an IT contractor to manipulate programs that allowed him to use computing power generated for the agency’s network to mine cryptocurrencies for personal benefits. Within the period before authorities busted his alleged scheme, the employee made profits up to AUD 9000 (appr. $6100). A raid on his apart sometime last year resulted in the AFP seizing some valuable items from his Sydney apartment, namely personal laptop and phones, ID cards and data files. While sharing his thoughts on the implications of the alleged offense, Chris Goldsmid, Manager Cybercrime Operations at the AFP described it as a very serious matter and one that should not go unpunished. The top official said in the release, “Australian taxpayers put their trust in public officials to perform vital roles for our community with the utmost integrity. Any alleged criminal conduct which betrays this trust for personal gain will be investigated and prosecuted.” Meanwhile, the charges leveled against the defendant according to the release include unauthorized modification of data to cause impairment and unauthorized modification of unauthorized data. If found guilty, He could face ten years imprisonment and two years imprisonment, respectively. In a similar development, Stmarket.co reported last month that Brazilian authorities busted a secret crypto mining farm with 25 machines and fined its operator for falsifying electricity rates. TagsCrimeRegulationsAustralia	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406653
__label__wiki	0.606238	0.606238	National Cryptocurrency News Tunisian Central Bank Denies Rumors of e-Dinar Digital Currency The Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) has denied rumors that it is developing a digital currency. Tunisia Presents e-Dinar as the Race for State-Backed Digital Currencies Intensifies Tunisia is working on the development of a blockchain-based digital currency backed by a central bank. Turkish President Recep Erdogan Wants Digital Lira Testing to Be Done by 2020 Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has directed that the government completes the testing phase for its planned national central bank digital currency (CBDC) by the end of next year. Rwanda is Considering Digital Currency Issuance The National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) is conducting research into the possible issuance of digital currency. Turkey May Launch “Turkcoin” Before 2023 Is Turkey planning to launch a cryptocurrency before 2023? Maduro Orders Banco de Venezuela to Start Accepting Petro Nicolas Maduro, the President of Venezuela, has ordered the country’s leading bank, Banco de Venezuela to start accepting the national cryptocurrency, Petro. Cuba Considers Using Crypto to Subvert U.S Sanctions Cuba considers the adoption of a cryptocurrency to help the nation skirt sanctions imposed on it by the United States Government. IMF Says Central Banks Likely to Launch Digital Currencies The International Monetary Fund says several central banks in different countries are open to the idea of issuing a central bank-backed cryptocurrency. The Bahamas to Launch Digital Currency in 2020 The Central Bank of the Bahamas will on May 30 sign an agreement with transactions provider, NZIA Limited, to launch the country’s first bank-backed digital currency by next year. South Africa May Get a National Cryptocurrency South Africa may soon add its name to the list of countries to pilot the creation of a national cryptocurrency, otherwise known as Central Bank backed digital currency (CBDC) Daniel Daianu — Crypto Can’t Substitute Bank Currency Daniel Daianu says it would be better off to refer to cryptocurrencies as financial assets since they “won’t be able to fulfill the basic roles of currency.” Pakistan’s Digitization Plan Includes New Cryptocurrency by 2025 The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has plans to adds its name to the list of countries to issue a central bank backed digital currency (CBDC). Eastern Carribean Central Bank to Issue CBDC ECCB Governor - This is not an academic exercise. The digital EC Dollar be the world’s first digital legal tender currency to be issued by a central bank." BoJ Report — Should Central Banks Issue National Cryptocurrencies? 19 February 2019, 16:53 Researchers at the Bank of Japan (BoJ) review whether central banks should issue national cryptocurrencies. Bank of Korea Warns About CBDC Countries hoping to issue a central bank backed digital currency (CBDC) should give it a second thought according to a new report published by the Bank of Korea (BoK). Marshall Islanders To Get Physical Copies of National Cryptocurrency The government of Marshall Islands has partnered with Tangem, to produce physical notes of the SOV national cryptocurrency.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406654
__label__cc	0.724209	0.275791	Watercolors CD 1977 ECM Pat Metheny was virtually defining a new musical form on this 1977 date, blending folk, country, and pop elements with jazz and creating a gentler, more intimate idiom than fusion had been. His distinctively chorused electric guitar often floats over the smooth textures created by his own acoustic six-stringer, Lyle Mays's piano, and Danny Gottlieb's discreet drumming, while Eberhard Weber's electric and acoustic bass lines rise to ricochet with the guitar leads. The song titles abound with watery images, and they're perfectly in keeping with this flowing music, which tends to a pale, even pastel, palette and an ethereal lightness. "River Quay," particularly, suggests the sound of the Pat Metheny Group that would come later. --Stuart Broomer River Quay Suite I: Florida Greeting Song Suite II: Legend Of The Fountain Sea Song	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406657
__label__cc	0.666162	0.333838	WATCH THE MASTERCLASS BECOME A STAGE HYPNOTIST Watch Our Training MAKE $1,500 - $10,000 PER SHOW "Since SHU, my life has changed dramatically. I am truly living the dream as a Stage Hypnotist. Josh was looking for a new way to make money. He's now done over 500 Stage Hypnosis shows! Josh was looking for something extra. He wanted to earn more money and build a new skillset. He had read a couple books about the therapeutic side of hypnosis but wanted to entertain with it. He discovered Stage Hypnosis University and had to know more. It seemed like he’d get his investment back very quickly if he took action. “Hypnosis shows pay so well that if you follow the training and Michael’s advice, there is absolutely no reason you won’t be successful.” Enrollment obstacle… Josh knew he wanted to move forward and become a student of Stage Hypnosis University but his wife wasn’t so convinced. It didn’t take long before she also realized the financial freedom they would attain if Josh moved forward. “Stage Hypnosis University is so completely filling over the brim with content, I was surprised I didn’t see a video on where to find lost socks. The training and mentorship has ALL the answers, plus several sides of answers to questions you didn’t know you had.” Booked his first show… Josh booked his first show a couple months after he completed the program. It went great! He opened a new door of opportunity! “My first show was wonderful. I just followed everything I learned and I CRUSHED IT. I have now performed for that original organization 9 times.” “Michael is an incredible guide. He has been available for me to connect with any time I need. His integrity and empathy as a human being, his skill as a hypnotist and his wisdom as an entertainer who has been doing this for many years, make him an excellent mentor.” He kept booking shows… Josh just kept booking shows. He started with a high school, then corporate shows, then colleges. He has built an incredible new career and keeps topping himself every year. He’s now performed over 500 shows! “If you are serious about being a stage hypnotist, there is no better course of action you can take than joining Stage Hypnosis University. It’s not just hypnosis training. You also get the mentorship with Michael and access to the Secret Society. The connection to the other stage hypnotists is invaluable.” “The path Stage Hypnosis University lays out, is so clear. Nothing is left out. Just follow the training, do the work and you will definitely find yourself onstage with a bunch of ‘sleeping’ volunteers all around you, a laughing audience, and a happy client with a big check.” “Michael C. Anthony and Stage Hypnosis University have given me a career I never thought possible. I had seen other entertainers who were making big money and getting the big gigs. I had always wondered how I could ever do the same. I joined SHU and all was revealed. I have now done hundreds of shows for very satisfied clients and audiences. My wife is very happy. because I am happy and… because we are financially sound. SHU has upgraded my life in so many ways. I am forever grateful to Michael for sharing so much!” If you have a dream and a drive to make $1,500- $10,000 per show as a Stage Hypnotist, we’d like to offer you a FREE 45 minute call so you can find out exactly how Stage Hypnosis University can change your life like it did for Josh Routh. We only accept a limited number of hard working, motivated students that are ready to work with us to create something great! If that sounds like you, follow the steps below… ARE YOU NEXT? Learn what it takes to get from where you are now to the stage. This could be the most important 35 minutes you've ever spent on your future. SCHEDULE YOUR CALL This is where you book your call with Michael to discuss your goals and create a custom game plan to get you on the stage... FAST! START YOUR NEW CAREER After you enroll it's time to make it happen! We work with you every step of the way in creating & marketing your show. Very Limited Openings Our mission is simple: provide unrivaled Stage Hypnosis training in both our online training portal and our one on one mentoring program. We give our students the mindset support that propels them to take action and create a new career as a Stage Hypnotist, part time or full time. © 2019 Stage Hypnosis University. All Rights Reserved. It’s important that you watch the Training before you schedule a call with us. Did you watch it? No, Take me to the Training NowYes, I’m ready to schedule my call	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406659
__label__cc	0.507233	0.492767	State Legitimacy Politics, Technology & Critical Theory China, Egypt, Ukraine June 19, 2012 June 20, 2012 Legitimate Expectation? What is the role of expectation in determining legitimacy? Is legitimacy a relative concept? Tonight Egypt is again in the throws of more demonstrations, while rumours fly about the health of former President Mubarak. Some suggest this is the end of the revolution, much as Ukraine went through a cycle of demonstration against Viktor Yanukovych‘s allegedly rigged victory in 2004, only to return to him after several years of failed ambition in 2010. So Egypt may also revert to its previous state – most likely sans Mubarak, though age waits for no man, and his demise was inevitable anyway. Why does this happen? Is there an unreasonableness to the ambition of crowds? The internet and communications technology paint a picture of democratic structures in other parts of the world that appear appealing and idyllic. There are several problems with this. First, politicians describe their countries in very different language to that of ordinary people; and ruling politicians generally have more airtime, and deliberately paint misleadingly positive pictures. Second, those countries are out of context, and therefore possibly represent inappropriate targets. So ordinary people in less democratic places see these other countries and say “we should be able to do that,” without appreciatng the nuances of the objective. They don’t see the disenfranchised, the poor, and those deprived of healthcare and justice; the elites are less obviously favoured by the system; extreme moralising from governement is supplanted in many circumstances by an abdication of moral leadership, which leads to its own issues. People have an expectation of their government, and where that expectation is not met, legitimacy suffers. Is that expectation set internationally? Are expectations of state services, and representation, benchmarked in the international community through globalised communications networks? Just as misplaced expectation can reduce legitimacy, can appropriate expectation management (see North Korea, and Orwellian propaganda campaigns) improve legitimacy? Legitimacy is desirable in that it encourages stability (let’s assume for now that’s a good thing!), though it is not in and of itself an objective good. Perhaps then public expectation of the state and state legitimacy go hand in hand. If we accept that, then legitimacy is not only relative, but changeable over time, and changeable by external forces (through globalised communications networks. For example, China is struggling to retain its legitimacy in the face of the internet. Its people are seeing and realising that it doesn’t have to be the way that it is, much as the 1980s developments such as video contributed to the downfall of Communism (link needed…sorry, I’ll find this). More on this anon – I am going to try and postulate a formula that attempts to capture the expectation-legitimacy relationship over time. Foreign Policy’s Failed State Index Fukuyama – Homo Economicus and Perfidious Albion One thought on “Legitimate Expectation?” identificatory says: Quick appendix to this post – some corruption allegations in Ukraine appear to have surfaced around Euro 2012, where the change of government in 2010 heralded a move to no-bid contracts for state funded work. Tis a wicked web we weave… Seriously though, that looks like the silhouette of Angela Merkel about to come in and spoil the party. twitter.com/newschambers/s… 3 hours ago The comments under the BBC report are frightening. Dangerous times. twitter.com/OwenJones84/st… 3 hours ago Follow @technopolitics Accelerationism (2) Algorithmic Governance (1) Alienation (16) Anthropocene (2) Bewilderment (9) bunreacht na heireann (3) Carl Schmitt (2) Donald J Trump (5) Economy and Society Summer School (2) Electoral System (6) Extraordinary Rendition (3) Feuerbach (5) Fukuyama (9) Grexit (2) Guantanamo Bay (3) Hayek (10) Informal Economy (7) Informal Justice Systems (4) international community (22) Juergen Habermas (3) Karl Marx (13) Karl Popper (3) kissinger (2) LeCorbusier (1) Lewis Mumford (3) measuring legitimacy (7) MNC (12) Moral Authority (8) Multi-National Corporation (15) Murray Bookchin (2) neoliberalism (12) Non-Human Rights (1) Ostracism (1) Platformification (2) Rule of Law (15) Scottish Independence (1) Sport Politics (2) Tiananmen Square (1) UNDP (3) Vandermeer (1) Zizek (5)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406661
__label__wiki	0.618693	0.618693	Fritz Lang’s ‘Destiny’ on Netflix !Featured, Classic, Netflix, silent film 09/05/2016 Sean Axmaker Destiny (1921) is the first genuine masterpiece from Fritz Lang, one of the most influential filmmakers of the silent era and one of the great directors of all time. Even Lang thought so, and seeing the new restoration by the Murnau Siftung Foundation in Germany merely confirms that critical consensus. Technique, sensibility, cinematic vision, and story all come together in this epic drama of love, death, myth, and sacrifice, a mix of supernatural drama and mythic parable produced in the shadow of World War I. A young woman (Lil Dagover) finds her fiancé (Walter Janssen) suddenly gone, dead before his time (as were many young men in the war), and appeals to Death (Bernhard Goetzke) to bring her fiancé back. Death (who is indeed weary of his toils) gives her three chances to stop the candle of life from going out and this becomes the framework for an anthology of stories of love and death through the ages, each tale in a different exotic time and place. A commoner is condemned by a Caliph for wooing his daughter in ancient Baghdad, a jealous man plots the murder of a romantic rival in 17th century Venice, and a wizard plays games with an abducted couple for the amusement of the Emperor in Imperial China. Dagover and Janssen the roles of the doomed lovers in each story, which inevitably end in tragedy, yet Lang offers a different kind of triumph thanks to love and sacrifice. Lang creates fantastical sets for each story and for Death’s domain, a mythical realm with an epic scale, and his groundbreaking special effects, still awe-inspiring in their delicacy and grandeur, inspired Douglas Fairbanks to create The Thief of Bagdad. But where Fairbanks created giddy adventure with wide-eyed wonder, Lang’s baroque designs and spectacular magic are put to a story of regret, sacrifice, and somber poetry. His first undeniable masterpiece looks ahead to the visual splendor, operatic drama, epic visions, and emotional intensity of Die Nibelungen, Metropolis, M, and the Dr. Mabuse films. Queue it up! Also on Blu-ray in a special edition with commentary and a featurette. Destiny (1921) [Blu-ray] Bernhard Goetzke, Destiny, Fritz Lang, Lil Dagover, Netflix, Walter Janssen ‘The Gun Runners’ on Amazon Prime ‘Trans-Europ Express’ – Kinky spies on Amazon Prime	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406663
__label__wiki	0.883914	0.883914	Showing http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/faclibrary/case.aspx?id=1080 captured on Aug 21, 2008 HOME > First Amendment Library > Case Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC (1969) [Findlaw] Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica (docket #: 77-528) (1978) [Findlaw] Argument Date Supreme Court Vote Whether a broadcast of patently offensive words dealing with sex and excretion may be regulated because of its content. Case Summary & Additional Resources Oral Arguments [Oyez] Majority Opinion Stevens, J. (announced judgment, with plurality concurring in various parts) Concurring Opinion Powell, J. (concurring in part & concurring in the judgment) (joined by Blackmun, J.) Brennan, J. (joined by Marshall, J.), & Stewart, J. (joined by Brennan, J., Marshall, J., & White, J.) Distict of Columbia Court of Appeals Lower Court Ruling First Amendment claim sustained For Petitioner Joseph A. Marino For Respondent Harry M. Plotkin Louis F. Claiborne For Amicus Anthony H. Atlas for Morality in Media, Inc. Charles M. Firestone filed a brief for the Committee for Open Media George E. Reed & Patrick F. Geary for the United States Catholic Conference Henry R. Kaufman, Joel M. Gora, Charles Sims, & Bruce J. Ennis for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. Irwin Karp for the Authors League of America, Inc.; by James Bouras, Barbara Scott, & Fritz E. Attaway for the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. J. Roger Wollenberg, Timothy B. Dyk, James A. McKenna, Jr., Carl R. Ramey, Erwin G. Krasnow, Floyd Abrams, J. Laurent Scharff, Corydon B. Dunham, & Howard Monderer for the American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al. Paul P. Selvin for the Writers Guild of America, West Inc. 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__label__cc	0.536546	0.463454	Switzer Daily Weekend Switzer Why Scott Morrison has to wow us today with his why! by Peter Switzer Today my ex-student, Scott Morrison, will make the pitch for tax cuts for some of our most important companies. This coincides with a report from the Productivity Commission, which is a boring sound of body, but generally what they advocate can be controversial, while they often promise exciting economic outcomes. Yeah, I know “economic outcomes” sound boring too, so let me put what they’re promising in to hip pocket context. Big changes to obstacles can mean: More jobs. Higher pay. Greater profits. Faster economic growth. Bigger tax collections from that faster growing economy. Better incentives for businesses to invest. Brings in more foreign capital. Makes us more competitive with the rest of the world. When you look at it, if the Productivity Commission gets it right it delivers steps toward economic heaven, so what they recommend at least deserves most Australians to show the people involved a little bit of respect. Apparently, Scott is going to pitch that he thinks company tax cuts are now “urgent”, especially when the Donald Trump lower taxes plan looks increasingly more likely to get through Congress sooner rather than later. I know Donald has had trouble with Congress and even with his own Republican Party members, who have voted against bills, such as his re-working of Obamacare, but with about 12 months to the mid-term elections, the Republicans have to come up with a big winning play ASAP or else they’ll be decimated at the polls. This could be the prelude for Donald becoming a lame duck president, with no influence over Congress when it comes to the big reforms he promised pre-election. Can you imagine smart alec journalists delighting in called him a “Donald Duck” president? Scott will link the need for bigger company tax cuts to increased investment, which in turn lifts productivity — that’s a bigger output return to business from a given amount of labour and machines, etc. used to make this output/production. Take it from me, an economist, that productivity is the gift that keeps on giving for a long time but the question is: how do you get it? Changes in government regulations, such as changing penalty rates for weekend work and on public holidays, is a case in point. When the Hawke Labor Government floated the dollar and deregulated the financial system in the 1980s, it led to productivity. When the same government took away tariffs and other measures to simply protect local industry from competition, it improved our productivity, as well as our international competitiveness. This partly explains why we have broken world economic growth records. When these changes were made, it created enemies for Bob Hawke and his Treasurer Paul Keating and they weren’t from the big-end of town. There was a lot of hate from their buddies in the union movement. Big changes affect groups who are beneficiaries of the status quo but we know the great entrepreneurs, such as Richard Branson and Aussie Home Loans’ John Symond take on the status quo and change industries forever. Think about the impact of Symond taking on the banks in the early 1990s, which instantly lowered interest rates by 2%! It led to other changes, such as the arrival of mortgage brokers, and we now can go online to find the best interest rates in town. And those changes didn’t start with John but with Hawke and Keating’s financial deregulation. Similarly, John Howard’s GST and the related tax reform package has put another shoulder to the wheel to explain why we’ve grown 26 years without a recession. We rely heavily on foreign capital funds because we have a small population, and therefore small savings, but we have big ideas: BHP, the big Australian and second biggest miner in the world behind Glencore, is a case in point. So Scott will tell us how important productivity is and I hope he uses a script as good as the one I have outlined above to sell these bigger company tax cuts. This speech is going to be pivotal to the success or failure of the Turnbull Government because it has to be convincing. The crazy Senate has said no to $26 billion worth of company tax cuts linked to bigger companies, though it has accepted $24 billion of cuts for small and medium businesses. Right now, Trump’s tax cuts have got the UK and France looking at company tax cuts to encourage investment from business so if our taxes are too high, money will go elsewhere, especially when the Government is cracking down on big foreign companies dodging their tax responsibilities. Fairfax says the Treasurer thinks it’s harder to sell reform nowadays because we’ve gone so long without a lesson-teaching recession. And he thinks we’ve become skeptical about change, but I’d also throw in that we’ve been uninspired by politicians. They’ve become a disappointing lot so it’s time for some inspiration. Treasurers like Keating and Peter Costello could sell the dream or the sizzle and once they got the country on board, they worked on delivering the sausage. It’s expected that Scott will make references to what is needed to ensure our health system remains viable and world class. There will be proposals for university reforms and better ways to fund infrastructure. Infrastructure sounds boring but CommSec’s chief economist Craig James recently calculated the upcoming infrastructure boom could be 150% bigger in terms of the demand and growth it generates than our most recent mining boom! Labor and the Greens, along with some grandstanding Independents, are winning political points over the Turnbull Government but they’re taking away economic points that could determine how many Australians are in, or out of, work. It could also determine how quickly we reduce our Federal Government’s Budget Deficit and overall public debt. Tax experts such as Arthur Laffer argued to President Ronald Reagan that tax cuts can lead to greater tax collections, as it creates economic growth and reduces the incentives to pay smarty lawyers and accountants to help minimize tax. But this is all economics, which is not a great tool for selling something. In his book Find Your Why, Simon Sinek explained that we buy mainly from the part of the brain that is emotional and we often ignore the facts and details. Scott has to appeal to our ‘why’ today or it will be seen as just another boring, productivity, eco-speak speech. 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__label__cc	0.632181	0.367819	The University of Sydney - Research Supervisor Connect Research Supervisor Connect Home / Research Supervisor Connect / Search results Research Student Profile Adrienne Ryan The ecological impact of dust emitted from Cowal Gold Mine (CGM). I aim to determine the likely provenance of an aeolian component in the topsoil surrounding Cowal Gold Mine (CGM); and to assess the current and future ecological impact of these aeolian materials. Findings from this work may potentially benefit the ecosystem surrounding CGM, and those ecosystems adjoining mines elsewhere in regional Australia. Ideally this work will contribute towards the generation of appropriate EIL’s for soil in rural and ecologically sensitive areas. Samad Azad Economic and environmental efficiency of irrigated enterprises in the Murray-Darling Basin. Water use in agriculture and the associated environmental pressures are of major concern in Australia. My study aims to measure environmental and economic efficiency of irrigated enterprises across seventeen natural resource management (NRM) regions in the Murray-Darling Basin. There seems to be a knowledge gap on how to efficiently allocate government funding so as to secure the maximum environmental outcomes per dollar spent. My PhD research will shed more light on this, by focusing on the measurement of economic and environmental performance of the irrigated agricultural enterprises. Claire Deakin Gene therapy for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID-X1) While two clinical trials of SCID-X1 gene therapy have shown success, some infants developed leukaemia as a result of the integrating virus used for gene delivery, a risk previously estimated as insignificant. My PhD project at the Children’s Medical Research Institute is focussed on developing an alternative, safer gene delivery system. My project also includes an ethics component to investigate risk and uncertainty in clinical gene therapy, which allows me to draw on my undergraduate training in science and law. Kendy Tzu-Yun Teng Occurrence and risk factor study on inherited disease and obesity in companion animals Inherited disease and obesity are being considered major welfare issues in companion dogs. Using epidemiological approaches, I am studying occurrence and risk factors for these conditions. This research is being done under the VetCompass project, a nationwide system for disease surveillance that strives to collate and analyse electronic animal health records from primary-care veterinary clinics in Australia. The findings of my research will benefit key stakeholders from dog owners, veterinarians, to kennel clubs and the government and will enable development of evidence-based policy for controlling inherited diseases and obesity. Kat Leaver Neuroprotection and Parkinson's Disease Currently the most effective treatments available to treat PD only alleviate the symptoms. There is a need to develop neuroprotective drugs which slow or stop the progression of the disease. Early intervention may help slow the onset of debilitating symptoms. I'm doing a cotutelle PhD, and so will be completing a year of research in Tours, France. I have the opportunity to travel to present at conferences. Sanket Joshi Dynamin II as a potential anti-cancer drug target My PhD project is to determine if the cellular protein dynamin II (dynII) is a potential anti-cancer drug target. DynII is implicated in the last step of the cell division process, called cytokinesis. Cell division is tightly regulated so that cells only divide when necessary and any damaged cells are killed. Cancer develops when this control is lost. We hope to stop the proliferation of cancer cells by targeting dynamin. This may result in stabilization or regression of a tumour. My research is conducted at the Children’s Medical Research Institute, part of the Westmead Research Hub. Lin Yuan Participation by Miao Older People in the new Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (RCMS) in Sichuan Province, P.R. China My area of research is in rural healthcare services and rural health policy in P.R. China. My PhD study will explore the barriers to, and opportunities for, enhancing the participation of older Miao people in the local development and implementation of the new RCMS. A principal objective in the process will be to analyze how the needs of older Miao people are identified and addressed by the scheme. The study will contribute to the effective development and implementation of health policy and services designed to enhance the health outcomes of marginalized, ethnic minorities in rural China. Samuel Player Reconstructing the Angkorian Channel Network I am working on an ancient water management system at Angkor, Cambodia. In the 1950's it was proposed that mismanagement of the water resource supplied by irrigation channels resulting in reduction in the required rice production. My research is essentially trying to demonstrate whether this hypothesis holds any water. Using the sediment distribution and cross-sectional dimensions of the channels in hydrological models I am solving an archeological problem, plus providing a benchmark to compare contemporary concepts of 'sustainability'. Tristan Sharp Doctor of Philosophy - biomechanical and physiological demands of front row forwards during the scrum "My PhD is centred on rugby union scrummaging. More specifically the research is examining the biomechanical and physiological demands of front row forwards during the scrum. The reason behind only focusing on the front row guys is because they are the only ones during the scrum that are interlocked and can be influenced by the opposition. In addition, it is these guys who transmit the forces created by both their own team and the opposition. If these players understand their technique more and how it influences others, then it’s intended that the game will be a lot faster and more appealing to the rugby audience." Josh Stern Recruitment of human telomerase to telomeres My PhD at Children’s Medical Research Institute aims to understand how cancer cells achieve immortality. The chromosome ends, or telomeres, of normal cells shorten with age. This eventually causes cells to stop dividing. In cancer cells this does not happen. Most of the time this is because the telomerase enzyme repeatedly extends the telomeres. My goal is to work out what key factors recruit telomerase to the telomeres allowing it to extend the chromosomes. Ichsani Wheeler The auditability of soil carbon at the farm scale My research topic aims to devise an efficient method for analysing soil carbon and provide a scheme for measuring and monitoring of soil carbon storage at the farm scale. A refined auditing system can be developed by using a design-based approach on existing data combined with annual soil sampling of different soil types and production systems. This will enable the participation of agriculture in the carbon economy as a supplier of carbon credits and contribute to the function of cap-and-trade systems, and also provide support for improved land management by adding value to ecosystem services. Susie Wood Combustion of mine ventilation air methane using porous burners I'm working on a project to develop greenhouse gas mitigation technologies for underground coal mines and landfills. At the moment, mine ventilation air containing methane is just released into the air. We're developing an advanced combustion system capable of burning diluted fuels like methane, so that we can make use of a fuel that would otherwise be wasted. Natalie D'Abrew Impact of breast and gynaecological cancer in terms of the male partner's experience I'm looking at the experience of male partners whose female partner is diagnosed with breast or gynaecological cancer. My research focuses on the impact of this disease in relation to body image and sexuality from the male partner's perspective. The aim is to improve knowledge of how male partners cope and to explore possible interventions for the male partner during this time. Vidya Perera Ethnic differences in CYP1A2 activity My project aims to look at ethnic differences in CYP1A2 enzyme activity between people of Indian and European origin. CYP1A2 is responsible for the metabolism of numerous antipsychotic and antidepressant medications whilst also being involved in the metabolic conversion of carcinogenic compounds. The project will look at all aspects of ethnicty including genetics, environment and culture in order to pinpoint the factors responsible for drug response variability. Primary Supervisor: Professor Andrew McLachlan Associate Supervisor: Associate Professor Annette Gross Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Yonghong Ge Defense mechanisms of melon against Colletotrichum lagenarium and induces resistance with acibenzolar-S-methyl My project aims to survey the infection process of C. lagenarium on melon seedlings, investigate the mechanisms of the interaction between melon and C. lagenarium and the efficacy of ASM on control of C. lagenarium. At the moment, research has shown the Colletotrichum fungus can penetrate leaves directly and does not require natural openings (e.g. stomates) or wounds. 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__label__wiki	0.966298	0.966298	Yasir Shah released from Pakistan Test squad to work with Mushtaq Ahmed Sport360 staff 15:26 12/12/2019 Yasir Shah Pakistan have temporarily released leg-spinner Yasir Shah from the Test squad for the Sri Lanka series to work with Mushtaq Ahmed at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore. The 33-year-old who was dropped for the for the ongoing first Test against Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi will rejoin the squad in Karachi on 16 December, ahead of the second Test. In the interim, he will work in Lahore with the legendary leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed who was appointed spin-bowling consultant last week. According to Ahmed’s contract, he will work 120 days in a year at the NCA with the U16, U19 and other domestic bowlers. As and when required, he will work with the national team. Shah struggled with the ball during the two-Test series against Australia last month. He conceded 205 runs and picked up four wickets in the first Test at Brisbane. It only got worse at Adelaide during the day-night Test where he ended up leaking 197 runs without taking a wicket. Manchester, 2016 Brisbane, 2019 Yasir Shah has now conceded 200+ runs in a Test innings thrice https://t.co/FDwQjwLJYz #AUSvPAK pic.twitter.com/Yzhy4pKZFz — ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) November 23, 2019 Work to do for Nepal cricket as dangerous stagnation stands in way of ODI and Test status Sun is starting to set on the UAE’s status as the second home of Pakistan cricket His fighting century at Adelaide with the bat in the first innings was the only solace for the veteran spinner whose bowling average Down Under plummeted to 89.50 in five Tests, against a career average of 30.11. Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Yasir Shah International Pakistan Cricket Team Cricket Sun is starting to set on the... 2 hours ago Work to do for Nepal cricket as... 19/01/2020 Dakar rally 2020: Watch the best action... 18/01/2020 The ex rugby player with Olympic dreams... 8 hours ago	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406678
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__label__wiki	0.609766	0.609766	380 Wellington St, 6th Floor Tower B , London , Ontario , N5V 0A2 Current: Europe'... Local Events Vienna You may only listen to classical music once in a while, but we’ll bet this composer’s name rings a bell. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Germany, but spent his professional career and passed away in the music capital of Europe. 2020 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the composer, who in spite of becoming ill and deaf, was considered one of the greatest musical talents of all time. And Vienna is celebrating his life and works. The Austrian capital was the epi-center of musical creativity throughout most of the era that gave us classical music’s greatest moments. Most of Beethoven’s groundbreaking premieres took place in Vienna’s iconic venues. Many of them remain today (like Vienna's State Opera House above © WienTourismus/ Christian Stemper), and Vienna continues to set the stage of the world’s rich classical music scene. Every night in the city, around 10,000 music fans are treated to live classical music at the great music institutions that debuted Beethoven’s greatest works. In the year that marks 250 years since Beethoven's birth, Vienna celebrates the artist and his long-lasting legacy of classical music with the slogan Beethoven Belongs to Everyone. © Schaub-Walzer / PID Digital Beethoven The Vienna Tourist Board has developed a voice application for the Amazon and Google voice assistants for the 2020 Year of Beethoven. Users discover an interactive audiobook on the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven. Recordings of all Nine of his Symphonies performed by the Wiener Symphoniker provide the soundtrack. The Vienna Tourist Board and the Austrian National Tourist Board also worked together to develop a smart audio guide integrated into a pair of special sunglasses. Ludwig van Beethoven takes wearers on an acoustic tour of Vienna and New York with the help of Bose frames featuring integrated loudspeakers and the new #RelatedToAustria app. In Vienna, visitors can borrow the glasses for free from the Tourist information office on Albertinaplatz. Beethoven Live in Vienna In the 2020 Beethoven year more than ever, Vienna’s orchestras and music institutions celebrate the genius composer with a full calendar of performances. The Vienna Philharmonic holds a Beethoven cycle at the Vienna State Opera’s Gustav Mahler Hall. The series of ten chamber music evenings runs until mid-June 2020, presenting all of the master’s vocal works. The Wiener Symphoniker plays many of the Beethoven performances at the Wiener Konzerthaus: the packed program for 2020 is bookended by his Ninth Symphony on New Year’s Day and a final rendition of “the Ninth” on New Year’s Eve, and includes an open-air event with public viewing areas in the Beethoven cities of Bonn (his birthplace) and Vienna. The Theater an der Wien, where Beethoven was engaged and lived for a time, will be the venue for a production of Fidelio, taking Beethoven’s operatic work back to the place where it was first performed. In 2020 the Musikverein will be celebrating Beethoven as well, along with the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester and the Wiener Akademie orchestra – in which all the performers play original instruments, recording all of Beethoven’s symphonies and piano concerts for posterity. You can research live performances during your visit to Vienna, as well as anniversary recordings, here: Vienna Philharmonic, www.wienerphilharmoniker.at Vienna State Opera, www.wiener-staatsoper.at Wiener Symphoniker, www.wienersymphoniker.at Wiener Konzerthaus, www.konzerthaus.at Theater an der Wien, www.theater-wien.at Musikverein, www.musikverein.at ORF Radio Symphonieorchester, rso.orf.at Orchester Wiener Akademie, www.wienerakademie.at Beethoven in Art Don't miss exhibits, projects and installations featuring a Beethoven theme at Vienna’s museums and art galleries in 2020: Beethoven moves, Mar 25-Jul 5, 2020, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, www.khm.at Inspiration Beethoven. A Symphony in Pictures from Vienna 1900. May 30, Sep 21, 2020, Leopold Museum, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, www.leopoldmuseum.org Beethoven. World of the Man and Spark of the Gods, Dec 19, 2019-Apr 19, 2020, National Library, State Hall, Austrian National Library, www.onb.ac.at The Great Triad of Viennese Classical Music: Haydn - Mozart - Beethoven. Similarities - Parallels - Opposites, Feb 13, 2020-Jan 27, 2021, Mozarthaus Vienna, www.mozarthausvienna.at House of Music. The Museum of Sound, www.hdm.at Beethoven Museum, www.wienmuseum.at Pasqualati House, www.wienmuseum.at Secession, www.secession.at Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, Hofburg, Neue Burg, www.khm.at © John Baldessari; Courtesy of the artist, Sprüth Magers and Beyer Projects Beethoven in Photos Ludwig van Beethoven moved to Vienna to advance his career in the Music Capital with the renowned Haydn when he was only 22, and lived out his life there. So there are many monuments to the famous composer in Vienna. You’ll want to post images of all things Beethoven during your visit, including these famous Beethoven locations. Beethoven Memorial in Beethoven Park Beethovenplatz, 1030 Vienna Unveiled in 1880, this monument was paid for in part by one of Beethoven’s high-profile colleagues from the world of music. A committed Beethoven fan, Franz Liszt used the proceeds from his last public concert on March 16, 1877 (marking the 50th anniversary of Beethoven’s death) to complete the memorial. Beethoven Museum - Probusgasse 6, 1190 Vienna, www.wienmuseum.at In Beethoven’s day, Heiligenstadt was a popular spa destination beyond the old city walls, although today it’s part of the city. He retreated here as therapy for his ailments. The Beethoven Museum opened in one of his former residences. Pasqualati House Mölker Bastei 8, 1010 Vienna, www.wienmuseum.at Baron von Pasqualati provided cheap lodgings for his friend Beethoven to use, which the composer returned to on multiple occasions. Theater an der Wien - Linke Wienzeile 6, 1060 Vienna, www.theater-wien.at This theater was an important venue for concerts of all descriptions. Several of Beethoven’s works made their debuts here, including his violin concerto and Fidelio – his only opera. Beethoven’s grave - Central Cemetery, Simmeringer Hauptstrasse 234, 1110 Vienna Beethoven lies in rest in a grave of honor next to Franz Schubert’s final resting place, with a memorial to Mozart – who was buried elsewhere – installed between them. Include Austria's magnificent capital on a tour of the country's many charms, or visit Vienna during a port of call on a Danube river cruise. 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__label__cc	0.54144	0.45856	Four to Doomsday Four to Doomsday was the second story in the nineteenth season of Doctor Who. It was the first story filmed with Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor. The Doctor tries to return Tegan to Heathrow Airport, but the TARDIS lands on a technologically advanced ship. The Doctor goes out to investigate and sees a monoptican surveying them. He returns to the TARDIS and emerges with Adric, Nyssa and Tegan. All four must wear helmets to breathe. The Doctor addresses the monoptican, hoping whoever is using it for surveillance will see they are friendly. He queries it on their location. A door opens. Seeing this as a friendly gesture, the Doctor goes through it, followed by Tegan.. Nyssa and Adric stay in the room to operate some machinery there. Tegan and the Doctor eventually find themselves on the ship’s bridge and meet the Monarch and his two associates, Enlightenment and Persuasion. The Monarch is interested in the Doctor and Tegan’s knowledge of current and past Earth culture. He reveals the ship is bound for Earth. Tegan draws a picture of male and female uniforms at Heathrow for Enlightenment. Tegan and the Doctor leave the bridge and meet up with Nyssa and Adric. Nyssa claims she saw a humanoid man. The Doctor doubts this until one emerges, dressed in a Greek toga, to ask them to follow him. They are led to a dining chamber and seated at a table, to be joined by an Aborigine(Kurkutji), a Mayan (Villagra) and a Chinese mandarin (Lin Futu). They are representatives of their respective cultures; the Greek (Bigon) represents ancient Greece. The last guests to join them are Enlightenment and Persuasion, who have transformed into the humans Tegan sketched. The TARDIS crew are reunited as guests aboard the ship. It soon becomes apparent there are four distinct human cultures represented by a small group of humans: Ancient Greeks, the leader of whom is the philosopher Bigon; Chinese Mandarins and their leader Lin Futu; Princess Villagra and representatives of the Mayan people; and Kurkutji and his tribesmen, of the Australian Aboriginal culture. The Urbankans have visited Earth, each time getting speedier in their journeys. This time they have left their home world after erratic solar activity, storing three billion of their species on slides aboard their craft. It seems the current journey is their last and they wish to settle on Earth, which they are due to reach in four days. Bigon demonstrates to an astonished Doctor that within his chest and beneath his face there is just a mass of electronics. Holding up a printed circuit connected to his chest, he states: “This is me…” The Doctor becomes suspicious of the Monarch. He learns the Urbankans don’t plan on a peaceful co-existence with humans. Instead, they will use a toxin that the Urbankans produced from their own bodies during the “flesh time” before they were converted to androids, which causes organic matter to shrink away to nothing. It will be unleashed before the Urbankans disembark. The Doctor discovers the humans aboard are not descendants of the original abductees. The original people were taken from Earth and converted into androids, just like the three Urbankans. This revelation causes a panicked Tegan to use a spare key to get into the TARDIS, and she tries to pilot it back to Earth, but only succeeds in materializing it space next to Monarch’s ship. The four leaders have been given additional circuits to help them reason, but this faculty can be taken away, as Bigon learns when he crosses Monarch once too often. He explained to the Doctor that Monarch strip-mined and destroyed Urbanka in a quest for minerals to improve the ship, and now plans to do the same to Earth. Monarch believes that if he can move the ship faster than the speed of light, he can pilot it back to the beginning of time and discover himself as God. Adric is restrained as, on Persuasion’s orders, the Doctor is forced to his knees and one of the Greek androids raises a sword to decapitate him… Nyssa uses the Doctor’s sonic screwdriver and a pencil to short out the androids and save his life. Adric stops Persuasion from shooting the Doctor by standing in the way and the Monarch announces the Doctor is not to be harmed. Despite these events, Adric is taken with Monarch, and relations between the Doctor and him become very strained. It takes the truth to break the alien’s hold over the boy. The Doctor sets about overthrowing Monarch and, with the help of the human androids led by a restored Bigon, a revolution begins. The Doctor is forced to go out into space in order to retrieve the TARDIS, but Persuasion and then Enlightenment attempt to stop him; the Doctor and Adric tear out their circuits and throw them into space, before the Doctor is able to get back into the TARDIS and return to the ship. Monarch tries to kill the TARDIS travelers by shutting down life support, but they are able to survive with the help of the helmets they brought from the TARDIS. The Doctor retrieves a sample of the Urbankan toxin, intending to analyse it and turn it against its creator, but when an armed Monarch confronts the Doctor, he’s forced to use the entire sample against Monarch, who is reduced to just inches tall. It seems he is a product of the weak “flesh time” after all, having never, as the Doctor suspected, been fully converted into an android. Adding insult to injury, the Doctor reveals that Monarch’s plan to travel back in time was ridiculous, and would never have worked. With their former ruler now captive and helpless, the humanoid androids decide to pilot the vessel to a new home on a new world, while the TARDIS crew departs. Back in the console room, Nyssa collapses to the floor in a dead faint… The Fifth Doctor Tegan Jovanka Previous Episode: Castrovalva Next Episode: Kinda	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406691
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Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying. This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again. 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If we explore this newly emerging path deeply enough, we discover that all religions, philosophies, and cultures are honored; that science and spirituality are celebrated; that both the human and spiritual side of our natures are cherished and embraced. In short, near-death experiences present us with a universal, all-inclusive, perfectly integrated spiritual path that revolves around three core truths: 1. We are all one; 2. Love is the essence of life; 3. We are here, in this world, to become perfect embodiments of the Divine." -- David Sunfellow “I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.” –- Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions and Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine “Merely learning about the near-death experience has effects similar to those reported by NDErs.” -- Kenneth Ring, from "Lessons from the Light" “For me personally, I’m showing more love to others now than before I started my near-death-experience studies. My understanding of near-death experiences has made me a better doctor. I face life with more courage and confidence. I believe NDErs really do bring back a piece of the afterlife. When NDErs share their remarkable experiences, I believe a piece of the afterlife, in some mysterious way, becomes available to us all.” -- Jeffrey Long, "Evidence of the Afterlife" "I'm not asking you to believe anything. I'm simply telling you what I believe. And I have no idea what the next life will be like. Whatever I saw was only from the doorway, so to speak. But it was enough to convince me totally of two things from that moment on: One, that our consciousness does not cease with physical death; that it becomes, in fact, keener and more aware than ever. And secondly, that how we spend our time on earth, the kind of relationships we build, is vastly more important than we can know." -- George G. Ritchie, M.D., summarizing his famous near-death experience which helped launch the near-death experience movement. From his book, "Return From Tomorrow" "Many events in my life I experienced, but not from how I remembered it, but from the point of view... [of] how the people, animals, environment experienced it around me. I felt it as my own. The times I had made others happy, and sad, I felt it all as they did. It was very apparent that every single thought, word, and action affects everything around us and indeed the entire universe. Trees, plants, animals too. I have been a long-term vegetarian since about 18 years old and I know this was appreciated and is a good choice in life. Spiritually it seemed to show proof of respect for all life, and even seemed to balance some of the negative and wicked things I have done in my life. In the life review we judge ourselves; no one else does. The light/god did not. But with no ego left -- and no lies -- we can't hide from what we have done and feel remorse and shame, especially in the presence of this love and light. Some of the things in life we think of as important don't seem to be so important there. But some of the insignificant things from the material human perspective are very important spiritually." -- Justin U describing his near-death experience on the NDERF website "I have never interviewed anyone who had a near-death experience who told me that they came back to make more money or to spend more time at their jobs away from their families... Instead, they become convinced that they need to be more loving and kind. They react to their experience by living life to its fullest. They believe their lives have a purpose, even if that purpose is obscure to them. Invariably it involves concepts such as love of family or service to others. They seem to know that the love they create while living will be reflected and radiated back to them when they die." -- Melvin Morse, M.D., from his book, Parting Visions “I went into this tunnel, and I came into this room that was just beautiful. God held me, He called me by name, and He told me, ‘Mary Jo, you can’t stay.’ And I wanted to stay. I protested. I said, ‘I can’t stay? Why not?’ And I started talking about all the reasons; I was a good wife, I was a good mother, I did 24-hour care with cancer patients. And He said, ‘Let me ask you one thing -- have you ever loved another the way you’ve been loved here?’ And I said, ‘No, it’s impossible. I’m a human.’ And then He just held me and said, ‘You can do better.’ ” -- Mary Jo Rapini, describing her near-death experience "I asked them if there were other worlds. And they said, yes, the universe is full of other worlds -- and there are other dimensions of other physical universes and those are full of other worlds." -- Howard Storm describing his NDE in "My Descent Into Death" "The Light kept changing into different figures, like Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, mandalas, archetypal images and signs. I asked the Light, “What is going on here? Please, Light, clarify yourself for me... The Light responded. The information transferred to me was that during your life after death experience your beliefs shape the kind of feedback you are getting before the Light. If you were a Buddhist or Catholic or Fundamentalist, you get a feedback loop of your own stuff. You have a chance to look at it and examine it, but most people do not. As the Light revealed itself to me, I became aware that what I was really seeing was our higher Self matrix." -- Mellen-Thomas Benedict "God gave everything to us, everything is here -- this is where it's at. And what we are into now is God's exploration of God through us. People are so busy trying to become God that they ought to realize that we are already God and God is becoming us. That's what it is really about. When I realized this, I was finished with the void, and wanted to return to this creation..." -- Mellen-Thomas Benedict “In one of my visits with the Light I was told that the near-death experience... would become more and more popular and it would have an affect on the entire world when a critical mass was hit and all these people have died and come back and are telling you that there is a lot more going on than we think." -- Mellen-Thomas Benedict P.O. Box 2242, Sedona, AZ 86339 Sponsored by NHNE. Administered by David Sunfellow. Made possible by the financial support of visitors like you.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406698
__label__cc	0.712876	0.287124	Brooklake Country Club: A Digital Marketing Case Study (March ’13-August ’13) Today’s Business was hired by Brooklake Country Club to provide Social Media Management and SEO Services. Through consistent social posts, responding, and search listing optimization, Today’s Business has been able to increase the online presence and overall web traffic. Organic Search is up 276% Year-over-year Total New Users to website is up 443% (471% from organic search) On average, there are over 100 new Facebook fans a month 70% of impressions per month are viral Over 1,000 followers on Twitter Brooklake Country Club was struggling to get the attention they wanted because they were lacking an online presence. When Brooklake came to Today’s business for help, they had not been involved in social media or digital advertising at all. Even though they had a website, the wrong contact information was provided and they weren’t taking advantage of any SEO opportunities. By missing out on so many different outlets to spread awareness of their brand online, they had very few Internet leads. Another obstacle Today’s Business had to tackle was the countless negative reviews Brooklake had been receiving online. Reviews can really wound a company’s reputation and by starting with a negative reputation, Today’s Business had to put our best efforts forward to completely turn around Brooklake’s reputation. How Product Helped Today’s Business began by building Brooklake a new and responsive website. Responsive websites look more aesthetic when it comes to smaller screens, such as phones or tablets. This began to help increase their website sessions by 273%. We also helped Brooklake get more involved with SEO and SEM campaigns. This way their website would fall higher on search engines and redirect prospective clients back to their contact forms. With the new SEO targeted content that Today’s Business was writing for Brooklake, we we’re able to increase the organic SEO traffic by 70%. Then Today’s Business began to set up Brooklake’s social media presence. We claimed all of their social pages and began posting captivating content. We also tapped into audiences that Brooklake had never reached out to before like photographers and DJ’s. With all of this new engagement and content, Today’s Business was able to get Brooklake 100,000 Facebook impressions per month! Lastly, Today’s Business was able to begin asking for more reviews to hopefully outweigh the bad and monitor what was coming in so that we could help Brooklake take action with any unsatisfied clients. With all of the success that we have seen from SEO and social media, it is safe to say that the reviews are no longer a hurdle that Brooklake has to worry about. Results, Return on Investment and Future Plans Through extensive SEO planning and strategizing, Brooklake Country Club is listed on the first page when searching for “Country Club Weddings”. In combination with our Social Media Management efforts, Today’s Business was able to bring the organic search up by 1,293%. Not to mention the pages per session are up by 49% as well. Just looking at the Social Media side of things, Today’s Business was able to extremely increase their online presence. Each month the content posted on Facebook accumulates around 100,000 impressions. The impressions on Twitter are similar because they have gained around 5,000 impressions a month. The engagement on Facebook is around 8% on average, which is very difficult to achieve with so many fans. Post Your Facebook Comments Brooklake Country Club: A Digital Marketing Case Study (March ’13-August ’13)2016-02-012018-02-20https://tbsmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/tbtodaysbusiness_black.pngToday's Businesshttps://tbsmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/casestudy_2brooklake.jpg200px200px BERT ALGORITHM UPDATE Google’s “Medic Update” and How it is Impacting SEO Top Podcasts, Books and Instagram Accounts That Will Instantly Motivate You Insurance Agency: Digital Marketing Case StudyCase Studies Cali Carting: A Digital Marketing Case Study (December ’14- December ’15)Case Studies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406699
__label__wiki	0.979239	0.979239	Corporate » Kevin Turner Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reshuffles top management post COO's exit Microsoft on Thursday announced a shake-up in its top ranks, including the departure of long time chief operating officer Kevin Turner for a new job. AFP \| July 08, 2016, 14:27 IST Microsoft on Thursday announced a shake-up in its top ranks, including the departure of long time chief operating officer Kevin Turner for a new job. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said that five executives will divide the duties held by Turner, who played a pivotal role over the past decade as Microsoft shifted from packaged software to programs offered as services in the internet cloud to a gamut of connected devices. Turner will remain at Microsoft to aid with the transition through this month, then leave to become chief executive officer at global financial firm Citadel Securities, according to Nadella. "Kevin is a world-class business builder with experience managing large and complex organizations." said Citadel founder and chief Kenneth Griffin said in a separate release. "Kevin is a proven innovator who brings expertise in technology and operations with a client-first focus." Nadella praised Turner as having a tremendous impact at Microsoft during his 11 years with the software giant. "I have learned a lot from Kevin over these past few years and wish him all the best," Nadella said in a blog post. Turner's departure comes with shifts in the duties and responsibilities of Microsoft executives Judson Althoff, Jean-Philippe Courtois, Chris Capossela, Kurt DelBene, and Amy Hood. The leadership changes come as Microsoft prepares to mark the one-year anniversary of Windows 10 with a major update to the software powering more than 350 million computing devices. The Windows 10 update is set for release on August 2. Windows 10 operating system is designed to work on laptops, desktops, smartphones, Xbox One consoles, HoloLens augmented reality headsets and more. Microsoft has been aggressively promoting upgrades from old versions of Windows, and has made Windows 10 available as a free upgrade until the operating system turns one year old on July 29. After that, it will be sold pre-installed on new devices or available for purchase separately, with a home computer version priced at $119, according to the Redmond, Washington-based company. Microsoft provoked ire by pushing people to upgrade to Windows 10 by automating the process and, for a time, modifying the red "x" in a corner of an upgrade notice pop-up box to approve the action, instead of simply closing the message. Microsoft has set a goal of having the operating system in use in more than a billion devices by 2018, which would put it on par with Apple, which said this year it has one billion active devices running iOS. 800-plus flying hours, upset founders and little time: The tragedy of Vishal Sikka Bill Gates makes largest donation since 2000 with $4.6-billion pledge IT Ministry asks Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to remove Blue Whale game links Here is how private cos like Jio, Flipkart, Paytm are helping India in nation building Kaspersky Lab to withdraw Microsoft antitrust complaints Wipro develops Big Data Analytics-as-a-Service on Microsoft Azure Tags : Corporate, Microsoft, Kevin Turner, Satya Nadella Trending in Corporate Walmart India lets go of top executives across divisions Indian immigration to US down 7.5% Cybersecurity startups see billions in keeping you safe Indian IT to mirror Infy trend of digital growth, core services fall	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406702
__label__wiki	0.815114	0.815114	Big Billion Day Flipkart mulls big changes to its 'Big Billion Day', loans likely for buyers It is discussing internally if it should hold its Big Billion Day event on separate days in October so it has greater control over deliveries and customer service. Aditi Shrivastava&Madhav Chanchani \| ET Bureau \| Updated: July 05, 2016, 08:50 IST Flipkart is considering major changes to its third annual flagship sales event, including staggering it through October and extending loans for customers. India’s largest online marketplace is discussing internally if it should hold its Big Billion Day event on separate days in October so it has greater control over deliveries and customer service, according to people aware of the company’s deliberations. Flipkart is also in talks with lenders to arrange pre-approved loans for customers under a ‘buy now-pay-later’ scheme during the all-important festival season, which will also have Amazon India, Snapdeal and, potentially, new entrant Alibaba Group competing for buyers’ wallets. “BBD was earlier planned for 15-16 October but Flipkart has preponed it to the first day/week of October,” one of the sources said. “What’s being discussed right now is that the first BBD will be the big one, followed by medium and small BBDs,” one of the sources said. Such mega online sales events had come under a cloud after the government in March, as part of its guidelines for online marketplaces, barred these companies from “directly or indirectly” influencing the sale price of goods or services. But Flipkart, Amazon and Myntra, after a brief pause, have continued running sales arguing that the discounts offered during such promotional events are offered by their sellers and not them. The magnitude of this year’s Big Billion Day will depend on how many sellers and brands Flipkart is able to get on board for the event and how much they are willing to discount, the person quoted above said. Flipkart’s first Big Billion Day, held on a single day in October 2014, fetched it $100 million (about Rs 650 crore) but was marred by bungled handling of an unanticipated large volume of orders. The company began preparing early for its next flagship sales event, which brought it $300 million over three days in October last year. For this year, the company has already ramped up its online marketing budget to entice more people to its mobile application and its desktop website, the sources said, all declining to be identified. Flipkart plans to leverage the customer data it can glean through its mobile application to target its marketing and other schemes. This includes the loans initiative, for which Flipkart will assess the financial standing of customers through data obtained from its app. “Flipkart is in talks with several banks to disburse these loans, which will be underwritten by it,” a second source said. “Flipkart is launching its loans product just to promote repeat purchases during BBD and win back the Metros.” Flipkart declined to comment, but an investor, requesting anonymity, said the company’s core focus remains “keeping the lead in mobile, electronics, large appliances and lifestyle categories, winning exclusive deals and ramping up service and delivery standards.” Preparations for the flagship sales event this year is being led by Kalyan Krishnamurthy, who rejoined Flipkart as head of category management in June. Krishnamurthy, who is also a managing director at Flipkart’s largest shareholder, Tiger Global Management, was the company’s chief financial officer and head of categories during its first Big Billion Day. This year’s event is highly critical for Flipkart in light of Amazon's huge capital allocation towards its India operations, said experts. “During the festival season last year, Flipkart was the clear market leader but now Amazon has overtaken Snapdeal and is close behind Flipkart,” said Mrigank Gutgutia, engagement manager at internet consulting firm RedSeer. “This festive season could make it amply clear who is the market leader between Flipkart and Amazon.” Putting on a big show in October is important for Flipkart also because Paytm plans to spin off its online retail business by then, which is expected to be Alibaba’s ecommerce launchpad in India following the government’s decision to allow 100% foreign direct investment in online marketplaces. The Chinese ecommerce giant and its affiliate Ant Financial already control 40% of Paytm. Gutgutia expects that the discounts and overall sales from the event will be more rational this year. “With investors becoming cagey about financing e-tailer’s discounts, e-tailers will be more strategic in terms of only certain categories being on heavy sales this year,” he said. Tags : Internet, SnapDeal, Sellers, Myntra, Flipkart, e-commerce, Big Billion Day	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406703
__label__wiki	0.975274	0.975274	Indian netizens uninstall Snapdeal app instead of Snapchat "Time to balance the ratings...guys its Snapchat's CEO who said bad things. You are making Snapdeal pay that...please change your ratings," wrote one of the users.PTI \| Updated: April 17, 2017, 08:15 IST In a case of mistaken identity, many people downgraded and uninstalled the mobile application of e-commerce platform 'Snapdeal' instead of social networking app 'Snapchat' to mark their protest against certain unverified comments of Snapchat CEO about the Indian market. The social media was today abuzz with criticism against Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel after a report quoted one of the company's former employees as saying that the top executive told him that the "app is only for rich people" and that he (CEO) was not interested in expanding the business to "poor countries" like India and Spain. Snapchat, on its part, has rubbished the allegations. However, soon after the controversy erupted, #BoycottSnapchat became one of the top trending topics on Twitter and people began to uninstall the app and give it poor ratings and reviews on various app stores. @thetanmay Thanks bud. Ppl asking us to make a statement that @snapdeal is not @snapchat was possibly the last thing I thought I would ever need to do. — Kunal Bahl (@1kunalbahl) April 16, 2017 "Dear CEO of Snapchat...why don't you come to India and check out Indians' phones," wrote a user in review of Snapchat's app. Many also went on to highlight that CEOs of top tech firms like Microsoft and Google are Indians. Interestingly, a section of Internet users mistook Snapchat to be Snapdeal and uninstalled the e-commerce app of the latter. This came to light after netizens started posting pictures of the blunder on Twitter. Many users also went on to explain how the two apps were different. "Time to balance the ratings...guys its Snapchat's CEO who said bad things. You are making Snapdeal pay that...please change your ratings," wrote one of them. Snapdeal, which has been in news for a potential sell out to larger rival Flipkart, has faced a similar downgrade in 2015 when its then-brand ambassador Aamir Khan made a comment on growing 'intolerance in the country. Tags : Mobile, SnapDeal, Snapchat, e-commerce, Apps Trending in Mobile Seeking a match offline? There's an app for that Goldman Sachs says it sold off entire Uber stake after IPO lockup expired Want to buy a new phone? Offers could be just around the corner MX Player aims to become a multi-modal entertainment app India proposes incentives to woo Apple, Samsung suppliers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406704
__label__wiki	0.632809	0.632809	+61 3 6210 7700 Check Rates Curators of History & Art Packages + Offers Art Catalogue Call Now p. +61 3 6210 7700 Jane James Jane James is a Tasmanian artist also based in Brisbane, her work informed by travels to environments in the Asia Pacific region and while her work is largely representational, there is manipulation of visual language to overlay additional meanings. We Said Yes In ‘We Said Yes’ each piece is a visual signal that forms part of a larger whole, the relationship between individual pieces assured by the continuity of rope. There is also a lighter tone to the language, the ropes and sticks more playfully arranged, pliable and rigid elements entwined but not constrained by knots. Equality would have no meaning without differences. It’s self-evident that two identical entities or objects are the same, it is redundant to assert that they are equal. The concept of equality requires us to recognise differences but also to acknowledge the similarities and shared aims that demand fair and consistent treatment and equal respect. In the end, we did it. Each survey vote an individual signal, collectively creating meaning. Imperfectly, we affirmed that equal consideration, dignity and respect should be available to all of us. We brought equality a little bit closer. View We Said Yes, 2018 View Sold We Said Yes, 2018 View Sold We Said Yes, 2018 View We Said Yes, 2018 Kelp Forests Jane James is an artist who pursues a reference to the critical nature of the marine interface and interaction. Over thirty years she has lived by and dived in our oceans and this body of work highlights the majesty and beauty of the kelp forests. Recent years has seen a sharp decline in these native habitats. Consequently Jane paints a world that is almost lost, to record her memories and those of our generation, from her own experiences and photographic records. View Kelp Forests, 2019 25 Hunter Street, Hobart Tasmania, Australia 7000 reservations@thehenryjones.com +61 3 6210 7700 Get Directions Subscribe Now © 2020 The Henry Jones Art Hotel	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406711
__label__cc	0.541225	0.458775	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is a leading international law firm with offices located in major financial centers around the world, widely recognized for its expertise in finance and mergers and acquisitions and for its tax, regulatory and litigation practice. The firm was founded in 1946 by lawyers committed to excellence in the practice of law, the highest ethical standards and diversity and individuality in its lawyers. 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__label__wiki	0.893078	0.893078	Joshua returns to gym ahead next fight Anthony Joshua is back in the gym less than a week after beating Andy Ruiz Jr, prompting speculation that the heavyweight king’s next fight is just around the corner. The Brit reclaimed his world titles that he lost to the Mexican-American in June with a unanimous point decision in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh at the weekend. At the end of another gruelling year and with Christmas just around the corner, the 2012 Olympic champion would have been forgiven for taking a break from the sport after his latest win. Instead, the 30-year-old returned to the gym to keep himself in shape ahead of his expected next bout in 2020 against either Kubrat Pulev or Oleksandr Usyk. Joshua is currently the holder of both the WBO and IBF titles, with both governing bodies requesting the Brit faces their mandatory challenger or relinquish the belt. READ ALSO: Joshua slams critics over display against Ruiz Jr Bulgarian Pulev is the IBF’s selected boxer, while former unified cruiserweight champ Usyk is in line for a crack at the WBO strap. There is a chance Joshua could fight both next year, before chasing a super fight with the winner of the rematch between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury in 2021. While Joshua has shown great professionalism in getting back into the gym quickly, defeated foe Ruiz Jr has been criticised by promoter Frank Warren over his preparation for the rematch. The Mexican-American weighed in more than three stone heavier than AJ for the clash and admitted he wasn’t as focused as he could have been in training, prompting Warren to speak out. “This was ridiculous. When eyebrows were being raised at the weigh-in he literally was the elephant in the room,” said the legendary promoter. “Just because you’re a heavyweight it shouldn’t mean you don’t have an obligation to display a degree of athletic intention. “Ruiz Jr brought disgrace to himself and the sport by failing to prepare to any sort of level. Joshua must’ve wondered which chin he was supposed to aim for.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406720
__label__wiki	0.640852	0.640852	You are here: Home / Stories / Issue 7 / The Pop Singer by Todd Sullivan The Pop Singer If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our weekly email: Marco crouched next to his master in the shadow of two leering demon statues standing sentry at Bongeunsa Temple’s arched gates. His hand rested on the hilt of a dagger tucked into his belt, and he gazed down the one thousand steps leading to the sacred summit. The slender woman had emerged from the tree line in her steep ascent up the temple’s stone stairs. When she finally stood before Marco and his master, her pale skin bore a light sheen of sweat, and she breathed heavily from the exertion of reaching the high peak. “I am honored to be granted an audience with you.” She bowed low. “My current troubles are beyond the scope of my capabilities to resolve, so I was forced to seek help from the old men in my neighborhood who even the geondal respect.” She paused. “They advised me to contact you.” She unslung a thick satchel from her shoulder and held it out with both hands. “Fifty million won.” She placed it on the ground at their feet. “My bloodline has always been independent, but now my children’s children’s children will be indebted because of the loans I took to obtain this vast sum. I saw no other way to avenge the disgrace my name has suffered.” Marco’s master nodded. “Only a handful of Shin Seoul’s citizens know of the existence of our Order of the Blade. We are sought for missions when the fulfillment of the goal is absolute. Once we are flung into the ocean, we sink without hesitation to deep depths into the darkness. Are you sure your vengeance is as unflinching as our dedication will be in avenging you?” The client’s expression turned fierce, the aggrieved pride in her eyes feral. Marco tensed slightly and tightened his fingers on the hilt of his dagger. He noted her lack of technological upgrades, external and internal. Had they been implemented in her body, he would have sensed them through a disturbance of his spiritual energy. Every organ this woman possessed, however, was the one that had grown in her mother’s womb before her birth. In 2056 Shin Seoul, this surprised Marco. The only other humans he knew without technological enhancements were monks, like him, living in the extensive forests surrounding Bongeunsa Temple. “Nothing else matters to me as much as this,” the woman stated in a firm, clear voice. “My daughter must be returned, and the Pop Singer must die.” Though Marco could only venture into Shin Seoul on missions, he knew the Pop Singer’s music.** Bongeunsa forests, a wonder of natural aesthetics developed after the Reunification War, maintained a strict policy. External tech was technically forbidden on its green grounds. Daily visitors of the one hundred million populating new Seoul still brought the modern music with them through tiny audibles tattooed on their flesh. Even here in the midst of the extensive park, Marco did not escape it. “Two days ago, the Pop Singer entered my restaurant. Our establishment is famous, marked on virtual maps throughout the webisphere. A hundred twenty years this summer, my family would have been selling heuk dwaeji from secret recipes handed down to us from our ancestors. Many international stars have sat at our tables, and we work diligently to give them a taste of the ancient in today’s modern world. “But the Pop Singer.” Her voice turned hot with disgust. “He came with his band of hoodlums, harassed my waitresses as if they were also on the menu, and intimidated my male staff that tirelessly tried to appease their voracious appetite. “The Pop Singer himself took interest in my daughter, Yang Su Bin, only now in her first year in high school. He lured her to the private booth that we had graciously arranged for him and his closest associates, and he betrayed our trust by assaulting her while his friends covered her protests with loud talking and laughing. When the Pop Singer finally left, his associates refused to pay the bill for the food and liquor they consumed. Hundreds of thousands of won, a pittance to someone as wealthy as that foreign devil.” The client’s hands clenched into tight fists. “The police interviewed him and said that Su Bin willingly gave herself to the Pop Singer.” The woman spat on the ground. “Lie! They said the food I gave them wasn’t fresh.” She spat again. “Lie! They said the restaurant was damaged before the singer came with his band of hoodlums.” A third time the woman spat. “Lie! The police cover up the abuses of the rich, not wanting our country to be embarrassed by causing an inconvenience for the famous singer from the western world. And now Su Bin has disappeared, taken to the Pop Singer to be punished for reporting his assault. She will be treated as a slave to his whims, and when he tires of her, he’ll discard her as he’s done to so many young girls in countries he tours. “So I come here to you, and with a steady hand I fling you into the ocean. The Pop Singer took from me my reputation and my daughter, the two things I hold most dear in this world. Now take from him what he holds most precious. His life.” High up on the temple’s summit, the wind blowing through the twisted mouths of the demon statues leering behind them took on a pained wail. Of anguish or ecstasy, Marco could not yet determine and would not know until the mission was completed. His master standing over him stirred, and said, “Your request has been declared for all relevant forces to hear. The Pop Singer will be killed, and your daughter will be freed. You must remain here until my agent returns.” Marco’s master reached out and touched his shoulder. “I release you from the chains binding you to these hallowed grounds. Now sink fast and steady without the slightest resistance into the black depths.” His master removed his hand from his shoulder. Marco tensed, and launched himself off the ridge down the one thousand steps leading up to the summit. Dusk swept through the dense forests surrounding Bongeunsa Temple. Developed after the Reunification War, the sprawling park spread out over three-dozen blocks in the center of skyscrapers rising up from the glittering concrete streets of the megacity. Marco’s dark clothes rustled as he sailed halfway down the stairs. He landed and pounced forward again, cutting through the night air to slip into the branches of the surrounding trees. Marco darted through the green leaves, detouring every time he felt the suction of park visitors’ tech upon his spiritual energy. The closer he approached the city, the greater the disturbance to his aura, until it almost overwhelmed him. Three hours. That was the maximum amount of time he had to penetrate the city, get to the Pop Singer, kill him, retrieve the client’s daughter, and return here. These things Marco knew, but they did not worry him. As his master had said, Marco would not fail, and the mission would be completed. The outcome was certain. At the perimeter of the forests, Marco shot out of the branches of the trees, skipped across the roofs of cars on the congested six lane street running along the park, and leapt to the side of Samseong Electronics rising fifty stories into the sky. He darted up the side of the building, the air whistling in his ears, the sounds of the city dimming as he reached Samseong’s apex to leap over the top and balance on the railing encircling the tower. Around him, Shin Seoul threw garish lights of pulsating LEDs into the opaque sky. Marco walked around the circumference of the skyscraper until he faced north. He crouched down, closed his eyes, and steadied his breathing. He focused, shutting out the real world around him and honing in only upon himself. He pushed deeper, connecting to his core, and allowed his spirit to manifest itself in a continuous stream of chants that flowed up out of him through his slightly parted lips. The distinct flutter of wings in the wind hovered at the edge of his consciousness. Marco opened his eyes to a dozen large crows soaring around him in a vortex of black feathers and sharp caws. Within the breast of each of bird, he spied the bright souls of the recently deceased vibrating with a peculiar light. Without physically moving, Marco reached out to them and requested some of their energy before they left this plane to the next. The crows reassured the souls that this loan would not weaken them before their long journey, and that Marco’s ancestors, a powerful cabal already existing on the other side, would be in their service should they need assistance in the realm beyond the living. The souls conceded, and power flushed through Marco, so much and so intense that it threatened to drive him mad. Years of training tethered his mind to sanity, and he tempered the incredible power bequeathed upon him in moments. A particularly large crow landed on the railing before him and let out a sharp caw that reverberated through Marco’s body. It gazed at Marco with bright, shiny eyes, took several regal steps towards him, and opened its long, black beak. At the top of its throat, Marco spied the hilt of his kal jaro. The preternaturally sharp blade became available to him only on missions, its edge having to be continuously sharpened by craftsmen in the heavens lest it become dull. Marco reached into the crow’s maw, grasped the kal jaro, and pulled it out, sheath and all, from the bird’s guts. He tucked the sword in beside the dagger, tied the embroidered sageo cord to his belt, and bowed low to the majestic crow. He waited until the flapping of their large wings grew distant as the large black birds swirled in wider circles around him until they dispersed into the night sky. 20:35. He had an hour to reach Incheon International, twenty minutes to infiltrate the vast airport terminals handling flights from all over the world, a moment to kill the Pop Singer, another to retrieve the client’s daughter, and an hour and forty minutes to return back to Bongeunsa Temple. With no time to waste, Marco flung himself over the edge of Samseong Electronics and ran down the side of the building. At the tenth floor, he slid to an abrupt stop, and stood vertical against the surface to watch the traffic on the street below him. Several minutes passed before one of the hotel express buses heading to the airport turned on the far intersection and headed his way. Marco slightly bent his knees and popped off the side of the building to land silently on the bus. He pressed himself down on the roof, and watched the outside world pass quickly around him. The Pop Singer’s octaves blasted from storefronts and created a high-pitched city soundtrack. Facees, people that had gone under the laser at plastic surgeons so that their features would be shaped into a mirror image of the Pop Singer, dotted the crowded sidewalks as Shin Seoul’s citizens went about their daily routines. Students in uniforms gathered around holograms of the Pop Singer shooting up from handheld mobiles, and sang karaoke of his most popular songs. Posters projected onto the glittering streets showed the Pop Singer in his numerous starring roles in cocoon theatres that immersed viewers in 5D experiences. Known for doing his own stunts in action movies, the Pop Singer had had numerous expensive upgrades allowing him to perform extreme acrobatic maneuvers with ease. Incheon International Airport bubbled up from the ground in the shape of several crystal umbrella domes signifying hope after the devastating Reunification War. The main terminal was 80 meters high at its cupola. When the express bus passed underneath a series of arches spanning the entrance ramp, Marco placed his hands flat on the roof and pounced upwards. He caught onto the side of the arch and pulled himself up. He then hopped to the adjacent arch that stood slightly higher, then the next, and the next, until he reached the sloped edge of the umbrella dome. Here he cut across the sky to land on the transparent surface, and he darted across the crystal sections. Marco sought out the densest group of people. He found them flanked by camera crews and anchors of local and foreign news organizations camped outside of the roped off doors of an exclusive priority lounge. Marco walked to the adjacent section of the dome and peered down inside of the lounge. Spacious, it boasted only a handful of private booths, and elegantly set tables throughout the room. Behind a polished bar stood a row of waiters all poised to appear by a patron’s side at the slightest indication of a desire. At the roped off doors stood four airport security guards armed with assault rifles, their smart sunglasses wired into ports embedded in their collarbones. At a wide oval table in the center of the room sat the Pop Singer with his entourage. A young blonde male whose true age was hidden behind the expert cosmetic surgery that would leave him forever appearing a teenager, the Pop Singer sat relaxed in blue jeans and vest, and spoke to a gray suited man beside him. Two guards, former military personnel from their stance, stood a pace behind the Pop Singer. They bore no visible weapons, and their eyes remained revealed. It didn’t matter, as no one present met their unwavering gaze. Surrounding the oval table were dozens of young girls, all sitting on the floor, their eyes trained towards the Pop Singer for just a glance from him. But the male continued his conversation with the man next to him, and every now and then he petted the black hair of his newest acquisition sitting crossed legged at his feet. The client’s daughter, Yang Su Bin, a spitting image of her proud mother, noticeably shivered every time he touched her. Eight strikes. Studying the room and its occupants, Marco calculated he’d need only eight strikes to accomplish his mission. And with time running out, he began. One. Resting his hand on the hilt of his kal jaro, Marco inhaled and exhaled several times in quick succession, then issued a sharp, high pitched shriek that shattered the sections of the thick dome ceiling around the oval table. The crystal rained down in jagged shards glittering in the lounge light. Two. He flung himself down the eighty meters in the midst of the bright shower. The moment he touched the ground, he whipped the kal jaro from its sheath, and the blade sliced cleanly through the closest guard’s flank, severing his kidney, liver, and stomach. Marco spun with the momentum, and the blade smoothly slid out of that guard to be plunged into the left ventricle of the next one. The other two armed security personnel, having recovered as their companions fell, raised their guns to fire. Three. Marco uttered a quick prayer, and the bulbs of the lounge flared brightly against the dome’s raining crystals. Artificially enhanced vision exposed to the sudden glaring prism of light all temporarily became blinded. Marco sheathed his sword to keep it razor sharp in its sheath, and he shot forward into the dozens of young girls screaming and crying in a chaotic horde, their pale faces covered with blood from the cutting crystals. The two military personnel behind the Pop Singer drew Para pistols from artificial compartments embedded in their torsos, and fired. Marco spun the teen girls before him for cover, their blood creating red vortices in the sparkling air. Four. Marco snatched the dagger in his belt and flung it at the bodyguard to the right. A soft glow coated the weapon, and it whistled in the air and struck the bodyguard in the eye with such forced that his head snapped back with a sickening crack from his spine. Marco detoured in that direction, coming around the oval table so that the Pop Singer was between him and the second bodyguard’s line of sight. The guard released the trigger so as not to shoot the Pop Singer. Marco didn’t pause while he unwrapped the sageo cord from around his belt and twirled it around his hand. Su Bin, springing to her feet, leapt in front of the Pop Singer and spread her arms wide to stop Marco’s attack. Five. Marco whipped the blade from its sheath and hurled it directly at Su Bin like a spear. With a sudden flick of his wrist before the tip pierced her skull, the blade’s trajectory jerked around the client’s daughter to slide cleanly through one side of the Pop Singer’s throat. Marco flicked his wrist again, and the blade slid out without resistance to snap back into his hand. Finally reaching Su Bin, he spun down around her and stabbed forward, pushing the blade into the bodyguard’s groin. The man screamed, but Marco didn’t slow, and slipping through the guard’s legs, he ripped the sword from the guard’s abdomen and impaled it into his back through his heart. “No!” Su Bin crouched down by the Pop Singer’s lifeless body and yelled over and over again. “No, no, no!” Six. Marco grabbed her by the shoulder, turned her to him, and whispered, “Silence.” The hysteria consuming the girl dropped from her face, and her eyes became glazed. Seven. Marco pulled the comatose Su Bin into his embrace, crouched, and leapt up the eighty meters to the cupola. Eight. Another shriek erupted from him, and what was left of the crystal roof above the wide oval table exploded outwards in a brilliant explosion. Back outside, Marco skipped along the metal beams once webbed through the crystal panes, ran back down the arches, and leapt to an express bus leaving the terminal and heading back towards the city. Behind him, airport alarms finally blared. 22:55. Marco rolled off the top of the bus and landed on a side street near the Samseong building. Hoisting Su Bin onto his shoulder, he entered the park, and ran along the forested floor until he reached the one thousand stairs to the Bongeunsa Temple. The trek into the city had weakened his spiritual energy, so when he emerged over the summit, Marco’s exhaustion left him panting. He laid the girl in front of her mother, who beamed in joy. “The Pop Singer?” she asked, and crouched down to brush strands of Su Bin’s hair from her forehead. “Dead,” Marco’s master answered. “Wake the girl,” he commanded Marco, who dropped to one knee and breathed into the girl’s ear, “Speak.” Life flared back into her eyes, and she jerked away from Marco and looked wildly to her left and right. Despair choked her voice when she asked, “Where is he?” “Su Bin.” Her mother tried to lay a hand on Su Bin’s shoulder, but was shrugged off roughly by her daughter. “Su Bin, be still. You’re with me again.” She gazed at Marco, her features contorted with hatred. “You killed him. I saw you, you killed him.” The woman caught her daughter before she could evade her again, and she shook her hard. “Don’t be stupid, child,” her mother said firmly. “This man rescued you from the foreigner, and he avenged the honor of our family. We can continue now in our family tradition in the same manner as we did before he ever entered our restaurant.” Su Bin, shaking, whispered hoarsely, “No, no, no!” She struck the sides of her head with the heels of her palms. “We were to marry.” “Su Bin.” “We were to travel the world.” “I would have had the life I always dreamed of.” “Su Bin!” The client pushed her daughter away in disgust. “Don’t be stupid. He promises that to girls all over the world, and they follow him around like sheep obeying his every perverted whim.” “It was different for me,” Su Bin shouted, and her mom swore in increasing frustration. “Why were you different, stupid little girl? What do you think you possess that every other silly 15-year-old girl doesn’t? What makes you think you’re so special?” “He made me think I’m so special.” Her proclamation echoed through the temple, and Su Bin collapsed to the ground and buried her face in her folded arms. Her long black hair muffled the uncontrollable sobs wracking her body. The woman stared at her daughter in disbelief for several moments, then turned to Marco’s master and bowed low. “I thank you for all you have done. It’s time we left.” She turned back to her daughter, who jumped to her feet. “There is nothing else for me, no reason to go back to my ordinary, boring life.” Her body curling in upon itself, she wailed her grief into the wind. Her mother reached out to her, but Su Bin whipped away from her, ran towards the summit, and jumped. The client lurched forward to catch her, her outstretched fingers just barely brushing against her daughter’s shirt but coming up short. For a moment, Su Bin hovered in the air over the thousand stairs leading to Bongeunsa Temple. Her hair streamed behind her, her clothes billowing as she soared towards the trees. Then she tumbled out of the sky and crashed down onto the stone steps to disappear in a bloody bundle beneath the tree line of Bongeunsa forest. Planar Ghosts by Krystal Claxton Buddha Nature by Amy Thomson The Ether Existence by C.J. Carter-Stephenson September 28, 2018 /by Todd Sullivan https://i2.wp.com/thenewaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/the-pop-singer.jpg?fit=1500%2C750&ssl=1 750 1500 Todd Sullivan https://thenewaccelerator.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/header-logo-300x69.png Todd Sullivan2018-09-28 12:00:572018-11-09 09:08:54The Pop Singer Issues and Volumes We welcome story submissions from around the globe (please refer to our submissions guidelines), and we look forward to publishing your brilliant and astounding Science Fiction to a worldwide readership. Email: editors@thenewaccelerator.com Twitter: @newaccelerator The New Accelerator is produced by Manicgrin Media Ltd. Registered in England and Wales with number 08127947. 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__label__wiki	0.610524	0.610524	How to follow Hurricane Sandy online by Jamillah Knowles — in Insider Hurricane Sandy is making her presence known on the East Coast right now and it looks as though things are going to get rough for residents. 76 evacuation centers have been set up so that the vulnerable can be in a safe place when the storm hits hard. Further precautions include the closure of schools and the transport system and naturally flights in and out of the area have been cancelled until further notice. (You can track live flight information via the Flight Aware site – but don’t expect to see much happening along the East Coast for now.) chirp chirp Who’s there? It’s early bird tickets to TNW2020 So where to find out what’s going on and what to do if you’re feeling her effects? Maps and official sources The National Hurricane Centre has live information, warnings and news about the progress of the storm. There are video and audio broadcasts that are being updated periodically. The National Hurricane Center is also running a Twitter account with advisories and the outlook updated every few hours. Google’s Crisis Response Team is also gathering information including a map providing current emergency information. NASA’s Precipitation Measurement Missions have also been mapping the storm via satellite and in 3D. Live Updates from the storm If you’re battening down the hatches and prepared for the storm, it is likely that the power may go down and you should have a few extra supplies ready for a difficult week. If you are in this situation and you’re nerdy by nature, Geeks without Bounds has an excellent stream of tech advice available on its Twitter stream. From the middle of the action, Web design and content firm Oak Studios has a live video stream running from its location on the Brooklyn waterfront. Incidentally this is in Evacuation Zone A and you can find out more information about the zones here. Blogger and founder of Boston Media Makers, Steve Garfield is also running a live video feed on Livestream. This view shows his area which is in a more suburban setting. Storms of this magnitude tend to generate extraordinary images, no matter how dangerous it can be to take them. Chris Ackermann, the Director of Emerging Platforms at New York Times R&D and his team have put together Instacane, to follow a timeline of images from the storm. In order to provide further access to vital information about the storm, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have both dropped their paywalls and opened their mobile apps to all users for free. The New York Times has plenty of updates and live coverage and the Wall Street Journal is also running a live blog. Social sources As with all emergency situations these days, the go-to place for updates and information is Twitter. Hurricane Sandy is no exception and a search will turn up plenty of well wishes as well as updates, reports and links to more information. Search under the hashtag #sandy for the best results. Another good place to find updates and information is via Reddit which has plenty of news and advice as well as some light relief in the form of the usual pictures and jokes. If you’re quite specific about how you prefer your hurricane news, Poynter has corralled a selection of GIFs, but we’re not sure if these will be updated. Are you following the storm? If you have found good ways to share relevant information, add them in the comments. Image Credit: Flickr / NASA Goddard Photo and Video Read next: The simplest brands of 2012: Google, Apple, Nokia, and even Yahoo make the top 10 Share on Facebook (159) Share on Twitter (191) Facebook and Zuckerberg keep getting ‘freedom of expression’ wrong Harold Li Sundar Pichai says AI should be regulated, asks governments to step up Ivan Mehta Online marketing is always changing. Stay current with this $29.99 training collection. TNW Deals For under $20, let the true Excel experts show you how to master Microsoft's popular software The next big privacy scare is a face recognition tool you've never heard of Abhimanyu Ghoshal Stay tuned with our weekly recap of what’s hot & cool by our CEO Boris. How 'WhatsApp group admin' became one of the most powerful jobs in politics Huawei CFO in Canadian court on fraud charges, faces extradition to US David Canellis Radiohead launches digital 'public library' of the band’s archive Georgina Ustik For under $20, you can record and save all your music right to your devices. UGH! Apple's AirPods Pro firmware update has messed up noise-canceling	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406723
__label__wiki	0.826179	0.826179	Tomb Raider Review 2018 9 Mar 2018 Roar Uthaug The film tells about the first expedition of Lara Croft, in which she embarks on a perilous journey to her father's last-known destination, hoping to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance. 14 Yr old Lara Lord Richard Croft Mathias Vogel Ana Miller Tomb Raider Reviews Rajeev Masand The key to becoming invested in the film – despite its overall familiarity and lack of any genuine surprise or originality – is Vikander’s natural performance, and her commitment to the physical requirements of the role. She’s the reason Tomb Raider isn’t a complete waste of time. Shalini Langer Rarely has an actress gone through more physical battering, even if to establish herself as an action figure. It's hard not to feel for that very sensitive face and that delicately lean frame, which though -- surprise, surprise -- emerges none the worse for wear. Rohan Naahar It’s too comfortable supplying the bare-minimum to an audience it knows wants nothing more than that. And perhaps that’s fine. But that being said, it could so easily have been so much worse. Video game movies still have a long way to go, unfortunately. Tomb Raider is hardly the Wonder Woman it should have been, but there’s hope yet. NDTV Reviewer Speaking of that epic treasure-hunting franchise, while the developers have clearly borrowed some of Nathan Drake's moves, they've created more than an "Uncharted" clone. The tone is darker, and the levels are less linear. This is not just "Uncharted" or "Assassin's Creed" with Lara Croft, it's "Tomb Raider" for a new era. Neil Soans ‘Tomb Raider’ does enough to reignite the franchise onscreen by giving its protagonist a timely and relevant overhaul to confidently launch Alicia Vikander as this generation’s Lara Croft. Mihir Fadnavis Goggins is the only bright spark here, channeling a little bit of Vaas from Far Cry, but his villain is too stereotypically written to care much. The search for the genuinely good video game adaptation continues, and you’re better off playing the Tomb Raider game at home rather than expecting something decent from this film. Kennith Rosario Despite making big bucks, Angelina Jolie’s two-film series are far from being counted among the memorable action films of Hollywood. The emphasis back then was on the fights, which Jolie immortalised as Lara Croft. Vikander brings in a youthful, millennial vibe to the character and the focus sharply – and still – remains on the action sequences, which is tactfully executed, no doubt. But this was a second chance for the film to go beyond and set things right in other departments, but it ends up being a cinematic manifestation of the proverbial saying – old habits, die hard. All Critic Reviews (7) Audience Reviews for Tomb Raider Co Pa Terrible movie I thought the Tomb Raider was boring and dull. The actress seemed to have only one expression through most of the movie. Shed got to be one of the worst actresses I've ever seen act. A truly awful movie. Don't waste your time. Go see Jumanji instead. Action, comedy, a little romance. And lots of great actors. Its worth seeing March 18, 18	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406727
__label__wiki	0.893871	0.893871	Arrow Boss on the Finale's Death Toll, Weepy 'Olicity' Moment and Season 3's New Chapter By Vlada Gelman / May 13 2014, 7:00 AM PDT After one huge episode after another, Arrow is going all out for its Season 2 finale this Wednesday (The CW, 8/7c) with a potential death, a Felicity/Oliver moment that will surprise, anger and make fans weep, and one majorly complicated moral dilemma for the masked vigilante. RELATED \| May Sweeps Scoopapalooza: 99+ Spoilers on Your Favorite Series’ Season-Ending Episodes With Slade going after the ones Oliver loves, our hero will be severely tested — and possibly forced to make a difficult decision between the two women in his heart, previews executive producer Marc Guggenheim. The EP also reveals that the season closer is the end of a chapter that sets up a different Season 3 (with one familiar face MIA). TVLINE \| You’ve had a string of episodes that could have easily served as the season finale. How will the actual finale top them? We’re always trying to top ourselves. We always have said we’re never going to take our foot off the gas, we’re never going to hold back stuff at the beginning of the year just to save it for the end and we’re not going to hold back stuff for a [later] season when we could do it this season. We’re always about pushing as much story as we can, as fast as we can. Worrying about timing and worrying about topping ourselves, that’s what we call a “future us” problem. Our best episodes always find a new gear for the show, and I do think the finale finds a new gear. It’s exciting because we’re trying some very emotionally complex stuff along with some stunts and sequences that are the biggest we’ve ever done on the show. RELATED \| Arrow Finale Pics: Slade Grabs [Spoiler], Canary and Nyssa Vs. Ravager, A.R.G.U.S. Tension, More TVLINE \| Slade has been going after Oliver in a very personal way, but now it’s of a bigger scope. What will the emotional toll be like for Oliver in the finale? For Oliver, it all comes down to [the fact that] he made this vow for himself at the beginning of the season that he would not kill anymore. That vow is going to be sorely tested. It was always part of our design of the season that we would basically place Oliver in a situation where he has every reason, tactically and vengeance-wise and necessity-wise, to kill again. At least one character during the finale will make this argument that if Oliver had not been so reluctant to kill, perhaps everything that’s been happening for the last couple episodes would not have happened. That only further complicates his moral dilemma. TVLINE \| In the promo pics, Slade has Felicity and Laurel. Does that give Oliver a moment where he has an emotional epiphany about either of one of those characters? As Oliver learned, Slade is determined to kill the person he loves the most. Obviously, those images suggest that it could be Laurel or it could be Felicity. And I would be very foolish if I were to share the answer with you. TVLINE \| You’ve done a nice job of layering in these little Oliver/Felicity moments and hints. Is that something we can expect more of in the finale and going into next season? Those moments are one of the core elements of the show. We saw that even when Felicity was flirting with Barry, there was still this connection with Oliver. There will be a couple moments between Oliver and Felicity that I think will surprise people, anger others, make people weep. If you’re a fan of those moments, you’re definitely going to want to see the finale, and you’re going to want to stick around all the way to the end. TVLINE \| Speaking of the women in Oliver’s life, Sara is back in town. How are they working side-by-side now? We’re going to learn where Sara went after she left Starling City in Episode 20. We’re going to learn a little bit more of what was behind her comments to Laurel that she made in that alleyway during Episode 22. And we’re going to learn what her future trajectory is. It’s quite a bit to take in for Oliver. We’re throwing a lot of different things at Oliver. This season finale has Oliver, literally, fighting wars on several fronts. RELATED \| The CW Greenlights Flash, iZombie and Jane the Virgin, Passes on Supernatural Spin-Off TVLINE \| One of the big cliffhangers from last week was that Amanda Waller and her men are invading Starling City. How will the tension between Amanda Waller and Oliver and Diggle factor into the finale? It will actually factor in in a couple ways. You’ll get a really good sense as to where Diggle is and the role that Diggle and Layla play in the finale. And also, there’s a big piece of information to be learned about Oliver’s history with Amanda. TVLINE \| Looking ahead at Season 3, how will the landscape be altered? The way we’ve been approaching Season 3 is [with the] recognition that the season finale of Season 2 doesn’t feel like just a conclusion of Season 2, but rather a conclusion of Seasons 1 and 2 — that we were telling one, big 46-episode story. The season finale really gives you a strong sense of closure and that a chapter really, truly is finished. My hope is that it’ll do so in a way that will make people go, “Wow, this story may be over, but I’m really interested in seeing what the next story they tell with these characters is.” TVLINE \| There’s a lot of destruction going on in Starling City, and we’ve lost a lot of residents. But are we going to lose any of our main players? The thing about Arrow is, we’ve shown a willingness to lose characters when a lot of other shows might keep them around. Let me put it this way… There’s one character who you will not be seeing at the start of Season 3. 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__label__cc	0.744009	0.255991	TVWriter.Com Tag: WGAW report on “inclusivity” in TV writing WGAW Report on 2017-18 TV Staffing Season Looks Grim There’s more going on in TV and film writer land than the WGA getting tough with literary agents who package their own TV shows. There’s also this interesting study about the state of employment diversity for Hollywood writers: Writers Guild of America West Issues Inclusion Report Card for 2017-18 TV Staffing Season via WGAW As part of its ongoing efforts to call attention to discrimination and promote diversity in the entertainment industry, the Writers Guild of America West has released its first Inclusion Report Card for the 2017-18 TV staffing season. Based on WGAW employment data, the report card finds that systematic discrimination against writers from historically underrepresented groups – including women, people of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+, and people over age 50 – remains pervasive in the hiring of television writers. The Guild hopes the report card will have a positive impact on increased hiring of diverse writers for the current TV staffing season. Key findings include: During the 2017-18 TV staffing season, writers were hired for 2,985 jobs in television, across network, cable, and streaming platforms. Women and persons of color remain underrepresented relative to their percentages in the overall U.S. population, and discrimination worsens at upper employment levels. On writing staffs, persons of color are mostly concentrated at lower levels. In 2018, only 24% of TV showrunner roles were held by women – and only 12% were held by persons of color. Disabled writers face even more profound discrimination: Despite the fact that 56.7 million Americans identify as disabled, writers with disabilities make up less than 1% of employed TV writers. While data on LGBTQ+ writers is based on self-identification, numerous LGBTQ+ writers report being told by agents and studio executives that they “don’t count as diverse.” The WGAW maintains that LGBTQ+ writers are, without question, members of a historically underrepresented group who are still fighting for equal rights and continue to face hiring discrimination in the entertainment industry and around the world. Writers over 50 face the same ageism in TV staffing that pervades all of Hollywood – and the near-total absence of staff writers over 50 is clear evidence of systemic age discrimination. Discrimination does not end with hiring: According to the independent Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity’s report, 64% of writers from historically underrepresented groups reported bias, discrimination, and/or harassment in the workplace. There is some evidence of progress: As writer employment on TV series has doubled over the last decade, women have increased from 30% to 35% of the work force, while persons of color have increased their share from 17% to 27%. The report card shows that the entertainment industry’s problems are far from solved. To remedy the issue and achieve real change, the Guild urges “all studios and showrunners to continue being part of the solution by improving upon 2018’s numbers in the 2019 TV staffing season. With honesty, accountability, and continued effort, we can end unfair discrimination against writers and increase inclusion and equality across our industry.” To read the full Inclusion Report Card, click here. Writers from historically underrepresented groups can be found using the WGAW’s Find a Writerdirectory as an industry hiring resource. The Inclusion Report Card comes from the WGAW’s Inclusion and Equity Group, which spearheads WGAW efforts to educate industry professionals and champion hiring practices that will create an entertainment industry that directly reflects the nation’s diverse voices. The WGAW’s Inclusion and Equity Group is comprised of Guild members, including Co-Chairs Glen Mazzara and Shonda Rhimes, as well as Doug Atchison, Leo Chu, Jennifer Crittenden, Eric Garcia, Terri Kopp, Aimee Lagos, LaToya Morgan, Margaret Nagle, Shireen Razack, Ari B. Rubin, Melissa Rosenberg, Allison Schroeder, David Slack, and Ligiah Villalobos. The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is a labor union representing writers of motion pictures, television, radio, and Internet programming, including news and documentaries. Founded in 1933, the Guild negotiates and administers contracts that protect the creative and economic rights of its members. 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__label__cc	0.678968	0.321032	The Whore of Babel (The Lord speaking to His disciples, 2000 years ago)[8] I tell you: Rome is and will remain Babel, a worldly whore, despite all persecutions that will come over her, although there will also be a great many zealous followers of My teaching. [9] It is true that you have set the death penalty on robbery, murder and manslaughter and still a few other crimes, but at your great feast-days certain gladiators must fight for life or death to increase your pleasure, and the victor is then honored. Look, this is evil and will not bring any blessing to a nation. Also you have all kinds of battles with wild animals by which oftentimes men have to loose their life in a cruel manner, and still you find this very amusing. And look, also this is a great evil. There is virtually no blessing from above, and when this is missing, no state and no nation has a stable and permanent existence. On this, you can certainly believe Me. (GGJ Book 17, chap. 13) The Judgement over Jerusalem - Matt 25 44. THE LORD VIEWS JERUSALEM [1] Within an hour we finished the meal, got up from the table and immediately went outside; since especially with the illumination in the evening, there was a particular nice view towards the east and suited our considerations quite well. [2] When we looked at the large, widespread city with its many palaces, Lazarus said: “What a graceful splendor lies in this large city! And at the same time what shame of those people who are supposed to be an example for all the others! [3] Down there lays the temple for which already David, the man according to the heart of God, has collected the material. Solomon, his son, has built it, so that all Jews could gather there at certain times and give God the honor. But who does now requests the honor from the people? O, for a long time already not God anymore, but the wretched Pharisees, the scribes and high priests! The old, miraculous ark of the covenant has nearly twenty-four years ago already gone over to the archive of the deaf and powerless relics, and the new is dead and has no power anymore; nevertheless, the blind Jews sacrifice more to it than they ever sacrificed to the true old one. [4] From that one can easily infer how the wretched clerics influence the poor, innocent people, and how they don’t believe in a true and only God at all, since they tread His laws given to Moses and all the other prophets so disrespectfully with their feet and instead encumber the people on life and death with their own doctrine, which as a pure lunacy cannot be believed anymore by any reasonable person. O the great disgrace! Allsigh under the intolerable pressure of mainly the clerics; and still, nobody has the courage, to spit these most apparent deceivers of people in the face and shows them the great iniquity they are causing to mankind. [5] You alone, o Lord, have opened the eyes for man, so that they now can see what the temple is all about. But it still is of little use; since they carry on doing in the perkiest manner of the world what they want and no punishing lightning strikes from Your clouds among them! You, o Lord, are now Yourself in living human form on this earth, an appearance of which the whole past eternity cannot show a comparing example, which is a mercy of all mercies which God ever provided for His creatures. Thousands and again thousands of people, among them even many heathens, recognize this with the highest joy and thankfulness, and they down there hear this holy truth loudly from all sides and from big and small, confirmed. But instead to accept such message with all joy as fully true, they curse the people who have livingly accepted such truth! Question: What are those beast-like people worth?” [6] I said: “My dear brother, do not get worked up so much; since you can see that everything on this earth has its certain time, and that one cannot break an old cedar trunk over the knee like a thin stick! See, I will remain here for a few more days and will teach daily in the temple for seven consecutive days. Who will convert himself, for him it will be good; but who will remain in his blindness and therefrom in his malice, will perish on the day of judgment which will break loose over Jerusalem and destroy all creatures.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406734
__label__wiki	0.834815	0.834815	A Archives Pro Hijab By Akii Butler On Monday, March 6, 2017 Nike unveiled their first Pro Hijab for female muslim athletes. Nike, known for catering to the needs of athletes, created their first ever hijab. The hijab is made of polyester fabric with small holes placed for ventilation. The resilient material of the Pro Hijab allows for it to conform to the head of the athlete. Though Nike is not the first company to create athletic hijab, the company is known for being innovative when it comes to solving problems. The company is also known for making political statements, one of the recent ones being their #BeTrue Collection, which was a collection of designs inspired by the LGBT community. It featured the Pride flag and pink triangle. “The Pro hijab is is an example of a brand solving a problem and addressing the needs of potential customers,” said Marjorie Wachowiak, a lecturer at Kent State’s Fashion School. “Whether or not it was their intention, it is making a political statement.” Wachowiak says that Nike’s current mission statement is “to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world.” “I think it is a great idea,” said Nadia Dansani, an accounting major at Kent State. “I played field hockey and lacrosse in high school, and often times it was difficult to keep my scarf on.” She continued to say “keeping my scarf on in public is important to me regardless of what i’m doing,” and explained how muslim women wear their hijab for modesty. Many people are looking at this as a preview of more to come. In an article published on nbcnews.com, ASIYIA, a U.S. based modest sportswear company, welcomed the announcement and said they hope it encourages more muslim girls and women to play sports. “I am very happy about this because we have not been represented that well in the past,” Dansani said. The Pro Hijab is expected to be sold in early 2018. The cost of the covering will be $35. AMagLovesThis AMagStyle TheAMag Akii Butler Sit Down with a Seamstress By Sydney Shufford Sheila Addison-Hall is an entrepreneur and seamstress located in Akron, Ohio. She has always had a love for… A new view on consumerism By emilyclinton1 More, more, more, more. More clothes, more shoes, more makeup, more stuff. Living in America, this is how… Best Mates, Who Aren’t Your Date By Faith Riggs Friendship is no doubt a force. If there is one thing we need in this world it’s our… How Lifting can Make a BIG Difference By Rachel Thompson Stereotypically, some women feel that adding any sort of heavy weight or strength training to their workout regimen… Episode 4: What Even are Female Role Models? Part One By A Magazine From their favorite female artists, all the way to the women they see daily, the A Magazine editors… DYERAID: Catching Up with Kara Woodward By Amber Ferreira A Magazine recently had a chat with sophomore fashion merchandising major, Kara Woodward, about her thoughts on fashion, her…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406735
__label__cc	0.722068	0.277932	Kidnappers' personal videotapes released Published on July 14, 2011 at 2:12 pm SAN FRANCISCO — Newly released videos recorded by the Northern California couple who held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years provide chilling details about the kidnappers and their outings to stealthily shoot footage of young girls frolicking on a playground and elsewhere. In addition, video of a parole officer visiting the home of abductors Phillip and Nancy Garrido shows yet again how the state botched chances to find Dugard as she was kept hidden in the backyard of the couple’s Antioch home. Three video clips were among several pieces of evidence released Tuesday by El Dorado County prosecutors “to highlight the gravity and severity of the mistakes made,” and to improve the supervision and detection of sexual predators. The footage was recovered from videotapes found in trash in the Garridos’ backyard. They had apparently tried to destroy many of the tapes with chemicals. But investigators, with the help of NASA technicians, were able to recover footage from the damaged tapes. Still photos of the partially destroyed tapes were included in the released evidence. “The criminal justice system had some significant failures,” District Attorney Vern Pierson told The Associated Press. “It’s important to reevaluate what has happened and look at what has changed since then and ask if there’s more that needs to be done.” One of the videos, taken sometime between 1989 and 1993, shows Phillip Garrido playing a guitar and singing while sitting against a tree at a park.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406746
__label__cc	0.692109	0.307891	Home > Cruises > Ocean cruises > Our ships > Saga Sapphire > Saga Sapphire blog > Mystery Cruise. Port No.6 Mrs R and I returned to the ship in Rosario, the port for Fuerteventura, having missed Arrecife in Lanzarote the day before. Captain Julian left and we sailed an hour or so later. The next day was at sea, and the next, and the next. Eventually, as some passengers thought we might fall off the edge of the world, we pulled into Porto da Praia, the capital of Santiago in the Cape Verde Islands, and a first for me. We joined the morning excursion, taking one of the mini buses that are used for public transport throughout these ex Portuguese colonies. Our guide, standing up and facing us during the drive (not quite health & safety as we know it), gave us the potted history as we circumnavigated the harbour and entered the city. Being a Sunday there was a bustling street(s) market in progress near what I presumed to be the centre. We didn’t stop, but carried on another half mile to a gated enclosure where some native crafts and music had been laid on. I headed back along the street for the market. Fruit, vegetables, clay pots, clothing, basket ware, but what caught my eye was a lady selling wash boards. Ah ha, the perfect gift for Mrs R. Six euros later and I’m heading back with my shiny possession. Before passing it over I joined the ladies ‘band’for a few moments, but is seems they were as unimpressed with my musical accompaniment as was my wife with her new washing ‘machine’. You just can’t win. The tour continued to the former capital of Cidade Velha which was once the centre of the slave trade. The old square still has the stone monument topped by a rusting navigational symbol and hooks apparently used to secure slaves that attempted escape. We walked through Banana Street with its stone homes covered in, yes, banana leaves, and then to the historic church still in use today. In fact a service was just coming to an end and the congregation was singing the birthday song in their creole language to some fortunate parishioner. The words, of course, were not understandable, but the tune international. There was time to take some refreshment at a windowless establishment near the water, the trade wind providing the air conditioning. Above the town the fort of St. Phillipe was built as protection against the likes of Drake and other marauding pirates. Great ramparts still furnished with the remains of many canon had views over the sea to the south. This was our final stop before heading back and all the passengers I spoke with later said they had really enjoyed what was a very unexpected and different experience.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406755
__label__cc	0.701596	0.298404	Home Advertisers Tread Magazine is the eye-catching new wheels and tyres magazine for the UK and Ireland. Our first edition of the magazine – which will be launched at the end of September – looks at the fast-approaching Brityrex show in Manchester this year, where we have taken a stand to talk – but more importantly, to listen – to the trade about what you want to see in Tread Magazine. The first issue of Tread Magazine also looks at winter tyres, labelling, wholesalers, equipment and commercial tyres. In forthcoming issues, Tread Magazine will look at all aspects of the tyre industry – from automotive, performance, OTR, 4×4, bus and coach, commercial, wholesalers, fleet services and many more. Tread Magazine will allow the industry to productively market their brand and talk about their products to an audience of 20,000-plus readers every month throughout the UK and Ireland. Tread Magazine is published in parallel with an up to date web site and bolt-ons to help promote our clients to the full. We’re also updating the web site with news and stories on a daily basis which can be tweeted out to our followers along with, your company logo on the web site. And our e-zine magazine – which will be emailed out on a monthly basis – can now be viewed on any smart phone or the newest kindle for busy business leaders and readers on the move. Also, we are very excited about Tread TV which will allow clients to host interviews, performance videos on their tyres, information videos and demonstration DVDs on use of equipment and much more. In total, the combined Tread Magazine and Website package provides a solid platform for the trade to help you increase your awareness and business across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Tread Magazine is the magazine for the industry in the UK and Republic of Ireland that has up to date news on automotive, commercial, 4×4, winter, bus & coach, HPT, OTR, tyre accessories, plant & equipment, fleet services, wholesale and legislation within the tyre industry. 5 Satellite Park, Macmerry, EH33 1RY Chris Mattocks Tell: 0131 554 1129 email: christopher@belljohnstone.co.uk Corporate Development Manager Simon Byers email: simon@belljohnstone.co.uk Tread Magazine © 2019 A Bell Johnstone Publication. Website by Connected.Digital Tread Magazine © 2018 A Bell Johnstone Publication. Digital by Connected	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406758
__label__wiki	0.746104	0.746104	The Express Tribune > Opinion I am part of the resistance inside the PTI cabinet PTI has courageously made it clear to the Americans that they can’t ask Pakistanis to do more By M Bilal Lakhani PTI leader Asad Umar. PHOTO: EXPRESS The PTI has courageously made it clear to the Americans that they can’t ask Pakistanis to do more. This is the Pakistani government’s job now. Overseas Pakistanis must do more by contributing to the Dam fund, while locals must pay 1 rupee extra to ride Pakistan railways so Sheikh Rashid can seem generous with money that isn’t his. How else will we build a Dam? Asking people to pay their taxes in Naya Pakistan? That’s crazy talk. Naya Pakistanis don’t need to make actual sacrifices like paying taxes. They just need to share memes of rich overseas Pakistanis donating to the dam fund. Because social media sharing is caring. PTI extends olive branch to PML-N, PPP When Asad Umar is done asking our newly-elected President for a treat on Twitter (unfortunately, this line isn’t satire), he can invite the world’s leading economists to take a religion test. To be fair, Asad Umar and Fawad Chaudhry were probably the good guys here, having the personal courage to nominate and defend a merit-based selection. Alas, their courage lasted slightly shorter than the time it takes to make a U-turn on Sharea Faisal. A brave warrior — Fawad Chaudhry — tripped on the sword of intolerance, which the PTI used to such beautiful effect in opposition. Kismet, I guess, what goes around, comes around. The dilemma — which Imran doesn’t get — is that Naya Pakistan feels like an arranged marriage even if it wasn’t. And while Imran can please the bride’s parents as much as he wants by visiting the susraal in Pindi, it’s not the matchmakers but the bride that he has to keep happy. And not only are these brides fickle but no one likes a ghar damaad. To be clear, this isn’t the resistance of the mafia, sponsored by Maryam bibi’s lifafas. I want Naya Pakistan to succeed and have voted for the PTI. And I believe the PTI has already made several moves which will make Pakistan safer and more prosperous. For example, Pakistan’s wise foreign policy dance between competing pressures from Saudi Arabia and Iran is single-handedly credited to Imran. Or appointing Dr Ishrat to help institutionalise governance reform in the country. The nomination of a young and dynamic leader as K-P’s finance minister has also not gone unnoticed. The idea that civil-military leadership is on the same page is also quite the coup for the PTI. However, these positive steps aren’t occupying the most valuable real estate in Naya Pakistan ie a troll’s Twitter feed. The PTI is yet to get off the mark and nervously playing ridiculous shots like Pakistani openers in a T20 match, desperate to get off the mark with a six. But governance isn’t a T20 game, it’s a Test match. For better or for worse, even we, the resistance, will protect the PTI’s mandate to rule for the next five years. PTI’s governance and PR machinery needs to pivot from what will trend on Twitter for the next five hours (this article!) to what actions will influence voters five years from now. PTI govt to allocate $2b for automation of services And that is the final note of this resistance. The entire country is rooting for the PTI right now. The liberals and the mullahs. The rich and the poor. The young and the old. We don’t expect you do get everything right. And we don’t expect Naya Pakistan in 90 days. But we do expect the PTI not to make stupid mistakes. Like asking us for donations instead of taxes. By prioritising religious belief over merit in picking an economist. Imran, you are the saviour you promised we all needed. Don’t let us down by not living up to the ideals you taught us to value: hard work, perseverance and a merit-based society. This satire piece was inspired by the recent New York Times column, I am part of the resistance inside the Trump Administration. Unfortunately, the NY Times column is not a satire piece. Published in The Express Tribune, September 16th, 2018. Like Opinion & Editorial on Facebook, follow @ETOpEd on Twitter to receive all updates on all our daily pieces. Read more: Asad Umar , Latest , Naya Pakistan PTI announces 23-member Punjab cabinet Decision was made in a party huddle at PM Imran Khan's Bani Gala residence Truly believe Imran can take Pakistan to new heights, India's Navjot Singh Sidhu says Says Imran has brought Pakistanis together with his leadership PTI’s Rind vows to overcome poverty in province Provincial chief says will ensure provision of educational, health facilities to the people of Balochistan M.Emad Not very funnyRecommend Naya Pakistan: ‘It’s business as usual’	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406759
__label__wiki	0.781801	0.781801	1960 Film, 2002 film, Races, Morlock Groups Vital Stats - List of Races An impressionistic illustration of a Morlock taking an Eloi child, from the book "Kaibutsu Gensō Gashū" by Tatsuya Morino. Alternate Names Mi-Go (Allan and the Sundered Veil) Sub-Men (Time Kid) Appearances The Time Machine: An Invention Beyond the Time Machine Home Era(s) Mor Morlocks, as they appear in the 1960s Time Machine film. The Morlocks are a humanoid species which is descended from humans, particularly low-class underground machine operators. They exist in several future timelines, notably in Mor. They are subterranean, and prefer dark, as their eyes are sensitive to light. In most timelines, the Morlocks eat their Eloi cousins. The Morlocks are more technologically advanced than the Eloi, maintaining more remnants of human technology. In Mor, they live underground, using a series of wells to pump air through their tunnels. They also use the wells as ladders to reach the world above, though other methods of travel (primarily the doors of the Sphinx), are also utilized. In another timeline, they have constructed a metallic shell around the sun, which they use as their home. This history is that of the Morlocks as seen in Mor, in the novels continuity. Origins Edit The Morlocks are theorized to have evolved from the Old Navy workers who labored underground circa 2100, all wearing blue uniforms and living in harsh conditions. When Graham visited their domain, he already saw signs of them becoming paler and developing a separate strain of English. Much later, The Time Traveler would find evidence that the Morlocks had come from a lower class. ("When The Sleeper Wakes", "The Time Machine") In the 33rd Century, the underground world was a massive, sprawling civilization, which was not subject to many of the oppressive laws of the world above, leading many to voluntarily live below. ("Beyond the Time Machine") By the 40th Century, a race of 'happy servant-men' as a child native to the time described them had come into being, whose carriage and reaching dexterity suggested to The Time Traveler on a visit to this era they they were a form of proto-Morlock. The child also noted that they were not to be discussed. ("The Time Machine: A Sequel") Springtime Era Edit By 802,701, the Morlocks were feeding on the Eloi, while still clothing and feeding them during their lives. In essence, the Eloi were used like cattle. When The Time Traveler arrived, he was very disgusted and found it difficult to see the humanity in these descendants of his. ("The Time Machine") When The Time Traveler returned, his opinion had softened towards Morlocks after working with his companion Nebogipfel for so long. While working with the Eloi to try and encourage their humanity, he decided to descend to the Morlock Tunnels and work with them. ("The Time Ships") Differing Directions Edit Years later, when Lara Myers encountered the Morlocks, their society had become significantly more advanced and civilized than The Time Traveler remembers. Nobipoper told Lara that they had given up on eating the Eloi, and focused on developing their technology. By the time Lara visited, they had Nanotechnology, genetically modified Giant Mantises, and other advanced technologies. This change had apparently come about after a wise man helped them realize their cannibalism was not the best way anymore. Nobipoper also told Lara of a splinter group of Morlocks who still preyed on the Eloi. ("The Wee Time Traveler") When Time Traveler Two visited Mor, he met Kmallak, a leader of the reformed Morlocks, who no longer preyed on the Eloi. Kmallak was a kind of tribal leader, however; these Morlocks were not nearly as advanced as the ones encountered by Lara Myers. The splinter group that still eats Eloi were known as the Hirsuite Morlocks and were controlled by the Morloi. ("Beyond the Time Machine") During one of The Time Traveler's return visits, the Morlocks stole The Time Machine and traveled back through time to the nineteenth century, intending to invade the past world. Coloniel Nalga of the Morlock Military told Edwin Hocker, upon confronting him, that the Morlocks had killed The Time Traveler and furthermore that they had decided to no longer allow the Eloi to roam free, rather keeping them in pens. The Morlock invasion of the ninteenth century failed, largely in part to the efforts of Edwin Hocker and Tafe, who had experienced a future overrun by Morlocks. ("Morlock Night") It was possible this Morlock Military was the same rebel group in The Wee Time Traveler. More likely, however, may also be an alternate timeline in which the Morlocks went in a darker direction. The Morlocks were also known to have built a fleet of Time Machines and launched an invasion of their future, so that they could conquer the Crab monsters and use them as food - the Morlocks could reclaim the surface of that future world, as it was constantly twilight. They returned briefly to Mor after establishing a beachhead in the future, to wipe out the Eloi so as they couldn't advance and destroy the Morlocks in the far future. ("On the Surface") This story is likely the same timeline, or at least a similar one, to that in Morlock Night, as we see militaristic Morlocks who have taken over their world and mastered Time Travel. Morlocks of the Sphere Edit In Timeline C, Mor never developed in the same way, but a different sort of Morlock arose. Over thousands of years, Humans used massive fleets of spacecraft to mine the sun for materials, finally using material from the sun to construct a massive sphere around the star. The sphere is completely solar-powered and self-building, and it became the new primary habitat for Humanity. Meanwhile, humans had been genetically altering themselves for millenia, finally arriving at a form extremely similar to that of the Morlocks of Mor by coincidence. These Morlocks reproduced unnaturally, by the shaping of a clay-like substance into babies. The mechanism for this is unknown. They devoted themselves to the pursuit of science and knowledge. The Earth was used only as a nursery for Morlock children. Inside the Sphere, the inner layers, closest to the sun, housed billions of humans of various sorts, some resembling Homo Sapiens, while others resembled Neanderthals or other shapes. When The Time Traveler arrived in this era, he mistook these for the Morlocks he knew and attacked them, severely injuring several children before he was apprehended. He was then questioned by Nebogipfel, who later became his companion. ("The Time Ships") In Other Continuities Edit 1960 film Edit Separate Continuity! This article or section covers a subject that is part of the 1960 Film Continuity and should not be considered part of the Novel Continuity or any other. The humans originally fled underground to avoid bombardment due to wars. Eventually, the surface became uninhabitable, and all of humanity lived underground. After enough time had passed, however, a group decided to risk living on the surface, despite all the radiation that might be there. Those became the Eloi, while the ones who stayed below became the Morlocks. For many centuries, once the Eloi had relocated to the surface, the ones below would call them inside by use of a siren, to avoid further bombardments. Eventually, this became a ritual, and the Morlocks eventually began to eat the Eloi, using the siren to summon their prey. ("1960 Film") George's Visit Edit When George, a visitor from the past, encountered the Morlocks, he began to teach the Eloi how to fight. He rescued Weena from their clutches and incited the Eloi to rebellion. In the climax of that event, the underground Morlock habitats were destroyed, and the Time Traveler escaped into the past, soon to return and help the Eloi build a new world. ("1960 Film") The Über-Morlock. Humans had to flee underground, following a disaster involving the mining of the Moon. Shattered pieces of the moon were raining down on the Earth, necessitating the move underground. Later, some of the people had returned to the surface, becoming the Eloi. ("2002 film") Castes Edit These Morlocks are controlled very intelligently by the Über-Morlock, and bred into castes. So far there are three known castes: Hunter Morlocks, Warrior Morlocks and the Über-Morlock himself. ("2002 film") Time Kid Edit This article or section covers a subject that is part of an original continuity, and should not be considered part of the Novel Continuity or any other. In Time Kid, the Morlocks are referred to as Sub-Men. They do not eat the Luman, but rather gather them and use their telepathic brains to provide electrical energy. ("Time Kid") Morlocks Edit Danny Wichita, the first Morlock. In a Time Loop, the Morlocks were created when Danny Wichita, a cancer patient, was injected with Morlock DNA procured from the future, in an attempt to save him. He became a Morlock hybrid himself, and, through some unknown mechanism, propagated Morlocks, who ate human flesh. It seems that this occurred through some sort of virus, transforming people into Morlocks. ("Morlocks") By 2080, the year visited by the time portal invented by James Radnor, the Morlocks had totally overrun human civilization and eroded much of the evidence of it. ("Morlocks") In Pathfinder Edit Description taken from the Pathfinder Bestiary: A Morlock, as it appears in the game's "Bestiary". Skin pale as a slug's belly, eyes huge and bulging, this thing crawls down the wall like a spider, but its shape is hideously humanoid. Degenerate humans long lost from the world of light, morlocks have regressed through years of subterranean dwelling into ravenous, barely thinking beasts of the endless night. They no longer remember the civilized lives their ancestors led, although many morlock tribes still dwell in the shattered ruins of their ancient homes. Ironically, in many cases morlocks worship the statues left behind by these ancestors as their gods. Morlock priests of such ancestor worship have access to the domains of Darkness, Earth, Madness, and Strength. A typical morlock stands just over 5 feet tall and weighs roughly 150 pounds. Morlocks move about on two legs at times, but often drop down to a creepy four-limbed shuffle when speed or stealth is necessary. Their wiry, often emaciated frames mask the strength of their limbs and their swift reactions. Morlocks typically give birth to broods of three to four babies at a time, ravenous creatures born with a full set of teeth and a cannibalistic predisposition. The first few weeks of a brood's life must be carefully mothered to prevent attrition—it usually takes that long for the morlock young to overcome their natural inclination to feed on whatever is closest. Morlocks mature quickly, achieving adulthood after only 5 years of life. A typical morlock can live to a ripe old age of 60—although the majority of their kind die far sooner than that due to violence. ("Pathfinder") Other Info Edit Notable Morlocks Edit Coloniel Nalga Uber-Morlock Morlocks Gallery Edit Novels Edit A Morlock with an Eloi, by Virgil Finlay. TV and Movies Edit Morlox Morlock G vs E Warrior Caste Morlocks Hunter Caste Morlocks Styxoids (Morlock footsoldiers) Power Rangers: Mystic Force Classics Illustrated comic The Morlocks The Morlocks band - poster Cardstock Characters (Miniatures) Morlock Dance! The Time Machine Project Intelligent Races of the Time Machine universe Prime Timeline Humans • Neanderthals • Martians • Humanoid Martians • Eloi • Morlocks • Morloi • Grey Men • Crab monsters • Butterfly creatures Other Timelines Watchers • Universal Constructors Retrieved from "https://timemachine.fandom.com/wiki/Morlocks?oldid=6165" 3 Weena	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406764
__label__cc	0.515016	0.484984	View source for Jim Mortensen ← Jim Mortensen James (Jim) Mortensen was a [[Philip Morris International]] (PMI) executive who left the tobacco company in January 2017.<ref name=li>J. Mortensen, Linkedin profile, undated, accessed October 2017</ref> ==Long Standing Career with Philip Morris== Mortensen started his career in the tobacco industry in 1989 when he joined [[Philip Morris USA]].<ref name=li/> In 1999, he became Senior Vice President Sales & Distribution at Miller Brewing Company (MBC), an affiliate of Philip Morris.<ref name=truth>J. Mortensen, [https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/ghlc0083 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Plaintiff, V. Philip Morris Incorporated, Defendant. Civil action No.1:99CV00185. Lorillard Tobacco Company, Plaintiff, V. Philip Morris Incorporated, Defendant. Civil Action No. 1:99CV00207. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Plaintiff, V. Philip Morris Incorporated, Defendant. Civil Action No. 1:00CV00232. Declaration of James Mortensen], Truth Tobacco Industry Documents, 19 May 1999, Bates no: 2074098695-2074098702, accessed October 2017</ref> When Philip Morris sold MBC in 2002 to South African Breweries (which created [[SABMiller]])<ref>J. Day, [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/may/30/marketingandpr.tobaccoadvertising Philip Morris sells Miller beer brand], '' The Guardian '', 30 May 2002, accessed October 2017</ref>, Mortensen joined PMI where he held several leadership positions until his departure in 2017, including: * Senior Vice President Human Resources (2014-2017) * President Latin America & Canada (2010- 2014) * Managing Director Mexico, Ecuador & Peru (2008-2010) * President Philip Morris Japan KK (2005-2008) * Vice President Marketing & Sales Philip Morris Japan KK (2002-2005) ==TobaccoTactics Resources== * [[Philip Morris International]] * [[Philip Morris USA]] * [[SABMiller]] ==Relevant Link== * [https://www.pmi.com Philip Morris International homepage] ==Notes== <references/> [[Category:Tobacco Industry People\|Mortensen, Jim]] Return to Jim Mortensen. Retrieved from "https://tobaccotactics.org/index.php?title=Jim_Mortensen"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406765
__label__cc	0.730069	0.269931	It May Not Be Trump That Starts the Trade War – Climate ed. Posted on November 19, 2016 November 19, 2016 by Todd Tucker European politicians are threatening a trade war tariffs if the U.S. backtracks on its Paris Agreement commitment. As French presidential candidate Nicholas Sarkozy has said, “I will demand that Europe put in place a carbon tax at its border, a tax of 1 to 3 percent, for all products coming from the United States, if the United States doesn’t apply environmental rules that we are imposing on our companies,” he said. The proposal would violate WTO rules on most-favored nation rules – specifically, Article I of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT. By treating, say, goods from (Paris Agreement obeyer) Canada better than (Paris Agreement defector) US – it would be a per se violation of the equal playing field all countries extend to one another.* Given Trump’s promises to push hard on WTO enforcement, we can expect him to challenge such a move. For obvious reasons of history moving in a linear direction, the 2016 Paris Agreement was not included as a specific exception to GATT commitments made over 1947-1993. Proponents of a carbon tariff, however, would try to argue that it is excused under Article XX of the GATT, which reads in part: Subject to the requirement that such measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on international trade, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any contracting party of measures:… (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health;… (g) relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources if such measures are made effective in conjunction with restrictions on domestic production or consumption; Would this work as a defense? The argument “against” is that it’s a multi hurdle rope course. The measure is “necessary” for protection of life and health. This is in itself a three-hurdle test that has been difficult to make use of, requiring a consideration of (a) how much it contributes to the goal; (b) the importance of the goal; and (c) how trade restrictive it is in light of alternative policies that might contribute more to the goal. In the alternative could argue that it is “relating to” conservation, a lesser test. The measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary… or unjustifiable discrimination… between countries where like conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on trade in services. These defenses are hard to use and almost never work. The argument “for” is essentially a political one, that the trade negotiators that deal with the WTO knows that it should be rowing in the same direction as their environmental policy colleagues back home (who, after all – are from the same government). Under this line of thinking, the WTO’s Appellate Body and lower panels would find a way to make the exception apply. The argument in the middle of these two positions are that – governments change. As former WTO director general Pascal Lamy said back in 2008, the WTO is still waiting for a a consensus on climate. While the Paris Agreement is an example of agreement, it’s also an agreement that by design wasn’t highly enforceable, as David Victor writes. That’s checkmark 1 against a consensus around using highly enforceable trade rules to tackle backsliding. Checkmark 2 is of course the votes of an electoral college majority in the US against even these lightly enforceable rules before they take full effect in 2020. Given this lack of uniformity in opinion on the environment, WTO adjudicators might slink back to promoting trade flows – an area they know best. * Indeed, my former colleague Mary Bottari and I once argued that much less aggressive carbon reduction policies could pose WTO problems. See here also. Previous Post #Trexit without Trade Wars Next Post Public Health or Protectionism, Chinese Fireworks Ed. One thought on “It May Not Be Trump That Starts the Trade War – Climate ed.” Pingback: Public Health or Protectionism, Chinese Fireworks Ed. \| Todd N. Tucker : Under Two Ceilings	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406766
__label__wiki	0.932224	0.932224	Read Next: SAG Awards 2020: 'Parasite' Makes History; 'The Crown,' 'Mrs. Maisel' Earn Top TV Honors April 22, 2019 10:00AM PT Jennifer Lopez Reteams With STXfilms on Romantic-Comedy Co-Starring Owen Wilson By Justin Kroll Justin Kroll Film Reporter @https://twitter.com/krolljvar FOLLOW Justin's Most Recent Stories Parris Goebel to Direct ‘Murder on the Dance Floor’ (EXCLUSIVE) Nicholas Hoult Joins Tom Cruise in Next ‘Mission: Impossible’ Michael De Luca to Replace Jonathan Glickman at MGM CREDIT: Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock Jennifer Lopez is reteaming with STXfilms on the upcoming romantic-comedy “Marry Me.” Kat Coiro is directing the film and Owen Wilson is in final negotiations to join the pic, which will likely shoot this fall. The script was written by John Rogers and Tami Sagher, with a rewrite by Harper Dill. Lopez and Wilson both appeared in 1997’s actioner “Anaconda.” The movie will mark the third collaboration between STX, Lopez and producers Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Benny Medina following 2018’s “Second Act” and the upcoming “Hustlers,” which is currently in production. The film was originally set up at Universal. The movie is based on a graphic novel by Bobby Crosby and centers on a pop star (Lopez), who, moments before marrying her rockstar fiance at Madison Square Garden, finds out that he cheated on her with her assistant. She breaks down on stage and picks a random man (Wilson) out of the crowd to marry instead. “We continue to have amazing experiences with Jennifer, Elaine and Benny with each film we collaborate on, and we’re thrilled that they wanted to work with STX again on this funny and endearing project,” said STXfilms chairman Adam Fogelson. “Owen Wilson is a hilarious and charismatic addition to the film, and the perfect person to play opposite Jen in a role that was quite literally made for her.” Lopez, Goldsmith-Thomas and Medina will produce alongside Rogers. Willie Mercer, Alex Brown and J.B. Roberts will executive produce. STX’s Kate Vorhoff and Catherine Hagedorn will oversee production on behalf of the studio. STXinternational will handle international distribution and directly distribute in the U.K. and Ireland. Lopez is represented by CAA, the Medina Co. and Hirsch Wallerstein. Wilson is represented by UTA and Hirsch Wallerstein. STXfilms	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406778
__label__cc	0.583145	0.416855	Combating Climate Change. Improving Livelihoods Graduate Studies Programme About Graduate Studies Programme Master Research Programme on Informatics for Climate Change Master Programme Climate Change and Marine Sciences Doctoral Pogramme West African Climate Systems Doctoral Programme Climate Change and Water Resources Doctoral Programme Climate Change and Economics Doctoral Programme Climate Change and Land Use Doctoral Programme Climate Change and Agriculture Doctoral Programme Climate Change and Biodiversity Doctoral Programme Climate Change and Disaster Risks Management Doctoral Programme Climate Change and Human Habitat Doctoral Programme Climate Change and Education Doctoral Programme Climate Change and Energy Visiting Scholars Programme Research & Services Research Action Plan 2.0. Climate and Environmental Service ZEF-WASCAL-PAUWES COOPERATION WABES GREEN Spaces and Repurposing Waste: BUILding Capacities for Resilience in Urban and Peri-Urban WeSt Africa -GREEN BUILDERS- UPSCALERS APTE21 GENERIA Peer Review Articles WASCAL Publishing WASCAL in the News Corrine Almeida Email: almeidacorrine@gmail.com almeida@docente.unicv.edu.cv Tel: +238 9963115 or +238 2321113 Luis Jorge Fernandes Email : luis.jorge@docente.unicv.edu.cv The University of Cabo Verde has enrolled Eleven (11) Students for its first batch to study in the Master Research Programme on Climate Change & Marine Sciences (MRP-CCMS) under the Capacity Building Programme of the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), with funding from the German Ministry of Education and Research( BMBF). WASCAL is a wholly West African international organization with focus on academic and transdisciplinary research, building graduate-level scientific capacity and serving policy makers in West Africa with science-based advice on adaptation to climate change impacts and land use management. It cooperates with many agencies and universities in the region, providing a knowledge platform of excellence for its partners. WASCAL is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany and its 11 West African member countries, namely: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, The Gambia and Togo) WASCAL’s mission is to provide information and knowledge services at the local, national and regional levels to West African member countries to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change. We do this through capacity building support to young West African scholars in fields of climate, natural and social sciences and by strengthening the regional universities deliver climate and environmental services in member countries. The Master’s Research Programme on Climate Change & Marine Sciences of the University of Cabo Verde is implemented in close cooperation with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the University of Kiel and the Thünen Institute, as German partner institutions and with the National Institute for Fishery Development (INDP) as the Cabo Verdean partner institution. This consortium is well suited to provide needed scientific and academic skills in climate, marine sciences and management both on an international and on a regional level in West Africa, in a climate change context. The proposed Master Research Programme will adequately prepare West African students for subsequent post-graduate studies or professional careers as managers or experts in industry, consultancy, governmental agencies etc. WASCAL MRP opening at the University of Cabo Verde for the first Master’s Research Programme on Climate Change & Marine Sciences for the 2019-2020 academic year comes off this 28th November 2019 at the University. The Programme is made of: Four months of Language Proficiency courses in English Language for Francophones and Lusophones at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana; and French Language for Anglophones, at the University of Lomé, Togo. Three semesters of joint Master courses related to marine sciences, coastal and marine management and climate change at the University of Cabo Verde (including national and international lecturers); Shipboard training with a local research vessel and a German international research vessel (pending availability and sponsoring) for training on ocean observation data collection and data collection for individual student research projects (field training and research projects will be supported by the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo [OSCM]); Three weeks of scientific trip to the German partner institutions; Be citizen of a WASCAL member country (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo); other ECOWAS member countries may be admitted without scholarship on an availability basis; Hold a Bachelor’s Degree in one of the following fields or any other related fields: Biological Sciences, Oceanography, Geography, Sciences of the Atmosphere; Have at least an intermediate level in English language. 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__label__wiki	0.81945	0.81945	Elaborate deluxe double color vinyl edition of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture featuring; a lithograph front cover, pop up image and a booklet containing lyrics from the 10 South Park songs all with corresponding images from the film. Strictly limited to 5000 copies worldwide, the double color vinyl package will hold the vinyl in die cut shapes of the four main characters; numbers 1-2500 will feature characters Cartman (Red LP) and Kenny (Orange LP) and numbers 2501-5000 will feature Kyle (Green LP) and Stan (Blue LP). The package has been designed by the official South Park designers in conjunction with creators Matt and Trey, and ten lucky purchasers will receive a “golden ticket” copy which includes a signed print from creators Matt and Trey. Limited to 5000 copies worldwide. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture [RSD 2019] Artist: South Park $ Unavailable	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406789
__label__wiki	0.683313	0.683313	Review – Sweat – Studio 54 American factory workers look over their shoulder at how the world has fallen apart around them. Two of them know their destroyed lives are because of their own actions; but the greater disruption birthing their newly rotten lives has been forces beyond their control. It’s Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, which Bill Brantley says ” is the first work from a major American playwright to summon, with empathy and without judgment, the nationwide anxiety that helped put Donald J. Trump in the White House.” That’s a pretty broad claim, but I’m not going to dispute it; this play is timely in all the ways theater aspires to be – grabbing the neck of the rabbit with greyhound speed and shake, shake, shaking it in front of our transfixed eyes. But underneath the explosion of now is a play I feel suffers from serious structural flaws. It is not just watchable but fascinating, yet, let the scales of our collective trauma fall away from our eyes and we see Sweat sacrifices truth and dramatic legs in exchange for easy answers and audience friendly resolutions. Let me convince you. First, I want to talk about what is right about this play. First, the ensemble just completely hits it. Not a bit about their performances left me disbelieving in their characters. We have three female workers (at what I believe is a pipe plant): Cynthia (Michelle Wilson), her best friend Tracey (Johanna Day), and Jessie (Alison Wright); Cynthia and Tracey’s sons, who also work at the factory; and bartender Stan (James Colby), who, alongside Cynthia’s sort of ex-husband Brucie (John Earl Jelks) serves as a sort of wake-up call about the human cost of factory work: Stan was injured so badly he was paid out, but not enough, while Brucie has been laid off and just can’t seem to get his life together anymore. All of them drink a fair bit; none of them seem to get a whole lot of joy out of life; the lot of them value their friendships with each other quite highly. Work is unpleasant but a source of identity; and without it, we start to slip into the cracks. Leaving the factory for something else, like Cynthia’s son Chris (Khris Davis) is talking about? That’s turning your back on your clan, on your family, on what you’ve all worked for. You’ve got the factory and your future and past if you have the job. The cast makes that feel real; the self-lies and shortsightedness of just one or two generations of stability feel very much like a reality you, as an audience member, can buy into. And the stories they tell, of a grandfather who worked with his hands to carve beautiful things, of dreams to travel the world that never came to fruition, seem like tiny slices of reality all working together to construct a believable world. Nottage works hard to create characters we can invest and believe in. The easy friendship between Chris and Jason (Will Pullen), based on drinking and basketball and working together, slides seamlessly across any color barrier; ditto Cynthia’s friendship with Jason’s mom Tracey, built on years of slogging together and shared experience. And for both pairs, we get to see the children being responsible as their parents struggle – dramatically speaking, something I’ve seen rarely but am too familiar with in real life. But, in the play, as things start to tighten up, suddenly the question of race rises to the front and people start to talk about each other as being in competition. The busboy at the bar, Oscar (Carlo Alban), is suddenly seen as a foreign intruder, despite being a US citizen; and the ties that had formed over years start to fall apart. But … but … drip by drip, story by story, the reasons that accumulate for why these people’s lives fall apart start to feel like a narrative that’s been pasted on top of a real situation to provide answers that, I honestly feel, were palatable ones for the audience present. Why did people lose their jobs? NAFTA. Why has racism risen in America? Not enough jobs to go around. Why didn’t people in factory jobs retrain for other stuff? They were discouraged to leave their community by their friends. Why the rise in anti-immigrant hysteria? Actually, let’s pick this apart. So as this play tells it, the rise in hatred against immigrants was caused by the perception that they were “moving to America and taking our jobs away.” But as set up by Nottage, the “immigrant” in this case is someone who is an American citizen. So I ask: what is it that makes people decide to ignore this kind of truth? How could Tracey choose to ignore a job posting Oscar shows her that makes it clear people are being recruited in to the jobs at the plant at lower wages? How could Tracey really deceive herself about her ability to deal with her friend being promoted and make it be about race instead of skill or personality fit? You have to ignore a lot about what has gone on in the last ten years to make such facile conclusions about the origins of the divides that exist in America today, and while I agree that it’s been NAFTA that has decimated the health of the American working class, the rise in racism and anti-immigrant hysteria does not have such similarly simple origins. But that’s what we’re given, A happened and caused B, and of course it’s very clearly delineated. This simplicity goes through to the ending of the play, which to my mind was just like a group hug after a therapy session – it felt nice but it felt inappropriate and off kilter and just way, way too easy. And that’s how I left this play, feeling like there were some really important subjects that needed to be addressed, but I’d just been given simple answers from one point of view that I didn’t even think represented my point of view much less reality. I mean, maybe even the belief that people can be color blind in a society of plenty was just an illusion I had in the 90s. Maybe we can really never work together. And maybe people always slip to drugs and violence when they’re poor. I just don’t think our stories and our world is as easy to understand as this play makes it out to be. And for that reason, I think that Sweat, while fully embedded in the world of today, is not going to wind up having dramatic legs, because it’s the questions that remain unanswered, the ones we take home with us, that are left out. We are not living in a facile world and we don’t need to be spoonfed easy answers like we, the audience members of today, are children. Push us more. Make us question ourselves. We need it. (This review is for a matinee performance that took place on Saturday, April 8, 2016.) Tags:Alison Wright, James Colby, Johanna Day, John Earl Jelks, Khris Davis, Lynn Nottage, Michelle Wilson, Sweat, Will Pullen Review – Miss Nightingale – Mr Bugg Presents at The Vaults (Waterloo) The evening after I went to see Miss Nightingale, I was talking to a friend who works in burlesque. “I went to a show about queer love in World War II last night!” I told her. “It had boys kissing and saucy songs and everything! And it was set in a nightclub!” She was sold. And while there is much more to this show than my elevator speech contains, those few sentences capture much of what there is to love about the new musical that is Miss Nightingale. For those who won’t like its themes, well, they’ve probably already run off. But if you’re looking to make up your mind about whether or not to go, let me tell you more. It’s the 1940s, in England. Injured air ace and war hero Sir Frank Worthington-Blythe (Nicholas Coutu-Langmead) has decided that running a nightclub would be just the thing. With rationing, there’s a lot of shady characters running around … including Tom (Niall Kerrigan), who’s sourcing booze from parts unknown. They meet to do a deal, and the mobster has his girlfriend Maggie (Tamar Broadbent) audition. Suddenly Sir Frank has found the entertainment for his venue … a blonde northern lass who works as a nurse by day and a singer of bawdy songs by night … a real (Florence) Nightingale. She gets her tunes from George (Conor O’Kane), a Polish pianist who … good heavens, does Sir Frank know him? And do they have the hots for each other? And are they going to somehow maneuveur the heavily mined waters of gay love during the era when it was a ticket to a jail sentence, not to mention social ostracism? Why yes they are … but not without a few spectacular crashes (and kisses) on the way. Nicholas Coutu-Langmead & Conor O’Kane in Miss Nightingale Photo, Robert Workman Although the romance between Frank and George provides a nice structure for the show, most of the fun is actually in the scenes where Broadbent is front and center, entertaining the punters (both real and imaginary). Her sassy songs, about “shutting my pussy in the door,” “getting your sausage where you can” and other single-entendre subjects, provided lots of laughs and were even more fun done as a 1940s musical revue. But there was much more music than just that, as we had several songs developing Frank and George’s romance, providing character insights on Nightingale, and generally fleshing out the entire show as a musical. All of this was done with a live band on stage staffed by the various performers, whose skills include drumming, piano, triangle, ukelele, and a host of other instruments. Miss Nightingale whoops it up for the troops Photo Robert Workman There’s some tension introduced via…. wait, no, I’ll skip that spoiler! The various plot twists seemed a bit B-movie, but the theme (gay romance in WWII) and the decision to have a Northern girl as the big star won me over (even if Nightingale herself needed a bit more fleshing out). And it’s really a war story that I haven’t seen told before …. maybe the setting is forced or hard to believe, but given the attention that’s been paid to the fiftieth anniversary of the decision to decriminalize homosexuality in the UK, it feels like a story we’re all ready to hear. People in the 1940s were gay just like they are now, but the people who told stories back in the day didn’t talk about this. It’s time, and Miss Nightingale is a fun look back at what might have been as well as a reminder of what most certainly was. I suspect they’ll be finding more than just a few show biz types in their audience as it progresses; we do love us a good night out, after all. (Miss Nightingale The Musical continues at The Vaults until May 20th. This review was for a performance that took place April 5th. Remember for this show the entrance is from a side street of Lower Marsh, so don’t get lost trying to access the normal tunnel like I did.) Tags:Conor O’Kane, Miss Nightingale the Musical, Niall Kerrigan, Nicholas Coutu-Langmead, Tamar Broadbent, The Vaults, Waterloo Station vaults	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406791
__label__wiki	0.865205	0.865205	Go home. The Week That Bahia Did Some Slick Awareness Campaigning The Week That Frank Announced a Paw-some Win A Slick Awareness Campaign For a Good Cause Bahia Football Club, a club based in Salvador, Brazil, recently politicised the sport with a unique, eye-catching kit featuring black oil spills over its usual red and blue colours. This was done to draw public, and government, attention to the mysterious appearance of the thick oil plaguing 2,200km of Brazilian coastline recently; which the government has been criticised for due to their lack of acknowledgement or response. A few days after the kit was teased, on the match day the kit was actually worn, the Brazilian Government sent 5,000 troops to the coastline to assist in the clean-up of the oil. The timing of the response was more likely due to the attention-grabbing stunt, rather than coincidence, with the stunt showing how bringing politics into sport, when absolutely necessary, can be exceptionally effective. The Coldplay School on Old-School Promotion An album cover using an edited picture of your grandpa’s band, promotional postcards to 500 fans and track list announcements in the classified ads section of your local papers may sound like an archaic way to promote an album; but that’s the point. As everyone has gone left and poured millions into digital marketing, influencers and worldwide PR campaigns, Coldplay decided to go right – and it worked. Their old-school album rollout was cost-effective, played into the current trend of nostalgia marketing and was a refreshing rollout that grabbed more headlines than the typical big-name rollout of today. That’s quite a few birds with one stone and is a great example of the smart use of Talkability® tactics trumping tired comms. It’s a Lidl Dark in Here… Something which is sure to spook the phony wine connoisseur, who bases their “knowledge” and appreciation of a wine on pretty bottle design or it coming from an eighteenth-century vineyard, is Lidl’s Chateaux Noir. Based on insights from research, which found that many people prejudge the wine they’re about to drink by looking at the design rather than the taste, Lidl decided to host a pop-up wine tasting in the dark. Tickets sold out in a matter of hours, as customers flocked to the novelty experience and it’s set to tour the UK; to show that books shouldn’t be judged by their covers – and nor should wine. Facebook and Instagram Banned “Suggestive’ Emojis From Their Platforms Facebook and Instagram are now taking down comments that include suggestive emojis such as the eggplant, peach and water droplets. According to Facebook’s new Community Standards, these emojis are “contextually specific and commonly used sexual emojis.” The platforms will flag users requesting for or putting up content “implicitly or indirectly” linked to sex, nudity, or sexting. The company confirmed, though, that it will not be “taking action on simply the emojis.” Twitter Announced It Will Stop Running Political Ads The era of political ads is coming to an end. Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter will ban political ads starting 22nd of November, “A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet” Dorsey wrote in a twitter thread. Twitter stance against political ads come just as Facebook is caught in both internal and external drama regarding its policies. Dorsey acknowledged that the move to ban political ads may favour officials, but noted that “we have witnessed many social movements reach massive scale without any political advertising. I trust this will only grow.” Twitter will share its full policy on 15th of November. LinkedIn Launched Its First TV Ad Campaign This is one for all the LinkedIn lovers. LinkedIn has revealed its first ever UK TV advert featuring real members on the platforms. One LinkedIn member tells the camera “I’m searching for a job where I’m in charge”. “That shares my values” and “where I can have a lie-in” are other reasons supplied by LinkedIn members, who reveal redundancy pains and difficulties they’ve had in order to get the role they love. Ngaire Moyes, senior director, brand and communications, at LinkedIn EMEA, commented “What are you searching for? It’s a powerful question, and when we’re talking about jobs the answer is different for everyone which is why sharing the experiences of our real and diverse members is a key part of our advertising strategy. This campaign continues to build on our In It Together brand work that sought to create a new, warmer, more human feel with our members at its heart. We’re excited to shine a light on some of these stories in this latest iteration of the campaign in the UK” Spotify Launched A Dedicated Kids App For Premium Family Subscribers Music to your ears. Mums and Dads get ready for your children to become musician of the future. In move to boost family subscriptions to its app, Spotify this morning announced the launch of a dedicated Kids application which allows children three and above to listen to their own music, both online and offline, as well as explore playlist and recommendations by experts. The music selection is also filtered so songs won’t have explicit content. The launch is a first in the online music streaming space, where kids on parents’ music plans typically sign in through the same app — just with a different login. But Spotify believes children deserve their own space, where the music they listen to is available in an ad-free environment, where they won’t accidentally encounter lyrics that parents disapprove of, and where content is hand-curated by editors. The app includes categories like Movies & TV, top hits, Activities (bedtime, homework, playtime, etc.), genres, seasonal, Spotify Originals, artist/groups, and Stories. Ellis Van Jason Our influencer of the week is @ellisvanjason – approaching 10k followers, he’s one to look out for and a Frank favourite. A full-time engineer with a passion for photography and mountaineering, Ellis’ travels take him all over the world. He’s also an accomplished videographer as well as drone pilot – all this makes for some outstanding content! With a collaboration for Suspicious Antwerp under his belt, he’s definitely on our radar: we can’t wait to see what he does next. 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__label__cc	0.509952	0.490048	toomuchnoiseblog Film Reviews and Discussion. Film Reviews and Discussion. Our Objective…. Short Review. The Digest: Argo (2012) Short Review. The Digest: The Shining (UK Re-Release) (1980) Review: This Is Not A Film ***** (This is not a rating) Dir: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Paranhi A window into the oppressive state of a nation, as documented by Iranian film maker. Covering a day in the life of a man awaiting verdict from the Appeals court in Iran comes a documentary with a very specific purpose; to showcase the suffocating force exerted by the Iranian government on the artistic community. Film-maker Jafar Panahi is under house arrest. His crime? “Propaganda against the regime”. Sounding positively Orwellian, his sentence is 6 years in prison, a 20 year ban on making films and a 20 year ban on leaving the country. Understandably, he is frustrated, worried and angry with, and at, the political system. Being forbidden to make the film he planned on making, he uses the time in his apartment to lay out the bare bones of his latest screenplay. This documentary film, it is important to note, is not constructed under a conventional arc. It is openly improvised. You see a man unsure where to steer the piece as it moves along. He is uncertain if anyone will ever set their eyes on what he is filming, and the lack of certainty hangs over the documentary like an ominous invisible cloud. However, amongst all of this are some surreal moments. There is frequent footage of his pet iguana and his escapades within the confines of the apartment. This footage allows for some light to creep in amongst the varying shades of sombre. Generally speaking, this is an exercise in seeing a film maker stripped of the fourth wall, and in its place, an ordinary person performing creatively within their own four walls. Ironically, the most dramatic aspect of the film is one that does not form part of what we see, and is not even added as a post-script; the film had to be smuggled out of Iran on a memory card that was hidden inside a cake. Thanks to the surreptitious nature of the film’s construction and export, This Is Not A Film could not be any more accurate to its title. It is the epitome of a document that is oxymoronic; the film has a very specific purpose and reason to exist, yet it also plays out with no narrative sense of purpose in any conventional sense. Arguably, the most compelling facet of the documentary is in the understanding of the context in which it was made. Criticism of this film is hard to level, hence the non-rating that heads this review. Bizarrely, despite containing no linear narrative, no talking heads and no interviews, it still stands as a fascinating window peek into a government that is terrifying, petrifying, anaesthetising and nullifying the proletariat. There is no fancy camera work, and the lack of focus means that it would be hard to recommend this film as being one for repeat viewings. Yet still, it is something that needs to be seen. In fact, it commands to be seen. It is a brave feat and endeavour. It is engrossing because the viewer is left to marvel at how it made its way to our screens at all. It is a contemporaneous note on present day Iran and a call to the wider world. A cry for freedom and the purity of free expression. It highlights the extent to which civil liberties have been robbed and denied from the creative industries by the state. The real victim is freedom of speech. Freedom of expression. It is a news bulletin without filter. 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__label__cc	0.631008	0.368992	Archive for the ‘Niall WARRY’ Category UKIP vs EUkip – FlexCit offers the UK an EU Exit and Survival strategy Please Be Sure To . . Re-TWEET my Twitterings & Publicise My Blogs To Spread The Facts World Wide To Leave-The-EU Clean EUkip up NOW make UKIP electable! The corruption of EUkip’s leadership, their anti UKIP claque in POWER & the NEC is what gives the remaining 10% a bad name! UKIP vs EUkip – FlexCit offers the UK an EU Exit and Survival strategy. Original Detail in context can be found at: http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=89457&page=517&p=1812052&viewfull=1#post1812052 Details of FleXcit can be found at: FleXcit A WAY FORWARD For Full Details – Click The Pic. ~~~~~~~~~~#########~~~~~~~~~~ Today, 08:21 AM #5165 I make no apology for the length of this post as it is aimed for those who are seriously interested in leaving the EU and realise the need for a workable and ethical eXit and Survival strategy. I believe the time is now right, with the passing of the Euro Elections, to refocus this thread, by adding to the title, to thus change the emphasis from the exploits of Nigel’s EUkip to the challenge of getting UKIP and others to adopt a workable eXit and Survival Strategy. My thanks to the moderators for facilitating this. The reason for adding to the original title instead of a starting a new thread is to keep the post’s history, context and development as we refocus on the ‘HOW’ best we will actually be able to leave the EU without which I maintain we will never win the battle to leave the EU. The important consideration now is to win any In/Out referendum ‘if’ and ‘when’ held and not forgetting the all important task of ensuring the outcome, assuming we win, is binding. Currently I believe the only VIABLE ‘eXit and Survival Plan’ in the public domain is FleXcit as written by Dr Richard North, with contributions from many of those who read his blog EU Referendum blog. Even a recent review of the six finalists in the IEA’s BreXit competition acknowledged that they did NOT provide the definitive solution and another may well be needed. What is abundantly clear is that without the ‘Outers’ mustering behind a WORKABLE plan the field will be left open to the Establishment and Europhiles to use Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) to maintain the status quo. The history of the 1975 referendum proves this point extensively and I highly recommend the well researched and authoritive book on the subject by two fellows of Nuffield College Oxford, David Butler and Uwe Kitzinger unsurprisingly called, ‘The 1975 Referendum’! This thread was of course started on the 27th February 2011 with the intent of pointing out the differences between where UKIP should be heading and where I and others felt Nigel Farage was leading the party which, to differentiate, I called EUKip. As I asked within days of starting the thread ‘What is UKIP for’? Despite the new title to this thread, it is still my contention, supported by many others who can see beyond his anti EU rhetoric, that Nigel’s EUkip is not fit for the purpose of helping navigate the UK safely out of the EU. In 21 years EUkip has NEVER put forward an ’eXit & Survival Strategy’ in support of their claim to be seeking an amicable divorce form the EU. Claiming you want something is the easy part but tackling the how and having the power to implement your plans is of course an entirely separate matters both of which Nigel’s EUkip doesn’t come close to – in terms of gravitas, competence or ability – as proved over the last 21 years. Since the beginning of this thread I have learned a great deal and been able to hone my arguments over the whole EU debate and after a few faltering early comments and remarks, which I have acknowledged, my aim has been to see UKIP reformed but not destroyed. I have tried endlessly to explain and persuade others that UKIP will never be reformed under Nigel Farage’s divisive cult style leadership and as the apparent Eurosceptic brand leader we need UKIP to appeal beyond its relatively small core vote, shown recently to be a mere 9% of the electorate, to over 50% of the electorate, a level of support obviously needed to win that referendum when called. Another point I have brought up over and over again is that Nigel Farage has never invested the intellectual effort and time to produce an eXit and Survival plan preferring to concentrate his efforts to achieve electoral success at the Euro and General Elections. However as I have also frequently pointed out UKIP MEPs are about as much good as an ashtray on a motorbike and Nigel’s plans, to concentrate on elections, currently shows no signs of getting an MP to Westminster, especially after the Newark result where they could not have been better placed to win. They were still on the crest of the wave, after their success at the Euro elections, the candidate was the ex-Tory Roger Helmer who was well known in the area, Cameron’s Tories are unpopular with many core Conservatives and finally the out going MP Patrick Mercer was exposed for corruption. Despite all these factors in UKIP’s favour the Tories won handsomely with 17,431 to UKIP’s 10,020. By any serious analysis this result bodes ill for any prospect UKIP has of gaining a single MP let alone a workable number at the 2015 General Election. As I have often said Nigel and his cabal have all gone native in Brussels and his latest ‘freebie’ escapade in Malta before the Newark bye election provides all the evidence you need that he always puts his own self interests above those of HIS party. So how can FleXcit help us leave the EU and what does it advocate? The FleXcit paper, which I recommend is the sort of document you need to read several times to really start to understand it, is due to be published in the Autumn but you can still read the latest version as it is developed at :- http://www.flexcit.org/ In summary the plan, which is a play on the words FleXible, eXit and Continuous Development, is just that a FleXible and Continuous Plan to help us Exit safely from the EU, after 40 years of integration, whilst upholding all our international treaty obligations which we are legally and morally obliged to honour, under the terms of the Vienna Treaty on International Treaties. This will allow us once again to gradually take our own seat at the global top table rather than, as we currently are, being represented by an unelected EU official. As we negotiate ourselves out of the EU we will be free to act directly, on the world stage, for our own interests, unfettered by membership of the EU. It is a given, as advocated by any serious commentator and even the recent IEA Brexit competition, that the start point for beginning the process of Britain’s withdrawal from the EU will result from us implementing Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. The absolutely vital fact to grasp is that FleXcit advances a flexible continuous process that will crucially neutralise the Establishment’s use of FUD and their promotion of the false safety of remaining with the status quo, which can be seen, has not been successful especially in the EU! In the initial stages this is what has become known as the Norway Option, involving joining EFTA to retain our membership of the EEA, but it is only the start of the flexible and continuous process we will be on until we regain our complete independence from the EU. FlexCit will help fight classic FUD like the scare that ‘3 million jobs will be lost if we leave the EU’, which is simply NOT the case as we have no intention of leaving the Single Market (SM) made up of 28 countries until, further down the line, something better can be negotiated between the other 22 countries in Europe that are not members of the EU’s SM. So FleXcit is a multi layer solution where the Norway Option is only an interim step along the way to establishing something much larger which will be achieved via the eight point plan explained in it. Interestingly there is no strong economic case that can be made for leaving the EU and we will always struggle to argue for withdrawal on those grounds just as conversely there is equally no economic case for staying in the EU. However there are strong democratic and humanitarian reasons for leaving the EU related to the advantages of Self Determination and taking back control of our own destiny from undemocratic and unrepresentative Euro politicians and the unelected bureaucrats and of course, as already mentioned, the benefits of representing our own self interests on the world stage. It is after leaving the EU that we would be free to concentrate on pushing forward with the introduction of The Harrogate Agenda’s (THA) six demands, which are based on the principles of Direct Democracy, as while leaving the undemocratic EU is a start we would still be faced by a corrupted and undemocratic Westminster. THA aims to give ‘Real Power to the People’. Having left the EU an integral part of the FleXcit plan is the realisation that the democracy at Westminster must not only be greater and more responsible but more closely responsive to the peoples of Britain, to avoid them ever again being duped, as they were over the Common Market, by the MPs they have elected to serve them. Our political elite are increasingly a law unto themselves and only by the people being recognised as sovereign over our Parliament will things change. As a reminder THA’s six demands are:- 1. Recognition of our sovereignty: The peoples of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland comprise the ultimate authority of their nations and are the source of all political power. That fact shall be recognised by the Crown and the Governments of our nations, and our Parliaments and Assemblies; 2. Real local democracy: The foundation of our democracy shall be the counties (or other local units as may be defined), which shall become constitutional bodies exercising under the control of their peoples all powers of legislation, taxation and administration not specifically granted by the people to the national government; 3. Separation of powers: The executive shall be separated from the legislature. To that effect, prime ministers shall be elected by popular vote; they shall appoint their own ministers, with the approval of parliament, to assist in the exercise of such powers as may be granted to them by the sovereign people of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; no prime ministers or their ministers shall be members of parliament or any legislative assembly; 4. The people’s consent: No law, treaty or government decision shall take effect without the consent of the majority of the people, by positive vote if so demanded, and that none shall continue to have effect when that consent is withdrawn by the majority of the people; 5. No taxation or spending without consent: No tax, charge or levy shall be imposed, nor any public spending authorised, nor any sum borrowed by any national or local government except with the express approval the majority of the people, renewed annually on presentation of a budget which shall first have been approved by their respective legislatures; 6. A constitutional convention: Parliament, once members of the executive are excluded, must host a constitutional convention to draw up a definitive codified constitution for the peoples of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It shall recognise their sovereign status and their inherent, inalienable rights and which shall be subject to their approval. For more on THA see: http://HarrogateAgenda.org.uk I still believe it will be important, in this thread, to continue to link to what others are saying about UKIP, as I originally set out to do, and generally comment on such links while adding my own thoughts as necessary and applicable. This of course helps to expose the incompetence at the heart of Nigel’s EUkip and of some of his supporters as demonstrated on this forum. So by adding to my original aim, of highlighting EUkip’s need to reform, I will now use this thread to seek to explain the importance to UKIP of the FleXcit plan as currently the only workable and honourable ‘eXit and Survival plan’ from the EU which helps neutralise the Establishments use of FUD and will thus help us to win the referendum. That UKIP members and branches still potentially have some clout, with their county coverage, is not in doubt but they will need to start to think for themselves and therefore must look beyond Nigel Farage and his cabal’s poor leadership and to push and promote the FlexCit plan. Nigel’s current focus on anti EU rhetoric and attempts to win seats next year will NOT on its own help us to win the all important referendum. I don’t hold out much hope that Nigel is capable of changing his ways and the behaviour and quality of output of his 24 MEPs will, in a relatively short time, give us all the evidence we need to see if they are really serious about wanting to leave the EU. I hope you will join constructively in this new phase of this thread, working to assist in supporting and improving the FleXcit plan, in the spirit of continuous development, between now and the referendum ‘if’ and ‘when’ held. Also I hope you will do all you can to spread the word that the FleXcit plan helps counter the Establishments use of FUD to maintain the status quo by answering the all important question as to ‘HOW’ we can safely leave the EU. This is a plan that does NOT get in the way of party allegiances and so should provide no barrier to any real ’Outer’ supporting it. Don’t forget that no political party is permitted to lead on either the Yes or the No side in any referendum so those who are really serious about seeking a safe and honourable exit from the EU should be able to gather around this plan. So FleXcit it has to be if UKIP or anyone else for that matter really wants to win the battle to successfully leave the EU. Greg_L-W.. Work With THE MIDNIGHT GROUP to Reclaim YOUR Future Deny the self serving political clique ANY Democratic claims to legitimacy to Reclaim YOUR Future Posted by: Greg Lance-Watkins tel: 01594 – 528 337 of: Greg_L-W@BTconnect.com Accuracy & Copyright Statement: CLICK HERE Summary, archive, facts & comments on UKIP: http://UKIP-vs-EUkip.com DO MAKE USE of LINKS & >Right Side Bar< & The Top Bar >PAGES< Details & Links: http://GregLanceWatkins.Blogspot.com UKIP Its ASSOCIATES & DETAILS: CLICK HERE Views I almost Totally Share: CLICK HERE General Stuff archive: http://gl-w.blogspot.com General Stuff ongoing: http://gl-w.com Health Blog.: http://GregLW.blogspot.com TWITTER: Greg_LW Posted in Farage, FleXcit, FleXcit Plan, GL-W, GLW, Greg Lance - Watkins, Greg_L-W., Harrogate Agenda, Niall WARRY, NORTH Dr. Richard, Norway Option, Richard NORTH, Richard NORTH Dr, UKIP \| Tagged: EUkip, FleXcit, GL-W, Greg Lance-Watkins, Greg_L-W, Harrogate Agenda, Niall Warry, Nigel Farage, politics, Richard NORTH, THA, UKIP \| Leave a Comment » #0771* – The Cowardice of the Vituperative UKIP Claque! Posted in Cowardly Anonymity, Niall WARRY, stathan, UKIP Cowards \| Leave a Comment » #0764* – Has UKIP achieved its aim and what next for UKIP? Has UKIP achieved any of its declared aims and what next for UKIP whether they are considered to have achieved those aims or failed? it is not often that a supporter of UKIP compiles a report on their current status – yes I am aware there are claims and spin by the ambitious and the gullible but in the main they are nothing more than idiotic attempts to dupe the gullible by the gullible who have been duped – or from members of the claque seeking preferment! Niall Warry, after many years of association with UKIP and having held some of UKIP’s highest offices, has, as a long term supporter, written a better than passible critique. Niall Warry’s critique being both informed and informative is by no means, yet another, desperate attempt to spin the truth to show optimistic victory in the face of palpable failure. Niall Warry shows both the failures and a way forward – more, sadly, than anyone in UKIP or its leadership seems to have the political intelligence to do! I commend Niall Warry’s critique and suggestions to you, not just because he is well informed but also because he has held relevant Office in the Party and as a supporter advocates simple and obvious solutions that are well within the grasp and remit of UKIP’s leadership – however unprofessional and crass they may be! Has UKIP achieved its aim and what next for UKIP? by: Major Niall Warry (rtd) – Resigned member of UKIP & ongoing supporter. Formerly UKIP PPC, UKIP Branch Chairman, UKIP Head Office Manager, Chairman of UKIP Wales. I’m not actually sure what UKIP’s aim is and visiting their website left me none the wiser, but I suppose if we take UKIP’s primary AIM as this much quoted saying of Nigel Farage’s :- “We seek an amicable divorce from the European Union and its replacement with a genuine free-trade agreement, which is what we thought we’d signed up for in the first place.“ Then you would conclude that to date UKIP has NOT achieved its aim, nor is ever likely to. Interestingly, and I see this as quite revealing insight into Nigel Farage’s current psyche, he doesn’t appear to say this anymore or certainly with as much clarity as he once did. Does he in his heart think, like I and many others do, that the most probable outcome is that the EU is going to collapse at sometime in the future? Has he therefore, given his style and temperament, decided to enjoy the EU gravy train while he is able? Is this not also supported by the fact that Nigel Farage was founder and co president of the EFD, for the extra money it gave UKIP, despite as a Group being pro EU membership and containing some extreme racists and anti homosexuals. The one thing Nigel Farage is not, is stupid, and so he must have concluded that, so long as the LibLabCon continues to hold sway at Westminster, with UKIP so hopelessly low in the polls and the EU ignoring the various referendums voting NO to Lisbon then, there is absolutely NO chance of anyone helping to initiate the EU’s demise least of all UKIP. This certainly gives Nigel Farage a perfect excuse for never having had any Strategy, Tactics or Plan! However the past is the past but, going forward, what could UKIP still do that would assist the overall Eurosceptic cause? Benefits Analysis and our Exit and Survival Strategy Well as I have constantly repeated of late it could spearhead the vital and necessary work of producing and publishing for free distribution a full Benefits Analysis of why we would be ‘Better off Out’ and also a comprehensive Exit & Survival Strategy to ensure a smooth transition from EU membership to simply trading with the member states. In support of these two most vital publications, what else should UKIP do as the self proclaimed brand leader and still, despite the internal troubles, the only realistic Eurosceptic political party? Next Euro Election Despite agreeing with Alan Sked’s initial view, that UKIP should not go to Brussels, we are now where we are and keeping our representation in the EU Parliament does have some useful advantages if handled correctly. However the key places on the Regional MEP lists should go to high profile candidates, of some recognised public gravitas, like Tim Congdon from the party. There are of course many from outside the party who would be ideal candidates. High profile candidates, who are already in the public eye, could generate far more anti EU publicity which, given the current state of the EU, could help finish it off! Funnily enough keeping Nigel Farage for his media skills and recognition would make him a useful part of the team, but he needs to realise that he is not cut out to be the leader as his behaviour, judgement and divisive nature have clearly shown over the years. So it would be churlish not to recognise that the Euro Elections are still UKIP’s battle ground from which, with better leadership, better candidates and a basic plan a great deal more and better quality anti EU PR could be achieved. Next General Election Unlike the Euro Elections the facts are: UKIP have not even come close in 18 years in getting an MP elected. In addition the only MP who rebadged to UKIP, Bob Spink, left shortly afterwards having changed his mind one can only assume once he realised what Nigel Farage’s EUKIP was all about. To still be only attracting, in the main, around 4% in domestic elections after so long has little meaning or value. Even when they do achieve a higher percentage share of the vote it still usually leaves them trailing in 3rd or 4th place. In our traditonal two horse race it is ridiculous, on current form, to believe UKIP will have any meaningful relevance for years to come. So in this area, of failing to make any impression at Westminster after 18 years, Nigel Farage’s lack of any coherent strategy, tactics or plan are surely laid bare. To improve this situation detailed research and analysis is needed so that UKIP only select a limited number of seats in which they might have the most impact and then concentrate all their limited resources to these seats. The trouble is, particularly under Nigel Farage, that UKIP have not been able to demonstrate that they are any better than the other parties and sadly Nigel Farage’s record shows that under his leadership he is unlikely to ever convince the British public that UKIP has what it takes. There are so many reasons which bar UKIP from making a break through at Westminster it is difficult to know where to start. However just consider one of many examples of the muddle at the heart of UKIP. As the ‘UNITED KINGDOM Independence Party’ they cannot even decide if they are for the Welsh Assembly or not. Recently the UKIP members in Wales wished to oppose the Assembly but Nigel Farage over ruled them. Nigel Farage does manage to get some PR for his occasional outbursts of anti EU rhetoric but this has to be viewed alongside the overall smell of corruption in UKIP which, is there for all to see, and we can only assume will be used by the media in a manner of their choosing. Given UKIP’s chequered history and policy confusions at its heart does anyone seriously think that the British people will ever vote in a UKIP MP? UKIP under Nigel Farage’s leadership will never be good enough to seriously compete or beat the LibLabCon and so will sadly continue to be an irrelevance. By way of consolation, as one part of the Eurosceptic Movement, they can at least look forward to the EU’s collapse knowing, along with the likes of Jimmy Goldsmith’s efforts to keep us out the Euro, that they did have a walk on part in this drama! However the job is far from done and the two big outstanding jobs that need to be tackled, and UKIP are ideally suited to take this on, is first to complete a Benefits Analysis as to how much better off we would be outside the EU and second to publish a detailed Exit and Survival Strategy to go into the detail of how we extract ourselves from the EU to make our withdrawal as smooth as possible when the time comes. Repatriating powers from Brussels needs to be carefully planned for as the old saying goes: “Time spent in preparation and planning is seldom wasted”. Can EUkip once again become UKIP and rise to these two important challenges with a strategy, tactics and plan for the next Euro and General Elections that will assist and support these two most vital publications? (IF You Have No INDEPENDENT Leave-the-EU Alliance Candidate) . DO MAKE USE of LINKS & >Right Side Bar< General Stuff: http://gl-w.blogspot.com To Spread The Facts World WideofOUR-ENEMY-WITHIN&To Leave-The-EU UKIP: A question for Nigel Farage (farage.blogspot.com) #0750* – Farage & UKIP Leadership Learn from The EU (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) John ISON – Nigel Farage’s useful idiot (john-ison.blogspot.com) #07854* – UKIP’s Drunken Frauds and Low Life thieves! (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) Is John ISON’s Behaviour Greed or Malicious sexual Revenge? 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(mike-mcgough.blogspot.com) Ex UKIP Tory MEP David Bannerman has an obvious recruit! (dcbannerman.blogspot.com) Godfrey BLOOM’s Company Censured & Fined £28K for Failures! (godfrey-bloom.blogspot.com) UKIP Candidate Kim GANDY, Farage & The EDL (farage.blogspot.com) Mick McGOUGH draws the attention of JUNIUS Team demeaning UKIP (mike-mcgough.blogspot.com) BATTEN & McGough Provide a sad betrayal of UKIP! BATTEN & McGough Provide a sad betrayal of UKIP! (mike-mcgough.blogspot.com) #0752* – UKIP Supporters’ Damaging Cyber Bullying & Lies (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) Mick McGough Further Demeans HIMSELF Damaging UKIP! (mike-mcgough.blogspot.com) Posted in Niall WARRY, Nigel FARAGE EFD MEP Leader, UKIP Failures, UKIP Spin, UKIP Way Forward \| Leave a Comment » #0761* – A Summary of some aspects of the John ISON farce! .Clean EUkip up NOW make UKIP electable! A Summary of some aspects of the John ISON farce! As published on http://john-ison.blogspot.com earlier this morning!! it is interesting to note the obvious disgust at John Ison’s behaviour and revulsion at the unprofessional behaviour of UKIP leadership in their anti homosexual and vindictive treatment of Nikki Sinclaire, on a UKIP controlled Forum! It is all but impossible for UKIP to claim it is not anti homosexual and now especially with the addition of the supporter of Tom Wise! Roger Helmer defedtee from the Tories because he could not get his own way when he stepped down as an MEP, he who set out to try to have the deffinition of where his house was, in order to try to claim even more expenses as an MEP! Roger Helmer recently stated his opinion that homosexuality was a treatable mental illness – surely the world left that view behind in the 1960s, when we campaigned for the decriminalisation of homosexual acts between consenting adults. I should imagine The Tories are glad to see the back of this idiotic man with his arcane views and his plastic EUroScepticism as he milks the system for all it is worth TO HIM! Originally Posted by Arthur Fonzarelli Depending on which side of the Miss Sinclaire/Mr Ison ‘conflict’ one finds oneself on, one could feel that the other is only interested in smearing them. One could, or one could try to think beyond the purely superficial. In January 2010, UKIP’s NEC unwisely allowed itself to be dragged into what was basically a personal spat between two MEPs, Sinclaire and Farage. The correct course would have been to tell Nigel Farage that the NEC had no constitutional power to compel MEPs to join a particular group (which it hadn’t), and that any complaint about Nikki Sinclaire leaving the EFD should be submitted through the party’s disciplinary channel. That would have forced Farage to demonstrate exactly how Sinclaire had breached UKIP’s rules (if she had), provided an opportunity for mediation, and ensured that if necessary the matter be decided in the proper way by the discipline committee (from which NEC members are barred). Instead of which, the chairman of the NEC foolishly issued a statement Statement from UKIP chairman – UK Independence Party on behalf of the committee, announcing that Sinclaire would not be permitted to stand for UKIP at future elections on the grounds of her having left the EP group, and having “failed to declare other relevant issues to the interview panel when she was selected as a UKIP candidate” (which she denied). If Sinclaire chose to challenge this legally, as past experience suggested she might, any breach of normal disciplinary procedure or evidence of her having been treated less favourably than others in similar situations, would obviously disadvantage UKIP hugely. Within a matter of months, first Mike Nattrass then Trevor Colman followed her out of the EFD, yet no action was taken against them by the NEC and, unlike Sinclaire, both are still accepted as UKIP MEPs and listed as such on the party website. Now we see that the article linked by Alex McKee at #9 raises the possibility that the second of the accusations levelled at Sinclaire – that of failing to declare relevant issues to a candidate selection panel – may also have applied to John Ison. Ison stood as UKIP candidate in Redditch in 2005 and Solihull in 2010, being bound by the party constitution on both occasions to make “a written application and shall make full disclosure of any fact, political or personal, that may have a bearing on their suitability for selection as a candidate”. In 2010 the application form stated: “I am not aware of any circumstances from my past that might cause embarrassment to the party were it to be revealed”. Did Ison fail to declare that he had been banned by court order from seeing his children, and lie by signing the form anyway? If so, now that the story is known through circulation on the internet, the NEC will be guilty of victimizing Nikki Sinclaire if it doesn’t ban Ison from standing in all future elections just as it has banned her. If he did declare it and was allowed to stand despite this, the party and all its future candidates will be at risk from resulting bad publicity, but why would a party that goes to the length of demanding CRB checks on its candidates precisely in order to screen out potential problems, regard a court order protecting five-year-olds from their own father as not having a bearing on his suitability as a candidate? Wonderful Worcestershire Originally Posted by Barboo One could, or one could try to think beyond the purely superficial….. And indeed you do, Barboo. A quite stunning post, extraordinarily well-informed and astute. The questions it raises, which I asked myself on being informed of the archive article on the court case only recently, are for members of the party. Which is why I did not ask them publicly. Today, 12:11 AM #24 Did Ison fail to declare that he had been banned by court order from seeing his children, and lie by signing the form anyway? I’ve no idea what Ison has or has not declared but he was pre-UKIP a notable public campaigner for fathers rights. How have you come to the apparent conclusion that his own circumstances were not already in the public domain? Originally Posted by Steve Morson Thank you, Steve! Originally Posted by Independent UKIP I haven’t come to any conclusion on the matter and that is not the point. UKIP’s constitution does not put responsibility onto candidate selection panels for acquainting themselves with applicants’ personal circumstances from what is in the public domain. It states categorically that candidates shall make full disclosure. If John Ison did not do so then natural justice demands that he should be treated the same as Nikki Sinclaire in what the NEC claims was a similar circumstance (failure to disclose, which she denies), and banned as she was from standing in future elections. Not to ban Ison would be a second example of Sinclaire being treated more harshly than others, the first being that action was taken against her for leaving the EFD but not against Nattrass and Colman. It is very simple really Nigel doesn’t concern himself with rule books, as I’ve had experience of, by his selfish standards there is one rule for him and his mates and another for his foes. http://NiallWarry.blogspot.com http://www.Leave-the-EU.org.UK You may be interested to note YET AGAIN that the false accusation of failure to disclose made against Nikki Sinclaire was an unprofessional pack of lies from UKIP Leadership and pure discrimination. Nikki Sinclaire was madse technically bankrupt (ie based on the claim of one man who served p0apers at an address at which she clearly did not live as she washelping UKIP set up their head office in Birmingham!). The details were IMMEDIATELY reported by Nikki Sinclaire to The Returning Officer in the election, in which she stood. She also informed Michael Zucherman The UKIP Part Secretary at the time. I also published the full details at the time as they were a matter of public record, as is the fact that John Ison was not found guilty in a Court Case of assault on his wife who left him for another woman but WAS deemed unfit to have access to his children, presumably his volatile temper or underhand behaviour were deemed a risk to children. As to bankruptcy being ostensibly a cause of the UKIP Leadership’s unprofessional and partisan behaviour the Guilty Judgement against Nigel Farage, Godfrey Bloom and UKIP inCourt would seem to indicate otherwise as would the official caution from the EU Parliament aganst Godfrey Bloom for his anti homosexual bullying. It is interesting to note that John Ison’s vindictive and malicious behaviour against Nikki Sinclaire and his various thefts and seeming ‘construction’ of so called evidence, in collusion with others (including the proven corrupt Christopher Gill see: CLICK HERE) may all be a vindictive attack based on John Ison’s seemingly very ‘challenged’ sexuality and unhappy marriage! Nikki Sinclaire’s treatment at the hands of UKIP’s partyisan and unprofessional leadership can not be on the grounds of her historic bankruptcy reported at the time, despite the clamourings of Nigel Farage’s sewer rat Mark Croucher who we KNOW colluded in what seems clearly to be efforts to set Nikki Sinclaire up to curry favour with Nigel Farage! I say it can not be based on the irrefutable fact that Niel Hamilton the formerly disgraced Tory MP was courted by Farage and joined UKIP some 5 years ago and is now, we understand, promised a leading seat as a contender for election to public office once more and as is also a matter of record he was bankrupt and was recently boasting of it on national TV. Perhaps Niall Warry was correct that in the corrupt world of UKIP: eneral Stuff: http://gl-w.blogspot.com Something of A Summary on John ISON by Junius: (john-ison.blogspot.com) #0755* – ex UKIP MEP + 3 Staff Arrested & Released (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) It Seems John ISON Continues His Downward Spiral! (john-ison.blogspot.com) #0757* – The Idiotic allegations of John ISON in Perspective! (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) #0753* – ex UKIP MEP Addressing REAL Issues (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) #0760* – Airheads United to Embarrass UKIP Members! (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) More Extremists join EAF & EFD for EU Bribes! (eualliance.blogspot.com) John ISON by: A ONCE CLOSE COLLEAGUE (john-ison.blogspot.com) Posted byGreg_L-W.at09:160comments Labels:Barboo,John ISON,John ISON Thefts,Niall Warry,Nikki SINCLAIRE MEP,Roger Helmer,UKIP anti Homosexual,UKIP Bullying,UKIP Leadership Corruption of: Greg_L-W@BTconnect.com DO MAKE USE of LINKS & >Right Side Bar< Also: Details & Links: http://GregLanceWatkins.Blogspot.com General Stuff: http://gl-w.blogspot.com Health Blog.: http://GregLW.blogspot.com TWITTER: Greg_LW. Posted in Barboo, Ho, John Ison, John ISON Thefts, Niall WARRY, Nikki SINCLAIRE MEP, osexual, Roger Helmer, UKIP anti Homosexual, UKIP Bullying, UKIP Leadership Corruption \| 1 Comment » #0752* – UKIP Supporters’ Damaging Cyber Bullying & Lies UKIP Supporters’ like KrisH, Mick McGough, Independent UKIP, Douglas Denny, Skeptyk, Gerard Batten and others show that Cyber Bullying & Lies, cheating and dishonesty are extremely damaging to UKIP! It is clear that on a greatly rising tide of EUroScepticism UKIP’s failure is exacerbated by the behaviour of its aspirant supporters (cowards, cheats, liars, fraudsters and cyber bullies) and association with racism, anti homosexuality, holocaust denial, anti judaism, advocacy of violence and the dregs of EUropean politics! The lack of leadership ability, strategy or valid tactics is a reflection of the clear lack of professionalism and disinterest in its membership or Country beyond self enrichment of a small clique and agrandisement of their claque! Just consider CLICK HERE! I note the cyber cowards and liars are up to speed with their jobs! Whether individuals like Independent UKIP, Skeptyk, Gothmog, KrisH and the like are merely cowards who know they are telling lies and are ashamed or are rewarded for their dishonesty and unpleasant manner, so damaging to UKIP and the EUroRealist cause and therefore having prostituted their ethics is a matter of conjecture but endlessly having them repeat their lies and feeble efforts as cyber bullies hidden behind the cowardly cloak of anonymity without being denounced by UKIP has done the party immense harm. As a member ‘Trusted’ on the UKIP controlled squalid little Forum of Antyhony Butcher’s Independent UKIP currently leads the charge! Independent UKIP Trusted Member QUOTES the opinion Originally Posted by Steve Morson Everyone I’ve seen supports their assertions validly, except for 1 or 2 UKIP members. Like you. As we’ve seen. I’ve asked repeatedly for sensitive flowers to point out where I’ve been rude. Not a single, specific instance has been quoted. I’m I see now I’ve rattled I-UKIP’s cage, he’s responded (and of course, I can’t see it). So predictable. Despite being a compulsive liar Mr Lance-Watkins maintains he always tells the truth in everything he says. Despite obdurate rudeness over many months you maintain you’ve never been rude. Is he grooming you to take over? You’re demonstrating increasingly familiar traits. Clearly a dishonest attempt to mislead people as neither Independent UKIP nor any of the other maggots feeding on the corruption in UKIP, and too ashamed to use their own names when abusing people, has EVER shown a single solitary consequential inaccuracy in ANY of my many 1,000s of postings! I am also unaware of them ever being able to materially fault those posting as Junius. I am aware they haven’t a clue who posting facts as Junius but I am aware that there is a strong possibility UKIP may find itself in Court YET AGAIN were they to interfere in someone’s employment based on their various false guesses! I note (thanks) that Niall warry has read my blog, as do UKIP leadership and their puppets and muppets, desperately trying to find a factual inaccuracy – at which they have clearly and totally failed to date. Much as they may wish to disagree with the clearly stated opinions I also voice! Niall Warry quoted: Niall Warry Uber Member GLW ends his latest blog entry with this:- Our thanks to the many who ensure we maintain the accuracy and veracity of our postings and have done so for several years & many 1,000s of postings both on our own blogs, YouTube, eMails & Forums. Greg_L-W@BTconnect.com You will note I ONLY publish the facts which I am willing to put my name to, and I do NOT use obfuscating or deliberately misleading identities to make ANY Posting on the internet on ANY subject. My identity and contact data are readily available:if you require more details do either seek them out at: Greg’s Links IF you are interested in Health data see: Life’s Roller Coaster – http://GregLW.blogspot.com IF this still leaves you with reasonable details unanswered please feel free to contact me and ask directly for as long as you are prepared to, politely in an adult manner, use your real name. The whole post is here:- UKIP – vs – EUkip: ENSURING ACCURACY & THE TRUTH Go on give him a call if you have a query. To which the clearly deeply challenged UKIP useful idiot postulated: North Yorkshire, UK A rather foolish statement as anyone will note as Niall Warry said absolutely nothing with which he could disagree but he is so programmed to be offensive that he has made rather a fool of himself. Clearly he could not disagree with my comment as clearly he was not in conversation with me – probably too much of a coward or advised by his puppet masters that he was on far too weak ground to risk direct contact! May I thank Steve Morson for his support in rebutting this foolish little chappie and refuting what the serial liar Independent UKIP said originally (for the umpteenth time without a shred of evidence of EVER showing a material fact posted by me to be materially inaccurate), he just keeps repeating his lines, presumably for his UKIP funded rewards – a bit like the odious liar, cheat and criminally inclined public nuisance Mick McGough! Anyway – my thanks to Steve Morson and Niall Warry for speaking out at the risk of being lied about and abused by the dwindling army of useful idiots cyber bullying for UKIP. Mr. Morson’s comment was: Quoting the item Originally Posted by Niall Warry Our thanks to the many who ensure we maintain the accuracy and veracity of our postings and have done so for several years & many 1,000s of postings both on our own blogs, YouTube, eMails & Forums….. Well, of course, I only have knowledge of GL-W thanks to 2 UKIP members – 1 an MEP – and I can only say, from personal experience, that he is quite fastidious about accuracy. Oh dear – the ill informed and cowardly KrisH was not happy with this statement of fact & has made the following unsubstantiated and rather silly retort: Piffle! There are a number of articles that have been found to lack in integrity and accuracy. Articles with purposive intention; personal opinion and values from an individual with an axe to grind. Yet one notes that in the many 1,000s of postings I have made on my blogs, other blogs and web sites – Forums and eMails UKIP have been unable to identify a single solitary factual error of any material consequence. Yes I have an axe to grind – does not everyone of any ability to reason? One of those axes is that I can not stand corruption amongst those I misguidedly supported. I find use of fake identities to abuse and berate private individuals in ad hominem attacks beneath contempt, I am disgusted by betrayal by those I aided and voted for, I have nothing but contempt for UKIP leadership which has NOTHING to publicly curb the cyber bullying and clear dishonesty of some of its leadership and many of its supporters, presumably in aspirant hope of reward. I have utter contempt for fraud, liars, cheats and those who seek self enrichment and self agrandisement willingly involved in racism, religious bigotry, anti homosexuality, anti judaism and espousing violence as a primary plank of political achievement or those willing to associate with such behaviour. I have NEVER denied that I am an individual of VERY clear and openly stated opinions and values and for the likes of the creepy succubi, puppets and inccubi of UKIP leadership to berate me for having clearly held values and opinions makes them look the fools they clearly prove to be! Yet again I repeat I have NEVER, on any issue in any place or at any time, have I deliberately lied or set out to mislead anyone on any issue. Further in all my many postings on the internet I have ALWAYS shown clearly who I am and have always made my contact details readily available. Further I have ALWAYS strenuously endeavoured to provide accurate FACTS and clear opinions. Further I have ALWAYS made it clear that if ANYONE believes I have made an error of FACT and have contacted me in a polite and adult manner using an identified and contactable legal persona I have been all too willing to correct any fact which they can substantiate to be untrue. To date NEVER has any material FACT of consequence been shown to be false, untrue or deliberately misleading. IF you disagree and can show reason for any material FACT to be corrected do contact me and any required and substantiated substantive correction will be made, acknowledged and if need be apologised for. I will NOT merely make a clandestine adjustment or removal of such an error! #0703* – UKIP – BATTEN – Corruption & The House of Lords! (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) #0700* – A Measure of UKIP UKIP London’s Lack of Ethics it seems! (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) #0704* – UKIP Ballot Sheet for London Ass. + Candidates (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) #0748* – The UKIP Civil War continues with Tim Condon etc. (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) The UKIP Civil War continues with Tim Condon etc. (tcongdon.blogspot.com) #0690B* – An Update of Facts & Opinions re.: UKIP Leadership (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) #0691* – it Seems UK Public don’t trust UKIP & Tories CAN’T be trusted! (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) #0695* – Steve ALLISON Seems distanced from UKIP! (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) OLAF Investigation OF/2011/10/17 is interesting for UKIP! (mike-mcgough.blogspot.com) Mick McGough Helps The EU by making UKIP Loose Relevance (mike-mcgough.blogspot.com) UKIP’s Godfrey BLOOM Banned from Mansion House for yobbery! (godfrey-bloom.blogspot.com) Posted in ACCURACY of my Blogs, Independent UKIP, KrisH, Mick McGOUGH, Niall WARRY, Skeptyk, Steve MORSON, UKIP Corruption, UKIP Cyber Bullies, UKIP Dishonesty \| Leave a Comment » #0731* – The Lies of Nick CLEGG & irelevance of UKIP The Lies of Nick CLEGG & irelevance of UKIP! Showing the source and dishonesty of Clegg’s lies AND the utter incompetence of the self serving claque that now lead UKIP! do be minded that those I quote below were BOTH Branch Chairmen of UKIP Branches and also Niall Warry was for a time Chairman of UKIP Wales. Both, after numerous elections on behalf of UKIP as candidates AND organisers eventually quit UKIP in disgust! QUOTE from a public forum controlled by UKIP!: Today 10:04 AM #78 I think, like a few here prober, there is a feeling that UKIP, in it’s present form and “leadership” profile, isn’t going anywhere. So whilst I think it should be giving thought to an exit and post-secession strategy, it is – electorally speaking – a pipe dream. Instead of getting their policies right, media message “on song” with the public and MSM, an appealing website (the harshest criticism I hear comes from active members), and then an electoral strategy which doesn’t involve blanket coverage in a general election, then they may be rewarded with a seat or two in a general election (maybe not even the next one!) That disgraceful brainwashing and propaganda like this garbage that Clegg has vomited goes unchallenged by UKIP is a true obscenity of our age. This has been spouted a few times in BBC1 Question Time, until Peter Hitchens tore Sarah Teather a new one confronting her to name a single source that could support this nonsense. She couldn’t – of course – and was utterly humiliated. In fact, Civitas have analysed that 3 million jobs in the EU depend on the UK’s membership. But at the moment, as when I left it, the only thing that matters is the Euro elections in 2014, and jockeying for position and backstabbing / throatcutting for those started over a year ago. Believe it or not! Local / county elections can remain uncontested, the only thing that matters is the gravy train club…. I mean…. European parliament elections. Generally speaking. Niall Warry commented: What an accurate analysis from an ex-insider, who like myself, saw first hand what EUKIP is now all about. The whole sordid (which in this context I mean ‘selfish and grasping’) EUKIP machine is now about one thing, which is the election of MEPs onto the EU gravy train, who as a prerequisite must all sycophantically worship at the feet of and ‘Big up’ Nigel Farage. It is for these reasons I keep banging on about EUKIP in the possible hope something might just improve but increasingly I have realised that this is a pretty forlorn hope. Even so I still maintain it is essential that those of us who rumbled EUKIP a long time ago owe it to the country to keep pointing out the unpalatable truth about Nigel’s EUKIP. Last edited by Niall Warry; Today at 10:07 AM. To view the original posting by Niall Warry CLICK HERE To clarify the source of the lies from Nick Clegg and others it is worth noting that the figure of ‘3 Million jobs being dependent on the EU’ was from a report commissioned by The Labour Party and when Blair and others quoted it dishonestly out of context the director of The IPPR who produced the report was most outspoken and stated that ‘…never had he seen facts so dishonestly misquoted out of context’ and he resigned! Firstly the report made it clear that the jobs were dependent on The EU NOT on membership of The EU and it went on to make it very clear that leaving The EU would not only cause a probable INCREASE in jobs within 6 months but that our trader defecit with The EU would most probably greatly improve. Further The EU Commission made it VERY clear that when we leave the EU there would be absolutely no consideration of any type of trade sanctions against our goods, services or peoples. PS.: Please note a correction was made within 15 minutes of receiving the info. the first sentence of Niall Warry’s statement was tagged to the end of Steve Morson’s due to the copy facility from the original. IF this led to misleading anyone please accept my apologies as it is essential this blog is 100% accurate at ALL times. YOU will note a link to the original was provided – so no attempt was made to mislead ANYONE. Correction made22:15hrs. To Spread The Facts World Wide of OUR-ENEMY-WITHIN & To Leave-The-EU #0729* – UKIP Candidate Kim GANDY & The EDL! (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) #0730* – This can’t HELP Gerard Batten’s claims re: Race Hatred! (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) #0663* – UKIP Policy on the hoof IS NOT PROFESSIONAL (ukip-vs-eukip.blogspot.com) Posted in 3 million jobs, Niall WARRY, Nick CLEGG, Peter Hitchens, Sarah Teather, Steve MORSON, UKIP \| Leave a Comment » #0550* – UKIP As Ever Seem Very Confused – This MAY Help! Please Be Sure To UKIP As Ever Seem Very Confused – This MAY Help! Little Christopher PALMER Might care to apologise and not so regularly make a fool of himself and UKIP! UKIP rarely know what is going in in the Branches, even though there are far fewer to keep tabs on than there used to be! Christopher Palmer has rather made a pratt of himself stridently attacking niall Warry on UKIP’s Forum as run by the sordid little liar and low life Anthony Butcher whose political career seems to have ended in disaster as a parish busy body sorting out weighty matters like dog fouling and park benches, litter and layabouts! Just as have the clowns on Ramsey Parish Council – I wonder if wee Anthony has a chain to wear as Mare as he is ridden around or will he have to wait for ‘Buggins’ Turn’! Christopher Palmer sheltering his sneering behind the childish name of Kitto posts an attack on Niall Warry as Niall had commented on The UKIP Chairman of Gloucester City Mike Smith as he is clearly shown on UKIP Web site AND as many of us have known him to be. little Palmer has gratuitously promoted some unheard of dweeb from Tiverton & Honiton UKIP Yooof as the new Chairman of UKIP Gloucester. Then we have some unheard of fruitcake Christine Wyndham-Thomas best known for her Introductory certificate in the debunked faux science of homeopathy for pets! Who chunders forth on a Bristol web site that Mike Smith has stood down as chairman of UKIP Gloucester, with absolutely no cross referencing and the claim that the erstwhile PPC for Thornbury & Yate: Jenny Knight it is claimed has taken over Gloucestershire County – which may come as a surprise to UKIP’s umbrella salesman the duplicitous and underhand Jim Carver. Still listed as FoD & North Gloucester Chairman despite his salaried job as gofer for Wee Willie Dartmouth. I wonder if Christopher Palmer will be man enough to apologise for his gratuitous sneering or actually establish what significance to Gloucester little Daryl Stanbury is. I doubt it as neither ethics, integrity or honesty are held in ANY repute in the sleaze filled ranks of UKIP leadership and its parasites and sycophants – as we have all seen writ large! One would have thought this little knowal of UKIP Yoooof would use his brain occasionally – let us see what his manners are like! Chris Palmer: The launch of South West YI Posted October 11th, 2010 by Michael Heaver I am a member of the newly created South West branch of Young Independence, and after a successful meeting at the UKIP Conference in Torquay, we are pleased to announce that Daryl Stanbury has been elected the Co-ordinator for YI SW. Daryl stood as the UKIP candidate for Tiverton and Honiton – the youngest candidate UKIP fielded – in the 2010 General Election, receiving a respectable 6% of the vote, thus saving his deposit, as well as increasing UKIP’s share of the vote by almost 30% more than the 2005 result. In Young Independence South West, we want to create a genuine political force for young people from the Isle of Scilly to the Forest of Dean – the South West is one of UKIP’s strongest areas, and in some ways can be seen as the ‘home’ of UKIP as our Head Office is in Newton Abbott. We know that this will be an uphill struggle, as we will be competing with established youth movements from the other parties, as well as a general disenfranchisement with politics. Despite the best efforts of many people in politics, the majority of young people just aren’t interested! However, we feel that UKIP can be the ones to offer REAL change – the change young people want to see. As well as repeating the message of withdrawal from the European Union, which attracts people of all ages, we want Young Independence to be a political force campaigning for individual freedoms, civil liberties, a smaller state, less taxes, and a fairer deal for young people whether they be in education or employment. It does look as if Christopher Palmer got this wrong! It does look as if Daryl Stanbury is merely a chairman within UKIP Yooof Clearly he was GE PPC for Tiverton & Honiton NOT Gloucester. UKIP WEB SITE IS UNEQUIVOCAL:Chairman: Mike Smith82 Marlborough Road Gloucester GL4 6GD e-mail: mike.forthepound@btinternet.com The chairman of Tiverton & Honiton is: Chairman: Tony McIntyre 4 Frogwell Cottages TivertonDevon EX16 8BQ e-mail: info@ukiptivertonhoniton.co.uk www.ukiptivertonhoniton.co.uk · Today 10:15 AM #341 Kitto Originally Posted by Niall Warry I knew Mike Smith when I was UKIP Chairman of Cheltenham and he was Chairman of Gloucester (as he still is). He was always totally pro UKIP and would not accept Nigel and his cabal were harming UKIP. So for him to now publicly point out UKIP is EUKIP is important turn about. Also better late than never and lets hope he is one of many worms that start turning. Read Junius below on this:- Junius on UKIP: UKIP Snippets: Mike Smith on Pan-European parties & Stuart Agnew’s hypocrisy Mike Smith is not the Chairman of the Gloucester branch, Daryl Stanbury is. 1. Taunton Deane Home Page (Somerset/Taunton Deane Association/Taunton Deane Association/Home) … Efforts have been made to contact Daryl Stanbury (YI SW) but as yet he has not responded. Treasurer: The Treasurer reported in detail on the Annual Accounts, including expenditure on supporting the … 2. St. Ives & IOS UKIP Branch AGM update (Cornwall/St Ives and the Isles of Scilly/St Ives and the Isles of Scilly/News) … Chairman Stuart Guppy welcomed speakers Stephanie McWilliam (Chair of Cornwall Chairman Committee), Daryl Stanbury, Gloucester SW Chairman Young Independence and Chris Palmer Plymouth SW Vice-Chairman. … 3. St. Ives & IOS Branch 2011 AGM (Cornwall/St Ives and the Isles of Scilly/St Ives and the Isles of Scilly/Events) … 2011 7.30 pm The Lugger Hotel Penzance Promenade Speakers: Stephanie McWilliam UKIP Cornwall Chairman Chris Palmer Plymouth SW Young Independence Daryl Stanbury Gloucester … 4. AGM St. Ives & IOS (Cornwall/St Ives and the Isles of Scilly/St Ives and the Isles of Scilly/Events) … Chris Palmer (Plymouth) (UKIP SW Youth Independence) Daryl Stanbury (Gloucester) (SW Chairman Youth Independence) We are delighted to welcome Chris & Daryl to tell us about the thriving … 5. Daryl Stanbury, YI SW Chairman (Devon/Tiverton and Honiton/Tiverton and Honiton / Home) Daryl Stanbury Daryl is the first Chairman of the newly formed Young Independence South West group. … 6. South West Young Independence (News/Regional News) South West Young Independence have elected Daryl Stanbury as their Chairman/Coordinator Following the successful launch of Young Independence in the South West at the Torquay conference, Daryl … 7. News (Dorset/Poole/Poole/News) … on the link to find out more http://www.youngindependence.org/ or email daryl.stanbury@live.co.uk for details. … 8. Campaigning at Tiverton Market (Devon/Tiverton and Honiton/Tiverton and Honiton / News) UKIP have said they have the only General Election Candidate to vote for in Tiverton & Honiton, Daryl Stanbury, if you want to leave the EU. Ken Gilderthorp and Alan Marks campaign at the Tiverton … It would of course be pleasant to see a clear apology from Christopher Palmer in his own name rather than too ashamed to use it. Sadly Anthony Butcher seems all too willing to harbour liars, cheats, low lifes and defamatory comments with absolutely no interest in the truth. Anthony Butcher is clearly a dishonest, corrupt and cowardly little chap which may well explain his serial failures in politics currently holding a position as busybody on a parish council! For all his sycophancy and dishonesty. tel: 01291 – 62 65 62 on: http://GregLanceWatkins.Blogspot.com Posted in Anthony Butcher, Christine Wyndham-Thomas, Christopher PALMER aka Kitto, Gloucester Citizen, Jenny KNIGHT, Jim CARVER, Kitto aka Christopher PALMER, Mike SMITH, Niall WARRY, UKIP \| Leave a Comment » #0433* – Things I Missed Due To Time Constraints for The 20th. #0433* – Things I Missed Due To Time Constraints for The 20th.! Things I Missed Due To Time Constraints for The 20th.! TWO BIRTHDAYS & A MEMORABLE EVENT or TWO! Well chemo seems to be being very kind to me so far – I seem to have Zero sideffects although I do expect them to kick in like a ton of bricks at some stage but apparently the first dose usually has you knocked back within 12-24 hours and I have a big bag of pills to prove they were fairly convinced it would. Little things to be hopeful loom large when confronted by an approaching express train when tied to the rails a la Mary Pickford and her step daughter Lilian Gish! Well that is my excuse for falling behind – how’s yours? ‘cos I’ll probably swop 😉 OK SO WHAT DID I MISS? Firstly the two Birthdays may I wish Niall Warry many a happy return of his birthday. May I reasure you all that Adolf Hitler who was born on the same day of the year is most certainly NOT working in a chip shop in the Midlands with his son in memory of TheMitford sisters! Nor for that matter is he in Paraguay with Eva Braun having been born in 1889 he would now be 122 and indeed he DID die in 1945 10 days after his 56th. birthday. I incline to believe Niall’s birthday is worthy of celebration but Hitler should be applauded on 30th. April for one of his very few intelligent actions! Also on the 20th April a very great speech was made that was it seems as apposite then as now: 20-Apr-1653 Oliver Cromwell’s Speech on the Dissolution of the Long Parliament Oliver Cromwell’s Speech on the Dissolution of the Long Parliament Given to the House of Commons It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go! for a few pieces of money. temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves gone! How very apposite! As apposite to day for the scoundrels in the body politic of these United Kingdoms and their lick spittles of the Snivil Cervice and the kleptocratic QUANGOcracy as it was of the Rump of 1653! There is some redolence rung by Tunisia and now Egypt though we may well act more akin with King Abdullah II of Jordan‘s subjects for the time being! Oliver Cromwell – English Forming System of Parliamentary Democracy (socyberty.com) Oliver Cromwell – Puritan, Soldier, Statesman: An Introduction (socyberty.com) The man who wouldn’t be king (newstatesman.com) 9 Thoughts on Stepping Up Spam and Malware Enforcement (circleid.com) What did Oliver Cromwell do at his daughters wedding (wiki.answers.com) April 20 in history (homepaddock.wordpress.com) When You Search for Roots, You Dig Up Dirt (online.wsj.com) For the original article CLICK HERE As apposite to the EU as it was to The Westminster Parliament then as no! #G0463* – CHARGE & The EU DID It may be malevollent, it may be damaging, it may be an obscenity, it may be undemocratic but sadly for all, the one thing it does know how to do is CHARGE! Indeed it CHARGES the British tax payers around £50 Million Pounds a day and as even the arch EUroPhile traitor Graham Watson MEP the oleaginous leader of the Lib.Dims. in the EU admits the EU is a net drain of £9 Billion a year in membership fees alone – this clearly does not include the £Billions lost due to the idiotic Red Tape and over regulation and the damaging constraints on British business to advantage our continental competitors. “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) for all my contact details & Blogs: CLICK HERE British Politicians with pens and treachery, in pursuit of their own agenda and greed, have done more damage to the liberty, freedoms, rights and democracy of the British peoples than any army in over 1,000 years. The disastrous effects of British politicians selling Britain into the thrall of foreign rule by the EU for their own personal rewards has damaged the well-being of Britain more than the armies of Hitler and the Franco – German – Italian axis of 1939 – 1945. Make your vote count vote: or Write on YOUR ballot Paper EU rules that operators can use their existing 900/1800 MHz spectrum for 4G networks (intomobile.com) EU opens up 900MHz, 1,800MHz for 4G phone data (electronista.com) EU ‘wastes billions in aid’ (telegraph.co.uk) EU ruling could cost women drivers (autonetinsurance.co.uk) EU wastes aid billions on dance lessons in Africa, jets for tyrants and derelict offices (dailymail.co.uk) The Franco German Pact or New Eurozone Federation (politics.ie) EU Decides Against Stricter Net Neutrality Rules (paidcontent.org) EU decides against stricter net neutrality rules (guardian.co.uk) EU to investigate net-neutrality (bbc.co.uk) To View The Original ARTICLE CLICK HERE Let us not forget the excercise in utter nihilism that made even the British Government of the day seem intelligent, constructive and worthwhile – for destructive nihilism it even outshone organisations like The Fabians, The Communist Party, The Greens and even the economic illiteracy of Gordon Brown was overshadowed as on The 20-Apr-1999 was the Columbine Massacre which in its pointless, selfish, destructive and vile nihilism has only been out done, in the last 10 years by the War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. Posted in Adolf Hitler, Barosso, COLUMBINE, English Civil War, EU Corruption, FABIANS the, Gordon BROWN, Graham WATSON MP, Mary Pickford, Niall WARRY, Oliver Cromwell, Tony Blair \| Leave a Comment » #0317* – UKIP IS TO BE "PROFESSIONALISED" WE’VE HEARD IT ALL BEFORE! #0317* – UKIP IS TO BE “PROFESSIONALISED” WE’VE HEARD IT ALL BEFORE! Nigel FARAGE MEP EFD LEADER & UKIP Elected States: “UKIP IS TO BE ROFESSIONALISED” WE’VE HEARD IT ALL BEFORE!!! I need add no details to this essay about UKIP written by a member in despair or a member of staff in disgust – well in fact BOTH. It reads so similarly to so many other such essays of personal first hand experience & knowledge – it is unsurprising to the informed that essays as with this one, that of John Petley, Richard Suchorzewski, Niall Warry, Marcus Stead and many more I have read that never reached the public domain, such as that of Robin Page, Dr. Eric Edmond, Dr. David Abbott, Geoffrey Kingscott, Roger Knapman and more. They all neatly dovetail together. Each has a similar tale, each substantiating and corroborating the other. Sadly I am in a position to confirm virtually every material detail AND MORE! Even sadder is the fact that this was written a couple of years ago and is at least as bad now if not worse. UKIP WAS at one time OUR Lifeboat but with its rotten planking, self serving and self enriching crew, literally £Millions seemingly gone missing unaccounted it is as the essayist states quite clearly at the end ‘UKIP has had its chance and blown it’. I believe there are areas that UKIP has totally misunderstood and lacked the basic common sense or leadership to present in any plausible way and with the dividive and utterly incompetent lack of leadership the wreck has been largely self induced! UKIP IS TO BE “PROFESSIONALISED”? I AM REMINDED OF THE WORDS OF ONE OF THE LAST PEOPLE BROUGHT IN TO PROFESSIONALISE THE PARTY. JOHN PETLEY John was a good man, and a dedicated UKIP activist (and candidate), who learned at first hand what it means to be close to the dishonourable piece of self-serving slime that is known as Nigel Farage. What has gone wrong? A number of things, and binding many of them together is a common thread – the failings of the current party leader, Nigel Farage. The Farage problem – a personal perspective on a flawed personality Many past and present UKIPpers started off initially impressed with Nigel Farage. My personal route from awe to disgust of the man is in a sense unique, but in other ways typical of what so many past and present UKIPpers have gone through. The first UKIP speaker I heard was Jeffrey Titford, at a Democracy Movement meeting in St. Leonards, East Sussex. He seemed to be talking sense, and I was reasonably impressed. On mentioning this to members of the local branch, the response from I received was, “Wait until you’ve heard Nigel Farage.” I was able to hear him a few months later in nearby Bexhill, and found his direct, hard-hitting style quite exciting and refreshing – a contrast from most politicians in the three established parties. When criticism of Roger Knapman began to surface following the triumphs in the 2004 European Parliamentary elections, I picked up the feeling that many members at the time wanted to replace him not with Kilroy but with Nigel, feeling that a dynamic young leader would restore the momentum that we seemed to be losing. I would never have supported the removal of Roger. I felt that he was underestimated by the membership. (and having subsequently got to know him through working in Brussels, I believe this assessment was correct.) However, looking to when his term of office was to end, I would then have supported Nigel for leader. He seemed the rising star – the obvious heir apparent. Amidst all the adulation, the first criticism I first heard of Nigel was at a UKIP SE activists’ meeting from a member of a branch from Kent, who said he had a big ego. Until this point, the only negative thing I had heard about him was that he had not denied visiting a brothel in (I think) Athens. My contact with him had been quite limited before starting in Brussels. He had struck me as “rather a lad” who liked his booze and fags, but I knew that I should not expect a politician necessarily to adhere to my Christian standards. I was looking forward to getting to know him better when I started my new job in Brussels, and felt rather in awe of him. Within a couple of months, my view of him had begun to change. There were several reason for this. Firstly, when he came to be the guest speaker at the annual dinner of my local UKIP Branch, Bexhill and Battle, his speech was disappointing. It was all about himself, and was a regurgitation of anecdotes I had heard before. Secondly, there were further rumours of his sexual impropriety, including that he was having an affair with Annabelle Fuller, one of my colleagues in Brussels at the time, who subsequently achieved such notoriety in the UKIP press office. More serious was the fact that cronyism rather than competence seemed to be what counted. Brussels was very much Nigel’s empire, as he had been there as an MEP since 1999, was head of the UKIP delegation and co-president of the Ind Dem group. He had considerable say in who joined the staff, and what their roles were to be. The then head of research, Adrian Muldrew, was complaining repeatedly about the low quality of work produced by two of the staff – one being Annabelle Fuller and the other Steve Reed, his current office assistant of whom more anon. David Lott, Chief of Staff and very much Nigel’s man, refused to take any action, and actually turned against Adrian. This seemed very odd. as I had been taken on ostensibly as part of a move to “professionalise” the party. At this time, I first heard about the questions being asked about the South East region accounts. Another colleague of mine told me that he would never give any money to a general UKIP appeal because he had no confidence where the money would end up. Although shocked by all this, I took the Biblical attitude of not wanting to believe an accusation unless there were two or three witnesses, I didn’t have to wait long for further evidence. A chance conversation with UKIP’s previous Head of Staff (i.e. before David Lott), confirmed the essence of what I had been hearing, and added that Nigel had been a factor in every major UKIP bust-up since the departure of Alan Sked. The failure of UKIP Part 2 By the summer recess of 2006, a mere seven months since coming out to Brussels, I was now firmly of the opinion that Nigel Farage was a liability to the party. I had met some of the other notorious Farage cronies like John Moran, and was not impressed. I also heard from a colleague about a conversation between Farage and Gerard Batten shortly before the Bromley by-election. It transpired that Farage had discussed a deal whereby if the Tories selected the Eurosceptic but not withdrawalist MEP Syed Kamall as their candidate, UKIP would not put up a candidate. On hearing of this, Gerard was incensed and said, “If you don’t stand, I will.” As it happened, the Tories chose Bob Neill, and with Gerard being the ultra-loyalist that he is, he chose not to leak this out. Nigel then announced at a big UKIP meeting the following weekend about how excited he was at being able to contest another by-election. Most people cheered. I was livid. I did not vote for him as party leader, but for a while it seemed that I would have to swallow my misgivings, as in the first few months of the Farage leadership, the party acquired two Lords, then the economist Tim Congdon and several other significant Eurosceptics. A year later, I was to discover that this new sense of hope in the party was not matched by the opinion polls. UKIP slumped to below 1%, and the start of the slump coincided with Farage’s election as leader. I had heard of Farage’s habitual lying, but had first hand evidence of it when NEC member David Abbott’s two inadvertant $100 donations to a BNP support group in America was blown up in the national media in March 2007 simply because of David’s criticism of Nigel’s leadership. Before standing for the NEC, David came quite clean about this donation, which he had made before realising who the organisation represented. He did not want to stand for office if it would compromise him. Being so insignificant a sum, a one-off and inadvertent, Nigel and others said it was not a problem. However, when David began to start opposing Nigel on the NEC, Nigel deliberately leaked this out to he press and made it out that David had been seriously involved with the BNP. When I challenged Nigel, saying that either he or Mark Croucher were ill-advised to have done this, his reply was “Neither I nor Croucher contacted the Press.” The Press had also spoken to a person I know (whose identity I should keep confidential) who has held senior office in the party about the David Abbott business, and this person told me that when the reporter concerned rang up, he said, “I’ve just been speaking to Mark Croucher.” Perhaps I should add that this exchange occurred when Nigel summoned me into his office and questioned me about my friendship with Adrian Muldrew. Adrian was by now absolutely persona non grata with Nigel, but a few months earlier, Adrian had kindly offered me a home for a couple of weeks when there had been a temporary delay in moving into new accommodation in Brussels. I had left Adrian’s house quite a while before my interview with Nigel, but what business was it of his anyway? Being summoned into Nigel’s office was by now an ordeal which I dreaded. I had to summon up my best acting skills and always stared him straight in the eye. He often shuffled his legs up and down under the table – a sure sign that he wasn’t comfortable either. Some times, it was nothing to worry about, and he was usually pleased with he research I did for him. However, once he came into my office and ranted at me because I had contacted Mike Nattrass (whose assistant I was for a while) about a dubious amendment to a piece of Parliamentary legislation put forward at Committee stage by Jens-Peter Bonde, Ind Dem Co-president, in the name of the group. Adrian had spotted this and said that UKIP MEP’s couldn’t support it, as it was giving more power to the EU (I can’t remember the exact details beyond this) I thought I had better tell Mike, and Mike must have contacted Nigel, who then stormed in and said, “But we always vote against this in Plenary.” I guess Nigel knew I wasn’t happy with UKIP MEP’s being in Ind Dem. It was not just over Ind Dem that I disagreed with Nigel’s policy. He spoke at Hastings in November 2005 and said something on the lines of, “Well, UKIP isn’t getting much exposure because the EU isn’t in the news much now, but just wait – it’ll be back on the agenda.” He was proved right with a vengeance when the failed Constitution metamorphosised into the Lisbon Treaty, but he singularly missed the opportunity to put UKIP at the head of the campaign to oppose it. It was always going to be a tough battle to stop the treaty, but it would have put the party back in the consciousness of the electorate. Instead, it was left to an ordinary Party member to launch the “Parish Polls” initiative. On the day of the mass lobby of the House of Commons, Farage was in Brussels. This missed opportunity, for which he must take the blame, must represent UKIP’s biggest political mistake in its entire history. I had the task for the last year of answering difficult e-mails sent to Head Office in Newton Abbot. I always took the party line, even if I was personally uncomfortable with it, such as over Nigel’s defiance of the Parliament’s smoking ban and support for pro-smoking groups. Only once, when I was forwarded a query about Derek Clark signing Ind Dem’s “Bucharest declaration” on UKIP’s behalf with its support for subsidiarity and CAP reform did I deviate from this rule, and simply passed it to Ind Dem enthusiast Gawain Towler to answer. I felt this e-mail was a poisoned chalice. If I took the party line, not only would it sit uneasily with my conscience, but it could be held against me if at a later date (as I hoped) UKIP would renounce Ind Dem. However, if I had said what I felt – that I agreed with the e-mail, that the signing was a mistake and that UKIP’s MEP’s should not be in Ind Dem – Nigel would have gone ballistic if he had found out. Fortunately, Gawain never followed up my reasons for passing this e-mail on, so I lived to fight another day. Nonetheless, By the summer of 2007, I felt that I was living on borrowed time. In many ways, I am amazed I lasted so long. I ensured that no-one was around when I rang any known opponents of Farage in the UK, and he never knew just who I knew. I always kept my office door closed, and fortunately, the enthusiasm of Farage and his cronies to go off most evenings drinking in O’Farrell’s (the Irish pub very near to the Parliament building) meant I had some privacy. By this time, staff and MEP’s were split down the middle. Farage supporters, notably Gawain and the odious Aurelie Laloux (Jeffrey Titford’s assistant) held the senior positions among the staff. When Aurelie went off for maternity leave, things improved somewhat, but her return signalled the start of three awful months. The atmosphere in the office from February 2008 to my departure in April gave me an inkling of what it must have been like to live in the Soviet Union – You were always watching your back and every pair of footsteps outside the office door made you feel uneasy. So bizarre that fellow-withdrawalists should be the cause of such a poisonous atmosphere. I have to say that in over two years working in Brussels, I had no animosity from the “nasty” EU. UKIP staff were treated fairly. My dismissal shows the utterly devious nature of Farage. He was not directly involved, but his fingerprints are all over it. It all began on Monday 7th April after the “Stop the Treaty” conference in Bristol which I went to. When I got back to Brussels, I tried to access my parliamentary e-mail account, but was unable to do so. I entered the password about 10 times, but was repeatedly blocked. I know that I did not type in my password incorrectly. Having worked in IT before going into research, I knew hacking when I saw it. The hacker had, fortunately, failed to guess my password, but had locked me out. I spoke to Oumar Dombouya, the man delegated to manage IT affairs for Ind Dem. He re-set my password and set a monitoring facility on my account, as Adrian had had a similar problem, and suspected hacking. On Thursday afternoon (10th April), Graham Booth came into my office with a print-out of the names, subjects and dates of the e-mails I had sent in recent weeks. He asked me to print out the contents of four of these. After he had left the office, I looked at a couple of these e-mails, and as I was doing so, the access to my e-mail account suddenly went down. When I eventually was able to bring up the initial screen and try to sign on, once again, I was locked out, just as I had been the previous Monday. I subsequently discovered that it is within the rules to print out the list (although not the content) of the e-mails sent by EP staff without asking them. However, I did not know this at the time, and refused to take Booth ‘s word that this was the case or provide him with the content of these e-mails until I could establish the facts. In view of my suspicions about someone trying to tamper with my e-mails, I think this was quite reasonable. However, his response to my refusal my saying that in his eyes, this amounted to a “lack of trust” in me, This was the catch-all phrase that can be used to dismiss staff if you don’t like them but can’t find any good reason for so doing. I had always got on fairly well with Graham until then, and I know Nigel set him up, because he expressed a very negative opinion of one person to whom these e-mails were sent (a branch chairman in the South East) and when I contacted this individual, he said that he had never had any dealings with Graham. Only Nigel could have singled out this e-mail. Oumar was very helpful initially to my attempts to find out who had been hacking into my account. He traced it to a UK-registered machine (no surprise!) but could not go any further because of intimidation by members of the Ind Dem secretariat. He subsequently kept his distance from me, simply out of fear. My dismissal was e-mailed to me on Thursday 24th April. This was a Strasbourg plenary, and I was teleworking at the time. Quite honestly, it was a relief not to have to go back to Brussels. It amazed me to hear that Graham Booth had been going round the South West telling people that I (along with Adrian Muldrew and Gary Cartwright) were MI5 spies! Meanwhile, Steve Harris, (UKIP’s SE regional organiser) again no doubt mouthing Nigel’s words, has been telling people in the South East that my dismissal was because I was hacking into other people’s e-mails! My desire to see Nigel removed as leader is not a case of sour grapes because he sacked me. He sacked me because I already held this opinion, and I am not very good at hiding my feelings. I remember having a conversation with Roger Knapman outside his office, and said something about, “the days when we had a decent leader.” At that moment, Nigel came up the corridor. He can’t fail to have heard what I said. Only in one way has my opinion changed since my dismissal. I believed right up to early November that if Nigel could be removed as leader, UKIP would have a future. The November NEC meeting was a watershed. It is clear firstly that removing Nigel Farage as leader is going to be very difficult. Secondly, that even if it could be done, it would not be enough – his cabal have to go too, and as names like Zuckerman are unknown to many members, it would be hard to press the case against them. Farage’s dealings with me bear the marks of a tyrant. He brings out the worst of those that get close to him – Graham Booth’s behaviour over my dismissal illustrates this perfectly. At the same time, he tries to destroy anyone who opposes him. The party is now in the grip of man who I can only describe as evil. The poison emanating from him has so ruined the party that it is not a case of merely removing him as leader – his political career must be ended in June 2009. If the only way of doing this is to take UKIP down with him, so be it. The withdrawalist cause needs a more honourable spokesman and a better party to fight its cause. Farage more than anyone else is responsible for giving UKIP such a poor image that it has become a bit of a joke. I now no longer have any pride at being a member, but rather embarrassment. My UKIP car sticker has been removed a long time ago now. As we move on to look at the other aspects of why UKIP has failed, his name will come up again and again. His personal failings, which I have described above, are coupled with exceedingly poor political judgement and a disastrous policy in Brussels. Playing on innocence Many of those who joined UKIP, myself included, were new to politics. We could see that being in the EU was not in Britain’s best interests, but did not necessarily combine this piece of wisdom with political discernment. I would guess I am not alone in admitting that at one point, I believed two things I now regard as erroneous – firstly that anything in print that says something bad about the EU must be correct, and secondly that anyone opposed to Britain’s membership of the EU must be a good chap. I will address the first of these mistakes later on. It is the second I want to concentrate on at this point. Nigel’s shrewdness has enabled him to carve out his power base in the party. His youth and eloquence have made him a hero with many party members. Steve Harris once told a meeting at which I was present of a phone call were someone asked him, “When is that young man going to become Prime Minister?” I have no reason to doubt that Steve was telling the truth. It epitomises how Nigel has played on the innocence of many party members. They have not had sufficient experience to spot when his leadership has been poor. He would not have dared depict the dressing up in chicken costumes of three members of staff in Strasbourg on the front of Independence unless he was sure that his adoring fans would think it was a wonderful gesture rather than the appalling schoolboy buffoonery that the rest of the world viewed it as. He has been able to gain total control over UKIP’s media. “You don’t work for the party, you work for me,” he told one employee in the Press Office. That admirable quality of trust which is a feature of so many UKIP members has enabled him to turn the Independence into a very one-sided view of things. Our dear. loyal members are not aware of the control he has carved out for himself. He has marshalled party opinion behind him by equating opposition to himself with “attempts to destroy the party.” From now on, sadly, this will be the case, and those of us who have come out publicly against him are likely to face all manner of vitriol not just from the Faragistas, but from well-meaning members who have been denied the chance to hear both sides of the argument. The suppression of dissent is not healthy in a political party. It leads to “yes men” ending up in senior positions – a sure recipe for disaster. The Brussels disaster. One blogger recently mocked UKIP by saying how ridiculously inflated the role of an MEP had become in the party. Other parties don’t send out their first XI to Brussels, but being an MEP gives you almost god-like status among some sections of the membership of UKIP. The big point of disagreement I would have with this statement is that UKIP has most definitely NOT sent out its First XI to Brussels. Nigel was unable to stop London choosing the hard-working and honest Gerard Batten for the No. 1 spot, nor to stop Roger Knapman being elected in the South West. However, his objective of ensuring that he ended up with a team of which he would be the star was, to a degree, successful. The result has been an unmitigated disaster. I have referred to the innocence of many party members. The idea that the MEP lists were manipulated would never have crossed most of our minds back in 2004. Nigel had to be careful because he had already built up a structure in which the party’s MEP’s would operate, and better to have someone unsuitable but who would not ask questions rather than a competent individual who, besides challenging Nigel’s pre-eminence, might ask too many questions, especially on financial matters. In the five years from 1999 to 2004, he had made the acquaintance of people like Jens-Peter Bonde – a past master at making money out of Euroscepticism. The Ind Dem Group, like its precursor EDD, is a fairly loose coalition of assorted Eurosceptics from both the left and right of the political spectrum who have joined together purely for the financial benefit of being in a group. UKIP are the only withdrawalists in this group – a fact that has raised eyebrows on several occasions when I have mentioned this to party members. Ind Dem has encouraged a culture of financial secrecy, and Farage has bought into this. His reluctance to be open about his financial matters has brought the party into disrepute, and already the Lib Dems are attacking UKIP on the doorsteps saying they have “gone native.” Financial issues are likely to be an increasing embarrassment to UKIP in the run-up to June 2009. It is not just the financial issues that have contributed to the disaster of UKIP’s MEPs in Brussels – there have been all too many instances of poor, ill-prepared speeches. Graham Booth’s setting himself up as an authority on climate change on the strength of an “O” level in astronomy has been an embarrassment. I have written speeches for some MEP’s and have seen them mutilated and spoilt by the MEP in question. Sometimes, it has been an embarrassment to listen to them in the Plenaries. There have been exceptions, notably Roger Knapman, who ensures his speeches are well-written, and Gerard Batten, who always writes his own speeches after careful research. Sadly, however, Godfrey Bloom’s infamous speech in 2004 about women cleaning behind fridges has set an all-too-common precedent. The press have been all too ready to pounce on bad behaviour by UKIP’s MEP’s. Tom Wise was unfortunate to be duped by an undercover reporter on the subject of MEP’s allowamnces. Nigel was lucky that the occasion when he was so drunk in a bar Strasbourg that he had to be carried out did not receive more coverage than it did. Besides the MEP’s, the staff have not always delivered the goods. All too many of Gawain Towler’s press releases have been bad to the point of embarrassment. I was asked once to write a press release. Gawain’s editing of it included replacing one word with another meaning the exact opposite! While I cannot prove this, I would suspect that some 90% of press releases would have gone straight into the editors’ wastepaper bins. On another occasion, at a meeting of a think tank in Brussels where the guest speaker was Dan Mitchell, a senior fellow of the Heritage Foundation, an American think tank Gawain turned up seriously drunk. He introduced me to this man (I had yet to fall out of favour at this time) but I was acutely embarrassed. Gawain has also admitted to me that he has smoked over 100 joints! Aurelie Laloux is another disaster. She was taken on by UKIP in the 1999-2004 Parliament because of her excellent linguistic skills, as only in 2004 was English placed alongside French in official Parliamentary communications. Her political judgement is less acute, and had led to some very bizarre voting lists being produced which UKIP’s enemies like Labour MEP Richard Corbett have been delighted to publish. When there was a debate on the Lisbon Treaty at Strasbourg in early 2008, the Green group (or was it the Communists?) proposed a “rejection amendment” – i.e. that the treaty should be rejected. Aurelie’s voting list, prepared for UKIP’s MEP’s, did not have us supporting this amendment. She has also been responsible for choosing which debates UKIP’s MEP’s will speak in. Her choice has been quite bizarre at times, giving the speechwriters (such as myself) the challenge of preparing speeches offering very little opportunity for the MEP to make any telling point, as the debate may have been on something quite obscure – such as updating EU air traffic agreements with countries in North Africa to include the new member states. As for Nigel’s assistant Steve Reed, he deserves a chapter to himself. We will look at him under the heading, “Professionalising the Party?” His voting lists can be a bit bizarre, and unlike Aurelie, he cannot plead the excuse that he is not working in his mother tongue. The philosophy is that UKIP must vote against and speak against everything. What happens when the EU proposes something that will actually command widespread popular support, such as the forced reduction in mobile phone roaming charges? Credit where credit is due from the strongly Eurosceptic former DUP MEP Jim Allister, who said, “It makes a pleasant change to welcome a piece of EU legislation. The enforced reduction in mobile roaming charges is good for consumers across Europe.” However UKIP had to find something negative, such as the fact that the main beneficiaries would be people like MEP’s themsleves who make many international calls on mobile phones. While it is true that the mandate for UKIP’s MEP’s mandate is never to vote in favour of any EU regulation, if there is likely to be strong popular support for individual moves, it is surely better to abstain, or at least keep quiet, and keep the powder dry for the really serious issues. I have not mentioned the corruption aspects and the ongoing investigations by OLAF – the EU Anti-fraud watchdog – into Ind Dem (including some UKIP MEP’s and staff), but this has done nothing to help the party, and what may come out, paricularly regarding Nigel and David Lott, could be quite embarrassing. However, one must not pre-judge. Few UKIP MEP’s have availed themselves of the opportunity to used the Brussels staff for serious research. Gerard Batten is an honourable exception, with the excellent How much does the EU cost Britain? Booklets, which are updated each year. Apart from this, only Tom Wise, whose assistant Gary Cartwright produced the fisheries booklet, and Roger Knapman, have this far shown any interest in this important area. For seven MEP’s therefore, an excellent opportunity has gone begging. Hard though it is to say it. the UKIP team, both MEP’s and staff, convey the image of a bungling bunch of amateurs. There are some honourable exceptions, and I have tried to highlight these. I would strongly refute any suggestion that UKIP’s disaster in Brussels has been because “they knw we don’t like the EU.” Yes, it is true that the Parliament’s president shows more leniency to pro-EU MEP’s than to UKIP when their speeches overrun. This apart, I would say that the disaster has been self-inflicted and would have been avoidable with a better calibre of both MEP’s and staff. Perhaps the best illustration of the disaster UKIP has turned into is the infamous “Chicken Costume” incident in Strasbourg earlier this year. I can vouch for this being Nigel’s idea. When the three staff members (Gawain Towler, Paul Nuttall and Ralph Atkinson) were escorted from the area near the Hemicycle by the security staff, it led to a very heated but almost surreal press conference, firstly with Gawain (still in his costume minus the chicken head!) and then Nigel, complaining bitterly to the media that the reason we were being treated unfairly in not being allowed to parade around in these outfits was because we opposed the Lisbon Treaty. What noinsense! No wonder the rest of the European Parliament saw UKIP as a bit of a joke.At least no MEP had dressed up, although only because Gary Cartwright and I had been able to work on the wife of one MEP to persuade her husband not to be a chicken – he had originally volunteered for this ridiculous stunt! An unconvincing domestic agenda. UKIP has always professed to be a fully-fledged political party. It has produced manifestos which range over a number of domestic issues besides withdrawal from the EU and areas with strong EU links, such as immigration. However, right up to and beyond the 2005 General Election, in spite of the manifesto produced for that occasion, UKIP was perceived not only by the public but by many members as essentially a single-issue party. My experience standing for the party in Lewes at that time was fairly typical – I could articulate the issues relating to the EU pretty well, but put me into a debate where the focus was a domestic issue like education and I was out of my depth. I had read the manifesto, but it really wasn’t much help. In early 2006, when David Bannerman became chairman, things began to change on this front. He launched the “Five Right Things to do” initiative that took UKIP into new territory such as education, law and order and tax. Yes, as mentioned, we had touched on these and other areas in earlier manifestos, but not in the sort of depth now being proposed. It is perhaps hard for me to be objective here, as I did much of the donkey work for the education policy. David Lott said that it was “the best policy document that UKIP had ever produced.” It put UKIP in touch with education pressure groups such as the excellent “Campaign for Real Education” and in fact led to the retired probation officer and author David Fraser if not joining the party certainly becoming more sympathetic to it – a real first for us. Until now, people had only ever joined UKIP over EU-related issues. A few months later, John Whittaker’s Flat Tax policy was launched at a fringe meeting during the 2006 Tory Party conference in Bournemouth. This again gave us links and credence with groups like the Taxpayers’ Alliance, who were represented at the launch. However, these initiatives do not seem to have turned UKIP in the public eye from a single-issue party. It is impossible to verify the rumour that the domestic agenda, based on traditional right-of-centre Conservatism, is really an attempt to push the Tories in that direction rather than to claim the ground for UKIP in its own right. The party, in other words, is simply a Tory pressure group. This rumour has done the rounds for a couple of years. It is hard to prove, especially as the centre-right agenda is, in fact a good one. The problem is that UKIP hasn’t been able to take ownership of this ground. Its dabbling in domestic politics has not been convincing. Part of the problem is having a leader with no ability to speak convincingly and informedly on domestic issues. He has little interest in the minutiae of domestic policy. Unfortunately, delegating this job to Bannerman has led to a complete muddle, with no subsequent policy launch having the profile of the Flat Tax announcement. Bannerman’s competence is questionable. His chairmanship of the Bow Group is one of few features about his life not in dispute. How someone with this supposed breadth of policy experience, particularly in the field of transport can propose electrifying a line which was closed 39 years ago beats me! I can vouch for the fact that this proposal was included in the first draft of the UKIP transport policy document. These policy initiatives have failed to change either the public perception of UKIP nor the thinking of some party members. Two years on from my struggles in Lewes, I was seconded to help out with the Sedgefield by-election, and for all my enthusiasm to ensure our candidate was well briefed on domestic policies, he just kept going back to the EU all the time. If UKIP still exists in 2010 and puts up candidates for the General Election, it will be just the same. If the candidates are not comfortable with a broader agenda, how can the electorate be convinced that UKIP is more than just a single-issue party? My sad conclusion is that it is too late for the party ever to make the breakthrough into domestic politics. Professionalisng the Party? The second catchphrase in early 2006 alongside “Five Right Things to do” was “Professionalisng the Party.” I came out to Brussels quite humbled at the thought of being part of this process, seeing as I was a newcomer to political research. Three years on, I cannot seriously believe that Nigel ever had any intention of making UKIP a professional party. We need to go back to Brussels to see how shallow of the talk of “professionalism” is. Nigel’s office assistant out there is Steve (or Andrew) Reed – an individual whom I bear no personal grudge towards, but whose competence is highly dubious, to say the least. Steve is a conspiracy theorist of the most eccentric type. He also writes the most grotesque English and has a serious drink problem. The net result is this letter, sent out from Nigel’s office in response to correspondence from a member of the public about the situation in Zimbabwe two years ago:- Zimbabwe is certainly a country under siege from the “international community”, whose neo-colonial policies in Africa are thinly disguised as “humanitarian intervention” in conflicts, which it may well have instigated, just as they were in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan. So embarrassing was this letter, which also stated that the EU was worse than Zimbabwe, that extracts from it appeared in the Independent newspaper, and was the reason why a hastily-cobbled together “UKIP Statement on Zimbabwe” suddenly appeared on the party’s website. Yet Steve lived to fight another day and to produce this response to a letter which simply asked the MEP’s to support a written declaration on the setting-up of a Europe-wide register of missing children, following the McCanns’ visit to the European Parliament:-. European coöperation, furthermore, is rather hindered, than helped, by the centralised bureaucracies of the EU, which, by abolishing national frontiers, have made EU-territory a playground for all types of crime, and which, in general, are rather intent on extending their powers than on governing wisely and well. This is only to be expected of an organisation, which lacks all democratic accountability…Indeed, the only way the huge, multilingual territories of the EU can be governed is by means of a repressive police-state, where every identity, asset and movement is monitored. Steve’s briefing documents for the MEP’s display a similar lack of professionalsim. Instead of stickingto a simple summary of proposed legislation, he likes to have a rant about the EU. That’s not the job of an assistant. Gerard Batten has expressed extreme frustarion over this, but Steve remains in the Farage assistant office! Gawain Towler’s incompetence has laready been mentioned. He has a background in the press, and appears to be widely connected but the quality of his work leaves much to be deisred. Turning to the UK, the bigggest failing has been the total lack of any program to train party activists. UKIP contains many enthusiastic and committed members who have never been involved in politics before. They have joined because they have read or heard something that has convinced them that Britain should leave the EU. Now while there are good sound reasons for supporting Britain’s withdrawal, there are also all manner of crackpot conspiracy theories doing the rounds, and some party members have regurgitated these in all innocence, believing that anyone saying bad things about the EU must be telling the truth. A professional party should have been providing education at all levels to ensure that party members are gven the tools to separate fact from fiction. The total failure to do this has contributed to the image problem the party faces – Cameron’s comments about “fruitcakes and loonies” has sometimes been closer to the mark than we would like. The result of this lack of professionalsim is that the party has failed to advance among a key sector of the population. A good few people, possibly some 1/3 of the voting population, have a visceral dislike of the EU and have been easily won over to a withdrawalist position. They may not necessarily be UKIP voters, but they would agree with the overall stance of the party. There are also another significant group, my estimate being a further 1/3 of all voters, who have misgivings about the EU, but are not yet in the withdrawalist camp. Maybe they have been conned by the propaganda of the three established parties, or perhaps they are still weighing up the arguments. As a generality, these will be serious thinkers. Such people are not going to be convinced by conspiracy theory claptrap or gimmicky, silly cartoons. Focus groups have painted a picture of UKIP as a negative party, and I would venture that some who voiced this opinion include representatives of this “middle third” that UKIP should be addressing. It will require a positive approach to win these people over, which UKIP has this far failed to make. Sadly, UKIP’s failure to advance among this important section of the electorate has set back the cause of independence by several years. NEC problems and other structural failings. The NEC is meant to represent the membership. It has been reduced to rubber-stamping Nigel’s decisions. Whether those on the NEC have been fairly voted into office is another matter – Lisa Duffy, a fairly unknown figure until her elevation to the NEC, apparently received more votes in the 2008 NEC election than Nigel received in the party leadership election two years ago! Naturally, she has taken the Farage line. Since 2004, the story of the NEC is a procession of well-intentioned members either resigning or being forced out. It is claimed that some NEC members disagree in private with some of the things that Nigel does. All well and good, but they seem to vote with him, and have failed to support Delroy Young, Dr David Abbott and Dr Eric Edmond who have had the bravery to express their misgivings openly. Another serious structural failing is the inability of the party to remove the leader. In the days of Kilroy’s membership, the rules were tightened up in this area. The net result is that any initiative to remove Nigel has fallen foul of the sheer logistics required to call an egm. At the core of the party is a culture of cronyism and secrecy. The biggest challenge to date has come over the selection of candidates for the 2009 European Parliamentary elections. The South West wanted the Electoral Commission to handle the selection from start to finish, but this was rejected. The result has been a series of unanswered questions and threatened court action – especially in the Eastern Region whereby Robin Page and John West never appeared on the list and the Farage favourite Bannerman ended up in pole position. The removal of Gregg Beaman from the No. 1 spot in the North West was also shrouded in controversy. Marta Andreasen’s candidacy is highly controversial, as only under EU laws is a citizen of another country eligible to stand. One candidate in the South East region sent a delegate to the count, who saw a good number of ballot papers with votes for Farage and Andreasen only. In a straw poll of my local branch committee, not one person said they had voted in this way. It all looks very suspicious, and the official response to these gripes of, “Well, be thankful you’re not a Tory. Their existing MEP’s automatically get the top slots” is just not acceptable. It epitomises the fact that the membership have very little power in the party. The Political Committee is appointed, not chosen. Our current chairman was appointed without the NEC being previously consulted. The control of all the official media outlets, including the Independence newsletter, means that real debate is not possible. When the Lechlade Group think-tank was set up, Nigel told the then party General Secretary Geoffrey Kingscott that his first task was to get it closed down. He was initially no more supportive of the widely reported “Parish Poll” campaign, that was set up by an ordinary UKIP member in Dorset. Thanks to the innocence of many party members noted above, UKIP – the party that professes to believe in “bottoms-up” democracy and whose members sing the praises of Switzerland’s political system – has become the most top-down party in British politics. Not satified with the level of control he has achieved, Farage wants to bring in a rule change that will facilitate still further the purging of dissidents, yet it will be sold to the membership as a good thing, or else couched in such obscure language that most of them won’t understand the nuances of the wording. Sadly, the art of spin is practised to as a great a degree by the leadership on the membership as by New Labour on the British Public. The sad thing is that a good few of the membership are not aware of it even now. The last subject to be considered is the timebomb of financial scandal ticking away. Some pretty damning data about the Ashford Call Centre has been in the Public domain for a number of years. Activists have pressed for answers and have been fobbed off time after time. The Alan Bown Donation problem is another potential pitfall. If the appeal by the Electoral Commission against the initial judgement in UKIP’s favour is successful, Mr Bown could shell out an equivalent sum to the amount confiscated to keep the party afloat, but it is not going to help the party’s standing. Even small issues suggest that there is something fishy in how money is handled. Why can members not renew their membership by Direct Debit? So simple, so what is the problem? Another odd issue is how UKIP seems to find so much money for big by-elections, especially if Nigel or one of his close associates is the candidate. Money seemed no object in Bromley, 2006 or Sedgefield 2007. What is notable here is how expensive each UKIP vote seems to be. With the different parties’ expenses and votes available on various websites, analysis of UKIP’s performance against other small parties, notably comparing UKIP with the BNP in the Henley by-election, shows that they gain fair more votes per £100 spent than UKIP. UKIP spent £17.056 and received 843 votes. The BNP spent £4,744.06, less that 1/3 of UKIP’s budget, but polled 1,243 votes – over 40% more than UKIP. Lack of confidence in the integrity of the party’s finances will have the obvious knock-on effect in reduced donations, both from rich party members and from sympathetic organisations. Nigel is a past-master at drumming up enthusiasm among ordinary party members. No doubt, many of the genuine older members unaware of the issues discussed here will send in their £10’s and £20’s to help the party fight the elections next June, but it would be a matter of great surprise if the amount raised, especially in the South East, comes anywhere near the figure for 2004. The end of the road Sleaze, incompetence, poor political judgement, purges of dissidents, a “loony” image, allegations of vote rigging and financial problems – not a healthy situation for a small political party stuck in the doldrums. The few months between now and June 2009 are highly likely to see the publication of a few scandals involving Farage. His venomous attitude has created many enemies, and those enemies are unlikely to stay silent. Even if the rants of Greg Lance-Watkins cannot all be taken seriously, if only 10% of his allegations are true, that could pose the party serious problems in the run-up to what should have been an even greater triumph than June 2004. It really is now too much to expect the party to be turned round. Even removing Farage as leader will not solve it. His cronies hold all the positions of power, and there isn’t the time to winkle them all out. Sadly, for all the undoubted good UKIP has achieved, it is time for it to be dismembered. The wound is too deep. The poison has spread too widely. In 2004, UKIP had a great chance to advance the argument for British withdrawal from the EU. With the right approach, the argument could have been won irrevocably by now. Independence is so noble an objective, and there is so much to support this assertion. So UKIP has had its chance and blown it. We are left with only one option – to start again, learning from UKIP’s successes but. more importantly, its failures. This article is markedly similar to that which John Petley wrote in late 2008, a copy of which I read at the time but have never published as it was supplied in confidence and was not then widely known in the public domain. Charlie Endell having made some alterations it seems, or having received an altered copy of the original text, has put the article in the public domain and I am thus liberated from the constraints of my original undertaking and publish the public domain version posted by Charlie Endell. Charlie Endell IS known to me as a genuine person whose personal experience over many years at the center of UKIP would be adequate to corroborate almost every fact herein.. Posted in Annabelle FULLER, David ABBOTT, David BANNERMAN MEP, David LOTT, Gary CARTWRIGHT, John MORAN, John PETLEY, Mark CROUCHER, Niall WARRY, Nigel FARAGE MEP, Robin Page \| Leave a Comment » #0305* – UKIP WALES Ex CHAIRMAN: ‘UKIP is now a complete irrelevance’ Niall WARRY TheEx CHAIRMAN of UKIP WALES : ‘UKIP is now a complete irrelevance’!! UKIP is now a complete irrelevance. 3 reasons and more as to why I’ll be posting and commenting a lot less for a while on this UKIP part of the Forum. The First reason: – is that after my nearly 6700 posts nothing much has changed, so as skeptyk recently pointed out, I feel I need to follow my oft quoted adage:- “INSANITY IS DOING THE SAME THIG OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND EXPECTING A DIFFERENT RESULT!” The Second reason: – is I have in the last few months become increasingly aware that:- “THE ONLY THING WE LEARN FROM HISTORY IS THAT WE LEARN NOTHING FROM IT!” Which in the context of the EU means that what will be will be and there is nothing that UKIP or anyone else can do about it. This is especially so since the signing of the Lisbon Treaty and in my opinion (and yes B.A. Ware this thread is all my opinion!) the most likely scenario is that the Euro region will split in two which would then give us the chance of re- negotiating our relationship with the EU. However whether this chance is taken is again another matter. The Third reason: – I shall be posting and commenting far less in the UKIP part of this Forum- is that UKIP is now a complete irrelevance having achieved NOTHING of consequence in the last 17 years to aid our withdrawal from the EU. Also given that it is about to be consumed into the Pan European EFD, in all bar name if UKIP is lucky, UKIP will virtually cease to exist. OK so why has UKIP been so ineffective over the years – well I guess two words sum up the reason and they are:- NIGEL FARAGE: Leaving aside his media strengths Nigel has been the most abysmal and diabolical LEADER I have ever been associated with. He has had no strategy, tactics, vision or plan to speak of, has no idea of how to set an example, is divisive, has no integrity, is morally deficient , totally unprincipled, financially greedy, unscrupulous, vain and dreadfully insecure to name but a few of his more obvious weaknesses! While he may not as yet have been accused or charged with any criminality he is widely perceived to lack financial or moral probity with a host of unanswered questions he has so far refused to explain. Hopefully one day the old bill will come knocking on his door looking for answers? He has of course managed to remain in power by: “Fooling most of the members of UKIP most of the time.” From my experiences of Chairman of Wales and Cheltenham I know that most UKIP members and members of the public have absolutely no idea what is going on in UKIP, and vote for Nigel, simply because he looks good on the telly! As to the rest of his supporters in the party I believe they fall into two main categories:- 1. Those who like him, are making money from the EU and don’t really care what he gets up to. This obviously includes his fellow UKIP MEPs and his staff all of whom he controls. 2. Those who are totally naive and believe that despite his MANY failings some greater good is served by not rocking the boat too severely if at all. To this second category I’d say:- “ALL THAT IS NECESSARY FOR EVIL TO TRIUMPH IS THAT GOOD MEN DO NOTHING.” From what I can now see history teaches us that you have to change a political party form WITHIN as Blair did to New Labour, but all those against Nigel have ended up leaving UKIP rather like the ‘Gang of Four’ left the labour Party – and look what happened to them! If ALL his dissenters had stayed in the party and fought from within something might have been achieved. But they would have needed a strong leader with enough time to formulate a plan to win over the membership as to why Nigel’s strengths were not as leader. I did try to fight from within for 5 years and know some other people tried to improve UKIP, like the Lechlade and Phoenix Groups. However I don’t think they really had the right leadership or stomach for the fight. As a result Nigel was able to out manoeuvre them especially as he controlled the money and staff placements. So I now intend to concentrate on my local election campaign, my BBC bias blog The Freedom Association, The UK Defence Association and my work with The Royal British Legion. As to the ‘INDEPENDENT Leave-the EU Alliance’ it is to be mothballed but NOT folded as to keep it ‘live’ only costs £25 a year. I think the I L-T-EU A has much going for it and it can always be taken off the shelf and dusted down if needs be. Never forget:- “A JOURNEY OF 1000 MILES STARTS WITH A SINGLE STEP.” And that step has been taken! If you have any doubts about the value of more INDEPENDENTS at Westminster please read Vernon Coleman’s book ‘Bloodless Revolution’. If you get in contact by private message I’ll send you a copy free, as he gave us 500 copies for the election and I still have a few left!! Now to all those who say I’ve not answered questions put to me on this Forum I beg to disagree as I have always tried to answer directly and as you all know I post under my own name. However I confess to getting hacked off with some you from time to time, which I regret, for I genuinely believe that debate is not improved by intemperate language. This leads me to my support for GLW but I would remind you of what I have ALWAYS said which is:- ‘I don’t agree with all he says or ESPECIALLY the way that he says it’ I think his pursuit of Nigel, to see him held to account, is a worthy cause as nobody should be allowed to benefit and get away with as much as he has. However I believe GLW is now wasting his time trying to reform UKIP as it is completely beyond reform, given Nigel’s hold over the party and his plans to consume UKIP into the EFD. I don’t fault GLW, with others, for their determination to try and clean up UKIP and make it electable, but I personally doubt this will EVER happen. Finally I still intend to update the Forum, from time to time, on what is being said by the likes of GLW, Junius and Eric Edmonds under the new heading ‘UKIP-vs-EUKIP’ so I’m not going to completely fade away and will still be posting under my own name when I do – although I was debating adopting the pseudonym “The ORACLE” but modesty will not allow!! Good luck to those of you that remain discussing UKIP but personally I believe you are all flogging a dying if not dead horse! CLICK HERE Telephone – 01749 838816 Mobile – 07957 872074 ‘e’Mail at – niall@warry.go-plus.net BBC Institutional Bias Please permit me a correction of a possible misunderstanding: I have NEVER been anything other than a supporter of UKIP in declared principle and aims and have ALWAYS defended and supported the party. It is for this reason and in a fundamental belief in the genuine patriotic nature of the peoples of these United Kingdoms that our historic Continental enemies have done all they can to debase and break apart. Consider the underhand behaviour of France in repeatedly seeking to attack, conquer and abuse these United Kingdoms – whether by Agincourt, Plessy or Cressy or the efforts made to destroy the Union with their support of the snivelling coward known as ‘Bonnie’ Prince Charley for his availability to the men of The Court of Versailles and let us unfairly claim because he was a complete charley! Few Countries make much of having been led to defeat from the back by a leader who promptly ran away dressed in a frock! Even The Welsh were genuinely disgusted by their betrayal by their own Minister of State tripping around Clapham Common in his wife’s frock giving oral sex sequentially to male strangers! Let us not forget the various occasions when Germany has set out to create a Union in EUrope – aided by The Franks of Vichy France. Firstly PLEASE show an instance anywhere on any of my blogs where I have EVER wittingly told a lie about a person or misrepresented a fact; or for that matter, where I have EVER attacked UKIP – I have frequently, however, criticised the activities of those who have betrayed, befouled or besmirched the principles and values of the Patriotic decent folk who are the grass roots foundations of UKIP. IF you locate a consequential error in ANY of my blogs or an accidental error I have made of consequence PLEASE contact me and I will IMMEDIATELY check out the facts and make any correction apposite. My contact details can be located at: CLICK HERE Posted in Cheltenham, Eric EDMOND Dr, Ex UKIP, GLW, Greg_L-W., Junius, Niall WARRY, Nigel FARAGE MEP, WALES \| Leave a Comment »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406809
__label__cc	0.608399	0.391601	Dredging Market Outlook and Growth Stance Forecasted Through 2022 global dredging market has witnessed its share of ups and downs over past decade, and especially during post economic crisis years. However, with the recovery in global economy, the global trade grew significantly. [UKPRwire, Tue Oct 01 2019] The global dredging market has witnessed its share of ups and downs over past decade, and especially during post economic crisis years. However, with the recovery in global economy, the global trade grew significantly. Spurt in global infrastructure activities has necessitated the need for expansion of existing ports, and development of new ones. Additionally, considering the fact that over 85% of global trade is carried out through sea trade, maintaining existing pathways and creating new ones has gained prominence. According to UNCTAD, global seaborne trade volumes surpassed 10 billion tons in 2015, with shipments expanding by over 2%. The outlook on global seaborne trade remains overly positive, with seaborne trade volume growth projection of over 3% for next five year. Furthermore, upcoming projects, such as One Belt and One Road Initiative (OBOR) likely to provide growth opportunities to dredging industry. Get Report Sample Copy @ https://www.factmr.com/connectus/sample?flag=S&rep_id=922 The need for robust seaborne infrastructure vis-à-vis dredging services can also be appraised by looking at the emphasis as well as investment governments are bucketing for seaborne infrastructure. Realizing the potential, European bigwigs jumped on the driving seat long back and has been stirring the industry. Fact.MR’s research study projects the global dredging market to surpass US$ 16 Bn in revenues by 2022. The year-on-year growth for global dredging industry is projected over 2.5% over next five year, creating incremental opportunity of US$ 2 Bn. Tourism Sector – a Catalyzer for Global Dredging Market The prospects of dredging industry are closely tied with the broader developments in the global tourism sector, as construction of new airports and beach replenishments accounts for a sizeable share of total revenues generated by dredging companies. According to data from World Tourism Organization, the total number of international tourist arrivals in 2016 stood at over 1.2 billion. The direct, indirect, and induced revenue generated in the global travel and tourism sector were pegged at over US$ 7.5 trillion in 2016. In spite of uncertainty in the global political sphere, the global tourism sector is projected to grow at a brisk pace in the foreseeable future, providing opportunities to dredging service providers in the due course. Dominance of Belgian and Dutch Dredging Companies Continues The world’s four biggest dredging companies are from Belgium and Netherlands. DEME and Jan De Nul from Belgium, and Boskalis and Van Oord from the Netherlands were around during the 1980s when the global dredging market was highly consolidated, with the presence of over 20 dredging companies in Belgium and Netherlands alone. Report Overview @ https://www.factmr.com/report/922/dredging-market Through a series of mergers and acquisitions (with the exception of Jan De Nul), these companies strengthened their position, and today, they are part of the ‘Big Four’ in the global market, as highlighted in a recently published report by Fact.MR. These four companies have, amongst them, handled some of the most iconic and complex projects globally. These four companies are likely to continue their market domination throughout the forecast period. What other Players are Dredging, then? The report by Fact.MR distinguishes players in global dredging market among three key strategic groups subjected to their focus and regional presence. Leading players in the dredging market which comprehensively focusses on dredging and has operational span across the globe. Companies like Jan De Nul, Boskalis, Van Oord and DEME are such companies clearly exhibit leading position in the global dredging market. The other group of companies, which do not boast dredging as their key business function, however, account for the substantial share of the global dredging business. Construction companies from Asia are leading in this cluster of companies. China Construction Communication Company (CCCC), Hyundai Engineering & Construction, Samsung Engineering & Construction, Toa Corporation are dominant players in this category of dredging business. These companies have operational span less than the leading category of aforementioned players in dredging specialist companies. Predominantly, construction is the key business function of these companies, but they also offer services as dredger across diverse geographies. The third group of players in the global dredging market is regional operators, which are largely based out of Europe, and predominantly are Dutch companies. A handful of the Asian companies fare in this list such as Gulf Cobla and National Marine Dredging Corporation from UAE, Rukindo from Indonesia, DCI from India. European market houses a large number of such regional player a few in the list include Van der Kamp, Van den Herik, Baggerbedrijf De Boer etc. Ecological Impact of Dredging Can Impede Approvals from Regulatory Authorities: Although dredging remains an important activity from economic perspective, when carried out without consideration, it has the potential to cause ecological imbalance. Environmentalists have often opposed several mega dredging projects around the globe. According to a report by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the large-scale dredging at Miami led to the burying of 81% of coral reef at the site. Send an Enquiry @ https://www.factmr.com/connectus/sample?flag=AE&rep_id=922 Earlier in July this year, the Court of Appeal found that the Northern Ireland Government acted unlawfully by failing to intervene the sand dredging at Lough Neagh lake in Northern Ireland. While the dredging market stakeholders has committed to safeguard the conservation of environment, disruption in ecological balance remains a longstanding challenge for all the stakeholders. Growing spate of incidents where the fragile ecological balance is disrupted can impede dredging approvals, creating bottlenecks in contract allocation. Company: FactMR Contact Name: Fact Market Research Contact Phone: +353-1-6111-593	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406810
__label__cc	0.553936	0.446064	Women's Tennis Awards Announced The USA South Athletic Conference has announced its All-Conference awards for women's tennis. Methodist and Christopher Newport led the way with six and five members respectively. Averett's Kirsi Turunen has been named the Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year. Methodist coach Kelly Callahan was named the 2005 Coach of the Year. Turunen, a freshman from Turku, Finland was an impressive 13-0 overall and 7-0 in conference at #1 singles. At #1 doubles she was 8-2 overall and 5-2 in conference play. She helped Averett to 4-9 overall record and 3-4 in the conference. Callahan in her second year at the helm of the Monarchs has been tabbed the Coach of the Year for the second consecutive year. She led the Monarchs to the regular season title with a record of 13-2 overall and 8-0 in conference action. Kirsi Turunen, Averett Kelly Callahan, Methodist The 2005 USA South Women's Tennis All-Conference Teams follow: Whitney Gilmore, Peace Stefanie LeBlang, Christopher Newport Carrie Pacifico, Greensboro Jenny Smith, Methodist Tiffany Tucker, Methdodist Julie Angrick, Methodist Courtney Bull, Methodist Leighton Bull, Methodist Kate Creasy, Greensboro Charlotte Davis, Peace Joanna McCandlish, Christopher Newport Jenna Gallub, N.C. Wesleyan Lauren Hulse, Methodist Melissa King, Christopher Newport Natalie Pitts, Christopher Newport Erin Wells, Christopher Newport Lauren Wells, Averett	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406814
__label__cc	0.641663	0.358337	Where and why Foodie breaks Ferries from the UK Where to get engaged Portugal's River Douro winds through one of Europe's most spectacular landscapes before emptying into the Atlantic at the charming World Heritage city of Porto. Stay in atmospheric quintas and visit centuries-old terraced vineyards to sample the Port that made this region famous, and some delicious local cuisine. Recommended tour operator: Sunvil Sunvil says The two cities of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia face one another across the River Douro, where it meets the Atlantic. On the south bank lies the city of Vila Nova de Gaia. Reached from Porto by the spectacular two-tier Ponte Dom Luis I Bridge, this area has been dedicated to the production of port wine since the 18th century. Today it is home to more than 50 port companies, the hillside being dominated by famous lodges including Noval, Sandeman, Ramos Pinto, Ferreira and Graham’s. Almost all of them offer tastings and tours. One of Europe’s most charismatic cities, Porto’s historic hub is the Ribeira district with its grand buildings, riverside promenades and cafés. Medieval houses and workshops cling to the narrow streets and cobbled steps. Boat trips up the Douro meander through locks, past dams and include visits to wine quintas, restaurants and places of interest along the valley. From Porto or Pinhao, it is also possible to take a day trip in a traditional ‘barco rabelo’ (now engine-powered, rather under sail) – or a scenic train ride from Pinhao to Regua. The Alto Douro region, or port wine region, is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. Stretching 100km from Regua to the Spanish border, the region has been synonymous with the production of port wine for more than 2,000 years – this long tradition of viticulture has produced a unique landscape of outstanding beauty. Take a drive beside the winding river with its sculptured terraced slopes and hill vistas rolling out to the horizon and discover charming quintas and sprawling vineyards clinging to the precipitous slopes. We offer city breaks in Porto, Douro cruises and self-drive holidays in the Douro, staying in historic quintas and charming small hotels. We also feature Minho and Tras os Montes, closer to the Spanish border. Find out more about our holidays in Porto and the Douro Valley. Mini-cruises Sporting breaks	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406817
__label__wiki	0.53251	0.53251	You are here: Home / Events / WORLDCOMP'16 / Program / ICWN'16: Monday, July 25, 2016 Schedule ICWN'16: Monday, July 25, 2016 Schedule 07:00a - 05:00p: REGISTRATION (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5) 08:45 - 09:00am: CONGRESS OPENING REMARKS - July 25, Monday: Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (Chair, Steering Committee & Coordinator) Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, USA; Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer); Fellow, Center of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organized Crime Research (CENTRIC). (LOCATION: East Ballrooms 7, 8, & 9) 09:05 - 10:00am: KEYNOTE LECTURE 1 - July 25, Monday: SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM Dr. Firouz Naderi Former director of Solar System Exploration at NASA's JPL - Oversaw robotic spacecraft dispatched to all corners of the solar system; Prior position: NASA's Program Manager for Mars Exploration; Recipient of NASA's outstanding Leadership Medal and NASA's Distinguished Service Medal (NASA's highest award); In appreciation of his contributions, The International Astronomical Union (IAU) and NASA/JPL has named an asteroid "Naderi" after his name. DATA SCIENCE FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATASETS Prof. Alfred Inselberg Tel Aviv University, Israel; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); University of Southern California (USC); Senior Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputing Center, California, USA. Author of "Parallel Coordinates: VISUAL Multidimensional Geometry"; his work is praised by Stephen Hawking among many others. INDUSTRIAL BIG DATA AND SMART ASSETS: THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BY THE MEANS OF DEATH AWARENESS CAPABILITIES Prof. Diego Galar Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; Coordinating several H2020 projects in cyber physical systems, Industry 4.0, IoT and industrial Big Data. 11:40a - 01:20p: LUNCH (On Your Own) SESSION ICOMP: INTERNET OF THINGS + SMART CITIES AND RELATED ISSUES July 25, 2016 (Monday); 01:20pm - 04:00pm (LOCATION: Sterling AB Room) 01:20 - 01:40pm: No Place to Hide: A Review of Privacy Toward a Safer T. Ray Campbell, Felix Akinladejo College of Engineering and Information Sciences, DeVry University, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Faculty of Engineering and Computing, University of Technology, 01:40 - 02:00pm: IoT: A Frost Penetration Sensor Network D. Sawka, M. Frost, D. Tran, S. Virk, J. Blatz, R. D. McLeod Department of ECE, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Department of Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba, 02:00 - 02:20pm: Cryptography of Things - Cryptography Designed for Low Power, Low Maintenance Nodes in the Internet of Things Gideon Samid Department of EECS, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 02:20 - 02:40pm: Compelling Use Cases for the Internet of Things Henry Hexmoor Southern Illinois University, Illinois, USA 02:40 - 03:00pm: Water Quality Running on Droids Elias Klassen, Ryan Wieler, Maxim Krivoshchekov, Ziang Wang, Chunzi Jiang, Kelsey Wiens, Ken Ferens, Robert Mcleod, and Shamir Mukhi Department of ECE, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 03:20 - 03:40pm: A Study on Middleware for IoT - A comparison between Aercio Cavalcanti, Carlos Albuquerque, Ana Paula Furtado CESAR - Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil; Federal University of Pernambuco Informatics Centre - Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil 03:40 - 04:00pm: SHELL - Smart Home for an Extraordinary Long Living Riccardo Agostini, Elia Brugnoni, Eleonora Paganelli, and Alberto Polzonetti E-Linking On Line System Camerino, Italy; University of Camerino UNICAM, Computer Science, Italy NOTE THE CHANGE IN ROOM LOCATION - PLEASE GO TO Ballroom 3 FOR ESCS. SESSION ESCS: CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS, REAL-TIME SYSTEMS, & ROUTING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 04:40 - 05:00pm: Thermal-Aware Task Allocation and Scheduling for Heterogeneous Multi-Core Cyber-Physical Systems Shikang Xu, Israel Koren, C. M. Krishna Department of ECE, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA 05:00 - 05:20pm: Emerging Approach to Infuse Catastrophe Model in Critical Real-Time Systems Management A. Christy Persya, T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair BNM Institute of Technology, VTU, Bangalore, India; Rector, RR Group of Institutions, Bangalore, India 05:20 - 05:40pm: An Efficient Traffic-Based Routing Algorithm for 3D Networks-on-Chip Hsueh-Wen Tseng, Ruei-Yu Wu, Wan-Chi Chang, Yi-Huo Lin, and Dyi-Rong Duh Department of CSE, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan; Department of Management Information Systems, Hwa Hsia University of Technology, Taiwan; Department of CSE, Hwa Hsia University of Technology, Taiwan 08:30 - 11:30pm: CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER / SOCIAL July 25 - Monday; 08:30pm - 11:30pm (LOCATION: Ballrooms 2-5)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406829
__label__wiki	0.617456	0.617456	Blatchford increases stake in NHS market despite profit hit Contracts & tendersFinancials by Joe Peskett on May 9, 2019 Healthcare services provider Blatchford has begun reaping the benefits of various NHS contracts it took on last year but has struggled to protect its profits from increasing costs and pressures on margins from UK tenders. The company grew its revenues by nearly 15% to around £61m last year, with 7% of the sales increase coming from clinical contracts with the NHS, which it won two years ago and began operating in 2018. A prosthetics contract in Sussex and wheelchair contracts in Dudley and Oldham helped to expand Blatchford’s stake in the NHS market. The wheelchair services were won as part of a joint bid with equipment provider Ross Care. The aim was to create a seamlessly integrated service and combine clinical experience with local knowledge to improve patients’ experience. The group’s reliance on UK markets increased by 4% to 64% during the year, partly due to slower growth in Norway. Blatchford reported a £3m operating loss in the year ended 31 March 2018 and EBITDA decreased by 55% to £2m. The reduction in profitability was put down to an increase in costs, bonuses and consultancy fees paid during the business’s sale to CBPE Capital. The company expects profitability to continue to come under threat as the NHS continues to push for fixed fee services, which is a challenge being faced by all healthcare services providers. Blatchford sold a majority stake to CBPE in November for an undisclosed amount, declaring that the investment will give the firm the “financial firepower” to compete more effectively in the global prosthetics and orthotics market. Blatchford underwent a demerger in March 2018 to separate the products and services arms of its business which saw it exit prosthetics manufacturing. Over the year Blatchford has invested in a ‘grow your own’ scheme to create a sustainable clinical workforce. It noted that recruiting clinical employees and attracting young people to the profession can be a challenge and so is looking to tackle the skills shortage. Last month, Blatchford began to deliver prosthetic, orthotic and technician services on behalf of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust. Tags : blatchfordcbpeinvestmentnhs contractwheelchair services contract Struggling mobility service saved in complete overhaul Care operator accused of ‘cheap and botched’ lift replacement £34m government investment could see care robots revolutionise UK care industry Government backs next-gen AI to transform healthcare in the UK London-based firm makes investment into leading US provider of complex mobility solutions Rebrand for Blatchford Group as it unites under one name Ability Matters nears £50m mark amid acquisitions and tender wins	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406843
__label__wiki	0.735232	0.735232	Post Occupancy Evaluations Home Page Banners Madera County Courthouse https://www.acmartin.com/portfolio/madera-county-courthouse Thomas Laboratory, Caltech https://www.acmartin.com/portfolio/thomas-laboratory-caltech Los Angeles County Hall of Justice, Renovation https://www.acmartin.com/portfolio/hall-justice-renovation The Café at Annenberg, USC https://www.acmartin.com/portfolio/caf-annenberg Wilshire Grand https://www.acmartin.com/portfolio/wilshire-grand-center Claremont Graduate University Master Plan PORTFOLIO/DETAIL Claremont Graduate University (CGU) commissioned ACMP to prepare a campus Master Plan. This project, completed in 2002, resulted in a plan that built on the University's mission and provides a vision for future growth. The University’s development needs will be integrated with the good neighbor requirements to the adjacent residential community and the surrounding Claremont Colleges. The ACMP project team formulated clear, simple design and planning criteria to guide overall campus decision-making and to ensure that the most important qualities of the campus are protected, while those needing alterations are changed. The criteria developed for CGU encompasses the issues of building form, siting, materials and massing, but goes beyond to pinpoint the relationship between the campus and the community, the reinforcement of place identity on the campus, the features of the physical campus that support CGU's specific constituency and give it a competitive edge among its rivals, and the requirement for incorporating technological advancement into future growth. Design guidelines include methods for maintaining the campus' aesthetic quality and unique, small-scale environment through definitions of building setbacks, heights, open spaces, signage, landscape architecture, and art in public areas. Contact Us To Learn More> Top Left Menu VIEW BY SECTOR Public/Civic Religious Spaces VIEW BY PROJECT TYPE © Copyright 2020 AC Martin \| All Rights Reserved \| Terms of Use \| Privacy Policy \| Mobile Site 213.683.1900 \| 444 South Flower Street Suite 1200 Los Angeles, CA 90071 Professional Website Design by Trinet Internet Solutions, Inc.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406844
__label__cc	0.641345	0.358655	All the world’s a stage: Montmollin’s Dreams, Delusions, and Other Traffic Circles by Bart Gazzola Gabrielle de Montmollin’s work exists on multiple levels of interpretation and appreciation. When I encountered the art she had in the latest incarnation of the Grimsby Public Art Gallery’s Biannual Exhibition, I laughed out loud. Another piece, in this series (Lizard Legs Mash-up) that I saw in the gallery / studio / living space in Welland (AIH Studios) she keeps with artist Tony Calzetta, was all sexydirtysilly, on first impression. But – as with Gold Bowl, Black Boots and Miss Pink and the Giraffes (from the GPAG show) – when I carried the images away in my mind and considered them later, they all became more disturbing, eerie and unsettling. All the works in the series Dreams, Delusions, and Other Traffic Circles are colourful and attractive, and although Montmollin is a prolific artist whose extensive history of images (exploring both aesthetic and politic concerns) can be seen at her site, this is the [doll’s] body of work that has garnered my attention, here. Her words: “Dreams, Delusions, and Other Traffic Circles is a series of contemporary surrealist still lifes…[perhaps] more surrealist than they are still lifes. The photographs…are narratives of objects in ambiguous relationships, weird juxtapositions and disconcerting non sequiturs. The ‘wallpaper’ is the element that runs throughout. [It indicates] that everything happens on a set, it is theatre….There is no obvious or hidden relationship between the players on the set and the wallpaper. Max Ernst defined the structure of the surrealist painting as “A linking of two realities that by all appearances have nothing to link them, in a setting that by all appearances does not fit them.” I am not a painter but this is a good description of my photographs.” This irreverence, this dramatic (perhaps of the theatre of the absurd) staging of scenes by Montmollin is an excellent repository for the viewer to construct stories, or invest their own experience. Tomato Wedding, for example, was the inspiration for an entertaining conversation between the artist, myself, and several others when the three person exhibition Now Here was on display in Welland. The wedding couple dolls face a surfeit of tomatoes (as someone who grew up half Italian, and have found that heritage – in a real sense, in an artificial sense – can be like being cornered by a bunch of tomatoes, like muggers in an alley, like a swarm of hegemony, this piece is (again) superficially funny but scratch that glossy veneer and its more disconcerting). Or maybe I was reminded of all the cherry tomatoes I’ve been picking these past few years, more for my parents than I. Clementine Coven, with its tiny delicate high heels, or Ménage à trois, which is not what you’re thinking, at all (even through there’s a duck in this tableaux and I was thinking of Leda and Zeus. If that piques your interest, you can visit the AIH Studios in Welland, to see that to which I allude, for yourself). At their feet has an amusing ‘pop your heads off your dolls’ referent, but knowing Montmollin’s work and having spoken to her on numerous occasions, about her art, my writing, and the larger art / social worlds we exist within (or against), I get a bit of Judith and Holofernes here, or maybe a bit of Salome and the Head of John the Baptist. In considering the repetition of the wallpaper, the scenes being “staged” in the same “space”, there’s not just a theatrical context to consider, but perhaps also how different ‘classics’ can be remounted in different ways (I think of a version of King Lear I saw staged as a British military drama, replete with uniforms, or how I’ve played Puck in a contemporary restaging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where Titania, Hippolyta and Helena were all (simply fabulous, ahem) drag queens). We reinterpret stories to keep them alive, or to make them real, to ourselves and others. There’s a sensibility here reminiscent of Barbara Gowdy‘s writings, especially the short stories in We So Seldom Look on Love: deathly (murderously, in at least one story) serious but also (in)appropriately ribald. Sadman, Muscleman and Flamenco à trois suggest horror, inanity and rom – com farce (with nudity, so perhaps more R than PG13, and that young fellow in the foreground does look like a very young Peter Sellers), respectively. Blessing of the zebras is frantically joyous, although you may find it takes a bit of effort to find the “blesser”, amidst the harem of zebras (that is the proper name for a group of said animals…which, considering Jesus’ relationship to supposed “fallen” women, illustrates the intersecting ideas at play in Montmollin’s Dreams, Delusions, and Other Traffic Circles. To return to a piece I mentioned at the beginning of this article: Lizard Legs Mash-up has a bawdy, perhaps Rabelaisian, quality. Perhaps its a fittingly twisted take on ‘Reptilian Theory’, popularized by that wingnut David Icke. Research at your own risk, ahem, and no offence to Montmollin by that association). Gabrielle’s words: “..my art is based on imagination; I am interested in telling stories, play and mystery.” As well, “[besides] personal imaginings she works to find visual expression for her feelings about social justice issues and politics.” Her career / practice is extensive and I offer you here only the most recent glimpse of what she’s done: she “began her career in television and film before switching her interest to still photography. For many years she worked exclusively with black and white film photographing throwaway plastic toys and dolls arranged in constructed, fantasy settings. She developed darkroom manipulations using extreme bleaching and painting and drawing on paper negatives. Since realizing that digital photography did not provide her with the same creative possibilities she has been working with mixed media blending painting, drawing and montage elements with digital prints.” She’s exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Belgium, Italy, France and The Netherlands. The website for AIH Studios (also known as Art is Hell Studios) offers many examples of past works, and I encourage you to visit it, as well as their gallery space, in Welland. Art is Hell Studios canadian art Gabrielle de Montmollin Montmollin niagara art Bart Gazzola Bart Gazzola (also known as #artcriticfromhell) is an arts writer/critic who has published with Magenta Magazine, Canadian Art, New Art Gazette, Galleries West, PrairieSeen, Long Exposure and BlackFlash (where he was Editorial Chair for 3 years). He is Assistant Editor at thesound.rocks and a frequent contributor to various cultural spaces in Niagara. Bart Gazzola February 5, 2019 Check ’em out! Now’s the Time to Become a Housing Hero RPA Hey Hey Hey: #1 An Introduction Sustainable, Second-Hand Holiday Art, Opinion We Have No Bananas Today (your #artcriticfromhell offers a caustic if candid eulogy for visual arts in 2019) Deconstructed / Reassembled Portraiture: Kim Van Stygeren Art, Business, News 5th Annual Art Show and Toy Drive at Studio 4 Tattoo Parlour in support of Gillian’s Place [re]making her [stories]: Carolyn Wren Centre and Periphery: place defines / deforms history Scott Sawtell: Playful Banquet	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406846
__label__cc	0.593154	0.406846	by J. Brownell ga_onmymind@yahoo.com Synopsis: Whitney Eisner leads a double life. In one she is a playgirl who travels and in the other she works for a secret agency that allows people from the future to travel into the past. Her life becomes even more complicated when she is implicated in a series of assaults on women travelers. When one of the women dies and Whitney is the only suspect, she breaks all the rules when she reaches out to Atlanta Detective Lauren Shea for help. She was sitting with her feet propped up on the corner of her desk, staring down at the harried city of Atlanta, and sipping a glass of ice cold Coke. It was late Friday afternoon and like every Friday afternoon, she was waiting for the status reports from the various zones. She hated Fridays. She was Chief of Security for the North American Central Gateway. She had forty-eight centers in three countries under her control. She had tens of thousands of people in her command. Not one of those people could transmit the weekly status reports to the Operations Director at Quantico. It was one of only a few tasks Whitney Eisner could not delegate to someone else.She let her mind wander to later that night. She still wasn’t sure what possessed her to accept Kim’s invitation to a backyard barbecue. Maybe it was the wry way Kim asked herself aloud why she was even asking Whitney when she always said no. Maybe it was the faint trace of hurt in her friend’s eyes as she waited for rejection. Whitney sighed. Whatever the reason, she was expected at Kim’s no later than eight. If she were lucky, she would merely be bored. Whitney wasn’t feeling particularly lucky. “Well here they are-” She turned to the voice at her doorway the same instant the beeping of an alarm broke the stillness of her office. Her XO stood in front of her desk expectantly, the blue folder at his side forgotten. Frowning, she moved closer to her desk and stared down at the scrolling line of text at the bottom of her computer screen. Code White. Code White. Code White. Well, hell. She dropped her hands to the computer touch screen black glass desktop. “Just leave it on my desk, Sam.” Sam nodded once and laid the blue folder on her desk before leaving her office. Whitney quickly typed in the code that brought up the GPS for the Atlanta Gateway. She zeroed in on the blinking red light. She first looked at the accompanying photo. Tracy Warner was California from her sun bleached blonde hair to her Malibu blue eyes. Traveler R32-H: Tracy Warner, 20 Student American University of California-Berkeley Arrived 0807 11 November Atlanta Station Billeted Room 519 11 November-13 November Requests: None Whitney frowned as she read the brief synopsis of Tracy Warner’s planned stay in Atlanta. Why would a twenty-year-old college student come five hundred years into the past, book a room for two days, and have no itinerary planned? Granted, some people did go on vacation without firm plans, but, not in Whitney’s experience, college co-eds. She hit the command key that would show her Tracy Warner’s current location. 12441 Long Street, Atlanta, Georgia, North America Atlanta Police Department Precinct 119 It was at that exact moment that a stabbing pain lanced across the back of her left eyeball. Absently, Whitney massaged her eye as she reached for the phone. She made two brief calls. One to their law firm to get Matt over to the precinct and the other to inform Quantico of the situation. When that was taken care of, Whitney slipped on her dark blue overcoat and grabbed her keys. She stuck her head into Sam’s office. “Precinct 119. Start the paperwork for me, Sam. I want this kid in Quantico in time for supper. She’s R32-H.” Whitney forced her mind to remain blank as she rode the elevator down to the underground parking garage. The reasons Tracy Warner was at the police station were infinite in number and rampant speculation was less than pointless. Whatever the reason, it was a situation Whitney had to get under control quickly and get Tracy out of there. And Tracy Warner better pray to whatever god she believed in that reason was one Whitney would understand. While Whitney dodged the afternoon traffic, she began to construct a logical reason for the sudden appearance of herself and an attorney. For most scenarios, she could be a family member responding to Tracy’s phone call. The problem was determining if Tracy had been allowed one yet. Whitney could always pretend someone who knew the family saw Tracy brought in and called her. She could be the older sister dealing with a delinquent sibling. Matt Lang was waiting for her in the parking lot. They greeted each other like the old friends they were. They graduated from the Academy together. “Have you been in yet?” He looked like he had stepped off the pages of GQ. His charcoal tailored suit fit perfectly over his gym-toned body. Ray-Bans hid eyes she knew were black and he kept his chestnut hair in the short style favored by the military. Matt was good looking in that way of rich, young men. “It’s odd Whitney. If she’s in there, she’s in there voluntarily. No one knows anything about her.” “So she’s not under arrest for anything?” Whitney clarified. She needed to know that more than she needed to know anything else. The arrest of a traveler was a nightmare she was quickly coming to dread as she dreaded nothing else in life. She was waiting for the day it wasn’t just misdemeanors one of her attorneys could dismiss with quick legalese. Matt cast a quick glance to the people walking around them. “So what do you want to do Chief?” How could she explain their presence? In this place, she wasn’t the Chief of Security for the North American Gateway and he wasn’t her Atlanta legal advisor. He was a junior associate in the elite law firm of Lang, Dover, and Shi. She was the playgirl daughter of a wealthy family. Usually when something happened, Whitney stayed in the background and let her staff attorneys work their magic. Sam was only as far away as her cell phone should they need help. Before she could concoct a reasonable explanation for their presence, one side of the double doors opened and Tracy Warner stepped out onto the sidewalk with a police official in tow. Tracy held out her hand to the petite blonde. Whitney walked up to them with her own hand held out. “Tracy is everything all right? Hi, I’m Whitney, Tracy’s sister.” She felt the young woman next to her stiffen as the significance of someone claiming to be a sister Tracy knew she didn’t have sank in. Whitney kept her gaze on the police detective. The light afternoon breeze ruffled her short, wavy blonde hair. Bright green eyes were assessing as she took in the obvious differences of Malibu Tracy and dark Whitney. “How did you know she was here?” The woman asked. Whitney sent Tracy a smile meant to be both teasing and chastising. “Matt saw you here and of course, he called me. Is this something we have to tell Dad about?” Matt came over as his name was mentioned. He reached out to ruffle Tracy’s hair in a big brother sort of way. “I was concerned kid.” Tracy’s face was paling by the second. Whitney linked arms with the young woman. The last thing they needed was for her to make a run for it. Whitney did not want the detective to question their right to Tracy. “Is she free to go?” The detective glanced between them. “She’s not under arrest. Tracy, is this woman really your sister?” Time was suspended as Whitney waited with bated breath for Tracy to give them away. She did nothing to further arouse the detective’s suspicions, guessing rightly that if she tightened her hold on Tracy’s arm in any way those careful eyes would catch it. She forced a laugh, as if the question was absurd. “Yes, half-sister actually,” Tracy said finally, her voice strong and clear. She looked up at Whitney for the first time. “Dad doesn’t need to know. I was only getting information.” Whitney shot the detective a quick grin. “Okay then, let’s go before someone else sees us and calls Dad. You know your mother will think this is my fault.” “Thank you for talking to me, Detective Shea.” Detective Shea’s calculating gaze slid over the three of them one last time. “Bye Tracy.” Whitney walked away with a bright smile on her face. She said through clenched teeth, “This better be good, Ms. Warner.” Shea watched the trio walk away, waiting for any overt sign to justify her suspicions. The tall brunette never released her vice grip on Tracy Warner. If they were sisters, even half, she’d eat her badge. Matthew Lang’s presence added to the mystery. The name Lang was already well-known in legal circles. His grandfather, Matthew Lang II, was one of the best criminal defense attorney’s in the country. His father, Matthew Lang III, was better known for drunken incidents that landed him on the front of the paper. This Matthew Lang was making his own reputation by his association with Prestige Hotel Suites. It seemed that every time one of their guests had a little legal trouble, Matthew was there in short order to get them out of it. It was just one of several odd perks Prestige offered along with their perfectly appointed suites.She took out her little black notebook and wrote the name Whitney Warner. Every honed instinct she had was screaming out that something was wrong with this picture. Shea didn’t want to get down the road and find out that she should have been a little more protective of the young blonde. Her desk was covered with files. Some were paper-thin; others were novel thick. A testament to the variety that was life. She dropped down in her chair and reached for the newest file. She flipped the slender folder open and scanned the information Tracy Warner had given her over the last hour. Tracy came to her with “a friend” story. This friend was visiting Atlanta, met a woman in a bar and took the woman back to her hotel room. She was found by the hotel staff the next morning, badly beaten and barely alive. The friend was still in a coma at the hospital. Tracy was reluctant to give up any details. She said she just thought the authorities should know someone like that was trolling the gay bars of Atlanta. She didn’t want anyone else to get hurt. The name of the friend, of the bar, of the hospital where the friend was currently comatose never passed Tracy’s lips. Only one name was offered and that was the name of the hotel where the assault took place. Prestige Hotel Suites. What interested her about the story was that she had heard nothing about a vicious assault in one of Atlanta’s pricier hotels. The news motto of “if it bleeds, it leads” guaranteed that a young woman found almost beaten to death would be a top story on any newscast. Shea wasn’t a devoted reader or follower of the news, but she was a police detective. That kind of story would have gotten her attention. When in doubt, turn to the computer. Shea spent the rest of her shift, all one and a half hours of it, trying to track down even one verifiable fact in Tracy’s story. She was o-for-a hundred by the time she shut down her computer for the week. In fact, it seemed that Tracy Warner and her sister Whitney were just as fictional as the story she told. Shea wrote herself a quick reminder for Monday morning and taped the note to her computer screen. She wanted to remember to call Matthew Lang. She knew that he at least was real. One way or the other, Mr. Lang would produce Tracy and Whitney Warner or he would tell her why he could not. Making false statements to the police was serious. She puzzled over the mystery as she drove home. She wanted to believe Tracy’s story if only because Tracy Warner struck her as intelligent and intelligent people didn’t go to the police with fictional stories. She seemed to have a good life going. Shea didn’t see why she’d screw that up over something like this. So, that left darker mysteries. Like if her story was true, why did no one else know anything about it? There was no comatose woman in any Atlanta hospital that got there by being beaten in a hotel room. There was no police report of a woman, dead or barely alive, being found at Prestige. Ever. While two young women named Tracy Warner were students at UGA, there was no Whitney Warner in any database Shea could access. Once home, Shea showered quickly and exchanged her tan slacks and red linen shirt for blue jeans and white T-shirt under dark blue sweatshirt. Kim wanted her to come early to work the barbecue. After the week she’d had, she was looking forward to a long night of friends, beer and barbecue. Kim lived in a Gwinnett suburb northeast of the city. Shea was the first to arrive. She didn’t mind being sent outside to fire up the grill. Her mind was still on the puzzle of Tracy Warner. By the time she had burgers and hotdogs grilling over the burning coals, the backyard was filled with two-dozen women. Shea accepted a bottle of Coors absently from someone. Her eyes were drifting over the crowd, idly wondering who was with whom, when her stunned gaze fell on none other than Whitney Warner. The woman had shed her black slacks and dark blue button down shirt for tight, faded blue jeans and red UGA sweatshirt. Shea cast a quick glance over the sizzling meats and decided she could leave the grill unattended for a few minutes. She was eager to see Whitney’s reaction to her presence. She grinned at this unexpected opportunity. Whitney was standing in a small knot of women that included Kim. Shea wasn’t noticed at first and she allowed herself to observe Whitney openly. She was surprised to realize Whitney was gorgeous. Black hair fell around her face in soft, short waves. She saw pale blue eyes that earlier were shielded behind the black mirrored sunglasses tucked safely at the collar of her sweatshirt. Her smile softened the hard planes of her face. Kim saw her standing with them and asked, “How’s the grilling coming?” Shea was sidetracked from the question by the abrupt change that came over Whitney when she saw Shea was the target of Kim’s question. She was intrigued by the flash of panic that crossed Whitney’s face briefly before a wall slammed down on her expressions. Icy blue eyes stared at her in an expression Shea would have thought was anger if Whitney had a reason to be angry with her. It wasn’t Shea’s fault Whitney’s little sister chose her to talk to at the precinct. “Everything’s ready when you are,” she belatedly replied to Kim. Whitney held up her empty Coors bottle. “Looks like I need another.” “So do I,” Shea said, although she still had half a bottle. “I’ll come with you.” Whitney gave no indication that she heard Shea or knew the detective was dogging her steps across the yard to the bucket of ice-cold beer. Whitney shoved her sleeve up to her elbow before plunging her arm into the melting ice. She turned with a bottle in her hand. She said with a jerk of her head to the right, “Over here.” “Where’s your sister, Ms. Warner?” Her question had a dual purpose. On the one hand, she wanted Whitney to know she was concerned about the young woman and on the other, she wanted to be in control of the conversation. Whitney twisted the top off the bottle with a vicious snap of her wrist. “I’m neither her keeper nor her secretary, Detective Shea. It’s not my job to know where she is.” “Did she tell you why she was at the precinct today? Do you know about her friend?” Whitney was silent for several long seconds. Blues eyes skimmed over the party before she turned her gaze back to Shea. “There is no friend, Detective. I’m sorry your time was wasted this afternoon. I’m afraid my sister is unstable and whatever she told you should not be believed.” Shea nodded her head and smiled. “I thought as much. Of course, I checked into her story and found nothing to verify anything she said. Her story had so many little details that I was surprised nothing she said was based on anything factual.” “As I said, she’s unstable. I am truly sorry you wasted your time because of one of her fantasies.” Again, Shea nodded. “I did find a few things fascinating. Like the odd coincidence of Prestige Hotel Suites. Tracy claims the attack happened at the one here in Atlanta and then who’s waiting for her when she leaves? Matthew Lang. I’d be surprised if his client list had anyone else on it besides the Eisner’s. But you know what I found most interesting, Ms. Warner?” Whitney simply stared at her, waiting. Shea took a long drink of her beer. “How’d you get here, if I may be so bold as to ask?” “I drove.” “You have a car?” “So you have a driver’s license?” Whitney’s eyes narrowed. “If you have a point, make it.” Shea shrugged carelessly. “No point, really. I was just wondering how you got here since you don’t have a license in the state of Georgia. In fact, you don’t seem to exist at all. How is it that in this day and age you don’t have a paper trail, Ms. Warner?” Whitney stepped so close to Shea they were touching. She leaned in to say softly, “Don’t ask me another question without my lawyer present Detective Shea. This isn’t idle conversation and we both know it. If you have further need to question me, call Matt Lang.” “My, my. So quick to take offense. Whatever are you hiding Ms. Warner?” Whitney’s smile was quick and dangerous. “I never said my name was Warner, Detective. You assumed that.” Shea could only watch as Whitney spun away from her and quickly headed for the exit. She had her phone out and was already talking to someone as she left the backyard. Shea revised her opinion of Matthew Lang. He apparently had at least two clients. Which made his being outside the precinct with Whitney that much more questionable. Was he really there for another reason and happened to see Tracy? If so, why did he call her sister rather than come to her assistance? If he was there because Tracy was, then the question was why was he there at all? Did Tracy know something someone didn’t want her to know? Was there a connection somewhere between Tracy Warner and the Atlanta hotel? As each question came to her, as each possible answer presented itself, the more Shea wanted to assure herself that Tracy Warner was indeed all right. Her instincts were blaring out a shrill warning she found impossible to ignore. Without a word to her host, Shea hurried to her car. Once she was headed towards the precinct, she organized her thoughts in her head. The first thing she had to do was get Matthew Lang on the phone and demand he produce Tracy Warner. Before the night was over, she wanted to talk to the young blonde one more time. When her phone rang only a few minutes after she arrived home, Whitney thought about ignoring it. The line was her personal one and therefore did not require her immediate attention. She answered because the day was already a lost cause. How much worse could another phone call make it at this point?Five minutes later, Whitney was muttering angrily to herself as she went down to the terminal center. Her new nemesis, Detective Shea, wanted to speak with Tracy again. Tonight. Whitney’s first reaction was a resounding no. She wasn’t a lawyer, but she knew Shea needed a legal reason to make any demands on them. It was Matt’s opinion that they should not give her a reason to find one. Let her meet with Tracy, ask whatever she wanted to ask while making it clear this time was voluntary. Whitney liked his phrasing on that. Yes, tonight was voluntary. Shea would have to find that reason if she wanted to meet with them again. She thought meeting at Prestige was suicidal considering Shea was suspicious of the hotel, but Matt had already made the arrangement with Shea. Whatever red flags were raised by Matt telling her to meet them here would only triple if they made a call to change the meeting place now. Shea already thought they were hiding something. The fifth floor of Prestige Hotel Suites did not officially exist. It was the operations center for the Atlanta Gateway, just as every other PHS worldwide housed the center for that city or area. Her offices, the terminal center where travelers entered and exited the TimeLine, the Warehouse filled with clothes, and her penthouse apartment were the fifth floor. The terminal center itself was dimly lit and guarded by two armed sentries. The only transfers made after seventeen hundred hours were emergencies. Like a twenty-year-old college student who opened a potentially disastrous can of worms. Whitney’s call over to Denise, the Operations Director at Quantico, was brief. She told her what was happening and that she needed Tracy ASAP. Whitney hoped whatever Tracy was currently doing could easily be dropped. Matt wanted a few minutes before Shea arrived to get the ground rules set down for the interview. Whitney could only guess at his rules, but she hoped the first one was for Tracy to let Matt do all the talking. Without warning, a cubicle slid open. Tracy, wearing the form fitting green coverall that was standard clothing at the Quantico compound, stepped out with a guard in tow. “Ms. Elliot thought you would want to clothe her here, Ms. Eisner.” Whitney nodded at the guard. “She was right. Come Ms. Warner, let’s get you dressed to play your part.” Matt and Detective Shea were talking in the middle of the lobby by the time Whitney and Tracy reached the ground floor. Whitney said softly to Tracy, “Let Matt do the talking. He’ll tell you when you should speak.” Whitney forced a smile to her face. “Detective Shea, I didn’t expect to see you again so soon. Why don’t we go into one of the conference rooms?” She turned and headed to a door behind the registration desk without waiting to see if this was acceptable to Shea. The detective might have called this meeting, but this was her turf and while Shea had a little time invested into this puzzle, Whitney and all the others literally had everything to lose if this got out of control. The conference room was one of the smaller ones in the hotel. Four chairs were grouped around the matching solid oak table. The color scheme was the navy blue, burgundy and dove gray of Prestige Hotels signature colors. The only other items in the room were a telephone console and dry ink board. “Let me be frank Detective Shea,” Matt said as they were sitting down at the table. “This is the only voluntary meeting. After this, you will need a warrant. The Eisner family regrets that Tracy came to you and that you felt the need to follow up on it. We know a police officer’s time is valuable. I assure you Tracy will not do it again.” Whitney had the satisfaction of seeing shock cover the detective’s face at the mention of her family’s name. The police were notorious for shunning sticky political situations when they could. High profile families meant high profile media attention and the police never came off good in those. Why risk that for a case that did not involve murder, rape, or drugs? Shea looked at Whitney. “Eisner? I thought you two had the same father.” Whitney clasped her hands on the table and sent a plea of forgiveness to her parents. She didn’t know another way out of this. “My father had an affair. Tracy’s mother refused to let her have his name.” “She doesn’t care that Tracy’s here now?” Whitney shrugged. “She’s over eighteen.” “So if I make inquiries into the name Whitney Eisner, I’ll find you?” “Yes, of course. I caution you to act discreetly. I don’t want to read that I am being investigated by the police.” Matt cleared his throat. “To be specific, compensation will be sought for any embarrassment to the Eisner family.” Shea opened her notebook and flipped to a page. She uncapped a pen and held it poised over the empty page. “For the record Mr. Lang, do you corroborate Ms. Eisner’s assertions that Tracy’s friend was not attacked here in this hotel? That she is not in fact comatose at a hospital? That nothing Tracy told me this afternoon was true?” “It was all untrue. Again, we regret your time was wasted.” Shea nodded as she wrote quickly in her notebook. She shot Matt a sideways glance. “So every statement she made to me today was false?” Whitney had a sudden bad feeling about the legally worded question. She looked over at Matt and knew from his expression she had every reason to worry. He stood up and motioned for Tracy and Whitney to do the same. “This meeting is over, Detective. Making false statements to the police is a misdemeanor. I recommend you don’t try to arrest Tracy for it. With her mental health history, she’d only get a slap on the wrist at best.” They left Shea sitting at the conference room table. Whitney gestured for Matt to accompany them. Whitney handed Tracy over to her guard with the short message to Denise that she would call her in the morning. Once inside her penthouse, she poured them each a glass of Hennessy and handed Matt his before sitting at the other end of the couch. “How bad is it Matt?” She knew, of course. This had the potential to explode their lives beyond repair. If Shea persisted in checking into Tracy’s story, she could eventually find someone who saw something. All Shea needed was one tiny fact to point to Tracy’s story being true for her to open an investigation. Whitney wanted to think they had perfectly contained the attack within the GSA family, but she wasn’t willing to bet their future on it. Matt turned sideways to face her. Like her, he was casually dressed in blue jeans and sweatshirt. “Well, while Ms. Detective was checking into us, I checked into her. Lauren Shea has a sterling reputation within the department. She has a high clearance rate. She’s a good cop and I would hate for her career to be ruined over something we both know is true.” Whitney nodded in agreement. “I don’t want this to come down to her or us, Matt. Do whatever you need to do to make this go away. I cannot choose to let her know what happened here. There is no way to explain the truth.” At least not in a way that didn’t expose all of them. “Is there anything new in the investigation?” Matt asked. Whitney drank half the cognac before she answered. “No. It’s hit the same dead end the other three hit. They thought they had something when another name popped with the first and third victims. It didn’t pop with mine. There’s not a lot they have in common beyond the obvious.” The attacks on young single women travelers began six months earlier. The first stunned the GSA because it was the first time a traveler was the victim of a crime while on one of the properties. Obviously, in the two centuries the GSA had been operating, they’d had victims. Muggings and assaults were common, but they had dozens of rapes and twelve murders. Travelers were at the same disadvantages as other newcomers to a city. Whitney and her staff stressed that they stay in crowds, not wander too far from the main roads, and keep their cell phones close. Not everyone listened and in every group, there was that one special person who thought the rules didn’t apply to them. Bad things happened and until the attacks, they always happened outside the hotels. All four women were alive and in various stages of recovery. The attacks had progressed in violence until the last victim, Tracy’s older sister Erin, was only alive due to the medical technology of the twenty-fifth century. Doctors were losing hope she’d recover from her coma. The cases had too much in common to be coincidence. The biggest being the location of the attacks, namely a Prestige Hotel. They were all gay. All traveling alone. All picked up in a local gay bar and taken back to Prestige, but not to their own rooms. The room they were found in was on one of the unrestricted floors. Travelers stayed on restricted floors so that their odd attire when they arrived and left along with their conversations did not arouse suspicion. Sexual encounters with denizens of the twenty-first century were one in a long list of forbidden activities. The investigators thought the first victim had ignored that rule because of where she was found. By the time Erin was found, they had revised that to the attacker being a fellow traveler. The odds that all four women left with a stranger only to be taken back to Prestige were too low for them to investigate that avenue. Every one of the travelers who were present with the women had alibis. “Would you do what Tracy did? If this happened to Corinne?” Whitney’s mind helpfully supplied her with a picture of her older sister lying nude on the floor of a hotel room. Her skin mottled with deep purple and red bruises, hands painfully tied behind her by nylon rope that cut into her wrists, her face unrecognizable. “No, I’d be harassing the investigators on the other side. Tracy had nothing to gain by coming here. She feels helpless and this was not a good way for her to get rid of that feeling.” Matt drained his glass and handed it to her. “I’ll call you if I get anymore calls from Detective Shea. Do the same for me, okay?” Whitney reached for his glass. “There’s no one else I would call. Thanks Matt. I appreciate how you handled this.” Matt grinned as he stepped into her private elevator. “That’s why you pay me the big bucks.” “Yeah, that must be it,” Whitney agreed as the elevator slid shut. She carried their glasses to her little kitchen and washed them by hand. Matt was lucky he didn’t get paid the twenty-first century salary for his position. She wasn’t sure how the pretty boy would survive with such a drastic cut in his allowance. Luckily, they all worked for the GSA in some field and all were paid according to rank. With nothing left to do, she walked up a short flight of stairs to her office that overlooked her living room. She sat at the computer to read the newest postings from the investigators. The attacks all had one other thing in common-Whitney was onsite at each property the night of the attack. So far, that wasn’t a clue being seriously investigated. Her presence there was unexpected and no one, including Whitney, knew until after she arrived that she would be spending the night. The only time she was alone was in her own room for the night. While she may have had the slimmest of opportunity, she did not have a motive. Whitney finally turned off the lights and made her way to bed a little after midnight. “Excuse me.”Shea held up her right hand in the universal give-me-a-sec sign and continued typing with her left. She had to get this report finished and on her captain’s desk before he decided to use her for target practice. She was already a week late handing it in. She saw someone sit in the chair next to her desk from the corner of her eye. She caught the scent of perfume and shot a quick look into the captain’s office to see that it was empty. She had a few minutes she could spare. “What can I do- uh for you?” She stumbled, unable to hide her shock. The last person she thought would be sitting at her desk on a bright winter day was Whitney Eisner. Hell, on any day if it meant she strolled in willingly off the street. Sunglasses hid Whitney’s eyes, but Shea didn’t need to see the pale blue to know Whitney was in tight control of her emotions. The clenched jaw gave that away and so did the fists clasped on her lap. “Is there somewhere we can speak in private?” The irritation Shea felt from her treatment at the hands of Whitney and her pet lawyer came back in hurricane strength force. She sat back in her chair and crossed her arms. Whitney Eisner did exist, she found out. And what she found didn’t make her like Whitney any more two months later than she did the day she met her. “Where’s your lawyer? As I recall you don’t want me speaking to you without your lawyer present.” “He’s handling something else for me at the moment. Please, is there somewhere else we can talk?” Shea wasn’t sure what possessed her to get up and motion for Whitney to follow her. Curiosity probably. She wanted to know what brought Whitney to her desk, and alone. Matthew Lang made it very clear that Whitney was off-limits. The interrogation room was small with only a scarred wooden table, four metal chairs and large mirror across one wall. Green paint was peeling from the floorboards. A gray path was worn in the black linoleum. “I’m sorry my conference room isn’t as nice as yours.” Whitney tossed her shades to the table and stared at the mirror. “Mine doesn’t have quite the special features that yours does. Is anyone back there?” Shea’s surprise at the question must have been reassuring enough for Whitney. She waved the question away and slowly took off her black leather gloves. Shea watched Whitney glance around the room before she looked under the table. “This room isn’t wired for sound. That would be illegal.” Whitney nodded absently and glanced around the room once more. “I’m not sure where else to go. This isn’t the kind of help I ever thought I’d need.” Something in her tone, something desolate, caught Shea’s attention. She narrowed her gaze and saw the woman was pale except for the dark circles under eyes. Eyes that darted over the room, over Shea, seeing nothing. “Is this about Tracy?” Whitney’s younger sister had problems. Shea wasn’t too eager to get pulled into another situation involving the young blonde. Whitney stared at her blankly. “Tracy?” “Your sister? Tracy?” Whitney closed her eyes and let out a shaky breath. When she opened her eyes, she stood up and reached for her gloves. Shea watched as she carefully pulled the kid-soft leather over her hands. She slipped on her shades. “My sister’s name is Corinne. Until that day, I didn’t know Tracy Warner existed.” Shea was speechless as every concern she had over Tracy was confirmed. Before she could ask any of the dozen questions bombarding her mind, Whitney withdrew a slim case from her breast pocket. She slipped out a business card and wrote a number on the back before holding it out to Shea. “If you’d like to the know the story about that, call me. Matt will be back by five. Call before then because I may be?unavailable after that.” Shea turned to watch Whitney quickly leave the room. What did that odd little pause mean? What word had Whitney censored herself from saying? And what did her attorney have to do with it? By the time she was in control of her body again, there was no sign of Whitney on the street. Shea went back inside to grab her coat and keys. It wasn’t until she was sitting in her car that she wondered where she was going. She dug around in her pocket for the card Whitney gave her. Whitney Eisner She flipped the card over and saw a local number written in precise script. Shea stared at the odd business card while she waited for someone to answer the phone. What did COS mean? Why did Whitney have an 800 number? From everything she was able to dig up, Whitney was a playgirl. She didn’t work anywhere and she lived in a penthouse at Prestige. Why she bothered to get an MBA from Stanford puzzled Shea. “Detective Shea I’m headed for home. I’ll wait for you in the lobby.” Shea blinked at the unexpected voice. “How did you know it was me?” She could hear the smile in Whitney’s voice. “Caller ID.” “Ms. Eisner,” Shea asked as she pulled into the flow of traffic. “What’s a COS?” “All your questions will be answered Detective, but not over a cell phone. Just pull under the portico. I’ll have someone park your car.” Prestige Hotel Suites was located in the section of Atlanta devoted to expensive hotels and more expensive shopping. A beautiful navy marble tiled fountain was the first sight a guest saw when they turned through the high wrought iron gate that surrounded the hotel. Shea followed the curved brick drive to the front door. Whitney was standing next to a young man clad in a simple black suit. “Park her next to me, Payne.” The young man took her keys with an excited smile. His coloring, especially the pale blue eyes, identified him as a relative of Whitney’s. “Brother?” Whitney cupped her elbow and led her into the lobby. “Nephew. Peyton, my brother, is Payne’s dad.” “Is he old enough to drive?” Shea cringed at the image of her Honda crashed into one of the concrete pylons. “Has he ever driven your car?” Whitney laughed as they stepped into the elevator. Shea watched in interest as Whitney used a cardkey to a floor marked G. “No, he hasn’t. But only because I don’t use the valet service. To hear him tell it, there isn’t a car in Atlanta Payne hasn’t parked.” The elevator opened into a bi-level room. Whitney walked out removing her gloves. “Have a seat, Detective. I’m having a Coke. Would you like something?” Shea walked from the elevator slowly, her gaze taking in the beautiful room. The signature colors of Prestige were prominent. The furniture was overstuffed navy leather, glass topped tables and large abstract paintings streaked liberally with burgundy. The carpet was dark gray. A small platform with desk and computer overlooked the room. The only view was the floor to ceiling window behind the desk. “What else do you have?” Whitney came to stand in front of her with a glass. Her smile was amused. “Well, on hand I have Coke and Dr. Pepper and a small assortment of alcohol. However, I can order anything you want from one of the restaurants downstairs.” “Dr. Pepper would be great.” Shea slipped her coat off. “This is a lovely apartment. I wondered why you live here. All of this, maid service and restaurants downstairs. How much would this cost me each month?” Whitney handed her a glass. “I doubt the city of Atlanta pays that well. However, we may be able to work something out.” “Ah yes, the problem you never thought you would have. So if I help you, you’ll give me a discount on rent?” Whitney’s smile was bitter. “I expect to be arrested for murder any minute. If you keep that from happening, you can live in this hotel rent-free for the rest of your life. You may then will the suite to whomever you wish.” Only quick thinking kept Shea’s fingers locked on the glass in her hand. Otherwise, Whitney’s nice plush carpet would be soaked with Dr. Pepper. She stared at Whitney in shock, waiting for Whitney to smile or laugh to show she wasn’t serious. Pale blue eyes stared at her in a direct, humorless stare. “My God, you’re serious.” Shea took a cautious step back. “Who did you kill?” Whitney spun away from her and walked over to drop down on the couch. “Nobody. I didn’t kill anyone. The evidence is pointing in that direction. As I said, I need help. I can’t believe we don’t have cops on the payroll. What an oversight that turned out to be.” “Cops on the payroll?” Shea echoed softly. “You mean like Matthew Lang is on your payroll?” Whitney nodded and took a healthy drink from her glass before staring down into the dark liquid. “Yes, like Matt, but not how you think. This is complicated. Maybe I should begin with your earlier question. COS stands for Chief of Security. I am from your future, Detective. Well, that’s not true either. I was born here and except for a few years of training this is where I’ve always lived. But my people truly belong to the future.” Shea asked the only question that made any sense. “Just how stoned are you?” “I’m not, but I can see how you would ask that. I can prove what I’m saying. So, for right now, pretend that you believe me. I don’t have much time.” Shea nodded and sat carefully on the couch. “Okay, but that proof better be pretty damn good. Otherwise, you’ll be spending the night on a psych ward somewhere.” “It may come to that,” Whitney said darkly. Whitney was on her second drink and Shea nursing her first by the time Whitney spilled the whole story. The secret of the fifth floor, the truth about herself and the others, the nightmare rapidly staining her life in blood red. Shea was left numb by the tale. She didn’t know whether to want to believe Whitney or to call for help. The story was outrageous and fantastic and had too many details that Whitney said she could prove for it to be anything less than real. If it was real, her life was never going to be the same again. A chime sounded in the silent apartment. Shea followed Whitney’s gaze to the doors of the elevator. They opened and Matthew, looking like any up and coming attorney milling around the Fulton County courthouse, walked into the apartment. His eyes widened as he saw Shea sitting on the couch. He scowled at Whitney. “Do I need to ask why she’s here?” Shea looked at Whitney in time to see her shrug. “You told me to get ready to defend myself. They have their police. I thought I should have mine.” Matthew sighed in exasperation. “How much have you told her?” “Enough to lose my job, get tossed to the other side, and spend the best years of my life in detainment. I’m fighting for my life, Matt. Don’t expect me to play by the rules.” Matthew stared at them for several long moments. He conceded Whitney’s point with a slight dip of his head. “You’re not under arrest yet, Whitney, but I think it’s only a matter of time. For now, they’re willing to settle for you wearing a sensor. Think of it as a form of house arrest. Denise fought hard for you.” Shea felt the tension leave Whitney’s body. “Thank you Matt. I can’t believe the evidence is that strong when I didn’t do this.” Matthew set his attaché case and coat down by the doors. “Come, we’ve got to get you tagged. If you don’t show up soon on the GPS, they’ll come for you.” Whitney plucked the glass out of her hand and stood up. “I think it’s time I gave you some proof Detective.” A skeletal night crew was working in the command center. Whitney nodded at the two sentries standing outside the large room and ushered Matt and Shea past avidly staring agents. Whitney didn’t bring visitors to her office after hours. She glanced at the detective’s face. She was taking the revelations better than Whitney thought she would in the same situation. Especially given how they treated Shea.A large map of the North American continent covered one wall. It was sectioned off into six color-coded sections and dotted with dozens of lights. Most were green, but she saw San Francisco and Los Angeles were still orange. She looked across to the senior agent. “Get people to Frisco and LA, now. I want those lights green in ten minutes.” Satisfied, she turned back to Shea and waved a hand over the room partitioned by desks for the senior agents who oversaw the Atlanta Gateway and the itineraries of the many travelers who passed through every day. “This is where we run everything. Every traveler wears a sensor for tracking. It also tells us if someone tries to take anything back. We control what is taken over. We knew Tracy was with you because her sensor sent an alarm. Meeting with police isn’t allowed either, but it does happen when someone’s arrested.” Shea sent Matt a considering glance. “That’s why you’re always there whenever a Prestige guest is in custody.” Matt nodded. “If you check, you’ll find no one ever returns for arraignment. We get them back and send them home. They lose travel privileges for a while as punishment.” While Matt and Shea talked, Whitney walked into her office. She opened a drawer and stared over the contents before making a selection. She sat on the edge of her desk to exchange her hoop earrings for the gold ball studs she selected as her sensors. The sensors came in a variety of choices that was left up to the individual traveler. Stud earrings were the most popular with both men and women. “Good,” Matt said as he came into the room. He sat at her desk to use her phone. Whitney pushed off her desk and walked over to the door to stand next to Shea. “So are you on the team, Detective? I should be surprised they’ve agreed to let me roam free, but I guess my position deserves nothing less.” “Your position? Are you high ranking?” “The highest,” Matt said as he replaced the receiver. “Whitney’s chief of the North American continent.” Matt clapped her on the shoulder. “Denise says you’re on radar. Do you need me for anything else? I’ve got a few legit things I need to do at work.” Several emotions washed over Whitney as she remembered the phone call that sent her ordinary day into a tailspin. Even as she told Sam she had to go over to Quantico, that Denise needed to speak to her, it never occurred to Whitney the summons had nothing to do with her Gateway. Armed sentries took her to a conference room where Denise sat with the two investigators working the assault cases. Whitney didn’t give them the chance to ask any questions. Sensing why she was there, she made an immediate request for Matt. Denise suspended the interrogation pending his arrival. Whitney sat in the conference alone for over an hour, fuming, wondering why Matt wasn’t there. She was entertaining herself with images of all the bottom feeding jobs she would give him when he stepped into the room. His tone was brisk as he broke the news that Erin Warner died that morning. He told her to go home and get ready to defend herself against capital murder charges. It took Whitney the brief ride from Quantico to Atlanta to decide she needed a good investigator on her side. She only knew one. Ignoring the protocol of who they were, Whitney leaned into him for a brief hug. “Thanks for everything Matt. Go, be normal. You’ll call me and I’ll call you if anything happens.” He gave her a reassuring squeeze. “Keep those studs on at all times. Don’t give them a reason to take you into custody. We need you over here.” Whitney nodded, saying, “I promise.” Matt left them alone in her office. Whitney stared at the petite blonde. “So, what do you think?” “I think I know how Alice felt when she fell down that rabbit hole. This becomes more surreal by the moment.” Doesn’t it though? The day went surreal on her when she stepped out of the cubicle at Quantico and hadn’t felt right since. She still felt the vibration of shock once she realized she was there for interrogation. She crammed her shaking hands into the pocket of her slacks. “Are you hungry? I can’t believe I am, but I suppose the breakfast I had at seven this morning can only last so long.” Shea smiled. “Maybe over dinner you can explain why I’m here.” Whitney blinked at her in surprise. “I told you why. I need help. I have no intention of paying for crimes I didn’t commit.” “I don’t know you didn’t do it.” The words cut even as Whitney acknowledged the honesty of them. If Shea investigated her, she knew only the life created for Whitney for this time period. To the outside world, Whitney led a pointless life indulging her passion for traveling. She vanished for days without warning and reappeared with tales of skiing or snorkeling in some exotic locale. Her friends were by turns envious of her life and saddened by the emptiness of it. She took a deep breath and looked into Shea’s steady green gaze. “Well, maybe if I can convince you, you can help me convince the investigators. I’m not a killer. If anything, there are people who would like to kill me.” Shea’s eyebrows shot up under her blonde bangs. “Why do you say that?” Whitney gestured with her head and walked out of her office. “I don’t mean that too seriously, but I think people who hold a grudge against me wouldn’t be too upset if I was murdered. My just reward and all that. I have a huge responsibility here and a lot of power. It’s my job to make sure nothing interrupts the TimeLine and I take that seriously.” Instead of turning right to head them towards the penthouse, Whitney turned left and began walking down the long corridor that led to the rest of the floor. From the corner of her eye, she saw Shea staring at the sentries. She clasped her hands behind her back. “I have forty-eight of these centers under my command across the US, Canada and Mexico. Each center is staffed by at least fifty people. I believe New York, LA and Miami have over five hundred. At any given time, we have ten thousand visitors in the system. They are monitored from the second they arrive to the second they leave. I, and the rest of my senior staff, are on call twenty-four seven.” They walked into the massive terminal center. Two walls were lined with sliding doors. A long counter, lined with terminal computers, ran the length of the other wall. This room had no windows. Prestige colors were found in the polished gray marble floor, burgundy wallpaper and navy leather chairs. “These are the terminals. Everyone who comes to Atlanta, comes through here. There is no other way from the other side to enter a city except through the terminal center. However, those of us who live on this side, can go to any terminal in the world from any other terminal. I can be in any GSA city on this planet in less than five seconds.” Shea cocked her head to stare at her. “GSA?” “Gateway Security Agency. There are six central gateways. I oversee the North American Central Gateway.” Whitney turned and headed for the hallway. “Come, let’s order dinner.” Shea wandered around her suite while Whitney placed their order to the bistro downstairs. She watched the detective and wondered what price she would pay for sharing their secret with an outsider. On the one hand she was fighting for her life and on the other, she would lose her life here even if she cleared her name. By telling Shea anything about them, she had forfeit her life on this side. She walked down from her desk. “Before we talk anymore, I want to stress that you cannot tell anyone what I’ve told you. Matt and I will deny everything under oath. If you persist, you will be picked up and taken to the other side. No one will ever know what happened to you.” The GSA had emergency plans in place for every situation they thought could arise from people in the future visiting the past. Whitney wasn’t aware of anyone being snatched by the GSA, but knew there was a protocol for that situation. Shea tossed her wry grin. “Do I look crazy? Because that’s what I’d have to be and what people would think I am if I started telling this story. I don’t think I’d look good in sanitarium white.” Whitney refrained from stressing home the point that Shea would never see the inside of a sanitarium. She needed Shea’s help. The last thing she wanted to do was scare her. As long as the detective stayed off their radar, she had nothing to fear. She waved a hand to the couch. “You’ve taken my revelations surprisingly in stride, Detective. I was thinking earlier that I doubt I would be so trusting if I were you.” Shea kicked off her battered Nikes before drawing both legs up to curl up in the corner of the couch. She laughed as she stared down at the couch at Whitney. “Well, to be honest, learning that you run the country’s largest travel agency explains your background a lot better than the playgirl image you’ve tried to project. I had a chat with Kim a few days after her party. I was calling to apologize for leaving so abruptly. She thought we left together and was all too eager to pump me for information. Do you know the nickname they have for you?” Whitney shook her head as she internally winced at the names her friends could call her. She was positive that whatever it was, it wasn’t complimentary. “Bond, Whitney Bond. They think you work for some super secret government agency. If you’re interested, it’s the MBA that blows your cover. The children of wealthy parents who do nothing but play are a dime dozen. Very few have MBA’s from Stanford.” It was a stunningly simple truth and Whitney was amused her cover was blown by something that should have been so obvious. They worked hard for the cover stories every GSA person lived. While most of the vital statistics that made up a life were true, a few meant something else if cast under a different life. Like her MBA. She earned it through the same hard work and dedication as everyone else who had one. It looked to the outside observer that Whitney did nothing with hers. Just as it looked to an outside observer that Matt worked solely for the Eisner family. The facts were true, but the picture they made depended on which side of the puzzle you stood. The elevator chimed and Whitney slipped from the couch. Their meal was here. She said over her shoulder, “Maybe on my next birthday, I should inherit money and let it be known the MBA is why. Would that satisfy my friends?” Shea’s light laughter carried across the room. “Kim will be so disappointed. You have a pretty active life in her fantasies.” A waiter entered the suite pushing a room service cart. Whitney directed the set up of their meal onto the low table in front of the couch. She signed for the meals and sat down when they were alone. Silence descended as they took off the silver dome lids and prepared to eat. They were having French Dip roast beef sandwiches with au jus sauce, small house salad and crispy homemade potato chips. Once Whitney had the ranch dressing dribbled over her salad and the lid off her sauce container, she moved them back to the reason Shea was in her suite. “Whatever questions you have, now would be the time to ask them. I have the time to answer them today. I won’t tomorrow. My job is demanding and I can’t neglect that, even if my life is on the line.” She glanced over at the other woman. Shea was busy with her own plate. She shot Whitney a glance. “Can you get me copies of whatever passes for police reports on your side? We need to know why they think you’re the killer. What is their evidence? What do they have on you?” Those weren’t the questions Whitney thought Shea would ask, at least not tonight. She was giving Shea the rare chance to ask her the secrets of her life. She was willing to answer questions that, until a few hours ago, she never thought a civilian would ever be in a position to ask her. She told Shea outrageous things, showed her fascinating images, and all Shea could think to ask was about the case. Whitney was stunned that Shea either believed her or was willing to suspend belief until the case was solved. She stood up and headed for her computer. “I have copies of all filed reports. It’s my right as COS. I’ll print you one.” “Good. Print me out whatever you filed in regards to the attack while you’re at it.” The evidence against Whitney hovered somewhere between circumstantial and slam the cell door shut behind her. Shea knew if she had a suspect’s fingerprints at a crime scene and no legitimate reason for them to be there, she’d have that person in custody. From Whitney’s recitation of her day, Shea knew that it was only Matt Lang’s legal skill that kept an interrogation from happening. She wondered briefly how Matt managed that.Whitney’s fingerprints bothered her for two reasons. The first was Whitney’s assertion she was never in those rooms while she was on the properties those days. When Shea asked if she’d taken a tour of the property, Whitney laughed and said she hadn’t taken a tour of the Atlanta hotel. Why would she do that somewhere else? Whitney went on to explain that she wasn’t in charge of the hotels and had nothing to do with their management. The fifth floor and only the fifth floor was her responsibility. It was the placement of the fingerprints that gave Shea pause. They were found on the navy cover of a book of matches from Atlanta Prestige. The only place they were found. A small, easily moved book of matches. Shea was positive even Matt’s legal skills couldn’t keep the wolves at bay if her prints were found on the bedpost or in the bathroom. They couldn’t place Whitney in the room with just a book of matches. They could, and tried, to bring her in for questioning. Shea sat back after reading the files Whitney gave her and knew she had a choice to make. She either believed Whitney was innocent and went at the case from that angle. Or she had doubts on her innocence and wished Whitney the best of luck in clearing her name. Shea closed her eyes. Various images of Whitney paraded across her mind. She heard Kim telling her that Whitney often left abruptly after receiving a phone call or page. She was gone for days. Shea remembered how quickly Whitney was at the police station that day with Tracy. She saw again the sprawling fifth floor and tried to imagine forty-eight of them. Whitney had to be available to any one of them at a moment’s notice. The picture painted wasn’t one of someone who had the time to plot attacks on women. Shea began a list of questions she wanted to ask Whitney when they met tomorrow. She needed to know why Whitney went to the hotels on those days. Who knew she was going. What happened if Whitney could not respond to a call. Did Whitney smoke. She wanted Whitney to take her through the executive’s itinerary for the days in question. Where did she go, why, what did she do and who else saw her doing it. There was a common thread that tied the cases together. Every instinct she had told her Whitney wasn’t their suspect. She had no motive and no real opportunity. She just couldn’t see Whitney picking women up in a bar, taking them back to where she lived and worked, and beating them senseless. While she could see Whitney talking some woman into going home with her, she could never see Whitney taking them back to Prestige if she was going to assault them. Whitney wasn’t stupid. She had the ability to take these women anywhere in the world. Shea couldn’t see her taking them to a Prestige anywhere, much less one of her own. Whitney wanted her to a take a leave of absence from her job. Shea wasn’t surprised by the request, but was surprised by her own readiness to agree. She was willing to put her career, and her life, on hold for a woman she barely knew. It was intriguing and she didn’t mean just the case. It was the idea that people from the future were visiting them, living among them. Shea wanted to know more about that. She had dozens of questions she wanted to ask Whitney about that, but had already decided it was more important to get to Whitney’s problem. Her personal questions could wait. Shea knew getting leave wasn’t a problem. Her last partner left work one day, walked in on a robbery at a 24/7 and was still recovering from multiple gunshot wounds. Shea was waiting for a new partner, but knew it would take a while. Her reputation as a trouble magnet preceded her. Max was the second of her four partners to walk in on a robbery. Connie at least had the brains to act like a surprised customer and wait for a shot. Serena transferred after they were car jacked on a stakeout. Daniel was her first partner once she made detective and his two years with her was still the record to beat. He left after they were hit by a sixteen-year-old leading police on a merry chase in a stolen Mercedes. He spent a week in the hospital. The department was wondering what to do with her and Shea feared a transfer to a desk job. On the scales, her high clearance rate was being outweighed by her reputation. She made a few more notes on her list before turning in for the night. She didn’t notice at Whitney’s, but once she read the files, she realized there were no photos of the crime scenes. She would like to meet the victims and talk to Tracy again. She wasn’t sure how or even if Whitney could arrange that. Shea didn’t think taking her to the future was an option for Whitney. She crawled into bed and, for the first time in weeks, was looking forward to the morning. If pushing papers was her future in the department, Shea knew her career as a detective was coming to an end. She fell asleep wondering if Whitney’s comment about not having police on the payroll meant she was willing to consider it. The whispering from her conscience began not long after Shea left her apartment. Whitney wasn’t a rule breaker and she’d broken most of the ones she sworn on her life to uphold. She repeated for herself the same line she used on Matt. The lie didn’t work as well for her because she didn’t believe for one instant her life was more important than anyone else’s. And she knew without a doubt she’d throw anyone else who broke the same rules over to Denise in a heartbeat. Whitney wasn’t sure what that made her, but she knew she didn’t like the feeling.She tried to read reports, to lose herself in mindless sitcoms and gave in after only an hour. She was angry with herself as she called Denise and asked to meet the Ops Director in her office. She snatched up all official symbols of her office and rank, marched into the elevator and kept her gaze on the selection panel as the doors closed. She refused to look around her apartment and wonder if she would be back. Whatever happened, happened. One way or another she would live with the consequences. The sub-basement at the GSA headquarters in Quantico was attended by a lone sentry. Whitney ignored the crisp salute from the young woman. The only thing on her mind was getting to Denise’s office and tossing her burden onto someone else’s shoulders. Denise Elliot was older, wiser, and Whitney’s boss. If Denise sided with her, she could live with what she’d done. If Denise didn’t, she could live with that, too. What she couldn’t live with, as was apparent by her late night arrival, was the uncertainty of it. The Director’s office door was open. Whitney glanced into the room and smiled. A robe clad Denise was slumped behind her massive wooden desk, slippered feet propped up on the edge and her face buried in the steam rising from a maroon mug with the GSA seal. Whitney knocked hesitantly on the door. Denise lifted sleepy, annoyed hazel eyes to stare at her. Whitney felt like a first year cadet and found herself trying not to shift under the direct gaze. “Come in and tell me just what couldn’t wait until the morning.” Whitney obeyed and sat across from her mentor. She wiped damp palms on her jeans. Now that she was here, she wasn’t sure how to start. She didn’t want to just blurt out what she’d done. Denise was likely to spill that hot coffee all over her lap by the admission. She thought she would pass out if she tried to beat around the bush. “Whitney?” Denise’s voice was gentle and she sat up. She placed her cup on the clean desk and crossed her arms. “It can’t be that bad can it?” “Do you remember that Detective Tracy Warner contacted when she was over?” Denise frowned at the seemingly left field question. “Vaguely. She’s a detective on the Atlanta force.” Whitney nodded. She met Denise’s searching gaze. “When I left here today, I went to her. I told her everything about the attacks and us. I asked her to help me.” As the words left her mouth, Whitney felt the tension fall away and relief rush to fill the void. Time stretched as she stared at Denise’s blank face and waited for the axe to slice her cleanly from the only life she’d ever known. Finally, Denise blinked and stood up. She planted her hands on her desk and leaned towards Whitney. Her tone was slow and measured. “I want to make sure I understand this correctly. My North American Central Gateway Chief of Security, fully cognizant of the consequences, willingly revealed our presence to a civilian? Did you really just tell me that?” Whitney simply nodded. She would not offer excuses or a defense. She didn’t have the latter and she refused to hide behind the former. “Oh my God,” Denise said, her soft tone shaded with anger and disbelief. She dropped into her chair with a jarring thud. She closed her eyes and brought her right hand up to massage her temple. “I don’t even know where to start the charges.” Again, Whitney could only nod. She sat forward to put her cell phone, pager, and ID on the desk. Denise backed hastily away from the items as if they were covered in nuclear radiation. Her startled gaze flicked between Whitney and her desktop several times. “Explain why you threw such a promising career away.” Whitney found she could not sit under Denise’s demanding gaze one more second. She pushed herself to her feet and rolled her shoulders as she turned to pace. She almost asked why Denise wanted to know when the why of it would change nothing. The hard rules, the ones with heavy penalties, did not come with exceptions. Obeying them was never a choice. She answered Denise now only because she could delay the inevitable if she talked forever. “When Matt asked me the same thing today, I told him it was because I’m fighting for my life. That I shouldn’t have to play by the rules. I truly believed that when I said it. And it is the reason I did it.” She shook her head now, disgusted with her reasoning. “I should have found a better way to do this.” “If you could go back to this afternoon, would you do it again?” The somber question caught Whitney off guard. Technically, she could go back to that afternoon. It was now the past. However, it was a part of the past closed to even them. The last two hundred years, other than the decades designated as open, were closed to them for travel for many reasons and only the unanimous consent of the Council could open it. As far as Whitney knew, that had never happened. But Denise wasn’t asking if she would go back. “Yes. I don’t know the better way to do this. The investigators are looking for evidence against me, not for someone else. I won’t wait until I’m arrested before I start clearing my name.” The last of her doubts slid away as she realized the absolute truth of her words. Yes, if given the opportunity, she would do it again. If she had other choices, if she had different options, she couldn’t see them. At least this way, if she cleared her name, the life she would live on this side would be free. “How did she take it, this detective of yours?” Whitney had to grin at how easily Shea accepted her story. She’d shown her nothing really that was irrefutable evidence of time travelers. “Amazingly well. I think she still had a lot of questions over Tracy. Learning the truth, about Matt and me, made that whole incident make sense for her. She’s going to take a leave of absence to help me.” Denise sighed and with her cup cradled in her hands again, sat back in her chair. “I don’t want to lose you Whitney. Replacing you could take the rest of my posting term. I’ve got better things to do with that time.” “I’m sorry Denise. I didn’t kill Erin Warner. I didn’t attack those women. I’ll do whatever I have to do.” And that was Whitney’s bottom line. She’d broken the rules, gone outside of the GSA for help because she was not paying for someone else’s crimes. She’d pay for her own and fully expected to lose her command, but that was as far as she was willing to go. Denise dismissed her words with a careless wave of her hand. “You’d be sitting in a cell right now if I even thought you capable of these acts. You’re not and the people who will be standing on your side should it go that far will surprise you. But you’ve made a huge mess here, Whitney, and now we have to find a way to cover it up.” Whitney watched in slack jawed shock as Denise sat up and booted her computer. “Sit down. This may take a while.” Whitney sat. Curious, she leaned forward. “What may take a while?” Denise grinned at her and winked. “We’re going to make your detective official GSA. Tomorrow you can announce to your staff that I’ve hired a security advisor. How did you expect her to investigate this without clearance of any kind?” “I didn’t think that far ahead.” Whitney felt numb as she watched Denise build a life for Lauren Shea in the future. When she walked back into her apartment a few minutes after midnight, she held Shea’s new life in one hand and her own in the other. This time when she stepped from the elevator, she let out a deeply held breath as her gaze moved slowly over the room. She wasn’t here much. There wasn’t much about the room that reflected her personality. She would have it missed it more than she knew. She went up to her desk and left the cell phones, pagers and her ID. Tomorrow her life changed. For better or worse, she didn’t know. Before she walked into her bedroom, she turned back to the room lit by a full moon. Unless they actually managed to hang the murder on her, this was hers. Who knew she would cross any line to fight for it? Nephew Payne wasn’t parking cars late the next morning when Shea arrived at the front door of Prestige. This man was slightly older than Payne, probably a college student, and his eyes weren’t the trademark Eisner blue. He opened her door before she could and greeted her with a smile too friendly to be the typical valet grin.”Good morning Ms. Shea. Ms. Eisner left a message for you at the front desk.” He plucked the keys from her hand and left her staring as he drove away in her car. The day just wasn’t going as planned. She stopped by the precinct first, thinking her request for leave was a mere formality. Apparently, she wasn’t as expendable with the department as she thought. Captain Ross saw her request as a prelude to her resignation and wanted assurances that she wasn’t leaving the department. She gave it easily and could look him in the eye when she did. For that moment in time, she had every intention of coming back to her job. Now, she was finally where she wanted to be all morning and the person she wanted to see wasn’t there. Shea felt deflated as she walked into the busy lobby. She wanted to dive into the investigation. Once she made up her mind to believe in Whitney’s innocence, she was eager to get her hands on the case. The last thing she wanted was to cool her heels waiting. Before Shea could join the line of people waiting at the front desk, another smiling co-ed dressed in black slacks and maroon oxford walked up to her and took her arm. “Ms. Shea, I’m Amanda, Whitney’s assistant. Whitney’s in a meeting right now. If you’ll come with me, we should have everything finished by the time the meeting ends.” First shock and then intrigue had Shea following the perky red head down the hallway behind the reservation desk. So, Whitney was on the premises. And what was “everything” that would be finished by the time the meeting ended? Amanda led her into a small office and gestured for her sit in front of the desk. Amanda took a folder from a pile and opened it. With a skill borne of practice, she quickly set out several forms facing Shea and marked spots with a hastily crossed X. “Once your suite is ready, we’ll decorate it to you preferences. Whitney requested that it be on the fifth floor for obvious reasons. We have special parking in the garage so we are discouraged from using the valet service.” Despite her deeply ingrained reluctance to sign any legal papers she had not read, Shea signed and initialed every spot Amanda indicated. She listened with half an ear as the woman went through the usual benefits of the GSA and the additional privileges of being at the headquarters of the North American Central Gateway. Shea wanted to ask just what position she now held at the Atlanta hotel, but didn’t want to blow whatever cover Whitney was providing for her. Amanda gathered up the papers as efficiently and handily as she dealt them out. She closed the cover on the folder with a bright smile. “All that’s left is to get your new ID, a shirt for today, and find out what parking slot is open for you.” Nearly half an hour later, Shea was alone in the elevator, headed for the fifth floor and had traded her white knit shirt for a navy oxford. The GSA dress code was dictated by PHS. Amanda explained that everyone dressed like staff to avoid confusion among guests. Shea thought it was more to keep the GSA members hidden among the hotel staff. When Amanda asked if she knew the way to the command center, Shea said yes. She was reasonably sure she could find the command center once she was on Whitney’s floor. She stared at the items in her hand in amazement. She had an official GSA ID card that, in addition to her name, gave her title as Special Security Advisor. She had a parking decal for the GSA parking lot. She had a new cell phone and pager. She would wait until later to read the copies of the papers she’d signed. She hoped whatever she agreed to do didn’t include living the rest of her life five hundred years in the future. The fifth floor was bustling. Shea weaved a path down the long corridor and tried not to stare. The clothing in Whitney’s time was?different. There seemed to be a lot of shiny materials with brightly clashing colors. Did they become color blind in the future? As she neared the terminal center, a familiar voice caught her attention. She slowed and stepped into the oddly silent room. Every eye was on Whitney as she faced off with a husky woman with twinkling neon green hair. “You were told what you could and could not wear. Your hair is unacceptable for this era. You will change it or you will go home. Those are your only options.” “Do you know how much this cost? I’m not changing my hair. I’m not going home. I’ve paid for three days.” The woman’s loud, demanding voice was a shrill contrast to Whitney’s cool, controlled tone. Whitney waved over one of the sentries. “Next time follow the rules and you’ll be allowed to stay for three days. Quantico,” she said to the muscular man. “You can’t- Hey!” The woman reached for Whitney as she was turning away and Shea stepped forward, grasped her arm and twisted it behind the woman’s back. Shea tightened her grip when the woman began to thrash. The guard snapped a pair of flexcuffs from his waist and between the two of them, they locked the plastic restraints on her wrists. Shea straightened her jacket and turned to find Whitney grinning at her. “All right, let’s get back to work,” Whitney said and let her gaze sweep over the room. Once she was satisfied, she glanced at her watch. “Are you hungry? I’m having lunch sent to my office and you can ask me all your questions.” “What questions?” Shea asked. “Like how did I suddenly become a GSA employee?” Her tone was teasing and while she did want to know the story behind her new status, she wasn’t very concerned about it. Oddly, she trusted Whitney. The woman lied to her during a quasi-official investigation. She was being investigated for assault and murder. And Shea trusted her. The grin she angled up at Whitney fell from her face at the stony expression on Whitney’s. A quick shake of her head had the rest of her teasing words dying on her lips. She didn’t need to be a mind reader to know Whitney didn’t want this conversation continued in the hallway. The command center was fully staffed this morning. Phones rang. Voices rose and fell over the cacophony. The rich aroma of coffee hung in the air. The large map was dotted with green, yellow and orange lights. Shea followed in Whitney’s wake and was surprised when Whitney veered from her open door to the closed one next to it. Her brisk knock was met with a command to enter. A slim man with a windblown mop of sandy hair sat behind a black glass desk. He glanced up from the paper he was writing and then sat back with a puzzled smile when he saw Whitney standing in front of him. Like Whitney, he was sharply dressed, his button down oxford a slate gray while Whitney’s was maroon. “Sam, I wanted you to meet Lauren Shea. We’re going to be locked in my office for about an hour going over what I need for her to do here.” She turned to Shea with a smile. “Shea this is my Executive Officer Sam Martin. If you ever need anything and can’t find me, find Sam.” Shea held her hand out to the man. Sam had dark brown eyes and Shea caught herself before she shifted uncomfortably under his calculating gaze. Without him having said a word to her, she knew Sam Martin did not like her. The feeling was mutual. His handshake was soft and weak and she suspected he had to fight not to wipe his hand off on his slacks. “We’ll let you get back to work,” Whitney said. Because she was facing Sam when Whitney turned to leave his office, she saw disgust flash in his eyes before he sent her a dismissive smile. “Pleasure to meet you, Ms. Shea.” “Yeah, you, too.” Shea followed Whitney into her office and mentally put Sam on her list of suspects. Whitney walked behind her desk and smiled at Shea. “Lunch is here. I ordered cheeseburgers and fries. Is that all right?” Shea had skipped breakfast. “I hope it taste as wonderful as it smells.” Whitney reached over and pulled the silver lid off the tray sitting on the visitor side of her desk. “Better.” Shea hoped Whitney was as honest about everything else as she was about the food. As she ate the best cheeseburger she’d ever had, she thought about her questions. When she arrived that morning, her only ones were about the case. Now she had others and she wasn’t sure where to start. Whitney had only question she wanted to ask. If Shea didn’t give her the right answer, then everything Denise did the night before was moot. She waited until Shea was dragging her last steak fry through a smeared puddle of ketchup on her plate. “Did you get your leave of absence?”Shea laughed and nodded. “Just barely. I thought I was on my way out. Captain Ross made me promise I’d be coming back.” The answer surprised Whitney. She remembered Matt telling her that Shea had a sterling reputation in the department. “Why on your way out? According to Matt, you’re one of the best.” Her words surprised Shea, and angered her. “You checked me out?” Whitney had to laugh at the outraged naiveté. “Of course I did. Just as you checked me out. So, answer my question. Why did you think you were on your way out?” Her quick grin was embarrassed. “My partners have a short shelf life. No one’s died yet, but the attitude seems to be that sooner or later someone will.” “Now it’s your turn,” Shea said and sat back in her chair. “Why I am suddenly a GSA employee?” Because she expected Shea to ask that, Whitney was ready with an answer that did not include her late night dash to Quantico. Shea didn’t need to know about her attack of conscience. “For you to do this job the right way, you need clearances I can’t give you. I talked to my boss and she decided the best thing was for everyone to think you’re GSA. She set it up so that if anyone checks you look legit.” “How legit?” Shea asked in obvious surprise. Whitney sat forward. “As legit as I am here.” She watched Shea sit back and blink as thoughts raced across her mind. Whitney watched the green eyes and wished she could read minds. She was certain she’d be very entertained by Shea’s. “I thought you said if anyone on that side knew about me, I’d be scooped up and never heard from again.” Whitney grinned. From anyone else, that question would hold at least a trace of concern. Not from Shea. Perhaps because she signed papers giving her official standing in the GSA rather than being met by armed men had something to do with her indifference. Whatever, it was trait in the detective she was beginning to admire. “You have friends in high places now.” It was as close to the truth as she would admit. “And when this is over, they’re going to let me just walk back to my little life?” Again, the question lacked the concern Whitney would expect. “Yes.” She hadn’t asked Denise that question. Hadn’t thought to. It didn’t matter. If Shea wanted to go back to her life, Whitney would break whatever rules she had to for that to happen. Shea reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out a small notebook. “I’m holding you to that. Now, give me a run down on your people here.” Whitney was thrown off by the change of subject. “What people? My parents?” “Department heads. Supervisors. Whatever you call the people who report directly to you. I think you’re being framed. I think it’s someone close to you.” Whitney knew she was being framed. Because she was still focused on that, she hadn’t thought to wonder who would want do this to her. Now, with Shea sitting across from her stating the obvious, Whitney was chilled by the truth. Someone close to her, either friend or co-worker, attacked those women and killed one. Why? For what purpose? The questions tumbled in her head. “Whitney!” Her head came up at Shea’s sharp call. “What?” Shea’s narrowed gaze swept over her face and Whitney knew she was pale. She saw when Shea made the connection. Her face softened and her eyes were a sympathetic green. “That didn’t occur to you yet, did it?” “No,” Whitney admitted, “I’ve been thinking only that I didn’t do it. I haven’t thought to wonder who did.” Shea smiled and poised her pen over her notebook. “That’s my job. Tell me about your people. Start with your XO.” Whitney was reluctant to point fingers at her staff. They were good people and that wasn’t just her personal opinion. Everyone who went into the GSA was given psychological tests every step of the way. She doubted someone with that kind of brain defect could reach this level. “Perhaps you’d do better reading their personnel files. I know them professionally. I know they do their jobs. I don’t know them socially or personally.” Whitney believed it was impossible that someone from her staff was framing her. So, she’d let Shea explore their lives until she was as sure of it. Shea nodded and jotted something down. “That works. I need to see the scenes. Can you arrange that?” She glanced up. “Is talking to the victims out?” Whitney glanced down as a message scrolled across her computer. Code Blue. Medical emergency. She stood up and walked over to open her door. She smiled at the young woman sitting at a desk in front of her office. “Amanda please show Shea to her office. Get her whatever she needs. Let Sam know I’ll be off site for a while.” She turned back to Shea. “I’ve got a medical emergency to attend. I don’t know how long I’ll be. Amanda will help you with the files. You have my number if you need to reach me.” Working for the GSA had major perks, Shea decided, as she sat in a plush leather chair behind the black glass topped desk. Amanda stood next to her, leaning at the waist as she touched a corner of the desk. A slim computer monitor slid soundlessly up from the glass and blinked a colorful GSA logon screen at her. Another touch had a keyboard screen sliding down at an angle.Amanda stood and turned her back to look out at the Atlanta skyline. “If you’ll type in a password, I’ll show you our site.” With a thought to someone trying to break into her files, she chose her badge number and locker combination. Once it became common knowledge what she was doing, whoever was framing Whitney would want to know the status of her case. She didn’t hope to believe Whitney’s system was hacker proof, especially if the hacker had every right to be in the system. So she’d put reports on file and later, if it came to it, she could set a trap. “Okay, I’m in.” Amanda spent several minutes showing her the Gateway Security Agency intranet. The first screen that popped was a list of all six Central Gateways. The North American Gateway was the only active link. Amanda sent her an easy smile. “Only Whitney has access to the other Gateways.” With a press of her finger on the monitor, she pulled up the North American Gateway welcome screen. From this one screen, Shea realized she could find anything she wanted. If she wanted to pull up a particular Gateway, she had only to type in the name of the city. Atlanta was already in the box. She scanned down her lists of choices. Administration seemed the best place to begin her search. As if she understood her presence was no longer needed, Amanda stood up and walked around the desk. “I can be reached on extension 89 if you need me. Whitney is 01 and Sam is 02. Is there anything else I can help you with now?” Shea skimmed her eyes over the neat, sparsely furnished office. “I need a pen and some paper. If you’ll point me in the right direction, I’ll get it.” “The credenza behind your desk is fully stocked.” “Great. Thanks Amanda.” “You’re welcome, Ms. Shea.” The second her door closed, Shea turned in her chair and began opening drawers. Amanda wasn’t kidding about it being fully stocked. Shea gathered items as she came across them. She had several yellow legal pads, a pen and three different colored highlighters on the desk within minutes. She discovered the credenza also held a slim laser printer with reams of paper, a medium sized safe and tiny refrigerated shelf stocked with cold cans of Dr. Pepper. She took one of the cans and knew she could get used to this kind of service. Several hours later, Shea had two legal pads half filled with writing. One was scribbled with questions she had for Whitney. The other outlined the command structure of the NA Gateway. She had a much better understanding of Whitney’s world. The command center didn’t have one staff. It had two. One, consisting of most of the people who sat at the desks in the outer room, ran the Atlanta Gateway. They were responsible for the traveler’s itinerary. They made reservations to restaurants, bought tickets to events and arranged for transportation if requested. They handled the traveler’s clothing needs while on this side. Confirmed medical conditions and made accommodations if needed. If a traveler had a normal stay, he or she never came into contact with the second staff. Until today, that staff was Whitney, Matt, Amanda, and the Regional Supervisors that oversaw the six Zones of the North American Gateway. Shea was startled to see her own name listed after Matt’s. She knew that touching a name brought up a file for that person. She touched her own name uneasily, wondering what she would find. Whitney said she had a legit cover for this job. Now she would get to see just what that meant. Personnel files came in two parts. The first was available to anyone who had access to the intranet. The second was only available to those with a password. Shea scanned over her public file with a grin. They had taken the essential facts from her life. She was single, lived in Atlanta and had just retired as a lieutenant from the Department of Civil Defense. She was now a security consultant for the GSA. Her professional record was sealed per Alliance Code 19-874-3A. Inquires were directed to Denise Elliot. Shea unlocked the hidden file with only a little trepidation. Again, they borrowed from her life. Her masters in Criminal Justice now came from the American University-Georgia instead of Georgia State. She still began her career in law enforcement at twenty-one, but in their version she had moved swiftly through the specialized divisions of the DCD. She was a Class One Expert on the late 20th Century and held certifications in Firearms and Forensics. She glanced at her commendations and saw that they, too, mirrored her record. She wondered absently how they managed to gain access to her personnel file. The only difference between her and the rest of the North American Gateway staff was that they were born on this side and she was not. Shea made a note to ask Whitney why that wouldn’t raise a flag for anyone who checked her out. Everyone involved with the GSA was born in this time and Shea had found no exceptions. If she stumbled across someone who wasn’t, she would want to know why. What she found in the personnel files was intriguing. The people who worked the entry-level jobs for the GSA were all teenagers in training at Quantico or college students working internships. Whitney herself was a ticket taker at sixteen, event’s buyer at seventeen, and interned as an assistant to the San Francisco Gateway Manager while she attended Stanford. Her first assignment after graduation was as an assistant to the South Pacific Regional Supervisor. She got her first center a year later. She steadily moved up to the bigger centers until she was over New York by the time she was twenty-five. At twenty-seven, she was the North Pacific Regional Supervisor. Five years ago, at age thirty, she was made Chief of Security. While few had enjoyed Whitney’s rise to the top, everyone had advanced degrees in various fields. Amanda, Shea discovered, was a junior business student at Mercer. She didn’t wonder anymore how they were able to operate their business for as long as they had without anyone catching on. They hid in the perfect environment and ran it with highly intelligent, uniquely qualified personnel. Shea backtracked to the GSA senior staff. Sam was the Eastern Regional Supervisor as well as her Executive Officer. She reached for her legal pad of questions. She wanted to know why Sam was both, if she had to chose one of the six for that job and if so why him. She turned her attention to the six Regional Supervisors to see if they crossed Whitney’s path at some other point. She’d start at the top and work her way down from there. Flipping to a clean sheet, she started her search with Samuel H. Martin. Nine-year-old Joey Danielson was already dead by the time Whitney arrived at New York’s Bethesda Hospital. His father was already in surgery. Because nothing she could do would change either of those facts, she sat next to Joey’s mother and held his four-year-old sister as they waited. She spent several minutes in the New York center familiarizing herself with the family of four and learning the details about the drunk driver who plowed through a crowd crossing a Park Avenue intersection. Three were dead and five injured. Two of the eight were hers.”Mommy,” Andrea lisped, “I’m hungry.” Brenda Danielson was a slim, tall woman with dark blonde hair and golden brown eyes. She’d had a bright, mischievous smile in her file photo. Now those eyes stared at her daughter blankly. Whitney watched her blink, watched reality hit her hard enough to flood her eyes with tears, watched as the woman turned those anguished eyes on hers in a desperate plea for help. Whitney laid a hand on her shoulder and squeezed before smiling down at the little girl who didn’t know her world had changed. “Do you like hotdogs, Andrea?” “Andi,” Brenda said hoarsely, “We call her Andi.” Whitney nodded and stood up with Andi planted on her hip. “I’ll take her to the cafeteria. Can I bring you back something? Coffee?” Brenda shook her head, her gaze once more glued to the doors where they took her husband. Because Whitney didn’t know what else to say or do for the devastated woman, she took her daughter down to the cafeteria for an early dinner. While Andi ate a hotdog and fries, Whitney called the manager of the New York center for an update. Joey’s body had been claimed and was at Quantico. As were the family’s belongings. Brenda’s mother would be arriving at the hospital at any moment. Whitney’s next call was to Amanda to inform her she may be spending the night in New York. She didn’t want to leave until she knew Joe Danielson’s condition. Should he survive the twenty-first century surgery, she wanted him on the other side as quickly as possible. An older version of Brenda was sitting next to the woman when they got back to the waiting room. Andi’s excited shriek of “Grandma” solved the mystery. Whitney handed over the little girl to her grandmother and asked if there had been any news. Brenda shook her head. “I know you’re busy Ms. Eisner. You don’t need to stay.” Whitney sat down next to her and laid her hand over the woman’s fists on her lap. “Once your husband comes out of surgery, we need to act quickly. We have an ambulance with medical staff standing by. The doctors aren’t going to want to let him go and you’re going to need to stand firm on getting him released.” When Brenda faced her, the grief twisting her features, Whitney continued in her calm, reasonable tone. “If you like, I’ll handle that for you. But under no conditions can you agree to let him stay. He may survive here. He will survive at home.” “Yes. He’ll survive at home,” Brenda repeated softly and visibly strengthened. She brushed away her tears. “I’ll take care of it.” Whitney nodded and thought, yes, she could handle it now. “I’ll be here in case you need me.” Less than an hour later, Whitney was standing slightly behind Brenda Danielson as she went head to head with the Chief of Surgery. As the surgeon began to list once again Joe Danielson’s critical condition in detail, Whitney stepped forward. The minutes spent arguing could be minutes off Joe’s life. “Excuse me Dr. Brill. Let me make this easy for you. We are his family and you don’t have any right to refuse our request. We want Joe moved to another hospital and we’ve arranged an ambulance for that. If you continue to argue with us, I’ll get a court order. We’ll move Joe either way, but one leaves you open to legal action.” The man threw her a nasty glare, snatched the chart and dashed off several quick lines. He shoved the chart at Whitney. “You’ll kill him by moving him. Just try to sue me when he dies.” Whitney moved the family down to a waiting car while the medical staff moved in for Joe. Whitney stood between the car and the ambulance as she called Amanda. The sun was setting and she saw this long day ending soon. “Amanda, do me a favor. Get Shea and bring her to the New York center for me. We’re getting ready to transfer Mr. Danielson. I want her to come.” This was an easy way for Shea to meet Denise. And, maybe if Shea didn’t have plans for the night, they could have dinner on that side and talk without interruptions. Although, should something arise that needed her attention, Whitney was only a page away. As always. The ambulance wailed a path to New York’s Prestige. The siren went silent as they turned into the garage of the hotel. Medical personnel swarmed the ambulance and moved Joe quickly onto a freight elevator for his ride to the fifth floor. Whitney waited for the freight elevator to come back down before taking the family up. Shea was the only person standing in the terminal center when they walked into the room. Whitney sent her a quick smile. She stood in front of the cubicle and watched as the family got on for the return trip. She met Brenda’s eyes. “I’m so sorry about your son. I wish I could have done more.” Brenda grabbed her arm. “You did everything. I don’t know how I’ll ever thank you.” Whitney bit back the words that she was just doing her job. She didn’t have to be here. There was no regulation or protocol that demanded her presence when a traveler died. It was Whitney’s own rule. She couldn’t turn back time and make this go away so the least she could do was make it go easier. “You just did.” Tears threatened again and Brenda fought to keep them from falling. “Joe owes you his life.” “Mrs. Danielson, you and your family owe me nothing. You became mine when you came here. I’m sorry I couldn’t do more.” The woman’s slight smile trembled. “You did everything.” “Thank you. Now go to your husband. He’ll be awake soon.” Whitney stepped back as the door closed and sighed deeply when the light showed green for a successful transfer. Without turning she said, “She’s thanking me. Do you know what’s waiting for her when she gets to Quantico?” Whitney faced her. “The body of her nine-year-old son. He was dead before I got here. I could do nothing for him, but get his body for his family to bury. How can she thank me for that?” “She said you saved her husband.” Whitney made a conscious effort to rid her body of lingering tension. “We’ll never know that, thank God. All he had to do was survive the surgery.” “Is that what you’ve been doing since lunch?” Whitney nodded, to distracted to hear the concern in Shea’s voice. “Are you finished for the day? I thought we could have dinner and talk. You had questions.” “Yes, I’m done. I’ve never been to New York City.” Whitney grinned and took Shea’s arm. Before the detective knew what was happening, she had them in a cubicle and the door closed. “You’ll have to come back another day. Tonight, you’re having dinner in Virginia.” Shea’s instinctive step towards the doors became a step back when they slid open. It was easy to forget how disorienting it could be to travel. There was no movement or timer to chart the journey. It seemed to the traveler that the door closed and then immediately opened. Whitney put her hand on the small of Shea’s back and led her into the sub-basement. This room looked exactly like what it was-a stripped down, small-scale terminal used only by GSA members. The walls were cinder block and the floor concrete, both painted military gray. The sentry snapped to attention as they walked past. “Where are we?” Shea whispered. “Quantico. I want to make sure the Danielson’s got off all right. I know Denise wants to meet you.” Whitney turned when Shea stopped as if she hit a wall. Green eyes were darting everywhere and she actually took a step back. “I’m in the future?” “Yes. Is that a problem? I never thought you would not want to come over. You said you wanted to talk to the victims.” Whitney walked over to face Shea. “Do you want to go back?” Shea’s reaction wasn’t what Whitney expected. She had not thought about Shea’s feelings about coming to the future, but knew if she had, she would never have attributed the fearless detective with the fear she saw so clearly in her eyes. Perhaps knowing there was a distant future she could visit and visiting were too very different things in her mind. Shea swallowed and it seemed to Whitney that some of the tension left her shoulders. “You’d take me back if I said yes?” Whitney nodded immediately. “Yes, of course. This isn’t something you have to do. Traveling is second nature to me. I don’t want you to be uncomfortable.” She was relieved to see the calming effect her words had on Shea. The woman visibly relaxed and now the eyes looking around were doing so with interest. Shea began walking forward again. “That was pretty quick. I thought it would be like an elevator ride. You know, take some time and be noisy and bumpy.” Whitney grinned at the description. She herself had never given the difference any thought. “We’ve had several centuries to perfect the system.” “You’ll have to tell me the story some time.” Whitney led them to a bank of elevators. Her first reaction was to readily agree with Shea’s request. From Whitney’s point of view, it was ancient history. The seeds were planted in the last decade of the twentieth century, grew and flourished in the twenty-first, but would not bear poisonous fruit until the twenty-second. It had always been the past to Whitney. For the first time, she saw it as the future. And it was a future she wasn’t eager to share with Shea. She smiled down at Shea’s questioning expression. “Maybe,” she said and knew she was lying. “When this is all over.” Whitney’s assurances aside, fear was a leaden weight in Shea’s stomach. She felt confident on her side that she could counter any attempts made to bring her over. That was in her time and in her town. Now she was on their side and in their time. Shea discovered her trust of Whitney didn’t go quite as far as she thought. It was only the blasé attitude of the two women sitting at the table with her that kept her from demanding to go back.She hid behind her menu as long as she dared and finally ordered something she thought would sit lightly on her queasy tummy. She declined an offer of the fragrant garlic rolls as she did a glass of wine. She didn’t want to get lulled into a sense of complacency or have her senses dulled. Although as she listened to Whitney and Denise chat amicably, her senses were telling her she was in no danger. She just wasn’t ready to believe. “So how did your first day in the GSA go?” Denise asked the question in a warm, slightly accented voice. Hazel eyes blinked at her guilelessly. “It was educational. I do have a question for you. When I was going through the personnel files, I noticed that everyone who works for the GSA was born on that side. How will it look that I wasn’t?” Whitney was surprised by the question, but not Denise. She reached for another roll, saying in a serious tone, “Someone has attacked three travelers and killed one. I don’t know who it is. Obviously, I have a problem over there. I decided to assign a criminal expert to investigate.” “When you get asked about me, I’d like to know who made the inquiry. Innocent people shouldn’t care why I’m there.” “Agreed,” Denise said readily. “You said today was educational. In what way?” By the end of the meal, Shea was as relaxed and as comfortable as if she was sharing a meal with two of her friends. The conversation had moved from her day in the files, to Whitney’s time with the Danielson’s, to Denise overseeing her own medical emergency. That one had a better ending than Whitney’s and one tiny traveler had an interesting tale about her birth in the 1800’s. “Do you want a lift back to the compound or do you want to see the sights?” Denise asked them outside the restaurant. Shea was fascinated by lights streaking across the night sky. Personal jets, she was told oh so casually by Whitney, who added that she needed to get her license renewed. Cars, not so different from what she was used to, were still a part of the future. But so were jets that ranged from one-person mini’s to family sized. Whitney looked at her with a questioning expression on her face. “Do you want to stay for a while? We can catch a cab back later.” Denise grinned at Whitney. “Or even stay over.” Whitney grimaced and shook her head at the suggestion. “She can stay over if she wants. My head will be resting on my pillow when I go to sleep tonight.” “You are such a snob. What are you going to do if your next posting is my job? You know that’s a real possibility.” She laughed at the expression of absolute horror that washed over Whitney’s face. “No, I didn’t know. Now that I do, I will take steps to rectify it. Thanks for the warning.” Whitney’s tone was cold and serious as were the bright blue eyes that stared over the top of the car at Denise without blinking. Shea was surprised by her attitude. She would have thought that somebody who moved up the ranks as Whitney had, who held the job she did, would be driven by ambition for Denise’s position. “You don’t want to be Director of Operations?” Denise laughed and smiled at her. “Sure she does. As soon as someone figures out how she can do that from her side. Our Whitney doesn’t like this side very much.” Whitney pointedly ignored Denise. “Do you want to stay?” The offer was tempting. There was much about this time Shea would love to explore. She was amused by her own one-eighty about being on this side. However, it was getting late and as Whitney had made it clear she wasn’t spending the night here, she knew she wasn’t staying alone. With a mental sigh, she added a visit back to her list of things-to-do. “No, not tonight. I still have some questions I want to ask you.” “You should have stayed,” Denise said when the three of them were in the car headed back to Quantico. “Whitney’s come over more times this week than she has since she’s been promoted.” “Do ya miss me? Because, you know, you never call, you never visit. A body could feel neglected.” Shea frowned from the backseat. Was it teasing or sexual teasing she heard in Whitney’s voice? She watched Whitney smile at Denise and Denise stick her tongue out at her. Shea didn’t want to make assumptions, but she knew she wasn’t assuming Whitney’s interest in women. She wasn’t basing that belief solely on Whitney’s presence at Kim’s party. Kim went to school with Whitney until Whitney was sent away to school at sixteen. One of the confidences they shared was an attraction to girls. “Yeah, I miss you. No one else screws up my filing system the way you did. I still get misty eyed when I go get a file and it’s where it’s supposed to be.” “How long am I going to pay for that? The statute of limitations has got to have expired by now.” “There is no statute of limitations on embarrassing mistakes. Family and friends get to torture you with the memory of those forever.” “Be careful what you remember Aunt Denise. Mom knows a few things on you.” Denise laughed lightly at the threat. “Grace knows more than a few things. Things I know she’ll never share with you.” The teasing banter continued, but with the word, Aunt Shea lost interest. Her relief that Denise was apparently a family friend bothered her. She shouldn’t care what Denise was to Whitney on a personal level. She shouldn’t care what anyone was to Whitney on a personal level. Whitney was nothing more than a case for her. She would be nothing more than her boss if she wanted to and was allowed to stay in the GSA when this was over. And maybe if she said that enough times she would believe it. She stared at Whitney’s profile. If she was asked earlier, she would have said without blinking an eye that her interest in Whitney was strictly professional. She might even have convinced herself the case belonged to her as it happened in her jurisdiction. Now she had to be honest with at least herself and admit that one of the reasons she was drawn to this was case was Whitney. She wanted to know more about the woman and that interest had nothing to do with Whitney’s intriguing lifestyle or job. A quick glance at her watch showed that it was still early enough for her to pin Whitney down for some questions. While Whitney used that as one of the reasons for them to have dinner together, Shea wasn’t given the chance to ask any of the questions on her list. Shea had to grin as Denise turned the car into the gated entrance of the GSA. She was five hundred years in her future and had turned down the opportunity to explore this time because she would rather explore Whitney. She was amused she believed this was just another job for as long as she had. They stopped by Denise’s office long enough for Whitney to check one last time on Joe Danielson. Shea wasn’t as astonished as she should have been that Joe was already home. She was beginning to believe there was little people in the future couldn’t do. Which made her wonder what allure the past held for them. Denise took her hand in a firm grip as they stood in the tiny terminal. “If you need anything let me know. I want whoever is doing this caught before they do it again.” “Thank you, I will.” Shea didn’t doubt Denise would be a powerful ally. She needed to remember she could also be a powerful enemy. Whitney’s goodbye hug was quick and soon they were in the cubicle on their way back. Shea was trying to come up with a reasonable excuse to extend the night when the door slid open. She made a mental note to remember that the private elevator to Whitney’s suite also served as a door to the future. “I’m sorry. I didn’t think Denise would take me up on my invitation to join us for dinner. I’m also sorry that I haven’t made time to answer your questions. So I’m yours for as long as you need me tonight.”Whitney hoped it wouldn’t be that long even as she accepted Shea could take hours. This wasn’t something she could keep putting off. Shea had questions she needed answered for her to do her job. Whitney would never have the time she if didn’t make it. “Do you want something to drink?” She asked as she walked into her kitchen. She opened a cabinet and stared over her selection of decaffeinated teas. Sleepy Time seemed appropriate. She was almost envious of the pajama-clad bear on the cover. He at least had the promise of a bed in his very near future. “Make that two,” Shea said from behind her. Whitney shot a glance over her shoulder to find her sitting at the bar. Her smile was amused. “I don’t want to be fighting a caffeine high in an hour.” Whitney’s mind pounced on the words “in an hour” gratefully. If, when the hour was up, and Shea was true to her word, Whitney would offer a late breakfast up here in the morning. She wasn’t needed in her office unless something came up. If that happened, she would respond regardless of where she was or what she was doing. They took their honey-sweetened tea to the couch. They kicked off their shoes and curled up to face each other from opposite corners of the small couch. Whitney savored her first sip of the tea before she smiled down at her. “I’m ready when you are.” Shea nodded. She held the crimson GSA mug in both hands and stared over the rim at Whitney. Whitney waited patiently, wondering what thoughts were going through her mind as those green eyes stared at her thoughtfully. “Why is Sam your Executive Officer?” “He has the most seniority.” “Did you choose your command staff?” Whitney wished she could see where this line of questioning was going. She was beginning to wonder if Shea found something while she searched the personnel files that afternoon. “No, I didn’t. My staff, the whole of the Gateway, was already in place when I took command. As I’ve had no complaints with any of them, I haven’t changed it.” “Have you worked with any of them before? Has one of them ever been senior to you in any way?” “No, none has ever ranked higher than me. We were all at the Academy at the same time if not in the same class. I’m sure if you checked the records, I’ve crossed paths with all of them at one time or another.” “Who, besides the senior staff here in Atlanta and the command staff, have access to you?” Access to her? Whitney frowned into her tea as she thought about that. She was beginning to see where Shea’s questions were leading and she didn’t like the view on this road at all. Stupid for her not to realize that only someone on the inside of the GSA could frame her. Doubly stupid for her not to realize only someone high ranking could manage it. A someone who, if not a friend, was at least a trusted colleague. The number of people who ran the GSA and Prestige was large, but only a minuscule percentage of those would have daily contact with her. Whitney took a long sip of tea to moisten her tight, dry throat. She kept her gaze on her cup as she spoke. “No one else. I rarely to go the Centers and depending on why I’m there, I see the manager or the Regional Supervisor.” As the silence lengthened, Whitney looked down the couch to find Shea watching her, her gaze compassionate. “Did you really think whoever is doing this is low ranking?” “Do you really think I’ve been wondering which member of my staff is a psychopath?” But one of them had to be. Whitney rubbed her eyes with one hand. “I’m sorry Shea. This has been a long day and I just want it to end. Can we finish this tomorrow? I’ll have brunch sent up here and we can talk. I’ll give you all the time I can.” She dropped her hand and looked down at the couch into that steady gaze. Shea nodded and stood up. “It has been a long day and I didn’t spend hours in a hospital. Here, give me that.” Surprised by the request, she handed over her cup without protest. “Thanks. Just leave them in the sink. I’ll get them later.” Whitney stayed curled up on the couch as Shea took their cups to the kitchen and came back to pick up her jacket. “I’ll see you in the morning. Sleep well.” “You, too. I’m sorry to end the evening so soon.” Shea held up a hand. “It’s all right Whitney. You need time to adjust. Believe me, I understand. Most people don’t go from ordinary citizen to murder suspect in one smooth move. It’s confusing and frightening and you need time to adjust.” Whitney nodded, believing the words with all her heart. She was stumbling now, playing catch up, but all she needed was time. Time to understand what was happening and if she never knew the why, at least the how and the who. Time. All she needed was time. She smiled faintly. “Thank you. I’ve been feeling stupid that you’ve been connecting the dots for me.” Shea laughed and turned toward the elevator. “You were smart enough to know you needed someone trained for this. That doesn’t occur to some people until the cell door slams shut behind them. Good night Whitney.” “Night, Shea.” Whitney watched her Security Advisor walk to the elevator. The battered brown leather jacket didn’t go with the PHS button down oxford shirt or the tailored slacks, however, it perfectly suited the blue jeans and polo shirt she wore the day Whitney met her. There was going to be resentment, and not just because someone was brought in from what her staff would think was the outside. It was obvious that Shea wasn’t really one of them. They smiled at each other as the elevator doors closed. Tomorrow would be interesting, Whitney thought, as she headed to bed. She was sure that Shea’s impressions of her command staff were going to surprise her. She hoped she was ready to hear what the detective had to say. The next day began early for Whitney. She was dragged from a dead sleep ten minutes after five. Ten minutes later, she was in Denver meeting with Vincent Hollandale, the Mountain Regional Supervisor, and the local attorney assigned to the Gateway. They were in the center’s main conference room and she was sipping some trendy designer chocolate concoction masquerading as coffee. Whitney scratched the day off as a total loss even as the sun was dawning in the east.”The arraignment’s when?” Not that it mattered. Bail was going to be obscenely high, and that was only if by some miracle it was granted. Matt’s counterpart, Michelle Zambrano, was a manic woman in her mid thirties. Her constant pacing and rapid-fire speech grated on Whitney’s last, sleep-deprived nerve. The woman was on her second bowl-sized cup of coffee. “Two this afternoon. I’m not asking for ROR. He has no ties to the city. How high am I authorized to go on bail?” Good question. Whitney was reasonably sure Ms. Zambrano wasn’t asking it hypothetically. She sat back in her chair and rubbed at her left eyebrow. Why did legal issues always give her a throbbing ache behind her left eye? Idly, she wondered if that was something she should have checked. She glanced over at the attorney. “Well, counselor, how high do you think it will be? This is your turf. What do murderers usually get for bail around here?” Murderer. Just thinking the word pumped up the volume in her head. This was another first for her. Whitney was getting very tired of these new experiences. Travelers getting murdered. Travelers killing. Travelers getting mowed down in crosswalks. It seemed that death had nothing better to do than haunt her centers. The woman’s laugh sounded like nails on a chalkboard. Whitney gritted her teeth and stared at her coldly until the noise died away. “This is my first murder. I have no idea what to expect when I walk into court today.” It was a simple truth that could be echoed by every GSA lawyer. Maybe somewhere, in some era, someone else had faced this situation. Whitney knew no one on her staff ever had. She nodded in resignation. “I know. Find someone who does know what to expect to go with you. I’ll call Denise and see what she says. Right now I think we have to go as high as the bail is set.” Leaving the man to face the consequences of his actions wasn’t an option. Which Whitney thought was a crime in itself. He came over to this side and killed someone. She thought it only fair that he be punished on this side. Standing, she gladly set her coffee on the table and met Vincent’s somber gaze. “I’ll call you when I know something.” The Atlanta command center was dimly lit for the night shift. The third shift workers casually noted her quick stride through the center. Late night and early morning calls happened just often enough for her presence to rate no more than mild curiosity. She sat behind her desk with a cup of real coffee and read the police report again, slower this time. A little after midnight east coast time, Rich Edwards procured the services of a working girl. Two hours later, her neighbors called the police to report a disturbance. She’d fought long and loud for her life. Rich bore the scratches and bruises to prove it. Again, Whitney thought it was a shame he couldn’t do time on this side. Prisons of this time were gulags compared to the future. Not that it really mattered for him. As a mental defective deemed “fixed”, he was on his last chance. It was probably why he chose to snap on this side. He must have thought he had a better chance to get away with it here. Whitney turned to her computer and logged into Quantico’s main system. A query on Rich Edwards returned a long list of criminal offenses, most violent crimes against women. The last was three months ago in an incident that echoed this one. That woman was alive. This time he’d killed and she would be his last victim. Not that she cared. As she waited for Denise to answer her phone, Whitney began her report on the incident. All she could think was that he shouldn’t have been on her side. Unfortunately, traveling was considered a right rather than a privilege. Revocation hearings were lengthy and required meticulous due process. Even had Rich Edwards been in revocation phase, he could have still traveled. “It’s Whitney,” she said when a mumbled voice came over the line. “A traveler’s being held for murder in Denver.” Whitney winced and moved the phone away from her ear. She held the phone out and activated her daily calendar to see what else the day held for her. The staff meeting at one took up the biggest chunk of her time. She didn’t want to postpone it. The meeting was important if only to introduce Shea to her staff. “Whitney?” Whitney blinked in surprise to hear her name and glanced around her office. With a sheepish smile Denise couldn’t see, she moved the phone back to her ear. “Sorry Denise. I was looking at my schedule for today. Between the time differences, I should be able handle my staff meeting and be at the arraignment.” “Tell me what happened,” Denise said, her tone as weary as Whitney imagined hers was when she was in Denver earlier and asked the same question. Whitney read her the police report and answered Denise’s few questions with what little answers she had. “If bail is granted, how high are we authorized to go? The money will be forfeit when he doesn’t return.” “Pay it whatever it is. We’ve got to get him back here. Have you checked to see if he has a record?” “He does. He’s fixed. Maybe this will help the Council to see that people with certain tendencies should not be allowed over here. Granted this is the first murder, but the muggers and the shoplifters cause enough problems. And you know that with crime, once something’s done, others think it’s a good idea.” It occurred to Whitney that the Council’s refusal to do something did not mean she couldn’t do something. She reached for her post-it pad and dashed off a quick reminder to herself to give this particular problem over to her Security Advisor. She might as well get everything she could out of Shea while she had her. “Keep me informed, Whitney. Let me go so that I can get my bosses out of bed and share the bad news. Good luck.” “You, too, Denise.” Whitney glanced at the clock in the bottom corner of her computer. Ten after six. She’d been awake a mere hour. Yeah, this day was a lost cause. Parking for the GSA was on the secured fourth level of the underground garage. The decal hanging from her rearview mirror had the guard releasing the barricade before she could stop. Shea returned the quick wave and drove into the small area in search of her space. Slot eight was conveniently located near an elevator. Shea grabbed her laptop and attaché case. She’d decided it was better for her to use the laptop for certain reports.The elevator opened in the command center. Shea was surprised to see the center was already bustling at seven-thirty. She had hoped to slip in under the radar and was uncomfortably aware of the eyes following her as she headed for her office. Well, either she’d get used to being stared at or they would get used to her. “Shea.” Shea stopped and turned to Whitney’s voice. She frowned at the rumpled signs of a late night or early morning. Whitney waved her into her office and Shea followed her into the room. Whitney shut the door before sitting behind her desk. “Have a seat,” Whitney said as her attention focused on her computer screen. Shea sat down and sipped her coffee, waiting for Whitney to remember she was in the room. Her eyes drifted over the dark circles under her eyes and her disordered hair. Had something else happened? She’d left Whitney less than eight hours ago. Could she have been called to another center for another crisis? “A traveler was arrested last night in Denver and charged with murder,” Whitney said without preamble. Shea stared at her in shock. “What?” Whitney sighed and glanced over her desk. Folders, open books, and CD’s were spread over the black surface. She snagged a file from the edge of her desk and handed it over to Shea. “That’s the police report from Denver and his criminal report from the other side. He shouldn’t have been here.” The last was said bitterly. Shea took the file and placed her coffee on Whitney’s desk to read the papers. Shea was astonished the GSA had a copy of the officer’s report on a homicide that took place just after midnight. She scanned the report and saw a slam dunk case for the prosecution. Despite the resources at the GSA’s command, not even they could change the fact that Rich Edwards was found straddling the body of his victim. His criminal report showed a steady escalation in violence against women. It was only a matter of time before he killed. “Why wasn’t he in prison?” With his record, he should have been a lifer already. “He was found to have a defect. He was fixed. He was released.” The summary was short and brought up many more questions than it answered. Shea stared at Whitney, waiting for a deeper explanation, and shook her head when Whitney simply stared back at her without expression. “Are you kidding me?” Impatience snapped in Whitney’s eyes. “Do I look like I’m kidding you? I told you he shouldn’t have been here. I don’t live on that side so if they think they can cure people like Edwards, it’s their problem when they’re wrong. I’m damned tired of it becoming mine.” They stared at each other in the shocked silence that followed Whitney’s outburst. Shea closed the folder and laid it on Whitney’s desk. “When were you told?” “A little after five this morning. I’ve already been to Denver. The staff attorney has no clue what to expect at the arraignment this afternoon. We’ve never had a traveler commit a murder before. She doesn’t think we’ll get bail.” “Why do you want to bail him out?” Shea asked cautiously. Whitney’s hold on her emotions was tenuous and she didn’t want to risk another flash of anger. “We can’t leave him in there. He doesn’t exist on this side. What happens when they start questioning him? Look what happened when Tracy came to you. We can’t risk exposure. That may offend you, but that’s the bottom line. I have to do everything I can to get him released as soon as I can.” Shea was more than offended. That someone from another time could come and do whatever they wanted to someone here without fear of retribution infuriated her. Just because this was the past to someone else, didn’t mean they should have free rein to do whatever their twisted minds wanted. “So we’re not real to the people in the future is that it? We don’t count because we’re already dead? Well, the first time around this woman lived at least past midnight last night. He didn’t have the right to take whatever was left from her.” Whitney closed her eyes and a brief smile crossed her face. Shock kept Shea rooted to her chair. This was funny? This was amusing? A woman was dead and the GSA was throwing all its considerable support behind the man who did it. When Whitney opened her eyes, they were dark with sympathy. Her voice was soft when she spoke. “There’s a test we have to pass before we graduate from Quantico. Those who fail never leave that side because the test has determined they believe just exactly what you said. They’ve lived the whole of their lives on this side and yet they still believe what we do here now doesn’t really matter.” Shea watched Whitney stand up and walk to her window. She crammed her hands into the pocket of her jeans. “I was born here and I will die here without ever having lived in what is really my time. This is my life and what happens here now is all that matters to me. If we’re exposed, it’s over here. We have to pack up everything, get into the cubicles and know we will never come back again.” Her eyes were a hard, ice blue when she turned. “Yes, that woman died before her time. And I am sorry for that. I can’t change it. I’m not losing my life because of it. Either you understand that or you don’t. If you don’t, it would probably be better for you not to continue in your job here. This will happen again. I will make this same decision again. I can’t change that either.” The minutes ticked off as Shea saw the bigger picture. Whitney’s job wasn’t to preserve the sanctity of the past or to safeguard the citizens of this time from her travelers. Her job was to keep the current system in place. For whatever reason, people from the future wanted to visit the past. It was apparently a lucrative industry for both sides. It wasn’t a system that Shea could support, not when she knew the flaws could be fatal. However, she wasn’t working for the GSA, regardless of what her badge and paperwork claimed. She was working for Whitney. She didn’t have to support Whitney in her job, or even like it. “My job is clearing you of murder charges. I don’t have to like your job to do mine.” Whitney’s grin was quick and wry. “No, you don’t. I’d like to expand your job while I have you. I’m not any happier about deviants coming to this side than you are. You’re my security advisor. Look over my security and advise me on what I can do to make sure this doesn’t happen again.” Shea stood up and reached for her coffee. “Sorry, Whitney. I’m not interested in working for the GSA. I have a job. You’ll need to find someone else for that one. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some files to read. Are we still meeting at your place at ten? I have some more questions for you.” Whitney stood framed in the sunlight coming through the window. Her hands were still fisted in her pockets. Shea forced herself to ignore the slump of her shoulders. She nodded and moved to her desk. “Yes, unless something happens. We have a staff meeting at one. You’ll meet the command staff at that time.” With a quick nod, Shea left the office and went to her own. While both computers booted up, she spread her lists of questions over the desk. She grabbed a new legal pad and began to read, writing down the questions she needed answered now as she read through the list. She had a sudden urgency to get this job over with and get as far away from the GSA as she could. Brunch made it to the suite before Whitney. She was delayed by a call from Denise relating the Council’s demand that Edwards be released by whatever means necessary. Whitney’s call to Michelle was quick and concise: she was authorized to go as high as needed to make bail. She’d think about what she would do if bail was denied when it was denied.Shea was sitting at the bar eating when she walked in. Whitney felt again the sting of rejection. Shea wasn’t rejecting the job as much as she was rejecting Whitney’s life. It hurt to realize Shea’s opinion of her mattered. The woman wasn’t even a part of her life a week ago. “Good?” She asked as she sat next to her. She lifted the silver lid from her plate of Crepes Suzette. It was her preferred brunch. “Very. I’m sorry I started without you. I couldn’t resist the smell.” Whitney waved the apology away. “Your questions? I can’t promise we won’t be interrupted.” The next twenty minutes passed with Whitney recalling what she could of the days of the attacks. What she remembered most was the call in the middle of the night telling her a traveler was badly beaten. Of making the arrangements to the get the women medical treatment on the other side. The reason she was there in the first place was a dim memory to everything else that happened. “What has to happen for your presence to be required on a site?” “My presence is never required. Most of my job is discretion and judgment calls. My managers have orders to notify me if there is a death, injury requiring medical treatment, or the involvement of government officials. Most of the calls fall under the third heading. Usually if I can go, I go.” “I can understand the fire in Los Angeles. Who called you for Dallas?” “No one. That was a staffing issue and I went there to demote the two top officers for non-performance. These are my people and I do that in person. It took longer than I thought to get everything settled again. I held ten or more staff meetings to make sure everyone understood the expectations I had of them. I stayed over because I was too tired to go home.” She watched Shea’s bold handwriting as she made notes in the space she had left under the questions. She propped her chin up on her hand and closed her eyes. Denver was going to be nightmare if Edwards wasn’t released. No, Quantico was going to be a nightmare if he wasn’t released. Whitney was clueless how to perform the miracle they expected of her. Once again, she was reminded that cops on the payroll would come in handy. Maybe she should look into seeing if anyone wanted to be a cop. A warm hand touched her arm, startling Whitney from her thoughts. She closed her eyes and rubbed her face briskly to get herself back in the present. “I’m sorry. I was somewhere else.” “Did that someplace else have a pillow and a blanket? Your morning started early.” Whitney smiled at the sympathetic tone. “I wasn’t dozing. I was trying to figure out what to do if Denver keeps Edwards. Quantico wants him back. I was just daydreaming that if I had a cop or two in there, they could sneak him out to me.” Shea laughed. “And kiss their careers goodbye. Commanders frown on jailbreaks.” “Working for the GSA is the career. Whatever else we do is cover. Like I said, it was just a daydream.” One she would need to find a way to make reality. If the Council continued to allow deviants travel privileges, sooner or later, someone wasn’t going to be retrievable. She propped her chin on her hand again. “Of course, I could just have Michelle go in there with some kind of poison. Does it really matter if he’s killed here or there?” Whitney sat up, inspired by her musings. She went to her desk and called Denise. While she waited for the Ops Director, her mind raced with a plan. Of course, she’d only implement it if Denver denied bail. Killing people was one of Quantico’s jobs that Whitney would prefer not to assume. However. She turned to stare out at the perfect blue sky when Denise came on the line. “If Denver denies bail, would the Council give us something to kill Edwards here? Something untraceable in this time.” Denise was silent. Whitney wondered if her boss was appalled or surprised by her request. A part of Whitney thought she should be appalled. Here she was rather calmly devising a way to kill a man and all she could really think was yes!, a solution to this impossible situation. Besides, she wouldn’t have to actually kill him. That would be Michelle’s job. One of the few perks of command was never having to fight the battles. Denise cleared her throat. “Let me talk to the Council. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.” Whitney hung up the phone and continued to stare out her window. Now that the initial adrenaline rush was over, she was uncomfortably aware that she wasn’t alone. The screaming silence behind her kept her gaze firmly on the white, fluffy clouds drifting slowly across the sky. What must Shea think of her now? She was a cop and whatever she thought of Edwards didn’t mean she wanted to be present as Whitney discussed murdering him. She listening as Shea walked across the room, mounted the steps and sat down in front of her desk. She closed her eyes before she turned to face her. “And here was I trying to convince you I’m not a killer.” Meeting her eyes was harder than Whitney thought it would be. There were so many emotions she didn’t want to see in her green eyes and the compassionate gaze caught her by surprise. “Your job sucks, Whitney.” Whitney forced a smile to her face. “No, mine’s pretty good. Today, if the Council allows us to do this, Michelle’s job sucks.” “He’s going to die either way isn’t he?” If they did away with mental defects as soon as they were discovered defective, Whitney would prefer the system of the future to the one they had now. She didn’t see much difference between a dog who attacked and a human who did. Those who saw the rest of humanity as prey should be treated as any other predator. “You thought I would be upset, didn’t you? You basically plotted a murder right in front of my eyes.” Whitney nodded silently. There wasn’t anything she could add to that. Shea shook her head slowly. “I won’t say its justice because a woman is dead. It’s not really fair because if they’d kept him on your side, she’d still be alive. I can live with knowing for certain that he’ll never do it again. That’s the one thing that is never for sure here.” It was only for sure on the other side once someone was labeled a mental defective. Whitney decided to keep that bit of trivia to herself. That Shea wasn’t impressed with the future of her world was obvious and Whitney saw no reason to knock the one thing she approved. She stood up. “Anymore questions before we go back to work? I have reports I need to check before the staff meeting.” And she hoped Denise got back to her before the arraignment. Regardless of what happened in Denver, she wanted to go there knowing they had a plan in place for either outcome. The longer Edward’s was held in custody the likelier the chance of someone noticing he wasn’t normal. In passing the differences between the times wasn’t noticeable, but after a while, someone should begin to wonder why he used off phrases and words and why he seemed lost in the world. Travelers weren’t usually here long enough to get tripped up by some small technology that was as alien to them as some caveman tool might be to her. “No, but I’d like to see the photos of the scenes. Do you have those?” Whitney gestured for Shea to go down the stairs. “The investigators have pictures. I have video. I’ll arrange for someone to set you up with a room. I’ll see if I can get copies of the pictures.” As expected all four videos were strikingly similar: a beautifully appointed hotel suite with only the remnants of police and paramedics to mark the room as crime scenes. For the first viewing Shea let the video play without pause. The scenes began in the doorway looking into the room and showed used medical paraphernalia scattered just a few feet inside the rooms. Next, the camera panned a sweeping view, showing black powder covering all flat surfaces before moving in for close-ups on what little evidence they had to collect. Shea knew from the reports that very little useful evidence was found in the rooms. In fact, except for the area where the paramedics had treated the women and the forensics powder, the suites all looked ready for occupancy.Shea sat up slowly as her last thought echoed in her head. An empty hotel room. She reached for the remote and slowed the tape. Inch by inch, she watched the camera pan the room and saw there was absolutely nothing to indicate the room was occupied. Granted, the attacker wasn’t going to stay in the room after the assault. Even the stupidest of criminals were smarter than that. They weren’t usually smart enough to restore the crime scene to a pristine condition. As she saw the cups wrapped in plastic, the towels draped perfectly, the navy foil wrapped mints still on the pillows, she knew the women were in the rooms only minutes before the attacks began. While it may be easy to gain entry to a hotel room with the doors located conveniently on the outside, the security of Prestige did not appear to be so easily breached. All rooms were contained inside the hotel and access to the rooms was granted only to those with keycards. Shea reached for her pad and began a list of questions. She wanted to know how closely the keycards were monitored, how they were issued, if they were returned and if so, how they were recycled. Could someone keep a keycard from a previous stay and use that card at a later date? Could an old keycard be reprogrammed in a way to bypass the security? Just how easy would it be for someone off the street to enter the hotel and enter a room without the front desk being aware of it? And how, if someone did manage to do any of those things to get a room, did they know to do it on a night when Whitney was staying over? No, it didn’t happen that way because it couldn’t happen that way. Those outside of the GSA, and Shea would count Prestige staffers in that, could never know Whitney’s movements so precisely. The only way someone could know with any certainty that Whitney would be somewhere was if they were privy to her schedule or if they knew in advance that a situation would arise that Whitney would attend personally. Only someone very close to her could do either of those things. Only someone intimate with Prestige’s operating procedures would know how to bypass security precautions. That someone could never be a stranger. A quick knock at the door had Shea reaching for the remote and turning off the video. “Come in.” Whitney opened the door and stood in the threshold. “I’m on my way to the meeting. Are you ready?” Shea nodded and grabbed her notebooks and pen. She ejected the CD and slid it inside a case. “Do you always hold this meeting in Atlanta?” “Well,” Whitney said with a cocky grin, “I am the boss.” “You bring them here because you can?” Shea asked, smiling. She fell in step with Whitney as they left the conference room. The meeting itself didn’t interest Shea very much. She doubted she would be attending if she had met the command staff before now. These people were, essentially, business executives and they ran, essentially, a travel agency. Shea hoped it was a short meeting. Shea didn’t have a chance to ask any more questions. Whitney paused by a closed door and opening it, she stepped back so that Shea could enter first. As she passed Whitney, she was told in a soft voice to sit in the chair to her right. The others were waiting as they seated themselves at the table. Shea felt the stares on her and ignored them. She opened her notebook, uncapped a pen and looked to Whitney. Whitney sat at the head of the table and opened a leather portfolio. She paused in the act of reaching to turn a page and sat back in her chair, her eyes dark and weary as she swept them over the people watching her every move. “Ladies and gentleman, we’ve got a problem. Last night a traveler was arrested in Denver and will no doubt be charged with some degree of murder this afternoon.” She paused as they reacted to the news. She held up a hand when the man seated across from Shea would have asked a question. “We’ve had several women attacked; Erin Warner died from her injuries. We have a very big, very serious problem.” She stood up and shoved her hands into the pockets of her jeans. Even rumpled and weary in casual clothes, her command presence was electric. Carefully, Shea glanced around the table and wondered if they remembered there was a stranger sitting with them. “Let me introduce our visitor.” Whitney moved to the back of her chair and Shea felt her hands come to rest near her head. Once again all eyes were on her. It was hard to force herself to sit calmly under the weight of their combined stares. “This is Lauren Shea, a Special Security Advisor appointed by Denise Elliot to investigate the attacks. She has the authority to investigate anything she thinks has to do with our security. She answers only to me.” Shea’s eyes moved from face to face. She hoped she hid her own surprise at being given carte blanche better than they did. Anger and outrage were hidden swiftly behind bland masks of polite interest. Was it the fact that she was investigating? Or did they not like the fact that she was at least their equal when she was on their turf? Shea thought it was the latter. They were used to answering only to Whitney and if the last few days were the norm, they didn’t have to answer to her very often. “Introduce yourselves,” Whitney said and moved away to walk down the length of the table. “Lea, you start.” The woman with short blonde hair leaned forward. Her smile was quick and her dark brown eyes shot a teasing glance at Whitney. “I’m Lea Sanders. I’m the North Pacific.” Once again, she glanced at Whitney, her grin hinting at a shared secret. “We were roommates at the Academy.” Shea picked up her pen, wrote Lea’s name and the question friend or foe. She smiled at her. “Nice to meet you, Lea.” While the others introduced themselves, Shea wrote their names and added her first impression of each of Whitney’s Regional Supervisors. French Canadian Jean-Michel Trudeau oversaw Central. Sam was the East. Siobhan Conner, an elegant black woman, had the Mid-West. The South Pacific belonged to a youthful Mexican named Marcellos Cabrera. Vincent Hollandale, looking every inch the befuddled college professor with his horn rimmed glasses and tweed jacket, oversaw Mountain. Shea granted that all six were smart, competent businessmen and women, that all had reached their current position by hard work and dedication and that any could step into Whitney’s place without causing a single blip in the system. She glanced over the group and wondered it if was as simple as someone wanting her job. Was her replacement already chosen? Was it Sam by default? She made a quick note to ask Denise that very question. “We have a big problem,” Whitney repeated as she sat at the head of the table and picked up a paper from her portfolio. “I expect you to give her your complete cooperation.” The meeting lasted two mind-numbing hours. It felt like days. Shea thought she would cry in gratitude when Whitney ended the meeting and the others left the room with quick goodbyes. She turned to stare at Whitney. “I quit.” Whitney’s head snapped up from her notes. “What?” Shea nodded. “If I have to sit in on these meetings every week, I quit. I feel like I should get a medal for managing to staying awake.” Whitney dropped back in her chair, laughing. “You were very heroic. Instead of a medal, I grant you immunity from staff meetings.” “God bless you. You are a kind and benevolent leader.” She grinned and shaking her head at Shea’s heart felt gratitude, she settled her elbows on the armrest and loosely linked her hands together. Shea was amazed by the relaxed image she projected. With all that was happening in her life, both professionally and personally, how could she sit there as if she didn’t have a care in the world? The woman sitting in front of her resembled the playgirl Whitney wanted the world to believe she was and seemed nothing like the executive Shea knew her to be. For the first time, she wondered if both personas weren’t a part of Whitney rather than a role she sometimes played. “So, what are your impressions?” She asked casually. Shea knew Whitney didn’t believe for one second whoever was framing her for murder could be one of the people who sat in this room with her for the past two hours. What evidence would Shea have to produce to convince Whitney that someone she trusted implicitly was doing this to her? What would it take for her to believe? “They seem to know what they’re doing.” It was the nicest, most non-committal thing she could think to say. She only had suspicions and while she trusted her instincts without question, she knew Whitney would need more to believe. “They do,” Whitney said and frowned as the phone on the table rang. She lifted the receiver, saying, “Yes?” Her expression morphed from annoyance to blank in the blink of an eye. She nodded silently several times. Finally, in a cool and calm tone, she said, “It’ll be done. Thanks Denise.” “They want you to kill him here, don’t they?” Her own calm tone surprised Shea. This was supposed to be wrong. This was supposed to be the one line never crossed. Whatever the flaws, whatever the mistakes, justice was only just if it was delivered without bias. “Yes,” Whitney said and stood up. She closed her notebook and looked down at Shea. “The poison is waiting for me in Denver. Do you want to come?” She did and she didn’t. It was one thing to stand here and watch them cross the line. It was something else, something darker, to step over it with them. Morality is the sliver of gray between black and white and it had never been as thin for Shea as it was at that moment. To her surprise, she heard herself agreeing to accompany Whitney to Denver. If Whitney was surprised, she didn’t show it. She nodded and phoned Sam to let him know they were both going to Denver. Distracted, Shea listened as Whitney told Sam that Quantico had provided the poison should the court refuse to grant bail. Because of that, she wasn’t sure how long they would be gone. “Does Sam always know where you are?” Shea asked as she followed Whitney from the room. “He always knows when I go to another center. If I’m going somewhere for personal reasons, he only knows that I’ve gone off site.” Shea filed the information away to examine later. Sam was the obvious suspect. He had the most to gain if Whitney was removed from her position and of the six, was the one who would know Whitney’s current location with reasonable certainty. He was also the only one who had daily contact with her. There was only one problem to Sam being the attacker and that was his gender. Shea didn’t see even a man as slender as Sam passing himself off successfully enough as a woman that he could lure four lesbians to a hotel room. Even the best female impersonators couldn’t hide all the up close and personal differences between the sexes. Denise was waiting for them when they walked into the conference room in Denver. Normally the Ops Director’s presence at one of her centers would concern Whitney. For this, it seemed appropriate. A small steel box sat next to Denise’s coffee cup. “Zambrano’s on her way. Are you going with her?”Whitney nodded. “It’s my job.” “It’s really not.” Denise’s stare was as pointed as her words. The argument was old and Whitney knew neither of them would see the other’s side. These people, the ones who lived here and the ones who came to visit, belonged to her. She had to do whatever she could to protect them. “What’s in the box?” Shea asked. “How can you be sure it’s not traceable?” Denise reached to flip open the lid. She lifted a plastic envelope containing a tiny green pill. “This is Tritaloxin. She’ll put this in a glass of water she’ll ask for before they bring him to her. This was invented about fifty years ago my time for heart attacks. The effects are similar to an electric shock to the heart and it’s always done under supervision. His death won’t be quite instantaneous.” Shea looked at Whitney. “How do you plan to get the body?” “We’re a close family so of course I came when Ms. Zambrano called to tell me my brother was arrested for murder. I want to take him home to Atlanta. Our mother wants Richie buried next to our father.” Whitney’s tone conveyed true regret for a brother lost in more ways than one. “Does that always work, claiming to be someone’s family?” There was a shade of doubt to her voice that made Whitney smile. Shea wanted to believe it wasn’t that easy. That Whitney couldn’t just stroll into a hospital, jail or morgue claiming a relationship to someone without question. “Yes. We have all the information we need to provide a racial and ethnic match. People don’t question something that falls within their expectations. Besides, why would someone claim a body that wasn’t theirs?” Shea opened her mouth, but closed it without saying a word when Michelle followed by Vincent entered the room. Whitney was disappointed she would never know Shea’s reply. She was sure that whatever it was, it would not be something predictable. Michelle walked to the table and propped her hands on her attaché case. “My father will join us at the courthouse. He has experience with murder cases.” There was never any doubt that whoever Michelle picked to go with them would be part of the GSA family. Whitney was certain that her contact with Shea was a first for the GSA. In addition to the hotels, the GSA owned a law firm and a medical practice in every city that housed a center. Both practices had clients that were not GSA, just as the hotels had guests from this era. It was rare that someone outside the GSA handled a legal or medical problem and then it was only in an emergency such as the Danielson family in New York. “Great. However, that doesn’t solve the problem if bail is denied.” Whitney picked up the plastic bag with the tiny green pill. “This is Tritaloxin. After his court appearance, you’ll meet with him and put this in a glass of water. He’ll have a heart attack and die. I’ll claim the body and this is over.” Michelle stared at her blankly for several seconds and then glanced around at the room before turning back to Whitney. “God, you’re serious. You want me to kill him? No.” Denise stood up and Whitney held up a hand to silence her. Michelle was hers and while this problem was both of theirs, the solution was Whitney’s. She nodded at Michelle. “Okay. I’ll do it. Get me in there.” Without a word, she nodded and sat down at the table to stare at Whitney. Whitney looked at her watch. “Anything else? If not we should be going.” Denise shook her head and shot a glance at Shea. “No, Shea and I should stay here. Too many people might look suspicious.” Whitney looked over at Shea and because she saw relief in her eyes, she nodded. She would only take Shea as far as she wanted to go with this. “All right. I’ll have my pager if you need to reach me.” “I think I can handle anything that comes up. This used to be my job remember?” Whitney ignored the little jab. “Well, Ms. Zambrano, let’s go get justice done.” Snow was falling lightly when they walked from the hotel lobby. Michelle’s Lexus SUV was idling at the curb and Whitney slipped gratefully into the warmth. It snowed in Atlanta occasionally, but rarely did they have snowdrifts piled like hedges along the streets. Whitney was reminded why, when she had a choice of assignments, she always chose to go south. “How do I get you into the interview room?” Michelle asked with obvious hesitation. Whitney turned away from watching thickly bundled people walking with great care down the sidewalk. “My name is Whitney Edwards and you called me when my brother was arrested. Of course I came. I’ll claim the body and take it back to Atlanta with me.” The silence stretched for several minutes as Michelle maneuvered expertly over the slick roads. “Have you done this before?” “Do you mean kill someone in police custody?” Michelle shot her a quick glance. “Yes, that. Have you?” “No. But then, I’ve never had a traveler murder someone. If you know the law in the future at all, you know he’s going to die either way. I’d prefer it happen on the other side. I don’t want to do this, but I have little choice. He cannot remain in police custody any longer than absolutely necessary.” “If he’s going to die anyway, that means he’s a defective. Why was he allowed to come here?” Whitney smiled at the attorney’s obvious confusion at the situation. She was a little surprised the woman had not asked for Rich Edwards’ criminal record in the future, but supposed there was little reason for her to do so. There was nothing she could read that she could use in trial here. “I’ve been asking that for years.” And she wasn’t any closer to understanding the answer. Traveling was an inherent part of life in the future. Everyone did it, for many different reasons. Some wanted to visit family and friends who lived on this side. Some wanted the chance to see history as it happened. For most of the people, this side wasn’t the past. It was part of their present. It was their life and that wasn’t something given up without a fight. “But you’re Chief of Security. How can you be overruled when you make a security decision?” Whitney laughed and shook her head. Was she ever that young? “Because even I have a boss.” The rest of the drive to the courthouse was made in silence. Whitney willed herself to relax. She knew better than anyone that the secret to getting what you wanted from people was to be what they expected you to be. If she was nervous instead of distressed some sharp eyed person would question her presence. She was only suppose to be here because her brother was arrested for murder. She had to project only that. “When do we do the other thing?” Michelle asked when they were alone in the elevator. “When we have to,” Whitney said and stepped into the hallway. She sent up a small prayer that it wasn’t something they would have to do today. “Got any suspects yet?”Shea was staring at the open doorway, stunned that in a few short seconds, events had changed so quickly. She realized she never thought she would be going to the courthouse with them, but didn’t know what she thought she would do instead. Surely, Whitney meant more than her waiting at the hotel when she asked if Shea was coming with her to Denver. And how do it go from Michelle administering the poison to Whitney doing it without any discussion? She knew it wasn’t her right, but she didn’t want Whitney in that position. It wasn’t easy to take a life. Those with a conscious were damaged. “Shea?” Startled, she turned to face Denise. “I’m sorry, what?” A slight smile crossed her face. “I asked if you have any suspects.” With a last frowning glance at the doorway, Shea sat down at the table. From Denise’s tone, she was making casual conversation rather than asking a serious question. Shea understood. She’d only been on the case less than week. “A few. Whitney’s very isolated. Only someone close to her could frame her like this.” Denise nodded thoughtfully and propped her feet on the table. “You think she’s being framed?” The question surprised Shea and earned Denise her complete attention. “Yes. Don’t you?” Denise laughed. “I do yes. But I know Whitney. I’ve known her all her life. She is many things and more than a few are annoying. She could never be a killer. It’s not who she is.” “And yet, should things not go the way you want in that court room, she’ll kill him.” Her words struck Denise physically. She jerked as she sat up and blinked as she tried to reconcile what she told herself Whitney was doing with the cold, hard reality Shea threw in her face. Before she could order her thoughts, Shea sat forward with her hands linked on the table. “I know it won’t be easy for her. She’ll tell herself it’s for the greater good. She’ll convince herself that she didn’t have a choice. She’ll do it, but it won’t be easy. It won’t be something she ever fully accepts had to happen.” “You seem to know her very well for having known her a short time.” Shea was aware that somehow in less than a minute the conversation went from professional to personal. Denise was watching her from eyes narrowed in speculation. If Denise knew Whitney all her life, she probably knew Whitney was gay. “I’m very good at my job. I’m very good at reading people.” Denise stood up and walked to stand at a window showing the snow-capped Rockies off in the distance. “She takes it all too seriously. Too personally.” The memory of Whitney standing in the terminal center after New York flashed across Shea’s mind. The woman had lost her son and was thanking Whitney for saving her husband’s life. Whitney didn’t want her gratitude because in her mind she’d done nothing to deserve it. It was her responsibility and for Whitney, saving the husband could never make up for losing the son. More, Shea thought, because she didn’t punch a clock to start her day. “It’s her life.” “It’s a job,” Denise said defiantly and turned to face her. “It’s just her job.” “Okay,” Shea said agreeably. She didn’t know Denise well enough, or Whitney really for that matter, to get in a discussion over Whitney’s life choices. She did know Denise was wrong and thought Denise was simply denying what she knew to be true rather than being a believer of her own words. “Do you really think this is going to work?” Denise stared at her for several seconds before grinning. “Probably. Whitney has a way of making things happen.” Shea didn’t doubt that in the least. She’d seen Whitney in action and knew had she looked anything like Tracy Warner, she would have believed Whitney’s story. It was galling to know that even with all her training and all her years of seeing the worst of humanity, she could still be so easily deceived. At least she could think Whitney had many more years of training as a deceiver. “Do you mind if I ask you some questions while we wait?” Denise shook her head and came back to sit at table. “Not at all. Do you want some coffee or something else to drink?” The next two hours passed swiftly as Shea asked questions to get an overview of the entire operation. She was surprised to learn that only ten decades over the span of time were open to travelers at any given time. Travelers with Special Exemption Status were allowed into closed time periods, but years marked by war or disease were closed to all. The figures were mind boggling to Shea. How did they keep track of everyone? She knew from Whitney that travelers wore a sensor, but how did they keep track of those who lived on this side? Did they have free rein to roam all the time lines at will? Denise shook her head at the question. “No. If someone lives on this side, they can be in this time line or in my time. With permission they can travel to another time, but only if it’s two hundred years before or after their birth. Everyone’s allowed to use the terminals to travel to other cities.” “How do you know if someone from this time goes to another time? Can’t they just in the terminal and go?” “God no,” Denise said with a laugh. “No one’s allowed to just wander the time line. Our keycards are, say, like tickets we use to travel. They are embedded with information and if someone tries to go where they aren’t allowed, it shuts the terminal down.” The excitement of a real avenue of investigation had Shea sitting forward. “No one? Not you? Not Whitney?” Denise reached into her breast pocket and pulled out an ID card identical to the one Shea had in her own pocket. She held up the card. “No one. The terminals won’t operate without a keycard.” Shea stared at the thin plastic card. It was a key that opened the time line and most keys didn’t leave a log of who used it last or when. But this was a computer key and she hoped that somewhere was a log of who went where and when. That it did more than read the encoded information to determine if the cardholder was attempting to go where they weren’t allowed. There was only one little flaw that Shea could see. If there were such a log, it would not show that she traveled to Denver with Whitney. But someone had traveled to the cities where the attacks occurred and that someone should have traveled there every time. “You have a very interesting expression on your face? Want to share?” The door to the conference room opened without notice and Vince Hollandale stood in the doorway. His face was grim as he gaze fell on Denise. “Bail was denied. Paramedics are on the way to the courthouse.” Shea watched Denise close her eyes and nod her head once. “Okay. I’ll go over and get everything ready for the body.” She stood up, her face as grim as Vincent’s and looked down at Shea. “Call me if anything happens. I’ll give it an hour and if nothing’s happened, I’ll be back.” “Can I get you anything?” Vincent asked after Denise had left. Shea walked to the door. “Take me with you. I want to know what’s happening.” He led her to an office that was a mirror of Whitney’s in Atlanta. She accepted a cup of coffee to have something to do with her hands. Vincent sat behind his desk, touched the surface and she jumped as a police monitor sounded in the room. Shea sat across from him and listened to familiar chatter. An officer was checking a suspicious person on Elm Street; several more were responding to an armed robbery at a bank downtown; a woman very matter-of-factly noted the “bastard” at the courthouse died, escaping justice. Their eyes met across the black glass desk. Later, Shea would remember that her first thought wasn’t horror at what they had done, that it wasn’t satisfaction for some kind of justice, but fear. If Whitney could look at this as just part of her job, maybe just maybe she’d come out of this all right. Shea was very much afraid that she couldn’t. They had overlooked one very important detail. No, not overlooked. Never considered. How could they know? This was their first execution and everything went according to plan until Whitney attempted to claim the body. Colorado wasn’t questioning her right to Rich Edwards. In fact, the police official was very kind as he explained she could have the body tomorrow after the autopsy. It was required because Rich Edwards died in police custody. An autopsy. Someone should have thought of that.”Ms. Eisner, if they find the poison, what happens then?” Michelle asked when they were in her car on their way back to Prestige. Whitney didn’t turn from her view of fat snowflakes drifting to the snow covered ground. “I’ll have one hell of a lawsuit.” She never wanted to do something like that again. She understood why they did it. It was her solution after all. But the jittery nerves and stomach roiling anxiety were feelings she hadn’t felt since her first months as a newly minted COS. Over the years, she gained confidence in her abilities and had felt in control right up to the moment the judge denied bail. The shock of what that meant, of what she would have to do, was paralyzing. She watched Edwards shuffle from the courtroom in cuffs and knew it wasn’t a contingency plan anymore. He swaggered into the conference room. He knew who she was; he knew she couldn’t leave him there. He sprawled in the chair across from them and smirked at her. He was big. Over six feet easily and the ugly green jumpsuit stretched tight over two hundred plus pounds of rock hard muscle. He was twenty-three so Whitney thought his baldhead was more a fashion choice than genetics, though with his pug face the gene gods had not been kind. “So whatcha gonna do?” He asked as he grinned at her. Whitney nudged the glass of water closer to his hand. “There’s not a lot I can, Rich.” For a moment, he turned the glass with his fingers and stared at her with flat eyes a summer sky blue. He grinned again and picked up the glass. “Gotta do something don’t ya? Can’t just leave me in here.” With one swallow he drained half the glass. “Can ya?” Whitney simply stared at him, waiting. She barely had time to wish she had asked Denise how long it would take when she saw it happen. His blue eyes grew wide and the glass dropped to roll on the table. Whitney looked down at the spreading water. Slowly she lifted her eyes from the water to him. “No.” Of all the things Whitney expected to see in his eyes, rage was not one of them. Definitely fear. Maybe horror. Panic and pain from the effects of the attack certainly. Instead there was rage, black and bitter, because he knew what she had done. He lunged for her, would have had her if the poison had not seized his body. His grabbed his heart, sweat rolling down his red face as he labored to draw air into his lungs. “Bitch,” he wheezed and fell to his knees. “You?can’t?” The words he fought to grind out over the pain were drowned out as Michelle called for help. He had stopped breathing by the time officers arrived. Whitney was hustled out of the room as every futile effort was made to save his life. Barely thirty minutes passed from the time he was brought into the conference room and someone came to tell them he was dead. She never expected them to keep the body and short of stealing it, there wasn’t a lot she could do about it today. Whitney blinked slowly and realized she was staring at a wall. She turned to find Michelle staring at her as if waiting for Whitney to tell her what to do next. Whitney glanced around and saw they were in the secured GSA lot under the hotel. She laid a hand on Michelle’s arm. “I don’t know if this means much after that, but there will be a commendation put in your file. You went above and beyond today and I am personally very grateful. Thank you.” “It means a lot. But you’re the one who went above and beyond.” Whitney opened the passenger door. “Nothing is above or beyond my job.” It was after seven her time and Whitney wished she could go home. She wanted this day over and would be quite happy if it was never mentioned again. She was glad that few people inside the GSA would ever know what she did. She wished desperately there was a way she could forget. Shea and Vincent were standing in front of them when the elevator opened to the fifth floor. Michelle stepped out, but Whitney stayed. Because Denise wasn’t among the welcoming committee, she knew the Ops Director was in Quantico. She motioned Shea into the elevator with her. She looked at Vincent. “They kept the body. We’ll get it tomorrow. Call Sam and tell him that Shea and I are staying here tonight. We’ll be back after I report to Denise.” Her weary gaze shifted to Michelle. “Go home, do whatever you have to do to forget this day and I’ll see you here at eight in the morning. I don’t know what time we’ll get the call so I want to be ready to move when we do.” Michelle stared at her a moment before nodding. “In the morning then.” They found Denise writing at her desk in her office. She looked up at Whitney’s knock on her open door and sat back in her chair as she waved them into the room. She wasn’t smiling as she swept narrowed eyes over Whitney’s face. Whitney hoped she looked more composed than she felt. “You look like hell,” Denise said, not unkindly. “I think you’re supposed to when you kill someone. Otherwise you’re just a psycho.” Denise opened her mouth to say something and Whitney turned to walk to the window. She didn’t want to hear Denise disagree with her that she had killed someone that afternoon, but gagging her boss wasn’t a wise career move. “Where’s the body?” Whitney leaned against the wall and stared at the faint crescent moon hanging over the treetops. “Do you know what they do if a person dies in police custody in Denver?” She waited for Denise to answer and when she didn’t, she turned to her. “Hmm?” Denise glanced at Shea. Shea looked blank before realization dawned and she said, her voice stunned, “An autopsy. I’m sorry, I should have thought of that.” “Yes, well,” Whitney turned back to the moon. “Should they not find the poison and not trace it to the glass of water I asked for, I should get the body tomorrow. Shea and I are staying overnight in Denver. I don’t want any slip-ups when they call me to come down there.” “Actually,” Shea said, her tone cautious, “I’d like to cash my rain check for supper here. Does it matter where we stay tonight?” Whitney closed her eyes. Her shoulders slumped as the weight of the day came crashing down on her. She debated Shea’s request with a brain zinging from the day’s events. Did it matter? No, not really. They could go home for all that anything mattered. They were only a quick ride away from wherever they were and whatever time they were in at any given moment. “Okay. We’ll need to get clothes.” “Let me take care of that for you,” Denise said quietly and Whitney nodded at the offer. She was more than willing for someone else to be in control. The moon was high in the starry sky by the time Denise’s arrangements for them were complete. A car would take them to the restaurant for supper and anywhere else they wished to go before bringing them back here for the night. “It’s all arranged. I’ll try not to need you until tomorrow,” Denise said from her side. Whitney cast her a quick glance. Denise laid a gentle hand on her shoulder. “Just let it all go for the night.” Whitney leaned over to kiss her on the cheek before pushing away from the wall. “Thanks. I’ll try to do that. We’ll see you in the morning.” The walk from Denise’s office to where the car waited for them was made in a silence Shea didn’t know how to break. Several times she almost spoke only to stop when she realized how contrived the words seemed in her head. She didn’t want to force a conversation of trivial small talk. She didn’t want to minimize the horror of Whitney’s day by treating it as if it was the same as any other.She glanced at Whitney’s face as she slid first into the car. Her heart sank at the blank shock in her eyes. Denise had seen it and had looked so helplessly at Whitney’s back as she walked to the window. The denial that Whitney killed anyone died on her lips. Like Shea now, she didn’t know what to say. What could anyone possibly say? In the dark car, where no one would ever know, she reached for Whitney’s hand. Long, slim fingers were icy in hers. She found the courage to speak when Whitney didn’t pull away. “He was twenty-one when I stopped him for going eighty in a thirty-five zone. I was still in uniform then. It was two in the morning and scorching. The last thing I wanted to do was get out of my air-conditioned car for a traffic stop. He was driving a red Explorer so new he had driven it off the lot that morning. He was five-eleven, weighed about one-seventy and he looked like an angel with his curly blonde hair. He graduated the day before with honors from Mercer. His girlfriend said yes when he asked her to marry him only six hours earlier. His name was Lucas Miller. I know everything about him except why he came from that brand new car with a gun in his hand. He shot at me and missed. I didn’t and I held his hand as he died on the street.” Even after ten years, that night was as clear in her memory as a movie. Her irritation with the stop, the sweat rolling between her shoulder blades like a river and the adrenaline spike when she saw the gun in his hand. Her aim was so perfect it was like he was wearing a bull’s eye on his chest. He never said a word as he bled out on that street, his hand in hers, and she stared into his dark, confused eyes until she saw him slip away. They tore his life apart searching for a reason why he did what he did and never found it. He was a good kid with a bright future who made one tragic mistake on a hot June night. “You don’t ever forget do you?” Whitney asked softly. Shea didn’t want to answer that question. Whitney would learn in her own time how to live with what she had done. Everyone did. “He would have killed again. If he had ever gotten free, Rich would have killed again. I’m a cop and I can tell you with a clear conscience you did the right thing. The only thing you could do. That’s the bottom line and that’s all that counts.” The car drove under the covered entrance to a busy Italian restaurant. The valet opened their door and held out a hand for Whitney to exit the car. Before she stood, Whitney turned to her. Shock was fading in the crystal blue and the fingers held loose in hers tightened briefly. “Thank you.” Shea tried not to stare at the people milling around outside the entrance as they waited to be seated. Hair in bright neon colors twinkled cheerfully in the night. If Shea had given the woman Whitney turned away that first morning any thought, she would never have thought the woman’s appearance was mainstream. How could you take anyone seriously when their hair was cherry red and lit up like a Christmas tree? Or in one long braid twisted in a rainbow of colors. As they got closer, she saw multiple piercings and tiny glowing facial tattoos. It wasn’t the meek that inherited earth, it was the geeks and freaks. Shea’s stomach growled and if the long line was any indication, it could be a while before they ate. The brunch they shared earlier seemed days ago. She caught up with Whitney before she could approach the maitre d’ to get on the list. “Hey, let’s go somewhere else. I’m starving and it looks like an hour wait.” In reply, Whitney took her hand and pulled her with her to the podium. “Whitney Eisner.” The older man smiled at her as he reached for menus. Shea bit her lip when she saw the glowing blue angel on his left cheek. At least his hair was a monk’s fringe of snowy white. “Yes, this way please.” The dining area was small, intimate tables lit cozily with candles. Their table with a bottle of wine chilling in a bucket was tucked into a corner. He handed them menus once they were seated. “Jason will be with you shortly.” Idly, Shea watched him weave a path to the front of the restaurant. Her gaze drifted over the room taking in the warm candlelight, tables for two and piano playing in the background. She glanced at Whitney, who was leaning back in her chair scanning her menu. Why would Denise choose such a romantic setting? It was an odd choice even for a boss who had an obviously personal relationship with a subordinate. “Are you ladies ready to order?” Shea blinked up in surprise at the young man. Who was staring at Whitney with wide, unblinking eyes. Whitney spared him a quick glance. “We’ll need a few more minutes.” He nodded and backed away from the table. “I usually have the lasagna when I come here. It’s very good.” Whitney set her menu to the side. She reached for the wine and poured them each a glass. “Do you know what you want?” “I haven’t had spaghetti in a while.” As soon as she placed her menu on the table Jason was back. “What would you like this evening?” He never took his eyes off Whitney as she gave both their orders. Shea waited until he was gone before picking up her glass. She took a sip and met Whitney’s eyes across the table. She was beautiful in the flickering candlelight. Shea was glad to see her eyes were less shadowed. “So did you want see the sights?” The question caught Shea off guard. “I’m sorry, what?” Before Whitney answered, Jason brought their salads to the table. “Do you want to see anything while we’re here?” A very graphic image popped up in her head, bringing a smile to her face. She didn’t suppose that was on Whitney’s list. She cleared her throat. “I wouldn’t know what to want to see here. What does Virginia have?” “We’re not limited to Virginia,” Whitney said with a light laugh. “We can go anywhere. Do anything.” Really? She wanted to ask. Could they really do anything? She could admit to herself that she was attracted to Whitney almost from the beginning. Or at least at the cookout when she noticed how beautiful she was even as she was suspicious of her. A body would have to be dead not to notice. Dead and buried. She was feeling very much alive at the moment. Shea took several bites of her salad as she tried to think of something to prolong the night. She didn’t want to go back to the compound and spend the night flipping through TV channels. She especially didn’t want to leave Whitney alone so soon in the evening. It would be better for Whitney to end the night late and slightly drunk. Inspired by that thought, Shea looked up from her salad. “I want to dance. I want to see and hear what the music is like in this time.” Whitney cocked an eyebrow, but smiled. “Okay. I think you’ll be disappointed. It’s not so very different.” They spent the rest of the meal talking about the cultural differences between the times. Shea found Whitney’s repeated warnings that there wasn’t a chasm wide difference between then and now intriguing. Why go back at all if not for the quaint nostalgia of a simpler time and place? With people going over in droves, there had to be a lure and one that wasn’t readily apparent. She’d been led to believe that Whitney didn’t come to this side often, but when they left the restaurant, Whitney gave their driver the name of a club she didn’t get from anyone else. If this was a club from her cadet days, how could she be sure it was still open? If it wasn’t from her cadet days, how did she know about it? “Come here often?” She asked as she slid from the car onto a crowded sidewalk. A door opened somewhere close and thumping music spilled out with a group of laughing people. Whitney cupped her elbow to lead her through the throng. “Not anymore.” Any questions she could have asked were lost as she stepped through the wide door and stared. The Warehouse was an apt name for the club. Her eyes were drawn to the center of the room where an artwork of twisted metal snaked up to the ceiling with staircases branching off to at least five levels. The railings around each level were crammed with gawkers watching others dance on lower floors. The hand on her elbow slid around her waist and Whitney leaned close to ask in her ear, “Do you want a drink?” Shea didn’t try to compete with the floor drumming music. She looked up, intending to nod and found herself less than an inch away from Whitney’s face. Suddenly, her world went from a strobe light flashing, music crashing bar to a dark corner with Whitney’s body pressed against hers from lips to thighs. Briefly, so briefly the thought barely touched her consciousness, she questioned what was happening. Then Whitney opened her mouth. Shea didn’t care if it was wrong, that Whitney was either her boss or a victim, that somewhere was a rule forbidding a relationship between them. All that mattered right then was getting her hands on Whitney’s body the way Whitney had her hands on hers. And oh how they were on hers. The kiss was hard and demanding while her hands were gentle and caressing. Slowly they moved, from the small of her back to her waist, to her stomach. Shea groaned, lost to time and place, when Whitney’s thumbs stroked the curve of her breasts. “No,” she protested hoarsely as Whitney broke away. “Don’t stop.” Whitney brushed a quick kiss to her lips. “Do you want to stay here or leave?” Shea didn’t have to think about the answer. Even if the choice had been to trade coming here again for the chance to make love with Whitney, even then she wouldn’t have had to think about it. She slid her hand to the nape of Whitney’s neck and pulled her easily into a deep kiss. “Where can we go?” Whitney smiled, quick and bright, as she said, “Anywhere you want to go.” Shea grinned at the standard reply. Maybe one day she would remember that with Whitney the answer to where would always be anywhere. But even anywhere was farther away than their rooms at Quantico. Shea was in favor of anything that was closer. “Here. In your room.” On the short drive to Quantico from the club, Whitney waited for her conscious to remind her that she was breaking another major rule. It was wrong of her to have a relationship with Shea. She was altering the other woman’s life. Had already altered it. Whitney wasn’t surprised to realize she didn’t care. She didn’t want to care. Just this once, she wanted to move outside the lines. She wanted to act instead of weighing the consequences.She smiled faintly in the darkness. Maybe after breaking their biggest rule, her conscious didn’t care what other ones she broke. “What are you thinking?” Shea asked softly from where she rested in Whitney’s arms. She tilted her head just enough for their eyes to meet. “That you are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.” What was wrong her that she hadn’t noticed that until now? Well, maybe she noticed in some off hand way. But she hadn’t really taken the time to notice her eyes were a pure clear green. That her hair was several shades of blonde. That little crinkles formed on the bridge of her nose when she grinned like she was now. “You lie. You’re thinking about whatever regulation you’re breaking.” “Am I that easy to read?” She asked, surprised that Shea knew her that well. Shea turned so that they were face to face. She stared into Whitney’s eyes as if she really could read her thoughts. “You are now. Your first instinct is to always do what you think is right. Tell me why this is wrong for you.” Before Whitney could reply, the car came to a stop in front of the VIP Quarters. Two suites were reserved for them, but Whitney knew they would be using hers. It was doubtful something would come up that needed her personal attention this late in the day. If something did, after the day she’d had, she expected Sam to handle anything that wasn’t an emergency. That said, something could come up and of the two of them, she was the one who needed to be where she could be reached instantly. “Not wrong for me. For you,” she answered when they were walking up to the door of her suite. She swiped her ID and opening the door, she stepped aside for Shea to enter first. Shea turned on the threshold and leaned her shoulder against the doorjamb. A curious smile played around her lips. “Making love to a beautiful woman is never wrong for me.” “I’m changing your life.” Those green eyes stared at her until confusion was slowly replaced by understanding. Shea cocked her head. “Yeah, you are.” The solemn words banked her desire as effectively as water on a fire. The keen edge of disappointment was sharper than Whitney expected. She brushed past Shea and tossed her ID on the bar to pour herself a glass of brandy. She wasn’t losing anything, she reminded herself. Barely an hour ago having Shea in her bed wasn’t even a fantasy. She never gave the woman a second glance. It was ridiculous to feel like she was losing something she never had. The door closed behind her. The brandy burned a path to her stomach as she emptied the glass in one drink. She was almost amused that a day she thought couldn’t get any worse, did. Her plan to make it through the night, before losing herself in Shea’s body, was to drown herself unconscious. There wasn’t anything about that day she wanted to remember. She reached for the crystal decanter to take the bottle to bed with her. A hand closed over hers. She remained still as Shea pressed her body firmly against hers. Soft lips pressed a soft kiss to the nape of her neck. “I prefer you sober as I’m thanking you.” Warmth spread over her body and Whitney knew it had nothing to do with the alcohol. “Thanking me for what?” Shea dropped both arms to her waist and slowly pulled Whitney’s shirt from her slacks. “For changing my life. I want to thank you so much for that. I want to spend hours thanking you.” Whitney put her hands on Shea’s. “How do you know that’s a good thing? You don’t even know what will change.” Shea’s arms tightened around her waist and she laid her head against Whitney’s shoulder. “I can’t play that game with you Whitney. I don’t have your years of experience moving through the future and past as if they are present. I only have right now and I only know what’s happened in the past. I know I am thirty-four years old and I’ve spent most of them looking to feel what I felt when you kissed me. I don’t want to pass on that just because you think there is someone else in my future. I’d like to think of that as her loss rather than mine.” “So would I,” Whitney said softly. She had been taught to respect the future, to change nothing unless absolutely necessary. But that was really no longer a concern. She had changed Shea’s the second she turned to her for help. Whatever happened now would never be what happened before. “I’d rather it was her loss, too.” Whitney turned in her arms and pulled Shea against her. Kissing Shea in the bar was one of the few rash acts in her life. With her arm around Shea and their faces so close, she was overwhelmed with the need to feel Shea’s lips on hers. She hadn’t thought to care if it was something Shea wanted. It was so arousing now to look into her eyes and see desire burning in the bright green. She kissed her on the neck. “I need to take a shower. I need to wash this day off my skin.” Shea’s hands moved under shirt and over her back in a slow caress. “Mm, that sounds wonderful.” Whitney thought it sounded like heaven to her and stepped back with Shea’s hands in hers. “Do you need anything before this day is officially over? Because once I go into that bedroom, I am not coming back out until the morning.” Shea laughed and leaned in to kiss her quick and hard on the lips. “Once you’re in the bedroom, I won’t need anything else.” She watched with a growing smile as Shea crossed the room to the bedroom. By the time she had her hand on the doorknob, her shirt and bra lay behind her on the carpet. She sent a half smile over her bare shoulder and walked into the bedroom. There was a beautiful woman in her bedroom. Whitney was almost certain the last time that happened she was still in Vancouver. She knew for sure it was before she was COS. “I’m starting without you,” Shea called, followed by the sound of running water. Her clothing was scattered on the floor of the sitting room and bedroom along with Shea’s when Whitney stepped behind her in the shower. Before she could move, Shea turned and her eyes roamed hungrily over Whitney’s body. Lingering doubts went up in flames. Shea picked up the travel-sized bottle of bath gel and poured half into her hand. She held the bottle out to Whitney. “I don’t want our first time to be in the shower.” Whitney nodded and stared as Shea began rubbing soapy hands over her own body. There was nothing sensual in the methodical way Shea moved down her torso to her legs. She was still staring, frozen, unbelievably turned on when Shea stood up and blinked at her in surprise. “You watched me.” “Yes,” Whitney admitted, her voice husky. Desire clenched tight when Shea brought her hands to her own breasts and caressed the nipples. Slowly, she walked to Whitney. “It’s my turn.” Whitney tore her eyes away from Shea’s breasts. “What?” Shea reversed their positions and pushed Whitney to the center of the large shower. With a ‘let’s go’ gesture of her hand, she said, “Come on. It’s my turn to watch you.” Feeling foolish, but with a rigid sense of fair play, Whitney ran her right hand across her left shoulder and down her arm. She watched Shea watching her and lifted her arm up to slid her hand up. Whitney grew bold when Shea licked her lips, her gaze riveted on Whitney’s hands sliding along tanned skin. The sound of ragged breathing filled the steamy shower. Shea groaned and frustration flashed in her eyes when Whitney stopped the slow caress of her hands at the curve of her breasts. Whitney wasn’t feeling foolish anymore and while putting on a show for Shea was one of the few erotic things she had ever done, she wanted more than her own hands on her body. She reached for Shea and pulled them both under the hot spray of water. “Rinse or our first time will be right here.” Shea needed no more encouragement. They hurriedly washed suds away, stumbled from the shower for towels they barely used and fell on the bed, tongue sliding over tongue. There was no thinking, no hesitating as their hands moved to cup and caress, to tease and torment. “Oh,” Shea breathed as Whitney slid inside her first and she clamped tight on her fingers. She turned her face to Whitney and kissed her. “Faster baby.” With Shea moving her hips to meet her, Whitney thrust faster and harder until Shea arched in her arms, moaning. The morning after should never begin before six and it should never begin with murder.Shea stared across the table where Whitney sat in a matching navy robe. When the knock came on the bedroom door, they both jerked awake at the same time Denise stuck her head into the room. Her voice was neutral as she said she needed to talk with them. They found the robes in two suitcases that escaped Shea’s notice last night. Whitney lifted her head from her hands. “Why wasn’t I told before now?” A woman was found on the eighteenth floor of Denver’s Prestige at three that morning. Like the others, she was badly beaten. Unlike the others, she was already dead. Everything was exactly the same down to Whitney’s fingerprints on the book of matches. Shea dropped her gaze to the gold stud earrings Whitney removed when Denise said she was no longer a suspect. She had forgotten Whitney’s every move was tracked. For this attack, she had an ironclad alibi. Denise refilled her coffee cup and took a sip, studying Whitney’s pale face over the rim. The concern in her eyes deepened. “There was nothing you could do. She was dead when they found her.” Something in her dismissive tone made Shea think Denise wouldn’t have sent for Whitney even if the woman had been alive. Shea could hear her saying in that same tone that without a medical degree, Whitney would have been of no use to the woman. Whitney shook head and pushed away from the table. “I should have been there.” They watched her walk into the bedroom and close the door. Shea knew she would go over as soon as she was dressed. It was barely six in the morning, they had spent more time discovering each other than they had sleeping, but she would want to see the crime scene herself and talk to the investigators. She would then wait for the call from the authorities to claim Rich Edwards body. She didn’t doubt Whitney would bring the body over personally before going to her office in Atlanta. If asked, she would say she was doing her job. Shea wished the same could be said for her. She should have expected an attack at the hotel last night. It was a tailor made opportunity. If she had been thinking, they could have set up surveillance and instead of it being over for Whitney, they would have the attacker, too. But Shea was too concerned about Whitney personally to focus on her professionally. Too wrapped up in her attraction. She may not have done her job very well up to now and that was going to change. She looked over at Denise. “Yesterday you told me that everyone needs an ID card to travel. Is there a log kept of that usage?” Denise tore her eyes from the closed bedroom door. “Yes, of course.” “I’d like to look at it. For both sides.” Surprise shot Denise’s eyebrows to her dark hairline. “Do you have any idea how many people that will be?” “I’m only interested in the dates of the attacks.” She didn’t add that she was also only interested in the people who traveled to the cities that same day as Whitney. People who made their plans after Whitney was called to the properties. The bedroom door opened and Whitney walked out ready for work in charcoal gray slacks and maroon shirt. “Shea you need to get ready. I want to go over.” The desire to go with her was strong. Shea shoved it down deep. She needed to keep her focus off Whitney and on the case. Her status as suspect afforded her a special immunity from the attacker. The easiest way to get Whitney out of the way would have been to kill her. For some reason that wasn’t an option, but now that she wasn’t a suspect, it could be. That wasn’t happening on Shea’s watch. She pasted a smile on her face. “You go on. You don’t need me in Denver. I’ll go to Atlanta.” Distracted, Whitney nodded and buttoned her left cuff. “Okay. You should be able to access the preliminary reports from there. You know how to reach me if you need me.” With an absent kiss on her lips and Denise’s cheek, she was gone. Shea found herself suddenly interested in her coffee. It was ridiculous to feel embarrassment now. The shock of her news blunted the realization that Denise caught them in bed. She was realizing it was a vengeance. “Come to my office when you’re dressed,” Denise said in a brisk tone as she stood. “I’ll have that information for you.” Once again, Shea found herself wondering at the relationship between Denise and Whitney. Denise’s interest in Whitney seemed almost maternal. It didn’t escape her notice that her suitcase ended up in Whitney’s suite. Shea would be astonished if another suite was reserved for her. Denise started their night with dinner in a romantic restaurant. Whatever shock Denise received at finding her in Whitney’s bed was covered quickly. Of course, the clothes scattered over the sitting room gave that away. Two bras on the floor made it more than obvious Whitney wasn’t alone. Shea picked up the clothes they left scattered over the floor and dumped them on the bed next to the suitcases. They were extraordinarily thorough, she thought, as she rifled through her suitcase. She had everything she needed for an overnight stay and didn’t doubt that every article of clothing would fit. She dressed quickly in black slacks and gray shirt. She threw yesterday’s clothes into the suitcase and hoped she would see hers again. It wasn’t until she was ready to leave that she realized she didn’t know where she was on the compound or how to get to Denise’s office. She scanned the unit for a phone and didn’t see one or didn’t recognize it in its future form. Well, she was on the compound and as high, thick walls surrounded it, she couldn’t get too lost. Someone would be around for directions. She opened the door and took a startled step back. “Jeez.” The girl standing guard at the door executed a flawless turn on one heel to face her. She wore the green uniform of the cadets. With her wheat colored hair, soft brown eyes and angelic face, Shea thought she looked like a cheerleader. Except cheerleaders didn’t wear shiny black combat boots or accessorize with baton and handcuffs. “Good morning, Ms. Shea,” she said, her tone crisp. “My name is Mia. Ms. Elliot assigned me as to escort you around the compound.” Mia moved aside as Shea stepped out and closed the door. Ms. Elliot could have mentioned it, Shea thought darkly. She wouldn’t have left the kid freezing on the doorstep while she dressed. Or lost ten years of her life when she opened the door. “Nice to meet you Mia. I was just hoping someone was out this early to give me directions. I’m a little lost.” A black armored Jeep sat at the end of the walkway. Mia fell in step behind her. “I’m sure it’ll come back to you. There hasn’t been that much construction since you graduated.” Shea felt a flash of panic as Mia’s meaning sunk in. Mia thought she was one of them. She forced a laugh. “I graduated a long time ago.” Please don’t ask me when, she prayed. She didn’t have a clue when she should have been here. She did remember their training began in high school, but she didn’t remember if they were fifteen or sixteen. She didn’t know and she didn’t think Mia would buy that she had forgotten that. To her surprise, Mia opened and closed the passenger door for her. Shea watched her round the front of the Jeep and wondered if the guard was for her or because of her. Would it be paranoid to think they didn’t want her roaming around the compound on her own? The drive to the Administrative Building was through a maze of three-story red brick buildings and wide-open lawns covered with companies of cadets jogging in perfect formation. The sheer number of kids exercising stunned Shea. When Whitney used the word academy to describe their training, Shea never thought she meant as in military. She turned to Mia and almost asked if all these kids were from the other side when she remembered that was something else she should know. She was still mesmerized at the sea of navy when Mia parked the Jeep in front of a single story U shaped building. Shea jumped from the Jeep before Mia could open her door. The cold morning rang with chanting voices. There had to be hundreds of them. “Ms. Shea? This way,” Mia said and headed for the double glass doors. Distracted by the number of details needed to clear up the events of the last twenty-four hours, Whitney exited the TimeLine in the lobby of Denver’s Prestige. She wasn’t talking to anyone or reading anything until she had a cup of coffee. Real coffee and not whatever it was they served on the fifth floor. She was halfway across the wide marble floor when the fog surrounding her brain lifted and she realized the lobby was deserted except for the two desk clerks. A quick glance revealed lights in only a few of the restaurants. All the shops were dark.She went to the front desk. “Where is everyone?” The desk clerks, both male and college aged, glanced at each other. The taller of two, Chad by his nametag, swallowed nervously. “Good morning, Ms. Eisner. Who do you need?” “It’s almost six-thirty in the morning. Why are the shops closed?” Whitney knew from a lifetime spent around hotels that the first trickle of guests should already be enjoying breakfast. He glanced quickly down at his computer and returned puzzled brown eyes to her face. He cleared his throat. “Actually, its?four-thirty, ma’am.” It took Whitney several seconds to understand and she closed her eyes for a moment. “Mountain Standard Time. I forgot I’m not in Atlanta.” “Yes ma’am. Would you like for me to call Mr. Hollandale?” Whitney smiled briefly and shook her head. “No, don’t disturb him. I’ll be in Atlanta if anyone needs me.” She decided as she dressed earlier that she wasn’t going to the scene of the crime. That was Shea’s area of expertise and she’d leave that to the expert. She could add nothing to the investigation and wouldn’t understand what the investigators were doing. She did, however, have work to do in Atlanta. As she walked onto the busy fifth floor in Atlanta, Whitney felt her life settle on its axis. Dodging travelers coming and going, Whitney made her way from the transport room to the command center. With steaming mug of coffee in hand, she went to her office and shut the door. Her desk was covered in the papers and files whose reading took up the majority of her time. Normally the pile that waited on her desk would make her wince, but now she was grateful for the distraction. As she waited for her computer to go online, she reached for the top file on a stack. She was frowning over the report for contraband attempts when the alarm she set for seven-fifty broke her concentration. She closed the file and almost left it on her desk when she decided to take it with her to Denver. There was something wrong with the report and she could spend the waiting time in Denver to puzzle over it. The door to Shea’s office was closed and Whitney thought only briefly about checking in her with before she left. She wished they’d had a chance to talk about last night this morning, to see if it was a prelude to something more. Her own feelings were jumbled and because she wasn’t sure if she was checking in with her Security Advisor or her lover, Whitney decided against knocking on her door. If Shea needed her, she knew how to reach her. Besides, Shea hadn’t knocked on her door when she arrived that morning. Unlike the Atlanta center, Denver was still on stand-by when Whitney walked down the hall to the command center. They would officially go online at six and in the few minutes before they began operations, employees were at their stations preparing for the day. She ignored the stares from the senior agents as she crossed the room to Vincent’s office. She knocked on his open door. “I’d say good morning, but it’s not,” he said, sitting back in his chair. He looked even more rumpled than usual and Whitney doubted he went back to sleep after he was told of the attack. Whitney sat in front of his desk. The sun was rising in the picture window behind his desk. It was her second of the day. “No, it’s not. Who was she?” Vincent picked up the file he was reading when she walked into the room and handed it over to her. “A kid. From what the investigator told me, it’s the same as the others.” Stacia Innes died between the hours of midnight and two that morning from blunt force trauma to the head. Before receiving the killing blow, she suffered a beating so severe her face was unrecognizable and they had to use her prints for identification. Except for those few differences, the report was the same one she read for the other victims. Hands tied. Body covered in blood and bruises. This one dead; another died. How many more before they knew who and why? “I can’t believe they don’t even have a suspect. This is the fifth attack.” Whitney glanced up from the report to see him shake his head. She was told, after the aborted interrogation the day Erin Warner died, that her name would be kept confidential. She was relieved the investigators managed to do that. If anyone found out she was the top suspect respect for her position would plummet. Suspicion was oftentimes more than enough to end a career. “There’s a lot they don’t know,” she said as she handed him the report. There was no mention in the three typed pages of matches being found with her fingerprints. In fact, this report looked identical to the reports she was given after the attacks. Whitney had to wonder if those reports had information deleted. She supposed, as the only suspect, there were details the investigators would want to keep from her. Didn’t the cops withhold some details all the time? Details they didn’t want to the public to know? Surely that hadn’t changed so much even on the other side. Vincent nodded and tossed the file aside. “I think they should know more than they do with five victims. Someone can’t commit the perfect crime five times.” No, Whitney didn’t think this someone was. There were other clues and putting them with the matches made her suspect. She made a mental note to get full copies of all the reports. She wanted to know what else they had to make them think she was attacking women and now killing them. Maybe Shea could see something the investigators had missed. She stood up and slid the file she brought with her from the edge of the desk. “I’ll be in the main conference room working on some reports. Did you know the number of people trying to take contraband over has doubled since last year?” “Doubled?” Startled, Vincent stood up. “That can’t be right.” Whitney frowned at the file in her hands. “Yeah, that’s what I think.” Two hours later, Whitney had finished off an excellent western omelet and was frustrated by the contraband report. If there was a clerical error, she couldn’t see it. Every number submitted by the centers was correctly entered into the main report. She was logging into the main computer to access the center reports when Michelle came into the room. “Good morning Ms. Eisner.” Whitney glanced up from the computer screen. The staff attorney was dressed all in black and evidence of her sleepless night showed in her pale face and dull eyes. She was holding on to a huge coffee mug with both hands. Whitney sat back in her chair. “Call me Whitney. They haven’t called yet, but I expect this will be over within in the hour.” Michelle nodded as she took across Whitney. “It was on the news last night and I couldn’t make myself stop watching it. I kept waiting for them to say he was poisoned. I fell asleep on the couch waiting for the police to knock on my door. Did you ?do any of that?” “No.” After a certain point, her world had narrowed down to one woman. “I don’t see how you could stop yourself.” Whitney pushed the reports aside, linked her hands and sat forward to stare into Michelle’s eyes. The difference between the manic woman of yesterday to the one sitting in front of her shell-shocked today was stark. Nothing in the pampered life they led inside the GSA had prepared them for killing anyone. It wasn’t what they were supposed to do. Whitney doubted Michelle had handled very many cases that weren’t misdemeanors. “I’ve attended every death that’s happened on this side since I became COS. I’ve dealt with every local government official imaginable I’d think at this point. Granted, I’ve never killed anyone before, but other than that, I’ve done this many times.” Too many times recently, not that Michelle needed to know that. Michelle stared into her coffee like a woman searching for the meaning of life. Whitney let the silence stretch. She didn’t know the right thing to say. She didn’t have the words to make this less than what it was, to minimize the horror of it until it wasn’t remembered in every second thought. “I’ll resign before I do that again.” Whitney stared at her bowed head. To most bosses, that statement could be taken as insubordination. Employees did what they were told to do or they became employed somewhere else. Unless they worked for the GSA. Resignation meant resigning from more than just the job. It meant giving up friends and family, lives and loves to move to the other side. It meant never coming home again. “Yeah,” Whitney said softly, “Me, too.” Michelle’s head lifted slowly until their eyes met. Whitney was oddly comforted to see her own misery reflected in the other woman’s gaze. Before either could speak the phone next to her elbow rang. They agreed the call should come to Whitney through the front desk so that that whoever called believed she was a guest at the hotel. “Hello?Yes, I remember?I called a local mortuary to handle that for me. I’ll be taking him back home to Atlanta?I’ll be there as soon I can.” She stood up as she hung up the receiver. “It’s almost over.” Michelle nodded and hurriedly finished off her coffee. Whitney gathered up her papers and stuffed them in her attaché case. She hoped to be in Atlanta within the hour. To be back into her life in less than two. She sincerely hoped that before the day ended, Rich Edwards was a distant memory. By two that afternoon, Shea knew combing the keycard logs wasn’t going to net her the attacker. She started out with a broad range of parameters and had worked to narrow it down to a manageable number of almost 3,000 rather than the 98,514 she started with in her first run. She was still stunned the combined number of people using the TimeLine for the five days in question was almost 100,000. Slowly, she was discovering she had seriously underestimated the GSA’s presence in the past.The numbers were staggering. She’d thought it was a few thousand at the most. If you added the people living on the other side with those who visited it was millions. It didn’t seem possible that not once, not ever, not even when they went back into earth’s more primitive times, that they had never been caught. She flipped through the two inch stack of names wearily. This was as far down as she could whittle the names. She knew so little about the attacker. She didn’t know gender, age, race, or even if they had arrived in the city alone. Finally she cut down the parameters until the attacker fit the profile of the victims. She didn’t like taking that route because she didn’t want the focus to be so narrow. How could there still be so many names? “How’s it going?” Shea jumped at the unexpected question and looked up to see Denise standing in front of her. She leaned back in her chair and reached for her Coke. She grimaced as she took a sip of the warm, flat drink and pushed the can away from her. “I was thinking that now that Whitney’s not a suspect, you really don’t need me anymore.” The idea was very appealing. With what she knew, she had only a sliver of hope she would find the attacker on her list and that was only if the person traveled to the cities alone or with the same person. Shea didn’t believe it was going to be that easy. Denise sat across from her and pulled one of the earlier query lists closer. “So you think there won’t be another attack?” “I really don’t know,” Shea lied. There was a lot she didn’t know, but what she did know was that Whitney was targeted for a reason. There was an agenda in place and she wasn’t sure how last night changed it. That would depend on their knowing Whitney was cleared and what they wanted to accomplish by framing her. “You’re a detective. Play out the possible scenarios for me.” Denise never looked up as she turned the page. There was a tone in her voice that caught Shea’s attention. A thread of something that belied the woman’s casual all-the-time-in-the-world air as she carelessly turned page after page of names. Shea sat up and Denise dropped her pretense of reading. Their eyes met across the table. “There will be another attack and it won’t be like the others. That will depend on why Whitney was targeted. If I were you, I’d assume she’s the next victim.” Her words didn’t have the shocking effect Shea that they would have on the Ops Director. Denise didn’t pale or gasp, she didn’t become alarmed or concerned. It was, Shea decided as Denise simply stared at her without a change in her calm expression, something Denise had figured out on her own. “But then you already knew that.” “I need you now more than I did before. Professionally, Whitney means a great deal to me. I may not be able to replace her and that would mean shutting down that Gateway. That has never happened and I’ll be damned if I’m the first.” She paused, her eyes losing their fiery gleam and the granite tone of her voice gentled. “Her mother, Grace, saved me. I lost my family when I was very young and I was bitter and angry at the world when I came to the Academy. Grace decided that she was going to be my friend. There is very little that Grace doesn’t get if she wants it. When you meet her don’t be fooled by her southern belle fragility. She made her family mine and saved me. So personally, there is nothing I won’t do to protect Whitney.” Shea nodded as the puzzle of Denise’s relationship with Whitney was explained. Whitney called her Aunt that first time they came over and Shea had thought Whitney was only teasing her. Most companies had rules against people supervising their relatives. Perhaps the GSA made an exception because Denise didn’t share blood with Whitney. Maybe they didn’t know that Denise was an Eisner in everything but name. Denise cleared her throat, her voice normal when she spoke. “I want you right where you are whether you work for the GSA or not. I don’t care if you investigate or pretend to investigate as long as you keep her safe.” “When did you know she was attracted to me?” Shea wasn’t all that surprised to have her suspicions about last night confirmed. Denise consciously decided to fan the flames. At least she had the good grace be embarrassed as she dropped her gaze. “When she came to tell me about you. You have no idea what she risked by turning to you. You were the worst of her options.” Shea got that now that she understood the scope of the GSA. Whitney could have gone anywhere and hired anyone. A jinxed detective on the Atlanta police force shouldn’t have been on her list. “You are staying aren’t you?” Denise asked as she once again pretended an interest in the list in front of her. Hazel eyes glanced up at her when she didn’t say anything. Shea knew she wasn’t asking as the Ops Director, but as Aunt Denise. “Yes,” she said and stood up. She was ready to go home. “And I will be investigating. Two women are dead. Whitney will not be the third.” Shea didn’t add that Whitney would be the fourth because to get to Whitney, whoever was doing this had to go through her first. “She’s the only one, isn’t she?” The question was matter-of-fact. Shea gathered up the stacks of papers as she considered her answer. She should say yes because with the evidence she had right then, Whitney was the only one. When she held the ream of paper cradled against her breasts, she looked at Denise and shook her head. “No, she’s not the only one.” There was someone else. Someone shadowing Whitney who either blended in or belonged. She was surrounded by people who had made a life at blending where they didn’t belong. But people were people in any era and people made mistakes. Last night’s proved whoever was monitoring Whitney knew her movements only to a certain point. They were close to her but not as a close as they believed. When she was younger, Whitney knew she wanted to work for the GSA before she knew she didn’t have a choice. She loved roaming the fifth floor of the hotels her parents managed. The best present to her was to be allowed to visit Aunt Denise and when she was a child, she thought Denise’s assignments across North America were exotic. At Quantico she skipped all the introductory courses designed to help the undecided. She never questioned what she would do in their world.She was questioning it now as she sat in the Medical Examiners office. They were waiting for Dr. Warren Branson. They’d been waiting for half an hour and it was getting harder for Whitney to convince herself they didn’t find the poison or didn’t suspect she had something to do with it. If they believed she was a grieving family member, she didn’t think they would have left her waiting for so long. She braced herself as the door opened and she was relieved to see two doctors in white coats instead of the boys in blue. “Ms. Edwards?” Seconds passed before Whitney remembered she was Ms. Edwards and she stood as the taller of the two came into the room. “Yes.” “My condolences on your loss.” He cupped her elbow gently to steer her from the room. Whitney glanced back and felt a sense of calm when Michelle was right behind her. Dr. Branson led her down a long hall and not even the strong smell of disinfectant could hide the pervasive smell of death. “I’ll try to keep this brief.” Whitney was all for brief. For anything that got her out of here. “Okay.” He talked as they walked and Whitney knew she should listen not just because she was supposed to be someone who loved Rich Edwards, but because she needed to know if they were successful. She needed to know because the day may come when they might have to do it again. “He was in excellent physical health. There’s no reason he should have had a heart attack. He shouldn’t have died so quickly.” “I’m sorry, what?” Whitney had missed most of the conversation. The smell and the fact that she was about to claim the body of the man she murdered left her with the surreal feeling of being in a nightmare. Dr. Branson gave her arm a compassionate squeeze and opened one side of double doors for her to enter a room. “I was saying I can’t tell you why died.” Whitney had taken several steps into the room before she saw the gurney. She was eternally grateful a mint green sheet covered the body. She spun around and shoved her way out of the room through the second door. There wasn’t enough money in the world for her stare down on someone’s dead body. “I don’t want to see him.” Apparently she wasn’t the first person to refuse to view the body of a “loved one”. They were taken across the hall to a small conference room painted in soothing shades of blues and greens that did little to soothe her anxiety. After she fumbled the first few questions, Michelle stepped in and it soon became apparent to even Whitney’s scrambled brain that Michelle was setting up Denver for a wrongful death suit. Much sooner than Whitney would have believed, she was watching two sentries from the hotel place the body in a waiting hearse. She shook hands with Dr. Branson and slid into Michelle’s SUV. She hoped to never to see Denver again. She thought they felt the same. Because she needed for this to be over, she handed the transference of the body to Quantico over to Vincent and transferred to Atlanta. It was the first time she’d ever passed a job she considered hers alone to someone else. She walked a quick path from the terminal center to the command center. Amanda followed her into her office with a stack of messages in one hand and stack of files in the other. Whitney accepted both without comment. Hours passed as she immersed herself in the North American Central Gateway. It felt like she had been away longer than twenty-four hours as she read and filed reports, spoke with her managers. She didn’t delve too deeply into why a single day away seemed so much longer than the several days she’d been gone other times. Something inside her had changed, shifting her to a road not on the map she’d followed all her life. Her office was lit only by the backlight of her desk computer as she bent over the contraband reports. She had Amanda pull all the original reports for the centers and was comparing each line from that report with the final one that landed on her desk. She couldn’t quite pinpoint what was wrong. What was even more annoying was the feeling that it was so glaringly obvious that she had to be an idiot to miss it. Tired, she rested her forehead on her hands and closed her eyes. It was there, laid out in front of her, like a picture just out of focus. What was she missing? “Are you praying?” Whitney lifted her head enough to peer over her hands. Shea was leaning against her doorway, the teasing smile on her face not reflected in her eyes. Whitney sat back in her chair and glanced over the papers scattered on her desk. She wasn’t even sure anymore she knew what was in each pile. “If I thought it would help, I’d be on my knees.” Shea came to her desk and glanced over the messy piles. “What is all this?” “Contraband reports. It was too early for me to be in Denver when I left Quantico, so I came here to do some work. The number of attempts is almost double what it was last year. I can’t figure out why.” The frustration she felt at that had her sitting up and reaching for a page. She stopped and looked up in surprise as Shea grabbed her hand. “It’s almost eight. I came to get you because dinner made it home before you did. You can bring this with you and explain to me what it all means as we eat.” Without waiting for a reply, Shea quickly gathered the papers into one pile and left the office with them. Whitney stared at the empty doorway. She wasn’t used to someone taking such liberties with her. She gave orders not took them. She also wasn’t used to someone telling her it was time to come home because dinner was ready. Even her mother had never done that. She was surprised to find herself amused and touched instead of angry. She was more than surprised to walk into her penthouse and find the lights dim, candles lit and a crisp, white cloth covering her coffee table. Golden wine sparkled in crystal glasses. Something mouth-watering hid under a steaming serving tray. The only thing missing was the soft sound of music drifting in the background. And roses. Surely a table set like this deserved red roses. Shea was standing at the serving tray. She pulled lids off and picked up a plate. “Come on. I’m starving. I don’t know about you, but I forgot to eat lunch.” “Me, too,” Whitney admitted and moved to Shea when the shock had worn off enough for her feet to move. She wasn’t thinking about kissing her. It wasn’t even a passing thought in her head. So it shouldn’t have felt so natural, so right to slip her arm around Shea’s waist and pull her close for a brief kiss. “Thank you.” Shea grinned and nudged her to the other side of the table. “Okay, contraband. What is it? And why are people trying to take it over?” There were so many answers to that question. Some trivial. Some devastating. Whitney accepted a plate with grilled salmon, asparagus and buttery croissants from her favorite hotel restaurant. She waited until Shea was sitting next to her before smiling at her. “Contraband is just what it sounds like. We have limits on what can be taken back as souvenirs. Some people aren’t happy with that.” Shea nodded and speared several asparagus on her fork. “What can’t people take back?” “I’ll get you the book tomorrow,” Whitney said with a short laugh. “I think at last count we were up to fifty-four pages.” “Really?” Shea asked as she paused with her fork half way to her mouth. “Is there anything they can take back?” Again, Whitney laughed. “Yes, lots. Just not things that are illegal.” “Illegal here or there?” Whitney didn’t expect Shea to make the distinction. She would have if she remembered Shea was a detective trained to hear what people didn’t say. Keeping her tone casual, she said, “Probably both. I’ve never had a reason to compare the lists.” It wasn’t her area of expertise and she didn’t have jurisdiction over those cases. Internal Affairs handled people who tried to smuggle contraband or tamper with history. For the GSA, those crimes were considered treason and were the only offenses where the permanent revocation of travel privileges was mandatory. Additional penalties and punishments depended on the severity of the act. There was no trial, no due process and no appeal. “And how was your day?” She asked and looked over to see Shea grimace. “Did something happen?” Shea picked up her wine and turned to face her on the couch. “Denise set me up in a computer lab. I wanted to see who else traveled to the cities of the attacks the same day you did. I can’t believe how many people you have in the system at any given time. It doesn’t seem possible that you can keep up with them all.” “Do you have reason to believe that we don’t?” Whitney never questioned the security of their GPS. She’d never had a reason to even wonder if someone could disable the sensors travelers were required to wear at all times. The device was activated as they were checked in and continuously monitored. “No. I just meant I was surprised by the scope. My first computer run had almost 100,000 people. And that was after you went to the cities. The best I could narrow it down to was 3000.” The frustration she felt at that was clear in her voice. “So I’m the only one who was in all the cities on those days?” Whitney wasn’t surprised if that was the case. The investigators clearly had other evidence that pointed to her and the fact that she was in the only person on scene for all the attacks was certainly a stone on the guilty side of the scale. Shea stared at her over the rim of her wine glass. “You weren’t there last night.” She would have been, if Shea hadn’t wanted to stay on that side. She would have been asleep in her room when that kid was beaten to death several floors over her head. She wouldn’t have had an alibi and would more than likely be sitting in a cell at Quantico. “Someone’s watching me, aren’t they?” “Yeah,” Shea said without hesitation. She set her wine glass on the table and slid down the couch to sit behind her. Whitney leaned back into the embrace. Shea rested her chin on her shoulder. “Someone close to you. Someone who knows your every move almost as soon as you make it.” Whitney nodded to let Shea know she understood what she was saying. “Someone here, in Atlanta.” The arms holding her close tightened around her and Shea pressed a kiss to the nape of her neck. “Which helps. Anything that narrows it down helps.” “Then you should ask for a copy of the investigators reports. I don’t think the ones I was given are complete. You cops like to hold some details back, don’t you? I’d like to know what else they have that makes me the number one suspect.” “I’ll add that to my list of things to do tomorrow.” Whitney closed her eyes as soft lips brushed a trail from her neck to her ear. Goose bumps broke over her body when Shea asked in a husky whisper, “Want to know what’s on my list of things to do tonight?” The hands around her waist tugged slowly on her shirt. “Um, yeah. What are you doing tonight?” Her breath caught as her earlobe was lightly bit. “Well, there was a nice, long bath on the list, but that’s been scratched in favor of a quick shower. It’s been a long day. I think we should get to bed as soon as we can.” “It has been a long day,” Whitney said and stood up. She held out her hands to Shea and pulled the blonde into her arms. “We didn’t get much sleep last night.” Shea grinned up at her. “Yeah, and that’s not on the list for tonight either.” Whitney kissed her and took her hands to lead her to the bedroom. “We’re young. I think we’ll survive.” Early the next morning, Shea got a crash course in using the cubicles for travel. Along with all the other perks Whitney enjoyed as COS, the elevator in her penthouse allowed her instant access to Quantico and every GSA city across North America. All she had to do to get to Quantico was swipe her ID card and press the bottom right button. A keyboard in the slot reserved for the telephone in a normal elevator allowed her to travel anywhere in the country. She had to use the terminal center for the return trip, but unless she chose otherwise, her penthouse was the default destination. Shea swiped her card with a smile. Given a choice, her destination would always be Whitney’s penthouse.Mia was working at the desk outside Denise’s office. “Good morning Ms. Shea.” “Good morning, Mia. I have an appointment with Ms. Elliot.” It wasn’t really an appointment. Yesterday was a bust as far as leads went. She could, and would if that was her last option, verify the alibi of every person on her final list. But that would take time and her instincts told her she was running out of that. She needed to know what the investigators knew. The fact that she hadn’t requested to review their evidence was only one of several mistakes she’d made on this case. At least this one was an easy fix. Mia nodded and returned her attention to the computer. “She’s waiting for you. Do you want some coffee?” “No, thanks.” Shea didn’t want to be on this side that long. She wanted to take whatever Denise had for her back to her office in Atlanta. With all the evidence in one place, she could get organized. Once she knew what the investigators knew, maybe she would see what they missed. Whitney couldn’t have been their only suspect. Denise was talking on the phone and waved her into the room. Shea listened with half an ear as the Ops Director berated someone about after hour transfers. Apparently only some transfers were allowed after a certain hour and Shea wondered idly what the magical hour was. She and Whitney had traveled after ten that first time she came over to meet Denise. Perhaps whoever Denise was skinning was someone lower on the food chain than Whitney. She hoped for their sake whoever it was wasn’t one of Whitney’s people. She didn’t see Whitney letting someone flaunt the rules so brazenly that it came to Quantico’s attention. “I’m sorry Shea.” Shea was staring at a picture of Mount Rushmore. Of all the pictures she could have in her office, Shea thought that was incredibly odd. “That’s okay. I haven’t heard a good ass reaming in a while. My boss is almost as good as you are.” Denise laughed. “Well, then, you should catch Whitney in action. She’s the only person I’ve ever seen who really can make someone cry. But then when she tells someone their life is over, she really means it.” “I’m sorry?” Shea turned away from Mount Rushmore and her attention completely to Denise. “What does that mean; she really means it when she tells someone their life is over?” Denise was standing at her desk, rifling through stacks of colored folders. “With our people on that side, she’s the final word. You can’t be fired from the GSA. You can only come here to this side. Everyone is allowed a second chance, but few take it. There are a lot of restrictions and evals that go into a second chance. If they refuse, which most of them do, it’s over to here.” I have a lot of power. Whitney said that the day she came to Shea for help. Shea didn’t realize just what kind of power she meant. As in absolute. “They can’t appeal?” With a frown, Denise stood and shook her head, her eyes glancing around her desk. “No. The risks are too high. You see what disgruntled employees can do. We can’t take that chance. They come here and live. But their families don’t and unless the family visits here, they never see them again.” All Shea could think is how amazing it was that no one had been killed. There would be a list. Of course, Whitney wouldn’t need it. She would know, by memory, the name and face of every person she had removed. She would know when and how and why. Shea still wanted the list. The official list that wouldn’t be colored with Whitney’s guilt for ruining someone’s life. “I’d like that list, of people Whitney kicked to this side.” “Okay,” Denise agreed readily and sat down at her computer. Shea wandered over to sit down in front of her desk. “What are all these files?” There had to be at least a hundred of them. “Somewhere on the bottom are yours. The rest are applications for the Academy.” “They have to apply to the Academy?” Shea reached for one of the files. She thought their attendance here was mandatory. The file was slender and the first page was divided in three parts: personal, academic and medical. She flipped through the rest of the pages and saw a report for every age that included school grades, activities and illness/injuries. The last few pages were recommendations from family and friends. The family and friends of Josh Turner were generous in nominating him for Prestige. “Everyone has to come, but we have two curriculums. One for Prestige and one for the TimeLine. The kids are applying for their choice.” “What if someone isn’t suitable for either?” “We offer extra training and tutoring, but if that doesn’t help, they stay on this side. They can be whatever they want to be here.” Shea laid the file back on Denise’s desk. “Are all the people who live on this side rejects of one kind or another?” Denise paused in gathering files to look at her across the desk. “No.” That single word, spoken with no inflection, felt like a slap to Shea. She’d crossed a line and even now looking back, she couldn’t see it. But it seemed to be their solution to most of their problems. Their own private island of time where they could exile those who didn’t fit in or follow the rules. Do what we say, live how we command or lose your life. It was an axe that hung over every head. “Okay, these are the reports of the attacks,” Denise said as she handed over two thick dark red accordion files. She knew then the reports Whitney gave her were incomplete because Whitney had given her only one file. So either Whitney was mistaken that it was her right to have copies of the investigators reports or she was a suspect from the first victim. “This one has copies of the photos and forensic reports from the Crime Lab. Was there anything else you needed?” Shea hefted the two files into her arms. “If I do, I’ll you know.” Denise nodded and reached for papers on the printer. “These are the people Whitney had removed.” Shea blinked in surprise as she realized it was only two pages. The first page held about twenty-five single spaced names and the second half of a page. She really thought it would be more. With all the people they had living over there, she found it hard to believe only thirty-five couldn’t follow the rules. She didn’t see Whitney giving people unofficial second chances. “Thank you, Denise.” Denise nodded as she reached for a pen on her desk. “Keep me informed.” Shea promised she would and left Denise to the files stacked on her desk. Back in Atlanta, she took over the conference room Whitney used for staff meetings. With Amanda’s help, she moved her notes and files to the long table. When she was alone, she separated the files Denise had given her into a stack for each victim. When she had all the reports and forensic evidence placed with each woman’s file, she put each one at every other chair along with a blank legal pad for notes. She didn’t usually have five victims by the time she caught a case. Information was cumulative when you got the victims one at a time. Each scene added to the profile. Not only did she have five crime scenes she would never personally see, but the memories of the victims had shifted with time. She sat down in front of the first victim. She hoped that she could see each crime on it’s own, make notes as went around the table and then compare the notes for patterns. It wasn’t the ideal way to investigate, but it was all she had. The first victim, Sharon Armstrong, was 23 and a student at the American University of New York-Syracuse. Her weekend visit to Dallas was planned only two days prior to the attack. She came because she was invited to spend the weekend with a woman she met online several months earlier. She had kept all the correspondence between them and it didn’t take long before the conversations became personal and then intimate between Sharon and the woman she knew only as Whit. Investigators found Whit’s profile on the personals site where Sharon met her. Police could not trace the account back to Whitney personally, but they were able to trace it to the computer lounge Prestige Atlanta provided for their guests. The profile itself borrowed generously from Whitney’s life while using only the “Whit” form of her name. Sharon had sent photos of herself, but the photos sent as Whit were not Whitney or anyone else Shea had seen at the Atlanta hotel. The woman was later identified as Corinne Eisner Barrett, Whitney’s older sister. The invitation to meet her in Dallas was the last email sent. The reservations for Sharon at the Dallas Prestige were handled by someone in Atlanta at three o’clock in the morning. The employee whose user code was used was in Bermuda on his honeymoon. Shea made a note to ask Whitney who had access to employees user codes and passwords. When Sharon arrived at the hotel, she was given a note that told her Whit had been detained in Atlanta and included directions to the bar and money. According to her statement, Sharon wasn’t concerned that Whit wasn’t there to meet her. She knew Whit was high ranking in the GSA organization. She’d been told that Whit “practically runs the North American Central Gateway.” Sharon was smart enough to think Whit was overstating her job, but young enough to believe she wasn’t lying outright. She checked into her room on the restricted floor and ordered dinner from room service. She arrived at the club early, but could not remember how early exactly, and waited at the bar for Whit. She’d been there an hour and was outside waiting for a cab when a car pulled up next to her. The passenger side window lowered and she recognized the driver. Whit apologized for being late and offered to drive her back to the hotel for drinks. Sharon couldn’t remember how many drinks she consumed while waiting for her date, but her tab had her consuming four different flavored martini’s in the space of 45 minutes. The blood taken after the attack showed her alcohol level to be .15. Whit did not take Sharon to her room and Sharon had not traveled enough to know the room Whit took her to was off limit to travelers. She remembers walking into the room, still dazed by the kisses they shared in the elevator, and then nothing as everything went black. Her next memory was waking up on the other side several days later in the hospital. Subsequent interviews with her had uncovered nothing new. Shea closed the folder for Sharon Armstrong and turned to the forensic evidence. Clinical detachment had her flipping through the exam photos of Sharon’s injuries with little emotion. Had Whitney truly been their primary subject at that time, they would have photographed her hands and body for signs that she was in fight. It’s damn hard to beat someone to a bloody pulp without getting cuts and bruises on at least your hands. Over the next several hours, she read the remarkably similar reports on the other victims and looked at the pictures of the victims. Each woman was more battered, bruised and bloody than the last until Erin Warner died of her injuries two months after the attack. She never regained consciousness, but had spoken with her sister, Tracy, about the perfect woman she met online. For every victim, the routine never varied. The same online account was used. The same photos sent as Whit. Reservations made with the user ID of an Atlanta employee with a verifiable alibi elsewhere. Computers traced to the guest computer lounge in Atlanta’s Prestige. Only the manner of the attack changed as the brutality escalated to Stacia Innes dying on the floor in Denver. Before she compared the notepads she had for each case, she sat down with her notes and drew up a timeline for the attacks. She wrote down each victims name, where the attack took place, why Whitney was called to the city and the date reservations were made for the victims and the date they were attacked. Sharon Armstrong Dallas Staffing Issues 5/12 5/14 Hannah David LA Fire 7/14 7/16 Anne Collins Vegas Car Accident 8/11 8/13 Erin Warner Atlanta 9/08 9/10 Stacia Innes Denver Murder 1/13 1/14 Two things struck Shea the second she looked at her list. One was that every attack took place in the west except for the one in Atlanta. Second was that every attack except the last one took place two days after arrival. Turning to her notes from the attacks, she looked for when the reservations were actually made. All but the last was made two days prior to arrival. How could someone know four days in advance that Whitney would be in the cities when Whitney didn’t know it herself? Maybe with Dallas someone knew she was coming to address the staff days before she arrived. Maybe in Atlanta because everyone expected Whitney to be in Atlanta. Those two attacks could have been planned. But Shea saw only two ways for LA, Vegas and Denver to be planned. One was that the fire and the car accident that critically injured a family of five were not as accidental as they appeared on the surface. Two was the five women who were attacked were not the only women lured to this side, they were the only women lured over when something happened to pull Whitney to the city. Of the two choices, Shea saw option one as the practical option. With 48 centers in her command, something was bound to happen at any one at any given time. The odds of having someone in the city when it did had to be astronomical. However a fire and a car accident were easily arranged and Shea was sure everyone knew Whitney handled those emergencies personally. Dallas may have been seen as a golden opportunity to start whatever the real purpose was for the attacks. Atlanta was simply an opportunity with little effort on the part of the attacker. Denver deviated from the routine in that the reservation was made early the morning after Rich Edwards killed the prostitute and Stacia Innes died that night. Again, it was an opportunity much too good to let pass. While reading the notes, Shea learned Whitney was the only suspect. There was never anyone else. Investigators peppered the files they gave her with false clues hoping to see the attacker react. The fact that the matches continue to be placed at the crime scene after Whitney was made aware of them kept her out of a cell. All of their evidence was circumstantial and none of could be directly connected to Whitney. The most amusing, and trivial, fact was that the investigators could not prove Whitney was gay. At one point, she was shadowed twenty four hours a day for two weeks. She was never seen in the company of anyone who was not family or an associate. She didn’t frequent bars, gay or straight. They could not positively verify that she was alone every night in her suite, but problems brought to the penthouse after hours always proved her to be alone. When Shea had learned everything she could from the files, she took them back to her office. Although Whitney was no longer a suspect, or so they believed, Shea did not want to leave anything laying around that could possibly be used to implicate her in the future. It wouldn’t take much for someone to suggest that Denver, which had important differences from the other attacks, was a copycat so of course Whitney didn’t commit that one. She’d seen Whitney in her office as she made the several trips it took to bring everything from the conference room. Once she had everything as secured as she could make it, she grabbed her notepads and headed out of her office to Whitney’s. Only to watch Whitney dash through the command center and turn right towards the terminal. Shea followed her without hesitation. It was mid-afternoon and the terminal center was mostly empty. Whitney was already in the cubicle and the door sliding shut when Whitney saw her. Her eyes widened but the door closed before she could stop the transfer. Shea waited a few minutes in case Whitney returned and when she didn’t, Shea returned to the command center. She walked to where Amanda sat at her desk outside of Whitney’s office. “Do you know where Whitney went?” She asked her. As her assistant, Amanda knew as much about Whitney’s movements as Whitney herself. Amanda paused in her rapid typing to smile up at her. “To the police station. She got a code white. Guy was at Philips Arena for the hockey game. Matt is meeting her at the station.” “I need to talk to her. Does she have anything planned later? A meeting or something?” Amanda mouse clicked her way through several screens and pulled up a monthly calendar. Shea wasn’t close enough to read all the tiny writing in the blocks, but she could see that not a single one of them was empty. Amanda shook her head and turned to her. “She’s free, Ms. Shea. What time do you want to meet with her?” Shea glanced down at her watch and saw that it was a little after two. She could order up lunch and start planning her next step in the investigation. “Will you see if she can talk to me when she gets back? I’ll be in my office having lunch.” Instead of typing her into today’s block on the calendar, Amanda made a note on a post-it pad. Shea walked away thinking she could have done that. Whitney knew her job would be immeasurably easier if she could ban alcohol consumption for travelers. Most of their arrests were drunk and disorderlies and the few that weren’t usually featured alcohol to some degree. She didn’t begrudge people on vacation a good time, she just wished they knew their limits. She was grateful that this idiot had chosen her hometown for his lunatic behavior. She knew she could trust Matt to make this go away quickly. It wasn’t something she always believed when she was dealing with her other staff attorneys.She was loitering outside the main entrance when Matt said from behind her, “We’re going to have to stop meeting like this. People will talk.” Whitney grinned and turned to face him. His suit was black with thin gray pinstripes. “Maybe I want them to talk.” Matt snorted and whipped off his sunglasses. “Do we know what this one did?” “No.” As they walked inside the station, Whitney told him the little she knew. Adam Bordeaux was twenty-eight and was a frequent visitor during hockey season. He was usually accompanied by the same friend, Michael Walker. Adam was alone this time, but there had been a second reservation on his room that he cancelled when he arrived in Atlanta. Whitney stood away from Matt as he approached the front desk sergeant. As long as everything turned out all right, it was fun for her to watch him work. His bearing and name always had the police hurrying to assist him even when they weren’t sure who his client was exactly. Whitney knew Matt was never called by a traveler and she wondered if the police ever questioned his presence for someone who hadn’t been allowed a phone call yet. If they did, they never challenged Matt. Less than a half hour later, Whitney was walking out with her hand clamped firmly on the arm of Adam Bordeaux. She waited until they were several yards away from the police station before she asked him about the bruises on his face. She knew he got them in custody, but she wanted to know how. His voice was soft as he admitted struggling with the guards at the Arena. He wanted to go onto the ice and fought the guards when they refused to let him. He had too much drink, he said. It wasn’t like him to do something like that. Matt branched off at the parking garage and Whitney continued to the second deck with her charge. Adam was quiet as she seated him in the front of her car and sat with his head bowed as she drove through the afternoon traffic. “Why didn’t Michael come with you?” She asked finally. Her intimate knowledge of their travels always caught them off guard. It made it seem that she knew more than she did and they were too surprised to lie to her. He was right, this wasn’t like him. He had literally traveled hundreds of times and his companions had narrowed down from family, to groups of friends, to Michael. He was never on the radar before now. She knew she hit a nerve when his head whipped to the side to stare at her and when she looked over at him, grief was bottomless in his warm brown eyes. Tears welled as he looked away. “He died last week.” He cried silently as she drove through the traffic and into the underground parking of Prestige. With him leaning on her, she led him to the elevator. It wasn’t something she usually did, but she had the elevator deliver them to her penthouse. She had enough sympathy to want to shield him from the stares they would receive if she took him through the terminal center. A beaten, crying man wasn’t something a person could ignore. With a glass of scotch, she sat him on her couch and made a few calls. He was composed when Denise and his mother arrived to help him pack his luggage for the trip home. Whitney didn’t know what to say so she said nothing as they left the penthouse. As long as he sought counseling for his grief, she would not press charges. He could travel again as soon as he wanted, but there was a hold in place which meant he needed her approval to do so. Michael was his childhood sweetheart and was killed when his mini-jet crashed, his mother told her quietly. She didn’t know he’d left the apartment they had shared much less came over for the game. She was distracted, her mind lost in the poignant story of Adam and Michael, when her cell phone rang. She answered absently and frowned as one of the hotel security officers told her there was a disturbance on the first parking deck that needed her attention. The elevator was opening on the first level when she wondered why her presence was needed for a disturbance in the parking area. Annoyance quickly shot to the top of her list of emotions. This wasn’t the first time some new kid in security called her about a problem that was her parents. She was often confused with the Eisner’s who managed Prestige and the Eisner who managed the GSA. “Over here,” a voice called from the middle of the deck. “What’s wrong?” She demanded as she headed in that direction. She paused briefly at the sound of nearing sirens. She quickened her pace to a fast jog, adrenaline spiking as she wondered who the hell called the police. She thought everyone knew better than to call 911. Only the hotel management had the authority to do that and when she was in Prestige areas, even she was required to defer to them. As the police car careened into the parking deck, Whitney saw the body crumpled on the concrete floor. She rushed over and kneeling down next to the woman, she picked up the knife near her head. Blood smeared on her hand as she brushed dark hair away from her face. “Don’t move!” Whitney looked up to see the police car several yards in front of her and two cops standing behind the open doors with their guns pointed at her. Realization slammed into her and she stared down at the body. The woman would be dead, killed by the knife she held in her hand. She closed her eyes for a moment in disbelief that she had been so stupid. Opening them, her gaze never left the cops as she slowly inched the knife to the oil stained floor and raised her hands over her head. She was standing with cuffs on her wrists being read her rights when the first rush of people ran into the parking area. She stared at the guards and wondered if the person who called her was one of them or if the person wasn’t even a member of the staff. More police cars skidded into the garage and the air crackled with static from the many radios. Whitney heard the call for the medical examiner as she was being led to the first cruiser on the scene. As if from a great distance she watched first her mother and then her father rebuffed by officers as they tried to come to her. Call Matt, she mouthed and her father nodded. By the time the officers came to drive her to the police station, the press was crowding around the entrance to the hotel. Whitney could only thank God for the high fence that surrounded the property. The street outside the gate was as close as they would get to the scene. Her thoughts were fractured as she thought of all that had to be done and quickly. Damage control was needed and Whitney wasn’t sure anyone at the hotel was in the right frame of mind to get it started. They needed to identify the woman before the police did. If she was a traveler, and Whitney knew she would be, they needed to move her belongings to an unrestricted floor. Under no circumstances could the authorities be allowed on the fifth. They needed to recall all the visitors and get them over to the other side. Having travelers wandering around with the police there was a disaster waiting to happen. They only had a small window of time to accomplish those things. They would want to get her free as quickly as possible and Whitney had no idea what to expect until that happened. She had never been arrested and while she had responded to many, she really didn’t know what the process entailed. She had seen a few cop shows and sincerely hoped her name would allow her to skip some of the more humiliating aspects. She could think of few things worse than being stripped of her clothing as some stranger searched her body cavities. What did that mean exactly, searched her body cavities? It couldn’t mean what she thought it did. It really couldn’t. And she was stunned by how easily she been caught. How stupid she’d been to respond to an emergency outside of her authority. She’d been trained to react quickly to a crisis, but the events over the last months should have given her a caution reflex to question something outside her area. Yes, she was called for hotel emergencies before, but she should have relayed the emergency to the front desk. Whoever was framing her knew her so well they knew she would instinctively respond to an emergency on her own turf. Her downfall was believing herself invincible inside the hotel. She was taken into the police station through a sheltered back entrance and was grateful there would be no pictures of her handcuffed as she was led into the police station. There would be enough pictures of her hitting the pages and television without adding that to the list. The playgirl image she had so carefully cultivated was going to be albatross around her neck. Another rich girl gone bad. Whatever her expectations, she never thought she would skip right to an interview room, have the cuffs removed and be offered a soft drink before being left alone. She sipped the coke a police woman brought her and wondered what was happening to her floor, with her centers. Her arrest would paralyze her staff. Thank God for Adam Bordeaux. Because of him, Denise was already on this side and could take control of the situation. Denise would know the primary objective was to protect the GSA and leave her to the lawyers. She got up to prowl the small space. She avoided her face in the large one way mirror as she walked a circle around the battered, scarred table. Ashamed, she realized that she hadn’t really cared about why those women were attacked. She was horrified by the savagery and alarmed as they continued, but she never bothered to look beyond the attacks to their purpose. Why should there be one? Wasn’t irrationality the hallmark of insanity? Could a sane person ever hope to understand the mind of the insane? Even as Shea pointed out time after time how she was being framed, Whitney hadn’t truly believed her until that moment in the garage when saw the trap sprung so neatly around her. Questions came to her with few answers. Why would someone attack and kill innocent women just to frame her? Where was the point in that? What did she have that someone wanted so badly they were willing to kill for it? And why wasn’t killing her the better choice? What would removing her accomplish that could not be accomplished by killing her? Not to mention being a guaranteed success. The plan to have her removed from her command had not succeeded and there was no guarantee that had she been removed it would have been permanent. Although, she had to admit, having her arrested for murder just might do the trick. She would have to actually be convicted to be removed because the Council was notorious for overlooking atrocious personal behavior in their Chiefs of Security. People didn’t rise to that position without exceptional leadership skills. She knew from Denise that the Council was very happy with her and being accused of murder wasn’t enough to change that. People were accused of things they didn’t do every day. Now all she had to do was prove she didn’t do it. She paused and shook her head. No, that wasn’t right. She didn’t have to prove she was innocent, they had to prove she was guilty. And they couldn’t prove she did something she didn’t do. They may have found her bent over a body with a knife in her hand, but she never used the knife and she could not be connected to someone she had never seen before that moment. A sense of relief draped itself over her and she dropped her head as the tension left her body. Matt would work his magic and she would be released soon. All she had do was wait. And that, she realized as she stared around the small dingy little room, was going to be hard. She wouldn’t have to think too much about the tiny space before she imagined the grimy walls smudged with some?thing were closing in on her. Her world had narrowed very quickly from the whole of time to this. She hoped whoever had done this to her was getting a good laugh because when she found them, there wasn’t a time or place they could hide. She turned as the door opened and she stared as Matt walked in the room. He looked as shell shocked as she felt when the police told her not to move. He glanced at the one way mirror and she followed his line of sight. Was that a hint that someone was back there listening? He cleared his throat and came into the room to place his leather attaché case on the table. The fear she could see so clearly in his eyes scared her more than anything else. “They’re going to take you down soon to get your prints and mug shot. Do not say anything to anyone. I mean it Whitney. Your Dad has pulled a dozen strings to get you before a judge this afternoon. You’ll stay here until the arraignment. If they grant bail, great. You have to be prepared that it will be denied. You have too much money at your disposal and the prosecutor will argue that you have no real ties to the community. All that supposed traveling you do is going to work against us.” The relief Whitney felt before Matt walked into the room vanished with the harsh reality she was facing. Innocent didn’t mean free. She nodded and moved to sit down at the table. “I know. How is everything?” She hoped he understood what she didn’t ask. She wanted to be careful what she said in case someone was listening to their conversation. This situation was their biggest fear with travelers in police custody. One could never be completely certain conversations were private. Matt opened his briefcase and took out a legal pad. He talked as he wrote quickly. “Well, your mother is demanding that your father ‘do something Joshua’ in that southern aristocratic tone of hers we all love so well. So he’s doing something. I don’t want to be him if bail is denied. Grace will not be happy.” Whitney had to smile at his accurate portrayal of her parents. No, Grace would not be happy if her youngest child spent the night in jail. Her Dad knew it was in his best interests to get bail because her mother would not be above trying a jail break, consequences be damned. “I won’t be so happy with that myself,” she said. Matt slid the legal pad to her and she quickly read the half page note. Denise was in control of her centers. Transferring the travelers out of Atlanta went smoothly. The victim was a traveler, but that was all he knew about her right now. She picked up his pen and wrote Thank you and thank Denise. He nodded. “Do you want anything or need anything? Food? A book?” “No, but thanks. Will you be in the courtroom for the arraignment?” “Of course. I’m your attorney.” “Then go get me out of here.” Whitney closed her eyes when she was alone. Matt didn’t look optimistic as he left. She smiled softly. If bail was denied, she knew they had a way to get her out. Of course it would be in a hearse, but she would be free. God if she had a choice between that and being in jail for who knew how long, she would put the pills in the water herself. Two hours after the lockdown of the fifth floor, Shea sat in her office staring blankly at her desk. She still felt the numbing shock that gripped her when it was announced over the PA system that they were at Code Black. By the time she opened her office door, the command center was in chaos. Or what she took to be chaos at the time. Every agent was standing and talking urgently on a phone. She took a step out of her office and her attention was turned to the sound of running feet. Her mouth dropped open as a dozen agents rushed to the terminal center. Turning back to the command center, she caught snatches of conversations.”?the delivery exit. The police are in front?” “Complete lockdown. No, we don’t know why?” “?at the fourth deck elevator. Do not come to the front entrance of the hotel.” What in the hell happened? She was turning towards Sam’s office when Denise hurried into the room. The Ops Director took a quick scan as she came to Shea. She held up her hand when Shea opened her mouth to speak. “Someone outside of hotel management made a 911 call. Any time that happens, the fifth floor is automatically locked down and all travelers recalled. As soon as he knows what’s happening, Josh will call.” Josh had not called. Instead, he walked into Whitney’s office fifteen minutes later. Denise was standing behind Whitney’s desk coordinating the return of the travelers through Quantico. Normally, travelers came to this side through a regional terminal center, but in emergencies they didn’t have time to re-code the cubicles for each transfer. Everyone was going to Quantico and Quantico would see them home. When the tall, ruggedly handsome man walked into Whitney’s office, Shea stood up as she recognized the eyes he swept over her. She didn’t know he was Whitney’s father, just that he was an Eisner. He glanced at her and she knew whatever happened involved Whitney. Mixed in with the shock darkening the crystal blue was fear and disbelief. Denise ended her phone call as she saw his expression. She stared at him in silence for a long moment. “Where’s Whitney?” He turned to shut the door. “She’s been arrested. There’s a body in the garage. The police found her kneeling over it with a knife in her hand.” Dread washed across her skin like icy water. Never in a millions years did she believe this would go outside the GSA. Everyone had everything to lose should this get out of hand. Their lives were precarious and by taking this outside of the GSA’s control, whoever was framing Whitney had put everyone’s life and the GSA itself in jeopardy. “We need to find out who she is,” Denise said finally, hesitantly. She looked over at Shea. “Can you do that? I don’t know if they’ll let you see the body but-” Shea shook her head as stood. “There’s a pattern to the victims. I should be able to identify her from that.” “We’ll have her belongings moved to an unrestricted floor once we know who she is,” Josh said, more to her than to Denise. “No. Deny everything. She’s not a guest. You’ve never seen her before. You don’t know what she’s doing on your property. If she’s a guest that gives her an opportunity to meet Whitney. Let her be a Jane Doe who was trespassing. They can’t be sure she wasn’t just dumped here and Whitney finding her is circumstantial. They won’t be suspicious when they can’t identify her.” It was as easy a she thought it would be to identify the woman. Using the pattern she discovered that morning, she found Micah Hansen. She was a twenty two year old college student at the American University of Georgia-Atlanta. She died where she lived. Denise packed up her suitcase and took it over to her parents personally. They would have to wait for their daughter’s body. The GSA could not use the family connection ploy that was so successful in retrieving the bodies of travelers. Micah would have to remain a Jane Doe until it was safe for them to recover her. Shea knew Whitney would hate that. The young woman had done nothing to deserve being murdered and now abandoned. But then Whitney had done nothing to deserve being arrested. Now, two hours later, the fifth floor was still locked down. The evacuation was orderly and unbelievably quick. There wasn’t a single traveler left in Atlanta. The few times she passed groups of people leaving, Shea was impressed to hear concern rather than complaints about their visit ending so abruptly. They knew better than she the consequences of discovery on this side. Whitney was a thought on the edge of her consciousness all afternoon, one she pushed back every time it threatened to move to the front of her mind. If she let herself think about Whitney, about where she was and what was happening to her, she couldn’t do her job. She needed to do her job because that was the only way she could help Whitney. Now that she was alone in her office, she allowed herself to fully comprehend what happened that afternoon. They still didn’t have all the pieces to the puzzle, just enough to know how it went down. Whitney left on a D&D at ten minutes after two. Matt met her at the police station and bailed Adam Bordeaux. The last time Matt saw Whitney she was leading Adam to her car. Denise was the next person to see Whitney when she was called to the penthouse. She left Whitney there alone while she left with Adam and his mother to retrieve his belongings. She was in Quantico, halfway to her office, when the alarm sounded informing the base they had a Code Black in Atlanta. She was back in Atlanta in less than a minute. She guessed it was less than a half an hour between the time she left Whitney in the penthouse and the time the alarm was broadcast. The next person to see Whitney was her father. Prestige had special tracers on their phones that captured 911 calls so that should one be placed, they knew where the trouble was and could hopefully remove all evidence before the police arrived. By the time Josh made it to the first deck garage, the police were already there and Whitney was in handcuffs. Obviously the call made from the hotel was not the first call to police. Josh thought he was in the garage minutes after he knew about the call. By that time, Whitney was in the custody of the first officers on scene. Whoever made the call from within the hotel knew the call would trigger the Code Black. Another sign whoever was framing Whitney was GSA. “Come in,” she said absently to the knock at her door. She sat up when Denise came into the room. She thought Denise left with the Eisner’s to go to the arraignment. This was one time Shea wasn’t going to bitch about money greasing the wheels of justice. The GSA had enough money to keep Whitney out of a cell until the arraignment and then to pay the bail regardless of how high it was set. Whitney would be charged with some degree of murder or manslaughter that afternoon and be sleeping in her own bed tonight. Thank God for money. Denise sat down in on of the visitor’s chairs and leaned forward to glance over the papers covering the black glass surface of her desk. She looked up with one eyebrow raised. “What is all this?” “The investigator’s reports. My notes.” Denise reached for a sheaf of papers. “These are the reports I gave you this morning? This is how you were able to identify her so quickly?” Shea leaned back in her chair and watched Denise flip carefully through the papers. “All the women were invited to the cities by a woman they met at a personals site online. The reservations are always made two days in advance, except Denver, and always made in the middle of the night by someone here in Atlanta who is isn’t here at all but is on vacation. They know her as Whit, this woman they meet online.” “Whit?” Denise said and looked up sharply. “As in Whitney. She’s never used that as a nickname.” “I’d like to think that even if I didn’t know Whitney and wasn’t with her on your side when Stacia Innes was killed in Denver that I would have at least entertained the idea that she was being framed. They didn’t even think it was someone else when the matches continued to be left at the crime after Whitney knew about them. Either your investigators are idiots or they think Whitney is.” “It’s neither,” Denise said and laid the papers on the corner of her desk before sitting back in her chair. She looked as tired as Shea felt. After running two hours on pure adrenaline, they should all feel drained. “I know your experience with us would lead you to believe we have a lot of crime, but we really don’t. We’ve never had a traveler kill anyone until Edwards, much less anything like this. We’re more at risk to crime here than we are on the other side.” They shouldn’t be on this side, Shea thought. Take them out of their world of wealth and privilege and they were sheep waiting to be fleeced. She looked across her desk at Denise and knew that was something she should keep to herself. She shouldn’t criticize what she didn’t understand and she did not understand why they came into the past. So instead she asked, “What’s your plan if bail is denied?” Denise dropped her gaze to the floor. “Visit Whitney often and line up the best defense lawyers money can buy.” It took a moment for Shea to understand and another few to rein in the surge of anger. “You’re going to leave her there? In jail?” Denise looked up slowly and the dark eyes she leveled at Shea were unreadable. “I don’t think the solution we used in Denver is appropriate in this situation, do you?” “You’re really going to just leave her there.” A dull disbelief replaced her anger. What else could they do? They weren’t all-powerful. If they had any magic at all it was Whitney herself. She was the one they turned to when they needed a miracle. Shea shook her head and stood up. “No, we’re not leaving her in jail. I’ll have to go in and get her. That should be easy enough. No one’s going to want her. She’s just a bad front page waiting to happen.” A plan was forming quickly in her mind. She would need transfer papers. They might question a lone detective transferring an inmate, but Shea would use Whitney’s playgirl image. The day she couldn’t handle a debutante was the day they took her badge. She nodded as she saw it working. She was right, no one wanted the headache an inmate like Whitney would ensure. She looked down to find Denise staring at her. “I need official papers. They’ll want to get rid of her so that won’t look too closely at them. Can you get that for me?” The ring of a cell phone broke the still air and Denise reached for hers without breaking eye contact with Shea. “Elliot.” Shea watched her face closely, looking for a sign whether the call was good or bad. She frowned as Denise listened without expression. “Okay. Thanks.” She closed the phone slowly. “Do you mean it? You’ll risk your freedom for hers?” “I’m not changing places with her, but yes I mean it. I’ll find out where they’re holding her if you get those papers.” She reached for the phone. It shouldn’t take her too long to find out where Whitney was being held. Fulton County had only a few places they kept the special people. “She got bail,” Denise said as her smile spread slowly. “That was Matt letting me know they’re bringing her home.” Shea dropped down in her chair as relief left her boneless. She closed her eyes. “Thank you God.” “You were going to break her out,” Denise laughed. “I can’t wait to tell her.” Her eyes snapped open in horror and she scrambled from her chair to follow Denise from the office. She walked up close behind Denise to whisper, “Fine. I’ll tell her you were going to just leave her in there.” “She knew that. But she didn’t know you would come in there after her.” Shea followed her onto the elevator. “She doesn’t need to know that.” “Oh, but she would want to know,” Denise said as the doors slid close. They were talking around her as if she wasn’t there. With her eyes closed and the shock of being arrested numbing her to the core, she could almost pretend she wasn’t. Maybe if she tried really hard she could pretend she hadn’t spent the last three hours in police custody. That she wasn’t free only because she was able to pay for it. Money kept her out of a cell before the arraignment and money would keep her out until the trial. The only the thing money couldn’t do was clear her of the charges. That she would have to manage on her own.”I’m not going to the other side,” she said as she joined the conversation. She opened her eyes to look at her parents. They looked like hell, which she supposed was how most parents look when their child is arrested for murder. “I think getting rid of me is exactly what whoever is doing this wants. I’m not going anywhere.” It was personal now in a way it wasn’t before her arrest. Even from the beginning, it was professional to her. If someone from this time wanted to hurt her, using her job against her was not an option. No one outside of the GSA and Prestige knew she even had a job. By taking this vendetta outside the GSA, everyone was in danger. The council could decide that closing the Gateway was the only safeguard they had against detection. Discovery was the only thing the Council truly feared. It was personal now and she wasn’t hiding on the other side until it was finished. Slowly, she looked around the room. Everyone who cared about her was sitting in her living room. Was it unreasonable to think she would want a shower and change of clothes before she had to face her family? As they were all waiting for her in the lobby and followed her home, apparently. Her parents and Denise sat on the couch. Her mother was holding Corinne’s two year old daughter Emily. Corinne sat in the chair from her bedroom. Her husband Andrew sat on the floor next to her. Peyton snagged the chair from her desk and his wife Anna took the one from her guest room. Corinne’s four year old son Joel and Peyton’s twelve year old son Adam and eight year old daughter Gracie were in her bedroom watching videos. Payne, the oldest of the grandkids, was working. Sitting behind her silently at the bar was Shea. While they hadn’t had a chance to talk yet, having Shea in her welcoming party had gone a long way to settle her frayed nerves. “You’re not going to prison,” Grace said. The finality in her tone was something all three of her children instantly recognized. As teenagers, they could beg and plead until they were hoarse, but once that tone came into their mother’s voice they knew she was as unmovable as the Rockies. She kissed the top of Emily’s sleeping head with her eyes on Whitney. “Even if you were guilty, I would not let you go to prison. There is no way I’m letting go innocent.” Because she knew her mother was the one person who had more power over her than Denise, Whitney met her gaze. “I’m not going to prison. If this looks like it’s going to trial, I will move over to the other side. But until then, I’m on this side. I’m doing my job. I’m helping with the investigation. I’m finding who did this.” “We,” Josh said as he stood up. “Change all those I’s to we.” He reached down to gently take his granddaughter and snuggled her sleepily against his chest. His eyes met the eyes of every person in the room before settling on his youngest. He shook his head when she opened her mouth and smiled when she closed it. “We’ll meet tomorrow morning at eight in the main conference room. Some of us know more than others so we’ll start from the beginning.” They left slowly, each stopping to hug and kiss her before leaving. Finally when the elevator closed on her parents and Denise, she closed her eyes and bowed her head. “Thank you for being here.” She felt herself being turned on the bar stool and she leaned forward into the arms pulling her close. “Are you hungry? Do want a drink?” Whitney smiled and shook her head. “To help me forget the horror of sitting in an interview room for a few hours? I’m not that traumatized.” Shea tightened her embrace. “I am. What in the hell were you thinking when you went down to the garage?” The irritated tone was the right touch at the moment. Whitney laughed as she pulled away and stared into Shea’s annoyed gaze. She shook her head. “I wasn’t. It’s not the first time someone new to security has called me instead of my parents. I wasn’t thinking anything beyond that.” Shea leaned forward to stare into her eyes. “You need to start thinking Whitney. You made this much too easy for them.” That wasn’t breaking news. Whitney knew that the instant she saw herself over the body and police pouring into the garage. It was a simple, astonishingly effective trap as long as someone didn’t mind a little murder as bait. “I know. It will not happen again.” “No, it won’t.” Shea slipped from the barstool and pushed her legs apart to stand close to her, her arms sliding around Whitney. “Why don’t you go take a long hot bath? I’ll order up dinner and after I tell you what I learned today, you’re going to bed. You need a good night’s rest. We’re going to be really busy starting to tomorrow. It’s not going to be easy to save your life.” “My life doesn’t need saving. Killing me doesn’t seem to be one of their options.” Slowly Shea leaned into her, green eyes never leaving her face. “I meant this life, here on this side. While I don’t think I would mind living on the other side, I know you would hate it.” In the silence that followed her words, Whitney stared at Shea in wonder. Peace was the last thing she should have felt at that moment in time. The life she had built so carefully was coming down one flaming piece at a time. She was as helpless to stop it as she was clueless to understand why it was happening. But she found a steely support in Shea’s words to hang herself on even if the rest of her life was lost. Her job set her apart from everyone in her life. Her family was Prestige and her friends could never know her truth. Surrounded by people who loved and cared about her, she was alone. She had given up the search for that someone who could straddle her worlds with her, believing that person simply did not exist. Now that woman stood before her, her acceptance filling a deep well of emptiness Whitney didn’t know she had. Soft hands framed her face. “Where are you?” Whitney blinked and smiled at the concern in Shea’s eyes. She shook her head. “Why would you give your life up for me?” Shea closed her eyes and leaned completely into Whitney. Soft, warm lips trailed light kisses on her neck and her breath caught in the first sparks of desire. She slowly pulled Shea’s shirt from her slacks and slid her hands under the thin linen to caress her back. Gentle teeth snagged her ear lobe, sending the sparks into flame. “I’m not giving up anything for you. This is all for me. Rent-free penthouse. Travel-free trips to anywhere in the world, not to mention anywhere in Time. Interesting job. A woman who is the sexiest woman I have ever seen. This is paradise and I’m not leaving.” “So this is all for you?” Whitney breathed. She lifted her head as Shea kissed her jaw line. “Oh yeah,” Shea said in a low voice. “All for me.” Whitney’s eyes snapped open when Shea moved abruptly away. Before she could catch her breath, Shea pulled her to her feet and was dragging her across the penthouse to the bedroom. A small smile played around the corners of her mouth. So much for that hot bath, dinner and conversation. When Shea turned to her in the bedroom, Whitney caught her hands. Surprised green eyes stared at her. Whitney slid Shea’s arms around her own waist and clasped their hands behind her back. “I love you.” The bright need in her eyes vanished, replaced by a blank stare. “What?” “I love you. I don’t care where we live, where we are. As long as I’m with you, nothing else matters.” As her smile grew slowly, Shea asked, “Why would you give your life up for me?” Whitney brought their hands from behind her back. She lifted their left hands and kissed the back of Shea’s. “I’m not giving up anything for you. This is all for me. I didn’t know how lonely my life was before you. I didn’t know how empty I felt inside. Here. There. APD. The GSA. I don’t care about anything else as long as I have you.” She let her left hand go and turned the right over to kiss her palm. Fingers slid into her hair, moving slowly to her neck where fingertips brushed the sensitive skin of her neck. As if in a perfectly choreographed dance, they came together in a deep, slow kiss while their hands moved as one to strip away their clothes. Whitney took a small step back when skin was pressing against skin. “Shower?” Long slow kisses and slippery caresses kept them in the shower until the water ran cool. As much as she wanted to pull Shea to the bed, Whitney knew they needed to have dinner. She had skipped lunch and declined all offers of food while in police custody. The last thing she wanted while she waited to know if she was going home or to jail was a greasy burger. Now, clean and free, she was starving. She quickly dried off and pulled on her robe. “What do you want for dinner?” “Whatever you’re having,” Shea said with a quick smile and draped a towel over her head to briskly rub her hair. Grinning, Whitney left her alone in the bathroom and was walking to the phone on her bedside table when she heard the elevator chime. She was halfway to the bedroom door, annoyed at the interruption, when she stopped as she realized what she was doing. Did she learn nothing that afternoon? Occurrences out of the ordinary were no longer mere annoyances to be dispensed with as quickly as possible. Without taking her eyes from the half open bedroom door, she backed into the bathroom. “There’s someone out there. I heard the elevator open.” In the blink of an eye, Shea pulled on her detective persona along with the terrycloth robe. “Stay here.” It was not a request. Whitney followed her from the bedroom, moving to pick up the cordless phone while Shea paused long enough pick her gun up from the bureau. Whitney watched as she checked the safety and edged to the half open door silently. Whoever was out there wasn’t making any attempt to hide, Whitney thought as metal clanged against metal. Of course having them trapped in a room with only one exit would give whoever it was a false feeling of confidence. Her eyes never left Shea as the woman eased the door open soundlessly. Whitney gripped the phone tighter, her thumb poised over the 0 the second this looked out of Shea’s control. She watched in surprise as Shea froze a second before easing back into the bedroom. She shut the door with out making a sound and slid the safety on the gun. “Who is it?” Whitney whispered. Shea’s head snapped around at her voice and the gun made a solid thunk as she put it back on the bureau. “I told you to stay in the bathroom.” Whitney replaced the receiver. Obviously they weren’t in any kind of danger. “Who’s out there?” “You stay where I tell you to stay. The bullets in my gun are real, Whitney. My reflexes are good, but in this situation I’m compromised. I’m going to point at anything that moves and I need to know it’s not going to be you. You stay where I tell you to stay.” The first rush of anger at Shea’s harsh words faded as understanding sunk in. While walking a high wire of tension, Shea was going to respond to a sudden noise from any direction. Even the best cops make mistakes. “I’m sorry. I thought I should get the phone so I could call for help if it was needed.” Shea closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She was calmer when she opened them a few seconds later. “It’s a waiter. Someone sent dinner up for us.” The elevator chimed and Whitney brushed past Shea to walk into the living area. A white tablecloth was draped over her coffee table with places set for two. Red roses and a bottle of wine chilling in ice flanked a large covered platter and bread basket. Curious, Whitney lifted the lid from the platter and the smell of Chicken Alfredo hit her empty stomach hard. This was from her mother. Her dad would have sent up hamburgers and fries. She pulled one of the roses from the vase. He barely remembered to give roses to her mother and she was fairly certain he thought Shea was only her security advisor. She turned and found Shea standing close behind her. She held the rose out to her. “Dinner is served.” Shea stepped close and kissed her as she took the rose. “Smells wonderful. Are you on some list where they bring dinner up to you at a certain time?” Whitney laughed and moved away to serve the meal. “No, that would be a waste. I’m not here half the time and I would never remember to cancel it. I’d say this is my mother’s doing. She hates that I eat a lot of hamburgers and if you weren’t here, she would have probably sent up baked chicken and several steamed vegetables.” “She choose well,” Shea said and picked up the wine bottle to fill both glasses. “Of course I’m so hungry a ham sandwich and chips would look good right now.” Once their plates were loaded with the creamy pasta with grilled chicken slices and broccoli floret’s, Whitney sat on the couch. The breadbasket held thick slices of buttered garlic bread and Whitney placed one slice on each plate. She picked up her fork. “Okay you know how my day went. How was yours?” Shea sat beside her. “Has anyone ever called you Whit? Anyone at all?” “No,” Whitney said, her tone conveying clearly that no one ever would. “Why?” While they ate, Shea told her what she learned that morning. Whitney listened in horrified silence as she learned of the profile using her sister’s picture that was luring vulnerable young women over to this side. How many, she wondered. How many came over before the first was beaten unconscious? Surely the first victim wasn’t the first to answer the ad. She felt ill as Shea told her that the car accident and fire were probably staged. Two people were critically injured in the accident and should a fire in one of the hotels or any other catastrophe threaten to expose the fifth floor, charges hidden in the floors were triggered to level the building. It had been done twice, both times because of an earthquake. This wasn’t something someone had just dreamed up, but had spent a lot of planning. Why? For what purpose? What did they want so badly they were willing to kill for? And how much farther were they willing to go? Whitney was afraid there was no risk they weren’t willing to take. There was no one more dangerous than someone with nothing to lose and that was whoever was doing this. People had died, lives were ruined and their very existence on this side was threatened. Someone would pay for that. Even if the one behind all this never did anything else, Whitney would not stop searching until she found him or her. She wanted justice for the women and peace of mind for herself. She wanted the punishment to be so steep that no one would ever try this again. “Are you all right?” Shea asked, her voice low and concerned. Whitney nodded as she stared into her glass. “Yeah. We’ve got to find who’s behind this. Before anyone else dies, we’ve got to end this.” Shea slid put an arm around her shoulder and pulled her back to nestle against her. She laid her head on Shea’s shoulder, thinking how nice it was to share a meal with someone before they went to bed. This was a luxury she’d never had before and realized it wasn’t something she thought would ever be hers. There were a lot of dreams she’d never had because she thought they were her price to pay for her life. She closed her eyes and breathed deep the clean scent of Shea. And pushed away the thought that she had this only because of the attacks. “We will,” Shea said and kissed her on the head before resting her own against Whitney’s. “The hunt starts tomorrow.” Sleep was elusive for Whitney and when she did sleep, her dreams were a montage of violent images taken from recent events in her life. Interspersed with the grotesquely colorful snapshots of brutally beaten women was the classic nightmare of her dream self running in place from a faceless pursuer. Every time she looked over her shoulder the menacing shadow was one step closer. She was wrenched from her tortured sleep for the last time shortly before five the next morning, her skin slick with sweat and her heart pounding.She was home. She was safe. For now. It was the last words that had her slipping from bed and gathering clothes in the dark before closing herself in the bathroom. Shea was still sprawled on her stomach in the middle of the bed when, showered and dressed for the day, she quietly left the penthouse. Whitney passed the command center to walk down to the terminals. After a slow scan to assure herself this part of the operation was running smoothly, she reversed her steps to the command center. Everyone knew what happened yesterday. There wasn’t a person in her entire Gateway who didn’t know they had a Code Black yesterday and she was sure all of them knew she was arrested. She stopped short of the glass of the command center to steel herself against the silence and stares and with a deep breath, walked into the room. There was no hesitation in her steps as the clattering of computer keys trailed off and phone calls ended abruptly. She turned as she reached the front of room to face the silence. “Good morning,” she said and let her eyes sweep the room. Those who were standing slowly sank down to their chairs. Low murmurs of “Good morning” echoed from around her. She met every gaze in the room and felt relief as she saw nothing more than concern. “Yesterday afternoon what I thought was a security guard called me to the first parking deck where I found the body of a young woman. Police arrived very soon after I did and I was arrested. The woman was one of our travelers, something the police do not know and cannot be told. You are to speak to no one about this. Are there any questions?” Heads shook silently across the room. Whitney waited, giving them the chance to ask any questions they had, and nodded. “Okay then. Let’s get this day started.” Without another word, she walked into her office and shut the door. She had a lot to do and very little time to get it done. Several files and a stack of messages waited on her desk. As she scanned through the brief notes, tension seeped from her muscles as she saw the only significant event yesterday happened to her. It was a tortuous thought while she sat helpless in the interview room, that something would happen and she would not be there. Even knowing Denise was on this side and was more than qualified to run not only the Atlanta Gateway, but the whole of North America, the thought persisted that something important would be missed if she wasn’t there to handle it. Whitney moved quickly through the messages. It was too early for her to make calls and because she wasn’t sure when she would be in her office again, she sent emails. They lacked the personal touch she preferred to use with her staff, but it was the best she could do at the moment. She didn’t want to leave anything hanging. She was startled when her door opened without warning and she sat back, the folder in her hand forgotten as Denise came into her office. She took one look at her boss’s face and knew she wasn’t the only one who spent the night in restless sleep. “Good morning.” “No, it’s not,” Denise said darkly and dropped down in the chair in front of Whitney’s desk. “Coffee. Black.” There was a small snack area off the command center and Whitney brought her a glazed doughnut to go with her black coffee. She sat behind her desk and sipped her own as she waited for Denise’s brain to kick into gear. As her narrowed gaze traveled over the rumpled clothing Denise wore, Whitney tried to remember what the Ops Director was wearing yesterday. She could almost believe Denise spent the night on this side and came to her office before going home to change. “Grace is terrified. She thinks you’ll either go to jail or be killed. I was here until midnight talking to her last night and nothing I said helped. She wants you on my side, permanently. I don’t completely disagree with her.” Whitney looked at Denise over the edge of her coffee cup. She said in a calm tone, “The only way that happens is if I’m dragged over by guards.” With a deep sigh, Denise closed her eyes. Whitney waited, wondering if it would be her mother’s best friend or her boss who would speak to her next. When the hazel eyes opened, Whitney saw the woman who had been as close as family to her since the day she was born. “Then there are concessions you’ll have to make. If you don’t agree to them, I will have you taken over. I can do that just on the fact that you were arrested yesterday.” She would, too. Whitney saw the truth of that in her eyes, heard it in the steel edge of her voice. She saw and heard something else, a dark terror almost hidden in the shadows of her eyes and lacing her voice, a something that had Whitney pushing down on her anger. They had every reason to be terrified. Someone wanted her removed and they were willing to kill for it. Sooner or later, it was going to be easier to just kill her to get her out of the way. After yesterday, she was betting on sooner. “Okay.” Surprise had Denise staring at her wide eyed. “Okay?” “If I’m not next, I will be soon. I’ll do whatever Shea thinks is necessary.” “I wasn’t expecting that,” Denise admitted. The gaze she leveled at Whitney was full of mistrust. She met Denise’s stare. “I didn’t get it before yesterday. I do now. I’m cleaning up what I can right now. Go home and change. We’re meeting at 8 in the main conference room.” After Denise left, Whitney moved quickly through the rest of her work. When she closed the last file, she sat back in her chair and stared around her office. Her mother had decorated it for her before Whitney chose Atlanta as her headquarters. The three signature colors of Prestige were reflected in the dove gray walls, maroon covers on the filing drawers and thick navy carpet. The only personal touch was the frameless watercolor paintings few people knew were done by her mother. She felt at home as soon as she walked into the room and over the years it had become her haven. She knew what she was doing here. She could be herself here in a way she could never be anywhere else. She was bitterly angry at whoever was sabotaging her life. She didn’t feel like she was going to a meeting; she felt like she walking out on everything she was. Without telling a single soul, without making sure her Gateways were in good hands, she was walking away from them without knowing when she would come back or who she would be when she did. “Come,” she called to the knock on her door. Whatever it was would have to wait or be handled by Sam. Before the door opened she would have thought Shea would be one of the last people to come into her office but when she closed the door, Whitney knew she should have expected this. It was unreasonable to think she could leave without a word that morning and Detective Shea would not track her down as soon as she was dressed. She watched Shea sit in front of her desk and was surprised to see a calm gaze staring at her. If she was angry with Whitney she was hiding it well. “Almost done?” Whitney glanced over her desk and knew the answer in heart was no. She nodded and sat back in her chair. “As much as I will ever be.” “You said last night that you wanted this to be over. How far are willing to go to do that?” “As far as I have to go. I don’t want anyone else to get hurt. I don’t want my parents to live in fear that I’ll be hurt or imprisoned. Why? Do you have a plan?” A small smile crossed Shea’s face. “I do, but first I want to know what the consequences are for you. Denise is coming to this meeting right?” Whitney looked down at the clock on her desk. Eight was only minutes away. She stood up and walked around her desk to stand next to Shea. “Yes. She came by before you were here. My mother wants her to take me over to her side. I think Denise spent the night here.” “I’m surprised your entire family didn’t spend the night with you,” Shea said and slipped both arms around her waist in a loose embrace. Whitney leaned into her, thinking their bodies fit together as snugly as two pieces of a puzzle. Their lips met in a slow kiss as Shea’s hands pulled her closer, tighter. Everything was so easy with Shea, so natural. She felt as if she was kissing someone she had known forever instead of someone she’d known for such a brief time. “We have to go,” she whispered against Shea’s mouth. She told herself that once this was over, she had the rest of her life to spend in Shea’s arms. That she could spent every moment of it kissing her. She’d fallen asleep hours after Whitney, her mind turning over all the possibilities. There was too much they didn’t know. Too many why’s and how’s without answers and she didn’t know where to look for them. Yesterday had rocked her. It wasn’t the dead woman thrown away like garbage in the parking deck or the fact that Whitney was arrested. No, what shook her more than anything was how easy it would have been for that body to be Whitney.In the darkest part of night, with Whitney moving restless next to her in the bed, she finally asked herself why the body wasn’t Whitney. It should have been. Killing her should have been so much easier than framing her. It would be easier and faster with less chance of failure. All they really had to do was catch Whitney alone and mask her murder as a carjacking or mugging. Because of who she was and all that was at risk, the family would not encourage a lengthy investigation. Denise would try to do that from her side, but the GSA was not set up for criminal investigations. Whoever was behind this had to know that, had to know keeping her alive was riskier than killing her. So why wasn’t she dead? Reasons lined up in her head and each was explored and rejected until she was left with only one. Shea believed the reason someone wanted Whitney out of the way was professional and the reason she was being framed was personal. The fact that Whitney was the target meant whatever was at stake here could be accomplished only if Whitney was removed. The fact that was she alive instead of dead meant someone loved her too much to kill her. Narrowing down the suspect list should be simple with that factor. The number of people who had access to Whitney and cared about her were minute. They needed to force an action. The only way Shea could think to do that was to give them what they wanted and see what they did with the opportunity. Grace was standing at a serving cart when they walked into the conference room. Whitney went to her mother as Shea walked to the long table. Someone was busy. Notepads and pens were placed at every chair along with cups and saucers. Shea picked up a cup and waited, watching Grace hold Whitney. While the rest of her family was shocked and angered by what was happening to Whitney, her mother listened with fear. Shea got the impression Grace already knew most of it and pegged Denise as the likely informer. “I want you to go over,” Grace said as she stepped away from Whitney. “You’re not safe here.” Whitney’s smile was fleeting. “You don’t know I’m any safer there.” From her shocked and panicked expression, Shea knew that wasn’t something Grace had considered. Her absolute need to believe her daughter was safe on the other side blinded her to the realization that Whitney may not be safe anywhere. With cup in hand, Shea walked over to the serving cart where she found to her delight Grace was offering several different kinds of cookies along with the choice of coffee or tea.. “She’s safer here,” she said casually as she filled her cup from the carafe of coffee. Did she want a delicate shortbread cookie or see what cookie was hiding under the milk chocolate? She glanced at Grace as she reached for a chocolate covered cookie. “Unless you can get her thrown in a cell at Quantico with guards we can trust.” Whitney plucked the cookie from her hand a mere second before she bit down. “If I go, you go.” Shea grinned and took her half eaten cookie back. Chocolate covered shortbread. The best of both worlds. “That goes without saying.” Whitney laughed and walked to sit down at the head of the table. “No, it needs to be said. I don’t want you thinking you can give her ideas like that and skip away with me left sitting to twiddle my thumbs.” Grace was smiling at her and Shea saw relief in her eyes. She smiled and scooped up two cookies. “I rarely skip.” Shea took the chair to Whitney’s left. Grace sat down on her right and Shea let their conversation drift into the background as she made notes. They would only get one shot at this and any mistakes could have devastating results. It wasn’t just making sure Whitney walked away from this alive, they had to make sure they got everyone involved with the plot. All that happened wasn’t the work of single individual. She wasn’t convinced that two people alone could pull it off. The conference room filled quickly with Whitney’s family the closer the time got to eight. Once everyone was seated, Whitney turned to her. “Let’s hear your plan.” Shea had hoped to speak with Denise in private before she brought up her plan. Because that didn’t seem to be an option, she looked across to where Denise sat beside Grace. “Is there a way to make it appear that Whitney has been removed without her actually being removed?” Denise shot a puzzled glance at Whitney. “Appear to be removed how? To who?” “We need for everyone, everyone outside this room, to believe she’s no longer in charge. They want her removed, so we remove her. Then we monitor everything. All phone calls, all transfers, all computer usage. Anything and everything. I believe once she’s gone, there will be actions that will lead us to those behind this.” “Those? You don’t think this is one person?” The question came from Whitney’s dad and from the controlled anger in his tone, Josh Eisner was ready to hurt someone. Shea could handle that emotion a lot better than Grace’s quiet desperation. “No, I don’t. I thought it was maybe two in the beginning. Someone here monitoring her and then alerting someone else. I think it’s more than that now. We need to get all of them.” Denise pulled a notepad closer and clicked open a pen. “She was arrested yesterday and I can remove her for that. This has happened only a few times in our history, but in those instances the COS was taken over to be held on the other side. But that’s mostly to keep our people out of jail. We can leave her on this side. I’ll need a media link to make the announcement.” “What has to happen for them to believe she’s been removed? Are her access codes frozen? Is she barred from traveling? We can’t overlooked anything. Her life depends on them believing this.” The planning took several hours and in the end only Denise, Whitney and Shea remained. The others slipped away as they were needed within in the hotel. Their presence was informational at best as Whitney had no authority with Prestige and her family had none with the TimeLine. Shea flipped through her pages of notes, checking and doubling checking that every conceivable precaution was being taken. All of Whitney’s codes would be de-activated, she was barred from the entire fifth floor except for the terminals, and all travel within in the TimeLine required Denise’s approval. Once she was back at Quantico, Denise would provide them with new codes and arrange to manage the North American Gateway herself from that side. By doing that, she could monitor all communications and movement without arousing suspicion from anyone on her side. “Will they believe you’re just letting her stay free?” That was Shea’s main concern. Whitney’s safety was contingent on everyone believing she was powerless. If Denise was really concerned about her fitness as COS, wouldn’t she constrain her in some way? “Nepotism is alive and well in the GSA,” Denise said as she stood up with her notepad. “It’s expected that I’ll give her preferential treatment.” Denise walked to Whitney’s side and leaned over to press a kiss to the crown of her head. She looked at Shea as she said, “I’ll call when I have everything ready on the other side.” Shea nodded and waited until they were alone to reach for Whitney’s hand. “Are you all right with this?” “I have to be because the alternative isn’t a choice.” “This will be over before you know it.” “And if it’s not?” Whitney asked, her eyes as bleak as her voice. “I can’t be suspended indefinitely. Denise will either have to replace or remove me. If they’re smart, and I think we all agree that they are, all they have to do is wait.” Shea wasn’t about to admit that was the only real flaw in her plan. She was hoping whoever was behind all of this would believe Whitney had been removed and would not think to question if it was a trap. In her experience, criminals rarely questioned the timing of good fortune. She was hoping that was as true for the future as it was in the present. “This is what they wanted. Why would they question that?” Whitney sat back in her chair and looked down at their hands. “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do now. I have nowhere to live. Nowhere to work. Nothing to do.” “None of that is true. You can live anywhere. Your suspension, if you want to call it that, isn’t real. And last but certainly not least, you’re going to be very busy combing through everything with me. Some things will stand out for me as being out of the ordinary, but I’m not going to catch the little things. It’s the little things that people usually trip over.” “Now,” she said and pulled Whitney up with her when she stood, “Let’s go pack. Any idea where in the world you want to stay?” Whitney gathered up her notes. “You can stay in the penthouse. One of us should be onsite.” Shea shook her head. She wasn’t staying alone in the penthouse for any reason. “I think it’s best if no one stays there. We have a better chance of them acting if they believe there is a void in the power structure. Denise can’t be expected to give your Gateway her undivided attention.” “How many people do you think is involved in this conspiracy?” Whitney asked as they left the conference room. Conspiracy. That was a new word for Whitney. Her tone had changed, too, Shea noticed. Gone was the hesitation and doubt, the true disbelief that someone was doing this to her life deliberately. Now she believed and in that belief Shea heard a dangerous need for vengeance. “It’s hard to say. We don’t know what they want.” She hesitated before she used her keycard to the fifth floor. For a moment, Shea saw Whitney’s life as she must be seeing it right now. Her place in this world and her right to move freely in it were in question for the first time in her life. Whitney’s life seemed aimless to those on the outside looking in and it wasn’t going to be easy to live that life for even a few days. The GSA was her life. To lose one had to feel as if she’d lost the other. Shea followed her off the elevator and across to the bedroom. Her stay here at been unofficial at best. She recalled, vaguely, Amanda saying a suite was being created for her, but there had been nothing said after that one time. Watching Whitney walk in front her, Shea knew she hadn’t cared enough to ask. As long as Whitney wanted her in the penthouse, Shea was more than happy to be there. “You can stay with me,” she offered before realizing the thought was in her head. She had given her house very little thought once Whitney came into her life. She was lucky she didn’t have pets who required her attention. Of course, if she had a pet, her mother would take care of it when she picked up her mail. It was a familiar routine for them by now and Melinda had long stopped asking her daughter about the assignments that kept away from home days at a time. Shea wasn’t sure how she would have explained this one. Whitney brought out several suitcases from the closet. She glanced at Shea absently. “Where are you staying?” Shea sat on the bed to watch. Her packing would take only a few minutes as everything she had here was provided by the GSA. She missed her clothes, she realized. She missed her house. “I’m going home. Did you think I was living in my car when you met me?” At Whitney’s blank stare, Shea laughed. Obviously where she lived and what was happening to it while she was here had never crossed Whitney’s mind. “There are some things you should know before you decide. I don’t have maid service and I prefer cooking food to delivery.” “Well, you should know before I accept that I can’t cook and that’s not a skill I’ve missed.” “If you don’t cook, you clean.” Whitney grinned. “That I can do. Will you have to explain me to someone?” “My girlfriend already knows about you.” Instead of shock or anger, Whitney’s grin turned into a smile that became a laugh at Shea’s disappointment. “You weren’t the only one who talked to Kim after you followed me that night. According to her you’re single but have been given uncountable opportunities to change that.” Kim had said almost the same thing to her about Whitney. “I’m going to be the envy of everyone. I got the wealthy playgirl. You got the workaholic cop.” Whitney came around the bed to stand in front of her. Cupping her face, she said as she leaned down, “I need to do something nice for the city of Atlanta. They kept you busy until I found you.” “You weren’t looking for me,” Shea whispered. “I would’ve been. Had I known you were out there, I would have looked for you everywhere and in every time.” Shea wanted to pull her close, to deepen the kiss until they were breathing hard and pushing away clothes in a desperate need to touch skin. Her last shred of sanity kept her hands on Whitney’s hips. They had too much to get done today to let themselves be sidetracked. They left the penthouse less than thirty minutes after they arrived. As she watched Whitney pack, Shea noted that she packed as if she was only going on a trip. As if the thought she might never live here again hadn’t crossed her mind. Shea was sure that it had, that she had to think she was walking off the fifth floor as Chief of Security for the last time. Her car was parked next to Whitney’s sporty BMW. Whitney walked to the trunk of her Accord without hesitating at her own car. Shea bit down on the offer to let Whitney take her car. As much as it saddened her to see Whitney letting little pieces of her life go, the loss was only temporary. Shea had a life. Whitney was embarrassed that she had given that life absolutely no thought. She had not thought about the job Shea left at her request, about where she lived or the people who missed her while she was gone. She’d pulled Shea so completely into her life that she had forgotten Shea had a life of her own. She sincerely wished she had remembered that before she fell head over heels. Shea had more than proven she could fit in Whitney’s life. Whitney wasn’t so sure she would fit so completely into Shea’s.”Oh. Hmm.” Whitney looked away from the window at Shea’s flustered words. They were stopped in front of a two story red brick house on a street lined with two story red brick houses. Several tall oak trees shaded the house and small front lawn. A dark green minivan was parked on the sloping drive. With a sigh, Shea pulled up next the curb in front of the house. “My mother’s here. She takes care of things when I’m working. She shouldn’t be here now.” Whitney sat in the Accord for a moment while Shea went to the back of the car. Not a just a life, but a life with parents and probably a sibling or two. Slowly, she followed Shea across the yard to the front door and on the front step, Shea turned to look down on her. “Who do you want to be?” “What?” Whitney asked blankly. “To my mother, who do you want to be?” “Whoever you want me to be. Whoever won’t complicate your life too much.” Whitney couldn’t even think of who she could be in Shea’s life. Did cops even bring people from work home with them? With witness or suspect being the two main options, Whitney hoped Shea didn’t bring people from work home with her. The front door opened onto a small landing. Forward was a set of stairs that disappeared into the second floor and down was empty space that would be a cozy living room should Shea add a couch or chair. A large closet resided under the stairs and Whitney watched in amusement as her suitcases were hastily shoved inside. Shea called out, “Mom?” “Laurie?” The concerned reply came from the back of the house followed by the sound of footsteps on the hardwood floor. “What are you doing here?” An older version of Shea came down the wide hallway drying her hands on a dish towel. She was barefoot and dust or dirt streaked the jeans rolled to mid calf. Her bright yellow T-shirt was smudged with dirt and sweat. She used the back of her hand to brush damp curls away from curious green eyes. “I thought you would be gone for a few more days. I’m spring cleaning.” “I can do that, Mom,” Shea said in a tone that said this wasn’t a new topic of conversation between them. “This is my mother Melinda Shea. Mom, Whitney Eisner.” Whitney knew instantly that Melinda Shea had seen the news some time in the last twenty-four hours. The curiosity changed to alarm and without her gaze ever leaving Whitney’s face, she reached out for her daughter’s arm. “Nice to meet you. Kitchen. Now.” “Why?” Shea asked and resisted her mother’s efforts to pull her down the hallway. Whitney sat down on the third step of the staircase. “She’s seen the news. She knows I was arrested yesterday. I was hoping you didn’t bring suspects home from work with you, or witnesses either. That can’t be safe.” “Of course I don’t do that,” She said to Whitney in exasperation and turned to her mother, saying in the same tone, ” She’s not guilty Mom. It’s a mistake.” “She was found leaning over a dead body.” “Her family owns the hotel. She lives there. She’s not guilty.” “How can you be so sure?” Whitney propped her hands on her knees and rested her chin on her fist. She couldn’t wait to hear Shea’s answer to that. Whitney found herself liking the way Melinda Shea’s gaze never wavered from her face. She was almost vibrating with tension and Whitney was sure if she made a move on Shea she’d find Melinda blocking her path. “God, Shea,” Whitney said and was a half step behind Shea when her mother took a staggered step back. “That was the best you could come up with? ‘Hi Mom, meet my new girlfriend, the woman arrested for murder yesterday.’ Your people skills need serious work.” “How was I suppose to know she knew your name?” Shea shot back. “Because I was one of the top three stories in the news yesterday, if not the top? Because my face is probably on the front page of the paper? The same way you knew it when Matt said it that night in the conference room? Any or all the above.” Between the two of them, they led Melinda back to a sunny kitchen and sat her down at the a high café style table. The smell of lemon scented cleaner hung heavily in the air and bottles of different cleansers were scattered over the long, navy tiled counters. Sliding glass doors that led to a large backyard sparkled in the afternoon sun. “Girlfriend?” Melinda asked as Shea poured a glass of chilled water and handed it to her mother. “I thought you were on a case.” The glance Shea sent her way was a little panicked. Whitney sat down at the remaining chair at the table. “She’s been helping my family. We’re having some problems with the hotel, as you can see from yesterday. Shea and I had just started dating and when I asked her if she knew someone very good and very discreet, she offered to help us herself. We’re very grateful to her for that.” Melinda relaxed slightly, but her eyes were wary as she glanced between them. “What’s going on with your hotel?” “We’ve had several young women attacked. We’re business people and we’ve failed miserably at playing detective. It seems we asked for Shea’s help a moment too late.” “The newspaper said you don’t have a job at the hotel.” Whitney was rarely bothered when an outsider believed the image she cultivated as a playgirl. There wasn’t an equivalent of her job in Prestige, nor would she have had the time to pretend if there had been one. The people who believed the hype didn’t matter to her so why should their opinion? She couldn’t be so callous with Shea’s mother. She didn’t want her to think she was a playgirl or that she was just playing with her daughter. She glanced over at Shea and found no help in that area. It was obvious lying on the spot wasn’t one of her better skills. At least not to her mother. She smiled at Melinda and hoped she looked faintly embarrassed. “I’m the baby of the family and it’s easy to drift when there are no expectations. My brother and sister knew they wanted to be a part of the family business since they were children. I have an MBA from Stanford so while I’m new to the business, I won’t exactly start at the bottom.” Please, she prayed, don’t ask what I do. While lying was one of Whitney’s better skills, she was used to lying to people who didn’t matter to her or perpetuating the well-laid lies of her life to those outside the GSA. This was new and she found her skills weren’t quite up to the test of lying to Shea’s mother. Before Melinda could ask another question, Whitney’s cell phone beeped. She pulled the phone from her pocket as she slipped from the high chair. “I’ll take this in the other room.” Her relief at the interruption was short-lived when she saw the name in the caller ID. She thought briefly about ignoring the call; it promised to be the first of many. She walked to the window farthest from the kitchen and leaned against the wall to look outside at the bright sunny day. “Hey.” “What the hell is going on here?” Lea demanded. “Where the hell are you?” Maybe they should have stayed to listen to the announcement. She knew the gist of what Denise said, but it occurred to Whitney she may need to know what was actually said. “In Atlanta. I’m staying at a friend’s house.” “What is going on? Denise can’t believe you killed someone yesterday.” “It doesn’t matter what Denise believes. I was arrested. There’s not a lot she can do about that.” “She could believe you’re innocent. Instead, she suspends you. No one’s ever been suspended because they were suspected of doing something. What else is happening here?” The frustration in her friend’s voice pushed Whitney to tell her the truth. It was on the tip of her tongue, but she bit it back as the images of beaten and murdered women flashed in her mind. She closed her eyes, promised she would make amends to those she lied to now and said, “I wish to God I knew, Lea.” “Come here,” Lea said softly. “You can stay with me.” “I’m sorry, I can’t. I’m out on bail and I can’t do anything to get that revoked. If there’s even the slightest chance I’ll be locked up again, I have to go over. You know how much I would hate that.” Lea sighed, “Yeah, I do know. Keep me in the loop, will ya? I can’t believe I had to hear about it through a netmeeting . You should have called me.” “I know and I will keep you in the loop. I’ll call you later, okay? I’ve got to go.” As soon as she closed her phone, it beeped again. She slid the phone in her pocket after she checked the caller ID. When Shea said everyone had to believe she was out, Whitney didn’t realize that would include those she considered her closest friends inside the GSA. Lying to all of them was going to be hard, but admitting the truth when it was over was going to be even harder. How do you tell a friend you didn’t trust them? “Everything all right?” She turned as Shea crossed the room. The beep of another phone call brought a faint smile to her face. “Yeah. That was Lea. She thinks something else is happening here because no one’s ever been suspended like this. The next call was Mark, which I let go to voice mail. I don’t know who’s calling now. When this over, Shea, how did I tell my friends they were suspects? That I couldn’t tell them the truth because I didn’t know it wasn’t them?” Shea stepped close to slowly move her hands up and down in her arms. “You don’t have to tell them. You’re the victim Whitney. You’re the last one who has to explain anything to anyone. Besides, anyone who doesn’t get that your life and everyone in it is under a microscope is a fool.” “I guess,” Whitney said and raised both hands to massage her eyes. It wasn’t just the left eye that ached anymore. She cleared her throat and forced a smile to her face. “I’m surprised your mother trusts me enough to let you be alone with me.” Shea laughed and pulled her into a comforting hug. “She doesn’t. She just trust me to be able to protect myself.” This time when her phone beeped, Whitney knew she couldn’t ignore the distinctive ring. She pulled the phone from her pocket, saying, “That’s Denise.” Shea stepped back with a quick nod. “That should mean she’s ready for us. Let me tell my Mom we’re leaving.” Whitney started walking to the front door. She flipped open the phone and said, “We’re on our way.” Denise set them up in the private conference room behind her office. Shea wished there was a way to secret Whitney from one side to the other, but she could only come over through a hotel and there had never been a reason for more than the sub-basement at Quantico. It was her keycard that got them onto the elevator, that made the transfer to Quantico and Shea hated that it gave Whitney’s staff the impression she was being escorted. Some looked away as they passed while others clearly wanted to speak but didn’t know what to say. Shea couldn’t decide to be angry they didn’t try or glad their silence allowed Whitney to move quickly past the stares.The first decision was how to organize the massive amounts of date generated in just one day by the six zones. Everything was monitored and archived. Every call was taped. Every transfer documented. Every keystroke captured. All of it was compressed onto tiny transparent discs with one copy made before the master set was sent to the Council. When Denise handed her the set for that day, Shea could only stare. Each zone had it’s own case of nine discs. She was stunned until she read the first label. PACIFIC ZONE, 1ST SHIFT, PHONE CALLS. PACIFIC ZONE, 1ST SHIFT, TRANSFERS. PACIFIC ZONE, 1ST SHIFT, COMPUTERS. Her relief lasted until she opened the first disc and saw it was a simple log that noted the time, user and hotel of a call phone. The Pacific Zone, 1st Shift made 18 pages of phone calls. She found it hard to be grateful they could at least sort the entries by time, user or hotel. They would never be able to analyze everything properly. It wasn’t enough to know a call was made, when a transfer was made or when someone logged onto the computer. Each piece was part of the puzzle and they needed to know how they linked before they would be able to see the whole picture. Five hours after they walked into Denise’s office, Shea pushed away from her computer screen depressed by how little they actually got done. She was beginning to think they best thing for them to do was print everything out. She could highlight and mark paper. They only way they would ever keep up was to actually stop time. She froze before turning to Whitney. “You guys can’t?stop?time, can you?” Whitney grinned and shook her head. “No.” Disappointed, Shea laid her head back on her chair. “No, of course you can’t. Because if could you’d go back in time and stop the first attack.” “No we wouldn’t.” Whitney was waiting with her hand when Shea jerked upright in her chair. “We learned very quickly and at great cost that the past is a chain of events and that removing a link rarely breaks the chain. You can’t stop someone from doing something simply by changing how or where or when they do it. You have to stop them from wanting to do it and with all the we have accomplished, changing the intent in someone’s heart is still beyond us.” It was a truth Shea didn’t want to hear and one she found hard to deny. How much better life would be if the desires that dwelled in the heart were always right and good and kind. She had a job because some hearts were filled with evil intentions. The first attack wouldn’t have been Sharon Armstrong in Dallas. The first would have been someone else, somewhere else. Maybe she couldn’t change the fact that there would have been a first, but Shea was determined that Micah Hansen would be the last. “We’ve got to come up with a better system than this,” She said more to herself than Whitney. How to do that was overwhelming. If only she knew what wasn’t important or had a way to narrow down information to some workable degree. She looked up as Whitney slipped from her chair and walked to stand behind her. She closed her eyes as Whitney began a light massage on her shoulders. “Let’s go home. We can have a late supper and brainstorm.” Shea pushed away from the table and stretched. Brainstorming did not sound like something she wanted to do with the rest of her night. She watched Whitney tidy the area around her computer terminal, her eyes sliding down over the button down shirt and linen slacks. No, she didn’t want to deal with Centers and phones calls and murder any more that night. Home, Whitney said, and this time she meant Shea’s. “Is it presumptuous of me to think you’re sleeping in my bed tonight?” The look of surprise on Whitney’s face when she turned to Shea was the only answer she needed. Whitney glanced at the doorway before moving closer. She slipped a finger through Shea’s belt loop. “Only if it’s presumptuous of me to think I’m sleeping in your bed tonight.” Shea’s eyes fluttered shut at the low, promising tone of Whitney’s voice. She could feel Whitney’s skin under her hands, her lips on her Whitney’s body. She opened her eyes. “I don’t think we’ll get much sleep.” Whitney shot the empty doorway another glance before slipping an arm around her waist to pull their bodies together. One hand slid up to almost cup her right breast. Her thumb carelessly stroked her shirt, each brush bringing her closer to touching Shea. “Well in that case I guess I should sleep in your guest room You need your sleep.” Shea covered her hand and moved it up so that both their hands were on her breast. “I don’t have a guest room.” “No? Is there a couch I didn’t notice?” Shea bit down on a groan as Whitney began to move her hand in a slow circular motion. She could feel both nipples pressing against her bra. She whispered, “No, no couch.” “A comfy chair? Hammock in the back yard?” Whitney brought her hand up to Shea’s chin and titled her face up. Amusement mixed with the desire in her eyes. “I hope you don’t have a lot of sleep-overs.” The first flippant remark that came to Shea’s mind was brushed away. Thanks to Kim they both knew the other wasn’t into one night stands. Shea knew that even had she been, Whitney was the last woman who would trip over someone else’s past. She only cared about the present. Shea she slipped one hand behind Whitney’s neck and pulled her down into a deep kiss. They broke apart, startled by the trilling ring of Whitney’s cell phone. Lea. Again. Shea frowned as Whitney leaned back to answer the call. Was this the third or fourth time Lea had called that day? As she had during the previous calls, Shea pretended that she wasn’t listening and turned to her desk area to close down her computer for the night. The conference room was behind Denise’s office so presumably their data was safe, not that they had found anything to alarm anyone, but Shea still felt better going through the motions. While they didn’t know what they were looking for yet, there was someone who did. “I can’t risk it Lea. I’m sorry.” She didn’t sound sorry; she sounded angry. Shea gave up the pretense and gave Whitney her full attention. This call was going down the same path as the others with Lea trying to tempt Whitney out to LA. It was a sentiment Shea seemed to understand better than Whitney. If she was Lea, Shea was certain she would be trying to get her friend out where she could pamper and distract her just as Lea seemed determined to do. Unfortunately for Lea, Whitney’s guilt was manifesting itself as anger. “You’ll make this up to her,” Shea said when Whitney ended the phone call minutes later. “How?” Whitney snapped in frustration. “How do I ever make this up to any of them? Nothing is ever going to be the same again.” It wasn’t a point Shea could argue because Whitney was right. Nothing in her life would ever be the same again. The turning point would not be the unmasking of the killer or even the revelations that would follow. No, that particular moment in time was the instant the plan to commit these acts was made. Whitney was beating herself up for deceiving her friends and Shea feared when she would have to believe one of those friends made the decision that changed her life so that it would never be the same again. Shea took Whitney’s cell phone and with deliberate care, turned it off. When Whitney reached for it, the surprise so clear in her eyes, Shea slid the phone into her own front pocket. She didn’t want any more distractions. She wanted Whitney’s complete attention for the rest of the night. Tomorrow she could belong to the GSA again. Tonight Shea wanted her all to herself. “If you’re very good tonight,” she said softly as she slipped her arms around Whitney’s waist, “I’ll give it back to you in the morning.” The battle between duty and desire was hard fought with emotions crossing her face too fast for Shea to decipher. She would never know how closely desire edged out duty, how narrowly the need for what Whitney wanted defeated the need to be who she was. As Whitney’s lips pressed down on hers, she didn’t care. Sometimes winning by the thinnest of margins made the victory all the more sweeter. Whitney moved away first. “So you claim to cook. What are you cooking me for dinner?” Letting go of the deeply ingrained responsibility Whitney felt to her job wasn’t as hard as she always assumed it would be. She never would have guessed that walking away with absolutely no desire to look back would be so easy. Never would have imagined the relief she felt as Shea drove away from the hotel that whatever happened that night was someone else’s problem to solve.”I know I said I preferred cooking when I’m home.” Shea said as she maneuvered through the last of the rush hour traffic. “But I have no idea what I have at home for food, much less if it’s still good. So pick a drive thru for tonight and tomorrow we’ll go shopping. I promise you a home cooked meal tomorrow night.” Whitney stared out of the passenger side window and watched the passing parade of brightly lit signs promising everything from All-American favorites like burgers and chicken to ethnic foods from around the world. The hunger she felt burning wasn’t something she could pick from a menu board and request with a soft drink and fries. “Let’s have something delivered.” “That’ll take forever. Choose-burger, chicken or taco?” Whitney looked over at the woman driving the car. The urge to touch her was overwhelming and she reached over to run her fingers through Shea’s silky hair. Her smile was fleeting at Shea’s questioning glance. “I can’t think of anything else but tasting you right now. Feeling you under my hands, on my lips. I can’t wait even the few minutes it will take for drive-thru.” Her words had the same effect on Shea as if she had touched her some place more intimate than the curve of her ear. Startled eyes flew to Whitney’s face and she took a quick breath. Whitney let her hand fall to the back of her neck, her fingertips a whispered caress against her skin. “God, how do you do that?” Shea asked in a rough voice. “Do what?” Whitney knew exactly what she was doing, to both of them, and was enjoying every second. Shea’s breathing was shallow, faster. Her hands moved restlessly on the steering wheel. She was squirming in her seat. Whitney closed the space between them and put one hand high on Shea’s thigh as she leaned in to whisper, “What am I doing?” Shea braked a red light. Without taking her eyes from the road, she dropped her right hand from the steering wheel and found Whitney’s breast. Now she did turn her head to Whitney, smiling as Whitney gasped at her touch, and locked eyes. “You make me so wet, so fast.” Whitney moved the hand on top of Shea’s thigh to the inside of her leg. She leaned in for a lingering kiss on Shea’s open lips, her fingers slowly tracing the seam of her pants all the way to the V of her legs. The hand lightly touching her breast fell on hers and Shea linked their fingers to still her exploration. “I want you so much.” Want was such a pale word to describe feelings she’d never felt for anyone. There were other women Whitney had wanted to the distraction of almost anything else. Women who had dominated her thoughts. Women she knew she had loved. But she couldn’t remember a single one who pushed her to this place where the need to touch was a compulsion she couldn’t resist. From the corner of her eye, she saw the car in the next lane move forward. “You’d better drive before you cause a traffic jam.” Shea jerked to her gaze the road. Once they were driving again, she kissed the palm of Whitney’s hand and let her go. “We should probably keep our hands to ourselves.” “Okay,” Whitney agreed and laid her hand on the nape of her neck. “You do that.” She was good for the rest of the drive, or at least as good as she could be. Her fingers wandered through Shea’s hair, stroked her jaw line, skimmed the shell of her ear and she knew all were pushing Shea to the edge. Whitney wasn’t surprised when Shea all but dragged her into the dark house and up the stairs to her bedroom. She wanted Shea’s hands rough and hurried on her clothes. Every touch in the car was meant to push Shea to this point and Whitney reveled in the sensation of having her shirt ripped open. “I want to feel you,” she whispered and zipped open Shea’s slacks. The hands pushing her shirt off her shoulders stopped as her hand slid under Shea’s panties. They both gasped when she stroked her with one finger. Shea’s head fell back and her hands gripped Whitney’s shoulders tightly. Whitney leaned in to kiss the base of her throat. “I want to touch you first.” Shea’s hands gentled on her shoulders as Whitney kissed her jaw line and she shifted, standing with her legs wider to let Whitney’s fingers slide deeper. Whitney groaned as barely the tips of her fingers reached where she wanted to go. She needed to be in Shea, needed to feel her hot, wet and tight around her fingers. She pulled back and reached for Shea’s slacks. “These have to come off. Now.” Shea balanced herself with one hand on Whitney’s shoulders as Whitney yanked the slacks off and tossed them over her shoulder. Whitney stood up and Shea slipped her arms around her and pulled her close. “Why do you get to touch me first?” Whitney dropped her hands to caress Shea’s bare ass. “Because I said it first?” “I want to touch you more,” Shea whispered as her hands slid under Whitney’s shirt and pushed it off her shoulders. “You got to touch me in the car.” Whitney let her shirt fall to the floor. “Is that how you want to touch me? How I touched you in the car?” “No. I want to touch you like this.” She stood still as Shea’s hands roamed over her, kissing the skin she bared as she removed Whitney’s clothes. Her skin was burning with every stroke, every brush of Shea’s lips and she was trembling with the effort to keep her hands to herself. Whitney waited patiently until Shea was standing up from taking off her pants. She pushed Shea back onto the bed and was on her before she could do more than catch her breath. “I can’t wait anymore.” “No?” Shea whispered. She took Whitney’s hand from her shoulder and trailed it down the front of her own body. Whitney closed her eyes, enjoying the satiny feel of warn skin against her palm. Her breath caught and Shea moaned low in her throat as she took their hands lower. “Tell me.” Whitney couldn’t think. Shea’s fingers brushed across her hand as she stroked her, feeling Shea move against her hand. She whispered words she would never remember as her fingers opened Shea and slid deep inside her. Slowly, Whitney moved inside her, following Shea’s movements and listening as she her breathing grew ragged, as she became tight around Whitney’s fingers. She moved up on one elbow to watch Shea as she arched up, Whitney’s name a tortured groan on her lips. “Oh baby, you are so beautiful.” Now this was the way to end the day. Sated and sleepy, warm arms holding her close as Whitney slept behind her. She dropped off quickly and it was only Shea’s spinning mind that was keeping her awake. Another day had ended with them no closer to clearing Whitney than they were when the day began. They’d lost more time, something they didn’t have to spare, and had learned nothing. Every second lost felt like one gained for the other side. Not every crime was solved. Here in the dark, Shea could acknowledge her fears that this might be one of those. She couldn’t bear to think about the kind of limbo Whitney would live in if that happened.There had to be a way to cut down the data without losing something vital. She didn’t want to eliminate anything until she was beyond certain that it was useless information. How could she get to that point? Not every scrap of data from every zone was important. There had to be some centers where none of the data mattered. But, she thought as the first tingles of a true avenue of investigation chilled her skin, there was one where all the data mattered. Atlanta. It didn’t begin there, but everything that happened was connected to it. Because of Whitney. Shea moved carefully away from Whitney and turned to face her when she was sitting on the edge of the bed. The light from the full moon fell across her sleeping face. She was the key. She was the reason this was happening. Shea didn’t have to trace the evidence back to Atlanta. She only had to follow the trail from there. Quietly, Shea picked up her robe up from the foot of the bed and wrapped herself in the cool silk before kneeling on the floor to search their scattered clothes. She found what was she was looking for next to the half open bedroom door. She wondered how her slacks ended up so far away from the bed. She was almost certain that was the last of her clothing removed. With Whitney’s cell phone in hand, she crept into the hallway and made her way downstairs. A single light was burning over the stove. She saw the note held to the fridge by a Braves magnet as she opened the door for the pitcher of water she kept chilled. She recognized her mother’s handwriting immediately. Honey, your cupboards were bare! I hope you don’t mind that I did some light shopping for you. Looking inside the fridge, Shea saw her mother’s definition of the word light really wasn’t the same as hers. She leaned down to scan the brimming shelves and realized she was starving. After she made her phone call, she was going to rummage around for a quick snack. Tomorrow morning she would surprise Whitney with a home cooked breakfast. She had all the ingredients for a stuffed omelet. She took her glass of water to the table and opened Whitney’s phone. She didn’t bother being disappointed or surprised that there was no password required to use the phone. It didn’t look any different from other cell phones, but Shea knew their had to be a fundamental one when she pushed the second speed dial button and waited to be connected to a phone hundreds of years in the future. For a group harboring the secrets of the GSA they were astonishingly lax in security. “Denise its Shea. Do you a few minutes to talk?” What time was it anyway? Shea twisted around to see the time display on the microwave and thought it felt much later than 9:30. “Is Whitney all right?” Shea smiled, glad that would always be Denise’s first concern. “Yes. She’s sleeping and I was thinking about all the data we went through today. We’re getting no where and I was trying to find a way to cut it down without losing anything. I think I found it.” As she spoke with Denise, the more convinced Shea became that they would find the answers in the data for Atlanta, or at least the bread crumbs to follow. There was still a lot of data with just the focus shifting to Whitney’s home base, but again Shea thought she could narrow that down as well. Denise was silent for a moment before saying cautiously, “Are you sure? That’s very specific. Do you have a suspect?” “No,” Shea said truthfully and it stung to admit that. “But it started with Whitney. The answers have to be at her center.” “They’re all hers.” They were all hers, but none were as connected with her as Atlanta. This was always home to her regardless of where she went in the world or what she did. She grew up in and around the hotel. Prestige Atlanta was the Eisner family. It was a connection Shea knew she should have made immediately. “Can you have everything ready by morning?” Papers rustled in the background. “Yes. It’ll be waiting for you.” “Thank you Denise.” “If you need anything else, call me. I don’t care about the time.” Shea promised she would and hung up. Tomorrow. They would have answers tomorrow. Maybe not all of them, but there was only one she wanted to know more than all the others. She wanted to know who. Which friend betrayed Whitney? Which someone near if not dear to her had done this? Shea closed her eyes and rested her face in her hands and almost wished tomorrow would never come. Nothing cuts quite as deep or hurts as much as betrayal from someone you believe will never hurt you. Her head snapped up and she stared at Whitney standing on the threshold to the kitchen. She looked sweet, sleepy and tousled in a too big thigh length dark blue T-shirt. Shea turned in her chair as she crossed to the table. Whitney stepped between her legs and leaned to rest her head against her shoulder. “Why are you awake?” Whitney kissed her on the neck. “The better question is why you aren’t sleep.” Should she tell her? Whitney moved back to met her eyes. The debate with herself was short. There was nothing for them to do that night. Surely Denise would need some time to pull the dates she wanted. So she kissed Whitney lightly on the lips. “I’m hungry. I thought I would see what I could scrounge up for us. I’ll be honest. I wasn’t hopeful, but my mother went shopping so how would you like that home cooked meal tonight?” “Mm, I would love it. What can you do that’s light?” Shea thought about the omelet she was going to surprise Whitney with the next morning. “Omelet? A little ham, some cheese, maybe a veggie or two?” “Perfect. I’ll see what I can find for toast.” In the five years Shea had lived in her house, she didn’t remember sharing her kitchen with someone else. She usually had dinner ready by the time a date arrived. The kitchen was large with most of the space taken up by the L-shaped center counter. Their bodies brushed as Whitney moved around her gathering plates and silverware to set the table. It was an intimacy that had always left Shea vaguely uncomfortable even when the woman was sharing her bed. She’d known Whitney so much less than she knew most of the women in her past and yet, Whitney belonged in a way the others never did. “Why is my phone down here?” “What?” Shea turned slowly from the stove and tried to kick her brain out of neutral. “And it’s on,” Whitney said, turned to look at her. “Why did you call Denise?” “How??” As far as she could see Whitney hadn’t pressed any buttons that would tell her who she called. “You have cell phone. There’s only one reason you’d use mine. Why did you call Denise? You could have used your GSA phone.” And if she had remembered that, they would not be having this conversation. Shea spent the next few minutes finishing their dinner and trying to find a way to tell Whitney what she told Denise just in a different way. She didn’t want to keep pointing out that this was all happening because of Whitney. Once they were sitting at the table with the omelet divided between their places, Whitney sat with her arms crossed and her eyes on Shea. She sighed and picked up her fork. “There’s a lot of data and I was thinking about how to narrow down the search. We’re never going to get through even one zone much less all of them in a single day. It occurred to me that following the trail out of Atlanta would be a lot easier than trying to find the one leading to it. I’ve asked Denise to pull the days before, of and after each attack. We can widen that later if we have to, but I don’t think we will.” Whitney picked up her fork and they ate in silence for a few moments. “Why didn’t you want to tell that?” “We can’t do anything until tomorrow. I’m sorry, I just didn’t want to talk about it tonight. That makes me sound selfish and cold, but there it is.” The explanation was a lot closer to the truth than Shea would have thought possible. It was more than just not wanting to keep telling Whitney this all happening because of her. She had Whitney in her home and she wanted to enjoy that for as long as she had her without it being tainted with the reason why she was in Shea’s home. Would it be so wrong for her to pretend Whitney was here because she wanted to be? Whitney forked up a piece of egg with ham and cheese. “This is really good. I could get used to this.” “Yeah?” Shea asked with a smile, her eyes locked with Whitney’s. “Oh yeah,” Whitney said with a slow smile and a subtle darkening of her eyes. “So did you want to talk about something else instead?” Shea’s eyes dropped the V of her T-shirt. “No.” Someone she knew was a murderer. A colleague definitely and may even a friend. As they drove to Prestige the next morning, Whitney was torn between wanting the day to be over and never wanting it to begin. Shea’s absolute confidence that she would find some answers today left Whitney feeling sick to her stomach. She wanted this to be over. God knew no one wanted that more than she did, but she wasn’t ready to discover which of her friend’s was a cold, calculating killer. She didn’t think that was something she would ever be ready to face.”When are you going to tell me what we’re looking for?” She asked Shea as they walked onto the elevator in the lobby of the hotel. Shea swiped her ID card for the fifth floor and Whitney was amused that she did it as naturally, as absently, as if she had been doing it all her life. She’d never thought about it before, how someone from this time would adjust to their world, but if she had she never would have thought anyone would do it as seamlessly as Shea. “I’ll know it when I see it.” “But will I know it when I see it?” She wasn’t a trained investigator. She couldn’t help but think she was more of a hindrance to Shea than anything else. She knew nothing of police procedures and investigations and even now had little interest in learning. Shea smiled at her. “Yes, I think you will. You’ll know it’s wrong before I do.” The elevator opened onto the fifth floor before she could ask another question. Whitney steeled herself before stepping out and reminded herself that whatever her employees thought, they would know soon that it wasn’t true. But slivers of doubt made her honest enough to admit that when it was all over, the truth may not be enough to save her life on this side. There wasn’t a single instance in living memory of a COS being removed so it wasn’t going to be easy to convince people there wasn’t some truth to the accusations. The door to Denise’s office was open and the room empty. Whitney hesitated in the doorway. This office was the equivalent of the principal’s office for the student corps and Whitney was amused her instinctive reaction was to wait outside until she was invited in. She headed for the conference room, saying, “She’s probably at the morning Assembly.” Hot coffee and warm pastries were waiting for them in the conference room. The stacks of discs from yesterday were gone, replaced by a single container. Shea picked them up before she could and flipped open the lid. Whitey poured two cups of coffee and took one with her as she sat down. “Good morning,” Denise said as she walked into the room. “Is that everything you wanted Shea?” Shea shot her a quick smile and sat down next to Whitney. “Yes, thank you.” Whitney watched Denise take the cup she’d poured for Shea and come to stand behind Shea’s chair. Shea selected a disc from what seemed to be the middle to Whitney and slid in into the computer. “I don’t know yet.” Whitney met Denise’s questioning gaze and shrugged, letting the Ops Director know she was in the dark as well. Denise dropped one hand to Shea’s shoulder. “Good luck finding it. I’ll be in my office if you need me.” “Denise,” Shea called and turned to face her. “Don’t let anyone back here okay?” This time Denise didn’t look at Whitney. She merely nodded and turned away. “Do you know who you’re trying to keep out?” Whitney asked and sipped her coffee, waiting to see what Shea did next. “Everyone who wasn’t in the conference room with us yesterday.” As the disc loaded, Shea reached for her clipboard with the notes she’d taken yesterday. She’d been irritated with how they archived their data. Whitney’s reply that they’d never had to a reason to comb the data was met with a muttered curse and a stare bitter enough to curdle milk. As hour after hour passed with them painstakingly breaking the codes for every entry, she more than shared Shea’s disgust with their recordkeeping. She wasn’t looking forward to a repeat of the process today. “Come here,” Shea said and wrapped one hand around the metal arm of her chair to drag her chair next to her own. Whitney barely had time to balance the cup of hot coffee in her hand. The dark glare she shot at Shea went unnoticed as Shea opened the folder on the disc. “I think the phone calls are the key to this. We may get lucky and be able to place someone where they shouldn’t be, but I doubt it. Denise said anyone could use the terminals for travel on this side and the people we’re looking for aren’t sitting in the terminal centers manning computers. They can be at other centers during the day, even if it’s not there own. I’m sure you’re all friends.” Whitney continued to sip her coffee, watching as Shea sorted the data by time and listened to the distracted tone that told her Shea was speaking more to herself than to Whitney. Here was the cop, she thought, and enjoyed watching Shea. She wished she could go back in time and could re-meet Shea outside the police station again with Tracy Warner. Her only thoughts then were to get the hell away as fast as she could. Now she’d like to watch her in official cop mode. “Well?” Shea asked and stopped flipping through the pages of her clipboard. “Aren’t you?” Whitney had no idea what question was asked. “What?” “Friends. You’re all friends right?” “Who are friends?” Shea sat back in her chair and frowned at her. “You’re not even listening to me.” She couldn’t deny the accusation so she smiled and decided to keep her thoughts to herself. “Sorry, no. In all fairness you aren’t really talking to me.” “Yes, I am.” Shea said. “I think we should print this and just write the names out beside the entries. If there’s a pattern we’ll see it faster.” What pattern, Whitney wanted to ask. What were they looking for? She didn’t see how phone calls could be incriminating. Calls between centers and employees happened hundreds of times a day. How would they ever prove that a certain call wasn’t business related when anyone could call anywhere at anytime? Instead she stood up and said, “Okay, starting printing and I’ll get the pages.” They used a thick stack of paper to print the phone calls on the discs Shea had Denise pull. Whitney handed Shea her half with a grimace. “I don’t think this narrowed it down as much you thought it would.” From the expression on Shea’s face, neither did she. She stared at the papers and Whitney could almost hear the gears turning in her head. “Let’s do this.” Shea got up and riffled through the cabinet drawers until she found a handful of colored highlighter pens. She came back to the table and handed several to Whitney. “We’re going to write the names out beside the entries. Both-who called and who they called. If something looks wrong to you, mark it.” Whitney straightened her stack and wished Shea had a better plan than for her to mark it if it looked wrong. She settled down with the pen and using her notes from yesterday, began lining the margins with names. Two hours later the only pattern emerging was that her employees made more personal than business phone calls. For every call made to a GSA number were two made to a non-GSA one. Dozens were made to 900 numbers. When this was all over and if she was still COS, there would be changes made. “Most of these calls have nothing to do with my centers. I’m surprised anything gets done.” “Ignore them for now.” “Why?” Whitney asked in surprise. “I get that whoever is keeping tabs me on is GSA, but that doesn’t mean whoever they’re calling is.” Shea didn’t look at her as she shuffled the top page to the bottom of the pile. “Call it a hunch. If it’s someone outside the GSA that means Prestige and I don’t see a lot of mixing among the staff members. This is GSA all the way.” Whitney would have loved to argue the point, argue anything that would delay having to return her attention to the endless list, but she had to agree with Shea. As far as she knew the only mixing that happened between the two staffs was familial. Even as a child, she’d preferred the fifth floor while Peyton and Corinne enjoyed the amenities offered in a five star hotel. She knew it had been the same for most of the people at the Academy with her. But it was hard for to accept that someone who grew up wanting to be GSA would betray everything that it meant to belong on the fifth floor. “Lea’s on her way over here. She’s been looking all over you.” Whitney turned in her chair to look at Denise. “She’s been trying to get me out to California. She’s angry with you.” “Well, she knows you’re on this side. Do you want her to know you’re here or should I say you’ve off the compound.” She made the easy choice. She dropped her pages on the table with a thud and stood up, relieved that she had a reason to leave. A cowardly if legitimate reason. If Lea was looking for her, Whitney knew she could be found now or would be found later. Now was more convenient for her. “I’ll be here. Do you mind doing this alone for a while?” Shea shook her head, her attention never wavering from the task at hand. “Just don’t let her in here.” Whitney followed Denise from the room and closed the door softly behind her. Familiar maroon folders were stacked and scattered on Denise’s desk. Applications to the Academy. She remembered completing hers, remembered the bone deep fear that she wouldn’t be accepted for the GSA. She decided, during the interminable six month wait, that she’d stay on the other side if she was slotted for Prestige. “I was going to stay here, you know, if I didn’t get the GSA. I never thought that was a decision I would have to make again.” She was barely surprised that this time her choice would be based on wanting a future she never envisioned as a child. “You don’t have that choice this time,” Denise said and tapped her pen against the acceptance letters waiting for her signature. She bit down on the smile she felt as she watched Whitney spin with shocked horror on her face. “You’ve done your job Whitney. You did everything you were supposed to do and if you can’t stay on that side in your current position, you do have the option of retiring from the GSA.” “Retire?” Whitney repeated dumbly and reached blindly to steady herself on the back of a leather wing chair. “I can retire? How?” Denise reached for a maroon folder sitting by itself on the credenza behind her desk and held it out for Whitney. “It’s not what the Council wants obviously. They have plans for you. Maybe you have plans for yourself, away from the GSA.” When Whitney only stared at the folder, Denise placed it on the edge of her desk. Slowly, Whitney moved around the chair to sit down and her eyes never strayed from the corner of Denise’s desk where another future she never envisioned lay waiting for her to pick it up. “What would I do?” “Anything you want.” “Can I get in on that?” A female voice drawled lazily from the doorway. Whitney’s surprise was genuine as she looked over her shoulder. Lea, dressed for play in blue jeans and white knit shirt, was leaning on the doorjamb with her arms crossed. Whitney had forgotten she was waiting in Denise’s office for Lea. “What are you doing here?” Lea pushed away from the doorway and went to Whitney, casually running her fingers through her short dark hair. “What are you doing here? You hate this side.” “I’m not an accused murderer on this side.” Anger flashed in Lea’s dark brown eyes. “You’re not a murderer on either side. Come, have lunch with me.” “Are you playing hooky?” Denise asked. “I took a personal day,” Lea said without glancing up. She held her hand out to Whitney. “Come on. We haven’t had lunch on this side since we were promoted.” Whitney allowed herself to be pulled from the chair, from the room, from the building and into a car Lea had waiting outside. The small shaft of guilt she felt for leaving everything on Shea was shoved away with the rationalization that Lea would only get more insistent with time. “So,” Shea asked once they cleared the gates, “How are you really?” “I’ve been better.” “Okay. Tell me what’s going here. Why do they think you killed someone?” “Because I’m the one they found kneeling over the body with the knife in my hand.” Whitney instinctively flung out her hand to brace herself against the dash as Lea slammed on the brakes and twisted in the seat to stare at her. She smiled at her friend’s slack jawed incredulous stare. “I guess that wasn’t part of the net meeting.” Whitney was right. Her staff was making a lot of calls that weren’t to other GSA numbers. Curious, she picked up a green highlighter to mark off those calls. Several pages were more green than white when she reached the last number on the list. Was she being hasty by ignoring those calls for now? There were so many maybe she was being premature in eliminating them on nothing more than a hunch.Most of the area codes were local, she saw as she flipped through the pages. How many times had she called a friend or family member from work? Ordered in lunch or dinner? Called her bank, a doctor? Some times a phone call was the only way to take care of life’s little details when you had a full-time job. She knew she wouldn’t come out squeaky clean if someone tracked her work phone usage. She had to trust her training and her experience because both were telling her to look at the GSA. She just wished her instincts could help her narrow it down a little more than that. The GSA had enough people to create their own city. She kept underestimating them. Their scope was always deeper and farther than she could imagine. When she asked for the calls made on the days surrounding the attacks, never did she think it would be hundreds of pages. How did she narrow that? Okay, she thought and rested her chin on her hands, the trail was hidden somewhere in these calls. She asked for the day before the attacks because she believed the first three attacks were pre-meditated. She didn’t think she was wrong, but maybe thinking there was contact between the killer and the watcher in Atlanta before the attack was presumptuous. Surely all of her staff, and Shea meant every senior person in every center, knew which emergencies Whitney handled personally. They didn’t need to know where she was before the attacks. She would be contacted wherever she was and that she was on her way was all the killer needed to know. Shea flipped to a clean piece of paper and wrote down the names of the women attacked, where it happened and what brought Whitney to the property. The first attack followed a planned meeting between Whitney and the staff of the Dallas hotel. Surely something like that took days to set up. She was demoting the two top officers. Wouldn’t that be something you would do before the staff meetings? She would contact those involved, the demoted and the promoted, so that when she met with the staff the major changes would already be in place. That had to be enough time for Sharon Armstrong to be lured over to Dallas. Whitney’s watcher would only need to contact the attacker if Whitney was called away for any reason. Nothing had and Whitney was right where they wanted her to be when Sharon was found unconscious. The next two attacks, Hannah David in LA and Anne Collins in Vegas, were accidents that didn’t seem so accidental now. A fire in the hotel and a car accident were easy enough to arrange. It was also easy enough to arrange in advance Hannah in LA and Anne in Vegas. Again, no need to call unless Whitney left and she was once again right where they wanted her to be. Erin Warner was more calculated than arranged. There was no need to monitor Whitney in Atlanta. They could have arranged an attack there at any time and that was why the first attacks happened at other properties. They wanted everything to point to Whitney so that when they finally did attack in Atlanta she would be the only suspect. Maybe they always meant to move it to Atlanta, but Shea believed it was an escalation. The investigation into Whitney wasn’t moving fast enough, or in the minds of whoever was behind this, wasn’t moving at all. Whitney was continuing to live her life as if nothing was happening and that was a problem. So they move it to Atlanta and this time there are consequences for Whitney. She’s pulled over for questioning, her movements are monitored, but those are just personal inconveniences. Professionally she is still in charge. Denver and the second attack in Atlanta were opportunities seized. There wasn’t time for the careful arrangements that had been so successful in framing Whitney. There was no one in Denver to watch her and instead of Stacia Innes tightening the noose around Whitney’s neck, her death exonerates Whitney of all the attacks. So they move back to Atlanta, kill Micah Hansen and throw Whitney to the civilian police. The GSA can’t ignore this as they’ve ignored everything else. One of their top people is arrested and arraigned, possibly the worst scenario the GSA has ever faced. For the first time they have to play by the rules and now it’s more than just Whitney’s job on the line. Shea scanned the papers crammed on every space of the table. Some lined liberally with green ink and others edged with names in the margins. The last two attacks were hurried. Unplanned. Mistakes. It took her more time than she thought to separate the pages out by date. Later, if needed, they could go back over the earlier attacks. Once she knew what she was looking for she could go back and track down every call made. Now she had to find what she was looking for and she knew where to look. “Do you remember that bar in?What city was it?” Lea paused in dipping a thick tortilla chip in salsa, her brow furrowed as she tried to dig a small town south of the border from her alcohol soaked memory. “Anyway, I know it was Mexico. You were fascinated with that flamenco dancer? She thought you were crazy.”Whitney laughed as the very distant memory struggled to surface. “I was sixteen. I was crazy. We should never have been allowed to go there on our own.” Lea stared at her in wide-eyed amazement before she collapsed on the table in laughter. “Allowed?” She asked when she could breath again. “We were allowed to go to San Diego for a school conference. We went to?God, what was that city? I can’t believe we got away with it. Your memory is quite selective.” “Plausible deniability,” Whitney said and divided the rest of the pretty red drink between their glasses. The conference in San Diego wasn’t their first escape from a school function. They always disappeared on overnight trips. They weren’t always as successful getting back as they had been at getting away. Whitney remembered that it was her quick thinking that kept them out of trouble more than Lea’s. And Lea’s slick planning that got them into it. “Yes, you said that even then. Always thinking like an executive. And look at you now. Chief of Security.” Whitney drained her glass. “Pretty soon that will be former Chief of Security. Or ex. Maybe disgraced. I like that one. Disgraced Chief of Security Whitney Eisner.” Lea reached out to lay her hand on Whitney’s arm. She stared at Whitney with the faith of a true believer. “Denise won’t let that happen to you.” Whitney wanted to believe. A life she would enjoy living was so close and now that she had seen it, she didn’t think she could go back to the way it had been. If she had never known Shea, she could have lived her life and thought she was happy. There wasn’t a single thing she would have changed and would have been sincerely surprised if someone had ever suggested it was lacking some essential element. As easy as it is to not miss something you’ve never had is how hard it is to let it go once you have it. Shea. Whitney blinked as she realized where Shea was and what she was doing. How long had she been gone? A glance at her watch was no help because she was so eager to leave the conference room she didn’t check the time. It had to be hours. She smiled across the table at Lea. “I needed this. Thank you. But I have to go back now.” Lea stared at her for a few moments, a sadness in her eyes that the alcohol couldn’t mask. “You really can’t come back with me? Just for a few days?” “You make me want to,” Whitney admitted. She didn’t remember the last time she’d sat down with a friend and talked about nothing at all. She enjoyed the afternoon with Lea, as silly as it had been. The request for her to come to LA, a request Lea made with every phone call, was the first thing she said when they sat down at the table. It annoyed her it at the time and Lea had taken her biting reply in stride. “I really can’t Lea. I’m restricted to Atlanta and if I do anything to get caught outside of it, my bail is revoked. I will not be locked away in a cell.” “Promise me you’ll come out when this over. We can find that little town in Mexico. Get you a second chance with the Flamenco dancer.” “I promise.” She would go to LA, but she would only go to Mexico if that was what Shea wanted and any Flamenco dancers that were picked up would be going home with Lea. She wished briefly she could tell Lea about Shea, but had decided in the car on the way to the restaurant that was something she needed to keep to herself for the moment. How she became involved with Shea was wrapped up in the investigation. Whitney didn’t see how she could talk about one without revealing more than she meant to about the other. By the time they said goodbye in front of the elevators, Whitney felt centered enough to face the stacks of paper in the conference room. She owed Shea something for stranding her and as she walked to Denise’s office, she thought it would be nice to let Shea decide her own surprise. The last time Shea cashed in an IOU, they spent their first night together. As she made her way down deserted corridors to Denise’s office, she wondered how much longer Shea wanted to comb through the logs today. Until she found something was Whitney’s guess. She’d been certain she would find something today and Whitney could see her staying until she did. Whitney knew she should want that herself, but she couldn’t get past the reality that whatever they found would expose someone she knew as a killer. The last thing she expected when she walked into the conference room was to find Shea working at the computer and all the papers gone. She paused in the doorway for a moment to watch. Shea was scrolling quickly through pages Whitney saw were logs and every time she stopped, she made a note on the clipboard. A cold dread swept over Whitney and for several long seconds all she heard was a roaring in her ears. One thought resonated in her mind: Shea found something. Shea spun to face her and her surprise changed quickly to cautious concern. Her first attempt at smiling failed and the smile she finally forced was strained. “You’re back.” The fear she saw in Shea’s eyes had her taking a single step back. She didn’t want to know who it was before and now that she knew just how bad it would be, she would have given anything to still be in that restaurant with Lea and plotting an escape to Mexico. To anywhere but here. Shea continued to watch her and the silence grew in volume as neither did anything to shatter the moment. Why did she keep asking that? She didn’t want to know. As she stood at the threshold of truth, Whitney accepted that she could live her life out without ever knowing who had betrayed them. She would give a murderer immunity. She would deny the families of the wounded their justice and those of the dead the closure they needed. She could walk away from everything right then and never regret it. In that acceptance she found the courage to step forward, to move into the conference room and ask one more time, “Who is it Shea?” Shea stood up. “We have two names right now. Denise is on the other side with the detectives picking them up.” Them. In the end, how many would “them” be? “Please don’t make me ask their names again.” “Amanda and Matt.” Shea rushed forward as she stumbled back a step. She shook her head and held up her hand to stop Shea in her tracks. “Matt? Lang?” She truly thought she was prepared for anything. Wasn’t that the problem, that it could be anyone? Except she hadn’t believed that it could be anyone. Not someone she trusted. Not someone she needed. Not someone who was a friend. She had been prepared for it to be anyone except someone she loved. “Come, sit down,” Shea said and took her arm to lead her to the table. “Do you want something to drink?” “Matt?” Shea sat down facing her and the hands she wrapped around Whitney’s were warm against her ice cold fingers. Concern darkened her eyes to a forest green. “I found the first link in the Denver attack. They weren’t as prepared for that one as they were for the others and your movements were erratic, mostly because I was with you. Every time you went somewhere that day, Amanda called Matt. There’s a clear pattern of calls between Amanda and Matt, enough so that I was suspicious and asked Denise if there was any reason she should be calling him at least four times a day.” “No,” Whitney murmured, “There’s not. She should never call Matt.” Shea nodded. “I’m trying to pin down who Matt calls, but there isn’t anyone. He must email or has another phone because there are times he doesn’t call anyone after she calls him. I really thought he would call immediately after she called him.” “And Denise is bringing them over for questioning?” She must be in shock. It was the only reason to explain how she could sit there calmly asking questioning when inside she was screaming. “Yes. Denise and the detectives are bringing them over now. Another group is searching their homes and offices.” She had only been gone a few hours. How could so much happen in such a short amount of time? Lives had changed and some, for all intents, were over in just a few hours. She sat back and pulling her hands from Shea’s, buried her face in her hands. She knew who now and soon, she knew, she would believe it. All that was left to know was the why. She didn’t see how she would ever understand that. She wanted to be in the room when Matt shared that little secret. She wanted to be looking in his eyes when he told her the reason three young women were brutalized and three were now dead. She pushed herself to her feet and met Shea’s surprised gaze. “Let’s go to interview. I want to be there when they bring them over.” “I think we should stay here. We still don’t have all the pieces.” “Then stay here and find the pieces. I’ll come back for you.” Hers was the first face Matt and Amanda would see when they cubicle doors opened. Shea swore behind her and she heard movement as she left the conference room. She was several steps away from the hallway when Shea caught her arm and pulled her around to face her. “You can’t stop me. There isn’t anything you can say. I will be there. I will hear what they say. Your only choice is if you’ll be there with me. I am going. Now.” Shock was fading fast and fury was rushing in to fill the void. As Shea fell in step behind her, Whitney let the icy rage burn away everything she felt for Matt. Turning her head slightly, she said, “Don’t let me within arm’s reach of either of them. I’ll kill them with my bare hands.” Five interview rooms were lined in a row down the hall from the terminal center in the sub-basement at Quantico. Shea followed Whitney into a narrow corridor lined on one side with cinderblocks and one way glass on the other. Like everything else on this level, no expense was spent on color or comfort. The rooms held a single metal table and four matching chairs. As she watched Amanda sitting alone in the interview room next to Matt’s, Shea wondered what the penalty was for Treason.Denise and two investigators were talking with Matt. Whitney placed her palm on the glass. Instantly, the lead investigator’s voice filled the space and Shea listened as the same Miranda rights she read to suspects were read to Matt. The more time she spent on this side the more she believed Whitney’s assertions that the difference between the two time periods was minuscule at best. Probably because the distance wasn’t really hundreds of years, but mere seconds. “Do you understand your rights?” “Of course I understand my rights. What’s going on here?” Shea focused her attention on Matt. His confusion seemed real. He was either a good actor or he really didn’t have a clue why they brought him to this side. Usually, with the guilty, there were two main responses: jittery fear edged with panic or cocky arrogance. His puzzled gaze moved easily, slowly from face to face as he calmly waited for answers. “How well do you know Amanda Gaines?” The first investigator asked. He was tall, slender and his young features pegged his age in the late twenties to early thirties. “Whitney’s assistant? I’ve spoken with her a few times. I’ve seen her at Whitney’s office.” “That’s it? You’re spoken to her a few times and seen her at the Gateway?” The second man was shorter, rounder and older. He walked around the table to lean over Matt’s shoulder. “There’s nothing personal between the two of you at all?” Matt stared across the table at Denise before turning his head slightly to look up at the man. “No.” “Then why does she call you three and four times a day?” “She doesn’t. She has never called me. She wouldn’t have a reason to call me. I’m the staff attorney. If they need me, it’s not a college kid who calls me. It’s usually Whitney herself.” “He’s right,” Whitney said softly. “I would never ask Amanda to call him.” Denise opened a folder and slid the top sheet across the table to Matt. Shea could see highlighter marks scoring the page and recognized it as one of the pages she took to Denise. “Explain this please.” Matt pulled the paper to him with the tip of one finger. He bent his head to read it and then with his head still bent, he glanced up at Denise. “Explain what?” “Those are calls from Amanda’s desk to yours. That’s just one day. The day after Rich Edwards killed that woman in Denver.” Matt pushed the paper back to Denise. “No, those are calls from Amanda’s desk to my assistant’s desk. Even if you can prove Amanda made them, you certainly can’t prove I took them. Now, I’m not answering anymore questions until you tell me what this is about. Amanda’s not calling me, but what does it matter if she did?” “You said you couldn’t find any calls from Matt after Amanda’s calls. Did you check to see if anyone else at the law firm was making calls that coincided with hers?” “Please do that now.” Shea hesitated. She wanted Whitney to come with her to the conference room. Whitney was livid during the march to the sub-basement and finding Matt already in the interview room only fanned the flames. She had no doubts that Denise and the investigators could intercept Whitney if she tried to storm the room. That wasn’t why Shea didn’t want to leave her alone. She was hurting and it showed in the arms she had wrapped tight around herself and in the emotion she couldn’t quite control in her voice. Suspecting Matt was tearing her apart. “Please Shea, now. If Matt isn’t her contact, someone else is and they may already be gone. We don’t know where they took him down and if it was in his office, everyone else involved knows we have him.” Shea stepped close to Whitney and slipped her arms around her to pull her close. After a moment, Whitney whispered, “I don’t want it to be him.” Shea knew that now, but hadn’t understood the depth of Whitney’s feelings when she found the first links in the chain of phone calls. Matt was more than a colleague and friend. Maybe when so few people in the world know who you really are, those that do matter all the more to you. She kissed Whitney’s check. “I’ll be quick. I know what I’m looking for now.” The conference was just as she left it when she followed Whitney down to the sub-basement. Shea sat down and opened up the log with Amanda’s call and jotted down the times. Next she pulled up the logs for Lang, Dover and Shi and began the search for outgoing calls made within ten minutes of Amanda’s incoming. She was as quick as she promised and was surprised when her search led her once again to the name Matthew Lang. This one father to the man sitting downstairs in interview. Matthew Lang III was well-known in police circles and not for the same reason as his son. As a lawyer, he had seen the inside of many courtrooms, but as a defendant. His problem with alcohol had led to countless DUI arrests, disorderly conduct charges and three high profile crashes that killed one unlucky sixteen year old boy. What problems the Lang name couldn’t fix, the Lang money could and did. After that, searching the logs became a frustrating game of connect the dots. Matt’s calls were answered in the terminal center of the Denver hotel with calls following to the terminal centers in NYC, Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Seattle, Las Vegas and Miami to end in LA. Some people were more careful than others. The calls from Denver, Dallas, Vegas and Miami were all made from the hotel lobbies. Shea didn’t recognize the names of the people who made the calls from NYC, Boston, Chicago or Seattle. Shea knew a group was running the operation. It was too far flung to be only one or two people. It never crossed her mind that it could be this involved. She looked over the list and noted that not only was every hotel where an attack took place listed, but it was also the place where someone was very careful not to let their calls be logged. Whitney and Denise were in the observation area when Shea went back down. Matt and Amanda were still in separate rooms. Both were writing on notepads with an investigator sitting at the table with them. She walked to stand slightly behind Whitney and asked, “What are they doing?” “Re-constructing their movements on the day in question.” Whitney glanced back at her. “I can’t imagine they will remember anything useful. What did you find?” Shea looked between the two interview rooms. Amanda was chewing on the end of her pen, her eyes bouncing around the room as she talked to the investigator. Matt was tapping his pen against the table, his gaze intent on the notepad. “We have the wrong Matt,” She said and handed the list over to Denise with a smile. “You can name your price if you let me pick him up.” “The wrong Matt?” Whitney spun to face her. “The right one would be his Dad. Son of a bitch.” With that, Whitney was out of the observation area and hurrying around to Matt’s interview room. Denise stepped in front of her when she would have followed. Shea waited as Denise read over the paper. “Why do you want to pick up Matthew?” “He’s a menace. I only wish I could pick him up with my APD badge. He would be so smug, thinking he’ll get off again. He always gets off.” Denise turned to watch Whitney wave the investigator out of the room. She could have activated the comm system but it was easy enough to know what was said by their facial expressions. As Whitney spoke, Matt’s shocked face slowly set into grim, stony lines. He seemed more resigned than surprised and Shea wondered how much Whitney was telling him. She didn’t know if Matt now knew why he was brought over for questioning. Whitney would want to tell him all. He was who she turned to for help, or had until she needed more help than he could provide. She would want to pull him now, tell him everything and Shea’s only concern was where his loyalty. Did it lay with his family or his job? Denise turned to face her. “Go get him. You can use your APD badge. He’ll never be able to make a complaint against you and he’ll let you take him into custody without a fight. I can guarantee he will fight us every step of the way.” She turned to leave the room. “I need to get with my security chief. We have traitors to round up.” Shea made her way to the other side of the interview rooms and stopped just outside the open door of Matt’s room. “This is crazy Whitney. What possible reason could my Dad have to want to hurt you? You don’t have any control over him.” It was an interesting question, Shea knew, and one they would have to answer at some point. Maybe it was a good thing Matt Lang III was a part of this. She could break him. He was a man used to getting his own way and one who was more than willing to let others pay for his mistakes. She didn’t see him keeping the faith with his companions if he could use what he knew as leverage to save himself. “I don’t know the reason Matt. We don’t know who all the players are yet much less what game they’re playing.” Whitney’s tone was full of sympathy and concern with traces of anger and frustration. Shea knocked once on the open door. Both turned to her and in Matt’s eyes, she saw dull shock. He needed a stiff drink and a dark room. “I need to talk to you for a moment Whitney.” Matt stood up. “If it’s about my Dad, you can tell her here.” Shea looked to see if that was what Whitney wanted and she got her answer when Whitney stood next to him with his hand in hers. “Denise wants me to pick up Matt. She thinks he won’t resist if I use my APD badge.” “That’s an excellent idea. Let me go with you. He’ll think I’m there as his counsel. We only have to get him into the car.” Shea wanted to say no. She still didn’t know where his loyalties lay. If he tipped his father off and Matt was able to elude them, he could tip off everyone and they would never know who all was involved. Her gaze fell to the their hands. He was using both of his to hold Whitney’s. Whitney trusted him and Shea trusted Whitney. “Okay.” “Thank you,” he said and released a deep breath. He checked his watch. “He should be at his club now.” “Okay. Let’s go.” Her brain had stopped. Whitney sat in front of Denise’s desk with Shea’s list in her hand. So many names, so many hotels. She just couldn’t comprehend that it wasn’t a few people, that it wasn’t a few hotels. What the hell was going on?When it was over, when she knew everything she didn’t know now, how obvious would it all be? She should know. There had to be clues, there had to be something she should be questioning. Shouldn’t there? She closed her eyes and dropped her head against the chair. Was there anything different over the last few weeks, the last months? Anything unusual? No, the question wasn’t was anything unusual, it had to be what was unusual. She mentally flipped through the files in her mind, searching for something regardless of how small that was outside the norm. It came to her like a movie replaying in her mind. She saw herself sitting in the main conference room in Denver with the contraband reports spread out in front of her. The reports were off but she couldn’t pinpoint why. She remembers thinking that whatever was wrong was obvious. Shea had lured her away to dinner that night and she was arrested the next day. She never went back to them. Contraband was a polarizing subject within the GSA. Protectionist thought they were already bringing too much from the past into the future and Abolitionist thought they should be able to bring over anything they wanted. Both sides were constantly introducing legislation to advance their cause and Whitney couldn’t remember either winning more than a point occasionally. The increase in the number of attempts was significant. Significant enough that it caught her attention even with what was happening in Denver. She didn’t get why someone would try to take over a banned item when that alone was enough for permanent revocation of travel privileges. Of course, should someone find a successful way to smuggle contraband, they could name their price on the black market. Aged wines and liquors and street drugs were always popular items for would-be smugglers in all times. Every era had something extinct, limited or prohibitively expensive that someone tried to take back with them. What if someone found a way? No, that didn’t make sense. Why would they be bothering with her if they had a way around the security? Why bother with her if they didn’t? She opened her eyes as a hand laid on her head. She looked up at Denise. She looked as tired as Whitney felt. The day has been nothing more than emotional roller coaster. “What’s your stand on contraband?” Denise moved to sit behind her desk, her shuttered gaze giving away nothing. “Officially or personally?” The question surprised Whitney. She didn’t think there was a difference. “Both.” “Personally, I think we already take back too much. I know they say little things don’t make big changes, but I believe we’re discounting the effect little changes can have over a long period. A trickle of water can forge a river through stone given enough time. Officially, I follow the directives of the Council.” It wasn’t something Whitney had ever given much thought to before now. They meaning the Council and all the leaders who had come before-set the rules and it never occurred to Whitney to question them. The people in charge always knew what was best, or so Whitney had been taught to believe. It never occurred to her to question authority, but she should have the closer she got to the top. Obedience was good for employees, but it never should be blind. She looked at Denise. “You’re right.” She pushed herself up from the chair. “I need to go to my office. Do you want to walk with me?” Denise’s gaze flickered to her computer screen. “I think I should stay here and monitor everything that’s happening. What do you need from your office?” “Some reports. I won’t be long.” The day was over on the fifth floor and as Whitney stepped from the cubicle into the empty center, she silently cursed her timing. Her appearance was bound to start rumors even without following so close on the heels of Shea and Matt. Especially if those who saw them leave were also the same people who saw Matt and Amanda escorted to the other side. Her walk down the hall to her command center and across the room to her office was made in a nerve stretching silence. The younger employees tried not to get caught staring at her and hurried past her with their heads down. Whitney tried not to think about what that meant to her being in charge again, but it was hard. Her reputation was being damaged and because of the possible danger to herself or someone else there wasn’t anything she could do until it was over. By then, that could be the same word used to describe her career. No, not over, retired she reminded herself as she ignored the startled stares that watched her walk to her office. So focused was she on getting to her office that she never noticed Sam’s door was open. He was standing in his open doorway and she stopped a few feet from her own office. So close. She managed a fleeting smile. “Hi Sam. I need to get some reports.” As Sam watched her, his face showing nothing more than polite confusion, Whitney realized she had a dark place inside herself where she believed Sam would be implicated in whatever was happening. It wasn’t a conscious belief. She never sat down and went over her staff and tried to decide who she thought was or wasn’t involved in the attacks. But standing in front of him now, she found herself surprised and strangely unrelieved that he was innocent. What was it about Sam that made her want to believe he could commit cold murder? “Everything is running smoothly,” he said and followed her into her office. “I hope you’re not worried.” “I’m not worried. I know you’re doing a good job,” She answered him absently. Her desk was covered in folders and she did remember leaving it that when she was called down to the parking deck. She didn’t leave them scattered like they were, some open, some barely hanging on the edge. She moved behind the desk and stared at the results of a hurried, messy search. She slowly lifted her eyes to Sam. “Someone’s been in here. Who was it?” Sam stared at her blankly for a moment. “No one has a reason to be in your office.” “Sam, two people were taken over for interview this afternoon. They went through this terminal. Who are they?” Again she got a blank stare and wondered again why she thought him capable of any of the things that happened. He did his job, nothing less and never, ever anything more. Maybe it was easy to believe he was involved in the attacks because it would explain why he bothered with a job he didn’t enjoy. Whitney reached for the files she needed. “You should go finish the day end reports. I need to get these files back to Denise.” Indecision flashed over his face and he stared at the files as she pulled them together. “Maybe I should take them to Denise. I don’t think you’re supposed to be here.” “Denise knows I’m here, but feel free to have me escorted back.” Her tone made it clear that while he was free to do that, she didn’t recommend that he do so. She was already sure that if she came back as Chief of Security, Sam would no longer be her XO. The fact that she believed him capable of murder was reason enough to move him in a less sensitive position. Without another word, she left her office with the folders and walked to the terminal center. She felt Sam following her every step and when she turned in the cubicle, he almost stepped back quickly enough to avoid being seen. Denise’s office was empty. Whitney walked through to the conference room and wondered what had pulled Denise away. The Ops Director had a lot of the balls in the air at the moment and would be expected to keep the Council appraised of every new development as it happened. They would close her Gateway if something didn’t break soon. History had proven the Council to be proactive and pre-emptive. Whitney sat in front of a computer and flipped through a clipboard until she found a clean sheet of paper. She clipped Shea’s list to the edge of the sheet and logged into the administration section of their intranet. Using the list as her guide, she checked the contraband stats of every hotel. She was more angry than surprised that every one except Atlanta was well over of the average percentage of less than five percent. Denver and LA were almost twelve. Was this happening because they needed Atlanta to do whatever they were doing? Were three woman dead because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time? She heard someone in Denise’s office. “Can you come in here a minute? I think I’ve found a clue.” Shea walked into the conference room followed by Matt. “A clue? What kind?” They stood behind her as showed them the numbers. She turned to look up at Shea. “I don’t know what the magic number is, but I want to go over every center’s numbers. Once we know which hotels are likely to be involved, we can check the phone logs and try to match up calls between the hotels to catch whoever is involved at that location.” “Or,” Matt said, “We can make the people we have in custody name names. Your way sounds time intensive and I don’t think we have a lot of that.” Whitney stared at him a moment, trying to decipher the tone of his voice. There was something behind the tight control, something a little less than angry and a little more than bitter. “I’m sorry about your Dad.” He shrugged his shoulder and dropped into the chair next to hers. His black eyes looked bottomless and nowhere did she see a trace of sympathy or concern for the man who had never really been a father to him. “It was going to happen. Sooner or later he was going to do something that we couldn’t fix. My grandfather will be relieved that at least this won’t make the front page of the Atlanta Constitution.” Whitney didn’t know how to respond to that, but was relieved herself that Matt could find a silver lining in his father’s disgrace. The silence was stretching uncomfortably when he suddenly kicked the leg of her chair hard enough to move her an inch. “I know you had your reasons, and one day I’m sure I’ll forget it all, but I’m pissed you thought I was involved in this. You know I only care about something when it’s about me.” The last was said with a teasing smile that told Whitney she was forgiven. She met his stare head on. “I was devastated. If I’d had to rank everyone in order of their likely involvement, your name would have been the very last one on the list. I thought I believed that no one in my Gateway was doing this intentionally until I ran into Sam when I went to my office. I didn’t realize I thought him capable of something like this.” “So did I,” Shea said and had both of them looking up at her. “There’s something?sinister about him.” “Well, as he didn’t know Amanda and Matt were arrested today, I was thinking more along the lines of clueless. He’s gone when I’m back in charge.” “When will that be?” Matt asked. “That’s up to Denise.” “What’s up to Denise,” the woman herself asked as she walked into the room. She walked to Matt and laid her hand on his head. Her face was serious as she down at him. “I’m sorry.” Matt just nodded his head as he stared down at his feet. He would be getting that a lot, Whitney thought, and not once would it be about his arrest that afternoon. His Dad was an embarrassment his entire life and now he was a traitor. As small a comfort as it was, it appeared it was not distinction Matt would have to bear alone. “When is my suspension over?” She asked to get the attention away from Matt. “I can’t tell you that,” Denise said and the eyes that met Whitney’s were frustrated. “I proposed tomorrow because, with everything happening, I really need you. The Council said no. They want you out until they’re sure you’re safe. Which is looking like it will be when this is all over. We just have to figure out what ‘this’ is.” Whitney held out her papers. “I think they found a way to take over contraband.” The hand Denise was reaching out froze and the expression on her face was pure disbelieving shock. She whispered, “What?” “If they did, that would be why my Dad is involved.” Matt shrugged when they stared at him. “He thinks we should be able to take back anything we want.” “Okay,” Denise said and slowly took the papers. “Explain this to me. You think they’ve found a way or you’re sure they found a way? Because if they have, how they did it doesn’t matter. We’re all going to be too busy packing for the big move over to care.” “That’s not funny.” Denise’s smile was grim. “I’m not kidding. Let’s do this quickly.” Even quickly, less than twenty minutes, wasn’t enough for Denise. Shea and Matt were left alone in the conference room when Denise took Whitney with her to wherever she was going next. Shea stopped trying to follow their verbal shorthand after only a few minutes. Her knowledge of the inner workings of the GSA was less than simple. Matt’s, too, if his blank expression was any indication.Denise told them to go home and come back at nine the next morning. Shea didn’t want to leave without Whitney, but the choice didn’t seem to be either of theirs. And unlike Shea’s drive across town, Whitney’s home was a simple elevator ride away. “Can I drop you somewhere?” She asked Matt as she stood up to leave. He didn’t have a car and could catch a cab outside the hotel. Shea didn’t want to leave him abandoned like that. Matt sighed deeply and looked up from his feet. His dark eyes were unbearably sad. “I don’t know where to go. We all live together, my family, and I don’t want to face my mother tonight. I guess I can get a room at the hotel.” Shea held out her hand to pull him to his feet. “That’s an option. My guest room is pretty bare but it’s yours if you want it.” She didn’t know she was going to make the offer until she had already done it. She didn’t often invite strangers to stay her home and Matt would be the second in as many days. She knew she’d done the right thing when relief lit his eyes. “Thanks, Shea, I’d like that.” As they transferred over to Atlanta and rode down to the underground parking together, they debated what to have for a late supper. They agreed on pizza and Matt made the call while she drove them away from Prestige. This, she realized, was why she invited Matt into her home. She didn’t want to be alone. The day had been long and alone, she thought the night would be endless. Once home, Shea found a pair of jogging pants and T-shirt that would fit Matt and sent him off to the guest bathroom for a long, hot shower. His day had been long, too, and she knew if she was in his place, she would want to wash it away. He’d been taken into custody, accused of treason, and aided in the arrest of his own father. That kind of day left a thin coating of nasty residue on the skin. She took her own quick shower and changed into sweats and T-shirt before going to the kitchen. She pulled down plates, found napkins and sent her mother a mental thank you for the cold drinks she found in the fridge. And thought about Whitney. Where was she right then? What was she doing? Shea was afraid of the answers. She hated the uncertainly of what the next few hours and possibly days held. She believed Denise completely when she said she wasn’t kidding about the whole of the GSA being moved over if someone found a way to take over illegal items. She also believed completely Whitney would fight it to the end, but would go eventually. She didn’t make it to her position by defying orders. Shea wasn’t sure what her options would be if there was a GSA exodus. Whitney had said she was as official with the GSA as Whitney was herself so it wasn’t beyond the realm of possibility that she would be included in the recall. However, she wasn’t as official as Whitney and while Whitney’s family and friend’s would go over with her, Shea’s would not. She couldn’t leave her family. She wouldn’t let her parents live the rest of their lives wondering what happened to her and fearing the very worst. The buzz of the door bell interrupted her thoughts. Matt was coming down the stairs as she walked to the front door. She smiled at him. “Great timing. I’m set up in the kitchen. Go grab a seat and I’ll be there in a sec.” Now that she had him, she wasn’t sure what to do with him after she fed him. Her guy friends were all fellow cops and any time she spent with them away from work usually included a softball field. Maybe Matt played. They could talk about that. “I hate the uncertainty,” Matt said as she walked into the kitchen. “I wish I knew what was going to happen.” Shea paused she walked to the café table. It was like he read her mind. She boosted herself up on a chair and flipped open the lid. “Yeah, me, too. Do you really think they’ll completely close the Gateways?” He laughed and sat across from her. “They can’t completely close it. There will always be at least one Gateway open. Whitney just knows it won’t be in this time.” Shea pulled a gooey slice of the Pepperoni Lover’s pizza and put it on her plate slowly. “I don’t understand. Why do you need at least one Gateway open?” His hesitation was less than a second, a slight freezing of his hand before he reached into the box for a slice. Shea knew she wouldn’t have seen it all if she wasn’t watching him. He flashed a grin as he pulled the gooey cheese strings off the sides. “I haven’t had pizza in a while.” Shea let him finished off two slices while she toyed with one. She was certain she wasn’t prepared for the reason there would “always be at least one Gateway open.” It didn’t sound as if that was to keep the vacationers happy on the other side. “I can’t tell you about the Gateways,” he finally said when they ran out of stilted topics of conversations. “I don’t think Whitney should tell you, but if anyone does, it should be her.” She never asked Whitney why they were in the past. She had thought about it, had been intrigued and fascinated that they could do it, but she had never actually asked the question. She met Matt’s direct stare with one of her one. “You’re not coming back here to watch the Braves play baseball are you?” “We are now.” Whitney paced in the small hallway behind the interview rooms. She had muted the sound because if she heard one more of her employees offer the we-didn’t-hurt-anyone defense, she was going through the glass. She was past being astonished that, at last count, twenty-three of her employees were in custody. They were turning on each other in a sickening display of self-preservation and Whitney expected the list would only grow longer.She stared down at the most recent list. She knew some of the people, recognized the names of others, and some she didn’t know at all. They ranged across the administrative levels with the most senior being three center managers and the most junior being five interns. Of which her own, Amanda, was one. They were young and old; black, white and brown; male and female. How, Whitney wondered, did such a disparate group come together? Most had done it for the money. “It’s simple economics, supply and demand. There was a need and we met it.” Some for the thrill of doing something forbidden. “It was fun. It was easy. It was a game.” None seemed to know it had cost three young women their lives. “What? I didn’t kill anyone. I don’t know anything about that.” Whitney was very afraid the last was true. As the hours passed with no new names to add to the list, she had to acknowledge the possibility that the true leaders of this band were invisible to even their own. They were brilliant, whoever the framers of this conspiracy were. Whitney deeply resented that she had to admit that. They had exploited the few unavoidable holes in the GSA sensor net to the max. Contraband was secreted into every delivery that was made on the other side. Because employees were often crossing over without notice, they didn’t wear the sensors that monitored the travelers. After hour emergencies were faked and employees visited friends and families frequently. The system worked perfectly for two years, but then demand began to outstrip supply and they needed a better plan. According to every person they had in custody, that plan was the increase in attempts over the last year. They’d been experimenting with materials to shield the contraband from the sensors. The fact that nothing had was the only reason her Gateways were on standby rather than being closed. When and how the decision to remove Whitney as COS was made were questions those they had in custody couldn’t answer. Whitney was more interested in why it was decided they would have more success with her out of the way than she was in the when or how. Even now, knowing what she knew, she still didn’t understand how removing her would have achieved their goal of increasing the supply. The rules were the same regardless of who was in charge. She turned as the door opened. Denise, looking years older than she had that morning, came to her side. “How many?” “Fifteen so far.” “I’m still ahead,” Whitney said bitterly. They never considered, not even once, that it would take people on both sides of the Gateways to pull something like this off successfully. “You’re all mine, so no, you’re not ahead. You’ll never be.” She leaned forward and stared into Room 3. “God, he’s crying like a little girl.” A faint smile crossed Whitney’s face at the disgust dripping from her words. “They had to drag one girl, one of the interns, out. I think she broke a nail trying to dig her fingers into the doorframe.” “Why aren’t you listening?” “Three women are dead. Three women’s lives will never be the same. Six families are devastated. And they keep saying nobody got hurt. I couldn’t take it anymore.” Denise slipped one arm around Whitney’s waist. “Once we get Vince over here, we’ll catch the people responsible for that. They’re all responsible for the consequences here, but we both know some more than others.” Whitney stared at their reflections in the glass and heard nothing Denise said after she said the name Vince. She shook her head as if it that would clear the static. “What?” “Oh don’t worry. It won’t matter who did or didn’t know everything. Ignorance will not be a defense.” “Vince?! Hollandale?!” Whitney spun away from Denise. “He’s involved in this? My Mountain Regional Supervisor? That Vince?” Whitney’s strident, incredulous tone carried through the glass and had every person in the interview rooms staring wide eyed and open mouthed at them. Denise grabbed Whitney by the arm and dragged her from the hallway. “When did you know?” Whitney demanded and jerked her arm away from Denise when they were in the terminal area. Her brain felt like it was trying to shift into a mode where she could comprehend that one of her Regional Supervisors was a traitor. Denise crossed her arms and simply stared at Whitney with eyebrows arched. Understanding, Whitney took several deep, calming breaths. “When did you know?” “Mia told me less than an hour ago. I forget who gave us the name. My reaction wasn’t nearly as violent as yours, but close. I thought you knew. You were in the observation area when it was said.” “You thought I knew,” Whitney repeated numbly. “And that I was what? Standing quietly behind the glass and knew that Vince was involved? No. I want to interrogate him.” Denise shook her head emphatically. “That is not going to happen.” Whitney shoved both hands into her hair and paced in a circle. Every argument that came into her head was rejected almost instantly. If she didn’t remain cool and calm, Denise wasn’t letting her into the same room as Vince even with a company of guards. “As entertaining as it is to watch you try to think of something to change my mind, there isn’t anything you can say.” Denise walked over and placed her hands on Whitney’s arms. “You need to go home. When was the last time you slept? Or ate?” Sleep? Eat? Was she was kidding. “When did you?” “That’s fair,” Denise said and slipped her arm through Whitney’s. “Let’s go to my office and I’ll have something sent up.” Whitney didn’t want to eat or sleep. She wanted Vince sitting across from her in a small room. She wanted to dare him to say no one got hurt so she could lunge across the table and choke him. She thought she would feel so much better if she could just choke one person. Because she knew thoughts like that only put her on their level, she pushed it out of her mind. “Councilwoman Riley was in and out during the interviews. Are they saying anything to you?” “The Council never says anything until they know everything.” “How much more do they need to know? There are holes in our security. We’re going to need to plug them, but how? We need those deliveries to this side. We need to be able to move from side to side quickly.” Denise didn’t answer until they were sitting in her office and she had ordered two meals from the cafeteria. “We don’t know everything. Someone wants you out of the way and we don’t know why or who. That is a high priority with the Council right now.” Whitney dismissed the possible threat to her life with a wave of her hand. “They can’t be trying to get rid of me anymore. With all the people we’ve rounded up and with that we know, I’m the least of their problems.” Their biggest problem, from Whitney’s point of view, was that all of her centers were standby and the only people crossing over were the investigators. Everyone wasn’t only stuck on that side, they were stuck in their own city unless they used planes, trains or automobiles. For the PHS members, the edict from the Council to suspend everyone’s travel privileges didn’t change their lives much. They used the centers for mainly vacation travel. Her GSA employees were used to more unfettered access. “What time is it? And on what day?” After she showed the Council her findings, everything seemed to move at supersonic speed. While Amanda and Matthew Lang were grilled by the Council, Denise sent companies of cadets over to emergency transfer all the travelers. By then they had several names from Matthew and Amanda. Whitney had listened to the interviews until she couldn’t listen anymore. Was it still yesterday? Was it tomorrow? Without anything to mark the passing of time, she didn’t know anymore. Denise smiled at her. “It’s a little before four in the morning on the day after. I don’t know what they’ll call yesterday, I like Armageddon myself, but this is the day after it. You’re going home after we eat breakfast. Your mother has called me five times since the evacuation of the fifth floors.” “You’re sending me home because my mommy called?” The absurdity of the moment made Whitney laugh and lifted the dark clouds over her head for instant. “Really?” “Really,” Denise said seriously. “You don’t have to stay over there, but take a bath, change your clothes. Let her see that you’re not in shackles. She’d be over here if she could come.” Whitney realized with a stab of guilt that she had given the people on the other side no thought whatsoever. Her third shift employees were told only to go home while cadets swarmed the fifth floor to take control of the gateways. Anytime the fifth floor was locked down, hotel management was notified and in Atlanta, that meant her parents. Shea had left with Matt and both had slipped from her thoughts as the elevator closed behind them. “Okay. Do you want me to bring Shea and Matt back with me? You told them to come back this morning.” A cadet pushed a serving cart into the room and Whitney slumped in her chair as Denise thanked the young man and set up the meal at her conference table. Suddenly the thought of going home was very appealing. The shower would be quick and hot and then she wanted to slip into a bed warmed by Shea. “You can bring Shea. She deserves to know where her investigation led us, but we really don’t need Matt at this time.” The wafting smell of food tempted Whitney from her chair and pulled her to the conference table. Scrambled eggs, bacon and toast had never looked so good to her. “I think I’ll grab a few hours sleep before I come back. All of the sudden I feel like I’ve been up all night.” Denise pushed a cup of coffee across the table to her. “Grab as many as you need. I know how to find you if I need you.” Whitney grinned and reached for the cup. “Of that, I have no doubt.” Shea woke up alone the next morning and confused. She’d had the most vivid dream about Whitney showing up in the middle of the night, exhausted and mumbling. Shea didn’t understand a single word she said as she guided her upstairs, stripped her down and tucked them into bed. She fell asleep basking in the sweet knowledge of knowing Whitney could have gone anywhere and had chosen to come to her. Disappointment cut deeply with the realization that it was nothing more than a dream.There was one houseguest she didn’t imagine and thinking about Matt pushed her from the bed. Just because she had slept late didn’t mean that he did. She took her robe from the hook on the back of her bedroom door and pulled it on as she stepped into the hallway. The rich aroma of Colombian coffee hung teasingly on the air. Shea followed the smell gratefully and as her feet hit the ground floor, she caught the whiff of bacon. She heard metal clang and footsteps on the floor. She was several steps from the kitchen when she heard the voices. “How many so far?” Matt asked. “At least forty-eight. Denise was still working when I stumbled out to come home.” Shea caught her first instinctive rush forward when she heard Whitney’s voice. She stood outside the kitchen and closed her eyes. It wasn’t a dream that Whitney had shown up ringing her doorbell early that morning. Breathing deep, she walked into the kitchen and stopped at the cozy scene in front of her. Whitney was sitting at her table pouring syrup over pancakes. Matt was standing next to her with a dish towel thrown over one shoulder. Both smiled when she walked into the room. “She lives,” Whitney said. “Something smells heavenly.” Shea crossed to Whitney and took her fork. She leaned in for a good morning kiss and then took a bite of Whitney’s breakfast. “Tastes heavenly, too.” Matt walked over to hand her a cup of coffee. “Good morning. I hope you don’t mind that I made myself at home in your kitchen. Whitney was looking for peanut butter to go with the Ritz crackers she found. Do you want to share hers or some of your own?” Shea sipped the coffee gratefully. She saw he’d used her coffee maker and her beans, but her coffee never tasted like this. “You can you make yourself at home anytime. My coffee is never this rich.” Whitney nipped the fork of her hand. “She wants her own.” The moment was sweet and homey, something Shea was pretty sure she’d never had in her own kitchen. Matt moved with surprising efficiency and Shea wondered how often he found himself in strange kitchens the morning after. “Whitney was just catching me up on the news.” Shea looked at Whitney over the edge of her coffee cup. “Fill me in.” The truth was anti-climatic. Shea ate Matt’s wonderful pancakes and listened as Whitney caught them up on all that had happened since they left her. It was a lot in what was really only a few hours. Almost all crime came down to some form of greed. Someone wanting what someone else had or wanting more than they already had of their own. Shea was a little disappointed that this case wasn’t going to be different. The scope of it, almost fifty people and from both sides, didn’t surprise her nearly as much as the fact that the GSA learned that in less than nine hours. “How did you get that information so fast?” “Deals. Basically it was save yourself by giving up someone else. We still don’t know why I was targeted, but Vince should be able to clear that up.” Whitney sounded casual as she said his name and Shea didn’t see anything or hear a trace in her tone that she was stunned by his involvement. Maybe after a certain point, who was involved didn’t matter anymore. Shea thought from the beginning one of the six regional supervisors would be involved, but Vince wasn’t the one she would have picked. His air of absented-mindedness was a good act. The peal of her doorbell rang through the house. She glanced down at her robe as she slid off her chair. “Do you want me to get it?” Matt asked. He was wearing his slacks and shirt from the day before, but the shirt was unbuttoned and his feet were bare. “Thanks I’ve got it.” Anyone who knew her would be surprised to find a half dressed man opening her door. Automatically she checked to see who was standing at her doorstep and then stood with her hand on the doorknob as she tried to decide what to do. Finally, she opened the door and stepped back to gesture the two women into her home. “Denise. Mrs. Eisner. Good morning.” “Good morning Shea. I’m glad we didn’t wake you.” Shea was mortified as Whitney’s mother stared around her empty living room. She could only imagine what was going through her mind. She could still cringe at her own mother’s scathing comments to her decorating, or lack thereof. “We’re in the kitchen having breakfast. Would like something? Matt is amazing.” “He should be,” Grace Eisner said. “He only agreed to go to law school after his grandfather allowed him to attend culinary school in France.” Shea led the way to the kitchen and immediately went to the coffeemaker. She’d let them into the house. It was Whitney’s job to ask what they wanted. “Did I or did I not tell you to see your mother when you left my office?” “You were serious? It wasn’t even five in the morning.” Shea turned to see Grace standing behind her daughter and slip both arms around her for a hug. She kissed Whitney’s cheek. “Do you really think your Dad and I went back to sleep after we were called about the lockdown?” Denise came to Shea for one of the two cups of coffee she had poured. “Do that to me again kid and you’ll be running the North American Central Gateway from Anchorage. Thank you, Shea. Sugar? Grace takes hers black.” Shea slid the sugar container across the counter to Denise and took the second cup to Grace. She took her seat at the table. “Thank you Shea. Good morning Matthew.” “Good morning Grace, Denise.” Matt came to the table and laid a hand on Shea’s arm. “Thank you, for everything. I think it’s time I called a cab and went home.” “I’ve spoken with your grandfather. He knows everything,” Denise said in a gentle tone. Matt nodded as he looked down at his hands. “Yeah. Thanks. I wasn’t sure how to say it.” Whitney reached into her jeans pocket and pulled out her car keys. She handed them to Matt. “Do me a favor and get my car back to the hotel when you’re finished with it. Call me, for any reason.” Again he nodded and touched her arm before quickly leaving the kitchen. He was strong, Shea thought, when they went to his father’s private club. Whatever his feelings, he kept them hidden under a calm exterior and even after his father understood why they were there, he didn’t flinch at the torrent of venom his father spewed over him. “That was a nice thing you did, bringing him home with you. Thank you.” Shea looked at Whitney. “He was going to get a room at the hotel. That didn’t seem right after the day he had.” Now Shea smiled at Grace. “Not that your suites aren’t beautiful.” Grace moved from behind Whitney to sit across from Shea. Dark blue eyes drifted from her daughter’s face to Shea. “No, but they are lonely. You’re right that he deserved better than that.” Shea shifted under Grace’s steady gaze. Why did she feel as if Grace wasn’t talking only about Matt? Her daughter spent countless nights in a hotel room and from the investigators reports when they had Whitney under observation, she was spending most of those nights alone. It would be easy for Grace to check on her daughter’s love life. All she had to do was monitor Whitney’s orders from the restaurants and she would know when she ordered dinner for two. “What did Vince say?” Whitney asked. “Did he crack yet?” “He wants to talk to you.” “Yeah?” Whitney asked as an evil grin spread slowly over her face. “I get to be alone with him in a room so small I can strangle him without ever leaving my chair? Awesome.” “Whitney!” Grace said sharply. “I thought that would brighten your day,” Denise said dryly, amused. “He wants immunity.” “Does he really? He should have remembered what we do to traitors.” “He seems to think he has something to trade.” Whitney stared at Denise for a moment. “And if he does?” It wouldn’t matter to Whitney, Shea thought as she looked at her. The heat in her eyes was a sharp contrast to her cool tone. Whatever Vince thought he had, Whitney would fight before she would let him use it to walk away scot-free. Denise sipped her coffee and answered as she stared down in her cup. “That would be the up to the Council.” “If they let him walk, my resignation will on your desk within the hour.” She was holding a sheaf of papers when he was brought to her. She continued to stare at the neatly typed list of forty-nine names as chains rattled from the restraints shackling both hands and feet. Across from every name was a city and all but two were west of Dallas. In the instant it took from her to look up from the list to his face, she forgot the audience watching her behind the mirror.”You do know what we do to traitors, don’t you Vince?” Her conversational tone startled him and the eyes that flew to her face were wide with shock. By her judgment, his shock was genuine. “I’m not a traitor.” “Yes you are. You were very good, too. We almost didn’t catch you. Are you curious who gave you up?” “I want immunity.” Whitney put the list on the table and turned it to face him as she slid it across the table. “Who. Is. Missing.” He paled as he saw the list and Whitney felt a small measure relief. They had most of them. Maybe not all, maybe some would never be discovered, but she had to believe they had most. “See? There you are. Traitor. Now give me names and you can live out the rest of your life in a cell.” “I want full immunity,” he almost whispered, his head still bent over the paper. “I’ll tell you everything for that. These people don’t know it all.” “Look at me,” she said just as softly and waited until she could look into his eyes. “The only choices here for you are death or life in solitary confinement. Pick one.” “There’s one name you don’t have. One name you will want more than all the others.” He sat back and met her gaze. From somewhere, he found a well of calmness and pulled it around himself like a shroud “Give me full immunity and I will give you that name.” Whitney reached for the paper as she stood up. “I was very disappointed that everyone else gave names. Thank you, Vince. I wanted just one person to choose death and the fact that it’s you makes up for losing everyone else. I need someone to die for this so thank you.” She wouldn’t have said that he had any color left in his face, but he grayed as she spoke. Panicked eyes darted around the room and before she could skirt the table, he slammed his bound hands down. “Wait! Wait! Just wait.” “Well?” She said as he stared up at her. “I’m waiting.” Her tone was impatient, dismissive, a clear statement that she had better things to do and other places to be. Hate twisted his face into an ugly sneer, streaked red across his cheeks and burned in his eyes. “I knew we should have killed you.” Whitney laughed and leaned down to smile in his face. “Yes. You really should have. Hindsight, what a bitch right? Now, tell me what you want to tell me or watch me leave.” “I want a immunity. You have to give me something.” Whitney let her own fury show on her face, in her eyes. Slowly, she moved to him and put her hand on the front of his neck. She stood there with his gaze locked to hers, her fingers doing no more than laying against his skin until she saw fear flicker in his eyes. “You’re not getting immunity. Do you understand? You know nothing I want so badly that I would let you walk away from this room free. I am giving you something, Vince, something very precious to you. You’re getting the chance to save your life, which is considerably more than you gave Erin Warner, Stacia Innes and Micah Hansen.” Deliberately, she tightened her fingers around his throat. “Choose and choose now.” Fear faded and something evil slithered into the eyes that never left hers. He smiled and leaned forward. “Lea Sanders.” He had been so cocky in his demands for immunity, so sure he had something worth trading, that Whitney was prepared for something outrageous. Her first response was to laugh and somehow she managed to do no more than meet his smile with one of her own. “That wasn’t so hard, now was it? Lea Sanders. How is she involved?” Vince stared at her as she dropped her hand and moved back to her chair. It wasn’t quite open mouthed, but his blank expression was enough for her to know he didn’t expect that reaction from her. “You don’t believe me.” “I don’t not believe you,” she said and picked up her pen. She gestured to the mirrored wall. “Investigators are even now checking your claims and moving to take her into custody. One way or the other, we’ll know the truth.” He laughed briefly, bitterly. “She’s already gone. You won’t find her.” “Let us worry about that.” She flipped open her notebook to a clean page. “I’ll get to the how and when and what later, but right now I want to know why. Why are three women dead instead of me?” “You’ll have to ask her. She didn’t want you dead, just gone.” He was sullen now. He had banked his freedom on his knowledge and not only didn’t that work, her reaction wasn’t what he hoped so he lost his consolation prize as well. Whitney watched him sink in his chair and smiled as he tried to cross his arms. He’d better get comfortable in restraints. He would never leave his cell without them. Less than an hour later, Whitney left him alone in the interview room. She knew one thing absolutely, Vince believed Lea was not only involved, but set up her black market business as soon as she graduated from the academy. He never floundered, never veered, never misspoke as he detailed his involvement in what he called Lea’s Game. Whitney decided it was better for both of them if someone else interviewed him. Every time he laughed, she saw her hands around his throat and he was relaxed now so he was laughing a lot. How, she wondered in amazement, did he hide his oily and sleazy personality behind the studious college professor for so long? She didn’t make it to the observation area behind the interview rooms. Shea and Denise turned the corner to the interview rooms when she stepped outside. She saw the Council members huddled at the end of the hallway with two of the investigators. “If this is true?” Denise said. Whitney handed her the notebook. “Then it’s true. What do we know so far?” “That if she left Atlanta yesterday, she didn’t leave through the system. We have her coming in and that’s it.” Born, bred and now living in LA, Lea had always complained Atlanta was too small and too slow. She would visit Atlanta in those times when she couldn’t persuade Whitney away from home, but the pace of southern living chafed against her need for constant action. She loved it when Whitney was in New York and when she became COS, Lea tried everything to get her to make her base on the west coast. Not LA, Whitney remembered, but San Francisco. She’d jokingly said LA wasn’t big enough for both of them. Why would she now remain in Atlanta without telling anyone? “Have you checked the hotel register to see if she stayed there?” Denise simply nodded and Whitney knew if Lea spent the night in Atlanta, she didn’t stay at Prestige. Behind Denise, Whitney saw the investigators break away from the Council members to walked towards the them. She stepped back and away to give them access to the interview room. Denise handed them the notebook Whitney used for her notes in her interview with Vince. “Lauren,” Councilman Asher called, “A moment please.” Whitney wasn’t sure which surprised her more, the command or the fact that Shea was already heading toward the Council. Denise stepped in front of her when she would have followed. “They didn’t call you. Relax. They’re not going to drag her off. They are very impressed with her and have offered her a job. She accepted on the spot.” Whitney kept her wary gaze on Shea. “What job?” “The one she already has, except for me instead of you. As you said, we have holes to plug.” Whitney didn’t have direct contact with the Council. Six of the seven oversaw one of the Central Gateways. Councilwoman Riley was over all five of the North American Gateways that were open across time. One of the seven, Whitney wasn’t sure which, held a position similar to Denise’s with the exception of seniority. They each had an equal voice in all operational matters and their rulings were final. With the next Change of Command, Denise would take the place of the retiring member. If Whitney was chosen as the next Ops Director, she would sit on the Council herself one day. They still followed the PHS dress code. For some reason, that always surprised Whitney when she saw the burgundy, navy and gray shirts, and touched and amused her as well. She rarely thought of the Council as one of them, but they were, at least once upon a time. All were born on the other side and had worked their way through the system of their times. Whitney knew two were born before Columbus found America. Maybe that was why she was often relieved there was a buffer between her and them. Even her flexible mind had trouble bending to that reality. As she watched Shea speaking with them, she felt a jolt of panic. “Who do they think she is?” Denise followed her line of sight. “Who I made her to be.” She was sitting with her feet propped up on the corner of her desk, staring out of the plate glass window behind her desk and sipping a glass of ice cold coke. Shea leaned in the doorway of Whitney’s office and smiled at the woman lounging in her leather chair watching the fluffy white clouds go by with seemingly not a care in the world.”Must be nice to be you,” she teased and watched Whitney adjust her body so that she could turn lazily in her chair and keep her socked feet on the desk. All six of the Central Gateways were scheduled to go back online at six their time zone the next morning. They had been down for two months as computers were upgraded and all GSA employees were trained on the new security procedures. It wasn’t going to be as easy for someone else to do what Lea had done. Even Whitney, and the other five Chief of Securities, couldn’t do whatever the liked whenever they liked within the system. “It’s a little slice of heaven.” Whitney dropped her feet to the floor and turned to sit up in her chair. “How did we do?” Shea sat down in front of Whitney’s desk and handed her the clipboard. They were on the downhill side of a twenty-four trial run. Every center had run three fully staffed shifts with volunteers acting as travelers. Some of the volunteers were members of the newly created Internal Affairs division. IA agents, acting as travelers, would attempt to penetrate a center’s security by any means fair or foul. One day the IA agents would be trained through Quantico, but for now they were recruits trained by Shea. “Not bad,” Whitney said as she flipped through the pages showing the perfect scores for each shift from every center. She handed the clipboard back to Shea. “The real test will be several months down the road when everyone has relaxed.” The last two months were manic as the plans to correct the faults brought to light during the investigation were conceived and implemented. Daily logs would be more detailed and information easier to extract. Phones would be blocked from anything except local and center to center calls. All calls would be taped. Access to the system after hours was severely restricted and the Chief of Security had to personally authorize any transfers after normal operating hours. Employee only areas were restricted to on duty personnel and for personal travel, GSA and Prestige employees had to follow the same procedures as any other travelers. “I thought you would be pacing between the terminals and the command center.” Shea woke to find herself alone in the penthouse at three yesterday morning. She was annoyed Whitney was at her desk working and as far as she knew, Whitney hadn’t slept yet. The last place she expected Whitney to be when she came looking for her was in her chair staring out the window. Whitney closed her eyes with a slight smile. “My presence makes them jumpy on a normal day. I didn’t want to add to that so I’ve been monitoring from here.” Shea stood up and walked around to stare down at the black glass desk that doubled as Whitney’s computer. She had divided the screen into four blocks. One was a miniature map of North America dotted with green lights. Another showed how many travelers were currently in the system. A third was scrolling data and Shea leaned close to see that Whitney was monitoring the North Pacific Regional Supervisor’s computer. “Have you been monitoring Sam all day?” She asked quietly. She wished she had thought to close Whitney’s office door before she came into the room. They didn’t try to hide their relationship. It would have been impossible with Shea now living with Whitney in the penthouse, but they refrained from public displays in front of staff members. Because she couldn’t kiss Whitney, Shea knelt beside her and laid a hand on her leg. Whitney put her hand on Shea’s and linked their fingers. “Yeah. I don’t think he believes the reasons I sent him there, but he’s doing his job. I can’t ask for more.” With one of her Regional Supervisors in solitary confinement and another hiding somewhere in time, Whitney had elected to send her XO to replace Lea as the North Pacific Supervisor. Officially, Sam’s presence was meant to stabilize an area that had seen several key people arrested. Whitney had two Executive Officer’s now, one for each coast. She had struggled with finding new personnel to fill the open slots and it was only when Denise threatened to do it for her that she finally made her selections. On her early lists, any contact with Lea regardless of how incidental was more than enough for Whitney’s rejection. “You do know that Val is half in love with you don’t you?” Valerie Collins, a cute little blonde with big brown eyes, was the new East Coast Regional Supervisor and XO. She managed the Miami Gateway before her promotion and would have been the youngest Regional Supervisor if Whitney hadn’t already claimed that title. Whitney grinned. “I do. It’s an occupational hazard. But you don’t know that she’s half in love with you, too.” She laughed when Shea’s face blanked for a moment in surprise. She leaned forward to whisper, “I don’t think she realizes we’re together.” Shea stared in the crystal blue eyes and knew there were still times that she didn’t believe it herself. It was happening less often, but there were times when it would hit how different her life had become. She was living in Whitney’s penthouse and Matt was happily renting her house. She had an office next to Denise’s instead of a badge with the APD. Her mother was absolutely delighted she had retired from the force and that she had a cushy job with her girlfriend’s family. Melinda and Grace had bonded at the first dinner between the families and Shea knew from her mother that they spoke at least once a week. She tried to not to think about that too much, but knew that some of it was Grace covering her when she was at Quantico and unreachable for mother. The biggest change was Whitney herself. Shea had stood on the sidelines and watched in pride and amazement as Whitney reclaimed her life. She was more much than the playgirl and busy executive Shea thought her to be. Most of the security changes were her ideas and she had the list ready the day after she interviewed Vince. Shea wasn’t under Whitney in the chain of command, but neither was she over her and Shea believed Whitney’s attitude wouldn’t have been any less accepting if Shea wasn’t sharing her bed. She saw Shea as standing shoulder to shoulder with her protecting the Gateway and anyone who did that had Whitney’s total support. Shea was beginning to not only understand Whitney’s allegiance to the GSA, she was sharing it. Shea stood up and held out her hands to Whitney. “What do you say we order up a light meal as we wait for the final scores? We can monitor everything from the penthouse.” The best change was how her days ended now. She wasn’t going alone to a place that wasn’t really a home. She didn’t have folders with her so that she could fill the lonely hours until she fell asleep. She loved walking with Whitney from the command center to the penthouse as they talked about what happened that day. They had settled into a routine of ordering supper and changing into shorts and T-shirts as they waited for the meal to be brought up. What happened next depended on what happened that day. Some times they worked and some times they talked. Most nights ended with foreplay in the shower and mind blowing sex. Shea resisted the urge to do more than pull Whitney to her feet. It was hard to keep her hands to herself when Whitney was near. They just naturally wanted to roam. “I say yes.” Whitney quickly closed down her computer and pushed her chair under the desk. “Once that final score comes, this day is officially over.” Shea followed Whitney from the office and into the doorway of the one next to hers. Valerie had made Sam’s office her own with colorful prints of famous cities and lush plants in earth toned pottery she made herself. Shea slid her arm around Whitney’s waist from behind as Valerie looked up from her computer screen. As childish as it was, she wanted Valerie to know they were a couple. Valerie’s bright smile dimmed considerably as she stared at Shea’s hand. “We’re going to the penthouse for the night. I have every confidence that you and Sam can handle the rest of this and get the reports over to Denise, but call us if something happens. Whatever it is.” Valerie’s eyes darted between Whitney’s face and Shea’s hand as Whitney spoke. After a long pause, she nodded and forced her smile to brighten a few degrees. “You got it Chief. Have a good night.” Shea backed away from Whitney as they turned to leave the office. The look Whitney shot her was both amused and embarrassed. Shea grinned and lifted both eyebrows in silent question. Whitney just shook her head and headed for the doors. They were three steps from the hallway and only minutes from the penthouse when the lights flashed red three times. A six inch monitor that ringed the top of the room snapped from scrolling local weather and news reports in bright blue to warnings in neon red. Whitney stopped so fast Shea ran into her back. Without a word, they both spun around and headed for Whitney’s office. Shea noticed Whitney looking around and followed her gaze to see the agents sitting at the computers typing furiously. Three red flashes meant someone had breached their security. That it was happening here meant the breach was along the North American TimeLine. “Son of a bitch,” Whitney said bitterly as she rounded her desk. “I’m gonna kill whoever this is.” Shea turned to a sound in the doorway and waved a white faced Valerie into the room. She turned around just in time to see whatever data Whitney read on her screen sucker punch her into stupefying shock . She looked up and stared at them for several long seconds, each blink bringing a different emotion until her eyes were dark with rage. “Lea’s RIC just transferred someone from Rome to LA. I hope to God it was her.” Whitney knew if she gave Lea the chance, Lea would do something this stupid. Everyone had argued against leaving Lea’s RIC active. She was the only who still held the Retinal Identification Card they had all carried before and Whitney didn’t think her former North Pacific Regional Supervisor would be able to resist returning to LA from wherever she had gone to hide.Under the old system, Lea would have been able to use her RIC to exit the fifth floor and stroll out of the hotel before they could arrive. She wouldn’t know until she tried to get on the elevator that the fifth floor was locked down and only those with Whitney’s rank or higher had access. “Let’s go,” she said to Shea and rushing around her desk, began to sprint to the doors. “Contact Sam and tell him what he has and tell him I am on my way. I want her in restraints by the time I get there.” Volunteers were loitering in the hall between the command center and the terminals as they waited for the drill to end. They quickly flattened themselves against the wall as they ran past. Whitney had prayed for this day, had begged that it would come before they were back on line. This was the only thread they were unable to tie off from the investigation. The thought of going back online with it still dangling had been unbearable. Whitney waited until the cubicle slid shut before saying to Shea, “She’s mine. You can have her when I’m done, but right now she’s mine.” Technically, Lea fell under the jurisdiction of Internal Affairs and she belonged to Shea. The cubicle opened before Shea could respond. Whitney didn’t move, she simply held her hand on the door to keep it open. A husky woman wearing a long, black wig and oval framed glasses with tinted blue lenses was struggling with the security detail as they tried to fasten flexcuffs around her wrists. “Stop fighting it,” she said sharply, loudly. Everyone froze and those few seconds were all one quick thinking guard needed to bind her wrists together. When she was sure she was in control, Whitney walked carefully to stand in front of her. She reached for the wig and snatched it off her head. “Welcome home Lea.” Lea’s short blonde hair stood up in spiky tufts. Her eyes were filled with bitter hate when Whitney pulled the glasses away. Lea spit in her face and said, “Fuck you.” Whitney backhanded her across the face before the thought to do so had crossed her mind. Two guards kept Lea from falling to the floor. She grabbed a handful of Lea’s T-shirt and pulled it up to wipe away the spit. Whitney could see she had bulked out her athletic frame with padding. “Nice disguise. Three months ago it would have worked and you’d be free on the streets right now. Did you really think we wouldn’t change anything after what you did?” “I want a lawyer.” Lea pulled herself away from the guards to stand on her own feet. Blood welled in a small split in her bottom lip. “I have nothing to say to you.” Whitney laughed. “You want a lawyer? How would you like Matthew Lang? And by that I mean the second. He has just gobs of time on his hands these days.” The whooshing sound of multiple cubicles sliding open came from behind them and Whitney knew without turning around at least one of the new arrivals was Denise. “She wants a lawyer.” Denise came to Whitney’s side. “I don’t think Matthew is going to want to waste any of his single hour out of solitary confinement on her but it never hurts to ask. Maybe he prays for one last chance to see her face to face.” Whitney shook her head. “Five bucks says he wants the shower and yard time more.” “You can’t deny me a lawyer,” Lea said angrily. “I have rights.” Whitney never took her eyes from Lea’s as she stepped deliberately within inches of her. “All that time you spent looking for ways to break the rules and to get around them didn’t leave you very much time to learn any of them did it? You should have stayed in Rome. She’s yours Shea. Get her out of my time.” Whitney didn’t turn to watch as Lea struggled against the guards shoving her to the cubicles. She shut out Lea’s shouts and waited until the terminal was quiet before she took a deep cleansing breath. She had wanted to do more than slap Lea. It had taken finding Lea’s secret bank accounts and seeing the records of her very profitable black market business on Lea’s computer for Whitney to finally believe that her best friend and most trusted advisor was the person who betrayed her. The cut had gone very deep and Whitney wanted to inflict that same kind of pain on Lea. “Are you coming?” Denise asked. Whitney looked around the terminal. Stunned employees were watching her and waiting to see what happened next. Her gaze fell on Sam standing near the double doorway that led to hallway and the rest of the fifth floor. “Have those centers that are finished with the drill send everyone home. Set the third shift security as soon as the floors are cleared. When the active centers hit five, end the drill and lock it down. I’ll be at Quantico if anything else happens.” Sam nodded and clapped his hands as he called, “Okay everyone, back to your places. We’re not done here.” Denise was the only one left and Whitney walked behind her into the cubicle. “How do you think Lea knew the centers were operational?” “I’ll add that to the questions we’re going to ask her,” Denise said and walked out of the cubicle as it opened. She headed for the hallway that led to the interview room and Whitney headed for the hallway behind it. The observation area was jammed with people. Whitney edged into the room and found herself standing next to Councilman Archer. He smiled down at her. ” Ms Eisner that was very well done. I voted with you to keep the RIC active. I wish I could have been there to see her face when she walked into the trap.” “So do I, Councilman. It had to be priceless.” “Yes,” He agreed with a short laugh and turned his attention back to the interview room. “I’m sure it was.” Lea had been stripped of the padding and was shackled hands and feet with metal restraints. She was alone except for two guards. The shock and fury were gone from her face and she seemed lost as she stared down at the wooden table. What had she been doing all this time? One bank account was emptied the same day Lea came to Atlanta to talk to her so she wasn’t reduced to panhandling on the streets for food but it wasn’t enough to keep her indefinitely in the manner she was accustomed to living. Lea’s family had been warned not to assist her and the Council had laid their lives open to be sure they didn’t try to do it anyway. Did she come back to LA hoping her family would hide her? In the usual world, that’s what families did but Lea forget there were two families here and the GSA had more clout than the Sanders. Lea jumped as the door opened and Shea, Denise and Council members Winston and Stand filed into the interview room. Now that she could see more clearly, Whitney glanced around to see she was surrounded by the rest of the Council. Where else would they be? Under different circumstance, Whitney would have enjoyed watching Shea skillfully and cleverly box Lea into a corner. She tried to deny her involvement at first and then lie about the extent of it, but as each damning piece of evidence was laid out for her, she arrogantly admitted the truth. Grinning, kicked back in the chair as far as the chains would allow, she summed it up by saying, “I did what everyone said couldn’t be done and I did it for years.” Denise and the Council members had faded back as Shea took the lead in the interrogation. Now Denise stepped forward. “Why didn’t you kill Whitney? That was your biggest mistake.” Whitney watched her friend’s face closely as she waited for the one answer she wanted more than she wanted any of the others. Three women were dead instead of her and she wanted to know why. Lea shrugged, saying, “I loved her. She’s my friend.” “Did you ever think about recruiting her?” Shea asked. Lea laughed and glanced at the mirror as if she knew Whitney was there. “God no. She’s a True Believer.” Shea frowned and leaned forward on her elbows. “What does that mean?” Lea tried to wave her hand and grimaced at her bound wrists when both arms moved. She settled for a careless shrug of her shoulder. “She actually believes that what is happening on the other side is happening for the very first time. She’d have some mental defect in some other world, but this one? They make her the leader.” Whitney was chilled by how casually, how easily Lea dismissed their treaty with the past. She wasn’t supposed to be on the other side. She should never have left Quantico when her training ended. How did no one catch that? “You lied during your exit interview?” Denise whispered, shocked. Her face had lost every drop of color. Again Lea laughed and shook her head as she glanced to Denise’s face. Grinning, she leaned closer to Whitney and her voice was barely above a whisper as she asked, “I killed three women and she’s still stunned that I lied to her so that I wouldn’t be trapped on this side. Probably more that I lied than about the deaths. How seriously screwed up is that?” Whitney listened numbly as Shea turned the interview to the murders. The idea to frame Whitney was Lea’s and she thought her execution was brilliant, flawless. She detailed how she lured women she met the through her personal ads to the other side. Employees who are suspended have their travel privileges suspended and their RIC’s confiscated until the suspension is lifted. Lea used their cards to travel to the centers and used a housekeeping keycard to gain access to the unrestricted rooms. She laid the blame for their deaths at the feet of the investigators. She wouldn’t have had to resort to murder if they had removed Whitney after the first few assaults. When that still wasn’t enough, she killed Micah Hansen in the parking deck and made the 911 call. When Lea was finally led from the interview, Whitney understood why Vince called it Lea’s Game. That’s really all it had been for her and it was obvious that she enjoyed the end most of all. Whitney wondered, as Lea vanished with her guards, when Lea would realize she was not offered the chance to live out the rest of her life in solitary confinement in the underground jail currently housing her fellow traitors. Whitney thought she knew Lea well enough to know that she wouldn’t realize she’d been sentenced to death until she was a dead woman walking. There was one last thing she needed to do before she could consider the investigation closed. She had resisted doing it because she was afraid of how Shea would react. Now she knew Shea needed to know to understand. She waited until they were alone in the sub-basement, supposedly headed home, when she took Shea’s hand. “I want to show you something.” Shea was exhausted. The mania of getting the centers upgraded, the intensity of the twenty-four drill and now Lea’s revelation had left her ragged and empty. She wanted to go home. She wanted a hot shower and a simple meal before she fell face first into bed. She hoped whatever Whitney wanted to show her was quick. She didn’t plan on falling into that bed alone.”Do you remember when you asked me if we could go back into time and I told you we wouldn’t even of we could? That it wasn’t that easy to alter time?” They walked from the Admin building and crossed the wide neatly mowed lawn to another three story red brick building. It was night already and Shea watched several lights zip across the star filled sky. “Yes, I do. Can I get a license to fly one of those? That looks like fun.” Whitney looked up. “Sure. And it is fun. I’ll make the arrangements.” The Burton-Holt Building was empty and its long hallways lit with low lighting. Their steps echoed as they climbed the massive staircase in the main foyer. The third floor branched out into three hallways and Whitney walked into the one in front of them. It was short and ended at double doors. Whitney turned to face Shea and Shea was alarmed by the fear she saw so clearly in Whitney’s eyes. “I want you to know that whatever you feel about what you see in this room, that it’s okay. You won’t be feeling anything the rest of us didn’t feel.” Shea stayed where she was as Whitney pushed the doors open and walked into the large room. Whitney vanished into the dark room and Shea stepped closer to peer into the blackness. She could hear Whitney moving and was stepping into the room when the walls flashed for an instant to blinding white before settling into shapes of dark red edged with bright green. A few of the edges also had a thin layer of blue after the green. Shea moved back, her eyes roving over the four giant plasma screens. It took several minutes for her to realize the dark red shapes were continents. Confused, she looked around for Whitney. “What is this?” Whitney was standing on the other side of the room, her gaze locked to the Mercator map stretched across the wall. “There’s a little more green now then there was when I first came here. A lot more blue.” Turning to face Shea, she put her hands behind her back. Her face was calm, but her eyes were stormy. “Lea was right when she was said I’m a True Believer. She thinks that your time doesn’t matter and I think it’s priceless. I wonder, what will you think?” Shea didn’t know what to say to that so she said nothing. Her eyes never left Whitney’s face. Whitney gestured to the map. “The blue is water. It’s not potable. We can use it, but not to drink. The green is land. It’s barren. We can live on it, but not for food. It’s taken almost five hundred years for us to reclaim what we have.” Whitney came to her side and let the silence stretch. Shea felt her skin ice over as she stared at the map bleeding red. She didn’t want to ask but thought Whitney had said as she much as she could. “And the red?” “Nuclear Radiation. The Nuclear Holocaust is less than two hundred years away. The door to the past was found less than a year before and those in charge of it began to sense what was happening. Families were handpicked and sent back into time. We are the descendants of those of families.” Her voice was calm and normal. Shea stared at the devastation spread over the fifteen foot high walls and wondered how her voice could be so normal as she said the words. Nuclear Radiation. Nuclear Holocaust. Water they couldn’t drink; land they couldn’t till. Tiny slices of green and blue outlining massive continents of red. “So it was all destroyed? Everyone and everything?” “On the way over here, you were reminding me about our conversation on changing time and how it’s not easy to alter it. What did you want to add to that?” When Whitney turned to face her, Shea had to force herself to turn away from the map. All she could see in Whitney’s crystal blue eyes was sorrow. For all that was lost. For all that may never be regained. “We cannot change that ending because we then risk changing our beginning. Can you imagine if the world leaders, if their militaries, had known about that door to the past?” Ironic to think that what didn’t happen could be worse than what did. And Shea understood much better Whitney’s adamant protection of their presence in the past. Without food and water, the future they managed to save would be lost. Whitney could live in the present without thinking of it as the past because it wasn’t the past to her and never had been. Whitney shoved her hands into her pockets. She glanced once at the map and looked away. “Are you ready to go? I hate this room.” Shea didn’t need to look at it again. She would never forget it. “Yeah. Let’s go home.” Shea stood outside the room as Whitney shut down the lights and closed the doors. “I am so tired and tomorrow is going to start very early. I am glad I get to work on east coast time.” Whitney stood outside the door and stared at her with a look of baffled suspicion. “You’re being really accepting of this.” Shea took Whitney’s hand in hers and started them downstairs. “I’m really tired. I may wake up in the morning screaming my head off. But for now, it explains some things. I didn’t get why coming to the past was such a big deal. I kind of get it now. Maybe not completely, but I get it. I may have questions later.” Whitney’s handed tightened in hers and she walked close enough to bump shoulders as they walked out into the clear, cool night air. “What I can’t answer, I’m sure Denise can.” Shea doubted she would have questions that Whitney couldn’t answer. She’d spent two months moving easily between the times and not once encountered a situation that gave her reason to question what they were doing here. She enjoyed her job and loved her life. She dropped Whitney’s hand and slipped her arm around her waist to pull her closer. “Did you hear the message from Kim? I think after the week we’re going to have a baseball party with friends sounds awesome.” “I did and it does.” Whitney draped her arm around Shea’s shoulder. “Are you ready for the questions we’re going to get? Maybe we should invite Kim to dinner this week and let her know we’re together before Saturday. Have you ever seen her in the yippy dog mode she gets in when she’s super excited? She makes me dizzy bouncing around the way she does.” Shea laughing, thinking that was the perfect description for Kim when she was excited. “How does Thursday sound for the dinner? I’ll call her tomorrow.” “I’ll call her tomorrow. You can’t call her from your office.” “I keep forgetting that, don’t I?” “You’ll learn.” Shea watched pinpoint lights zip and streak across the night sky. Yes, she would learn. Lucky for her, she had all the time in the world.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406848
__label__cc	0.620786	0.379214	« Flashback Friday: Antisocial flutterby Daily Batman: Demi-chat, Demi-femme » The Girls of Summer: Kelly Burke, Miss July 1966 Photographed by William Figge. Kelly prefers making most of her natatorial plunges in the neighbors’ back-yard pool. “Besides the pool, they own two darling dogs,” she explains. “One’s a $700 pedigreed toy poodle named Suzie; the other’s a mongrel puppy that they rescued from the local dog pound for only five dollars. He’s named Toy Tiger and, needless to say, I’m in love with the mutt.” (“Freckle-Face.” Playboy, June 1966.) Good choice! I’m an across-the-board mutt guy from Way Back: dogs, cats — men. Actually, I think I’m genuinely allergic to so-called “well-bred” dudes without debt. I’ve tried to date them and their leather car coats and confident wine-awareness makes my skin crawl. On the other hand, if you got a busted grill and drive a ’92 Honda Prelude with one broken headlight that won’t raise, know the difference between a single- and a double-wide, and front a ZZ Top cover band? I’m all yours. Actual example: my friend J-Mys once tried to set me up on a double date with her and her boyfriend and a mortgage broker Senor R knew from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Polly Wolly Doodle All Day. J-Mys and Senor R cut out early and I was stuck with the mortgage broker, who was clearly not in to me either but was still talking some kind of folklore about variable rates and baloney sauce that I was not at all listening to because I was watching Clue in my head due to my crushing boredom, when I got up to get another pint of beer. At the bar, this guy in a very dated No Fear t-shirt and battered, unironic John Deere ballcap saw I had actual folding money and asked me for change for the jukebox. We picked out a couple songs — I believe we went with Tom Waits, the Beatles, and “Thriller,” for novelty shits and giggles — and I told the boring mortgage broker that I was planning on going to the bathroom and going home. I insisted we split the bill because I felt a few compunctions of guilt for wasting the early part of his Friday evening, even if I had in no way lead him to think the night had any kind of sexytimes in its future. Then I made sure the broker actually left, slipped out of the bathroom, and bullshitted with the ballcap guy on the porch about Quantum Leap and camping ’til my beer was done. Went home much happier than I’d been an hour earlier. Sneaky I guess but so much better. As for the rest of the purple prose in that excerpt, I got hung up on “natatorial.” Really? Natatorial? Come on. That is some rich fertilizer right there. Talk about a needless fifty dollar word. natatorial: (adj.) of, characterized by, or adapted for swimming. Aww. Seems that some low-paid Playboy scribbler had a crush on his thesaurus. That shot is freaking awesome. Hats off to Mr. Figge. “Natatorial” photography at its best? The reflection, the symmetry, the attention to every tile of the composition (rule of thirds) having something interesting in it — awesome sauce. Bill Figge is the shit. As a medical buyer for one of California’s largest pharmaceutical cooperatives, Miss June has spent the past three years helping to supervise the selection of drugs destined to become shelf stock in hospitals and pharmacies throughout the Greater Glendale area. Another stunning composition. The light-play is brilliant. “My job can be fairly cut and dried one minute,” says the 21-year-old brunette, “and then, in typical Ben Casey fashion, a nearby hospital phones in an emergency order and I’m suddenly off and running all over the place to find the required medicines.” The Ben Casey to which Ms. Burke refers was a popular television series which ran from the early- to mid-1960’s. The Bing Crosby-produced medical drama was filmed at Desilu Studios and starred Vince Edwards (Space Raiders, Return to Horror High) as the titular surgeon Dr. Benjamin Casey. The opening sequence is famous for its serious, ominous overtones: this deep voice says, “Man — woman — birth — death — infinity.” Heavy shit, right? Yes, I deliberately picked the cheesiest, schlockiest, campiest of Edwards’ many legitimate credits to use as his two paranthetical citations, like those obscure B flicks would somehow make you say, “Oh, him!” I wanted to be funny. Vince Edwards is actually a talented and well-recognized actor who was very popular in his time: I am just a goofy rake. Kelly now sports her own 1965 Oldsmobile convertible, in which she commutes daily from her new bachelorette bungalow in suburban Sylmar. Just five months after Ms. Burke’s gatefold appearance, the Loop Fire wiped out huge swaths of the boundary between her new hometown of Sylmar and the Angeles Forest. The fatally unpredictable Loop Fire is still covered in firefighting course textbooks today as an example of the necessity for developing strong communication strategy to contain a dry canyon fire affected by high winds. The Loop Fire began on November 1, 1966, at 5:19 am, on the edge of the Angeles National Forest. The El Cariso Interregional Fire Crew, which consisted of city and county firefighters, along with the El Cariso “Hot Shots,” a USDA-Forest crew of firefighters, sprang in to action to contain the blaze. Tragically, a flare-up jumped from the forest to a canyon at the outer edges of Sylmar and created a wall of flame around it. A group from the Hot Shots crew was trapped inside, cut off from the rest of the firemen in a narrow and dry canyon of steep rock walls which, despite having no natural accelerants to move the fire along, still increases the energy of the fire because it functions as a “natural chimney,” creating tremendous heat and pressure. Ten firefighters burned to death on site within minutes, while twelve others were injured, one critically. Helicopter Pilot Troy Cook began rescue operations within 10 minutes after the men were burned. The diamond shaped area was still surrounded by fire when Pilot Cook hovered and picked up the first survivor. (THE LOOP FIRE DISASTER – ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST – CALIFORNIA REGION: “A BRIEF OF THE REPORT OF THE GROUP ASSIGNED TO ANALYZE THE LOOP FIRE ACCIDENT.” US. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service. 1967: Washington, D.C.) Pilot Roland Barton and his helicopter soon joined him and rescue operations continued with great courage and skill until all of the injured men were evacuated to the Los Angeles County Command Post on the Pacoima. From there the injured men were taken by auto to the hospital. One of these injured men died at the LA County General Hospital November 6, but the rest survived thanks to the rescue efforts of the rest of the interregional team. A committee was formed by the Forest Service in conjunction with firefighting officials to use the tragic Loop Fire to improve fire prediction and containment methods, along with task force recommendations for the strengthening of safety and communication regulations. The highly localized decisions and actions which resulted in the tragedy points to the need of: (1) more specific direction on safe practices in similar topography; (2) specific control of helicopter attack; (3) scheduling of more complete inter- and intra-crew communication; and (4) adequate scouting to keep sector bosses currently informed when working in critical and possibly critical situations. [We need to] make crystal clear in firefighting training that a “chimney,” “narrow box canyon,” or similar topographic feature is a Hazard Area even if devoid of fuel. The El Cariso Regional Park on Hubbard in Sylmar is a memorial to the aforementioned El Cariso “Hot Shots,” the local United States Department of Agriculture – Forestry boys who were killed during their battle to keep the flames from entering the town. That was kind of bummer stuff, so sorry, but an interesting slice of history. Wildfires in California are far more devastating than the earthquakes with which the rest of the country generally associates the state, and as a result, fire science in California is often at the cutting edge of research and methods for saving lives in the future. But back to sunny Ms. Burke. “I’ve become a real flower bug,” she reports, “since Mom and Dad bought a retail nursery in Yucaipa last year. Each time I visit them, I load up the back seat of the Olds with so much greenery before heading home that it winds up looking just like some sort of window box on wheels.” That’s cute. Weekends, June’s bantam (5′) beauty heads for the sun-drenched beaches of Santa Monica, equipped with an over-sized straw hat and nylon sailing parka. “My freckles still show no matter what I try!” a) Yay for little lookers! Rock on with your pocket rocket self. b) Why do freckled people always desire to hide them? Freckles are so unbelievably cute. I don’t get it. c) It looks like she is Thumbelina laying in an orange peel. What the what is that stuff? PEOPLE I ADMIRE: Albert Einstein, Dr. John Rock and Dr. Francis Kelsey, beause of their outstanding medical contributions. MY IDEAL EVENING: Have cocktails and dinner, take in a movie, and then have a pizza. (Playmate data sheet.) Right on to Einstein, pizza, mutts, and having a serious job while attending Cal Poly Pomona during her appearance as a Playmate. Ms. Burke is the exception and not the rule of pretentious brandy-snifter marlarkey we went over earlier this week. Fun final fact: her sister-in-law, Allison Parks, was the 1966 Playmate of the Year. Oh, and I guess a really fun final fact is that Ms. Burke was pregnant during this shoot. BOMBSHELL! Maybe that is why she is so adorably radiant. As you probably noticed, it’s another Cowboy Kate-influenced cover, I assume to reflect the “Girls of Texas” story. R.I.P., Sam Haskins. 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You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 3 Responses to “The Girls of Summer: Kelly Burke, Miss July 1966” Fantastic pictures! And the thing is that they were thought out in advance and not rushed out to get them out like most of the work published today. Jed Leyland Says: This is a great example of why “the girl next door” brand worked for Playboy – until they took up peroxide and implants. Even laid out the fantasy that you could be the neighbor who owned the pool. these women are grandmothers now	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406850
__label__cc	0.745089	0.254911	10 Days Everest Monastery Yoga Trek Trip Map When Yoga is added in any trekking or tour, there would not be the best combination ever possible in the world. As Yoga always seeks to offer the way for union to the Supreme Self, the trekking and tours are intended to unite with the supreme prosperity and enthrallment offered by the God or the Nature Goddess. In this context, yoga seems to be highly relevant subject to follow along with the following of rugged and challenging trails of the trek. Everest Monastery Yoga Trek leads one to the high Himalayan range of Khumbu region, one of the most visited places in the world. Because of its affluent and amazing cultural, natural and spiritual ambience, it not only has been visited as a place to see the highest mountains in the world but also for the spiritual awakening and awareness. The land of Himalayas is the abode of enlightened souls. In this regard, even though the life-style and climate may be observed as hard and heavy to sustain, it is actually the blessing and examination of the nature God to the humanity. If one can’t dare to adopt and adore the beauty which has been offered by the nature rather than focusing on the pain and difficulty of the trail, there is no justification to enjoy the marvel and magnificence of the Himalayas. The journey in itself is conceived as an open book of knowledge which always leads the ascending route for understanding and exploring the self. Indeed, the trek or any visit in its external sense seems to be merely for observing the natural and panoramic mesmerism of the world. In addition to the external contentment for our mind and eyes, it also aspires for the eternal and individual cleansing and clarification of the self. Everest Monastery Yoga Trek starts with the short flight from Tribhuvan International Airport to Tenjing-Hillary Airport Lukla. During the trek, yoga will be included as its regular practice every day. Landing on the height of about 2600 meter from sea level, the trek takes increasing altitude up to 3800 meters at Tengboche Monastery. During its splendid and marvelous offerings of the natural beauty, culture heritage, religious affinities and spiritual contentment, Everest Monastery Yoga Trek trails the way on the lush vegetation of Sagarmatha National Park while enjoying the greenery pine forests, blossoming rhododendron trees till reaching to Namche Bazaar which is situated at an altitude of 3440 meter. The rest day at Namche Bazaar also allows the trekkers to visit the local Thame Buddhist Monastery, the oldest monastery in the Khumbu region also famous for its grand reception in Mani Rimdu Festival. The trek also takes the trekkers to Tengboche Village where the visit to Tengboche Buddhist Monastery will be crucial expedition to experience. Tengboche Village also extends its amazing platform to view the picturesque panorama of the highest mountains in the world such as Mt. Everst, Nuptse, Lhotse, Ama Dablam and Thamserku. The trek keeps inspiring and alluring the trekkers as it leaves to the scintillating Khumjung village where Khumjung Monastery is located which has been distinguished place to remember for Yeti scalp on its display. The last and unforgettable adventure of the trek to Syangboche Stupa greets the trekkers with the priceless and unalienable view of Mt. Everest on its milieu. Everest Monastery Yoga Trek leads one to the high Himalayan range of Khumbu region, one of the most visited places in the world. Because of its affluent and amazing cultural, natural and spiritual ambience, it not only has been visited as a place to see the highest mountains in the world but also for the spiritual awakening and awareness. The land of Himalayas is the abode of enlightened souls. In this regard, even though the life-style and climate may be observed as hard and heavy to sustain, it is actually the blessing and examination of the nature God to the humanity. If one can’t dare to adopt and adore the beauty which has been offered by the nature rather than focusing on the pain and difficulty of the trail, there is no justification to enjoy the marvel and magnificence of the Himalayas. The journey in itself is conceived as an open book of knowledge which always leads the ascending route for understanding and exploring the self. Indeed, the trek or any visit in its external sense seems to be merely for observing the natural and panoramic mesmerism of the world. In addition to the external contentment for our mind and eyes, it also aspires for the eternal and individual cleansing and clarification of the self. When Yoga is added in any trekking or tour, there would not be the best combination ever possible in the world. As Yoga always seeks to offer the way for union to the Supreme Self, the trekking and tours are intended to unite with the supreme prosperity and enthrallment offered by the God or the Nature Goddess. In this context, yoga seems to be highly relevant subject to follow along with the following of rugged and challenging trails of the trek. Day 1st Everest Monastery Yoga Trek Kathmandu (1300 meter) After receiving at the Tribhuvan International Airport, you will be taken to the hotel. The same day will be arranged to meet with the representative of The Trek Tour and Travel Nepal for the final preparation and short briefing of the upcoming trek. Day 2nd Everest Monastery Yoga Trek Kathmandu to Lukla- Phakding (2650 m) – 40 minutes of flight and 4 hours of trek Yoga Asana class in the morning. The flight from Kathmandu to Lukla will be of about 45 minutes early in the morning. After landing at the Tenjing Hillary Airport at Lukla, you will be welcomed by the crew members of the trek. Packing and arranging the luggage you will walk through the Lukla village heading towards Phakding. About 4 hours of trek from Lukla airpot, you will reach to Phakding. Overnight at Phakding. Pranayama and Meditation class in the evening. Day 3rd Everest Monastery Yoga Trek Phakding to Namche Bazaar (3440 meter) 6 hours of trek The day starts with crossing the Dudhkoshi over the bridge, the first of several bridges coming up. The trail moves through the forest and the villages Benkar and Chumoa are also left behind to reach Monjo, the place for lunch. Then, the trail enters into the Sagaramatha National Park. The trek heads further up north through the bank of the Dudhkoshi River occasionally crossing it over the bridge. Along with the bank of the Dudbkoshi River, the path has been beautified by the forest of rhododendron, magnolia trees, and various kinds of flowers which blossom both in spring and autumn. After Jorsale, Bhotekoshi River is also crossed to ascend steep up about 300 meters to see the first glimpse of the Mount Everest in the backdrop of Nutpse-Lhotse. Further climbing welcomes us with the famous and well-known hub of Khumbu region called Namche Bazaar. Overnight at Namche Bazaar. Day 04 Everest Monastery Yoga Trek Namche Bazaar to Day Hike to Thame Buddhist Monastery 5 hours hike It’s day of acclimatization as well as the day for visiting the central town of this region. This day will also take you to Thame Buddhist Monastery to visit the serene and spiritual aura of the place. It will be a good hike to experience for the day for body, mind and soul. Besides, you can also visit to Tourist Centre situated nearby the headquarters of Sagarmatha National Park in Namche Bazaar. Namche Bazaar to Tengboche Monastery (3870 meter) 6 hours of trek The trek of this day will grant you the blessing of enjoying the spectacular and scintillating view of Mount Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, Ama Dablam etc. About 6 hours of walking through the rugged and exotic trail, the destination for the day, Tengboche, will be seen. Tengboche is honoured and heightened as the spiritual centre of Khumbu region. Monks of all ages come to observe and participate in the rituals and religious studies from every corner of the region including different parts of the country. Tengboche carries unbelievable aura and energy of spiritual practitioners. Tengboche Monastery to Khumjung Monastery (3810 meter) 5 hours of trek Descending down for about 2 hours through the forest of pine and fir trees, the trek pass across the Dudhkoshi River to follow the path through the bank of the river passing through small village until it reaches to Khumjung Village. The Khumjung valley is well-rounded by the snowy peaks of Thamserku, Kondge including the holy peak Kumbila. It has a beautiful and sacred Khumjung Monastery which also preserves the precious Yeti Scalp. The visit to nearby Hillary School will also be conducted. Overnight at teahouse. Khumjung Monastery to Syangboche (3720 meter) 3 hours of trek Khumjung Village is left behind trailing through the stone-made pathways. The beautiful path of stone continues until the trek arrives at Khunde village, the clean and traditional village of the region. Leaving behind the charming village of Khunde, the trail follows the secluded path. The occasional meeting with yaks and herders on the way would entice and enlighten the hearts of the trekkers by their innocent smile and hardworking nature. While paving through the trail, the amazing views of the world’s highest mountain Mount Everest and many others would engross the trekkers more and more. Eventually, walking for about 3 hours, the trek comes at Syangboche. A few minutes of walk takes to the Syangboche Stupa. Overnight at teahouse. Syangboche to Monjo (2835 meter) 5 hours of trek From Syangboche, the trek descends down to the stone-stair for about one hour until it arrives to Namche Bazar. The short rest and shopping can be made at Namche Bazaar as the trail will continue further. Dudhkoshi River will be crossed after descending down the Namche Hill. As the trail crosses the Dudhkoshi River, the area of Sagarmatha National Park ends which leads to today’s destination Monjo. As being the serene and quiet place to rest, Monjo has been chosen to stay for the night. Monjo to Lukla (2660 meter) 5 hours of trek While enjoying the splendid magnetism of magnificent mountain seen to the far, the trail paves further through the open plains, forest of pine and rhododendron trees. The unforgettable moments can be many but one of the them certainly be the stone carving and painting with Buddhist mantras and chants almost each and every corner of the path. There is not any even stone which can’t be seen without any writing on it. As the last day of the trek, it can be a wonderful trek to recollect all those adventurous and exhilarating time past for few days in the land of holy Himalayas. Overnight at Lukla. Lukla to Kathmandu 40 minutes of flight This day flies the trekkers to the capital city of Kathmandu with the collection of all the life-inspiring moments in the heart and mind. Sometimes, because of the bad weather the flight may not be arranged on the stipulated day. In this case, the flight back to Kathmandu will be arranged in the next morning. Destination: Everest Monastery Yoga Trek Book Everest Monastery Yoga Trek	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406852
__label__cc	0.522205	0.477795	the view from the upper circle ← Theatre Review: 1984, The Playhouse Theatre Theatre Review: Buzz – A New Musical → Five Reasons To See Dreamgirls Posted on October 17, 2016 by theviewfromtheuppercircle under Books The wait is finally over as Broadway smash Dreamgirls brings its glitz and glamour to London’s West End 35 years after this story of a 60s girl group first wowed New York audiences. Here are five reasons why you need to get your ticket today. Glee fans will already be familiar with Amber’s knockout voice and those who never heard her as sweet-natured Mercedes Jones are in for a spine-tingling treat. Amber plays Effie White in the show, the lead singer in The Dreamettes alongside her best friends Deena Jones and Lorrell Robinson, who soon discover that the path to fame is as strewn with heartbreak as it is dreams. For a sneaky listen to Amber’s power to set hearts racing and tears flowing, check out this preview of her singing ‘I Am Changing’. 2. The Songs From heart-wrenching big ballads to Motown-style stompers, the Dreamgirls musical numbers will have you dancing in the aisles, sobbing into your popcorn – and humming them for days. Audience favourites includes ‘I Am Changing’, ‘And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going’ and ‘Listen’ – originally made famous by Beyoncé in the 2009 film and now a part of the stage production. 3. The Costumes The spangly frocks, the wigs, the sparkly shoes – Dreamgirls is almost as famous for its fabulous costumes as it is for its killer tunes. And the costume changes are as frequent as a Diana Ross tantrum – the 2009 US touring production of Dreamgirls had over 460 costumes and 205 wigs. The London production’s wardrobe has been designed by renowned, Tony Award winning costume designer Gregg Barnes. It’s not all singing and dancing, Dreamgirls is an engrossing and emotional story. The plot follows the fortunes – and failures – of Chicago-based trio The Dreamettes – Deena Jones, Lorrell Robinson and Effie White after they are discovered by ambitious agent Curtis Taylor, Jr. The girls’ career takes off under Taylor, but at a cost as it’s not long before he’s controlling their every move. Under the stress of success, cracks begin to show in the group as the beautiful Deena emerges as the star of the group over the gifted Effie. 5. Be Part Of History Dreamgirls first hit Broadway in 1981 directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett. The show won six Tony Awards and has toured the United States and the world. The show finally arrives in London in a highly anticipated new production directed and choreographed by the hugely successful, Tony and Olivier award-winning Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, Something Rotten!). One of the reasons why the show took so long to arrive in the West End was because producers couldn’t find the perfect Effie – until they discovered Amber. And who wouldn’t want to miss out on perfection? Dreamgirls \| Savoy Theatre \| Booking from 23 November 2016 \| Click Here For Tickets This entry was tagged AMERICAN THEATRE, MUSICAL, Theatre, WEST END. Bookmark the permalink. Follow The View From The Upper Circle Theatre review: All the Little Lights, Tristan Bates, WC2 Chambers_, secret location, London The Night of the Iguana, Noël Coward Theatre (preview) The Swell Mob, COLAB theatre, SE1 Bed Peace: The Battle of Yohn & Joko \| The Cockpit, NW8 Sunset, spices, sun, surf - and cake #Morocco #maroc #africa @theyogisurfer	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406853
__label__cc	0.721269	0.278731	RIP Wicked Willie By Meaghan Wilson Anastasios, June 3, 2009 Apologies for the silence. It’s in memory of my father, William Francis Wilson, who died suddenly at the age of 65 on the 19th of May 2009. He was a brilliant man, a pioneer in the field of plastic surgery back in the days when silicone was something you used to mend windows and botulism (aka botox) was something found only in a biohazard lab. Where surgeons are criticised for being too detached, dad was adored by his patients. He lived an extraordinary life, surrounded by extraordinary people. I could tell you some of the names, but then I would be compelled to kill you. But he was also an endearingly wacky bloke with a passion for Hilaire Belloc and Gilbert and Sullivan, fashioning frames out of driftwood and weathered fence strainers, and known to adhere George Bass memorial 50 cent pieces to anything that stood still down at the farm for more than thirty seconds or so. He was brilliant, generous to a fault to the people closest to his heart, irreverent, funny and an old-school raconteur who never let the truth get in the way of a good story. He was a great man. His loss is felt deeply by many. I love him, and always will. Deeply. I will miss him every day. Tagged: Bill Wilson, plastic surgeon, William Francis Wilson, William Wilson, Willie Wilson Tricks of the trade: Ron Coles and the mystery of the disappearing genitals, or, how to make a painting more saleable Don’t miss Peter Walsh fundraising auction this weekend: Go because he was a great bloke, go because it’s a great cause, or go because there’ll be some great art to buy 3 Responses to “RIP Wicked Willie” mira (friend) August 20, 2009 He was such a dag ! However he was. And , though he was—- inepy ? socialy wow ! impressionable ( you can do what you want with him ) kind of guy I know that he loved you girls How do I know this ? he told me And you do him credit. Women extrodier. It was’nt easy sally speed September 3, 2009 We were both saddened to read of the death of our old school “chum”. In my case it was Wonthaggi Tech/High and in my husband’s, Uni.High. Belated condolences to all the family from Terry and Sally Speed. Meaghan October 12, 2009 Dear Terry and Sally, Thank you so much for your kind thoughts. It’s a very difficult time for us, and it’s very comforting to hear from people who cared about Dad. Vic, Phoebe and I are missing him terribly. x Meaghan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406858
__label__wiki	0.706407	0.706407	Lawsuit Stench Remains Former City of Windsor auditor Todd Langlois’s $2.4 million wrongful dismissal lawsuit against the city has been withdrawn, but it’s not completely gone. Chris Vander Doelen, Windsor Star Composite image of former city of Windsor auditor general Todd Langlois (L) and Mayor Eddie Francis.(Tyler Brownbridge/The Windsor Star) The stink of the accusations made in the case will hang over City Hall for some time to come, probably well into the next election. That is not justice, and it is not fair to taxpayers. They deserve to know one way or another who was right and who was wrong in a case that alleged a “toxic” workplace at City Hall manipulated by a controlling mayor, a secretive council and a vengeful administration. I think the 10 members of city council were right to fire the former auditor. And they were right to settle it out of court as cheaply as they could rather than salvage their pride at public expense in an extended lawsuit. That’s what taxpayers would have had to pay for had council not settled and not agreed to a confidentiality clause in the deal, Mayor Eddie Francis said Friday. “Not to agree to it would have meant thousands and thousands and thousands in extra legal fees,” Mayor Francis said of the confidentiality clause, “and another year or two in court.” “But the city is prepared to waive any clause if the other side allows it,” the mayor told the media Friday at Essex County’s annual Warden’s Luncheon. That’s a helpful hint. There are other clues as to who “won” the case: the mayor is mostly all smiles about the settlement, and most councillors seem to be dying to talk about it; Langlois won’t talk and his lawyer is shut up tighter than a liquor store on Christmas morning. The size of the settlement is important not only for its financial effect on city finances but for public confidence and trust in council, which was implicated for unethical behaviour. If Langlois did not receive a substantial settlement or, as I believe, not much more than the six month’s severance stipulated in his employment contract for being discharged, you might logically assume that his accusations were false, or at least so far from being provable as to be steeply discounted. None of the clues point to Langlois hitting a jackpot at the expense of taxpayers. None of the city councillors I talked to about the case this week would even hint at the size of the settlement because Langlois’ lawyer, James Cooke, has vowed to sue them again if they do. That would cost taxpayers serious money, they say. I’m told opinion was split in a closed-door council meeting last month when council voted to approve the settlement. (The Municipal Act required the in-camera meeting, by the way). Some vowed that the city should spend whatever it took to disprove Langlois’ allegations and clear their good names. Others argued that cutting a deal with him was purely a business decision, not to be taken personally. The councillors I’ve asked about the case all used the same word to describe it: “frustrating.” They all wish they could show their voters how they protected the public’s financial interests. Unfortunately, a ridiculous aspect of civil law effectively gags them: the confidentiality clause. But there are many clues that point to a modest settlement for Langlois. For instance, mediation was over quickly, something that could indicate a lopsided advantage for one side. Another: asked if the settlement will put Langlois on any future Sunshine List of City Hall employees earning more than $100,000, officials all tell you they “can’t say.” But the question makes them smile. I asked various officials if the Langlois settlement will affect taxes, or the city’s legal budget, or its auditing budget, or show up in any way as a major cost in budget lines in years to come. No, no, no, no and no were the answers. Big clue: Angela Berry, one of several employees in the city’s disbanded audit department who took leaves during the Langlois whirlwind, has returned to work. Berry has dropped her Bill 168 workplace harassment case against the city, Francis said Friday. An independent investigator was hired to investigate her claims, a report was filed with Berry’s lawyer and the city’s legal department. “The other side has decided not to pursue anything.” Langlois was hired to supervise the outsourcing of a slow and expensive internal auditing process that had been costing the City of Windsor millions of dollars. Instead, council believed Langlois had embarked on a plan to create a new internal auditing empire within City Hall with himself as its head. Fed up with what they deemed to be open defiance, councillors decided to dump him. One year later I believe that city council – and therefore Windsor taxpayers – has won the Langlois lawsuit hands down. That would mean the conspiracy theorists owe 10 members of city council and some senior Windsor administrators a big apology for the things that were said about them last year. Instead, you probably won’t see a hint of shame or hear a single word of contrition from those parties. That’s why gagging the participants of lawsuits like this one involving the public does a terrible disservice both to the truth and to citizens. cvanderdoelen@windsorstar.com 519-255-6852 Follow me on Twitter @winstarvander Editorial: Letting the sun shine Mike Graston's Colour Cartoon For Friday, April 05, 2013 Police respond to multiple shots near Amherstburg’s Libro Centre \| Windsor Star Henderson says it’s time to enhance Windsor’s image \| Windsor Star Windsor-made app to connect job seekers, employers \| Windsor Star City adopts climate change plan \| Windsor Star	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406860
__label__wiki	0.678094	0.678094	TS Dorian Passes Lesser Antilles while Forecast Uncertainties Remain; TD Six to be Short-Lived Hank Dolce Uncategorized August 27, 2019 August 27, 2019 5 Minutes The tropics remain busy today, with two tropical cyclones currently active. Tropical Storm Dorian is located in the eastern Caribbean Sea with winds of 50mph and has a minimum pressure of 1005mb. Dorian is expected to impact the eastern Greater Antilles and potentially the Bahamas and Florida in the long-range. Tropical Depression 06L formed yesterday as well from Invest 98L off the North American coast with winds of 35mph and a minimum pressure of 1008mb. It should remain weak as it accelerates northeast towards Canada. A basin-wide true-color image of the Atlantic, showing Dorian west of the Lesser Antilles and 06L off of the Carolinas. (College of DuPage Satellite Imagery) I’ll briefly discuss TD 06L first. The storm is currently very lopsided, as convection is being sheared off towards the south from an upper-level ridge extending off the Georgia and South Carolina coastlines. This has caused the surface center to be exposed well to the north of the main convection. Scatterometer data has been unable to detect gales within the system, so it has stayed at tropical depression intensity. It is also in a region of weak steering currents for the moment, which is why it has not moved very much, only drifting slowly southeast chasing the sheared convection. By tonight, 06L should turn northward as a strong mid-latitude trough progresses across north America. By this point, the depression should gain some instability from a remnant frontal boundary to its north, which may cause the storm to take on a more hybrid appearance and structure. The system will continue accelerating northeast and become post-tropical by Thursday south of Atlantic Canada, who may need to watch out for potential impacts from this system. Regardless, the storm is expected to remain quite weak, and the NHC only forecasts the system to be a weak tropical or subtropical storm at peak on Wednesday night. Visible imagery of TD 06L off the North Carolina coastline, exhibiting a classic sheared structure. (MSFC) NHC track for 06L, showing a short-lived system dissipating before it reaches Canada The main story in the tropics recently has been Tropical Storm Dorian, currently located to the west of the central Lesser Antilles. Last night, Dorian’s center passed over the islands of Barbados and St. Lucia, but fortunately, only minor impacts have been reported thus far. After passing over those islands, aircraft reconnaissance discovered that the center was quite ill-defined and weakening, while radar imagery from Martinique revealed that the center was relocating towards the north a few hours ago. During that time, the structure began to lose definition and it briefly appeared as if Dorian was opening up back into a tropical wave, but since then, the new center has become better-defined and the convective structure is doing the same. While the pressure remains quite high still, the storm as a whole has improved. The radial outflow is quite healthy and frequent bursts of centralized convection have kept the system alive. Dorian to the west of the Lesser Antilles with an improving structure. (WeatherNerds.org) Because the center of Dorian has shifted farther north, it’s beginning to follow north of the consensus track, which continues to bring it northwest. The upper-anticyclone above the storm, which is allowing for such impressive outflow, is forcing upper-level lows away and weakening the one helping Dorian gain latitude. However, these upper lows will also cause the ridging to lag behind Dorian’s forward movement, which will replace the Caribbean low as the upper-level steering feature, but may also induce some northerly shear onto the storm. By tomorrow night or Thursday, the track will be either into the eastern Dominican Republic or threading the Mona Passage. It now appears more likely that it’ll stay further from Hispaniola, an island notorious for its high mountains that can shred TCs apart, and closer to the Mona Passage or Puerto Rico. While Puerto Rico is also relatively mountainous, the peaks are lower and it is smaller in size compared to Hispaniola. Therefore, the chances of it surviving its passage out of the Caribbean have increased. GFS 200mb wind forecast, showing the features at play steering Dorian. (Tropical Tidbits) Past Thursday, the forecast confidence remains abnormally low. Most of the forecast depends on whether or not Dorian survives the passage out of the Caribbean. Because the storm is now more likely to do so, there are concerns about both the Bahamas and southeastern U.S., particularly Florida, for late this week and this weekend. Dorian should continue progressing northwestward as a weak upper low to its south gets forced around its upper anticyclone. By Friday and Saturday, a mid-level ridge will build to the north of the system near Bermuda and extend west towards the Carolinas. At this point, the storm should halt its northward motion and instead track more west. In addition, conditions for intensification become more favorable, which should result in an intensifying storm. This would bring it mostly north of the Bahamas, with the potential exception of the northwest Bahamas. However, the track would then take it into the east coast of central Florida by Sunday. Afterwards, the system should curve north into the southeastern U.S. as another trough dips into the eastern U.S. this weekend. This all is assuming that it survives the passage past Hispaniola or Puerto Rico. 12z EPS ensemble tracks for Dorian, and it should be noted that these members are plotted too far south given the northward relocation and that track/intensity confidence still remains low. (WeatherNerds.org) It is important to restate once more that the confidence in this forecast remains low. However, impacts are still coming to both Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, as well as lingering effects in the Lesser Antilles from heavy rainfall. While the rainfall forecasts aren’t particularly high, if a training band develops either from shearing instability or orthographic lift, potentially flooding rains could fall on either island from Dorian. Hurricane watches and Tropical Storm Warnings remain in effect for all of Puerto Rico and the eastern Dominican Republic. The NHC forecasts a landfall on the southwestern portion of Puerto Rico at this point, which would bring gusty winds and possibly minor storm surge as well to the southern coast. As for the Bahamas, impacts should remain minor in the main island chain, but rough seas and potentially squally weather will make for an unpleasant weekend, especially for Great Abaco and Grand Bahama. For those in Florida, keep a very close eye on Dorian, as it is becoming increasingly likely that it’ll have some sort of impact on the state during the weekend, which is also Labor Day Weekend and there will be more tourists about. Dorian could put a damper on that. The entire peninsula is in the cone, and even though it is unusual for a hurricane to make landfall in central or north Florida, it is not impossible. Impacts depend on both track and intensity, which are uncertain, but heavy rains, high winds, and storm surge are all a possibility. Make sure that you have a hurricane plan ready, as there is the potential for a hurricane this weekend. NHC 5-day cone for Dorian, showing a path across Puerto Rico, north of the Bahamas, and ending near the east coast of Florida. For anyone threatened by Dorian, please stay tuned to your local officials for the latest information regarding the storm as forecast confidence continues to increase. Another article will be produced sometime between tomorrow and Friday. Previous Post TS Dorian Forms and Approaches the Caribbean Sea; Invest 98L Likely to Develop off the U.S. East Coast Next Post Hurricane Dorian exits the Caribbean; Expected to be a Powerful Hurricane near the Southeast U.S.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406865
__label__cc	0.632783	0.367217	The Arts Council of Tuscaloosa 2018 DOUBLE EXPOSURE ADULT DIVISION WINNERS ANNOUNCED (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) The Arts Council of Tuscaloosa is pleased to announce the Adult Division winners of the 2018 Double Exposure Juried Photography competition. Open to photographers from the state of Ala. only, the annual event is now in its 15th year. Artists were allowed to enter up to three works in either Adult or Junior categories, and any photographic media was accepted. Tuscaloosa photographer Michael Moore served as the judge. Awards were contributed in part by Buffalo Rock Pepsi of Tuscaloosa. Adult Division: Best of Show $500: "Crematorium," Elizabeth Rand, Tuscaloosa Cash Awards $250 each: "Tea Time," Kay Brummel, Montgomery "Lane's Cove," Warren Simons, Montgomery "Primping Pelicans," Madelyn Bonnett, Columbiana "Gears," Brenda Miller, Birmingham "Light Show in the Mountains," Jim Morris, Tuscaloosa The Adult Division exhibit will open on Feb. 2 at 5 p.m. during First Friday at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center with awards presented at 6:30 p.m. Gallery hours are weekdays from 9 a.m.-noon and 1 p.m.-4 p.m. with the exhibit concluding on Feb. 23. The opening reception will coincide with Community Arts Conversations, also at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Featuring performances by local arts groups, door prizes, such as ticket giveaways, will also be available. Both events are free and open to the public. For more information about the competition, visit tuscarts.org/competition-doubleexposure. The Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center is located at 620 Greensboro Avenue in Downtown Tuscaloosa. For more information about the CAC, The Arts Council or Bama Theatre, patrons should LIKE the Facebook page “The Arts Council – Bama Theatre – Cultural Arts Center” and follow tuscarts on Twitter. Call 205-758-5195 or visit tuscarts.org for further information.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406871
__label__cc	0.596348	0.403652	BlueKai Launches White-Label Registry To Promote Data Collection Transparency Says CEO Tawakol by AdExchanger // Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 – 6:34 am BlueKai announced the roll-out of a white-label version of its consumer data registry that may be used by publishers as "an out-of-the-box solution for supporting transparent consumer data collection." Read the release. BlueKai CEO Omar Tawakol discussed the white-label registry. AdExchanger.com: Why is white-label important as opposed to a branded offering? OT: Many sites do not want a customer to confuse data collected by them with data that may have been collected elsewhere. The white label registry is a solution made for publishers and marketers to communicate site-specific data collection to their visitors. The white label registry is complimentary to the BlueKai Registry. In fact, we encourage our clients who adopt the white label registry to link to the BlueKai Registry, which provides a comprehensive view of web preferences across all BlueKai partner sites who contribute sell-able data to the BlueKai Exchange. The other reason to provide a white label solution (as opposed to a BlueKai branded solution) is that BlueKai is a B2B company that doesn't have a consumer brand. Our partners, however, are some of the strongest consumer brands on the Internet. It makes much more sense for the registry to be surfaced by the publishers with strong brands at the point of data collection. How does this fit with self-regulation efforts such as those proposed by the National Advertising Review Council and the platform monitoring services offered by Better advertising among others? This is complimentary to that. Our goal as an industry should be to provide choices and options to the marketers and publishers so that every page that collects data and every ad that uses data would link to some transparency tool. We don't care which solution is adopted (BlueKai doesn't generate revenue from the Registry). We only care that transparency tools are widely adopted. How close do you think the digital advertising industry is to draconian regulation as it relates to consumer privacy? As an industry, we have a chance to step up to the plate, to strategize and execute on data disclosure and collection that consumers understand, and can control. Government involvement can provide a false sense of protection to the consumer. If you think about today's privacy policies, it's the result of instilling laws to protect the consumer, but the solution is not consumer-friendly at all - the details are hidden in pages and pages of legalese that the average person does not take the time to read. I hope the industry seizes the opportunity to self-regulate in the next couple of years so that Washington is not forced to step in with regulations that may not end up serving the consumers.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406877
__label__cc	0.609068	0.390932	Comic Books Reviews ComiX Weekly: 12/12/12 - Valiant Plans Are Mutually Exclusive ComiX Weekly: 12/12/12 – Valiant Plans Are Mutually Exclusive Christmas is coming and you know what that means: time for Santa to start popping up in comics with machine guns or bare-knuckle boxing your favorite superheroes. A lot of comics came out this week that have strong followings, two new Marvel NOW! series begin and DC Comics adds two more issues to their main Before Watchmen stories. A lot to go through! So scroll down and see what we’ve picked for the best books worth your 10 dollars. That is just evil. The backup story reveals Joker’s plan runs pretty deep using guards and The Riddler. Using the backup for this plot element is a genius way to create some interest for the next issue but also maximize entertainment on every page. So often DC seems to use the backups as filler to get the $3.99 price tag. Budget: $7.01- $3.99 = $3.02 Iron Man Vol. 5 #4 (Marvel Comics) I haven’t been the biggest fan of the new creative team or the direction of Iron Man of late, but I’m willing to stick it out until it finds its identity. The art by Greg Land has been okay, although it’s pretty clear his usual fan aggravating work is on display. Now that you mention it you look like all the girls Greg Land draws. Note his head at top and at bottom. That suit got a turtle functionality? How dare you! Tolkien is a god! Nothing seems to be changed and the character isn’t going anywhere new. We’re 4 issues into this new “direction” and I haven’t the slightest why it should be considered anything better than guest writer issues. When the story is so unexceptional and you’re getting it double shipped (an issue each of the last 2 weeks!) it’s growing tiring fast. The Hollows #1 (of 4) (IDW) Oh cool, The Maxx artist is back. That can’t suck, can it? Maybe not. Fly man with bat wings. Fly! These guys don’t look like fun. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to feel from this book. The dirty style of the art gives this book a darker tone, yet the characters and story seem light. Now that is one horizon. I want to like this book as there’s an idea or two in here that deserve to be heard. Not until next issue will we really know what it’s trying to be. Scarlet Spider #12 (Marvel Comics) This series has been up and down over its first year, but it has a lot of promise. The supporting cast is different enough to be interesting and the Houston location is just odd enough to deliver different sorts of stories. So far most of its stories are mini arcs that haven’t allowed for a building of very complex stories. This issue falls into the one and done bin. Why can’t Santa be nicer in comics? Sweet page. Kaine is down for the count in most this issue and his supporting cast has to attempt to make due. The opportunity to build them is great. Oh that Scarlet Spider. He sure is a toughy. The only problem with the series that I can see is this hero is willing to break bones and even kill, yet his personality is too nice. His supporting cast all know this, which takes the edge off the character. The lesson learned by issue’s end is he has friends and they look out for him. Good enough. Now give him a fight worth fighting. Archer & Armstrong (2012- ) #5 (Valiant Entertainment) Clayton Henry and Pere Perez are not drawing this issue and it is abundantly clear from page one. Nothing against Emanuela Lupacchino but Henry’s detailed work is sorely missed. It doesn’t help the story seems to lumber along in introducing Archer’s long lost brother. Jesus M. Crowe! The issue reads more like a pit stop than a continuation of the story which is unfortunate. One of this series strengths has been the thrilling non stop action. At least we get one definition this issue. Maybe it’s due to the story seemingly coming out of left field or because of its execution but it doesn’t read so well. By issue’s end you’ll be happy its over. X-Treme X-Men Vol. 2 #7.1 (Marvel Comics) X-Men fans should note this series is crossing over into normal continuity. Anyone unfamiliar with this series: strap in, it’s a wild ride. Dazzler has joined up with some inter-dimensional mutants to kill off every Xavier they can find. That includes giant whale Xaviers. Yeah that’s not a joke. What do you mean this issue wasn’t made on drugs? Dazzler doesn’t seem to realize she’s in her own universe however, which is both sad and tragic. Morons! Aside from some sweet Brood action this issue is more of the same in this series. A bit too weird for every reader, a little too hard to grasp for anyone unfamiliar, but still fun. Blast em! Batman and Robin #15 (DC Comics) This issue is good for two main reasons. One is you’ll get a better idea of what Joker is doing and possibly what his real plan is. The other reason is that the art by Patrick Gleason is phenomenal. Now that is one sexy scene. Time to throw up. Just when you thought Joker’s skin/mask wasn’t gross enough this issue brings it to a whole new level. The way Joker plays with his mask is grotesque and delightfully disturbing. I found myself wondering how he’ll ever get his face back when he’s stretching out the skin so much. Joker’s face/mask hasn’t looked so gross. Writer Patrick Gleason nails Joker’s dialogue and in most cases I imagined its inflection something reminiscent of Heath Ledger’s joker. It’s scary in its chaotic madness. Sure is a jealous bugger By issues end you’ll have a new respect for Joker. Something about his jealousy of Robin and his frustration with Batman not devoting every inch of himself to Joker shines through here. Scott Snyder’s Batman has this, but the emotional side is clearer here, like an open nerve. The funnyman knows all about fear these days. Budget: $3.02 – $0.00 = $3.02 Conan the Barbarian #11 (Dark Horse) I don’t think a writer has gotten inside Conan the Barbarian’s head more than Brian Wood. The character actually thinks and feels outside of drinking and killing which is a rare thing. This issue puts Conan in a difficult spot, between love and life which shouldn’t be missed. Conan fan or no this is a good read. A plague has taken many of his shipmates lives and now his lover, and queen, Belit has fallen sick. He goes to shore to find someone who can help. Yeah that can’t be good. Time to fight! The art by Declan Shalvey is poetic and perfect for this stories. Conan is not in a good mood, but he’s depressed and it shows in every panel. He may have to leave the one good thing he ever found and it’s not an easy choice. Not today friend! This is a very human story and it doesn’t necessarily require Conan to be enjoyed. The fact that Conan is facing this issue though magnifies the problem with feeling powerless. For once in a long time Conan is human and not some superhero. A rare thing.. Budget: $3.02 – $2.99 = $.03 Three cents over and a happy three issues to tide you over. That’s a major win, especially considering a lot of tepid storytelling this week. Until next week! In this article:Amazing Spider-Man, Batman, comic books, Dark Horse, DC, IDW, Marvel, Scott Snyder Horror Comics Breakdown: 12/14/2012 Is It Good? Cable and X-Force #1 Review	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406881
__label__wiki	0.689852	0.689852	Replay: Good Morning New Orleans WGNO TV Schedule WGNO NOLA Marketplace Two Broadway hit shows performing in New Orleans this weekend Posted 4:51 PM, April 10, 2019, by Victoria Cristina NEW ORLEANS – The Mahalia Jackson Theater and The Saenger Theatre both still have tickets available for this weekends Broadway performances! At the Saenger Theatre, you can catch Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA. It will be playing April 12-14. With its fresh new take on the beloved tale of a young woman who is transformed from a chambermaid into a princess, the hilarious and romantic Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA combines the story’s classic elements – glass slippers, pumpkin, and a beautiful ball along with some surprising twists. View Gallery (3 images) And on April 13 & 14, at the Mahalia Jackson Theater guests can div into the world of THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL. As a son of Poseidon, Percy Jackson has newly discovered powers he can’t control, monsters on his trail and is on a quest to find Zeus’ lightning bolt to prevent a war between the Greek gods. Based on the best-selling novel by Rick Riordan and featuring a thrilling original rock score, THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL is an action-packed theatrical adventure that has been celebrated by audiences and critics alike. Topics: new orleans, the mahalia jackson theater, the saenger theatre Love music? Local bands are featured on News With A Twist each day. Catch up here! NOLA says goodbye to 5th Ward Weebie A teen’s final days with the flu WATCH: LSU Tiger Football team at the White House JPSO investigates weekend murder in Metairie Cold start to the week Zulu announces 2020 route change via their facebook page 2 killed in multi-vehicle crash on I-12 near Slidell Saenger Theatre set to reopen on December 11 WE WILL ROCK YOU: The Musical by Queen, moved to Mahalia Jackson Theater All performances of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ moved to Mahalia Jackson Theater ‘The Elf on the Shelf’ Nov. 19 performance at the Saenger Theatre, relocated to Mahalia Jackson Theater Mahalia Jackson to host Peppa Pig Live!, originally scheduled at Saenger Tickets on sale Friday morning for Trevor Noah at the Saenger Theatre Additional date added for ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ at the Mahalia Jackson Theater Important information for Saenger patrons ahead of official reopening Comedian Bert Kreischer at the Saenger Theatre, March 2020 ‘Mean Girls’ playing at Saenger Theatre in March 12-year-old Darci Lynne at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre Entertainment Local News with a Twist The show must go on: Historic Saenger Theatre Reopens after Hard Rock Collapse • 1 Galleria Blvd., Suite 850 Metairie, LA 70001 • Copyright © 2020, WGNO	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0097.json.gz/line1406887

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